Anime Discussion Thread - Page 5760

Eh I see it as him building good will and trust slowly with key people then basically using them to help convince others. He got Roswaal/Emilia through events of the 1st 2 arcs then using their influence was able to bargain to get into the white whale team. He was turned down when he tried to get help by himself but he was able to get to 2 of the candidates through Roswaal's authority for mining rights. Then ofc people start to like him for his own actions. The cutting of the meeting was basically just them triaging what to cut out. We didn't need to see him explain his circumstances yet again by that point. I would agree somewhat that it is a weakness that people don't look into his connection to the witch more. Though he very obviously hates her and the cult (no one besides people like Rem can tell anyways) so you could say him telling people about it and then moving to crush them it looks more like he had a bad encounter with them in the past and that is why.

The whole part where he convinced Crush by offering mining rights was... I mean, it's very possible that I missed that part but when did Subaru achieve the status to offer something like mining rights on Roswaal's territory without his consensus?
I also remember that they didn't agree at first but later agreed for some stupid reason and I thought "THAT convinced you but the mining rights alone didn't?" I might remember that wrong though as well. Would have to rewatch the episode for more details and it's honestly too tedious right now.

Basically Roswaal thought something might happen so he gave Rem the authority to negotiate on his behalf and offer things like the mining rights. Rem basically allowed Subaru to be the main negotiator after talking to him because he had the same goal and was passionate about it and after arc 2 trusts him very much. The mining rights were a big get to get the trade girl candidate to lend her influence (she basically won big in this scenario because she gets a piece of the action and to be able to be rid of the whale that creates large losses) Krusch was already planning an expedition for the whale so she wins as well because she gets intel on the whale. She was still kinda iffy at that point but the other girl coming in and throwing her support behind the plan and offering her troops sealed it. Subaru just capitalized on his only card (mining rights) combined with what he figured out about Krusch to snag support from 2 candidates in negotiations. When he tried to do it in desperation without any chips he got rebuffed and even exploited. His whole thing is learning things and applying that knowledge to move pieces into place since he isn't an OP himself. He slowly has built a network of influential and OP characters and basically his ability allows him to gain knowledge to effectively use his connections to its max.

Oh yeah, it was the other candidate coming in and offering her support. That was pretty meh, especially the execution. I also like how Roswaal thought "something might happen" so he gave Rem the authority to negotiate but didn't consider the fact that Rem couldn't possibly know what would happen. She only knew because Subaru knew after the rewind.
In the end, I know why things happened. They just seemed way too convenient, especially considering how wary everybody was of Subaru and how easily some not even well though-out sentences of his could change their mind completely. And considering all the courtesy going on I thought it was pretty surprising that people even listened to Subaru at all. Even when he talked "calmly" his voice always sounded smug to the point where those people surely would have kicked him out the palace.