#vinchisha

So.

Post theatre.

Vincent wakes up however long it has been in the past. "There's another reason why I'm on my knees right now." Is still ringing in his ears.

He is screaming, crying, throwing up, locking himself in his room and refusing to come out. Chisha is having a panic attack because of how worried he is.

Three hours later, a very haggard looking Vincent comes out with a drawing and a very long letter.

The drawing is of Subaru. The letter is for Subaru.

He makes sure to give Cecilus the drawing and a long distance communication mirror and the instructions of 'Don't let Subaru die.' This way he can get regular updates on what is happening with Subaru while making sure that she doesn't die while he's not looking.

The letter is mostly a guide to Lugunican social norms and basic history, with a few tips on how to avoid very specific deaths along the way. The rest of the letter is him explaining that there is magic to transform one's body into the opposite sex if Subaru is interested.

Vincent would love to kidnap Subaru to Vollachia, but first needs to Subaru-proof the entire country and prepare for the Great Disaster.

Vincent also very busy trying to figure out how to make sure neither he or Chisha dies in the Great Disaster, and also planning their wedding. Which Subaru is invited to. She'll probably end up attending as Cecilus's plus-one or something.

Eventually he'll have Subaru be moved to the Empire permanently, there is just so much that needs doing first.

It's revealed that Vincent has never bedded a woman nor had children.

When the rumors of Vincent's illegitimate son spread, Chisha, Vincent's closest servant since their teenage years, who spent quite a lot of time with him, refuses to believe them, and acts defensive when Berstetz suggests that there may be things about Vincent that Chisha doesn't know. After all, Vincent always made sure to never even share a bedroom with a woman so that no one could create such rumors. There's no way Vincent could have had children without Chisha knowing.

Serena, who has unsuccessfully tried seducing Vincent before, explicitly mentions the possibility of his being gay to his face, even though she already knows the reason is something else. Vincent doesn't deny that (nor react to it in any way for that matter), by the way.

Only 3-4 chapters after that conversation with Serena happens, we're shown Chisha's backstory and motives. Surprise, what we thought was betrayal at first is actually part of a secret, elaborate plan to save Vincent from his prophesied death. They face each other "at a distance so close their eyelashes could touch" right before Chisha sacrifices himself while gazing one last time at his beloved liege with a "decadent smile" on his lips.

"Why?" Vincent asks the corpse more than once, well aware that it won't reply. This is Vincent, the man who'd rather keep his mouth shut if he has nothing useful to say. And what's more useless than directing a question to a corpse?

Later, Vincent, on the verge of a breakdown, asks Subaru, whom he suspects to be a Stargazer, why he let Chisha die instead of him. Vincent had accepted his death. But that's not what Chisha wanted. "He was angry that fate intended to kill you, and also angry at you for surrendering to fate." Now it's Vincent's turn to stand up to fate. That's what Chisha would've loved to see.

Then Tappei introduces an arranged marriage plot between Vincent and Medium to pretend he didn't just write the gayest thing in Re:Zero.

We now welcome Halibel and Capella to Re:Zero Island!!!!!

Vincent and Chisha's wedding, with Priscilla and Cecilus as their best woman and best man respectively.