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Stop posting the names of future games and don't imply stuff.

I hope the rest of the series is good because I've been feeling beaten down by Cold Steel 3 to the point where I'm feeling like quiting playing the franchise entirely midgame. What is your opinion of cold steel 3 and is it worth forcing myself through it for reverie and cs4

@@meimmakoto3224 Uh, that depends on what you dislike about CS3. It's a bit of a slow burner to be sure, but so is every first game in each arc. I really enjoyed my time spent with NC7 and the new Rean. Plus the game has a great ending.

He's a goddamn prophet

Yeah this is exactly why. Rean is the Great mediator of the OG class 7. He also grows quite a bit from having to balance both sides. So much so that once class VII reunite in this game he's class VII's unofficial leader. Which Ironically feeds into his self sacrificial nature but that's part of why he works. He's the first one in and last one out.

I really like how they depicted him throughout this arc.Rean feels like if DMC's Vergil was a genuine character and not a demonic/angelic/superhero figure. You can have all the superpowers in the world and still lose to your surrounding circumstances. What matters the most is what you represent as a person. Really respect falcom for having the balls to end this game the way they did.​@@ViralwingX

@@KarlKraft888 Yeah. Him and all of Class 7 actually lost by the end of this game. They lost Crow and completely failed to find the 3rd way for the empire to go. This is why the final dungeon is the way it is too. It's was to give class 7 a win, even if it's a completely pointless one. It allowed them to actually take something for themselves before they split up. Even though they save a lot of students and people during the war.( This is objectively true they kill tons of monsters to keep the roads safe for common people as both armies don't have the time to do so.) They failed at the number 1 thing they were working for. And it affects all of class 7. Rean the most as he's class leader. Makes him feel human despite his Demon power.

​@@KarlKraft888you could kinda argue that Rean and Crow are Vergil and Dante in swapped positions.

GE3 probably had the best iteration long blade, mostly because you could equip 3 and its IE moves didn't completely suck. On the topic of MH and Capcom, World and Rise especially, some weapons do feel stronger than other but one of them feel like a chore to play with. They're all balanced quite well and almost feel like you're playing a a new game when you switch weapons.

It was lol

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That's basically just super saiyan

I was a Freiza apologist by the time I was done lmao

It's all good lol. Glad you enjoyed it. I'll read this more throughly and give a more detailed response soon. I saw your other comments as well, so I'll give those a read and response too. I'm sure it took you days to type all of that out heh.

I'm not sure I'd give Elise the credit for Rean's epiphany moment because he has the same damn epiphany multiple times and then goes on and needs to re-learn it again, and again from different sources each time (always a loli though lol). It's part of the reason why some people don't like him as a protag as much as Estelle or Lloyd, because despite having more screentime, he takes the longest to develop/learn anything., or rather, despite the extended time, he learns the least.. At least by the end of CS2. Fortunately his new 'role' in CS3+ makes him better overall IMO. As for character relevance, it's a fair point that not everyone needs to have equal screentime or focus. Alisa probably should get a bit more though since Falcom was trying to make her the 'canon' love interest for Rean. Most people hate the harem mechanics because your choice is shallow and effects almost nothing. Falcom should make your decision matter more, OR, NOT have the harem system and just make a solid decision and develop the story for that choice more, and I think most people would prefer the latter.

Yeah Goku specifically is based heavily off of Sun Wukong. I'm not sure if the Great Ape thing was based off of any mythology however.

Wait, why do I need Emma?

From your CS2 run against another big ape th-cam.com/video/J9RFtDcP7_Y/w-d-xo.html&si=VZFuOzEH6_Pb7Ql6

IDK I've never played it

I think lowering it locks you out of some of the what if routes and I didn't want that.

@@weaponsci oh I did not know that okay got it my bad

@@weaponsci I like your video it was funny

- So, this NPC tour, with the mention of the flea market happening the next day at the auditorium (which Becky and Hugo will be competing of course and Colette will go on a shopping spree, most of the second years are talking about their future career choices: Vincent will return to his home to support his family, managing the land and establishing a liaison with the other second years..... While still fleeing Margarita XD; Friedel will go on a journey to test her swordmanship and invited Loggins to come as well, the latter was planning to enlist in the Imperial Army, but at the end, he started to second guess himself; Lambert will join the Imperial Cavalry as a noble soldier with his partner Whitcomb; Fidelio has been proposed by Norton to join the Imperial Chronicle after his and Rex's photo were recognized at the last Fulitzer Prize; Theresa will be joining Emily in the Imperial Army's new air fleet despite the objections of her father; Clara found some sponsors for her work after instructor Mary went around to show the piece she made during the Civil War, she didn't reject the offers but she just want to focus on her work XD; Hibelle will join the Military Band after graduating in order to spread and demonstrate the power of music; Klein went to a training program for the imperial army, so he's not here this evening; and Nicholas found a job at the Railroad Corporation in a buffet car, so he'll travel the land while making new dishes; of course, with the club leaders graduating, some replacement is in order, Bridget will take over the Wind Orchestra (despite Mint's best attempts to volunteer XD), Casper will succeed Klein at the Swimming Club, Linde will take over Clara at the Art Club, Rex as well for the photography Club (who's taking pictures of girls once again, RIP Rex the war photographer, we barely knew you XD), Paula replace Lambert for the Riding Club, Ferris will be the new captain of the Lacrosse Club, and for the Fencing Club, Friedel doesn't know so she'll let the one who has the most wins between Patrick and Alan XD (the latter really improved thanks to him dating Bridget for 3 months now and can go toe to toe with Patrick when before he was the one beating his ass, good job 👍),but also, the Occult Research Society is strangely closed and you don't see Beryl anywhere, that's weird 🤔, Kenneth's brother finally came back from Crossbell since the events of Azure are done now, and some student and staff are also cheering up Rean with the events of Crossbell and the Ashen Chevalier, like Rosine, Munk, Sara, Beatrix and the principal, Heinrich will talk about if you saw what's going on at Arc en Ciel Since we were in Crossbell, he worries over Rixia Mao's safety...... Yeah, we won't tell him Rean actually fought her, that's for the best XD, Neithardt is still busy with his military duties understandably so and Makarov who's on the roof talks about the new hangar behind the engineering club where they'll be storing Valimar and the new Soldats in the future, because yeah, with them being used on the regular within the army, they will more than likely be asked to teach about that at school, thing will start to be very different starting next year. - A glance at the newspaper, this is why I said that it's quite fun to compare this issue with the one you get in Crossbell in the last episode: because of the blatant propaganda and change of stories; Crossbellans being happy to be incorporated to the empire, remorseful of their actions and ready to collaborate with them, if you've played the previous segment, newspaper and the Crossbell games, you know that all of those statements are bullshit, after seeing propaganda from the noble faction throughout the game, we see that the propaganda continues but on the other side now, yay XD, and we hear now that with Crossbell under the empire, the economy has returned to normal and even beyond that, not surprising when you know that Crossbell was an economic powerhouse already by themselves, but now, Erebonia will reach economic prosperity and is on its way to become the most powerful nation of Zemuria, which was likely one of Osborne's goal in this annexation, the plannings of this man doesn't stop😵; there's an entire part on Rean the Hero and how the army consider giving him special treatment once he graduate to become a military officer (as you started CS3, you know that's not what he chose to do, but we'll go back to that), as you noted, Marquis Rogner and Hyarms stayed at their posts and will continue to hold their Provincial Council but will Rufus as well, so you know Osborne will have a finger on this pie as well, and they end by reasserting that the Infernal Castle was nothing more than a collective hallucination as I said. - Now for the mandatory scenes with Angelica and George, who have their own plans after graduation, the former plans to tour the continent just like Kilika did, on her own motorcycle, yep, she let us have the old one and asked for George to make a new one for her instead, while the latter plans to do the tour of every manufacturing companies of the continent, starting with ZCF in Liberl, the Epstein Foundation, and even the Verne Company in Calvard, which will be a bit difficult condidering the strain relationship going on currently with the two nations, but not impossible as he can pull some strings; and it's a good time to go back to Rean's actions in Crossbell since they bring it up; basically everything he did was to protect civilians, that's why he accepted to go to Crossbell in the first place, the skirmishes of Erebonia and Calvard were violent and could've easily spiraled out of control, causing Crossbellans to be caught in the crossfire in the process, which is why Rean intervened to keep the fighting out of the border of Crossbell and to keep order in the city, even if it meant securing the annexation of the Crossbell by the empire and being seen as one of the conspirator of said annexation, that's also why he feels torn up over it and why Angelica and George cheer him up on that, his choice was the only reasonable one after how Osborne planned all of this, if he hadn't intervened, the war with Calvard could've been more brutal and Crossbell could've tried to rebel more openly, and while the result of the empire conquering everything would've surely been the same, the time it would've taken and the number of innocent lives lost would've been another thing entirely, so Rean decided to act in order for the conflict to end quicker, of course even that was part of Osborne's plan to reafirm the idea that he's a national hero who helped in the occupation of Crossbell when the primary concerned had different motives entirely, but once again, he didn't have any other choice, what do you think he should've done ? Nothing ? And let people die when he had the opportunity to prevent them, that's even worse! And I remember some in the fandom saying that he could've used his status of a hero to denounce the Chancellor and the current government, but as we've seen in the newspaper from earlier and the way the Chancellor planned things, the annexation of Crossbell is considered legitimate in Erebonia and something everyone in the empire wanted, not to mention how Osborne and the government has made every effort they could to look like the good guys after the Civil War, so had he done that, Rean's plea not only would've fallen on deaf ears, but also would've turned public opinion against him and even possibly being branded a traitor; so yeah, great plan huh😅? But yeah, Angelica even say that it doesn't matter what she oe George say on the subject, Rean has to come to terms with his feelings on it himself, but if he has something to remember, it would be that he has friends who understand him and why he did these things for the right reasons...... You see, Angelica can be a cool character sometimes beside her schstick with women XD.

- And for the scene with Towa, it's probably one of the best scene in the game; after a little reminiscence of a scene in the first game where Rean found Towa asleep in the computer room, her mentionning Crow during her sleep trigger PTSD within Rean who try to brush it off afterward when she wakes up, so she says that whether you're a boy or a man, it doesn't mean you have to endure everythinf life throws your way, it's okay sometimes to sit down and let it all out, a lesson all of us should probably take notes on, and that's where Rean crumbles right in front of her, apologizing for not keeping the promise they made to made Crow graduates with them (even if, like you said, he would've gone to prison afterward, the chances of it happening weren't zero since he was still alive and that he did helped bring down Cayenne and saving the Crown Prince, there was room for negotiations, but since he's dead, this promise is forever unkeepable) and just let it out with Towa grabbing his head, it's such a powerful scene and Sean Chiplock gave an outstanding performance in it, with Towa reassuring him and that he did everything he could, he died not as an enemy, but as an ally showing how he truly felt about all of them, so he shouldn't beat himself up over it...... God I love this scene. Anyway, on another note, Towa's days as Student Council President are almost done, and she has her plans after graduation, she plan to take a year to go on a tour of various NGOs of different fields in order to see the world from a variety of different perspective before engaging in a career choice, and she can allow herself to do that considering all the achievements she made both in CS1 and CS2 between helping against the terrorist attacks in Heimdallr, participating in the Trade Conference and being the captain of the Crimson Wings faction during the Civil War, absolutely no one would turn someone with that kind of resume off, even if she took a year off to do something else; and yes, you'll get sidequests, otherwise, it wouldn't be a free day like the rest 😏. - On the way back, you get a trip down memory lane as the class remembers their trials and tribulations that led to now, including the orienteering exercice, the accident between Rean and Alisa, the rocky start of the relation between Machias and Jusis, and of course the gargoyle they took on together, their first day are burned into their memories; and just as they're wondering what they should eat tonight, who shows up but our favorite maid saying she already has everything ready, the Chairman allowed her to return to her caretaker duty despite the company struggling to keep up while they're rebuilding the company, and that's because Gywn finally returned to the company and teamed up with her daughter, allowing her to have the time to come her, and of course Sara finding out about this is hilarious XD; Elliot is right though about how she's allowed to wander around like this considering she's an Ouroboros Enforcer, but as Rean said, there's likely an agreement between Reinford and the government to leave her alone, though from what we seen of the other enforcers in the series, that wouldn't stop her from doing what she wants to do.

- The conversations at the dorms at night may be optional on paper, but they are extremely important since they explain what each of them plan to do after graduating and the path they'll be following, and you might have noticed in every single conversation a moment where the person say a triple dot followed by a "it's nothing", that's the cut off point for the person you chose in the final bonding event, in your case that's Sara, but anyway, let's get to it starting with the boys: Elliot Will be able to attend the music academy like he always wanted, so he made his decision, though he also say that he wants his life to be more varied and not be completely about music, so he'll train with his Orbal staff on the side; Gaius will return home, due to the rising tension between the empire and republic, his home will likely be caught up in it so he want to be here to protect it, in the meantime, he'll paint the liberation of the academy as a memento for him to remember his second home by; Jusis was left in charge of the Kreuzen province since his father was arrested and Rufus tooked control of Crossbell and never looked back, so he'll essentially do that while managing the provincial army and keeping in check the stubborn Nobles, he estimate that the first six months won't be easy in him, and honestly, good luck to him👍; Machias in the other hand is already hard at work on his next year at the political academy where he'll be the youngest since normally you need to have already graduated from Thors and gained some experience, but giving that it's Machias we're talking about, he'll be fine, and with all skit regarding what makes Machias special, not only did you forgot Fie who's a badass Jaeger, but your judgement on who's special and who isn't is kinda skewed isn't it ? 😅 Elliot has music, Gaius has Wind, Machias is the guy with the shotgun who can't stand Nobles and who can break the time b a r r i e r , he's plenty special; Alisa will go back to Roer to help rebuild the Reinford Group alongside her mother and Grandfather, and the latter will teach her the ropes, she wants to continue doing exercices once she's back and she became emotional all of a sudden and starts crying thinking about how blessed she is 🥺; Laura will be training with her dad to learn the advanced techniques of the Arseid School, but it will take at least half a year and she feels guilty to take her father's time considering the country's situation, but as Rean say, now may be the best time to do it since the peace has relatively returned, they're in the eye of the storm and they'll return in it soon, so it's an occasion that they probably shouldn't miss while they still have the chance (also, she tooked a picture of her and Monica at the courtesy of Rex who was checking them out earlier on the balcony, of course he would propose himself to do that XD, but at least it's a nice photo and he actually asked permission for once so we'll let it slide); Emma will leave to search for Vita and probably to report back on her clan, Rean will still be able to contact her if he needs it, but it won't be with the ARCUS or by drawing a circle like you joked about, but with runes....... Which is just as cryptic as magic circles XD; she also do a collection of books with dorothee.... And we know where it's gonna go; Fie will go look for Zephyr, so she ask Rean to look after the flowers of the Gardening club while she's gone, and if they're blooming once she gets back , he get a headpat, finally someone return the favor of this serial headpatter XD; Millium, as expected, will return to her duties as an Intelligence Division agent, where she'll be sent to the west where the unrest is still present, and in Liberl and Remiferia as well, one thing to note is that she's the one to comment on the attitude of everyone at dinner, it seemed like they were having a good time, but it was weird because, as if they were upset but didn't wanted to let it show, and since she's the one who tries to understand feelings and emotions, it make sense for her to be the one to blatantly say it, and goes to show that even if she didn't grow physically, she's done a lot of growing on the inside; Sara will quit her job as a teacher to return to the Bracer Guild due to the situation, and she can already see plenty of travels abroad and difficulty operating in the empire in her future, Rean of course feels guilty because of what happened in Crossbell and the impact it'll have on her and the Bracers, and she's proud of him instead for having a student who can stand up and make the tough choices like throws at him, and Rean reaffirm his creed regarding the mission he's doing: he's not a part of the Intelligence Division and he doesn't plan to, so they don't own him , he'll only do the missions he feels comfortable taking, and he'll never do something that will put him in conflict with the guild or putting innocent's lives at risk, that's the credo he wants to stick by and that's what he did at Crossbell too, and Sara is aware of it; with the mission in Crossbell, Rean can do just about anything with Valimar now, so Celine's job is done, so she reminisce about their beginnings and do a uncle Ben by saying that with great power comes great responsabilities, Divine Knight have incredible power and can easily become either gods or devils depending on their awakeners (we saw it firsthand with the Vermillion Apocalypse how that could be the case); Rean's wondering about what's going on in Ouroboros after what happened last time, which is quite understandable, but Sharon doesn't have the answers to those question as nothing reached her ears regarding either the, Anguis or the Phantasmal Blaze plan, I already talked about last time how it would be possible for Osborne to took it over, we don't know anything regarding said plan so how can we know he can't do that, it's obvious unless he's bluffing that he knows the specifics of that plan, or at least how to achieve it, which is why he can took it over, but we'll need to know further details regarding the plan before diving further; I'm glad you thought of going to Crow's room after talking to everyone, it's something many people miss, beside the whole Crow ghost bit, this scene shows that, like I said, Crow's parting words had an impact on everyone, guiding them to the right path, living their lives the way they want because they get only one shot at it, and while Rean won't leave the academy like the others, he'll do what he can from here to honor his words and to least have enough credit to not repeat a year like a certain someone; and as we go to bed, we have a flashback of Abend time not being in the air anymore and what Vita is doing now, as well as a call from Elise who sounded off apparently.

- Okay, time to do another free day for the last time in this game alongside the last batch of sidequests and the last tour of the NPCs, let's savor it. The main topic is of course the flea market occurring at the auditorium (Colette was in heaven) which is basically an excuse to buy things you normally can't acquire in Trista for the Finale, and it's also the occasion to close some stories as well, like Vincent and Margarita, the former is finally confronting her head on after the latter cornered him with the help of Millium (and something Sariffa didn't prevent because she thought it was time for him to come face to face with her before graduation.... Even if she would've enjoyed it lasting longer XD); Machias and Jusis bicker once again over a book and will challenge each other for it in a chess match later, speaking of which, Stefan will be going to the Imperial Army's Computer and Network division after he graduate, so that he can make use of the things he learned at the academy and at the Roer institute during the war; Vivi left the flowers in the care of Linde while she checks out the flea market disguised as her.... And she's supposed to be the next head of the gardening club the next year, good exemple 😅; at the flea market, Becky and Hugo are competing once again, but the incomes will be going straight to charity in order to help the places touched by the war, at least he's not always thinking about profits, and speakinf of places touched by the war, we learn from Becky that the reparations for the market were finished and that they resumed their business in full capacity not that long ago, thanks in no small part to donations coming from all over the country, including one from the emperor himself; Loggins accepted the proposition made by Friedel to travel around together as fellow swordmen since he didn't wanted to go to the imperial army with as weak of a resolve as he had yesterday; Munk is excited for the new show that will replace Abend Time this evening (and is also the subject of a quest), Klein return from the Imperial Army's presentation; Mint continues to push instructor Makarov and Mary together, despite the complaint of the former XD; Dorothee and Emma are in the library searching for reference material for their story anthology she talked about last night by searching the stories of the alumnis, and apparently Dorothee found happiness in some of these stories so she'll take them back as "reference materials" of course XD; Fidelio and Rex are taking photos for the yearbook all over the place; Fie and Laura are fighting each other in the auditorium for who will be buying the limited edition pudding for them and Monica who's watching; Elliot is with the Wind Orchestra preparing for the performance at the flea market; Gaius is thanking Clara for the time he spent at the club and the things he learned there, which of course Clara doesn't give a shit about XD; Sara is drinking at the bar, what else is new; and Alisa is competing with Ferris one last time at Lacrosse; and guess who's back after being suspiciously absent yesterday ? That's right, Beryl's back baby with her Occult research society, what was she doing all this time? Fuck if I know 🤷. But that should be enough for now, let's go to the Sidequests. - The first is the conclusion of the Kenneth and Annabelle storyline, if you remember, the reason Annabelle ran away from home in the first place and why her butler ran after her is because her family set her up into an arranged marriage with another noble family without telling her, during her travels, she learned how to fish to survive in the wild, and as we found out at the end of the first game, the family she was marrying into turned out to be the Lakelords, and more precisely its heir Lakelord III, the one who showed up in Crossbell in Azure, which is why she became acquainted with Kenneth during the festival since he's Lakelord III's brother, she was planning to return home afterward but then the Civil War happened, causing her to flee Trista with Kenneth and being separated from him before arriving in Ymir, where she'll stay until she reunite with him and until the end of the civil war, now back to the present, she still doesn't like the idea of being married, so her and Kenneth tried to find a way to call it off for her own happiness, but Nobility obliged, nothing is simple and bit refuse to back down, until Kenneth manage to reach a deal with his brother by challenging him to a fishing battle, where Captains and Vice-captains will compete to catch a specific fish each, and of course he choose us to be the vice-captain XD, we get to see Lakelord III again with the sprite in 3D this time, as well as Narses the Crazy Wave, one of his Elite Four who will be acting as Vice-captain for this battle, he was one of the opponent you needed to face in Azure before challenging Lakelord III, and by coincidence, the fish you need to catch in this match is the same one you needed to challenge him in Azure: a Noble Carp, while the Captain will try to catch the ultimate fish of Cold Steel 1: the giant swordtail; this quest is a true test to see if you kept up with your fishing throughout the game, or more precisely, if you still have the feather rod, you'll catch a tendonitis trying to reel these fish, and I'm quite surprised you fit in that category, I thought you fished during the playthough and that you've bought at least the new rods as you rose in ranks, but apparently not, and so you suffered as a consequence, whereas getting the superior ones would've made things easier; in the end, Rean and Kenneth win and Lakelord III as promised call off the marriage for losing and also because Annabelle like Kenneth, and he'll return to Crossbell to continue his training and because a lady is waiting for him (Kenneth namedrop her, it's Kaguya the Dragon Princess, also one of the elite four, who had a thing for him even back in Azure, and also stayed with him during all the ordeals of the independence), and that's the end of it, a good sendoff to this storyline, though I also like how afterwards, Lakelord III and Narses are blocked off on their way back by the little girl living next door to the river, who often watched Kenneth fish and was fascinated by it, and they are so baffled by how she "crudely" talks about fishing that they decide to teach her how to use a fishing rod XD. - next, the radio talk sidequest, the emission that will replace abend time that Munk talked about, their test will be in Trista, so we need to ask people on what makes Trista great, and from different people too: Child, Worker, Elderly, a student and a teacher, m and the last two need to be serious about it, so definitely not Vivi or Instructor Makarov in that case XD (in the end it was Monica and Vice Principal Heinrich, the latter was more inclined to give a comment when he heard the radio station may broadcast in Crossbell, the Rixia simp is still strong XD), bit the more surprising one is after collecting all the comments, if you check the table of the radio station before reporting to Michael, you'll see a letter that wasn't here before written by none other than Misty herself making her own comment about Trista, this is the first sign of life she's given to the radio station since the war broke out and they're happy that she's alive, and the fact that she bothered to write this at all showed that she cared playing her role of host in Trista and it left her with great memories, a good sendoff to this particular matter......that was optional and easy to miss if you rush to report it but what else is new ? 😅. - Next, is the quest directly related to the flea market and searching for people to donate items for it; it's basically a fetch quest but the situation you get the items are pretty good; Micht gives the Paper Mache Mishy used for the Mishy attraction at the festival in exchange for a photo of the racong horses that Lambert managed to acquire after being awarded a prize over there XD; the janitor heard that a second-year was planning get rid of something they made during club activities that tooked a lot of time, and of course it's Clare getting rid of her work because she doesn't give a fuck about them once they're finished XD (we get a lion statue); and the best for last, by helping Sara clean her room of all the bottle lying around before she moves out, you get the entire Carnelia collection from her, even though you can't read it in this game, this is my cue for the last time to encourage you to read these books XD; so yeah, a fetch quest reminiscent of the ones we did in the first game, and that was the intention as a callback.

- Speaking of the quests being callbacks, who shows up with a hidden quest after completing 3 normal ones just like last game, Instructor Neithardt and his swimming lesson of course, which is crashed by the girls afterwards and is turned into a competition of Boys VS Girls, I like how you boasted that you've beaten Laura at swimming..... Only for the girls to win anyway because they've put Laura and Fie forward for every match XD; while this is mainly an excuse to bring back the swimming minigame one last time, someone find an interpretation of this swimming battle that is interesting as a the war: the Boys (Rean and Class VII) tried to win fair only for the girls (Osborne & Rufus) to cheat their way to victory, which forced the boys (Rean) to compromise on their moral and accept defeat, and it was relatively bloodless too; it also serves as a sendoff to the relation between Sara and Neithardt where the latter managed to come around with Sara's methods as well as the role the Bracer Guild will have for this nation's future, he finally tolerate her and that sometimes, using the cheap strategy is a viable method, morality is a very personal thing and everyone has times when they need to stray from the path of righteousness (which could also be said about Rean's situation right now). So yeah, a good one as well. - Now for the mandatory ones, starting with the race, I hope you practiced using the bike during the Civil War because the race from Act 1 is back, this time against Angelica and the loser has to buy drinks for everyone. Though honestly, this race is so on an even footing and there's so little shortcut that the race is decided the moment you start it, if she's in the lead, you'll most likely won't catch up to her, if you're in the lead, you can block her and you'll probably win, it's a bit weird; bit anyway, Rean wins and Angelica buys five drinks, one for everyone involved in the orbal bike project.... Including Crow 😢; apparently there's good news coming from the Reinford Company that they are considering going all in on the orbal bike development, which is a huge deal that can more than likely lead to mass production, on something that was just a test project by the Roer Institute of technology at the start mind you, so it would be a consecration of the efforts proto-class VII put into this, as well as a way to remember Crow by too, nothing's set in stone though, so it'll be up to Rean and Angelica to spread the good word of the Orbal bike far and wide, and George is leaving to us the key to the engineering building, as it turns out yeah, since George will be leaving, there'll be no one to take care of the engineering club anymore, so it's up to Rean to find promising engineers next year and guiding them to the shack where they can restart the club, no pressure XD; all in all, while the race wasn't really great, it was still a good sendoff to the bike storyline that we followed since the first game. - and now the meat and potatoes: the return match between Class VII and Class I. Patrick and Celestin wanted a rematch before our class disband and leaves and before the latter returns home, and now's the best time to do it since he trained hard for this moment..... And that's the moment where you had enough of this epilogue and decided to brute force the matches with Laura, and that's quite obvious XD; this rematch does indeed have the same problem as the last fight with them: if you don't use S-craft, it's a somewhat challenging and enjoyable fight, but if you do, it's a cakewalk, especially with Laura+Tauros+Domination, which OS practically everyone, Patrick and Celestin also have the same moves as last time, which of course includes Celestin casting Insight and Seraphic Ring XD, the originality is that it's a 2v2 fight this time; after that, Ferris interrupt the group and asks for a challenge as well accompanied by her brother and maid (what do you mean you didn't know they were siblings ?! Not only do they have the same last name and hair color, but they also interacted multiple times together throughout both games XD), a nice detail that she kept her lacrosse uniform on since she was in training until just now (same for Alisa, if you choose her to fight, she'll have her lacrosse uniform), same as with Patrick, it's a 3v3 with them having the same moves, nothing much to say here; now the next part is something else, after beating both Ferris and Patrick's groups, who shows up but the principal and instructor Beatrix, after Ferris had the misfortune to say that Class VII is now the strongest of the academy, they wish to challenge us, that escalated quickly from just a simple rematch didn't it, and I like how the fourth party member you can call is basically like "..... Okay, I don't even want to know how you got into this situation" XD; now that's a match that can't be easily cheesed, to the point that winning it is optional and only grant 1 BP, they are more resistant to ailments and in general than the last groups, the Principal buffs himself and hit quite hard as you attested while burning, fainting, stat downing and deathblowing you, quite peachy (good eye, Qilingong is indeed the same move as Rixia and Arios, but also of Cassius, it's a move from the east, considering they established that he knows Yun Ka-Fai, Rean's master, maybe he learned it from him, just like his other buff: Xuanwugong) while Beatrix will take good care at deliberating you by delaying you and draining EP and CP, as well as giving first aid to the principal and herself, as well as REVIVING the principal if he goes down first, but that will likely not happen, because not only is she logically more frail than him, she also resist slightly less ailments, though not by much, but it's mostly due to the principal having in addition to that Xuanwugong which not only boost his defense, but also heal 25% of his HP, quite cracked, they're not as hard as the last fights in the Infernal Castle, but they're still a good challenge and show quite well the power of the strongest faculty members of the academy; and with that, we conclude this rivalry between Class VII and I by shaking hands with Ferris and Patrick, after two games with them. -Now, let's continue à bit the main plot with a strange disturbance near the old schoolhouse; and when we get there, we're joined by Toval who had business nearby and wanted to see how we're holding up, he reiterate that thanks to Crossbell being ennexed before a full-blown war broke out, things have calmed down on the surface, but that's only because we're in the eye of the storm, and now no forces on the continent are capable of stopping Giliath Osborne; we also have clarification regarding the father revelation: it wasn't made public, only the ones who were there that day know the truth, so Class VII, the Ironbloods and Altina, but it wouldn't be surprising if smart people like Olivier or Viscount figured it out already, and Toval seems to have connected some dots based on the events Sara told him regarding these events (which she didn't anything specific regarding Rean), but Rena won't tell him regardless, not bacaise he don't trust him but because he needs to sort things out in his head, Toval even ask him to become a Bracer, because he would be qualified for it (with all the diet-Bracer shit he do) and also because it's a good way to think things through and look within oneself, but Rean declines, because he wants to see the path he'd chosen to the end and also because of Valimar, I don't think the government would be too pleased with Rean leaving with him or Rean leaving Valimar at the hands of the govenment, oh well, there's always next time; then Elise and Alfin comes in with Claire in tow, it's a follow-up on the conversation they had last night so Elise went to see him, but the meat of this scene is of course with Claire because of the awkwardness between the two after the scene at the start of the epilogue, which is thankfully resolved for now, and also her interactions with Toval since they helped each otjer during the war but now they're on opposing sides, and Celine walks in for the same reason we originally did, and that's where things go down, everyone join in and you lost your mind, with a new dungeon inside the old Schoolhouse called the Reverie Corridor (any resemblance toward anything this name elsewhere in the series is purely coincidental....... Or is it? 😏), even Emma and Celine has no idea about this so we ask Valimar, and he reveal some shits to us: that this place was built by the gnomes, the same ones that built the spirit shrines we've been to and cooperated with the Hexen Clan 1200 years ago, and the ones responsible of the trial system, which raises a few more questions than it answers in typical trails fashion, mainly, why the gnomes did this ? Why did they create such a place, why sealing the divine knights and making people overcome trials to obtain them, and what is happening this time ? Of course, Valimar can't answer these questions and in addition adds another terms that seems important: the key to all of this is the Great One, the first to be born, and the last to stand..... And another thing we need to puzzle about, but the final boss of the last game was apparently the shadow of the Great One, I told you they like to recontextualize the things you fight, Rean and Valimar also theorize that what's happening here is likely another trial, but one that wasn't intended to be complete and is only there because of a disturbance (which will be confirmed as correct later) and that's all for now, Rean and everyone will join together to overcome this trial, including every guest characters that showed up during the game, even Sharon who wasn't here until just now and show up behind Sara just to tease her XD..