LogFAQs > #953493399

Zoom-zoom button fixed.

Everything's gone to hell, but Rean decides it's a good day to hang out in the hot spring. And *then* he ruminates on how everything's gone to hell. Oh, and throwing a self-pity party on how everything went wrong because he wasn't strong enough. I mean, like, sure, if he *could* have defeated Crow, maybe that would've accomplished something, but I doubt it. He did go through the other mechs first before Crow showed up, which was just a way of putting Crow "over" so the confrontation will be more epic next time.

Then Elise shows up to wash Rean's back. Which has the potential to be awkward, but Rean's too intent on declaring how worthless he is. Not the way I remember Rean from CS1, but after what he's been through I can see how these emotions might come out. Just hope this doesn't become *too* big of a theme. Thankfully Elise smacks his ass (not literally) about his claim to not have the "right to be treated kindly."

Incoming headpat #2. And torture from Alfin. Then Celine apologizes and gets a headpat, too.

A Magic Knight draws near! Command?
>FIGHT

Elise: What a splendid chest!
Didn't think you swung that way. Or, were you still hugging Rean's pecs?

Apparently there's something about running into this monument in the mountains that seemingly the class was supposed to have run into before thanks to Bleublanc? I have no idea what they're talking about.

Fight with the magic knight, NBD. He heals twice for big health gain, but I go pewpewpew and then...IT'S MORPHIN' TIME! But wait, wasn't Valimar supposed to have a damaged core or something? Celine handwaves it, but seriously? After a month of directing energy into Rean, dude was not going anywhere and now he's flying all over. No matter. Rita's monster is defeated. I'm sure she's shouting angrily from the moon somewhere.

Oh hi, birdie. You know we have a *cat* with us, now? Get 'em, Celine!...or not.

Linked with Elise, we do a team attack to finish the battle, and there's headpat #4.

Ymir is on fire, bad guys are doing bad guy things, Mom and Dad are down when Rean arrives, and predictably he goes into super mega ultra demon-man mode. Then anti-Millia shows up and captures Alfin and Elise. In other words, bad guys doing bad guy things. Not how I expected that to end, but we've sufficiently set the stage for enough future strife in this opening act.

And we're rewarded with a bad guy convention aboard Rufus's airship. This guy literally has abs printed into his shirt. I wonder if that's sheer material, or if he's just so incredibly diesel that the material is stretched so thin against his rock-hard body. I assume the latter, tbh.



With that, the opening FMV plays again. Does that mean I'm at the end of the prologue now?



Oh. Guess so.

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