© 雨川透子・オーバーラップ／ループ7回目製作委員会
This episode opens with a bang. While it would make more sense for Rishe to pioneer the various ways black powder could help the Coyolles overcome their mining industry woes, I think most of us know that they would instead go following the fireworks display after all the firefly scenes last week. And with what Rishe is trying to show Michel, it really works in context. Michel insisted on understanding his invention only in its destructive context, and mining explosions were still explosions and only one step (in his mind and possibly Arnold's) away. its wartime applications. But fireworks exist solely for beauty, something that has nothing to do with the battlefield. By showing the two belligerents in her life that black powder had purely cosmetic applications, she forced them to see that anything could be made pleasant, the gunpowder version of poison being medicine. with the correct dosage and situation.
Arnold, it is implied, has been with her the entire time. And to be fair, it's always been difficult for Rishe to surpass him throughout the series, although I don't think we should read that as him being smarter than her, but as a way to show a level of attention. his idea. pay her. By the time the fireworks took off into the sky, Arnold had agreed with Kyle to team up with Coyolles, something he had probably intended to do all along; he's just the type of person who won't let anyone know what he's thinking before he's fine and ready. It's still in his and Galkhein's interest to make sure Coyolles knows he doesn't have to take this deal. He does it because he wants to and sees value in both what Coyolles offers and what Rishe thinks. The fireworks only reinforced his decision instead of motivating him to make a decision that favored Coyolles.
Would he have come to this conclusion without Rishe? I'm very skeptical about that. Whether she fully understood it or not, any changes in Arnold were largely her doing. Yes, at first she paints it as a choice to save her skin and avoid suffering like she did in the previous six loops, but as we can see from the shot at the end , she really cares about Arnold. She quickly went from seeing him as a villain who repeatedly caused her death to a man who suffered at the hands of his father. From the moment she saw his scars and actually talked to him, she understood that he acted out of pain during all the times she died at his hands, whether directly or indirectly. To truly change her destiny, she must first change his, and who better to do that than someone who knows how things can go wrong?
This final episode puts the final nail in the coffin of the series' title – Rishe is nothing but a villain, and she never has been. But even if that's the case, her actions suggest that some people may go down an evil path because they feel they have no other choice. Both Arnold and Theodore showed that, and it was only through Rishe's steadfast belief in them that they were able to change. That they can change is like the whole point of the story: Rishe himself is the living embodiment of how one can continue to learn and grow, and the Hein brothers can start down that path because of her. We may not all have the seven-fold loop to figure it out, but that doesn't mean we can't change. Even the most destructive things can be beautiful if you look at them in the right light.
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Time Loop 7: Villains Enjoy a Carefree Life is now streaming on Crunchyroll.
