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The day starts off with Sara telling us she won't be taking part today! I hate how arbitrary they've been with taking her out of the party -_- the game also lets you know that you'll have to use everyone today, so be sure to upgrade everyone's equipment if you haven't used them in awhile. Half of the class still has their starter equipment lol. I wonder if Elliot and Gaius are ever back on the ship, bored out of their minds, complaining about how Alisa and Jusis always have the latest gear but they're stuck with scraps not doing anything. I'd like to imagine they are. I'll try to upgrade people's equipment today but no promises, we'll have to see if the finances are in order enough for that.

Walking around the ship today, I check my bank account out and I do have enough to upgrade everyone's weapons, but not enough for armor. Ah what the hell, money exists to spend it and this game is almost done so let's upgrade some crap for the little guy. They deserve it for wasting countless days having nothing to do on the ship while we adventure and save the world. Gaius and Elliot seem like they're fine with cleaning duty though so I don't know, maybe it's okay. This can be their yearly bonus.

There's a special event where you can play Blade with someone and it triggers the final bonding event for them, even if you hadn't talked to them in Bareahard. I did talk to everyone in Bareahard so it shouldn't matter, but I'll do Millium since Beryl earlier said she was the only one without enough compatibility. Beryl does confirm for me after the fact that she's primed and ready to go now, so I suppose I could watch all the bonding events if I wanted to. Not sure how completionist I'm feeling or how annoying it will be to go and try them all out, but we'll see as we go.

Commencing the operation for the day, you have to set up two groups. Group A is required to have Rean and Towa, who's finally joining the fray. She's already level 114! Rean and a few others are tied at 112, how the hell is Towa out leveling us? What has she been doing on the ship? Maybe her, Elliot and Gaius all set up a training regiment while we've been away, and Towa has been beating ass this whole time. That's what I'll go with.

My party assignments are Rean/Towa/Alisa/Machias/Elliot/Gaius, and then Laura/Jusis/Sara/Fie are left over for their own group. I figure Laura is a one man army and Jusis is a great support/arte user so they should be fine, plus they have less people so their role probably won't be too tough. And then Rean and Alisa should be able to murder everything and Elliot and Gaius should once again never have to see the light of day.

It also has me choose a bonding partner for Valimar, once again saying to pick someone you didn't hang out with in Bareahard. I have everyone available for bonding now so I'll just go with Alisa since we're tried and true together. With that, we're off to reclaim Trista! OK I said I wasn't excited about this yesterday but I'm getting kind of excited now. The energy is high onboard the Courageous and I'm vibing.

As per tradition we're starting off with another thrilling mech battle, though not before we get a cinematic close-up of our spicy new sword. As you can imagine though the fight itself is very easy. The post battle cutscene has the Professor watching from the deck of the Courageous saying, Not bad for a prototype, too bad HE'S not here...who's he? Tita's granddad? That would be a fun rivalry.

When the gang gathers in Trista you get a cutscene where they reminisce for a bit and all the townspeople come out to wish us luck reclaiming the area. Cuddly! They have a voice actor for Micht, the pawn shop guy for the first time I believe. His voice actor sounds like he's a young guy trying way too hard to sound older lol. They also have some rando say, 'Show us some real Thors spirit!' and Towa gets all pumped up and shouts You know we will! It's so cute lol.

It doesn't let you enter any of the buildings, but there's a mini scene outside the radio station where they say that they're gonna do a surprise show on the liberation of Trista. Better hope we don't lose this fight or you guys are all getting the guillotine. Also on the way to the school you can talk to the high class dorm maid, who says we need to take care of those kids and wishes us good luck. Someone really doesn't like her job lol. In general though it's weird how every NPC supports us/the imperials. Are there no conservatives in Erebonia? There's some nobles in Bareahard but that's it really. You'd think it wouldn't be so one sided. I guess it just makes Falcom's NPC writing job easier this way.

They begin to go into Thors, and Rean remarks that it's only been 2 months since they were last here. Wasn't Rean asleep for a month at the start of the game? So this entire game has taken place over a one month's span then? I guess I could always go look back and doublecheck but I never thought about it. That's pretty nutty. I've been playing this game for at least 3 lol. Though I probably took at least a month off to play TFT when the new set launched so we'll say 2.

Anyway, Class VII gets ready to fight the noble kids, and Ferris and Alisa start beefing. Oh man imagine not bringing Alisa with Rean you would've missed this scene, that's deplorable. Of course Ferris pulls out a bow lol. These guys have combat links too, which is a cool difference from normal battles. I suppose breaking up the pairings first would be the optimal strategy, if there were a nightmare+ mode that required that. Since in this mode, Laura's S craft one shot their team. NIGHTMARE DIFFICULTY INDEED

The fight with Rean's team goes much the same, and the kids take back their school. Of course, the nobles reveal that they had already freed all of the staff and they just wanted to fight for fun or something, I don't know. Can't have any real villains here since we're all school buddies and get along. Everyone celebrates, and the day comes to a close. I got another S rank, only 1 left to go. It seems like the final rank is in my sights, it says only 20 AP is needed for it.

Though the chapter is over, the day is not. The next chapter begins with a starlit sky, showing the citizens of Trista celebrating their newfound freedom. Rean watches from afar, standing on the deck of the Courageous watching the celebration while leaning on the rail. He's reminiscing on how far they've come, as he has a flashback to a conversation that took place 5 short hours ago. After everything in Trista, the gang went back to the ship and had a conversation with Claire and the Imperial army. They request our assistance with the planned invasion of Heimdallr, because of course any general would. Let's get these kids in the mix!! Of course they use the word 'liberate' and not 'invade', because you gotta propagandize the kids while they're young.

Rean immediately gets back on his bullshit though and says, ACTUALLY, we're TOTALLY not taking part in this war, XD! Can't help sorry. Claire knows how to play him though and is like, but Rean I only need you to do one teeny tiny little thing so it's totally okay, don't worry. This piques his interest and he asks what she wants, and as he does so, Lechter appears on screen! About time, I missed that little rascal. He says that the Azure Tree is gone now so he's back in Erebonia. I guess that means that the kids are definitely not getting involved after all :(. But I suppose Lloyd and co. did have it under control, so no reason they should be.

Lechter says they want us to invade the Karel Imperial Villa, saying that the imperial royalty are being imprisoned there. Doesn't that seem like a pretty important job for some kids not legally associated with any acting army? But sure, we'll roll with it. Plus it helps keep the parallels with Sky's situation going, since Trails plot is one giant meta fuck fest. Invading Kloe's villa was fun though so we can do it again.