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In Trails the 3rd news, chapter 5 is complete! Who would've guessed that there was still one more character left on the roster (Schwarzritter seemed to confirm she was the last one, too), and that it would be Renne, of all people! Ries started climbing the rankings very quickly for calling out Renne on her bullcrap and threatening to slap her around with her Templar Sword. So this is supposed to be a better version of Renne, huh? All right then.

When we reach the end of the labyrinth, we have to fight a bunch of spiders who cause a variety of status anomalies, as well as a mother spider that can suck nearly 10,000 HP out of me to replenish her own, so that fight was rather annoying! Schwarzritter says that the next plane will be filled with trials for everyone involved, so that should be interesting. He also gives us one last sealing stone, which contains a version of Celeste Auslese, the hermit of the garden. I actually had a feeling that's who it would be because Kloe showed a very faint hint of recognition at one point when she first saw the "ghost."

Anyway, it's not the real Celeste, but a partial personality copy sent to infiltrate Phantasma, which was a higher plane created by the Aureole in its wish-granting functions, to corrupt and distract it while they tried to seal it away. We still have no idea where the Aureole disappeared to, but it does seem to be gone beyond where anyone can sense it. I'm sure it'll just play nice from now on and leave everyone alone...! Anyway, apparently, the Lord of Nonsense invading Phantasma is a recent phenomenon, and he's been creating these alternate planes.

Speaking of which, Kevin is back and says he thinks he knows who the Lord of Nonsense is. However, he wants to confirm some details before he tells us for sure, so I guess we just have to wait a little bit longer. Kevin takes the lead, and now I apparently don't even have to bring Ries along anymore! My temptation is to fall back on my Trails SC mainstays, Estelle/Joshua/Kloe, so that might be what I do. I assume we're getting fairly close to the end, since there should just be two more planes. Before that, there's a Star Door that requires Olivier and Mueller to enter, but that'll wait until tomorrow.

I did complete a Sun Door where I had to beat the famous Halle and Gambler Jack in Blackjack and poker, respectively. Managed to beat them both on the first try, too, which is nice. Thankfully, I'm pretty familiar with the rules of these card games, so it wasn't too hard to get the hang of what was going on!
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