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Fie is going to look for the other Zephyr members to see what they're up to...that's a dangerous job. Emma is going to look for Vita...also a dangerous job. Laura's going off to train in the wilderness with her dad for a few months. Probably pretty dangerous? Alisa's of course going back to the Reinford company to assist. They have a cute I'll miss you scene, where Alisa says she'd rather be there with him but Rean says she has to go advance her life and can't wait around just to be with him. And Rean says not a single day will pass where I won't be thinking about that sweet, hardworking girl I feel in love with. Nice. They lean in for a kiss but the scene fades to black right as they do...and then immediately fades back in. Okay if you're going to end it there sure that's okay, but if you're going to just cut back 3 seconds later that's super cheap. Is kissing to risque for good boys and girls or something? Implied pedophilia is a-ok with Falcom though, man. This company.

Finally, there are these black records to read. When you look at the decoding report it gives you a menu where you can look at them all 1 by 1. It doesn't let you skip ahead, you have to start with the first one and progress through in order. That's how you know it's serious. They also got some real epic chanting song in the background.

Black Record 1 - Before the calendar. Two gods fought for a long time, and both ended in mutual defeat. The 'Great Power' was what was left over from this. That's a term that's been thrown around a bit now...what is it?
Black Record 2 - Year 371. There was once a very powerful dragon that could raise the dead. He used his power to take over and control the area that was to become Heimdallr, and ruled over it for over 100 years. One day Hector Arnor, emperor of Saint-Arkh forged a pact with Testa-Rossa to defeat it. The dragon corrupted Testa-Rossa in the process, which is why it became evil and had to be sealed beneath Heimdallr. The Arnor dynasty has ruled over the area ever since.
Black Record 3 - Year 947. The war of the lions begins. 6 princes and their noble cohorts compete for control of Erebonia. One of the princes, Orthros, revived Testa Rossa and used that to amass power. He was able to kill one of the other princes, dropping the count to 5. Another prince, Lucius, awakened a different knight. the Palatinate knight, to challenge Orthros. Two other unnamed princes weren't able to get any knights, but they grouped up so their knightless armies could stand a chance.
Black Record 4 - Year 949. Dreichels is chilling out in Nord, but one day a (human) knight came to find him to get him in on this warring action. He is the 6th and final prince. Him, that knight, and 15 warriors from Nord form his entire retinue. He sets off to do what he can in Erebonia.
Black Record 5 - Year 952. Dreichels was able to amass power by being a generally good guy and because Lianne Sandlot liked him a lot. A witch showed them where to find and how to awaken the Azure knight. They used that to defeat Testa Rossa. Basically, everything that happened on 12/31 also happened in the year 952.

No mention of the Ashen Knight anywhere. There was that new knight, the Palatinate Knight, so I guess he'll come up next game somehow. Not as much in there as I was hoping, I was hoping there'd be some deep lore and church shit, but it was mostly war of the lions stuff. Kinda disappointing but I'll take it.

Rean talks to Elise on the phone for a bit about nothing in particular, and the day ends.

3/13
Is this finally my true final day? I didn't realize how much longer this game was going to go on lol. Free day, so time to walk around and talk to everyone and get some quests done. No bonding points this time though, just some good old fashioned communication. There's a quest where you have to settle a fishing duel, so that Annabelle can call off her arranged marriage to Lakelord. He actually shows up, so that's another Crossbell cameo for the list. You end up saving the day and it appears that Kenneth and Annabelle are slowly falling for one another. Fishing subplot is best subplot, no doubt.

You have to do a quest where you fight Patrick and his butler, which is braindead easy. Ferris and her maid come out next and demand a fight, and her maid just whips out two pistols out of nowhere lmao. These people sure do live in a society. That fight is also braindead easy, but then the fucking principal and nurse walk out and say we're not done here yet, and the nurse pulls out a fucking sniper rifle LMAO. This game is too much sometimes. That battle was a little tougher but still easy and that finishes that quest.

There's another quest to gather items for the flea market going on in the auditorium. One of the miscellaneous items you collect is the Carnelia collection, from Sara. However, they don't actually show up in the books tab, just as an event item. You can't actually read them :(. I know someone thought you could get Carnelia in this game a few months ago when this topic was started, turns out you can...but not really. Good memory though, whoever you were!

There's another swimming quest with Neithardt that they repeated from the first game. The girls come out at some point and you have the option to pick a girl to 'admire'. I chose Sara as any man would and you get a good 10 second closeup of her in the swimsuit. Nice. Rean says if fabric had feelings then that would be the happiest fabric in the world. He's a modern day Lord Byron, I tell you what. No wonder everyone falls for him, I don't know how you couldn't.

Eventually I finish up all the quests, and you get an event at the old schoolhouse where Valimar senses a disturbance. It's about time we get back there! Couldn't be a CS game without some schoolhouse adventures. Toval shows up and has a convo with Rean where he asks if Rean wants to become a bracer. Please say yes get me out of this school ffs he said no god dammit. You're basically a bracer already buddy, cut the bullcrap and let's go meet up with Estelle! Toval says he's not giving up yet though, so we've got hope. CS3 Bracer Rean please, anything but Thors Rean.

Claire also shows up with Alfin and Elise in tow, and her and Rean have a nice heart to heart where they both apologize for what they did and they make up. Claire is best girl so let's get her in the harem already :)

We go inside the schoolhouse to investigate and it's very trippy and magical looking. Definitely not a schoolhouse anymore. Nobody knows anything about what's going on, so Rean calls Valimar and Toval goes, 'You can do phase space translocation with that thing'? Those seem like some fancy seems for ol' Toval. Is there more to him than meets the eye? I guess I'd know if they let me read Carnelia :( Kind of mean that they don't in the game he's finally introduced. Damn so they set this shit up since Trails 1, huh? That's crazy. Hopefully he's not the next Ouroboros member or something silly like that lol.

Speak of the devil, Sharon shows up behind us as we make our plans to head further in to investigate. I think that is possibly every party member we've had gathered here for the epilogue. Falcom knows how to do fanservice if nothing else. This is pretty great, NGL.

For my party I settle on Claire, Alisa, Sara, Laura, Jusis, and Elise because I'm curious what she will do in battle. The other 6 are there for functional purposes though. I would normally bring Sharon as my 7th, but the guide says do not bring Sharon for some reason so maybe she pulls a heel turn or something.