This episode was quite a nice setup episode and introduced what sort of person Regulus Corneas is. He likes to talk a lot and dictate the pace of conversation. If he he feels his rights are violated as the very self-centered person he is, he may attack, but given that it was implied that his Gospel indicated to him that he shouldn’t cause a whole lot of bloodshed, he didn’t, which is why he told Subaru to be grateful that he adhered to his Gospel as the situation could have been a lot worse if Regulus had wanted it to be. He did attack Subaru after the bell tolled, stating that Subaru was quite rude to him, which showed he’s a vindictive type given his Gospel most likely didn’t tell him to cause a scene. Regulus’s remark that fate would bring them together again in Episode 1 of this season also has major implications for the story and is good fodder for my main theory on Re:Zero, but I’ll save that for a separate post.
Lye Batenkaitos again introduced himself as the Sin Archbishop of Gluttony, and he again speaks as if he is part of a group much like he did at the start of Season 2 when he said that the White Whale was “our” pet, which shows that he is either part of a hive mind with others or that it’s just a speaking quirk of his. He doubted that the guy he ate would make much of an appetizer, which seems to indicate he can tell through some mechanism whether someone would make for a good meal. He said that he’d eat him anyway, but Lye clearly wasn’t particularly enthused about doing so, and he had an even worse remark for Otto in saying he wouldn’t even amount to an appetizer, but this could perhaps be a blessing in disguise if he doesn’t want to eat Otto.
Sirius has straight up proven to be insane once again. Seeing Subaru use his Authority, Invisible Providence, led to her thinking that Subaru must be Petelgeuse and that he had been hiding all along instead of having been killed. This episode does appear to confirm that she used to be part of the Sloth camp with how she talked about making eye contact with Petelgeuse several times a day, how when she stole something of his she wasn’t punished, how he forgave her for slurping up the last of her food, and how he didn’t say anything when she inhaled his exhaled breath. According to her, Petelgeuse is the one who gave her her name and was the one who gave her wrath, but this could very much be a delusion much like how Petelgeuse thought that Satella gave him his Unseen Hand when he willingly took it in himself to fight on Fortuna and Emilia’s behalf. It’s hard to say what the true extent of their relationship really is. Anyway, it seems that Sirius appears to be incompatible with her Wrath Witch Factor to an extent given she started bleeding from her eyes and apparently mouth as well, which is why the civilians under her control were bleeding from those areas. She has that in common with Petelgeuse, who was incompatible with the Sloth Witch Factor.
This episodes shows Garfiel and Otto having a walk and Garfiel thinking back to when he was over at his mom’s place after saving Fred. His mom knew what tea he liked despite having no recollection of him. He eventually left after Rafiel, his half-sister, indicated it was time for dinner, and learned from his mother’s husband that she forgot all her memories and was caught in a landslide. That she has no memories makes me believe that it was Lye Batenkaitos, the Sin Archbishop of Gluttony, that attacked her in the past, eating her memories in the process and causing the landslide. I have more to say on this in a separate post since my theory is only tangentially relevant to the episode. Garfiel bawled with Mimi comforting him due to how awful he felt after remembering that his mom loved him so much only for her to forget everything. Mimi never knew her parents and heard her mother gave her up ’cause she couldn’t afford to raise triplets.
Capella Emerada Lugunica, the Sin Archbishop of Lust, had taken over the area that made the broadcasts. This is later brought up when Subaru is brought up to speed when most of the camps are together when Wilhelm informs that the 4 control towers that control the water level have been captured by the Witch Cult. Apparently, Kiritaka is not just a big-shot merchant but also one of Priestella’s Council of 10, the ten most important people in the city, and that’s why they’re corresponding at a place he owns. Anastasia suspects that the Witch Cult is after the remains of a dead witch. Given that Satella was sealed and Echidna seemed to have successfully put her soul into one of the Ryuzu clones with how she spoke with her own voice, making her immortality experiment a success, this narrows down the list of possible witches down to Carmilla, Daphne, Minerva, Sekhmet, and Typhon.
The situation is bad with Subaru not being able to count on his partner, Beatrice, since she is in suspended animation, similar to Rem, due to exhausting her mana reserves to save Subaru and the entire crowd that was under Sirius’s control. This limits Subaru’s combat potential, which will make it all the more difficult for them to fight back the Witch Cult.
The episode concludes with Garfiel rushing to Subaru and Emilia ’cause of the broadcast, but he encountered his mom, who indicated that her kids are missing and that her husband worked at the government office where the broadcast by Capella happened, which showed how concerned she was about them despite seeing that Garfiel was rushing somewhere and had his own priorities, and of course, Garf said he’d find them for her. I’m sure she wasn’t trying to impose on him and was just concerned about those who were dear to her. This episode surely escalated things, and the next episode should be a treat.