W--What on earth happened!?
.................
The soldier watching me couldn't conceal his amazement of the sudden change in circumstances either.
I was, of course, plenty surprised too...
But... Now is my chance.
Just a bit more until my leg reaches the sword...
...nh!
I can reach it with my toes...
The propped-up sword fell towards me.
...!?
Keh! Don't you try to escape!
He tried to lifted me up by my shirt...
...!
I picked up the sword with my arm, now free.
Wha...!?
Haah!
My reflexive swing of the sword hit his abdomen precisely and tore it open.
Guh!?
Sorry... I should've held back a bit I guess...
H--How...
...The falling sword had a bit of the blade exposed from its scabbard, and I got it to make a cut in the rope.
~~
...............
Your wound isn't that deep. If you stay put, you should stay alive with some luck.
...I shouldn't be dawdling here now. See you later.
I checked the sword's feel in my hands once more, and rushed towards the ceremony.
*hisssss*
Ooo!
..................
What I saw was more like Hell.
Everywhere around me were fires about to ignite, and the adherents to the Order and Galiba's soldiers, their strengths now in balance, were fighting amongst themselves.
It's just a matter of time before the fires reach the scaffold...
Minvi... Tim Timaya!
When I tried to hurry towards the scaffold...
Jamrock!!
...!? Minardi...?
Jamrock!!
Minardi suddenly appeared out of nowhere and clung to me.
...Are you all right?
S--Sorry...
It's okay... But, how did you get...
Kalderina helped us... And then, I hurried here...
Oh...
...Ah!
Minardi suddenly lost her footing, and I caught her in my arms.
Ah... Er... I'm sorry...
I ... saw that you were safe... and then my legs went weak...
...I'm... all right now...
...Jamrock-san... This situation at hand...
!! Right, let's talk later. Right now we must save Minvi and Tim Timaya!
Ah, yes!
We can't really act with this many people... in this chaos...
It's time to choose our party. The lot landed on Pamela / Minardi / Shamirnarsa.
I'll save Minvi and Tim Timaya for sure!
Yes!
Just leave it to us!
Gotta do our best!
Let's settle this here and now!
Yeah!
We need to save Tim Timaya!
Show me some of your nice moves, Aniki!
All right! This'll be the end!
I started running towards the scaffold.
Free movement again. Some random encounters with both the Order and Galiba's guys.
Galiba's soldiers come in groups of four and five and look like this.
The arrangement they come in is mildly irritating but they're not a threat. Regular attacks are enough to deal with them.
They have 40 hit points, and their standard attack seems to be an area attack that deals 5-10 points of damage. The back row can shoot at us too.
How you get an area attack with a gun, I don't know.
Here we have a close-up of the scaffold. As you can see, there are two sets of stairs leading up to it.
Beneath it is the storehouse.
We tried to go right, but it was apparently very crowded that way so we had to try the left ladder.
Also, found the toga guy. Two, actually.
When we get closer to the left ladder, we are ambushed by this group of claw people.
Yes. Two hypnosis guys in the back. And they managed to get first strike, and put everyone except Jamrock to sleep.
Jamrock tries to battle the front-row mooks with his heartbeat attacks but it doesn't go too well.
Frankly, everyone in our extended party has better special attacks than Jamrock.
At turn 4, Jamrock has only managed to get one down. Luckily, the rest of our party mostly woke up just then.
Much better now. The rest of our party has special attacks that reach the back row, you see.
And we reach the ladder. Or stairs. Or whatever.
We just need to climb these stairs now...
*hissssssss*
...!
Suddenly, many claw people attacked us.
Kuh! This is not the right moment to waste time!
Jamrock! You go first! Leave these to us!
...! But...
You need to go, right!
...!
Right now, we need to get to Tim Timaya, as soon as possible. Please!
Don't worry about the rest!
...Thanks!
I started climbing the stairs right away...
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