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Second try around with some careful usage of the guard option for the first time in my life I'm able to take him down without too much trouble. If I realized they removed the healing sooner I probably would've beaten it first try, but that's life for you. Rean gets an epic omnislash moment in the post battle cutscene and rips the core out of Testa Rossa's chest, Eva style. Badass, Rean. Too bad these robots don't spurt out blood when you tear them apart but that's not very T for Teen of them so I understand.

Vita seems a little worried, saying that her Grandmaster will chew her out for this when she gets back. The gangs ears perk up at the mention of the grandmaster, mine included. She says they serve him and she was here only to carry out the second part of his Phantasmal Blaze Plan. Am I ever going to get an explanation for what that damn thing is? She says, "A plan to use the hollow phantasm in Crossbell to awaken the Blaze in the empire." The hollow phantasm I'd guess would be KeA, but what is the blaze in Erebonia? I just hope it's not fucking Rean lol that's all I have to say. Nothing's really been awoken, unless they were referring to the castle? It did have some pretty powerful magic going on, but I'm not sure what the end goal of resurrecting it would be. I guess we'll see.

Crow gets out of his robot with a gaping hole in his chest, shooting blood everywhere. OH man that's not what I meant when I said that earlier...sorry Crow, this one's on me. Man are they actually gonna kill him off? I did like Crow as a character even if I thought everyone's motivations on returning this wanted terrorist to go to high school with them were a tad nave. I'd be kinda down for him to die though since nobody ever does so I'm sure something will deus ex machina his ass here. He says, at least he has time to say his goodbyes and leads off with him turning to Elliot saying that the concert was really fun. Lmao imagine your last words on earth being to Elliot, please just shoot me now and get it over with.

He does his rounds around the room and then falls to the ground, apparently dead. I'll believe it when he's buried. Cayenne clearly can't read the room at all and shouts over at us, he's got a dagger on Cedric's throat and is threatening to kill the boy. Vita has had enough of this shit and threatens Cayenne that if he doesn't unhand him things will get much worse for him, a threat he seems to take seriously as he appears willing to relent. Suddenly however, out of nowhere...Rufus appears, sword in hand and knocks Vita aside. Noble Boyz gotta stay together I suppose. I didn't think Rufus would be that kinda guy but I guess he's gotta commit to the nobles here. Mariabell would be proud.

He goes up to Cayenne and Cayenne is in disbelief, asking if Rufus is really here to save him? And Rufus is like, "Not in your dreams" as Altina swoops in and knocks Cedric away. Okay lmao I'm not sure what he's up to now, he's not with Vita or the nobles at this point so who's he with? Vita and Millium both realize something before I do as they have some knowing 'aha' moments, and not a second afterwards we see Claire and Lechter walk in the room. Oh...OH okay yeah now realization dawns on me too, Rufus was working for the Ironbloods the whole time! Ah that's good, I didn't see that coming not gonna lie. For a reveal like that though, it's only a matter of time before you know who shows up, right?

Lechter and Claire apparently had no idea that Rufus was on their side the entire time, they were just told they had a 'primary ally' who was helping them out but not who it was. So who told those two that? HMMM! I find it a bit hard to believe that Lechter wouldn't have been able to sniff that out though. I guess we can go with it for now.

Cayenne asks what Rufus stands to game from pledging his allegiance to a dead man....hahahahahaha okay here it comes. YEP The man, the myth, the forgotten legend Osborne walks on screen, for the first time all game. About time! He teases Cayenne a bit, and Vita says that she had a feeling he wasn't really dead. Not even Vita knew for sure? So that means that only Rufus was aware the entire time he was alive and hiding somewhere? Interesting. Vita also says that she learned how formidable Osborne was when they worked together in Liberl...huh? Is this in relation to the war that was happening where Erebonia invaded before Sky, or did they have a part to play during Sky as well? I'd assume the former, but the latter would be pretty interesting.

Oh shit, lmao Osborne then straight up says he's now taking over this Phantasmal Blaze plan, and says Vita can go back to her master and let him know that if they get in Osborne's way that he will crush them all. Okay, that's badass as hell. Since when does anyone knowingly stand up to Ouroboros? Osborne certainly aint noone to fuck with.

Millium rushes over to Osborne's side, and says that she doesn't know what to do anymore. None of the other Ironbloods seem to have any doubt in that department, but Millium's been brainwashed by Rean so you know she'll be coming back at some point. Or maybe they'll just kill her instead, who knows. Probably not that.

Osborne then orders Rufus to proceed with the occupation of Crossbell. Osborne really doesn't waste any time, huh. I guess he's been out of the picture for a year so he's got a lot of work to do. We get a little flashback of Crow talking about his beef with Osborne, but it doesn't last long as Rean rushes up and grabs Osborne by the chest, and says that Crow died for nothing if he's still alive. Lmao Jesus that's heartless as fuck, like if Osborne had died then Rean would be cool with everything? What a brat. Actually really just think about how weird it is that they were so desperate to be friends with Crow, just cuz they spent a few months together in the same class. He was a literal terrorist who assassinated the standing Chancellor of Erebonia with a sniper rifle. Like if some kid in your class shot Hillary Clinton, would you be all like, damn he was such a cool guy I really need to break him out of jail and be friends with him again. Rean is a sociopath.

Also, the fact that none of the Ironbloods rushed over to protect Osborne when Rean rushed over and basically threatened him just shows how harmless they think he is lol. Or that they really think Osborne is cracked. He doesn't seem like he'd be a great fighter but he's pretty bulky so idk. I mean Rean's able to go toe to toe with some pretty strong guys, his power level has to be pretty up there at this point. But sure, you guys do you, don't listen to me. Rufus walks up to Rean finally and goes, please calm down buddy, he's got good reasons and you know he cares about you, right? And Rean goes all...huh? And then has a flashback...to Osborne dropping him off on that mountaintop. Okay lmao oh shit I really didn't ever think that Osborne would be his dad even though it's kind of the obvious trope. It just never clicked with me. It's like how I never realized Wazy was in the church even though they made it as obvious as they could, I just skip the obvious answers I suppose.

I thought Osborne was some commoner who rose through the ranks though? Because I thought Rean was descended from Dreichels, which would also mean Osborne was as well? That's not quite the image I had of him the entire time. Or maybe I'm missing something. I don't know, it will all be explained at some point I'm sure.

After that we get an anime ending song, so I guess that wraps this up! So Osborne just really wanted Rean out of his life so he could do some grand scheming for a decade or so, then reclaim Rean when it was convenient for his plots? Someone's been taking lessons from the school of Gendo Ikari, I see. Osborne seems a lot more imposing than Gendo did but they do have similar vibes besides that.