I feel like I'm spoiling myself on important Crossbell stuff just by being here! I just met Dieter Crois and his daughter in Zero, and they're talking about the Crois family and their alchemy activating this tower two years ago, so I guess I should expect a heel turn at some point! Also, uh, it didn't seem like Elie had giant knockers in Trails From Zero to me, and yet...! I also kinda wondered if her name was pronounced "ee-lee" since there was only one L, but I guess not!
Hey there, Claire. It's so wild seeing all these subseries intermingling like this. Oh nice, a reference to Weissman there by Black Alberich, or Alberich of the Black Demise as he's known now, apparently! Oh hey, there's a humongous spoiler for Crossbell, LOL. Mariabell Crois is the Third Anguis of Ouroboros and took Weissman's place, huh? I knew about KeA Bannings, the Zero Child, from Cold Steel III, but this is a new one! If they mentioned her in CS3 at all, it wouldn't have registered, I guess.
Huh, interesting. Mariabell flatly says that Ouroboros surrendered to Osborne. That surprises me. They felt so omnipotent and omnipresent in the other subseries, but Cold Steel has really taken them down a peg. Oh my word, Rosenberg dolls from that doll factory. This is wild. We get to fight the trio in a fanservice battle, and then we run away. Alberich and Mariabell exchange barbs about stealing the others' technologies for their own purposes. Then Claire breaks down when she belatedly gets an orbmail from Millium. I have a feeling most of the Ironbloods will turn on Osborne before this is over. They were already pretty reluctant participants by the end of CS3.
I had kinda forgotten Ash was a Hamel survivor until Joshua talked about it just now, whoops! Oh, so I guess Yin ends up becoming an ally of the SSS! Man, I feel like I really should've at least completed Chapter 2! It was cool getting to play as Estelle, Joshua, Lloyd, and Elie here. I wonder how long it'll be before they show back up again. I feel like it won't be until the endgame where you'll have like 50 party members to choose from! The OP is pretty great, and I like how they saved Rean for last.
