Rereading ep4 it’s pretty obvious that Battler just doesnt care about everything and is there just to play and goof around with Beatrice, while Ange is completely forgotten and the reason for why he is playing is forgotten as well. Ofcourse Battler doesn’t see it himself, but Ange understands it pretty well. Even if she understands it, she still tries to manipulate him into it. Battler looks pathetic saying how he almost cornered the witch, saying that even thousand years, he will win her, implying that he is ready to play with Beatrice for another thousand years. Just like Ange said it’s a cage to lock up Battler forever.
There are a lot of parallels to Yasu when Ange explains why she feels isolated and how lonely her world is.
While Yasu wants deemphasize her misery in different ways, Ange accepts it and resigns to it.
I really like how Ange’s character is shown through relationship with Maria, she stole the diary to keep herself from loneliness and now it became her best friend. She even says that this is not just the diary, but another part of her (trying to hint us how splitting personalities work).
Rosa/Maria scenes are really sad when rereading because you know that Sakutaro is just a simple toy bought from a shop and how Rosa tries to justify herself all the time, I felt a little bit digusted. Ofcourse she has work, but when she doesnt she always keeps all free time to herself. She is happy that she gave her such a good present, a friend, so she can just spent much more free time by herself. But she is not happy that Maria is taking Sakutaro outside, because that would be embarrasing for her if someone will see her. Rosa is very isolated and lonely, Maria is her only ally, but at the same time she uses her as a scapegoat for everything. But Rosa is a human and she does love Maria inside. She feels guilt, love and her suffering. Rosa is jealous of Maria just because she can’t have friends like Maria does.
The way Maria describes Sakutaro is such a big hint to how Yasu thinks of Shannon, it’s so funny. Sakutaro to Maria is like Kanon to Shannon, lol.
EP 4 explores characters of Ange and Maria - members of Mariage Sorciere, and also how they came to believe in magic. The story itself asks audience to try and understand the story of the third and final member - Beatrice.
In 1998 sequences Okonogi out right tells Ange that Kinzo actually chose successor beforehand, but Ange doesn’t accept it and instead believe in Eva theory. But you know WITHOUT LOVE IT CANNOT BE SEEN, and Okonogi hints at Eva theory being wrong too saying that he couldn’t imagine Eva killing Hideyoshi and George. He tells her (us) that to reach the truth, she has to look from another side too. It’s funny how one of the bad, shady characters in the game gives us a lot of hints, clues.
When Beato gives Battler the right to use blue truth and he claims that Kinzo is already dead, we switch to the gameboard. Where the same situation is happening with Kyrie vs Krauss. Kyrie saying that if Krauss cant prove tht Krauss is dead, then he has to accept it and ofcourse Krauss can’t counter it. It’s really fun to see this parallel between meta world and gameboard. This is pretty much Kyrie episode, as we learn a lot about her but not directly. It’s really interesting how in this episode, it’s not Yasu’s fantasy for the most part it is Kyrie’s.
After Ange takes a break from the game Maria and Beatrice/Yasu appear to teach her the magic. Like in Maria’s case the magic to turn miserable and bad situation into something you can live happy with. The magic both Yasu and Maria have, another hint for the readers!
Yasu is excited because Maria can create imaginary friends that she can talk and play with, wink wink…
When Ange is being bullied in the classroom Ryukishi gives us yet another clue. Ange orders stakes to DIE. She rejects them, she finds them useless. And by doing that they become dead. Just like what Yasu does. Mammon can’t kill anyone, only if Ange is willing to do it. Magic used just as a cover up for these murders. Ange asks to kill her, just like Yasu in the end of the episode. Ange asked her classmates, but Yasu had a bomb and gold. But classmates just laughed at her, the only “ally” at that time was the teacher. She realised that someone is actually on her side. Yasu hoped for the same, that this person would become her ally, but he didn’t.
On the way to the Rokkenjima, Ange admits that she did hurt Maria. It’s true, because Battler and Ange were in a normal family and they had a lot of freedom to themselves. They couldn’t think about how they words can hurt someone like Maria and Yasu. Ange came on this island to apologize for Maria, for her harsh words that led her to be like that. Right now Ange understand that magic for Maria was another way to survive. And she shouldn’t have said about it so harshly.
Ange is curious why Maria couldn’t summon Sakutaro after he died and Sakutaro outright gives us another clue. The reason is that she saw Sakutaro being torn apart and she decided that he died.
Underground Shannon and Kanon outright confirm that they are part of Beatrice saying that this game feel weird and Beatrice is acting strange, implying they know everything about previous games and know what Beatrice always does. Then they proceed by saying that “It’s weird for both of us to survive on the first twilight”. I mean how more obvious you can get, hehe.