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BRO THIS IS ACTUALLY PEAK!

So remember the first waves of love right? The anomaly was a heartbroken woman tied to a ring.

Of course we all know everything went bad and now we are either living the past again, or in a completely different time line.

Dionyisa's first mission was a heist. That heist changed the fate of the anomaly woman! I think her name was Maya?

Anyway. Now she is alive. And not even the show is the same now, given we aren't doing it on the island and instead a creepy castle where everything is much darker. Given the color change I figured things were going to be darker, but I didn't expect lives to be at stake.

There were so many little lore moments. Like Elias mentioned Shiki. Now unless I'm forgetting something, I don't think we've met a Shiki, so I'm thinking this is either one of his fourth year buddies, or one of the ghouls from the fallen houses.

Edward was also mentioned this episode. This is the one time I kind of wish he was here. Granted I feel like Edward and Taiga on the same mission is a recipe for disaster, but I don't think the stakes would be ask high as they are if Ed was present. The anomaly holding everyone captive would probably be really intimidated by Ed.

Moving onto the Rouge. I genuinely don't know who it is(⁠ ⁠；⁠∀⁠；⁠). Everyone has potential. Except Alan I think. On the way to the parlor. The door was obvious, and this guy still got lost. Bro got more muscle than brain. Not that I mind though he looks so good 🤤

Highest contender right now I think is Haku, Elias, and Sho. I also sort of suspect Ritsu, but not as much as the others.

Haku is obvious. Spy contender #1 over here.

Look at this picture. Now he looks good. But see his hand? Someone on tiktok pointed out that maybe we couldn't see his other hand on purpose and while he was promising he wasn't the Rouge, he was crossing his fingers under the table, meaning he didn't mean his promise. I don't want to believe he is it though, just because during the second trial when MC was brought across the pit, he got insanely protective.

Number 2 is Elias, Con-man. We've seen first hand how good at pretending he is. He can lie so easily. It would be very easy for him to lull us into a false sense of security.

Number 3 is Sho, this is just because during dinner, his inner thoughts was something along the lines of, "should I make my move now?" That sort of diabolical thinking is what led me to think he is the Rouge.

Now onto Ritsu. The only suspicious thing is he keeps insisting he isn't the Rouge. He often pushes the suspicion off onto someone else, mostly Taiga. He seems to be playing with earnest, at least he was in the second round, not maxing out his feathers like Alan and Haku who were eager to try and save MC. He's a contender and I still have a small suspicion on him, but not as much as the others.

It's not Alan. I'm going to say this now. That man is more brawn than brain. Not to mention he left like all of his belongings with the staff, unlike the rest so like he obviously wasn't thinking. I do not think he can pretend to be Rouge just because he is a straightforward kind of guy. I do think it was a little suspicious how near the end we didn't see him. It was obvious he probably got lost, but imagine he managed to lost himself to a helpful place, like somewhere out of reach of the anomaly.

Now Taiga, he's hard to figure out because there is a 50/50 on what he could be. From that inner thought we got, it's clear he figured something out and seems to have decided to not collect points, at least for the second round. We didn't get to see the third round so we don't know if he plans to sit out on any more of them. But he definitely figured out something about the points and the entire game.

Taiga is so frustrating bro (⁠╥⁠﹏⁠╥⁠)

First I need to get this out of my system

HOLY HAKU LOOKS SO HOT 🥵

Zenji also looks good and I love MC with her little bow

Now that I'm done simping

HOLY THIS EPISODE WAS PEAK AND LEFT ME WITH SO MANY QUESTIONS

not only was the story of the camp a mess but I liked seeing Zenji fight with a sword it was low-key so hype.

I am actually really interested in just what that exorcist saw in MC to make her react like that

Moving on from that I think Zenji and Jiro were homeless kids and one of their wishes has to do with that. They looked dirty in the cutscene and Zenji's lack of money and promise that he would work hard for money was a dead give away.

I also think Zenji might have some knowledge of the past time line or universe, given we didn't name Saburo this time around, but Zenji called him that automatically. I also think Subaru might not be able to see Zenji, or is having a hard time doing it. He tried to tell us something but we didn't let the man speak 😭

Hyde is being a little pest again. He's probably the reason why Mody and Hodge Podge are the way they are. He said it himself. Not to mention the bracelet he was holding was one, the one he stole from Romeo, and two, the one from Kaito's lineage. RUN KAITO RUN!!!