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^I'm a harem fan so i am biased, my mind simply goes "why not both?".(or all of em for that mater)

But i agree, Emilia is getting very little screen time, though i think that's about to change. I think they will want to change the focus in preparation for a next season.

But given the story in it's entirety, it is indeed questionable why he still pursues Emilia with everything Rem has done for him so far.
Though arguably, Emilia has been the sole motivator behind all of his actions and their consequences, so you could argue she is the one on his mind constantly.

I don't really see why you call her a douche though, i don't really have that feeling.
Keep in mind, practically 70% of the events never happened for Emilia.

Most of the characters are portrayed as pretty brutal, since we have more information then them. Part of what makes it so entertaining and makes you go all "subaru mate! hang in there!" in my opinion.

Even if there's nothing else, then at least for the contract with puck she deserves to be called a douche. He is supposed to destroy the world in case of her death? How messed up is that? Oh, and then there's also refusing to allow subaru to help her or even be close to her. He never asked for much as compensation for what he did, yet even that gets refused.
Then again, that's only my opinion. But I just don't really like her anymore. I think she changed a bit for the worse over the course of the series.

^yeah your clearly quite biased already :-D

Nothing about the contract is revealed, so we don't know if she even knows the things your mentioning.

And she actually refuses him a few times for his sake. She had motivation to refuse him every time she did.

However, since Subaru knows more then her, he act's even when told not to do so by Emilia(for her sake, but she is not aware of this) which then becomes a breach of trust between them from her (limited)perspective.

Not trying to sway you though, just saying how i see it.

But i reckon, Rem is making it very hard to not like her! While Emilia clearly hasn't gone through hoops like that :p.

Actually, Puck himself reveals that point of the contract, in episode 18 very early on (between minute 2 and 3).

Yes, to subaru right? :D Not to Emilia is my point.

she might be perfectly unaware of what puck is to do on her demise.

Again, this is data "we, the viewer" and Subaru know of, but everybody else does not. So you basically have to put yourself in their shoes without knowing all the additional things :-D to justify the reactions.

The show does this very good btw, that's one of the things that makes some episodes very brutal like
"greed of the pig".