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Holy shit ok there's an ending song and after that ended, it has you save the game and says during your second playthrough of this portion, you can raise Lloyd and Rixia's levels by 15. First off I thought I was done, second off, Lloyd and Rixia?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?! 95% of people that played this game are like who the fuck is that, meanwhile I'm over here having a heart attack.

It gives you an option to start normally, raise levels by 15 or just view the cutscenes. I mean, in for a penny in for a pound so let's do this bitch normally. I don't mind spending more time with Lloyd and Rixia if I have to. Man, there's a whole bonus chapter I'm so excited what's Rixia gonna look like in 3D oh man where's Elie ahhhh fuck okay let's do this.

OK so we start off with a battle scene, looks like Erebonia's proceeding with their invasion of Crossbell. They're all evenly matched for a bit but then there's a sparkle in the distance and fucking Valimar bursts in and fucks them up. Wait Rean is a bad guy now oh god oh no he's Osborne's fucking lapdog? Oh shit oh god Rean no. At least CS3 might be interesting plotwise because I didn't see that coming.

We get a voiceover narration from Lloyd, who sounds about how you'd expect from the Japanese version. A little deeper voice than in japan but that's usually what happens from the sub to the dub. Lloyd talks about how the war wasn't much of a fight, as we knew, and we fast-forward to Osborne giving a speech to his newfound subjects in Crossbell. He does a fakeout where he introduces the man responsible for ending the war and you think he's hyping up Rean, but Rufus walks out instead. Rufus is now the governor of Crossbell, which seems like a good position for him. Only sociopaths are allowed to rule Crossbell these days, RIP Grandpa McDowell.

We switch over to the office of the Crossbell Times, as Grace is mulling over how suspicious the circumstances are that Rufus and Osborne are so close all of the sudden, especially when everyone thought he was dead. At least we know she's still sharp as a tack :) and keeps abreast on foreign affairs. Also, I just want to say how well they handled the transition to 3D for Crossbell, everything looks just like you'd picture it. They didn't miss any details.

It then moves scenes to Lloyd and Rixia, talking business with Cao from Heiyue. Didn't realize they'd become so chummy. I guess times are tough in Crossbell, gotta make friends where you can. They also gotta start building these guys up, doesn't the Calvard arc start after CS4?

Rixia looks even better in 3D then I imagined <3 waifu material. Her outfit got sluttier I think but you know what, we take those. They talk about how they can't trust Cao for a bit, then walk out into the Geofront as they formally introduce Lloyd and Rixia with the white text fade over. Lloyd says that Crossbell's future rests in their hands...oh man. How are these two gonna deal with the Erebonian occupation? I can't wait for Rean to get called out on being a bootlicker by true main character Lloyd. Hopefully, CS3 and 4 just let me play as Lloyd the whole time and we can forget Rean exists. I somehow doubt it...but it would be nice. It would be very nice.

We get to explore the Geofront now and that familiar Geofront music starts up again. It's only been a few months to a year since I played Crossbell and it already feels nostalgic. Man I love those games.

If you go back into the room they were talking to Cao in you can get a special edition of the Crossbell Times, which is fun to read. It's a lot less propagandized than the Erebonian Times newspaper was. Free Crossbell, the revolution of our times!

Going through it, this is unironically the best designed dungeon in the entire game. There's lots of vertical design, which makes the map much more interesting. Some backtracking, puzzle solving with the platforms, etc. It's so wild that they would make this the first good dungeon in the game...and it's a bonus epilogue chapter. Falcom, man...

Lloyd and Rixia, over the course of a few cutscenes going through this dungeon talk about the rest of the Crossbell gang, including mentioning that the Imperial's are now watching the SSS and monitoring their activities now. Osborne knows that the SSS ain't noone to fuck with, that's a smart cookie. He did get a bit familiar with them during Zero, after all. I wonder if Osborne was over in Crossbell during his hiding when everyone thought he was dead. I choose to believe so.

Eventually you make it to the end and they reveal their purpose for coming here: to backup all the data on the central computer stored down here that has detailed information on all Crossbell citizens, then wipe it, so Erebonia can't get their hands on it. Good thinking guys. I mean they could still get their hands on that backup if you don't keep it safe, but I trust Lloyd and co with it more than anyone else. Unfortunately, bitch ass supervillain Rean Schwarzer comes out of the woodwork now and demands that we stop. Was he just following us that entire time? It was a pretty long dungeon, especially for trails standards. Derpy ass Rean. Altina's with him now as well, just to make it clear if you're not paying attention that Rean is a bad guy now. He also has his default outfit on, when I played the entire game with him in his winter sweater, so that's jarring to see lol.

Rean's introduced as the Black Haired Boy, which really makes me question the logic they use for character names. I guess it's just from Lloyd's POV and he doesn't know Rean, so it does make some sense. It's still funny though.

When the battle starts, if you analyze Rean, his description is a young main with an air of sadness about him. Yeah, I bet he's sad being a bitch ass imperial boot licker. Daddy came home so he has to be his little lap dog now...pathetic. Rean's 100% bitch.

The fight did take me two tries here, but I was able to beat it pretty cleanly on the second try. Doing a two on two fight when they both have 250k HP and you only have 15k isn't very fair! But we made it work. If they could use Overdrive like we could this fight would've been impossible lol.

After the cutscene, Rean, for the first time in his life finally gets to be the one that "stops holding back" after losing a fight and begins activating his demon mode. The joys of being the bad guy. However, Tio's program finishes running at the same time and this means Rean's mission was a failure, so he quits demon mode before Lloyd or Rixia get a chance to see it. He says that Lechter gave them a backup plan to carry out in case their primary mission failed, as he calls Valimar out of nowhere. It legit just teleports into the Geofront lol. They had this whole big deal of him flying to the top of the castle before but apparently he could just teleport the whole time? Weird. But then Valimar just goes berserk and destroys the whole computer lol. Rough break. Rean then says that arrest warrants have not been issued for either of them, YET, and says that they're free to go. You'd think after having a crazy fight like that over what they were doing that would give him carte blanche here but it's more important that Lloyd gets out of here to do important shit so I guess we can let it slide.

I missed if Lloyd was able to grab the backup data to bring with him but I would have to assume that he was? I didn't see Rean making a big deal out of reclaiming it at least. Oh well, it's probably not important.

Lloyd asks Rean who he is, and Rean starts off by saying that he's a Thors student in Class VII, but then cuts himself off and changes it to a Crossbell Military Officer. Okay yeah I figured Rean was stationed here but does that mean that games 3 and 4 will take place in Crossbell? Man I hope so. I need more Crossbell in my life.