This page is about the story arc. For the anime episode, see Episode 12.
Return to the Royal Capital (再来の王都, Sairai no Ōto) is the third arc of Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu. It is preceded by Arc 2, The Turbulent Week, and followed by Arc 4, The Everlasting Contract. In the web novel, the first chapter of Arc 3 was released on July 16, 2012, and its last chapter was released on May 19, 2013. Arc 3 consists of 84 chapters and 4 interludes in the web novel, six light novel volumes, a manga adaptation made by Daichi Matsuse, and an anime adaptation with fourteen episodes.
Contents
Overview
A couple months after Subaru managed to successfully drive away the Witchbeast Master, Subaru finds himself returning to the Royal Capital, where the Kingdom could begin the ceremony to decide who would become the country's next monarch: the Royal Selection. However, with Subaru causing trouble for the Emilia Camp by making a foolish outburst, facing public humiliation for his actions, and getting into an argument with Emilia, he was left behind in the Royal Capital. As the days pass, Subaru soon comes to learn of trouble reaching for Roswaal Manor and Arlam Village. Now contending with the international terrorist group labelled the Witch Cult and its most diligent Sin Archbishop, as well as the threat of one of the Three Great Witchbeasts that has terrorized the world for centuries, the White Whale, Subaru, accompanied solely by Rem, is forced to not only gain allies from among the other Royal Selection Camps to contend with them, but he must also face himself and overcome his own despair.
Synopsis
Re:Zero Light Novel Volume 4
- Main article: Re:Zero Light Novel Volume 4/Synopsis
Re:Zero Light Novel Volume 5
- Main article: Re:Zero Light Novel Volume 5/Synopsis
Re:Zero Light Novel Volume 6
- Main article: Re:Zero Light Novel Volume 6/Synopsis
Re:Zero Light Novel Volume 7
- Main article: Re:Zero Light Novel Volume 7/Synopsis
Re:Zero Light Novel Volume 8
- Main article: Re:Zero Light Novel Volume 8/Synopsis
Re:Zero Light Novel Volume 9
- Main article: Re:Zero Light Novel Volume 9/Synopsis
Characters
Protagonists
Supporting Characters
Side Characters
Antagonists
Mentioned Characters
Adaptations
Adaptation Differences
Re:Zero Light Novel Volume 4
Re:Zero Light Novel Volume 7
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Most of the chapter retains the writing that was in the web novel with added/changed monologue and dialogue.
- Ricardo mentions that the mana repulsion crystals are very scarce instead of not knowing how many there are left.
Re:Zero Light Novel Volume 8
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Ricardo and Julius's dialogue and appearance after killing Petelgeuse for the first time was completely removed. Instead, it uses dialogue and appearance from Subaru's second time killing Petelguese.
- The entire loop where Subaru, Wilhelm, and the entire expeditionary force was killed by the female finger in Arlam Village was omitted.
- Subaru waking up in front of Ricardo from Return by Death and noticing that his save point had been updated was moved to chapter 1 of the following volume.
- Satella's dialogue was moved to the following volume as a prologue.
- Rajan's debut was moved to earlier in the volume than it was in the web novel.
- Chapter 3
- The entire conversation between Emilia and Julius was omitted.
- Subaru and Emilia's plan to go to the Sanctuary to evacuate the remaining villagers was omitted.
- Chapter 4
- Wilhelm was knocked out after defeating the second finger instead of continuing the battle.
- Ricardo, Mimi, and Tivey's appearance, dialogue, and fight scenes during the Witch Cult's ambush were completely removed.
- Chapter 5
- The fight against Petelgeuse was completely changed to have Emilia and Petelgeuse fight each other alone while having Subaru, Julius, and Ferris standing back to watch rather than the group assisting her in her fight.
- Emilia and Ricardo's appearance and dialogue during Subaru's death was cut.
- Due to the loop where everyone was killed by Petelgeuse's finger was cut, Subaru's death by Julius's hand is considered as his eleventh death rather than his twelfth.
Re:Zero Light Novel Volume 9
- Prologue
- Satella's dialogue was moved to become this volume's prologue.
- Chapter 1
- Subaru waking up in front of Ricardo from Return by Death and noticing that his save point had been updated was moved to to the start of this chapter.
- Chapter 6
- Instead of Wilhelm reprimanding Ferris for pushing the blame of the Witch Cult's actions on Emilia, it is Crusch who does so, which shows that fragments of her old personality still exist.
- Ferris mentioning Volcanica, Flugel, Reid, Shaula, and the Pleiades Watchtower was omitted.
- Subaru's conversation with Puck about Gluttony's Authority was omitted.
- Emilia is present during the final scene to console Subaru over Rem.
Trivia
- The manga adaptation of Arc 3 is named Truth of Zero.
- In promotional material, Arc 3 is known as the Royal Selection arc (王選編, Ō-sen-hen).
- According to the author, the reason he made Arc 3 was for Subaru to say two lines. The first one being "I hate myself" and the second one being "I love you" (to Emilia).[1]
References
- ↑ "I've said previously that arc three was an arc for the purpose of me wanting to have him say "I hate myself." and one more line, but the other one was "I love you, Emilia."" Season 1 Directors Cut, Episode 13 Commentary
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