Arc 8

This page is about the story arc. For the character, see Vincent Vollachia.

Vincent Vollachia (ヴィンセント・ヴォラキア, Vinsento Vorakia) is the eighth arc of Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu. It is preceded by Arc 7, The Land of Wolves, and followed by Arc 9. The first chapter of Arc 8 was released on April 13, 2023. It currently consists of forty-three chapters, and it has two light novel volumes.

Overview
At the denouement of the Battle for the Imperial Capital, the curtain for the Great Disaster rises. As those who died in the Sacred Vollachia Empire continue to pile up and rise, Vincent Vollachia issues an order to retreat to the northwestern Fortified City of Garkla. Meanwhile, Natsuki Subaru, his allies, and his enemy, Todd Fang, retreat from Lupugana together. Along the way, they eliminate numerous undead beings, dubbed “zombies”, until a betrayal occurs, causing Emilia and Rem to intervene with the situation. After Subaru loses consciousness, he awakes in a dragon carriage leaving the Imperial Capital, finding himself face-to-face with his friends in the Emilia Camp, the Pleiades Battalion, and Vincent, the man who once called himself Abel. After resolving the discrepancies in their relationship, they and their allies begin working towards ending the destruction caused by the undead army and its commander.

Protagonists

 * Natsuki Subaru
 * Vincent Vollachia/Abel

Adaptations

 * -|Light Novel=

Re:Zero Light Novel Volume 34

 * Chapter 1
 * Due to Izmail's altered death in Volume 32, he is no longer motivated by his personal hatred of Todd. He instead seeks to find the “fool who disgraced the battlefield” by making prisoners dress like soldiers.
 * Izmail meets Todd for the first time and discovers that he has a blue light.
 * The fatal wounds of zombies are no longer said to be near their hearts, since it is later established that each one has different parts of their body that can shatter them if they sustain substantial damage there.
 * Interlude
 * The corresponding Web Novel chapter is changed into an interlude which takes place after Chapter 2.
 * A new line saying that “Todd had clashed with Natsuki Subaru many times” and “never got along with him to the very end” was added.
 * Chapter 3
 * The number of dead people following behind Sphinx is specified to more than one thousand, rather than a “great number”.

Re:Zero Light Novel Volume 35

 * Chapter 1
 * A line stating that artificial spirits’ bodies were constructed from mana was removed.
 * Chapter 3
 * As a consequence of removing Libre Fermi's Book of the Dead from Volume 22, Beatrice no longer mentions that the aforementioned book was found at the Pleiades Watchtower.
 * Chapter 7
 * The chapter title from the corresponding Web Novel chapter is changed from “Siblings of the Empire” to “Sisters of the Empire”.
 * Carillon is no longer described as having a dark color.

Trivia

 * Arc 8 was originally meant to be within Arc 7. However, the author decided to split Arc 7 in two, creating an additional arc outside of his original plan for 11 arcs.
 * Previously, the author affirmed that Garfiel Tinsel's named chapter would be in Arc 7. It is unknown if the chapter has been shifted to Arc 8 as a consequence of the split between arcs or if it has been moved to a future arc.
 * The arc is named after Vincent Vollachia, making him the first and only character featured in the story thus far to have an arc named after them.
 * In April 2023, the author stated that Cecilus Segmunt would receive a named chapter.