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Subaru:  Surely they were moving far quicker than they had during the previous iterations of the loop. They had not been able to gain reinforcements, but departing by dragon carriage on the second day was a major departure from before. They would be able to make it over the highway in half a day, arriving at the mansion on the dawn of the third day. They were gaining more than half a day over the first time around—surely enough time to get Emilia and the others out of the mansion and to flee from the Witch Cult. "The problem is…the possibility of encountering the Witch Cult along the way like last time." According to his vague memories of the second time around, he’d been inside a cave when he truly regained consciousness. If he had been en route back to the mansion, it was possible that the same thing could happen this time, too. When he thought of how Rem had been killed, and how he had spent nearly an entire day pulling her along before they left the cave:
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Subaru:  "It means they must have infiltrated the area outside the mansion days in advance." But he didn’t know exactly which day that was. The tragedy would fall the morning of the fifth day. The second time around, Subaru’s deduction that it had taken him a day’s worth of time to get out of the cave put his encounter with the Witch Cult between the third and the fourth day.