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It’s a lesson that romance keeps us from learning: some bad boys are beyond repair. From Arnold’s point of view, that seemed to be what Arnold was concerned about—Rishe tried his best to convince him not to destroy Coyolles, making a technology-based deal with Prince Kyle. However, Arnold’s entire response was to ask why he bothered when he could invade Coyolles and take it over. He doesn’t even realize that skipping the “war” altogether would greatly reduce the costs involved or that in the long run an alliance might be more beneficial than an unwieldy empire. Arnold seems to believe deeply that he is a warmonger, and that means going to war is exactly what he does.
Is that what he wants to do? Almost certainly not. A line about him walking out onto the balcony with his sword because he thought fireflies were enemy torches says more about him than anything else he’s uttered throughout the series. this article, except perhaps his slightly later statement about how he wanted to be a kid who gouged out his own eyes because they looked like his father. The latter tells us a lot about his unusual childhood and the suffering he endured almost more than the scars, and perhaps that’s why he can’t help but seeing sparkling lights is not as beautiful but dangerous. Almost nothing in his life before meeting Rishe was good or kind. Everything contains a trap or a horror. He had to live by expecting terrible things to happen to him and around him. He may be trying to escape that mindset by hoping that the marriage with Rishe will work out, but we can still see him preparing for the worst. The way Arnold calls Rishe “my future wife” shows that he does not believe that the future will come.
Rishe, who has given up on that whole “carefree life” thing, may still be a little concerned about Arnold potentially becoming her “worst enemy.” She doesn’t want that, and everything she does is aimed at making sure he doesn’t become the man who enabled her to die six times before. Interestingly, she also seems to begin to feel as though her six previous lives have all given her the skills she needs for this one: her declaration to him that she He will continue to come back again and again with new talents and knowledge to offer. is a tacit admission of that. It is also intended to reassure Arnold that she will not leave him, which we can see is his anxiety based on the possessive “my future wife.” The burden falls on Arnold to trust Rishe and that may be harder to do than he knows.
If Kyle is too naive, Arnold is also too skeptical. Rishe falls somewhere in between, trying to reconcile those two states within himself. She wants everything to go smoothly, but she knows that may not be possible. That said, her technological plan seems to err on the side of naivety—why would Arnold stick with wristwatches when he could use them to create weapons? It seemed almost silly, especially given what she knew Michel was doing. It’s true that she was working with Theodore to capture Michel before he could present his findings to Arnold, but there were no guarantees, and now she had faulty the clock mechanism in Arnold’s ears. , things may be worse than she anticipated.
Is Arnold capable of change? He certainly may have warmer feelings than he thought, based on his reaction to Rishe’s small balcony jumping performance. But unless he can trust his own softer side, all the wordless sights in the world won’t be enough to stop Rishe from going through an eighth loop.
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