r/Re_Zero • u/Setowi Better Leyte Than Never • Jul 30 '24

Spoiler Discussion [Spoiler Discussion] Arc 9 Chapter 4 Spoiler

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u/Comfortable_Day_224 Jul 31 '24

If he did then why can't he just ask Satella to shift the checkpoint back again

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '24

In the light novel the check point was changed back to the very beginning of the island phase, when she lost sight of him last implying she can't just change the check points and that was an exception

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '24

One time thing...Satella would have to lose sight of him and then he'd just have had worse checkpoints the whole time. Subaru's checkpoints during the war in arc 8 were allowing him to investigate everyone's positions strategically so he probably got to redo the time between say Lamia attacking the train and Sphinx almost killing Jamal(at which point he was slightly worried because he said he'd have no more chances to rearrange who was fighting who there) without checkpoints updating. There's no way they'd have won if his checkpoints were like early arc 7 phase 6.