Talk:Re:Zero Ex Light Novel Volume 4/@comment-24727405-20190924172004/@comment-24727405-20191119015130

I think you may have missed the memo or what I said before a few months ago. When I said "But hey, just like Crusch and Feli, this must've mean we're getting closer to Anastasia and/or Ricardo EX story," that means the volume after Julius will most likely will focus on either Anastasia or Ricardo, but mostly Ricardo's full backstory of how he became and how he sever ties as a slave and his original owner and a story about him before he met Anastasia. Because just like vol's 3 & 5 of Tanpenshuu, he played a huge role in those events. Except on those events it mainly focuses on both the Pearlbatons and Echidna, not Ricardo's. So probably EX 5 or 5-7 will be Ricardo's main focus volumes. Not only that, there's no main arc for him yet (maybe in arc 9, in theory), so it's a great preperation for him to get an EX story. Not to mention that Arc 6 isn't completed and Tappei hasn't started Arc 7. So what that means is he is gonna shift himself between the WN to finish Arc 6, take a month or 2 hiatus to revise the LN version of Arc 6, and make Side Stories on the other end in 1 go.

Edit: Also, it's very less likely that the Vollachia story will be made into an EX story because it has no importance to the plot. Not to mention that Al has a huge deathflag above him that he'll likely die in Arc 7, so it's no use to give him a side story/EX vol if he's already dead.