How did Lilet get bound in the first place?
- Seriously. Outside of the 'this is not the first loop' theory? How DID Lilet end up in the loop in the FIRST place?
- Wasn't the "this is not the first loop" theory explicitly brought up in game? It's specifically mentioned that she earned far more than she could have in just five loops. Given the lack of any other explanation, it seems to be the logical one to go with - Lilet entered the loop via unknown means a long time ago, possibly during a final battle after the seal was opened, but her memory was erased for some reason before the first loop we saw.
- Another possibility is that we saw all the loops, but there was a forgotten "first timeline" prior to all the loops, and someone at the end of it reached back five days to put her in the loop in the past. This would fit with why she doesn't remember it (the connection was initiated from five days in the future, from her perspective, but grabbed her from five days in the past, not her from the end of the first loop, so the version of her that experienced the loops never got to see the initial timeline. Possibly she was even already dead by the end of the initial timeline.) And it would explain why they chose her - her room is right on top of the seal, so she might have been the only person close enough to the stone five days in the past.
- Unsure if this belongs in Wild Mass Guessing or as an answer here, but it might be in the first loop ever Lilet accidentally discovered the Stone beneath her room while trying to hide from the Archmage. They brought a lot of attention to the loose flooring in her room on the first day, so maybe she accidentally discovers the entrance in a panic. Afterwards the Archmage could have been distracted trying to break through the magical defenses to the stone and Lilet snuck in while he and the summons were fighting, and then she'd accidentally use the stone to time travel, starting the loops.
- In one of the loops, Bartido makes a pact with Advocat to save Lillet. Maybe that's what happened on the first loop, Advocat found the Stone for her?
