Characters / 7th Time Loop

WARNING: ANIME ONLY FANS, BEWARE OF SPOILERS FROM THE LIGHT NOVEL AND MANGA.

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Protagonists

Rishe Irmgard Weitzner

Rishe Irmgard Weitzner

Voiced by: Ikumi Hasegawa (Japanese)

A young noblewoman who is trapped in a time loop. During her childhood engaged to Crown Prince Dietrich, Rishe was a political pawn of her parents, who disowned her when the engagement was annulled on the basic of fictitious crimes. However, over the course of multiple time loops in different careers, Rishe found self confidence thanks to her various jobs in multiple repeats. Exasperated with her efforts to live a good life being made futile by the Hyne Kingdom's actions, Rishe decides to take advantage of Arnold's proposal in order to have a lazy life. She's fifteen at the start of each loop.

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• The Ace: Over the course of her repeated time loops, Rishe's learned a wide variety of skills. In one loop, she took up work as a merchant, and in the latest loop, she became a knight. This didn't save her from Arnold, who slaughtered both her and her comrades. It is downplayed in some respects in that while Rishe has the skills she learned from her time loops, she's reverted back to her fifteen-year-old body, which lacks the strength and endurance needed to fully utilize those skills.
• Action Dress Rip: When she breaks out of the prison Theodore locked in, Rishe rips the skirt of her dress and proceeds to take down the guards that get in her way.
• Action Girl: She learned swordsmanship in her life as a knight and archery in her life as a hunter.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: The combination of her sixth loop duel with Arnold's future self and a ballroom dance with improvisation in the seventh loop allows Rishe to deduce that Arnold has a shoulder injury impeding mobility in his left shoulder. Arnold, impressed, not only confirms her guess, but tells her that very few people know about the injury and no one has ever guessed it's there if they didn't know already. Bonus points for how tiny the clue was: comparing the mobility of the uninjured right shoulder and the scared left side of his neck and shoulder, Rishe thinks that if the right is at 100, the left is at 98 percent.
  • In the flashback to the sixth duel that helps with the analysis, Rishe recalls one of her fellow knights going for a slash at the right side of Arnold's neck. Arnold pulls back at the last second, and doesn't even have a scar. But when Rishe performs the same attack on his left side, he comes away with a tiny cut on his cheek. It's not that his reaction time is off, it's response time that is the problem, suggesting the mobility issue.
• Benevolent Boss: She's very kind and considerate to her maid staff, even helping them with the housework thanks to her experience as a maid in a previous loop.
• Brought Down to Normal: Every time the time loop begins again, Rishe reverts to a fifteen year old body without any of the achievements or endurance she worked for. She still remembers how to do all the skills she learned, but her ability to do them is lessened - for example, her stamina and endurance are cut back, so even though she still remembers swordsmanship, she's gone from physically fit enough to fulfill a knight's duties to having her arms shake after parrying a single sword blow from Arnold. Over the course of the loop, she attempts to regain the physical fitness of before.
• Broken Bird: Subverted. Rishe's lived up to six time loops, all of which last five years before her untimely death. Rather than be disheartened or desperate to find a way to free herself, Rishe actually uses the time loops to experience things she otherwise wasn't able to before.
• Damsel out of Distress: Theodore kidnaps her and takes her hostage to lure Arnold out. Rishe then rescues herself by picking the lock of her prison and defeating all the guards on her own.
• Death-Activated Superpower: She has the power to loop back to the night of her broken engagement, which is activated when she dies in the ongoing loop.
• Disinherited Child: She's quickly disowned by her family in the wake of her broken engagement and public fall from grace.
• Establishing Character Moment: In Episode 1, Rishe remains completely silent except for coughing out blood as she and her companions battle - and one by one fall - to Arnold's sword. As she's dying, impaled, we finally hear her speak, and realize that the pink haired boy is a girl. Her thoughts hold no regrets or wishes for revenge or do-overs, only a plan for what comes next - because she knows there is a next.
  Rishe: I lived this life to the fullest, too. But... Next time.. Next time, I'll...
• Feminine Women Can Cook: Downplayed. Rishe is perfectly capable of cooking a healthy and nutritious meal, due to her life as an apothecary. However, since taste isn't a prime focus in medicine, her meals tend not to taste very good. Despite this, Arnold claims to enjoy her food; however, since Rishe has seen him drink wine spiked with peppers without turning a hair, she wonders if this is a case of no taste buds on his part.
• Formal Characters Use Keigo: As expected of a noblewoman, Rishe speaks in very formal linguistics at all times.
• Go-Getter Girl: Rishe has had a dream to see every country in the world since her first lifetime as a merchant, and she has pursued this in every lifetime since. With her list finished by moving to the final country for her marriage, she's now equally determine to live a life of laziness and ease and longevity - but she keeps finding goals that she needs to achieve to get there.
• Hidden Buxom: As seen in the page image, Rishe's got a decently sized bust, but when she disguised herself as a man to join the knights she's somehow able to bind it well enough that she looks completely flat-chested.
• Hyper-Awareness: It's ambiguous as to whether it's this or actual Super-Senses, but in episode 9 she reveals that during her 5th loop she learned some sort of means of tracking whats happening around her that allows her to keep track of the locations of everyone in a crowded ball room as long as she focuses.
• Jack of All Trades: She took on a different job in every one of her past loops. She has been a merchant, herbalist, scholar, maid, hunter, and knight. And let's not forget the education she received before the loops started for her expected life as the wife of a crown prince and eventual queen.
• Master of Unlocking: She learned how to pick locks in her life as a maid, because the lady she served would lock herself in her rooms to avoid doing schoolwork.
• Mistaken for Servant: Rishe is mistaken by the castle maids as a new hire. It's an understandable mistake, because she's wearing one of her oldest dresses to clean her villa and does have a maid's skills because that was her job in the fourth loop. Rather than correct the mistake, she uses it to judge both her prospective maids and their working conditions, revealing her true identity only when it's time to choose which ones will personally serve her.
• Never a Self-Made Woman: Averted—in each of her previous loops, she worked her way up and became successful in various fields. She did at least have some startup funds by pawning her jewelry and fine dresses.
• Never Gets Drunk: Has a strong alcohol tolerance which she attributes to her training to become queen. Rishe uses this to her advantage to drink Kaine Tully's men under the table in a Drinking Game.
• Oblivious to Love: There are many hints that Arnold is genuinely attracted to her, including several instances where he tells her straight out near the start. Rishe, however, is determined to explain away his interest as blatant lies, or at most being interested in her in the same way as an entertaining new toy. She also regularly denies her own attraction to him, cursing him for being so beautiful and often frantically trying to explain to other people that something she's said or done is Not What It Looks Like.
• Pimped-Out Dress: Every time Rishe dresses up to suit her rank as a noblewoman, basically, but particularly for balls and diplomatic meetings.
• Play-Along Prisoner: Rishe has no problem breaking out of a locked room and fighting her way past guards when she got kidnapped. She delayed doing so immediately because she wanted to talk to the person who ordered her kidnapping and ask him some questions. ^note There's a second reason in the light novel: she's sleep deprived and wants a short nap first for a couple hours because she's running on fumes and needs the energy for a breakout if she doesn't want to collapse along the way or after. Even so, it gives her only a short boost; she falls asleep shortly after escaping.
• Plucky Girl: She came close to breaking the first time her engagement was broken, but her meeting with the Aria Trading Company offered her a way out of the country and training for a new career, plus a chance to see the whole world. After that, and her first loop as a merchant, she had gained enough self-sufficiency that she keeps getting back up and living life to the fullest, and not even multiple time loops have changed that.
• Politically-Active Princess: For all her claims that her seventh loop will be for indolent relaxation, it doesn't take long for her to get busy building connections in Galkhein, if only to give herself the tools to avert the war in five years.
• Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Rishe often remembers how she acquired various skills in previous loops, right before we see her making use of them in the current one.
• Rose-Haired Sweetie: She's a kindhearted and optimistic woman with pink hair.
• Silly Rabbit, Romance Is for Kids!: Rishe's loops begin at the moment her original fiancé, Crown Prince Dietrich, dumps her. In the first loop, this left her flailing because she had been told her entire life that her worth was bound up in that marriage and producing an heir, until she found a way out of the country and a new dream. By the time of the seventh loop, she's only grateful she's never actually had to spend a loop married to Dietrich. It is unclear what Rishe's views on romance in general are, but she doesn't seem to have been interested in pursuing it herself as a goal for any loop. When Arnold proposes, claiming he fell in love with her at first sight, she disbelieves him and is sure there's another reason for the proposal.
• Stay in the Kitchen: Or at least, the upper class lady's version of it. We see a flashback of a child Rishe pleading with her mother to be allowed to pursue academic studies. Her mother tells her that the highest achievement she can make, as a woman, is to have a good marriage and bear a male heir. Since the time loops began, Rishe has disproven this belief to herself and refused to follow it, as her knowledge is the one thing she retains between loops.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Rishe obviously resembles her mother, more then her father. As Rishe, has inherited her pink hair and emerald green eyes from her mother.
• Sweet Polly Oliver: In the sixth loop, Rishe cross-dressed as a man and became a knight.^note She also cross-dressed in earlier loops on occasion, usually for safer travel than she'd have as an unaccompanied woman, but the sixth loop is the one where she spent a lifetime living as the opposite sex.
  • Later in the seventh loop, Rishe cross-dresses again so she can experience the week of boot camp training regime Arnold's knights are put through, knowing that said regime is what turned Galkhein's forces into an unbeatable army in previous loops. She dons the disguise so she can experience it as just another trainee with no special treatment, enlisting Theodore's help to create a paperwork backstory and ensure she has a trainee slot via a recommendation from him.
• Triple Shifter: A variant. Rishe doesn't actually have multiple jobs, so much as multiple self-assigned tasks, which switch over the course of the loop arcs. For example, in Episodes 2-3, she's cleaning the villa and investigating the palace maids' work environment while also starting her garden; in episode 3, she helps set up a maid training school in her own villa and also tries to create a connection with a trading company; in episodes 4-6 she's trying to come up with a business scheme with a week's deadline, investigate Prince Theodore and Arnold's relationship, work on her garden, and help work out the kinks of the maid school all at the same time. Inevitably, when one task is finished, another will come up, and there aren't enough hours in a day, so Rishe sacrifices her own sleep to stay on schedule. Eventually the Sleep Deprivation catches up with her, and she'll collapse.
  • When Arnold catches her doing this again so she can train with the knights in a cross-dressing disguise in the morning and do duties as his fiancé, Kyle's apothecary, and Michel's student during her other hours, and discovers he can't talk her into dropping even one thing from the schedule, he bargains her into going to bed an hour earlier than usual so that her health isn't impacted. It helps that the most stamina-intensive commitment will be over with in three days or so, and he could have revealed her pretense and forced her to stop but chooses not to.
• Unreliable Narrator: A minor case. In the first novel Rishe's recollection of her six past lives is phrased in such a way as to deliberately hide the fact that she only listed five of them. She doesn't even mention her fifth life in her internal narration until the second novel, and it's not until the third novel that she uses the euphemistic term 'hunter' when she thinks about that time. Finally, in the fourth novel, she clearly tells us that in her fifth life she was an infiltration and intelligence operative, explicitly comparing the 'hunters' to ninjas.

Arnold Hein

Arnold Hein

Voiced by: Nobunaga Shimazaki (Japanese)

Crown Prince of the Galkhein Kingdom. During all previous loops, he started a conflict that would indirectly lead to Rishe's death in a war. In the sixth loop, Rishe was killed by him while posing as a male knight. Unlike the previous loops, Rishe meets Arnold almost right after the seventh loop begins, and to her bigger surprise, he asks her to become his wife while claiming he fell in love with her at first sight. Rishe only accepts to secretly investigate Arnold's motives for starting a coup against his own father, but against her expectations, she discovers the 7th loop version of Arnold is kind but solemn. He's nineteen at the start of each loop.

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• Aloof Big Brother: There's no sibling affection expressed between him and his younger brother Theodore. It's also implied that Arnold sent their four sisters to live elsewhere.
  • Theodore and Arnold's relationship eventually improves after Rishe tells Arnold to consider a world might exist in which Theodore might disappear, followed shortly after by Arnold barely managing to stop Theodore from committing suicide. It's implied at that point that part of the reason Arnold was enforcing distance with Theodore is that he didn't think he was someone who was a good role model for his little brother.
• Amazon Chaser: It's implied that he takes interest in Rishe in part for her swordsmanship prowess and other skills that would not be expected of a noblewoman's education; he proposes after seeing her able to catch his playful sword blow with her own borrowed sword. He's very pleased when Rishe excitedly asks him to spar with her, and he tends to focus on watching her hands when they're together and she's doing a task.
• Anger Born of Worry: After he stops Theodore's suicide attempt, Arnold slaps him and gives him a good scolding for thinking that killing himself was the only way he could become "useful" for his brother.
• Black Swords Are Better: His sword has a black and gold blade.
• Broken Ace: Arnold is good-looking, excellent with a sword, gifted at both politics and strategy, classically educated and capable of reading the language of the Crusade (the main religion of the continent), a decorated soldier, and due to inherit the most influential and powerful Empire in the world. He also only survived childhood because he inherited his father's hair and eyes (every sibling who didn't was killed), faced several murder attempts (some of them from his own mother, who he eventually killed) including one which left severe scars at age nine, has seen war and killed in combat and command by the time he was sixteen, has the reputation of a ruthless killer and conqueror, is expected to marry a foreign princess who will serve as a hostage, and generally shows little to no emotion most days.
• The Chains of Commanding: Double subverted and justified. He's both Crown Prince and basically second in command of the entire armed forces of his country, with only his father the Emperor outranking him. And he has been serving in a commander role since the previous war, which ended when he was sixteen. He's had to make a lot of tough and ruthless decisions, and while there are many hints that he's a Shell-Shocked Veteran, he has to maintain a facade of strength and confidence at all times and cannot afford to be indecisive. He's gotten a ruthless personal reputation as a result, and aside from Oliver, there are very few people who he doesn't keep at arm's length; even Rishe has to work to get closer.
• Child Soldier: Arnold made his reputation and earned his Crown Prince title during Galkhein's most recent war, which ended around three years ago - when he would have been sixteen. It is not stated how long the war was, when it started, or how long Arnold served in it.
• Declaration of Protection: He swears to Rishe that he's going to protect her. Rishe is the only one who knows the irony in this, since only she remembers Arnold killed her in the previous loop.
• Desperately Craves Affection: Implied, but only when it's affection from Rishe. He's very respectful of her wish to not touch her, at first usually only doing so with permission or when it looks like she's about to get hurt, and acknowledging each time he does so without permission and allowing her to request a penalty for it. Eventually, he becomes a bit more flirtatious about it, asking if it's okay to touch her with gloves on. Even then, he keeps the touches respectful. And he openly welcomes any opportunity for her to touch him.
• Ditch the Bodyguards: It's not that Arnold will leave them behind, it's that he'll refuse to stay in safety when he could be fighting in their place, using the justification that he doesn't want to waste knights anywhere but the battlefield. (To be fair, his group is the result of elite training, and not easily or quickly replaceable. Arnold himself has undergone and designed the same training, and is even more badass.)
• Every Scar Has a Story: Arnold's scar by his neck extends down to his shoulder, and inhibits movement. He refuses to tell Rishe the story behind it, though he shows her the scar when she deduces the injury. Very few people know about this particular injury, however, and Arnold says Rishe is the only one to have ever deduced it. Rishe's medical training allows her to date the scar to about a decade ago, and figure out that it would have come from someone attempting to stab Arnold multiple times with intent to kill.
  • Theodore is the one to tell Rishe that Arnold survived multiple murder attempts by his own mother, and that eventually Arnold become a matricide. However, Theodore offered this explanation before he got to see the scar himself, and apparently was not one of the people who knew about the scar. Rishe can guess that Arnold's mother is likely the person responsible for giving the scar, but it's not fully confirmed.
  • Oliver eventually reveals that he met Arnold and entered his service shortly after the incident that caused the scar. How shortly after? The wound was still bleeding through the bandage. According to Oliver, Arnold was nine years old at the time of this meeting.
• Green-Eyed Monster: During their training spar in Episode 7, Arnold thinks Rishe is reacting as though she's previously faced someone more dangerous than he is, despite her claim before the spar that his swordsmanship was the most beautiful and dangerous in the world. Rishe assures him she was only thinking of him. They're both right - Rishe was thinking of his five-years-older self who she faced in a Duel to the Death in the sixth loop.
  Arnold: Come on. Pay a little more attention to me.
  • In Episode 8, when Prince Kyle is formally introduced to Arnold and Rishe, Kyle immediately drops to one knee and starts paying Rishe an elaborate compliment - see Kyle's entry for his exact words. Rishe knows from previous loops that such Old-School Chivalry is merely the custom of Coyelles combined with Kyle's natural sincerity, and he'd treat any woman the same way regardless of how she looked or was ranked, so she tries not to be too flustered about it. However, Arnold's response to said compliments is a Death Glare, which he refuses to explain when Rishe asks him about it later.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: Arnold is all but confirmed to be actively encouraging the rumors about how ruthless and dangerous he is, at home and abroad. His hand in policies for the benefits of common citizens, on the other hand, are kept out of the limelight and behind the scenes as much as possible. Part of this may be for political reasons, but it's implied that he believes a lot of it.
  Rishe: Why do people say you're a cruel person?
  Arnold: Probably because it's the truth.
• Icy Blue Eyes: He has cold and piercing blue eyes.
• I Love You Because I Can't Control You: He's smitten with Rishe because he finds her fascinating and unpredictable. Her refusing his marriage proposal soon after they meet only makes him even more interested in her. That said, Arnold is very aware of the inequality levels in the match, and that he could force Rishe on some issues, such as the agreement to not touch her. He goes out of his way to make her comfortable, to the point that his behavior could be interpreted as a rejection at times, and every time he breaks the agreement to touch her (though eventually he decides it's fine so long as they're both wearing gloves, after she gives him permission for a party with that excuse), he allows her to decide on a penalty favor of her choice for him breaking the agreement. The two things he will not compromise on are their marriage taking place and her safety.
• Killing Intent: Arnold has a constant aura of menace radiating around him. It's implied he can control it to some degree for purposes of stealth, as he attempts to do so to sneak up on Rishe. However, at default level, even when he's not actually in battle or planning to kill someone, he's still intimidating enough to have them trembling with fear and trying anything to appease him - including, in the case of Dietrich's father, adding additional pressure on Rishe to accept Arnold's proposal or have a private conversation with him.
• The Kingslayer: In previous loops, when he assassinated his father to ascend the throne.
• Love at First Sight: After a two-minute conversation and watching her escape over a balcony, he promptly tracked Rishe down and proposed marriage to her.
• Marry for Love: Before he met Rishe, he had no interest in marrying, ever. He claims to Rishe this is the reason he wants to marry her, though she doesn't believe him. And he makes it clear to his aide Oliver that he is not marrying her for any advantage she might bring the kingdom.
• Necessarily Evil: Arnold claims that his ruthless conquest methods are for the best, because the alternative is that it's his dad or other countries doing the conquering. At the same time, there's no indication that he enjoys making those ruthless choices, and there are several instances where he seems to be arguing that he's picking the best of several bad options while still never claiming that it's morally right or morally justified.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When Arnold pulls Theodore back from over the ledge, he slaps him and then shouts at him. It's notably one of the few times that Arnold's voice ever lets a bit of emotion into it - and it goes away a second later.
  Arnold: What were you thinking?
• Poor Communication Kills: Played with. Arnold rarely explains his reasoning, often only giving commands or straightforward answers without explaining his reasons and expecting people to obey. Rishe is a notable exception to this, and is able to get him to explain himself not just to her but to others.
  • In Episode 4, Rishe overhears Arnold having a conversation with the Earl Marshal about military affairs. Arnold is creating a policy that the army will protect commoners as well as nobility. The Earl Marshal disagrees, pointing out that the nobles might be displeased and protest the change as unnecessary. Arnold responds to the concerns by saying the nobles have their own private armies and the money to maintain said armies; if they still want to complain, let them. When the Earl Marshal hints that Arnold's father the Emperor will disapprove, Arnold goes ice-cold and declares, "Enough. You've made your opinion known. Just follow my orders." Then, he realizes that Rishe is eavesdropping and can hear them. When he looks at her, she attempts to non-verbally signal support; after a moment, he smiles, and turns back to the Earl Marshal to explain how protecting commoners is actually for the nobles' benefit: safer commoners will allow the working class to focus on their work, which will produce more taxes, which will benefit the nobles. Arnold even promises to send out a note himself explaining such if the nobles complain. After this, the Earl Marshal is visibly supportive of the policy change.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: Arnold is heavily involved with both the armed forces and the actual governance of his country. In public, he's a gifted fighter and commander who's in the process of redesigning army organization and training to protect the commoners and to become an elite fighting force - one which in previous loops outfought all their foes. Behind the scenes, he's also passing laws and bills such as minimum wage and welfare relief to encourage economic stimulus and general prosperity. Once he reconnects with Theodore, the brothers team up to write and pass laws to better the commoners, but discretely enough that it's not obvious they're working together.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: There are numerous hints of this.
  • In Episode 1, in the seventh loop, Rishe gives a wordless scream as Arnold starts to introduce himself, having just realized who she's literally run into. Arnold's reaction is to reflexively reach for his sword, even if he doesn't actually draw it.
  • Also in Episode 1, in the last moments of the sixth loop, Emperor Arnold's entire visage suggests this, his expression never changing from a Thousand-Yard Stare as he walks steadily up the hall cutting the knights down. Not even a sword coming within inches of his throat before he leans back changes his expression.
  • In Episode 2, Arnold disregards all his knights when bandits attack, locking Rishe in the carriage, and taking the fight on himself. When his aide Oliver calls him out on this, he justifies it on the basis of there would be fewer casualties if he did all the fighting himself - and indeed, Rishe is shocked to discover he hasn't killed anyone, only knocked them out.
  • In Episode 5, Arnold describes himself to Rishe as "ruthless" and "cruel", admitting to having killed a lot of people personally in battle and being generally brutal. When Rishe refuses to be intimidated, even after he lightly wraps a hand around her throat as a threat, they have this conversation:
  Arnold: What is this resolve you carry within you?
  Rishe: Resolve?
  Arnold: I see it in your eyes sometimes. They're the eyes of someone standing on a battlefield. "If it means that I can stay true to my convictions, then I don't care if I die here." You have the eyes of someone with that sort of resolve. Even then, you haven't given up on surviving. You will fight until the very last. The moments when I had to kill such a person... were the most terrifying moments of the war.
  Rishe, thinking: He has things that frighten him, too?

  • In the light novel, Arnold's lines are translated as, “You have the gaze of someone ready to die for what she believes in, who will fight for it with every last breath. You look like…someone who still believes life is worth living. Having to end the life of someone like that is what I fear most in the world.” This leads Rishe to realize that Arnold is not the merciless killer his reputation paints, and may not actually want a future painted in blood despite his choices in previous loops.
  • In the bonus story for the light novel Volume 1, "The Lullabye of a Heartbeat", adapted as part of Episode 7, Arnold reveals he is a chronic insomniac, staying awake for several days at a time; in the anime, it's more a case of a disrupted sleep schedule after having to unexpectedly take over the night watch for a shift. When Rishe suggests he take a nap during the day to catch up on sleep, Arnold refuses; he can't nap during the day because he can sense others moving around the palace and so can't relax. Rishe recognizes this as leftover battlefield instinct, where you have to be ready to come fully awake at the slightest sign of danger.
  • In Episode 11, Arnold sees the fireflies outside his window; he doesn't realize what they are at first, and the lights remind him of flickering torches on a battlefield, so when he comes out to the balcony to investigate, he brings his sword with him, ready to use it.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: With Theodore. Arnold is stoic and aloof, in contrast to the cheerful and playful Theodore.
• Single-Target Sexuality: Rishe is the only woman who has sparked his interest.
• The Stoic: Arnold is generally inexpressive. Taken up a notch during the Sixth Loop, when he's the Emperor.
  When [Rishe] had met him in her other life, he was cold and merciless, like a genuine monster. And yet here he stood, mellow and smiling.
• The Strategist: It's not his personal swordsmanship skill that enabled him to pull off a coup or win so many wars of conquest in all previous loops, though that certainly helped.
  Arnold’s brilliance lay not in his swordplay but in his skill as a tactician. He set countries up for conquest and knocked them down, swallowing them one by one.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: He's usually cold and aloof to most people. Around Rishe, he's warmer and smiles often.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome: He's incredibly gorgeous, with black hair and blue eyes.
• Terror Hero: A mix of The Dreaded and the Intimidator type. Arnold has terrifying combat skills and has demonstrated a willingness to be ruthless during his war service. He uses that to break his enemies into surrendering or To Win Without Fighting at all.
• The Un-Reveal:
  • At the start, it's unknown what his motive is for proposing to Rishe. He claims it's Love at First Sight, but she's skeptical.
  • It's also unknown what he whispered to Rishe when he killed her in the sixth loop when Rishe was disguised as a male knight.
• The Usurper: During all previous loops, he would at some point assassinate his father and crown himself Emperor in a coup.
• War Hero: Arnold made his reputation and earned his Crown Prince title during Galkhein's most recent war, which ended around three years ago.
• Warrior Prince: Arnold has served in the armed forces since Galkhein's last war, and as Crown Prince is basically second in command of all the armed forces. The only reason he isn't commander in chief is because that's the role of the ruling emperor, and even so he's still shown to be deciding most of the army policy and redesigning the training regime.
• When He Smiles: Oliver mentions to Rishe that Arnold smiles a lot more now that she's around. On the occasions he does, the normally inexpressive but already good looking Arnold is implied to become beautiful enough to make women swoon.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Implied to be what happened in the previous loops, and truthfully he's well on the way there. Rishe is trying to figure out the how and why and prevent it this time around.

Galkhein Kingdom

Theodore Auguste Hein

Theodore Auguste Hein

Voiced by: Mariya Ise (Japanese)

Arnold's younger brother and second in line to the throne. He's the same age as Rishe - fifteen at the start of the seventh loop.

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• Big Brother Worship: Idolizing his older brother, Theodore has made his own plans to remove himself from the competition by whatever means necessary. He's also very jealous of his brother's attention.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Theodore is trying to make a public reputation of a nice but whimsical and undutiful prince, but he's built a huge network of loyal followers among the capital's slums.
• Child Soldier: Like Arnold, Theodore served in Galkhein's most recent war, which ended when he was about twelve. Unlike Arnold, Theodore's job was as a battlefield medic in a hospital for the more severely wounded, and intended to be a noncombat position that would never see battle. When the hospital was attacked anyway, Theodore had no options but to run away or throw himself between the attackers and his patients as a meat shield. If Arnold hadn't arrived at the last moment and cut them down, it would have been game over.
• Effeminate Voice: Theodore is a Pretty Boy of a prince with feminine facial features. The anime has him be voiced by a woman to match his looks.
• Good All Along: There are multiple indications that he's scheming to take Arnold's place as the next monarch. In reality, he's Arnold's strongest supporter, and fears that Arnold is trying to remove himself from the picture; Theodore intends to remove himself first, cultivating a surface reputation of a lazy and disinterested heir who can't be bothered and the reputation of a prince who wants to inherit at all cost as a second level mask.
• I Owe You My Life: Arnold saved Theodore's life when an attack during the recent war encroached on the medic tent where Theodore was working.
• Interrupted Suicide: Seeing no other way to get himself out of the line for the throne and aid his brother, Theodore throws himself off a building. Arnold catches him and tells him to stop risking his life.
• The Medic: During Galkhein's most recent war, Theodore signed up to serve as a battlefield medic. It was a noncombatant position, and should have been safe from attack, but Arnold still ended up having to save Theodore's life.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Theodore has cultivated a reputation of a lazy layabout prince who won't do any of his royal duties, but underneath is a cunning individual who has cultivated a huge loyalty network in the slums. He makes himself look like a foolish and irresponsible prince because he's actually Arnold's greatest supporter, and he's planning to do something that will make him ineligible to succeed the throne so Arnold has no choice but to live and inherit.
• An Odd Place to Sleep: Theodore has cultivated a reputation of a lazy layabout prince who won't do any of his royal duties and will sleep anywhere. Rishe first meets him when she finds him sleeping on her herb garden.
• Pretty Boy: He has a cute girly-looking face and long eyelashes.
• Princeling Rivalry: Theodore seems to be jealous of both Arnold's achievements and his position. The maids claim he threw a fit when he couldn't have a set of guards to match his brother; they interpret it as a cute instance of wanting to copy Arnold, but there may be more sinister implications. Especially when Arnold warns Rishe to stay away from his brother and, it is later revealed, likewise warning Theo to stay away from Rishe, only for Theodore to promptly arrange an introduction for himself by falling asleep in Rishe's garden.
  Rishe: Calling himself second in line for the throne — that's no way to introduce yourself to your older brother's fiancée.
• Rebel Prince: Theodore has stopped doing any official royal duties over the last couple years, and is conspicuously disinterested in combat or military training - not the most favored choice in a country that's so focused on conquest expansion. As such, despite being second in line to the throne, no one takes him as a serious candidate to succeed instead of his older brother - and that's just how Theodore prefers it.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: Double subverted. Theodore makes a point of showing how very lazy and disinterested in the throne he is, and one of the ways he did that was to stop officially carrying out the charity acts, both in person and in monetary donations, that he had been doing since childhood. However, an investigation of the records proves that Theodore never actually stopped; he just went behind the scenes and continued to do it much more quietly, continuing to cultivate loyalty in the slums while making himself appear less of a political threat. In the process he created an entire pool of people willing to do anything for him, including spying and other dirty work. Once he reconnects with Arnold, the brothers team up to write and pass laws to better the commoners, but discretely enough that it's not obvious they're working together.
• Shipping Torpedo: He does not appreciate his brother showing up with a fiancé and very obviously paying attention to her while having forbidden Theodore to come in contact with him.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: With Arnold. Theodore is cheerful and playful, in contrast to the stoic and aloof Arnold.
• Silver Spoon Troublemaker: Theodore wants Arnold's attention, positive or negative, and he will do anything to get it, including disobeying Arnold's direct commands to avoid Rishe, badmouthing Arnold to Rishe, or straight up kidnapping Rishe. Even after he reconciles with Arnold, Theodore can't help tweaking his brother's nose; imagining the look on Arnold's face if his brother discovered such a thing is his explicit motivation for helping Rishe pass as a boy to participate in the knight's training boot camp.
• Sleepyhead: Theodore does a lot of behind-the-scenes work at night, and as such is prone to napping during the day.
• Spare to the Throne: When he meets Rishe, Theodore makes a point of introducing himself as "second in line to the throne."
• Strong Family Resemblance: Like all the surviving Hein children, he inherited their father's hair and eyes. He basically looks identical to his older brother Arnold, but younger and a touch more feminine in features.
• The Un Reveal: It’s not know, if Theodore was alive or dead when Rishe was living her 6 previous lives.
• Underestimating Badassery: He concocts a scheme kidnap Rishe, assuming she is a typical, inactive noblewoman who can be cooped up in a room in a tower without further thought. Arnold (and likely the audience as well) laughs at the idea, knowing that Rishe is more than capable of rescuing herself, and indeed only a few minutes later she turns up — having picked the room's lock and fought all the guards with a short sword she hides on herself — to lecture Theodore on how to imprison someone.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Younger brother version. Theodore dearly wants his older brother's attention, which Arnold refuses to give him.
• Zero-Approval Gambit: It turns out his lazy persona and his kidnapping plot are both an effort to make himself unworthy of succession, because he realizes that Arnold planning something similar. Theodore thus feels the only way he can be "of use" to Arnold is to take himself out of the picture so his brother won't destroy his future.

Oliver Laurents Friedheim

Oliver Laurents Friedheim

Voiced by: Shun'ichi Toki (Japanese)

Arnold's assistant and right-hand man. He's been working for Arnold for the last ten years.

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• No Badass to His Valet: He refuses to be intimidated when it comes to telling Arnold he's making a mistake.
  Oliver: Your Highness! Not again! What do you think all these knights are for, decoration? Why do you insist on endangering yourself?
  Arnold: I could tell they [the bandits] were prepared to kill. I'd prefer to take the burden on myself rather than risk multiple injuries so far afield. And we already have casualties.
  Oliver: Your Highness, that is a weak justification. I’m overjoyed you’re well, but you must consider Lady Rishe. Perhaps next time we run into a team of murderous brigands, you could allow your consort to remain in the coach.
  Arnold: I told her to remain in the coach!
• Career-Ending Injury: Oliver was originally a squire training to be a knight; however, an accident during the training process ended his dream. He was still trying to figure out what to do with himself when he ended up in Arnold's service.
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Oliver owes Arnold everything and knows it, and he's been acting as Arnold's helper in whatever capacity needed for years. He's also one of the few people who refuses to be intimidated by Arnold.
  • There are strong hints that Arnold checks in with Oliver to figure out how things work. After eating Rishe's soup, he asks Oliver if it's normal to put medicinal herbs in soup. Oliver says that no, that's not normal - not unless it was something prepared by an apothecary.
  • Another time, Arnold and Oliver tell Rishe a story of how Arnold sneaked out to town in disguise as a child, and how and why Oliver taught him how to behave in such situations. See manga volume 4, bonus story, for the full details:
  Arnold: Rishe, Oliver was the one who taught me how to behave when I sneaked out of the castle nearly ten years ago.
  Rishe: Huh?
  Oliver: Do not try to tarnish my good name, Your Highness. After all, you say that as if you weren't walking around town on your own before I taught you anything.
  Rishe: Um... Oliver?
  Oliver: When I took you to a gambling den full of lowlives and criminals, you acted with so much confidence that I couldn't believe it was your first time there. A boy of nine or ten years of age betting large sums of money without hesitation, you were unbelievably conspicuous.
  Arnold: You were the one who told me that if I didn't beat them, we wouldn't be able to lure out the bookmaker. Otherwise we could simply have arrested everyone there and finished the job without having to go through all that trouble.
• The Jeeves: Oliver may have originally been trained as a squire rather than a knight, depending on translation and adaptation. Technically, he still fulfills many of those duties as Arnold's sidekick; however, the injury from training that prevents Oliver from completing knight training or carrying out its duties means that his role is more of a paper-pusher and making sure that everything runs smoothly in paperwork and household needs.
• Older Sidekick: We don't know Oliver's exact age, but we're told that he entered Arnold's service when Arnold was nine and Oliver was in his mid-to-late teens. This seems to be confirmed by the fact that Galkhein's knight training is only available to those fifteen and older, and Oliver took an injury in said training before entering Arnold's service. Since Arnold is 19 now, Oliver's age is likely 25 years old at minimum at the start of the time loop.
• The Reliable One: Arnold trusts him to obey any order given. Not unquestioningly necessarily, but he knows Oliver will obey.
• Romantic Wingman: Oliver's fairly subtle about it, but he's often the one who lets Rishe know when there's an opportunity or need for something only she can do for Arnold. Sometimes that means letting Rishe know about a party it would be good for her to attend with Arnold, when Arnold would simply have gone alone and not bothered her. Sometimes it means letting her know that Arnold hasn't slept in over thirty-six hours; could she please try to persuade him to take a nap?
• Servile Snarker: This quote from a bonus story in the Manga volume one, featuring Oliver's point of view of Arnold's decision to propose after years of zero interest in marrying, says it all:
  The next day, after having met Rishe, the woman who accepted Arnold's proposal, Oliver sighed and said, "I never knew you only cared about looks."
• Undying Loyalty: To Arnold, who hired him as a butler/valet/secretary after an injury during training destroyed Oliver's career plans as a knight.

Elsie

Elsie

Voiced by: Minami Tsuda (Japanese)

Rishe's maid. A new hire and inexperienced, she has been promoted to Rishe's main confidant. Often is the one to help Rishe cover up her absence if she's sneaking out.

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• Interclass Friendship: Elsie is from the slums, and Rishe is a Duke's daughter and future Crown Princess. Yet they become close friends as well as employer and employee.
• I Owe You My Life: To Theodore. Elsie is from the slums and has two younger siblings to take care of; she's been reliant on Theodore's general slum charity for years, and also would face the wrath of all her neighbors if she betrayed him.
• The Infiltration: Theodore arranged for her to get a job as a palace maid in order to insert a spy and potential traitor into Rishe's household, and ordered Elsie to abduct Rishe if she got the chance.
• Lady-In-Waiting: Despite her inexperience, this is the role she comes to have as Rishe's main personal maid.
• Makeover Fairy: Volunteers herself as one in episode 8 when she believes Arnold is planning on a date for the 'secret outing' and Rishe hasn't understood that.
  Rishe: The truth is that the Prince and I are going into town tomorrow.
  Elsie: What sort of business is taking you there?
  Rishe: I'm certain it must be some sort of official business. It would be best to wear something that won't stand out. A brown linen dress and a simple grey robe would be—
  Elsie: *drops to her knees and grabs Rishe's hands* Lady Rishe! Please leave it to me.
  Rishe: What? L-Leave what to you?
  Elsie: I promise I will make you lovelier than anyone else ever could.
  Rishe: What?
• Turncoat: Elsie switches sides and loyalties to Rishe, vowing not to follow Theo's orders to abduct her. Except, Rishe already figured out the deception and tells her to go along with the plan. In the light novel, it's revealed that Elsie and Kamil were the ones to search Rishe before she was locked in her cell, allowing her to keep a weapon that she could use to break out.
• Undercover When Alone: The first hint we have of Elsie being something other than what she seems is when Theodore is thanking her and Kamil for kidnapping Rishe.

Diana

Diana

Voiced by: Ayaka Shimizu (Japanese)

A senior castle maid.

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• Freudian Excuse: She was born into a merchant family, but her family fell into ruin, forcing her to work as a maid. She received harsh treatment from her seniors, resulting in her giving the same treatment to Elsie and others until Rishe makes her see the error of her ways.
• Jerkass Realization: She thought she had to be strict with the younger maids to teach them the ways of the job, but she failed to realize many of the new maids lack the education she had as a merchant's daughter, such as them not knowing how to read. Rishe has to point out to her that most maids can't memorize instructions with written notes, making Diana regret how she treated her juniors until that point.
• Took a Level in Kindness: She's introduced as overly strict towards younger maids. After Rishe makes her realize she was too harsh on Elsie and the others, Rishe fires her as a maid to then offer her a new job as a teacher for new maids who are illiterate. Wanting to make up for her past behavior, Diana takes the opportunity to help new maids.

Kamil

Kamil

Voiced by: Daiki Hamano (Japanese)

Arnold's new knight, a recent addition to the guard. He gets assigned to follow Rishe along with his partner.

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• Chekhov's Gunman: He's introduced as a Bit Character, one of the knights who gets wounded by bandits in Episode 2. Then he gets promoted to one of Rishe's two regular guards. We finally get his name revealed when Rishe vanishes and he's revealed to have kidnapped her with the help of Elsie on Theodore's orders.
• Foreshadowing: When Arnold is thanking Rishe for treating his knights for their wounds, he mentions two of the newer ones are from the slums. This turns out to be important later when Rishe is kidnapped by Kamil and Elsie; Theodore has cultivated loyal followers in the slums at large.
  • When Rishe is asking about Theodore, one of the maids mentions that the younger prince made a big fuss when a knight he favored was assigned to Arnold's guard. The maids think that Theodore just wanted to copy his brother and that it was cute. It turns out that Kamil is the knight in question, and was loyal to Theo all along - at least, until Rishe won him over and made him conflicted about his orders.
• Turncoat: Kamil switches sides and loyalties to Rishe, vowing not to follow Theo's orders to abduct her - except, Rishe tells him and Elsie to go along with Theo's plan. In the light novel, it's revealed that Elsie and Kamil were the ones to search Rishe before she was locked in her cell, allowing her to keep a weapon that she could use to break out.
• Undercover When Alone: The first hint we have of Kamil being something other than what he seems is when Theodore is thanking him and Elsie for kidnapping Rishe.

Hermity Kingdom

Dietrich

Dietrich

Voiced by: Nobuhiko Okamoto (Japanese)

Rishe's ex-fiancé and the Crown Prince of her home kingdom. His annulment of their engagement to pursue his new girlfriend marks the start of each time loop.

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• Dumb Blonde: He's got gold hair and he's an idiot.
• Entitled Bastard: He intended to publicly humiliate Rishe by annulling their engagement in front of a crowd, and justifies a sentence of exile by accusing her of fictitious crimes. While she was heartbroken and shocked the first time it happened, by the second loop Rishe was more shocked by the time travel, and by the seventh time she couldn't be happier to break up with an asshole like him and tells him so to his face when he tracks her down to try to finish reading off her list of crimes. Dietrich is furious when the crowd he brought along as an audience end up laughing at him instead.
• Establishing Character Moment: He's first seen publicly breaking off his engagement to Rishe while stating the following:
  "RISHE IRMGARD WEITZNER! You are a devious woman unworthy of being the fiancée of a crown prince! Today, as of this moment, I annul my engagement to you!"
  • And then again with his reaction to Rishe's non-reaction:
  Rishe: Very well. I understand.
  Dietrich: Eh? Hold on. I'm voiding our engagement. You must be worried about what will happen to you now.
  Rishe: No. Not in the least.
  Dietrich: What?
  Rishe: If you'll pardon me.
  Dietrich: Huh? W-Wait! Rishe? Where are you going? Listen to me! I spent a whole week thinking about how I'd read off your list of crimes! Listen! Hey! You! Come back here! Halt! Rishe! Listen to me when I'm speaking to you!
• Offended by an Enemy's Indifference: Starting from the second loop, Rishe is completely indifferent to Dietrich and ignores him whenever he breaks off their engagement in public. In the seventh loop, we see that he feels insulted and spiteful at Rishe's indifference to him since he wanted to see her suffer when he dumped her.
• Prince Charmless: He has the outward appearance of a Prince Charming, but the second he doesn't get his way he becomes a Jerkass and a Royal Brat.
• Lethally Stupid: In previous loops, less than a year after breaking up with Rishe, Dietrich has been stripped of his title and thrown in prison for attempting to plan a coup and getting caught in the very early stages. As an on-screen example in the seventh loop, Dietrich makes the mistake of threatening Arnold to his face - because he doesn't recognize Arnold as the Crown Prince of another nation that his own country stopped warring with a bare number of years ago, despite Arnold being on the guest list to the engagement party. It takes Rishe identifying Arnold to stop Dietrich ordering the guards to attack, which would have started another war. And even then, he doesn't think to order them to stand down; that's Rishe's order and the guards' fear paralyzing them.

Marie

Marie

Voiced by: Yui Kondo (Japanese)

Dietrich's new fiancé. She helped to arrange Rishe's downfall and exile for the sake of reaping the benefits for her family.

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• All for Nothing: She convinced Dietrich to dump Rishe for her because she needed to marry into money and save her family from poverty. In previous loops, within a year of breaking his engagement with Rishe, Dietrich attempted to plan a coup against his father by provoking the citizens to war. The plans came out early on, leaving Dietrich a laughingstock across the kingdom. He would be imprisoned for treason and lost his title as Crown Prince. So all Mary's work was for nothing.
• Frame-Up: As part of her efforts to replace Rishe as Dietrich's fiancé, she accused Rishe of bullying tactics and several other crimes, which ended in Rishe being disowned and exiled with nothing but the clothes on her back.
• Gold Digger: Rishe learned in one of her past loops that this is Mary's reasoning for marrying Dietrich, albeit not for herself but for her family's sake.
  Rishe had learned this truth in one of her past lives. Mary was born to a poor family, and she had studied like mad to be accepted into the academy to hunt for a husband. She intended to make sure neither she nor her brothers ever went hungry again.
• Inconsistent Spelling: Her name is translated as either 'Marie' or 'Mary'.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Rishe advises her to not tie her life and success to Dietrich. After all, if he was so willing to easily put Rishe aside, there's nothing to make certain Marie won't also end up replaced. Surely she can achieve her future and happiness for her family without sacrificing herself.

King of Hermity

King of Hermity

Voiced by: Hiromichi Tezuka (Japanese)

The ruler of Rishe's home country and Dietrich's father. He shows up in Episode 2, trying to repair his son's actions before they start a war.

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• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": His name is unknown, making him only known as the King of Hermity.
• One-Shot Character: He shows up only in Episode 2, to demonstrate that there is an authority above Dietrich and that Dietrich's plans for Rishe were neither known about or condoned by the rest of the government.
• Pose of Supplication: The King rushes into the scene, and falls into this pose, forcing Dietrich to follow him while grinding his son's face into the cobblestones and babbling apologies. The entire monologue serves to highlight that Dietrich's rejection of Rishe was neither known nor approved by his dad (presumably in any loop), but also demonstrates Arnold's terrifying reputation, as the king is terrified Arnold will take insult and start a war, and he's willing to do anything to pacify him and his country.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: When he finds out about Dietrich's offensive actions towards Arnold and Rishe, the King forces Dietrich into a Pose of Supplication before Arnold and Rishe, shouting apologies over his son's protests for the treatment. In order, the King's priorities are making sure Arnold and Galkhein don't declare war for their lack of proper reception and greeting at the party itself (something Arnold had sent Oliver to complain about to the king's chamberlain, it's revealed in the light novel, and likely predicting this exact reaction), and to apologize to Rishe for her treatment and the broken engagement, making it clear he neither knew what his son was planning nor condones it. He urges her to accept Arnold's proposal for the sake of the kingdom. Fortunately, Arnold steps forward and makes it clear that he's not going to treat Dietrich's words and actions as official diplomatic response and it won't affect the relationship between their countries, but he does use the king's fear to pressure Rishe into an additional conversation where he can convince her to accept the proposal.

Aria Trading Company

Kaine Tully

Kaine Tully

Voiced by: Shinnosuke Tachibana (Japanese)

President of the Aria Trading Company. In Rishe's first loop, he gave her a ride out of the country and taught her to be a merchant.

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• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When Rishe presents him with a cure for his little sister Aria's illness, and proves she has the medical know-how to make it legitimate, Tully is ready to get down on his hands and knees and hand over everything he owns to get it from her.
  Kaine Tully: "Become a merchant who can choose your own customers." That's what I've told my subordinates all this time. You've turned the tables on me, Miss Rishe. Up until now, this maneuvering was all about whether I'd choose you or not. But now, it's about whether you'll choose me.
  Rishe: Chief...
  Kaine Tully: I'm begging you. I'll give you everything I own. Please, give this medicine to —
  • Rishe stops him, however, saying she would never hold his sister's health hostage. She only wanted to remind him that the people in Galkhein's slums are likewise willing to give up everything they have for their families, including sacrificing their own dreams for their younger siblings' survival. He takes her point and is rather ashamed of himself for forgetting that trade is meant to benefit everyone.
• Awesome by Analysis: When he first meets Rishe in the first loop, he's able to correctly deduce her background based on the ballgown she's wearing.
  Kaine Tully: Even in the moonlight, that silk shines with an impressive luster. It's Vishkulha made, isn't it?
  Rishe: *gasps*
  Kaine Tully: So you're from the royal family, or maybe a Duke's house.
• Big Brother Instinct: The reasons Tully founded his company is to search for a cure for his little sister's illness. The company also carries her name.
• The Face: As the leader of the Aria Trading Company, he's usually the spokesperson in meetings.
• Intrepid Merchant: Tully has just founded his company two years ago when the loop begins. By the time all previous loops ended, it would become the largest and most famous trading company in the world - and a lot of it has to do with his willingness to go everywhere and build trading connections, eventually being able to pick his own customers.
• Mentor Archetype: In the first loop, he was this to Rishe, teaching her how to be a merchant and eventually helping her set up her own business.
  • He's also the person who pointed out to her that she was free to do anything and go anywhere now that she was freed from the engagement to Dietrich, arguably starting her on the path of exploring new choices each life - a lesson that was completed when she failed to meet up with him in time the second go around.
• The Social Expert: As a merchant, Tully has to quickly grasp who is a potential customer and what they're willing to buy or sell. He also has to figure out when a risk is too big, or a deal is too good to be true, and he makes those evaluations through combination of experience and reading people.
• Wham Line: Just when Rishe thinks she has a deal with the Aria Trading Company to provide everything for her wedding, Kaine Tully throws this one at her: "Lady Rishe... I haven't a single item I would sell to you."

Coyolles Kingdom

Kyle Morgan Crevary

Kyle Morgan Crevary

Voiced by: Katsumi Fukuhara (Japanese)

Crown Prince of the snowy country of Coyolles. He suffers from a chronic illness. In the 2nd loop, when Rishe was an apothecary, she took him on as a patient.

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• Delicate and Sickly: If left untreated, as happened in the first loop, Kyle's chronic illness will impede him to the point that he won't be able to get out of bed in five years. His stepmother is pregnant (and will be giving birth to a prince, as Rishe knows from previous loops), and even Kyle hopes for the baby to replace him as the heir. Even traveling across the ocean to meet Rishe and Arnold in advance for their wedding has an impact on his health.
• Inconsistent Spelling: His last name can be translated as 'Crevary' or 'Cleverly'.
• Old-School Chivalry: This is a common principle of Coyolles in general, when a man will halt whatever business he has to escort a perfect stranger of a woman walking alone to her destination, and also feel the need to pay her compliments at the drop of the hat. The higher in rank the man, the more he practices this behavior - and Kyle, as Crown Prince, must practice it most of all. However, the combination of Kyle's sincerity and good looks frequently results in women assuming he meant those compliments personally.
  Kyle, on his first meeting of Rishe in the seventh loop: Your beauty is like that of a goddess. I’m delighted to meet you. I pray you forgive my rudeness at daring to speak in your divine presence. I had assumed that His Highness Prince Arnold’s fiancée would be beautiful, but how was I to imagine a woman of such exquisite grace? All the gold my country boasts could not possibly compare to your radiance, Lady Rishe. Even flowers in bloom would be ashamed of the poor display they make against your splendor.
• Pretty Boy: Very pretty, with white hair and light colored eyes.
• Prince Charming: He's a beautiful, good-hearted, and elegant prince who wants the best for his people no matter what it costs him.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Always dressed elegantly.
• The Wise Prince: Played with. Kyle is well aware of his country's political weaknesses including a lack of military strength, and also how his own physical health is a political weakness to his country. As such, he not only would prefer to be replaced as heir by a healthier younger male sibling if one appears, but he's actively trying to work on an alliance with Galkhein to avoid his country being conquered when its supply of precious metals and gems is due to run out soon. Unfortunately, in his attempt to make said alliance, he revealed the depth of Coyolles' weakness to Arnold, who now knows it's ripe for conquest by either Galkhein or its neighbors.

Michel Evan

Michel Evan

Voiced by: Daisuke Ono (Japanese)

An alchemist, currently working in Coyolles. Rishe met him in the second loop, and he became her alchemy mentor in the third loop.

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• Absent-Minded Professor: He never had a student until Rishe, but he's very good at teaching her, and during the third loop he took her on a number of field trips to satisfy her curiosity in various areas, such as taking her to see the aurora to demonstrate light. On the other hand, he's not very good at normal behavior or following social rules, or remembering to eat regularly.
  • And he apparently burned some of his own earlier research notes by the time Rishe found him in previous loops, only to regret it when she had questions on those subjects; fortunately in the seventh loop, those notes are still intact and Rishe actually gets some ideas for a paper from them.
  • In Volume 2 of the light novel, Rishe remembers Kyle scolding her and Michel during the third loop because they were using their own quarters as both living space and laboratory, and the neighbors were starting to complain about the smells and the noises.
  • In the seventh loop, Kyle mentions that Michel came back recently covered in blood. It turns out he had assisted with a calf's birth as an observation experience, though he notes he has no real expertise in the subject of pregnancy or birth otherwise.
  • When Arnold arrives to pick Rishe up from a lesson, Michel is the only one in the room who doesn't immediately rise and bow. He does remember this after a moment, but in a very deliberate way that suggests either a slow remembrance of what protocol demands or a general disregard for it when dealing with a Crown Prince of another nation. Likewise, he has no problem manhandling Prince Kyle into taking the medicine, and speculates out loud about giving it to him as an 'experiment' without proper trials of the medicine first on other subjects.
• Broken Ace: He's been told, and believes, that he's only capable of inventions that will destroy things, like poison and destructive explosions. He also doesn't know his own age, because his own father hated him.
• Ditzy Genius: Michel is very curious about the question of 'what will happen if I do this?' He is not very good at thinking about the 'should I do this?' This means that he tends to horrify other researchers by exploring taboo areas that they would never go near. It was bad enough to get his original alchemy department workplace shut down entirely.
  • Worse, even when other people explain to him that this is a bad idea, and sometimes even why it is, he will listen, but that doesn't mean he will agree with them. It's why he refuses to forget and destroy his discovery of gunpowder despite it being world-changing for the worse^note and, in the loop where Rishe was his student, separating from her because they disagreed about what to do with the substance, and continues to seek out the right person to make the best use of it. The only saving grace is his preferred qualifications for the right person: he wants someone with real power and willingness to use it in war, but not someone too emotional, tyrannical, or with the policies of a 'good ruler'. And in previous loops, he never found someone who qualified.
  Michel Evan: Something poisonous is only valuable when it kills someone, thereby fulfilling its duty. My value is much the same. Someone who was brought into this world to make a mess of it must do as his duty commands. I was granted my alchemical abilities for that very reason. I’ve been looking for something like that—something to flip the world on its head and shake everything loose. I’ve been searching for that capacity in a ruler for such a long time.
• For Science!: His sole motivation for doing anything is to see if it can be done. He has no apparent ability to even consider the ramifications of his actions or if there might be any sort of detrimental results.
• Mad Scientist: He created some very cool inventions, such as the pocket watch (to time his own experiments and remember to eat). He also created by accident a chemical substance that could change wars (gunpowder), and is determined to find 'the right person' to give it to and have them use it as intended... and he thinks he finally found someone who could fit his requirements in Arnold in the seventh loop. Rishe is determined not to let this happen, for both Arnold and Michel's sakes.
• Mentor Archetype: He's this for Rishe in the third loop, having taught her about alchemy. In the seventh loop, they reunite when he comes as part of Prince Kyle's entourage, and she agrees to become his student for the duration of his time in Galkhein.

Others

Hakurei

Hakurei

A healer from the mysterious kingdom of Renhua, Hakurei was Rishe's apothecary mentor in her second life. Very little is known about her; Rishe only refers to her as "Master". According to Rishe, the woman is likely currently travelling all over to seek out books of medicine.

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• Mentor Archetype: She's this for Rishe in the second loop; after coming across Rishe and realising she was a self-taught herbalist, Hakurei would spend two years teaching Rishe further. Since Renhua is considered the medical capital of the world, Rishe was getting taught by the best; though we don't know how Hakurei compares to her colleagues, Prince Kyle says that he's heard Hakurei described as "the most skilled apothecary in the world."
• Opposed Mentors: With Michel. While Rishe didn't study under them at the same time, she did meet Michel for the first time in her second loop. Hakurei apparently did not get along with Michel at all, saying, "Don't compare my medicine with that man's research," and picking a fight every time they met. Rishe ultimately concluded that the two were similar and that they would never get along. When Michel guesses in the seventh loop that he might get along with the person who taught Rishe herbalism, Rishe can only laugh awkwardly. Word of God implies that Hakurei and Michel not only know each other but have an "undesirable but inseperable relationship".

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