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At the end of the path before the mine I find another trial chest, this time for Elliot and Gaius........ Okay I was kidding before but now I know they really are trying to make sure you can't open any of these. "How can you tell that Gaius grew up in a pretty extreme environment? His whole family is IN TENTS!" Okay that one was actually pretty good lol. I am now 0/3 on trial chests in Roer though so I'm not looking forward to backtracking for these later.

In the mine we kill some jaegers until we end up finding the train they're hiding Mom on, but the train starts to leave the mine to get away from us. Summoning his inner Lloyd, Rean instructs everyone to jump on top of the train and they all manage to flawlessly land on top of a moving train and get inside. Something which seemed so silly in Zero(Azure?) seems so quaint here now. The series really likes to mess with your emotions. I think it's just because Lloyd felt like so much more grounded of a character whereas you kind of just expect Rean to do whatever the hell the writers think he needs to be able to do at the time. What's the male version of a Mary Sue?

They have you do a pretty fun mini boss rush through some jaegers in the cars that ends with a pincer battle where you get attacked by 8 of them in a row, which is basically just the game saying if you weren't saving your CP, reload and try again. I appreciate that bit of game design though because it at least forces you to meter your resources properly.

No boss at the end of that, just Sharon showing up and then we go to bust into the Reinford building. Just gotta go up a few flights of stairs, nothing too interesting happens. One of the enemies here is a Zephyanthes though, wasn't that a boss once? So that's kinda cool.

When you get to the top Angelica talks shit at her uncle for being a little bitch and taking over the Reinford company so underhandedly lol. Basically what you'd expect from her. And he summons some robots to fight us, which is what you'd expect from him too, knowing nothing about him at all. These Noble villains are all the same right? The boss fight is pretty easy, he has a move that heals him for 30k occasionally but you're able to out-dps that without much effort, and he summons some robots across the map but any full map s craft like Alisa's new upgraded one or Sara's takes them out instantly. Not really in any danger this whole fight.

After the fight he says that Arios' combat data was installed on the machine so it shouldn't have been able to lose. I don't remember Arios summoning a bunch of little robots so you might wanna check your notes there buddy. Eventually Sharon and the Chairman walk in and Alisa's mom just whoops uncle's ass lol. Legit 2 slaps and a punch and knocks him on the ground. Let's go chairman! Then we go outside and the Courageous is here to pick us up, presumably to start part 3 of our 3 phase plan. This has been a long day @@

The game warns you that the next part will be a gear battle and let's you switch out your orbs if you want lol. I can't imagine that will start being necessary now so I'll pass. We resume onboard the Courageous, Angelica is planning on going into battle with her dad to settle shit once and for all. She gives a roaring speech where she says she'll crawl out of hell to return if she has to, which would be pretty badass if she didn't follow up with "so I can see these beautiful ladies again." Way to ruin it! She gets in a purple gear and goes off with some soldiers, and then it switches to dad's POV. He is informed that Angelica is on the way with some gears and he says that he will handle it. One of the main terrorist dudes who's name I forget, the big burly guy, offers to go help but Marquis says that this isn't a noble alliance matter, just a father disciplining his daughter. That's cute lol, I have a feeling it won't quite work out like that...

They get to fighting and Fie sums it up perfectly..."This is more like watching a family feud than an all out war. But with robots." At least the game has some self awareness about how stupid this is lol, it makes me appreciate it more.

Angelica wins the fight obviously, but then Vulcan (that's his name!) comes out and knocks her gear out of commission then challenges Rean to a duel. They had to find a way to include him in Angelica's special moment I guess, I mean we are playing as him after all so I guess we need something to do. Once Rean shows up we get an obligatory, "It's the ash-colored knight" from the crowd. Man I really never thought when I said how awkward that line was that it would end up getting repeated 50 more times throughout the game. How in the hell did the translators approve that lol

The mech fight with Vulcan is the same as every other, spam counter while healing and charging. If mech fights are in 3 and the whole system is revamped I pray to God they remove this counter move because there's never a reason to use anything else, it just makes you invincible.

Class VII in the cutscene congratulates Rean on his impressive achievement, clearly not realizing how braindead of a fight it was. After that Vulcans gear starts to blow up, but he just decides that this is his crowning life achievement and going out like this is a-okay, and refuses to abort ship as it explodes. Okay then. Kind of a random death but he was kind of a whatever character so I guess that's one less thing to worry about.

After that...event, they talk about the aftermath - Marquis Rogner surrenders and swears fealty to Alfin, and we dock in Roer to have the Reinford company do repairs for us. Think they could get us some professionals to man the ship instead of a bunch of random students? Somehow I doubt it. This, however, ends our day, so we'll have to see how things pan out tomorrow.