Sphinx (スピンクス) is the first copy of Ryuzu Meyer who was created in the Sanctuary by the Witch of Greed, Echidna. Initially serving as a main antagonist of Sword Demon Love Song, she made her first main story debut in the final scene of Arc 7 and later became the main antagonist of Arc 8 as the culprit behind the Sacred Vollachia Empire's Great Disaster.
Born as a failed receptacle from Echidna's attempts at replicating her existence, Sphinx betrayed her creator's intentions and became responsible for countless deaths. During the Demi-Human War, she gained infamy in the Kingdom of Lugunica for being a “Witch” who utilized undead soldiers, as well as one of the Demi-Human Alliance's most crucial members. After Sphinx fell in the war, she was secretly confined in the Barielle Barony by Leip Barielle, where she spent four decades before she planned and commenced an attack on the Vollachia Empire.
Soon after commencing the Great Disaster, she was killed and turned into an undead herself. Later, after confronting and losing a battle against Vincent Vollachia, her soul avoided certain death by changing to match the form of her creator, and she continued in her attempt to destroy Vollachia until she was stopped by Natsuki Subaru and Spica, though not before indirectly forcing Priscilla Barielle to become a zombie to end the Great Disaster.
Appearance
Although she was around four hundred years old as a result of her artificial existence and mana body, for the majority of her life, Sphinx perpetually maintained the body of a girl who was twelve years of age. As she was a copy of Ryuzu Meyer, she shared her long, fluffy pink hair, dark cyan eyes, and distinctively pointed ears with the other clones. Despite her innocent and girlish physical appearance, Sphinx radiated an abominable aura that denoted her as a wicked monster.[1] Originally, she displayed a lack of expressiveness as a result of her incomplete emotions.
Sphinx wore a black robe with large sleeves that were too long for her arms and a high collar that partially concealed her face. Due to the long length of the sleeves, they each have holes that allowed her to extend her arms out. However, after the Demi-Human War, Sphinx lost her arms and legs, barely escaping death with only her head, torso, and robe.
By the time of the Great Disaster, Sphinx regained all of her limbs via unknown means and came into possession of a staff with a glowing orb.[2] Following her demise at the hands of Cecilus Segmunt, she became a zombie. In this form, she possessed pale skin bereft of color, various cracks that ran across her body, pitch-black sclera, and radiant golden irises. Her lack of expressiveness began to change as well, with her face beginning to display various emotions. Once she managed to complete the missing parts of her soul, Sphinx took on the Witch of Greed's physical appearance, gaining long white hair that stretched to her back, black eyes that housed an intellectual spirit, and porcelain-like white skin, while continuing to don her black cloak that had become too small to cover her full body.
Personality
As a result of being created from one of the Witch of Greed's failed experiments and not fully inheriting a complete soul, Sphinx, although possessing a distinct self-identity from Echidna, originally had a mostly emotionless demeanor and little attachment to her own life, only primarily inheriting a greed to understand and learn things. Although she attempted to speak kindly or tried to act curt when talking to other people, she sounded disinterested and robotic, often manipulating or exploiting other people for her own interests. Because of her defective personality, Sphinx could not understand emotions, and desired to gain a "complete" soul like Echidna, who she viewed as her mother. However, for unknown reasons, this began to change after she met Leip Barielle and had her plans in the Barielle Barony foiled by his wife, Priscilla.
In addition, Sphinx had a habit of saying "required" (要 you) with a verb in accordance to what she noticed, such as saying "observation: required" (要・観察 you: kansatsu) when observing other people's actions, "deliberation: required" (要・熟考 you: jukkō) when pondering something, or other a variety of other words that reflect what she believed she must have done in the moment.
History
Ryuzu Meyer was a young half-elven girl who became indebted to the Witch of Greed, Echidna. The Witch, with Ryuzu's permission, began experimenting on her in a secret laboratory. Echidna sought to unlock immortality by cloning Ryuzu and transferring her consciousness to the copy, meaning she could live forever via a long line of copies. She was able to create the first five copies of Ryuzu, the first of which she decided to transfer her consciousness into. However, Echidna chose to shave off parts of her soul in order to fit in the receptacle, resulting in an emotionless girl with a body made of mana, a fractured mind, and a vast amount of magical knowledge, albeit not at the level of Echidna herself, as the receptacle of Ryuzu Meyer hindered the girl from wielding the Witch's techniques. Bestowed the name of an impure monster, Sphinx, the Witch of Greed's failed creation, managed to escape being disposed through some twist of fate. She wandered throughout the world to fulfill the purpose of her creation, replicating the Witch of Greed, while Echidna's disciple, Roswaal, pursued her.
The body of Ryuzu Meyer was unfit for surviving in the harsh conditions of the world; whether it was with bad weather, extreme temperature changes, or encounters with malicious witchbeasts or humans, Sphinx was often threatened by circumstances outside of her control. The discrepancy between receptacle and soul had required her to exert effort akin to learning how to walk, breathe, and beat her heart again. it Her body of mana could not allow her to grow or train, so she pursued knowledge and skills that did not depend on the state of her body while facing persecution for appearing as a half-elf, choosing not to alter her appearance to not run the risk of being unable to fulfill her purpose. To continue living, Sphinx reduced herself to the status of a spectacle, a slave, and the servant of a lavish master. Taking advantage of her memory and her greed to understand and learn more, for one hundred and fifty years, Sphinx made her abilities into a utility that allowed her to gain the protection of and live under various people who could provide her safety until she attained the means to protect herself. To avoid suffering extreme persecution due to sharing the same race as the the Witch of Envy and Roswaal's fury, she did not stay in one location for too long.
Becoming a magician required Sphinx to exert nearly one hundred times the effort it would take someone of average ability to. The first spell she cast unleashed naught but a small, flickering flame at her fingertips, disappointing her greatly. There were no sudden changes to her life upon gaining the capabilities to use magic. After using one spell, Sphinx stabilized using the gate of her mana-based body and was successful in reproducing the majority of magic attained by the Witch of Greed's soul. She continued to conceal herself, using her magical prowess to make the job easier. For the next one hundred years, she devoted her time to learning about Echidna, but the Witch Cult's efforts at erasing the existence of Witches other than the Witch of Envy hindered her progress and made results difficult to acquire. Ultimately, this path failed to produce major results for Sphinx, so she attempted to fill in the missing pieces of the Witch of Greed's soul herself for another hundred years, only for this venture to result in failure as well. After spending three hundred and fifty years without making a breakthrough that could assist her in fulfilling her purpose, Sphinx chose to make a major alteration to her methods.
When the opportunity conveniently presented itself after the tensions between humans and demi-humans and Lugunica reached a boiling point, Sphinx joined the Demi-Human Alliance, a large insurrectionist force based within the Kingdom of Lugunica. The Alliance, made up entirely of marginalized demi-human tribes in Lugunica, sought to reap the blood of their oppressors, consequentially beginning a civil war that came to be known as the Demi-Human War. With her appearance as a half-elf being the only justification she needed to ally with their cause, she happened to meet Valga Cromwell and Libre Fermi, the principal leaders of the Demi-Human Alliance, and unveiled her knowledge from the Witch of Greed to support the former's stratagems. With their resources, she also managed to reproduce the Sacrament of the Immortal King. While her involvement was kept relatively secretive, Sphinx was considered to be Alliance's backbone, and alongside Valga and Libre, she became the one of the three people most responsible for their successful advancements, despite having no interest in their victory. Throughout the war, she would observe the quality she was lacking most, love, in demi-humans and humans alike, assuring the actuality of its existence and understanding that it was missing from herself.
During the Demi-Human War, Sphinx set up testing grounds at Shamrock Valley, which would only be opened with a glintstone of her creation, and she tested the efficacy of her Magic Circles there at the behest of Valga. These Magic Circles exploded when triggered by a person walking over them much like a landmine. During the Battle of Castour Field, Sphinx's Magic Circles worked with brutal efficiency. Her usage of Magic Circles to set soldiers from the Royal Army ablaze led to the Demi-Human Alliance's victory. A few days after the victory, she went to Castour Field and used the Sacrament of the Immortal King, an ancient spell that she used to resurrect and create mindless "corpse soldiers" from the deceased forces on both ends. However, while she was trying to create corpse soldiers, she encountered Wilhelm Trias, Grimm Fauzen, Carol Remendis, and Roswaal J. Mathers, her existence became known to the Kingdom, and she was branded as a Witch. After her first known appearance in the civil war, Valga and Libre would begin to disagree over whether her methods were justified or not until she stopped it with a Jiwald. After Libre left, she asked Valga if Libre needed to eliminated, to which he suggested that they should avoid it if possible.
Sphinx would soon get to work on a much more complex system of Magic Circles with Valga's help, and three years after the conflict at Castour Field, the Battle of Aihiya Swamp would see the duo's efforts come to fruition. Knowing that the Royal Army would work to dispel any Magic Circle they came across, a hidden one across the entire swamp was created, being charged activated with the energy of the smaller circles after being destroyed. Under the Magic Circle's effects, humans were felt a heavier pressure as if they were underwater while demi-humans remained unaffected. Its powers affected those who had differences in their mana cycles, meaning that became more potent on those who were more adept in magic, which costed many human casualties in the battle. Unfortunately for Sphinx, the Roswaal of that generation did not hold any magical abilities and instead used steel gauntlets to take her on, which made the Witch withdraw from Roswaal and her attendant, Carol. After finding Libre, who Valga needed regardless of his survival to advance the Alliance's cause, Sphinx used her magic to kill him, turning him into a corpse soldier who covered her escape.
Around this time, Sphinx created a Magic Circle that negated the users of Divine Protections from utilizing their abilities and nullified the Kingdom's covenant with the Divine Dragon from within the circle itself. The Magic Circle never saw any use in the Demi-Human War, however, and it was instead used a few years later during the Subjugation of the Blight Dragon by Stride Vollachia, who somehow found the means to enter Sphinx's Testing Grounds in Shamrock Valley to utilize the Magic Circle for his own schemes.
Not long after the battle at Aihiya Swamp, Sphinx, Valga, and the reanimated corpse of Libre enacted an attack on Lugunica Castle by entering it via one of its many hidden passageways. While Wilhelm fought Valga and Bordeaux fought what remained of Libre, Sphinx was confronted by Grimm, Carol, and Roswaal. Carol successfully managed to cleave off her left arm, and not long afterwards, Libre cut her right arm off. Attempting to prioritize her own life while still possessing little attachment to it, Sphinx followed her instincts to run and barely escaped death by entering another hidden passageway within the castle to escape to the sewers. Upon her escape attempt, she was confronted by Leip Barielle and captured. A short time later, Roswaal arrived and questioned Leip about her whereabouts, and he lied about her death. Once Roswaal left satisfied after receiving a necklace with a ring that Leip had taken from the Witch, he picked up Sphinx's body and would come to keep her alive for his own benefit.[3] At an unknown point in time, he would confine her under an abandoned wooden house in the Barielle Barony and remove her legs.[4]
Several months before the beginning of the main story, Leip formulated a plan to gain control over Lugunica. After the beginning of the Royal Selection, Leip would aim to take away the will of his wife, Priscilla Barielle, who was a candidate to become the country's next King. By using Sphinx's powers to make her into a puppet, Leip would effectively rule the country if Priscilla won.[5][6] However, after Leip was incapacitated by Al, this plan fell through. A few months later, after the Royal Selection had begun, she attempted to take over Priscilla's body again by luring her to a trap. Using parasites that she had created, Sphinx would spread an infection from a waterwheel along a river in the Barielle Barony in order to coax Priscilla into showing up there. However, this tactic would also come to fail when the infected waterwheel manager and host of the parasites' queen, Edda Rayfast, was put out of commission by Al, who would remove a parasite within Priscilla after she burnt Edda to ash. After this event, Sphinx began waiting in silence for time to pass while deliberating on her next course of action.[7]
Abilities
Magic (魔法, Mahō): By utilizing the knowledge she inherited from Echidna, Sphinx could make use of spells from multiple affinities, as well as the Sacrament of the Immortal King, a powerful forbidden art she uses to create undead. She has also mastered magic to such a degree that she can create multiple variations of different kinds of spells, and she can use spells from different parts of her body besides the hands, such as from her eyes. Likewise, she has also shown to use the various unique properties of each element to her advantage while using her magic: using the reflectivity of ice like a mirror to bounce her light spells off of, projecting displays of other locations on water, and other such variations and combinations.
- Sacrament of the Immortal King (不死王の秘蹟, Fushiō no Hiseki): The Sacrament of the Immortal King is an ancient spell created by an unknown Witch long ago.[8] The spell, when cast correctly, will allow the user to reanimate corpses of the dead and make them do their bidding.[9] Sadly, the technique to properly cast the spell has been long lost to time, and only an incomplete incantation exists which was transcribed in an old and withered book regarded as the most important heirloom of House Argyle.[10] Originally, the spell was thought to be capable of fully reviving a dead person, and there are legends of the aforementioned Witch being supposedly capable of bringing back people exactly as they were before their demise.[11] Effectively, the written chunks of the spell's full passage is incapable of producing anything more than walking corpses with no soul of their own,[12] creating "corpse soldiers" whose flesh slowly withers away and decomposes through time.[13] To further limit the usefulness of this mostly-lost spell, a caster with an extremely rare natural affinity for it must be found in order to recreate even the most basic effects of this forbidden spell.[14] As the version Sphinx used was incomplete, she was only able to reanimate corpses and turn them into corpse soldiers until she began using parasites and corebugs. However, Sphinx was also able to use it in combination with her Magic Circles and a bone belonging to one of Valga's ancestors to increase his height to how tall the giants of old were.
- Magic Circles (魔法陣, Mahō-jin): Magic Circles are a type of geometric magic algorithm used to perform complex spells and rituals that can be drawn on objects or living beings. These can produce great kinds of effects, such as large-scale magic that completely alter the state of a battlefield, imbuing an individual with extreme power, distorting the space inside of a building as large as the Crystal Palace in Lupugana, or even temporarily cutting off Divine Protections by cutting an area off from the flow of Od Lagna. However, once Magic Circles are found drawn on the ground, their effects be nullified, so hiding them until activation is necessary. Since this is an ancient form of magic, very few people know about them, and even fewer are capable of using them.
- Goa (ゴーア): Sphinx manifested a blaze of fire, which incinerates a foe.
- El Goa (エル・ゴーア): Though its exact effects are unspecified, Sphinx could use it to rain down fire on an opponent.
- Ul Goa (ウル・ゴーア): Sphinx fired a large number of powerful fire bullets. A powerful flame scatters when the bullets land.
- Al Goa (アル・ゴーア): Sphinx could let loose a massive fireball, scorching away everything in its path.
- Ul Huma (ウル・ヒューマ): Sphinx could generate a barrage of water that shot to the sky from the ground. This provided a good defense against fire spells.
- Jiwald (ジワルド): Using Yang Magic, Sphinx was able to conjure and manipulate visible light into beams of scorching heat that laid waste to whatever object stands in its way. Jiwald was Sphinx's preferred method of combat. Like most spells, there are four levels that increase in intensity and amount depending on the level. The most basic offensive light spell is Jiwald, which allows the caster to project a single beam of concentrated light out of a finger so fast that even the trained human eye can barely register it.
- El Jiwald (エル・ジワルド): Sphinx could fire several swords of light that melted through anything in their path.
- Al Jiwald (アル・ジワルド): The most powerful offensive spell in Sphinx's arsenal consisted of a single ray of light projected from the Witch's entire palm. The spell is much faster and larger in scale than any of other Jiwald variation and was easily her most destructive, usually annihilating anything in its path. That being said, the soldier Grimm Fauzen was still able to deflect Al Jiwald with his shield.
- Al Shario (アル・シャリオ): Sphinx was capable of casting Al Shario, a spell that literally brought stardust down to earth, decimating opponents who were not strong enough to counter the falling stardust. The speed of the stardust is described to be almost impossible to evade.
- Flying Magic (飛行魔法, Hikō Mahō): Sphinx could use flying magic, a spell executed with a combination of the earth, wind, and yang affinities, allowing her to float in the sky.
- Spatial Distortion: Sphinx could alter the space around her person, and if she was attacked and killed by her opponent, the distortion of space would explode outward, killing everyone in the vicinity in a bright flash of white light.
- Unnamed Dimensional Spell: Sphinx was able to take a certain part of the world and place it within a pocket dimension, where it would remain completely unaffected from events in the outside world. She used this spell to separate the dungeon from the Crystal Palace and hold Priscilla prisoner.
Zombie Creation: To create zombies, Sphinx used two kinds of lifeforms as a base from which two different zombie types were made.
- Corebug Creation: Sphinx could create corebugs (核虫, kaku mushi), small, round red bugs that appeared similar to caterpillars, which served as the core of a "zombies" and kept them intact.[15][16] A corebug acquired the data of a deceased person to turn them into a zombie, and reproduced the victim's original form with a vessel of earth.[17] This process could be finished near instantaneously, meaning that someone who died could immediately become a zombie following their own demise.[18] The corebug, which could be located in a variety of body parts, impacted the durability of a zombie; they could be impervious to damage if stricken in areas that the corebug was not present in,[19] but if the corebug itself was destroyed, the zombie broke apart and was immediately destroyed.[20][21]
- Parasite Creation: Sphinx could create parasites that took over a living target's body and turned them into "zombies".[22] While their manner of creation is unknown, these creatures completely followed Sphinx's will and sought to create a "paradise" for her.[23] They initially formed in a host's body as a living tentacle-like appendage that was capable of physical movement. Upon taking control of a host's body, the host was killed, and the parasites were able to use the leftover brain's intellect and thought processes.[24] Though it is not known if their process of taking over human hosts was selective, they were only observed to take over adult males despite being able to nest themselves within women and children, with the exception of one female host who was established as the parasites' queen. They also had the ability to take over non-human animal hosts, such as rats. Similarly to the Sacrament of the Immortal King's effects, the zombies' bodies slowly decomposed over time after being taken over.[25] Although it was unknown if there was a limit on how many parasites can be created, it was possible for more than two thousand of them to exist at the same time,[26] with each one loyal to Sphinx's desires.[27]
Martial Arts: Following her loss to Roswaal J. Mathers during the Demi-Human War, Sphinx began training in martial arts. She interlaced her magic with an elegant martial art technique. However, according to Sphinx, there was a limit to the level of enhancement that the Flow Method could yield for her replicant body when she was an undead.[28]
Unknown Ability: In a given group of undead under her control, Sphinx could choose a "core" to act as a control point between all of them. Tholter Weasily is the only known individual who this power has been used on. If one corpse soldier is neutralized, then the rest of them become more powerful.[29] However, if the core corpse soldier was dispatched, then this effect wore off. It is unknown if this ability was tied to the Sacrament of the Immortal King or if it fell under the scope of her magic.
Trivia
- Like the other Witches (with the exception of Satella), Sphinx's namesake matches both an asteroid and a mythological being. 896 Sphinx is the name of a background asteroid situated in the asteroid belt. The mythological Sphinx was a guardian creature in both Greek and Egyptian mythology.
- Sphinx's first appearance in Ex 2 predated the initial appearances of the original Ryuzu Meyer and any of her other replicas in Volume 10 by roughly ten months.
- There are visual inconsistencies between the description of Sphinx provided in Ex 2 and the colored illustrations that accompanied it. Within the light novel, Sphinx's robe was referred to as white, yet a colored illustration displayed it as black. In Re:Zero Prequel: Camp Formation Stories, the description of its color was changed to accommodate for her black robe in the aforementioned novel. Additionally, the manga adaptation presented the robe as black.
- Although it is unknown if it has any connection to the aura that Wilhelm felt from her, Sphinx was noted to have miasma by Roswaal J. Mathers in Sword Demon Battle Ballad.[30]
- Sphinx has a named chapter in Arc 8 of the light novels and web novel.
References
- ↑ That made it all the more unsettling to know that a horrible fiend was lurking under the girlish guise. She radiated an overwhelming heinous aura, so strong she couldn’t hide it, so strong one could detect it almost instantly. Re:Zero Ex Light Novel Volume 2, Second Stanza, Section 5.
- ↑ Hoisting a staff with a glowing orb, the Witch stepped forth without hesitation―― no, followed by those who were resurrected from the vast lands of blood, the queen of the undead began her march. Re:Zero Light Novel Volume 33, Interlude.
- ↑ Saying nothing further, Leip turned back. Lying on the ground in the tunnel behind him was a small form wrapped in rags. He picked it up. Without arms, the body was quite light. He had hidden it in these wrappings, and now he was careful to take a different path out of the underground than Roswaal had. This betrayal was the first act of Leip Barielle’s long-lived ambition. Re:Zero Ex Light Novel Volume 2, Sixth Stanza, Section 11.
- ↑ Re:Zero Prequel: Camp Formation Stories, The Bloody Bride and her Amusing Servants, Section 10.
- ↑ “What, could you not hear me? That girl’s troublesome willfulness is in the way. I was able to overlook it before the start of the Royal Selection, but now that the importance of every single action is increasing, I can’t let it be. Once her debut at the royal castle is finished, I’ll take away her will and make her my puppet.” Re:Zero Tanpenshuu Volume 1, The Day I Gave Up on Being a Following Star, Section 7.
- ↑ “In this world, there are many demands for unimaginable dark deeds. I long ago made connections with a handy fellow who acted as an intermediary for a curse arts user.” Re:Zero Tanpenshuu Volume 1, The Day I Gave Up on Being a Following Star, Section 7.
- ↑ Understanding the unexpected chaoticness of her dear children such as that, however, the girl continued to wait in silence for the passing of time. Until then――, “Deliberation: Required.” Re:Zero Tanpenshuu Volume 4, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Section 15.
- ↑ “It was one of the exceptional magics, supposedly created by a witch who held the world in thrall, before the knowledge was lost.” Re:Zero Ex Light Novel Volume 1, Felix Argyle's Curse, Section 8.
- ↑ “Put briefly, it allowed the user to control corpses according to their will.” Re:Zero Ex Light Novel Volume 1, Felix Argyle's Curse, Section 8.
- ↑ “Look at this! This is the text describing the Sacrament of the Immortal King, that has been passed down in our house.” Re:Zero Ex Light Novel Volume 1, Felix Argyle's Curse, Section 11.
- ↑ “The Witch who invented the spell had been said to be able to bring the dead back, looking exactly as they had in life…” Re:Zero Ex Light Novel Volume 1, Felix Argyle's Curse, Section 8.
- ↑ “Though the flesh is revived, the soul does not reside within it. Reconstructing the Sacrament of the Immortal King is indeed difficult.” Re:Zero Ex Light Novel Volume 2, Fifth Stanza, Section 3.
- ↑ “It's not just that the spell book is incomplete. It was never a question of the power as a spell caster. Using an awful spell like that – forcing a body that's stopped to start again – of course it was going to break down right away.” Re:Zero Ex Light Novel Volume 1, Felix Argyle's Curse, Section 11.
- ↑ “And even the most basic manifestation was all but impossible to achieve without a caster who had a natural affinity for the spell. It was a very rare affinity – no one had been known to possess it in over a hundred years.” Re:Zero Ex Light Novel Volume 1, Felix Argyle's Curse, Section 8.
- ↑ As he stated this, in Roswaal’s hand was a small block of ice being pinched between his fingers, about the size of a coin; inside, there was a red, round object. Upon closer inspection, he understood that it was a small round bug that looked like a caterpillar――. Re:Zero Light Novel Volume 35, Chapter 3, Section 2.
- ↑ “This corebug is lurking within the body of every zombie. And, this worm is the zombie’s lifeline… in other words, it is undoubtedly their core.” Re:Zero Light Novel Volume 35, Chapter 3, Section 2.
- ↑ “We will be working to unravel more about the technique, but this corebug acquires the data of the target that is to turn into a zombie, and then reproduces the original form by making a vessel out of earth…” Re:Zero Light Novel Volume 35, Chapter 3, Section 2.
- ↑ “It seems that when a soldier who was fighting with them died, that same soldier would immediately turn into a zombie and attack them, I suppose.” Re:Zero Light Novel Volume 36, Chapter 1, Section 2.
- ↑ It did not seem like the difference in toughness was based on where the arrows pierced them, either. There were some undead that were fine even when pierced in the eye, and some that would shatter when pierced in the shoulder. Re:Zero Light Novel Volume 35, Chapter 1, Section 4.
- ↑ “So, the true nature of Garfiel’s perceived discrepancy was the difference in the points at which an arrow killed the corebug within the zombie’s body.” Re:Zero Light Novel Volume 35, Chapter 3, Section 2.
- ↑ An undead’s weak point was neither their heart, nor their cranium. Operating within the vessels of earth, were the corebugs discovered by Beatrice and Roswaal. As long as that remained intact, the activity of an undead would not come to a halt. Re:Zero Light Novel Volume 35, Chapter 7, Section 3.
- ↑ “So, this is the essence of the zombies. They’re parasites… no, parasitic creatures?” Re:Zero Tanpenshuu Volume 4, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Section 5.
- ↑ “Well, that’s because our maker is our maker. Our real parents… to be exact, our maker is the incentive that allowed us to be reborn. To make a paradise where our maker could be at peace―― that is the mission that has been bestowed upon us.” Re:Zero Tanpenshuu Volume 4, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Section 10.
- ↑ “Ah, who knows. The speed of our growth is very fast. At first, we may be corpses that are only able to move once the brains are rotted, but that leaves hosts that have their intellect and thought process intact…” Re:Zero Tanpenshuu Volume 4, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Section 10.
- ↑ “They were trying to stick their rotting arms and feet back on to their bodies, trying to restore it to the way it was before.” Re:Zero Tanpenshuu Volume 4, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Section 3.
- ↑ Exceeding the likes of a hundred, two hundred, a thousand, and two thousand, the mice that surrounded the captive girl in the dark were tremendous in numbers, standing still without letting out a single cry. Re:Zero Tanpenshuu Volume 4, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Section 15.
- ↑ If anything, it was the opposite. ――The mice did not view her as prey, but they were venerating her as something special. That was the loyalty that was directed towards a queen, what could only be established by the dominance of their instinct, which was an impossible evil that was brought to fruition. The mice, having lost their free will, gazed at the girl with eyes that were identical to a corpse. Re:Zero Tanpenshuu Volume 4, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Section 15.
- ↑ “There is a limit to the enhancement of abilities that can be yielded through the Flow Method for this replicant body.” Re:Zero Light Novel Volume 37, Chapter 7, Section 7.
- ↑ “We’ve reduced their numbers, but that’s probably made the rest of them more powerful. There must be one ‘core’ corpse soldier that’s acting as a control point for all the others.” Re:Zero Ex Light Novel Volume 2, Second Stanza, Section 5.
- ↑ Cragrell slowly shook his head and Roswaal took the crystal from the tip of his tongue. She could feel a sinister aura faintly emanating from it as soon as she set it on her palm―― that aura was the miasma of that diabolical Witch which seemed to almost be telling her “Part of me has lingered behind in this world, even after death”. Sword Demon Battle Ballad: Act 2, Section 3.
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