Arc 4

The Everlasting Contract (永遠の契約, Eien no Keiyaku) is the fourth arc of the Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu series, preceded by the Return to the Capital City Arc and followed by the Stars That Engrave History Arc. Arc 4 consists of six light novel volumes and is currently the longest arc.

Overview
Subaru is broken by the loss of Rem. Later, he and Emilia arrive at the Sanctuary to bring back the villagers of Irlam Village. However, a badly wounded Roswaal instructs the two of them to carry out the Trials of the Sanctuary, with the examiner of the Trials being the Witch of Greed, to liberate the Demi-Humans from the barrier. Unbeknownst to them, their journey starts to get complicated.

Protagonists

 * Natsuki Subaru
 * Emilia

Antagonists

 * Roswaal L Mathers
 * Elsa Granhiert
 * Meili Portroute
 * Pandora (flashback)
 * Regulus Corneas (flashback)

Adaptations

 * -|Light Novel=


 * -|Web Novel=
 * Chapter 1: The Place They Returned To
 * Chapter 2: Jeers and Thanks
 * Chapter 3: Reunion and Disagreement
 * Chapter 4: The Next Place
 * Chapter 5: Emilia Camp
 * Chapter 6: On The Road to Sanctuary
 * Chapter 7: The Test Site
 * Chapter 8: A Long-Awaited Reunion
 * Chapter 9: The Cemetery
 * Chapter 10: Thirst for Knowledge Incarnate
 * Chapter 11: Sloth to Wrath by Pride
 * Chapter 12: A Souvenir From the Tea Party
 * Chapter 13: Roswaal’s Intent
 * Chapter 14: Questions and Answers
 * Chapter 15: Qualifications and Trails
 * Chapter 16: Morning in the Natsuki Household
 * Chapter 17: Love Story
 * Chapter 18: Kin
 * Chapter 19: Homework
 * Chapter 20: Test Results
 * Chapter 21: With Resolve Renewed
 * Chapter 22: Weakness
 * Chapter 23: Step of the Way
 * Chapter 24: He waited
 * Chapter 25: Forest of Ice
 * Chapter 26: Packing of Shit
 * Chapter 27: Whispers
 * Chapter 28: Talk Over Tea
 * Chapter 29: Omnivore Male
 * Chapter 30: Unease on the Road Home
 * Chapter 31: Maid Maid Maid
 * Chapter 32: 1/4
 * Chapter 33: A Pathway Escaped of Wind
 * Chapter 34: World Ending
 * Chapter 35: The Girl’s Gospel
 * Chapter 36: At The End of Confusion
 * Chapter 37: First Urge to Murder
 * Chapter 38: Caterpillar
 * Chapter 39: Fhrend
 * Chapter 40: Collaborator
 * Chapter 41: Tiger
 * Chapter 42: Value of a Life
 * Chapter 43: And Then Everyone Was-
 * Chapter 44: Verboten
 * Chapter 45: Condition For the Tea Party
 * Chapter 46: Locusts
 * Chapter 47: Partner of Poor Affinity
 * Chapter 48: Compensation For the Tea Party
 * Chapter 49: loveloveloveloveloveyouuuuuu
 * Chapter 50: Distant Road
 * Chapter 51: lovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovemeee
 * Chapter 52: Slight Changes
 * Chapter 53: Overlapping Inquiries
 * Chapter 54: Hell I Do Know
 * Chapter 55: Girl in the Crystal
 * Chapter 56: The Reason for Sanctuary’s Existence
 * Chapter 57: The Immortal Experiment
 * Chapter 58: Nanna
 * Chapter 59: Sweet Pastry, Sweetless Story
 * Chapter 60: Tale of the End of the End
 * Chapter 61: Scream From Four Hundred Years Past
 * Chapter 62: Slaughter at Roswaal Mansion
 * Chapter 63: Empathetic Death
 * Chapter 64: World Crumbling
 * Chapter 65: Passion in the Snow
 * Chapter 66: Crimson Snowscape
 * Chapter 67: Warlock
 * Chapter 68: Taste of Death
 * Chapter 69: liar
 * Chapter 70: What Comes After Hell
 * Chapter 71: Ending List
 * Intermission: Tea Party
 * Chapter 72: Bad End 1, 5, 11
 * Chapter 73: Weakness’ Hideaway
 * Chapter 74: Witch Cult’s Plot and Proposal
 * Chapter 75: That Person
 * Chapter 76: ≠ Satella
 * Chapter 77: A Lonely…
 * Chapter 78: These Sounds of Shed Tears
 * Chapter 79: End of the Dream
 * Chapter 80: Rough Tongue
 * Chapter 81: Glimmer of Hope
 * Chapter 82: A Con-versation
 * Chapter 83: Mutual Confessions
 * Chapter 84: Denied x Denied x Denied
 * Chapter 85: Using Words, Using Feelings, Using Fists
 * Chapter 86: With Disregard to Chances of Success
 * Chapter 87: Oni Out, Clowns In
 * Chapter 88: Garfiel’s Intentions
 * Chapter 89: Memories of Snow
 * Chapter 90: –I’m Sorry
 * Chapter 91: False Sleep
 * Chapter 92: A Lie
 * Chapter 93: Mutual Proposals
 * Chapter 94: Left Behind
 * Chapter 95: sigma
 * Chapter 96: Red Drawn at the Lips
 * Chapter 97: Before the Dawn
 * Chapter 98: A Bed Lost of Warmth
 * Chapter 99: Alone in a Confined Space
 * Chapter 100: Memories Buried in Dust
 * Chapter 101: Theta
 * Chapter 102: Recollections Absent in Memory
 * Chapter 103: Start of Sanctuary, Start of Destruction
 * Chapter 104: Theta
 * Chapter 105: The Merchant’s Trap
 * Chapter 106: Otto Suwen
 * Chapter 107: With the Final Trap,
 * Chapter 108: A Man of Only Good Timing
 * Chapter 109: Misstep
 * Chapter 110: Reason to Believe
 * Chapter 111: Garfiel’s Barrier
 * Chapter 112: The Instinct to Reject Weakness
 * Chapter 113: Jewels never Come From The Solitary Quene
 * Chapter 114: Lies into Wishes
 * Chapter 115: You Are Never A Match For The Girl From Your Youth
 * Chapter 116: With Grandmother, With Mother, With Sister; As Grandson, As Son, As Brother
 * Chapter 117: Love Letters
 * Chapter 118: The Day Alpha Orionis Smiled
 * Chapter 119: Back Then, Even Now, Love Unchanging
 * Chapter 120: Elior Forest, Glaciated Evermore
 * Chapter 121: Help Him
 * Chapter 122: Booming Reunion
 * Chapter 123A: Bowelhunter vs The Shield of Sanctuary
 * Chapter 123B: Happiness Reflected on the Water
 * Chapter 124: Listen Up, Stupid
 * Chapter 125: The Roswaal Mansion Battle
 * Chapter 126: Attack of Guililaw, Ebony King of the Woodlands!
 * Chapter 127: The Final Day of Roswaal Mansion
 * Chapter 128: Love You to Your Blood and Guts
 * Chapter 129: -Choose Me
 * Chapter 124B: You Reflected in the Mirror
 * Chapter 125B: Starting as Revenge
 * Chapter 126B: We’ll Next Meet at a Tea Party
 * Chapter 127B: Never Quit
 * Chapter 130: Faces in the Snow
 * Interlude 1: Each Gives Concession
 * Interlude 2: Emilia Camp • Warlock • Spirit • Spiritualist
 * Appendix: Advent

Re:Zero Light Novel Volume 10

 * There is a new addition to the sanctuary, which is the Kremaldy Forest. It makes unauthorized entrants get lost.
 * To circumvent this in the Light Novel, Frederica Baumann gives Emilia a Pyroxene crystal to let her in.
 * When entering the Sanctuary, the Pyroxene teleports Subaru to Echidna's grave. Which leads to few events being rearranged and making the pacing much faster.
 * Contrary to the Web Novel, Roswaal L Mathers and Ram seem to be framing Frederica as some untrustworthy character.
 * In the Light Novel, Subaru meets Lewes Burma as the first Lewes Meyer copy.
 * The meeting with Minerva, Typhon and Sekhmet is entirely cut from here and instead moved to volume 11.

Re:Zero Light Novel Volume 11

 * The entire fight at the mansion against the Demon Beasts and Elsa Granhiert is completely different.
 * Frederica has beast transformation like Garfiel, which she uses in the fight.
 * Instead of Beatrice teleporting Subaru to the Sanctuary where he would get slaughtered by the oousagi, he is killed by Elsa at the mansion.
 * Subaru confronting Roswaal is rearranged.
 * A new Lewes Meyer is introduced during the imprisonment of Subaru, named "Lewes Cima".
 * Roswaal revealing that he has a Gospel is completely moved to the next volume, thus removing the Rem strangulation scene.

Re:Zero Light Novel Volume 12

 * The Pyroxene Crystal is somehow to Lewes Meyer's crystal.
 * Meili shows up in person and her Demon Beasts kill Petra, Frederica and Rem, and probably the rest of the village too.
 * In the Web Novel, Meili didn't have any last name. However, in the Light Novel, she's named Meili Portroute.
 * A flashback where Subaru, Wilhelm, and the entire expeditionary force was killed by Petelguese in Irlam Village, and Puck's battle against Betelguese, was cut because of the changes in volume 8 where did not happen.
 * Elsa's calls her regeneration a kind of "Blessing" (祝福), which she gained from someone malicious.
 * The reveal of Roswaal's gospel is moved to his confrontation of Subaru's "Redo" power.

Re:Zero Light Novel Volume 13

 * Chapter 1
 * The chapter covers the rest of the third tea party. Some dialogue at the beginning is rewritten.
 * The post-chapter 79 interlude is entirely cut.
 * Chapter 2
 * Most of Subaru's long monologue about his next step is cut, and the scene jumps almost immediately to the conversation with Roswaal, which begins the same but has major differences.
 * Roswaal spends less time talking about how useless Emilia is, instead his dialogue is more dedicated towards convincing Subaru to let go off her.
 * As the convincing fails, Roswaal basically confesses straight out that he is responsible for the mansion attack.
 * Instead of throwing threats at Roswaal like in the Web Novel, Subaru asks him to stop the attacks.
 * Roswaal has a new speech regarding that Ram and Subaru are his only hopes in this world, and that he sincerely believes in him.
 * Chapter 3
 * The bet between Roswaal and Subaru is changed, causing the contents to be changed as well.
 * Subaru and Roswaal don't sign a soul-binding contract regarding their failure conditions.
 * Subaru’s victory condition is changed from “I will get Garfiel on our side and make Emilia pass the trials” to “I will prevent the disasters at both the Sanctuary and the Mansion”
 * The time-limit for the snow-fall and mansion attack is in three days, instead of five.
 * As Subaru arrives at the lab, he meets Lewes Alma, and they talk about various things similar to the Web Novel(what Lewes knows about Roswaal’s plans, the clone system of Lewes’, how the whole “some people are against the Sanctuary’s liberation” was a lie, how Garf challenged the trial as a child, and was brought out by another Lewes, Garf’s mother, etc.) This replaces the scene of Subaru running around and talking to different Lewes in the Web Novel.
 * Beatrice's past at the Sanctuary and the attack of Hector are moved to the next volume.
 * There's a new scene where Subaru wants to talk about Emilia's trials with Puck. However, as he hadn't shown up, Subaru placed both his hands on Emilia's neck as if to strangle her, even apologizing afterwards, but doesn't actually do it because he feels strange backlash emitting from the crystal in which Puck responds to Subaru from it.
 * The conversation between Puck and Subaru happens offscreen.
 * Chapter 4
 * There is a really short new scene added where Puck forces himself out of his crystal to say goodbye to Emilia.
 * There's a new scene added where Garfiel wakes up in the middle of the night, and talks to Lewes Cima about Emilia losing Puck.
 * Contrary to the Web Novel, Garfiel is completely away about Lewes Cima being different from the other three main Lewes Meyers.
 * When Garfiel reaches the lab, he meets Otto. After some talking, he punches Otto away and starts to leave, but on the way he realizes that he lost his Pyroxene Crystal, which Otto Suwen stole from him.
 * There are added scenes from Garfiel's perspective, to make it easier to understand his thoughts and perspective compared to the Web Novel.
 * Chapter 5
 * The entire fight between Ram, Otto Suwen and Garfiel Tinsel, has been streamlined considerably from the Web Novel.
 * Chapter 6
 * Some additions/changes were made to Subaru’s inner monologue to clarify or add to his thoughts.
 * Chapter 7
 * The fight between Subaru and Garfiel has been slightly streamlined.
 * Subaru is direct to the point during the fight, and questions if Garfiel still hates that his mother abandoned him. Which caused Garfiel telling what happened to his mother.
 * Chapter 8
 * The conversation Emilia had with Roswaal after Subaru's fight with Garfiel is moved to volume 14
 * At Garfiel's trial, Echidna doesn't show up to talk to him, resulting in all the dialogue with her being cut, while the rest remained the same.
 * The conversations Emilia has with Ram and Otto before going to her trial are cut, but the one with Subaru is kept, and everything else is mostly the same up until Emilia meets Echidna and announces herself as a Witch while making a pose.

Re:Zero Light Novel Volume 14

 * Chapter 1
 * Emilia's pre-trial recollection scenes that were previously scattered through last 3rd of Web Novel are combined and shown here.
 * Echidna describes the trial as a "physiological preparation"
 * Echidna's has somewhat surprised reaction to seal.
 * Geuse and Fortuna have addition dialogue which mentions that once, a long time ago, Fortuna had a fever and Geuse nursed her back to health.
 * The surroundings of the seal are different from the Web Novel, it's now surrounded by white trees and looks like a sacred place.
 * Chapter 2
 * The flashback is significantly extended.
 * The Original Lewes Meyer was an apostle of greed. She was 12, and Roswaal who was 4 years older than her was 16.
 * Lewes considers Roswaal as her senpai, and she thinks that Beatrice and Roswaal are like a brother-sister relationship.
 * The original Roswaal's name was Roswaal A Mathers.
 * Hector gets a more descriptive appearance and his conversation with Echidna is also longer
 * The goodbye scene between Beatrice and Lewes mentions that the crystal contains a lot of Mana, and Beatrice brings up teaching Lewes to read and write.
 * Chapter 3
 * Pandora's line "For the fulfilment of cardinal desire of us witch cultists," is changed to "shall we steal the seal and the key? for the fulfillment..." making her goals more direct
 * The conversation between one of Gesue's finger and Arch has additional lines mainly about how there shouldn't be more than 7 witches and aside from the Witch of Envy who is sealed in a desert far from here are dead.
 * Child Emilia has much clearer reason for heading into inner forest where the seal is.
 * Chapter 4
 * Fortuna gives Emilia her hair ornament
 * The Light Novel mentions that during the time Emilia and Puck lived together in Elior Forest she would religiously polish and talk to ice statues without understanding the guilt that accompanied it until now
 * Chapter 5
 * Omega doesn't appear, but otherwise the conversation between Subaru, Otto and Garf is the same.
 * There is a slight rearrange and some different lines but confrontation between Roswaal Subaru and Garf but it is otherwise the same as the Web Novel.
 * There is a new scene where Subaru, Otto and Garf discuss what to do about the attack on the manor.
 * A scene is added where the villagers see Subaru, Otto and Garf off as they depart for manor which contains a lot of setup for the volume 15.
 * Subaru tosses pyroxene Puck is in to Ram instead of Garf giving an unnamed colorless crystal to Emilia.
 * Chapter 6
 * Emilia and Roswaal have their conversation from ch 114, which has some additions, but otherwise largely the same.
 * Roswaal and Ram have an addition conversation after Emilia leaves for the her 2nd trial about his plans.
 * The previous skip scene where Ram made a deal Otto is recalled here via flashback with the conditions slightly changed.
 * 1) Slow down Garf but leave the final confrontation to her, 2) Tell Subaru to think of ways to cheer Emilia, 3) Don't tell Subaru why she is joining the gamble.
 * Ram tracks down Roswaal through her clairvoyance prepares to confront him and Puck emerges from the pyroxene to assist her for his own reasons relating all way back to Bond of Ice.


 * Chapter 7