Suddenly I can no longer blame Roswaal for falling for someone as stretchy as Dona if this how she greets people she's only met for literally 15 secs

And now I realize Subaru & Roswaal share another point in common: drinking her body fluids lmao #rezero

What Roswaal specifically suffering from is called mana poisoning which occurs in people whose gates aren't proper releasing mana from their body due to poor circulation. So they will continue to accumulate it until surpasses the amount their od can hold

but without ability to let it out, it will kill them by exploding from inside! So having too much mana beyond what body can handle is bad for you. This will actually be a bit relevant in the later arcs. But this problem did sort of happened in Memory Snow except

Puck had no trouble releasing his internal mana it on his own, so he never had to worry on that end

That said this bit isn't in the main books or WN but comes from a short story as Lore mentioned https://twitter.com/LoremIpsumVerb/status/1362042666582695937

I can't even imagine current day Betty pulling pranks

This is the real reason Dona allowed mixed-bloods demi-humans to live Sanctuary & why is also known as the experimental grounds. For the mixed-bloods it was a place refuge from persecution of their birth, but to Dona this was built to protect herself from Hector

Meet the last of Witches of Sin & the only male among. Hector's Authority of Melancholy/Acedia is controlling gravity & all aspects of it. Some of you might have noticed that he dresses a lot like the current Roswaal

Roswaal is basically half-dead at this point. I actually I'm not sure why he's not just dead with that damage

Also Roswaal at this time was basically oe of the strongest mages who had in the world who affinities for all 6 elements & that still meant nothing against Hector

White Fox at it again

Shima was the only clone that was against releasing the barrier & having the demi-humans leave, this why. Because she was influence by the memories of the original Ryuzu who sacrificed her self to preserve this place & worked to sabotage attempts it by pitting Garf against Subaru

BTW, how Garf who couldn't perceive the witch's scent knew it was coming from Subaru is also because Shima and rest of the clones could. He got that information from Shima specifically

Anyway this event is one of sources of Betty's current grief. Its first she had known loss

Three goats

This whole scene is amazing, but this one of my favorite parts ahhhh

BTW, Roswaal right now is not aware of the change that has happen to Emilia (Subaru finally getting in contract with Puck & removing shackles on her mind) which why he still thinks things will eventually end up the same way as the other loops

I'm glad we can all agree that the ending is good!

(Haven't see Jae's posts yet )

Another banger of episode

Man, I've gonna so used 29 min episodes I didn't even notice this was 29 mins until ended. Not that this ever feels that way anyway. There is some kind of strange time warp going on with this show