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And we are back, having successfully taught the Festum about emotion and individuality, paving the way for effective peace… until Hazard and Hester nuked them. Piss. But work carries on, with Lux launching as an event unit today. Here’s how we’re going:
Joe/Canon
Kazuki/Domyoji
Kouichi/Kiki
Maya/Mike
Heroman/Shouko
Liu Bei/Rennie
Burn/Marvel
Shou/Tsubasa
Cao Cao/Moritsugu
Mazinkaiser/Soubi
Fei-Yen/Lockon
Dancouga/Canaria
Kurou/Deceive
Shinn/Lunamaria
Sun Quan/Eida
Alto/Yajima
Athrun/Amalgan
Setsuna/Yulianne
Arnie/Saya
Michel/Kenji
Tactician: Erebos (if you’re on track for the Wings of Rean secret, set her in.)
Off we go.
: …
: Is something the matter? Do take a seat, Col. Alex.
: What did you call me here for? I believe I’ve made my opinion of you perfectly clear.
: My, so hostile. I called you just to say that I’m going to let bygones be bygones and forget your behavior during Operation Heaven’s Door.
: Excuse me…?
: Of course, that’s presuming I’ll have your help for a future plan…
: Well, you will not! Court martial me, gun me down – do your worst! I’ll never capitulate to you!
: Hmhmm…
: I guess that’s that, then. Dog Tack, did The Advancers send that little something we requested?
: Yes, Director. A full dossier detailing Toshiko Suzuki’s address, as well as her daily schedule…
: Y-You… Have you done something to my wife?!
: Oh, no, absolutely nothing.
: At least not yet, that is…
: Kch… Hazard, you…!
: Will you help us, Col. Alex Glem?
: …
: (My son risked his life in battle, and I failed him …)
: (Protecting the woman that I love from this fiend is all I have left…)
: We’re getting reports that the Festum have started to reappear all over the world.
: And I’m willing to bet the reason for it is the nuclear attack at the North Pole.
: We have no conclusive evidence… but I believe you are correct.
: Goddamn it, we were so close! Coexistence with the Festum was right around the corner!
: Was all that fighting we did for nothing…?
: …
: No… this isn’t over yet.
: How do you figure?
: I can still hear Soushi’s voice within me…
: Meaning he still exists, somewhere, beside the Festum.
: And if he’s there with them, then I’m positive that…
: That the road leading to coexistence with the Festum can be reopened…?
: Well, our choices are resulting in countless new divergences to emerge. It’s not impossible that one of those would lead to mutual understanding.
: Yeah, and we’ll keep trying to make it happen as many times as needed.
: I’ll keep on fighting too. It’s how I’ll honor Soushi’s wish…
: But, your eyes are…
: Don’t worry about me. I can see just fine when I’m with the Mark Sein.
: But…
: I made a promise to him that I’d stay here until he came back…
: That I’d be here, waiting, for as long as it took…
: Kazuki…
: …
: (Aesap… You’ll also find your way back to us, right?)
: Wh-Where… Are we inside the Aura Road…?
: Where are you taking us, Wings of Rean?!
: I see light…!
: Graaaaaaaaah!
: Hrm… We’re out of the Aura Road?
: This is not Byston Well, though. Where in blazes…?
: Look! That’s the Tokyo Tower!
: Tokyo?! We’re in Japan, then?!
: …
: N-No… something’s wrong! This doesn’t look like the Tokyo I know at all…
Boom!
: Whoa! Wh-What was that?!
: …! Those are Vardants?! And a bunch of other Machinas…!
Clash! Slash!
: What is the meaning of this?! Why are the UX machines fighting one another?!
: I-I know why…!
: This is the future!
: The future…?!
: Kouichi told us that the Machinas started fighting each other after mankind went extinct…!
: What…? Then, the Wings of Rean are showing us the future of Japan?!
Swooooosh!
: W-Waaaaaaah!
: The Aura Road is opening again…!
: H-rrgh… Where are we now?!
: Aah… Aaaah! That’s the Sumida River! This is Tokyo – the Tokyo I knew!
: But the city… the whole city’s on fire!
: Hm, yes… you would not remember! This is that fateful day in the 20th year of the Showa Period (1945)!
: It is the day of the Bombing of Tokyo by American forces!
: The… The Bombing of Tokyo?!
: S-Stop! Y-You’re going to burn down the city! You’ll kill everyone!
: And they did! Hundreds of American B-29 bombers were sent to raze Tokyo to the ground!
: There are elderly, children, babies down there…! This is not a battlefield, but our home!
: Can’t we stop them?!
: I’m sure the Nanajin and the Oukaou are strong enough to take down those bombers…!
Aesap flies after.
: Young Aesap…!
Whoosh.
: Wh-Why…! Why can’t I even touch the B-29s?!
: You waste your time…! Not even the Wings of Rean are capable of erasing the past!
: Indeed, the past is immutable!
: King Sakomizu…
: Th-The world…
: The world itself has taken a wrong turn…!
: (He’s crying…?!)
: Rrgh… Aaaaargh! Wings of Rean!
: You brought us here, did you not?!
: I’m honored to make your acquaintance, Your Majesty.
: Shot has sent word of you. You wish to collaborate with the Hojo Army?
: I couldn’t help but be in awe by the power of Aura Machines ever since I saw them in battle.
: Why, if you put that power to good use, it’d be simplicity itself to take over Japan, no?
: Japan…?
: JUDA is gone, and the reform of the Federation Army has caused most of the Union’s forces to be withdrawn from Japanese shores.
: You couldn’t ask for a better opportunity to invade.
: The King had always sought to conquer and restore the nation of Japan to how it was meant to be.
: That being said, isn’t your Army of Mankind with the Earth Federation Army?
: What reason would you have to turn the other cheek to our invasion?
: Because it’s all but sure that when you attack…
: The UX will be sent to deal with you.
: Hmph, I see… that is what this is about.
: You’ll accept our conquest of Japan, but, in exchange, you want us to eliminate the UX…?
: And Director Hazard has already agreed to provide us with weapons and ammunition to see that accomplished.
: What do you say, Your Majesty?
: …
: I see The Advancers were not exaggerating: you are quite the schemer, indeed.
: However, in the eventuality that you get any ideas of wiping out both us and the UX at the same time, you should know that we are well equipped to destroy you ourselves. Is that clear?
: Hahahaha! Of course, it’s because I respect your strength so that I’m looking to form this alliance!
: Hmhmhm, very well. Then this arrangement may just be mutually beneficial to our causes.
: I dare say that we are kindred spirits.
: I humbly thank you for your kindness.
: (Keheheheh. ‘Well equipped to destroy us’, my foot. If your Oukaou climbs out of whatever hole its hidden in, it’ll just be another wreck alongside the UX’s pile…)
: (Hmph… You believe yourself capable of manipulating us, filthy Garow Ran…?!)
: The Hojo Army is attacking Tokyo?!
: The SDF is currently engaging them, but the situation looks bleak.
: The Japanese Government has already sent a request for help! Everyone get ready to launch!
: Let us be off, Your Highness. The war of Herikon has seeped into the Overworld and it’s our duty to bring it to a close.
: Hm, absolutely!
: (I’ll defend your home until your return just as Kazuki and his friends are doing, Aesap…!)
Mission 40 – Tempest of Cherry Blossoms
: Ahahahaha! Our patience has finally been rewarded, Rouri!
: Hell, yeah! Now we can really get to work! Come on!
: Double…!
: DISPATCH!
: Gwaaaaaaargh!
: Aahahahaha! You hear this, Japanese?! It’s your wake-up call, you peaceniks!
: C-Captain… we can’t win this!
: Grr, don’t let them through! There’re a ton of civs right behind us! Failure is not an option! (Igarashi)
: Well, look at that hotshot over there!
: You’ve been doing nothing but relying on the foreigners to sort your problems. What do you think can do against us, eh?!
: Hmhmhm, and once you’re gone, we’ll trample Tokyo under our bootheels!
: Rrrgh…!
SRW UX - Rebellion Against Fate
: It’s…!
: Deploy all troops!
: The UX have arrived!
: Aesap worked so hard to try and stop my father… Why did you still open fire on this city?!
: Because command of our forces does not presently reside with the king!
: Her Majesty the Queen leads us, and it’s by her command that the Hojo Army moves to conquer Tokyo!
: Wh-What?!
: Looks like losing Sakomizu didn’t change their plans to attack the Overworld!
: You can’t really hope to talk down guys like those. A swift punch to the jaw’s the best way to put them in their place!
: We’ll handle this bunch. Recall your troops and evacuate the civilians.
: Copy that! Good luck, UX!
: This is awful… they’ve trashed so much of the city!
: And it’s only going to get worse if we don’t stop the Hojo Army right now! Got it, guys?!
Destroy everything, don’t lose your ships or Lux. Same fight we had during mission 38, only the Fugaku isn’t here yet. Downing either Rouri or Kanamoto’ll get the plot going, so do what we did last mission and save them for last (if you can catch them both in a MAPW, so much the better), clearing out all other units before.
If you haven’t been using Lux, take very good care of her since she’s never been the most evasive unit around. FYI, for this mission, much more than the last one, you’ll want to conserve a decent amount of SP for the later part; try to cast Strike only for the midbosses to get around their Double Image skills. Your regular guys should be capable of easily dispatching the mooks with help from just our command auras.
SRW UX - Tales of Mirisha ~ The Brave Legend
: This is his fault… If he hadn’t come to Herikon, we…!
: But I will not fall just yet! Not until our clan thrives once more!
Final Mission ~ Quantum Burst 1
: I-I will not die in this godforsaken place!
: I’ll yet find my way back to our land of Herikon…!
Why, you little…!
HAH! Kanamoto drops a Lacus’ Disk, whereas Rouri would’ve dropped Eida’s.
: Hrm… They’re ganging up on us!
: Let’s back off for a bit, Kanamoto.
: … Okay, Rouri.
: What, they left? Think they got scared?
: Don’t worry about pursuing runaways! There’re still more folks looking for a fight!
: Hmph, what a worthless pair.
: They are, ultimately, Overworlders. We shouldn’t have put our trust in them in the first place.
: You’ve finally usurped control of the Hojo Army, Codour…!
: Just what is going on, stepmother?! Is this a plot from your clan?!
: Silence! You, the mere child of the first wife, dares speak to me so?!
: ?!
: Do you know how much my people slaved away, shedding rivers of blood and tears, so that the conqueror-king could have his Aura Machines?!
: A brat with Overworlder blood flowing in her veins could never even come to grasp the suffering our clan endured!
(This reveal about Codour’s clan isn’t less abrupt in the original show, no. If you remember, Sakomizu conquered and unified the various Herikon clans into his nation of Hojo, making a big push towards expanding his Aura Machine army to eventually invade the Overworld. Codour came from one of the conquered clans and has been looking for a chance to get revenge since. Mind you, we’re never given a lot of evidence outside of a bit of word-of-mouth. Wings of Rean was kind of rushed, you see.)
: I knew it; you’re really…!
: I dare say that the king is already dead, forever lost within the Aura Road.
: Meaning that once you’re gone, the last of the Overworlders’ blood will have been expunged from Hojo!
: And that’s what you were after all along, queenie?!
: You’re all but the second coming of Louza Luft, Codour!
: “Louza”…?
: Shot didn’t tell you about her, did he? Of how the power struggle within her family tore through our Byston Well? Of all the lives that were lost because of that feud?!
: And we’re not about to let a calamity like that happen again…!
: Wh-What…?!
: Shou and Marvel’s Aura energies are flowing into me…?!
: Set forth, Princess Lux! It’s up to you to slay the negative emotions that bind her!
: Yeah! Stand up to her!
: Hrm… I will not be bested by this brat!
: Stepmother… Or, rather, Queen Codour!
: I’m ending your ambitions here and now!
Take out the Fugaku to keep things going – Kotto is still the pilot and the same as when we fought him two missions ago. If you cleared the lesser mooks prior to downing Rouri/Kanamoto, he won’t even get enough morale to MAPW you before you’re going in for the kill.
I don’t think I’ve ever noted it, but the Fugaku isn’t immune to debuffs, so Mike can effectively neuter it.
And problem solved.
: Anomalies in the Aura Engine! Output is dropping!
: Curse you all…!
: How long have I waited to be rid of the king…! I will not die until the rage of my clan has been repaid!
Location: the sky above Hiroshima
: The Aura Road’s dropped us off again…!
: These islands… this is the Seto Inland Sea!
: Another B-29? But there’s only one…
: I-It’s…!
: Morning on the Inland Sea… and there’s Itsukushima… Then, that B-29 must be—!
: The atomic bomber… Enola Gay!
: S-Stop! Don’t drop that bomb!
: Not the Little Boy!
: Aah… Aaaaah!
: Uwaaaaaaaaaaaah!
: Th-This…
: This is the morning when the Americans dropped their atomic bomb on Hiroshima!
: Wh-Where… Where are we now?!
: A fleet raining artillery fire upon land, countless warships making landfall…
: This is the Battle of Okinawa!
: Okinawa…?!
Machinegun fire!
(Soldier): Glory to the Imperial Army! Glory to the Imperial Army! Gaahahahahahaha!
(voices in underground trench): Noble ancestors, please watch over and protect us…
: Th-These voices are…!
: From all those who lost their lives upon this land…!
(kamikaze soldier): OHKAAAAAAA!
BOOM!
(soldier): “We beg that you show mercy to the people of Okinawa.” Telegram sent.
BOOM!
: Th-This…
: This actually happened in Japan?!
: Yes, it did! These ghastly scenes you’re watching are memories of your nation’s past!
: And the Wings of Rean are saying that we must never face away from these!
: You were also going to make a kamikaze attack during this, weren’t you, King Sakomizu?!
: I was, because I was told that a decisive battle was taking place in Okinawa!
: But this is no military showdown! This is no war!
(child): Waaaaaah!
(woman): Shin-chan—! Gyaaaaargh!
: Even women and children were engulfed under the torrent of fire and gunpower! This… This is an atrocity!!
: Rrrgh… Aaaaaaaaargh!
: Are these… the feathers of their lives…?
: This… This is the color of my life! The color of a life that couldn’t even set off into the great beyond…!
: I hear them even now… the song of the souls lost within that hellfire! A song that has been wandering to this day…!
: Their song has been wandering…?
: They suffered… How they suffered! And their lingering pain tears at my soul…!
: This is what they all felt…! This is the true face of that war…!
: This… This is unacceptable!
: INTOLERABLE!
: King Sakomizu!
: I’ll personally make all those complacent worms in Tokyo feel every ounce of their pain… their sorrow, their regrets!
Wings of Rean powering up!
: …?!
: Hear my will, Wings of Rean! And grant me strength!!
RUUMBLEEEEE!
: Wh-What is happening…?!
: Th-This is…!
: It’s Tokyo… There’s the Tokyo Bay!
: (Th-The King made it back to the Overworld… He didn’t lose his way inside the Aura Road?!)
: Aesap… Father!
: Are you okay, Aesap?!
: Lux! Everyone!
: And what’s the Hojo Army doing in Tokyo?!
: It was Codour! They’re following her orders!
: Codour!
: Y-Yes, Your Majesty… How glad I am that you’re back with us.
: …
: Order the Fugaku to retreat.
: B-By your will… Kotto and I’ll see to it…
: …
: Father, you can’t be thinking of continuing with this attack! Are you going to drag the people of your own hometown into a warzone?!
: The Wings of Rean have joined with the Oukaou and led me back to the Overworld!
: Thus, this power is now mine to use as I see fit!
: You got it all wrong! Those who died are all in the past! And you can’t fight with a power that stems from the past!
: No, this does not stem from the past at all! This power is a legacy, from the past to our future!
: A legacy from the past to our future…?!
: Young Suzuki! You have also see the reality of that war, so you must understand!
: The loathing of being unable to stop the A-Bomb, the grief of having to turn away from the events at Okinawa… You have felt it all!
: So many lives were lost in that conflagration, and their voices now lie forgotten and unheard… All that awaits a Japan that’s forgotten about them is a future of nothing but ruin!
: But how does that justify you destroying Tokyo now?! You’d just be repeating the events of that war!
: All the people who live in this city haven’t done anything wrong! You can’t blame them!
: The will of the Wings of Rean lies with me, and I shall wield it to smite these foolish Overworlders! You cannot stop me!
: You’re looking to destroy just for your own personal reasons! That’d never be capable of renewing our future!
: If you seek to change the minds of the people, then you must first change yourself, Sakomizu!
: You dare lecture me, Ultimate Cross?!
: His Aura Power’s flaring up again! If he keeps going…
: Hrm… Do we really need to fight him?!
: Let’s go, Aesap. We’ll stop my father ourselves!
: …
: Alright. Come with me, Lux, Erebos!
Lux tags in with Aesap.
: Father, it falls on me, as your daughter, to right these twisted ideals of yours!
: Come what may, the path I tread will remain the same…
: Thus, I must destroy you! The feathers of your lives shall join with the Wings of Rean!
: Power is… Power is only meant to be used to build a better future!
Same fight we’ve had before, only Sakomizu already at max morale and, so, packs a heavy punch right off the bat.
Secret Alert!
Wings of Rean Secret – 7th step: set Erebos as your tactician, and beat Sakomizu with Aesap.
Rinse and repeat.
And here is me, underestimating his damage. It won’t happen again!
:argh:
Lemme give myself a little boost. I mentioned it in a post following the last mission, but Fei unlocked her Emotional Wave IBS command during the Fafner finale.
SRW UX - In the Blue Sky ver. HD
It works just like the Deceive’s Nerve Crack, in that you can use it post-movement and will boost all stats for everyone and lower all enemies’ in a 5x5 AoE centered around her. Costs 70 EN a pop and requires 130 morale, but that’s still rather spamable if you pair Fei up with someone that regens EN (though keeping her as a support after FUBing her kind of seems like a waste…).
The effect of it is proportional to her Diva skill, starting at 6 and increasing by 3 with every level, maxing out at 30 with Diva L9. She’s currently at L8, so everyone in the AoE gets all stats boosted/debuffed by 27.
: Father, if you made it back here safely, then please sheathe your sword and recall your troops!
: There’s no reason to carry on with this battle! I’m sure you did not come to the Overworld to fan the flames of war!
: However, there is no other way for my goals to be realized! And if I have made it to the Overworld, it was only because the Wings of Rean willed it so!
: And that can only mean that there is a mission for me to carry out here!
: I had taken you as someone worthy of calling both a Holy Warrior and a son-in-law, but perhaps I overestimated you!
: I believed you, someone who had also been guided by the Wings of Rean, would be capable of understanding my wishes!
: I do understand, but the way you’re going about it is simply wrong!
: I’m putting a stop to your violence before you bring about even more sorrow!
: Uurk… The pain I feel is absolutely nothing compared to that of the dead!
: Are you well, Your Majesty…?
: Codour! Why have you returned?!
: …
: Because what I’m after is only one thing: that Byston Well is cleared of the rotten Overworlder blood.
: What…?
: All hands, fire! Shoot down the Overworlder King!
: …?!
: H-Hrrrmm!
: Stepmother…?!
: The hell is wrong with those people…?!
: The King has become mad with the Oukaou’s power!
: His raging delusion has brought us to the Overworld, and if we stay here, we’ll soon be as filthy Garow Ran!
: Fire! FIRE!
: Ooorgh!
: Hah-Hahah… And, now, the King’ll—!
Wings of Rean noise!
: Kotto… You are of Codour’s clan, are you not? Not only did you sleep with her, now you stab me in the back?
: O-Of course not, Your Majesty! I would never think to oppose a Holy Warrior…!
: Codour’s bed is quite warm, hm?
: Ehe… Heheheheh…!
: DIE!
: Rgh…?! That’s…!
Canon fire!
: Message the entire fleet and tell them to maintain their barrage on the Aura Battler!
: He’s still kicking even after all that punishment… blasted monster!
Door opens
: Hey, now, you’re having a whole lot of trouble taking one guy out, huh?
: Y-You’re!
: Ah, don’t worry about them. They’re another couple of collaborators of mine.
: Right. You can call us a pair of revolutionaries.
: Revolutionaries…?
: Yeah, we’re going to be transforming this nation of cowards!
: With one huge game-changer! It’s going to be a literal blast!
: Y-You don’t mean…?!
: Hmhmhm… Yeah. Turns out there’s only one way to change this nation whole, and that’s with a nuke!
: Are you insane?! You’re going to kill over ten million people!
: Eh, don’t worry about it. There’ll still be another hundred million around.
: The warhead’s detonator is already active, so feel free to take it.
: Director?!
: Much appreciated, Army!
They leave.
: Heheheh… Now isn’t that way easier than leveraging the Hojo Army?
: Why are you doing this?!
: Oh, that shouldn’t be hard to figure out. With their capital in shambles, all we’ll need to do is swoop in to help “restore this magnificent nation” and the whole place’ll be as good as mine.
: You cannot be serious! I did not endorse the Army of Mankind so you could destroy Toshiko’s… my family’s country!
: Hmph, and you think I care? I don’t, especially considering you’ll be the one taking the fall for giving those two the nuke.
: Wh-What…?!
: Indeed, Col. Alex. The responsibility for everything will fall squarely on your shoulders.
: Hrrr… You two were planning this from the start…?!
: We’ll call for you to be judged by a military tribunal as something of an apology.
: Granted, it’ll be a confidential trial and you won’t be allowed a lawyer, so…
: Waahahahahahaha!
: Urk… They’re just shooting everyone!
: Destroy this city and the Oukaou!
: We’ll purify both the Overworld and Byston Well once the Wings of Rean shoes are back in our hands!
: D-Damn you all to Hell…!
: You’d spit at my ideal and cast your lot with the Army of Mankind?!
: A-Aah… King Sakomizu’s Aura Power is!
: This power…! It’s turning white into black, darkness into light…?!
: We almost have him! Blast the King out of the sky!
: Hrrrrrrgh! You blasted Herikonians!
: F-Father, stop! STOP!!
: Graaaaaaaaaaargh!!
: W-What in blazes… The Oukaou!
: It’s turned giant?!
: H-He’s gone Hyper…! What we’ve been dreading has finally happened…!
: Die, filthy Garow Ran!
: Aaaieeeee!
: A-Aaaaah! Retreat! RETREAT!
: Power… Power! GRANT ME POWEEERRR!!
: Stop! FATHER!!
: What… What can we do now…?!
: We’re being overwhelmed…!
Tzeeeeep.
: (Don’t worry. There’s still time…)
: (Tsu-Tsubaki…?!)
: (That is a man who’s experienced so much sorrow…)
: (And, in that case, what would be the best way to erase that sorrow?)
: …
: (It would be… for us to understand King Sakomizu’s sorrow!)
: (That’s right… and I know you can do it…)
Flash.
: (Tsubaki…)
: Ms. Saya…?
: …
: Everyone, I need your help! Talk to King Sakomizu!
: “Talk”…?
: We need to come to understand his sorrow… his feelings for his motherland, his fear of the war!
: We have to reach an understanding with each other…
: But right now?! With a battle going on?!
: … We can do it! I know we can!
: Yeah, we can. The Aura Power, Quantum Brainwaves, Fold Quartz… and the light of the Odyssite will show us the way, I’m sure of it!
SRW UX - The Will of Man Awakens
: Saya…!
: I agree… The Wings of Rean have shown me the truth before! And they can do it again…!
: He may have gone Hyper, but that absolutely does not make him invincible!
: Even I once held onto enough of myself to get back to reality! If we can just cause our Aura Powers to resonate, then…!
: We can absolutely understand one another! There’re ways for us to get through and communicate with him!
: Mr. Amagatsu… I’ll put what I earned from you to good use, right here and right now!
: Watch over us, Soushi! This is what we’ll fight for!
: This is our true courage…!
: And these are our emotions, riding upon the wind!
: Here we go, folks! We will pull this off!
Secret Alert!
Wings of Rean secret – 8th step:
Alright, here’s the deal. Sakomizu has gone mad and we need to get him to chill, which, as Scarlet prophetically mentioned a bunch of missions back, is going to require us to talk him down. That is to say, we’ll need to use the Persuade command on him thrice with different characters. Mind you, some people are better equipped to actually get through to him than others, and it works on a point system:
- 3 Points: Aesap, Lux, Setsuna, Saya (only possible if she’s in the Lyras and not the Odyssea), Shou
- 2 Points: Amalgan, Burn, Kouichi, Kazuki, Cao Cao, Sun Quan, Alto, Fei-Yen, Arnie
- 1 Point: Joe, Shinn, Kira/Athrun, Liu Bei, Kurou, Heroman, Kaido, Aoi
The cutoff is seven points and if your three chosen guys add up to that, you’re in the clear (you’ll know you did it right not only because his dialogue changes but because he casts Soul if you fail).
… I confess that I’m not sure if this is even an option if you’re not on track for the secret (since there isn’t really a point to doing it otherwise – you’ll either waste 3 people talking, and gain absolutely nothing, or you’ll screw it up and just piss Sakomizu off further). Do tell me if you know.
I’m going for it, though, and since Aesap and Lux have already moved, Setsuna, Saya and Shou’ll deal with the guy. Here are all the convos:
: How are you to fulfill your ideals by letting sorrow and vendettas lead you in battle?!
: If you call yourself a King… if you call yourself a man capable of standing on a battlefield, then that’s the last thing you should do!
: Indeed, but there are some things I can never forgive precisely because I stand in the battlefield not as a soldier, but as a man!
: You are a warrior, yes? Then, I can say with certainty that some battles have shocked you with their atrocities!
: You’re right. And I’m here today, fighting, because I managed to endure that feeling!
: And I know the man you once were would be capable of doing the same!
–
: King Sakomizu… You’ll accomplish nothing by just venting your sorrow on others! You must convey what you feel to them, and there are ways to do that!
: Do you take me for a fool?! All the flowery speeches in the world will not restore the motherland I’ve lost!
: The lives, the souls, that have been sacrificed will never return!
: But if those left behind can unite their spirits, their wills, to one another, then the light of those lives will never truly fade!
–
: Stop this, King Sakomizu! Fight with hate in your heart and not only you’ll be incapable of helping the world, but you’ll be incapable of helping yourself!
: Would you still say that had you seen atrocities unfold before your very eyes?!
: I have seen them, trust me! And I eventually discovered that it’s only by overcoming the pain and the sorrow we felt that we can truly have a future!
–
: Don’t do this! The only thing that comes out of destruction is sorrow! There are so many people who can understand the pain you feel…!
: “Eye for an eye, tooth for tooth” only serves to tighten the chains of hatred around us…
: But we know you’re brave enough to break that cycle!
: I’ve heard these admonitions before, that our society is worth believing in… but those were ultimately nothing but empty, utopic ideologies…!
: I have a will to carry out, a duty to fulfill, and I’ll see it done even if I must trail the bloodstained path!
: But you can’t stop pursuing something because it’s utopic! If you do, then that is when it’ll never amount to anything real! So, please…!
–
: Let hatred take the reins of your life and all your cause will amount to is basic revenge! Is that what you really want?!
: How could I ever stare the dead in the eyes if I did not feel outrage over the tragedies I’ve seen?!
: Because nothing would ever change that way! If we really mean to make the future a better place, then we need to start by changing ourselves for the better!
–
: You have to take control of your rage, King Sakomizu! I’m sure there’s more within your heart than just hatred!
: Who are you to speak so to me?! A child like you is nowhere mature enough to grasp how I feel!
: You’re wrong, because there’s no line separating children and adults when it comes to what’s truly important – it goes for anyone as a person!
–
: Listen to us! There won’t be any need for us to fight if we can just understand each other…!
: Are you trying to placate me, Yankee?! It was under that same banner of democracy that America brought Japan to heel – all to satisfy its own agenda!
: This isn’t about what countries we come from!
: All I want is for you to realize what’s right and what’s wrong!
–
: Hatred, resentment… Do you really think you can put together a better future with twisted stuff like that in your heart?!
: Who are you to speak of my resentment?! But, please, take sword in hand and see for yourself if it’s strong enough to still it!
: I admit that I don’t know what you’ve gone through – I’m not psychic…
: But I what do understand is that answering a tragedy with another one is never the right thing to do!
–
: You’re not getting anywhere with just violence! If you think your cause is right, then you gotta get together with people and work with them!
: My cause has never had the room for dialogue! I’ll see my ideal realized, and I do not need the people’s understanding or their compliance to do so!
: If you do that, you’ll be nothing but a tyrant that’s blind to the world around him, Sakomizu!
–
: You think you have all the answers, don’t you? But, I’m sorry to say, there’s no way someone like that could ever help the future of humanity!
: You know nothing! I have been betrayed by what I and so many believed in! How can you tell me to swallow my indignation?!
: And that’s all the reason you need to destroy everything?!
: But this is the era we live in! It’s not your time anymore!
–
: There may be a big disconnect between you and your country, but I know you could try and start anew! That is, if you do love Japan as much as you say you do!
: I do this because I bear within me the spirits of my fallen compatriots, restless and outraged! You would never understand how disgraced we feel!
: But we could understand the pain and sorrow you feel! That’s not going to happen if you don’t start putting some trust in people, though!
–
: Hah, we don’t need no words to get our point across!
: There is only one way those who meet in the battlefield can communicate to one another…!
: Indeed! A cause can only be carried out at the tip of one’s blade!
: I challenge you, Kaido and Magami! Are you prepared to plummet into the depths of Hell?!
: Who do ya think you’re talking to, eh?! We ain’t gotta prepare for anything, ‘cause we are Hell!
–
: Let go of your hate, King Sakomizu! A Holy Warrior of your caliber isn’t weak enough to be dominated by it!
: He’s right! Going Hyper is never a good thing!
: You mean to lecture me on how a Holy Warrior should or shouldn’t be?! If you wish to stop me, then do so through your strength!
: Aura Power isn’t meant to be used to make others submit! It’s a force that comes from our emotions, and that’s why it’s meant to defend and bring people together!
–
: Stand down, King! Do not let yourself be engulfed by that negative Aura Power, or all you’ll find is the destruction of what you seek to defend!
: What I seek to defend is my just cause! Aura Energy is the energy of life… It was given to me so that I may stay my course!
: That course is the wrong one, King, and it’ll only produce more hate if you continue to follow it!
: And I’m sure you realize that, Shinjiro Sakomizu!
–
: Please stop, King Sakomizu! A hate-filled Aura Power could never bring about a new world!
: I once had faith in the future, and I watched as it rotted away! How could you ever understand the anguish I feel?!
: But there are ways we could understand! I know that’s what the Wings of Rean led us for!
–
: Father, you’re losing yourself as you let that evil Aura Power take hold of you! Please go back to being the man you once were…
: Even the most virtuous of men would fly into a mad rage if he saw the country for which he sacrificed himself in this sorry state!
: Nevertheless, you cannot give in! Take back control of your soul and be our Holy Warrior once more!
–
: Regain the pride you once had as a Holy Warrior, Sakomizu! Stay this course and soon you’ll be nothing but a Garow Ran!
: I’m fighting to see my dream realized! All the power I have is for this purpose alone!
: I’ll concede that sometimes power is necessary to govern society! But if that power isn’t held in check by the ruler’s heart, then that society will soon break down!
: And you had that heart before, Sakomizu! That’s why so many once swore their fealty to you!
–
: Do not allow sorrow and anger to corrupt your life! Nothing is ever born from baseless violence!
: I have lost everything! Who could ever heal this pain, this hatred that I feel?! Who could ever heal the souls of the fallen?!
: You may destroy until there is nothing left and that would not restore them either!
: Look upon all the families walking through life together… all the friends supporting one another! I’m certain you can find an answer within their smiles!
–
: Set a vendetta as the crux of your strength and it shan’t be long before you may neither go forward nor backwards.
: If you would trail the path of the conqueror and be King, Sakomizu, then you must first conquer yourself!
: I must see this cause realized, or I would lose more than just my pride. The life I’d led would also lose all meaning! Thus, I shall march onwards on the path I’ve set myself on!
: What you ought to see realized is not that, but your will to establish a grand dynasty for yourself and the conquered! If chaos is what you seek, then your ideals shall never reach the ears of the heavens!
–
: The battlefield is home to unbearable pain and sorrow…
: However, if you do not face those, if you do not muster your courage and accept those, then you can never move onwards with your life!
: Are you accusing me of such cowardice?! I fear nothing! I shall answer the cries of all those restless souls!
: If this is how you’ll answer them, then I’ll oppose you with every ounce of my being! There is no future down this path you’re taking!
–
: This may not be the society you wanted, but there’re still people living here! Are you saying those are unwanted lives too?!
: Life and death compose a cycle, and there can be no rebirth without sacrifice! The Japan I envisioned demands that this entire society be rend asunder!
: That’s not happening… no way in hell! No one has the right to deny the lives of others!
–
: Stop with your angry yelling and listen to your heart! What is it trying to tell you?
: You waste your breath, puppet. My heart will not be swayed!
: No, I’m reaching out to you as many times as I have to! I want to understand how you feel…
: So please don’t clam yourself up!
Aaand, that’s the last of them. If you DIDN’T choose a trio that amounted to seven points:
: Hmph, insolence! Prattle on as much as you want…
Casts Soul
: The current state of Japan is not something I’ll ever tolerate!
: Tsk, it’s too dangerous to keep trying to extend that olive branch!
: Then we don’t have a choice! We’ll stop Sakomizu by force if we have to!
But we’re good people, and we got enough points, so we get:
: I’ll concede that not all who live in this society are worthless!
: However, I took a vow to the spirits of they whose corpses laid the foundation for this society, and the grief of the lives the Wings of Rean took in!
: I cannot, and will not, end my cause here!
: Gaah, what a pigheaded old fogie!
: But we did get through to him! Now if we can just get his raging Aura Power under control…!
: Troops, concentrate all your attacks on the Oukaou! Stop King Sakomizu in his tracks!
Hyper Oukaou (Shinjiro Sakomizu)
Pilot Skills:
Aura Power L8
Holy Warrior
Prevail L9
Support Attack L3
All Attack L3
Command L4
Mech Features:
Sword
Oukaou’s Wings
30% HP and EN Regen
All-Canceller
Sakomizu has gone ballistic and his already powerful Oukaou has really beefed up because of it. Don’t expect your Reals to survive any clean hits unless you’ve REALLY buffed their defensive stats.
Good news first: Sakomizu has lost his Double Image ability and the Oukaou is now L sized, so he’s less evasive. Bad news is everything else, as he’s now the most resilient enemy we’ve thought so far, sporting 150k HP, big defenses, regens 50k HP a turn, and will still reduce any ranged damage you try making on him. Sakomizu’s maxed out Prevail will also make him way more survivable than you might expect (while also providing a huge power boost). Oh, and the Oukaou now has S ranks on all terrains, so don’t expect his accuracy to take a hit.
How easy this battle goes depends on whether or not you’ve kept a decent bit of SP left for this. If you did, then you can easily drain his large HP pool in one turn with valor and soul; if you didn’t, then you’ll be in for a tough time against his regen and Prevail’d stats. The best I can say then is to buff up with Fei, Luca and/or Shizuna, set up command auras and support attacks and toss everything you have at him.
Secret Alert!
Wings of Rean secret – 9th step: shoot down the Hyper Oukaou with Aesap.
And there’s also this, provided, of course, that you cleared the persuasion check.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_hR5P-1aP0
Here’s Sakomizu’s second best attack.
: As people are commanded to commit atrocities, their ideals and their wills are progressively corrupted! This is not the kind of peace we desired!
: But what’s committing even more atrocities going to get you?!
: This power you have – the power of a Holy Warrior – was meant to shape a better future, not destroy it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6gnZcGJmT4
And his best one. Now off we go!
: Get a hold of your emotions! Power gained by going Hyper is just your Aura running out of control!
: A negative Aura Power is incapable of changing anything! It can only destroy!
: No! This power is also fruit of the Wings of Rean’s guidance! And it can change things… I’ll start by changing you into scrap!
: Then, the best we can do for you is slay the delusion in your soul!
Shou attacking: “I will not kill another man! What I’ll kill is that delusion!”
: I can hear the tunes of your heart… It’s hurting! It’s in tears!
: And you’ll hurt not just yourself but everyone around you if you never let go of that sorrow and pain!
: I do not need mental advice from an animatronic! And so long as I can be true to my ideals, I shall fear no pain!
: Is power such as this the future you envisioned for yourself, King Sakomizu?!
: A man who is bound by his past, who would harm his own people, is wholly incapable of leading the way to any future whatsoever!
: What the people pray for is not a raging flame, but a guiding light!
: Then muster your justice, your ideals, your courage, and try to stop my march, ye idealists of the Three Kingdoms!
Cao Cao attacking: “Your ideals could never soothe the people, Sakomizu!”
: Our sacrifices brought about this despicable society! It falls on me to tear it all down and restore it to how it should be!
: If you really want to transform society for the better, then you need to let go of your hate!
: Hate and anger bring about only destruction. There’ll be nothing left after you’re finished…!
: Hah, all those times we fought this guy, I never figured he had a trick like this up his sleeve!
: Looks like it was just as much of a surprise for him, too. I don’t know how this power came about… but I hope it’ll make for a good match!
: You bite off more than you can chew! If you seek to enjoy yourselves fighting my Oukaou, then you’d best attack with all that you have – or else death is what you’ll find!
: You’ve felt the will of the Wings of Rean – the light of life – haven’t you?! Then why do you refuse to believe in the possibilities that life has?!
: Life and death are two sides of the same coin. For all the life I felt, I’ve felt just as much despair…! The world is nowhere as kind as you believe!
: Maybe not… but this is the world we live in, so we want to believe it can be so much more!
: King Sakomizu, that power is too much for anyone to control… all it’ll do is narrow your vision!
: That matters not, for my eyes are set on but a single thing! My vision may narrow as much as it wants, that will not make me err on the path I follow!
Burn attacking: “I’ll show you that going Hyper does not make you the mightiest!”
: We fought for what we believed was a righteous war, and it cost us everything… How could anyone not turn to hate after that?!
: But there’s absolutely no point in carrying on with a war purely out of hatred!
: You, of all people, should know that by now!
: You still don’t get it, King Sakomizu?! Stop this insanity already!
: I doubt you would still be calling it “insanity” if you tasted despair and hate strong enough to turn your heart to ash!
: Is that your way of saying “just shut up, and let me do my thing”? Because I’m not taking that!
: If you called yourself King of a whole nation for even a second, then you really should act the part! This is not doing that!
: It’s the grief I feel for my motherland that brought me to this point!
: I do not expect you to understand, but this is as per the guidance of the Wings of Rean!
: Pointless fighting is not the way to heal anyone’s pain and sorrow!
: Come on, Heroman! We’ll stop him together!
: Hmmm!
: Age has not made me senile enough that I’d be won over by a child wielding a weapon of my enemies! I’ll tear those stars and stripes that adorn your body apart!
: You’re so obsessed with your hate that you’d debase yourself so?!
: Why, father?! The King who built Hojo should be strong enough not to be enslaved by self-serving aspirations!
: That may be so for King Sakomizu, but you know nothing of how the man called Shinjiro Sakomizu ought to be!
: His machine’s turned giant… I guess that goes to show how strong the emotions in him really are…
: But the problem is there’s only anger and sadness at their root… It’s complicated, that’s for sure…!
: If you ask me, he’s just desperate to fill the gaping wound inside his heart!
: What he’s trying to do won’t fill it at all, though!
: And you’re going to see that the easy way or the hard way, Shinjiro Sakomizu!
: Well spoken! Let your savage roar ring throughout me…!
: As King, I grieve for the folly that has taken hold of my motherland! It must be restored, and the only way for that to happen is for the slate to be wiped clean, for all the missteps to be erased!
: No one here ever asked you to do any of that garbage! And if you’re a real king, then you oughta be fighting so that everyone can be happy – and not just folks from your country, but those of the whole planet and even beyond!
: Stand down, Amalgan! Any who stands in my way now is but a minnow I’ll slay with a single stroke of my blade!
: I will not yield, Sakomizu! You may burn this old man to ashes, but I’ll be sure to at least free you from the bondage of this hate!
Amalgan attacking: “Have you truly degenerated into a Garow Ran, Sakomizu?!”
: They razed everything to the ground with nary a warning! And when you’re faced with something you cannot coexist with, you destroy them before they destroy you!
: What happened was horrible, but we must keep trying to understand one another – as many times as it takes for it to happen! That’s the real battle humanity should be having!
: And as difficult as doing that might be, I know we’ll succeed in time!
: We were shown our tragic history so we could find a way forward that wouldn’t have us repeating those tragedies!
: Don’t you think that’s why the Wings of Rean whisked us away?!
: Come what may, I need to see my cause through! Even if I must bear my blade against my family, I shall not falter!
: Do you think Lux actually wants to be fighting against you?!
: She just wants you to go back to being her father!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=845sZtioZ4w
He drops another Takashimada Origami Doll.
: Gwaaaaargh!
: Enough of this, father! Please!
: Power… GRANT ME POWER!
: Aaaaiieeee!
: Father, why…
: Lux…
: My father is lost…
: His mind is gone… my voice cannot even reach him…
: …
: Lux, there’s no way King Sakomizu has forgotten about you…
: Aesap…
: Ever since I met him, he’s never taken his eyes off you. And that hasn’t changed now.
: Even as you took opposing sides, neither pushed the other away. You always faced each other head-on.
: My father and I…?
: I know… because I was always too afraid to do the same with my dad.
: “He’s not even Japanese; my mother shouldn’t be married to this guy”… I spent so much time fixated on unimportant details, even when I knew that, deep down, I wanted to accept him!
: But I thought if I just convinced myself that I didn’t care about him, then there’d be no way for me to get hurt…
: Aesap…
: But you’re different from me. So, don’t stop having faith in King Sakomizu!
: Alright, that’s enough of that!
: Rouri and Kanamoto?!
: Hey, King, check this out! We just gotta fire up this bad boy and these goons’ll be off our hair!
: Ooh, you have a nuclear weapon?!
: A-A nuke?!
: Don’t be stupid, Rouri!
Aesap tries going after but Kanamoto intercepts.
: Back off, Aesap! Leave him alone!
: Outta my way, Kanamoto! That’s a nuke, you understand that?!
: Why are you stopping us…?!
: Weren’t you discriminated against yourself?!
: Aargh!
: Aesap!
: (Is the Overworld life’s playground…?)
: Lady Jacoba…?!
: (Erebos, I need you to act as a medium for my power.)
: (Concentrate, Erebos! And pray! Show them the shape of life!)
: Y-Yes…!
: The nuke…!
Sakomizu blasts after Rouri!
: Whoa! Wh-What’re you doing?!
: Hand it over… Give me the power of that bomb!
: DON’T DO IT!
: U-Urgh…! A-Aesap, you son of a…!
: B-But… you’re too late! I’ve already… pressed the detonator…!
: ROURI!
: A Tokyo stained by American colonization is better off gone!
: Father!!
Lux goes after him.
: Please, you have to listen! Listen to my… listen to all our voices!
: You stopped the atomic bomb meant for Kokura after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, didn’t you?!
: How can you even consider doing something like this…?!
: None of you know anything of war! What would you know about what it means to possess power?!
: We don’t, I’ll admit it!
: But even if the quagmire at the end of that war could make anyone lose sight of their humanity, you can’t let your militaristic ideology deafen you to your own daughter’s cries!
: What’s that flying out of the Nanajin…?!
: Light… no, it’s a bunch of feathers…? There’re so many…!
: Lady Jacoba?!
: (Send the letters of our lives… to King Sakomizu!)
: …
: Th-These… these origami dolls are…!
: The same Takashimada doll that I left in my Ohka…!
Tzeeeeeeep.
: I hear it… It’s the voices of all those women who loved the soldiers headed to war…
: Even now, the song of their souls are wandering…
: Yes… all these unforgettable, unfading emotions are gathering here!
: Memories of their lives… of days spend on their beautiful towns…
: These are Sakomizu’s… No, these are the memories of all those souls, passed down among the Japanese people…
: Open your ears, Sakomizu! Listen to the wishes imbued into these dolls – voices directed to you and all your fellow men!
: The wishes imbued into the dolls…
: …
Tzeeeeeep.
: …?!
: These dolls were given to soldiers as symbols of the sorrow and gratitude felt by the women who had no choice but to let you go on your kamikaze missions, weren’t they?!
: Aah… Aaaaaaah!
: Father!
: …
: I-I remember…
: “You were as a living saint…”
: Sh-She said…
: She said, with pity in her voice!
: King Sakomizu…!
: The ominous aura around the Oukaou’s vanished…
: (We did it, Tsubaki…)
Alarm!
: …! Guys, the nuke is starting to activate…!
: D-Damn it! Call all troops back to the Elshank!
: Are you nuts?! If we don’t do something, Tokyo’s gonna turn into a ghost town!
: Kouichi, can you use a compressed warp field to contain the explosion?!
: E-Even if I did that, the radiation would still…!
: Darling, isn’t there anything you can do-robo?!
: Tsk, if I just had Al with me, I could…!
: I’ll handle it!
: Aesap…!
: I’ll take the bomb with me up to the stratosphere!
: Stop! If you do that, the three of you’ll…!
: Lux, Erebos! We’re going back to Wahlerkahrain!
: Back to Lady Jacoba’s side…
: …
: Aesap… I’ll be with you every step of the way, wherever it might lead us…!
: STOP!!
: Aesap, the Wings of Rean are not with the Nanajin.
: ?!
: Aah! The Wings of Rean…!
: Sakomizu, are you…?!
: Father!
: …
: Lux, forgive me…
: F-Father…!
: If the Wings of Rean are that of a Holy Warrior… then protect my wishes!
Using webms here since what happens next is really psychedelic and pictures wouldn’t quite do it justice.
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”If one should ask you concerning the heart of a true Japanese…
…point to the wild cherry blossom glowing in the sun.”
: Th-The Holy Warrior’s feathers… they’re crumbling away…
Swooooosh!
: Hrrm…?! Wh-What is happening?!
: The Aura Road is opening…?!
: Radiation levels over the ocean are all within normal parameters. The won’t be any fallout from the explosion.
: I can’t believe he’d go and sacrifice himself like that…
: I suppose that, in his final moments, he recovered his heart as a Holy Warrior.
: And the Wings of Rean are a manifestation of a Holy Warrior’s power…
: (Sakomizu… Your soul has also ascended to the heavens…)
: Plus, the Aura Road opened, dragging all of the Hojo Army away. I guess that’s that matter taken care of.
: Oh, and speaking of, where are Aesap and the others?
: It appears our Aura Battler squadrons suffered a temporary loss of Aura Power. They were forced to make an emergency landing.
: Is that also due to the Wings of Rean?
: Perhaps. Not only did they block the nuclear explosion, they even caused the Aura Road to open, so it’s likely the Wings of Rean had to draw upon everyone’s Aura Power.
: Nothing’s working. I guess it’ll take a bit before the Nanajin can move again.
: It’ll be fine. So long as you’re alive, it’ll be up and about eventually.
: Right. Aura Power is the energy of life, after all!
: Yeah…
: Look! The sky’s covered with feathers!
: …
: Those are… the colors of my father’s life…
: Lux…
: Aesap…!
: You’re safe!
: Mom… dad?!
: Look at you…
: sob Thank goodness, you’re all right…
: Mom…
: But… what are you two even doing here?
: We were saved by this man.
: It’s been a while, hasn’t it?
: Mr. Hughes!
: The President had sent me into the area to investigate the Army of Mankind’s activities.
: Hazard’s group slipped away, but I’m satisfied that I could at least save Col. Alex.
: You saved me in more ways than one. Without your testimony, I would already be in chains and sent to court martial.
: You’re Aesap’s…
: His father, yes. My name’s Alex Suzuki.
: “Suzuki”…?
: …
: Does that mean you’ll be living with my mom, dad…?
: Yeah… And once things have calmed down around here, I’ll be applying for naturalization.
: I don’t want to spend any more time away from Toshiko.
: Dear…!
: I see…
: Thanks. I’ll let you off with just a single punch, after this is over.
: That’ll be fine…
: Aesap…
: (Yes… However this might go, I can’t push him away…)
: (I suppose I, Amalgan and the others will also have to return to Byston Well sooner or later.)
: (But until the time arrives… I want to stay with him, this budding Holy Warrior…)
: I see… Then, after routing the Hojo Army, the UX have moved to Tatsumiya?
: Right; it’s apparently so the Fafner pilots can focus on treating their progressing Assimilation.
: Very well. And may I ask why you’ve been sent to work with me?
: I petitioned The Advancers to set this up. I need your strength if I’m to uncover the underlying truth of this world.
: Oh, I’m afraid I am not powerful enough for that.
: All I am is someone trying to observe the beginning of life.
: “Beginning of life”…?
: You’re the top researcher of Aura Power, so I’d expect you at least have a faint idea of what I mean, no?
: …
: I’m aware that there’s a major, unseen, force surrounding this world and the two Byston Wells, yes.
: But the more I discover, the more I find myself haunted by questions. What is the origin of that force? Where is that force headed…?
: I need answers for those questions, and I simply couldn’t contain that curiosity. Thus, our goals align.
: …
: You do understand that once you cross this line, there will be no going back, yes?
: I’m fine with that.
: I’ll see this through, even if it means misplacing myself from the flow of natural order…
: Very well. Then, let me introduce you to my partners. These are Cpt. Jin Spencer and my daughter, Ayul.
: It’s a pleasure to meet you, Prof. Shot.
: We were told that you could enhance our machines?
: Hm. I believe I could increase their generated output by applying the technology used in Aura Converters.
: That said, your Aura Power’ll be essential for that to work…
: You’ll need to imbue your machines with your lives.
: Our lives…
: …
: (It really is the energy of life…)
: (And, if I’m right, what we’ll find beyond this is…)
: Do you hear that…? It’s the sound of the sea, of the wind…
: Isn’t it pretty? This is what everyone… what your daddy left us.
: There’s so much for you to learn, but don’t worry. I’ll tell you everything, bit by bit…
: Yeah, there’s a lot to tell… But nothing we can’t handle together, right…?
: …?!
: Am… Am I hallucinating…?
: I’ve kept my promise, Yumiko…
: Mi-Michio…!
: Michiooooo!
: I’m so happy for you, sis…
: Understood. The Fafner team members will all start undergoing treatment now.
: I suppose this means goodbye for a while…
: We promise we’ll come back as soon as our Assimilation is under control.
: We look forward to seeing you all back at 100%.
: You can count on it…!
: You two did wonderfully, Shouko, Canon.
: We’re home… m-mom…
: Yes, you are. Welcome back.
: Come on, Canon. Our home is waiting for us.
: Right!
: Do take good care of my master, please.
: Don’t worry. With all the data we found, I’m pretty confident he’ll make a full recovery.
: Are you really going to stay with the UX, Sheryl?
: Why, of course. If I ever need a refill of my medicine, I can just make a quick stop here.
: Frankly, I’d rather you stayed with ALVIS until you were fully healed…
: Oh, dear, but wasn’t it you who said you wouldn’t leave me alone?
: Aah?! Did you really say that, Alto?!
: U-Um… No, I…
: Psh… what a shameless man, I tell you.
: Hmhmm. While not quite on the same level as that degenerate, Kurou Daijuuji, he’s a very close second.
: Hey, why do you need to bring me into everything?!
: Then, Tsubaki’s…
: Yes… And she was magnificent. The island and every one of you were in her thoughts all the way through.
: I’ve little doubt that I heard her voice during the battle.
: I know she’s still here… as part our lives.
: Part of our lives, huh…?
: Back there, the Wings of Rean relayed all those thoughts and emotions to us…
: If the Yùxǐ and the Wings of Rean are manifestations of the will of the heavens, then…
: No… I believe that those are also fruit of the will of man.
: Of man…?
: Were that not the case, I don’t think they would unleash that much power in accordance to the wielder’s will.
: That’s true… Looking at it from another angle, it could be said that God, the heavens, are all manifestations of the prayers born from every one of us…
: Our prayers… Yeah, you might have a point.
: (The wishes of the fallen… and we, those who remained, have taken those wishes onto ourselves.)
: (There may yet come a day when we’ll join their souls in singing that wandering song.)
: (But, if anything, I pray that their souls are at peace…)
: (I pray for that with all my heart…)
Act 2 – Vagabond Blues – End
And we’ve got three new tactician bonuses, so here they are:
- Amalgan: spec debuff immunity
- Moritsugu: +30% crit rate
- Scarlet: starting morale +5
Next time we begin Act 3, the final 14 missions of the game! Are you hyped? I sure am!
: …! Soushi… is that you?
: Our hope has been crushed…
: … Kazuki. Hey, Kazuki! What’re you mumbling over there? (
: It really wouldn’t do for you to injure yourself working, though. If there’s anything, you better tell us right away. (
: Excuse me, Ms. Toumi! (
: Council activities are to take place here. That’s what we agreed on. (
: Ahaha… We’re sorry to always be imposing on you. (
: … (
: No, Kenji should be… (
: And here we are. There’s a step there, so be careful, Sakura.
: Hm… Thanks, Kenji.
: Good day, everyone. This is Isabelle Cronkite, coming to you live.
: It’s a pleasure to be here.
: Rina Nishio, Akira Nishio, Seri Tatekami and Hiroto Douma are all set to begin pilot training aboard the Fafners today. (
: And the units are prepped and ready to go? (
: Barring the “numberless”, all units up to the thirteenth can be deployed on your order. (
: Even the Mark Fünf? It was so damaged, I didn’t think it’d even move again… (
: I wanted to make it pristine again, regardless of how hard that’d be.
: You did good, Tamotsu (
: Here’s a biiiig boat! And here, a bigger boat, and a mountain! (
: Oh, wow, you’re so good at drawing, Miwa. What else can you make? (
: Now this is much more like it! There’s nothing stopping me from moving how I want when I’m in my Fafner!
: Heey, Mark Drei! Quit zipping around and come help with the training!
: (The Mark Dreizehn, a Fafner made for me…)
: Become one with your unit. Embrace your Altered Consciousness, the change in your psyche.
: Y-Yeah…!
: Y-Yes, ma’am!
: …
: No way…!
: Maintain your minds crossed and shoulder your pain and your fear as a team.
: Are you there…?
: …
: Relax, I’ll watch his back!
: …?!
: We’ll end him in one fell swoop, Saya. Ready the Hell Stringer!
: Been a long time, guys!
: We’ll handle this, Kazuki! Pull back!
: Hah! Is that all they’ve got to offer?!
: No, we’ve multiple signals on approach!
: Uwaaaaaaah!
: That’s the spirit of the Mobile Samurai, Goubine!
: The Festum…!
: Wh-What happened?!
: A boy…?
: My name is Misao Kurusu. I’ve come to speak to you humans.
: We’re just glad we made it here in time. What’s important is that everyone made it out in one piece.
: And, if I may ask, who was that boy from before?
: Huh… We thought the Army of Mankind’s nuclear strike had undone all our work towards enabling coexistence between us, but apparently not?
: I sure didn’t expect them to reach out to us, though…
: Hey, guys, dad… I’m home.
: Hey, now… you didn’t get turned into a Festum, did you…?!
: That sounds pretty good. Hiroto can be Goubine Z, and Mamoru can be Great Goubine.
: The names ain’t that important, dang it!
: I’m glad to see you well, my friends.
: Did your Assimilation trigger again?
: I think it’s a bit too soon to say. We need to hear what he has to say first…
: He wants us to fight against mankind and other Festum groups?!
: And he says that’s the way for humans and Festum to coexist?
: I presume we’d be in charge of making that happen, then?
: A Deus Ex Machina in every sense of the word.
: What’s that? Some type of new Machina?
: Hmph, are you looking to play the part of a devil of destruction? Because you can do that on your own, monkey.
: Whatchu say there?
: But I suppose that’s pretty much what the Celestial Being tried to do way back when.
: Assimilate? How come?
: Meaning that, were they to assimilate it, they’d have full control over all life on the island.
: Apparently the Black Lodge has shown itself again… as did Cthulhu.
: Let’s go, darling-robo! We’ll finish off the Black Lodge for good this time-robo!
: …
: The hearts of your former masters were never with you, even as you found yourselves in the thick of battle.
: But he’s different.
: Do you enjoy fighting that much?
: I must advise against taking your strength for granted.
: What’s going on?!
: Then, where can we find your Mir, Kurusu?
: Wait, don’t tell me that’s…!
: And had you not come into touch with similar phenomena before? Such as the Yùxǐ’s voice and the ELS’s thoughts?
: What do you mean?
: The Cao Cao we see now hardly resembles the “unscrupulous hero in chaotic times” described in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
: Sounds good. But, this time, make sure you stop when oddball masks start making sense, alright?
: MOUKO! JUUREPPAAAA!
: …!
: “People”…? Those monsters?!
: The beginning of life is also the beginning of death…
: Hmph… fool. How unfortunate that none of you realize what your lives are…
: You are a man who’s seized his future… And now my Hajingeki shall ascertain whether or not you are worthy face the will of the heavens!
: The hellish Shura mean to teach us the meaning of death? That’s got to be a joke!
: Aah! M-More Festum!
: The Festum are going after Lu Bu?!
: Boufuu… GEKIRETSUZAN!
: Liu Bei…
: Haaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
: The justice that resides within me!
: Ideals…!
: Courage…!
: Your end comes, Lu Bu!
: H-Hah, hahah… because I wished to…
: …
: W-Wait a minute! That’s starting to sound like…!
: I get it! It implies that we’re all dead!
: …
: …
: I never thought your father would leave us so quickly… You have my deepest condolences.
*
: …
: No, this request comes straight from the Federation Army’s GHQ, Joe.
: A friend of yours, Joe?
: We used to hang out a lot back then, playing and whatnot.
: Major Ronin, we’ve a situation! Our base’s lab is being attacked!
: Any friend of Joe’s is a friend of ours! We’re not about to leave you hanging!
: Let’s go, everyone!
: …!
: So, Doctor, how fares your project?
: Oh, it’s faring quite well, thanks to all the vital energy Cthulhu’s taken in.
: Excellent. Excellent, indeed. G’s powerful flesh should make for the perfect substitute for the C Priestess.
: Didn’t you get those G cells from the Army of Mankind, though?
: Hey, fivehead! That’s my prey you’re talking about!
: Heh, you can say that again.
: Red alert! Several Black Lodge mobile weapons are approaching Arkham City – fast!
: Hold on! We’re also detecting an intruder inside the base!
: No, it ain’t! These readings we’re getting are…!
: Winfield, the warrior. I have come to challenge you once more.
: Hurry up, now! You people better work those legs or you’ll end up a pile of steaming goo! Hyaahahaha!
: Mwahahahahahaha! My new and improved MR-1 is running just perfectly! Let’s tear this city apart!
: We won’t let you cause any more destruction!
: Didn’t he look a bit different before?
: Winfield will dispatch the Anticross within the base!
: Hmmmm…!
: HAHAHA! Is this the best your science can do? Look at this balding buffoon! Look at him and laugh!
: What’re those things?!
: And you still call yourself a scientist?!
: Huh? It left?!
: R-Roger that…!
: P-Professor… we can’t take much more!
: Dr. Minami, frame damage’s past the 90% mark. Further combat’s impossible.
: All communication with the Hadou Command Center has stopped! They’re not answering us!
: It’s Al…!
: Have you forgotten, sinner? If so, we shall remind you!
: We draw forth the sword that smites Evil!
: Ooh, you’re so cute, I want to just eat you whole…
: Hmhmhm… Show me, Kurou, Al Azif…
: Maggots like you could never kill me!
: He isn’t dead even after all that punishment?!
: What is it, Kurou?!
: I don’t know if “vanished” is the right word…
: R’lyeeeh… Cthulhuuu… Ra… Ra…
: …
: And, Canaria, how’s Winfield doing?
: He’s being treated in the Quarter’s sick bay. His wounds are rather grave, but, given enough rest, he should make it.
: Wait, are you serious, Al?!
: What’re those coordinates? There’s nothing but water there…