Xillia 2 : 5

[everdistant]

When the story starts moving, it really moves. Chapter 7 is an incredibly long clusterfuck @@

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[everdistant]

We shuffle up the mountainside behind the shrine while Mira continues to be a jerk and refuse to warm up to us and be friends. She does have a little soft spot for Elle though.

When we get to the peak, we can see Musee there at the edge and though some of her dialogue is cut off, she's clearly praying to the true Maxwell, saying she's finished her mission and asking to be let back into the Spirit World. Mira quietly says that Musee comes up here everyday, and Elle asks if Musee's talking to her and Mira's father, but Mira doesn't know. She says she'll go up first and distract Musee so Ludger can come up and do what he needs to.

Mira: ...Nee-san...?
Musee: ! What are-- I've told you over and over to never come up here!
Mira: But... why...? I'm just curious--
Musee: It's none of your business!! Get back to the village, now!
Mira: ...Why. Why are you always-- always like this now, Nee-san?!

She shoots a fireball at Musee and yells at Ludger to move now, while Musee is stunned by the fire. However, Musee quickly waves the fire away, and holds her head in her hands, muttering madly.

Musee: ...Humans. Humans again... Always with the humans! You've... You've betrayed me!!

She goes black with red eyes like Alt Julius and Alt Rowen, and as Mira gasps that she really is a monster, Musee shoots a spell at her. Between the current shock and being conditioned to abuse, Mira just screams and cowers, unable to move away. Elle screams for and runs to Mira while Leia yells for Elle and runs for her... but Ludger beats them all, going Corpse Shell mode and blocking the spell completely. Having completely lost it, Musee just screams and Ludger rushes her and starts a boss battle.

She is a hard bitch, due to only having Leia for healing and the fact that she can use Mystic Artes BT I eventually kick her ass though, and we see her kneeling on the ground with Mira coming to her and trying to help her up. Musee slaps her hands away and starts strangling Mira, and we get a timed choice to either save Mira, which raises Mira's affection, or kill Musee right there. I go with the first, and Musee leaps back just in time to avoid Ludger's spear and then starts wailing on him, knocking his spear out of his hand and him to the ground. Before anyone can do anything, Musee is impaled from behind by Ludger's spear thanks to Mira, but Musee isn't done yet and back hands Mira to the ground again and turns on her once more, except she's jerked back as Ludger rips his spear out of her before impaling her again-- this time with the Time Factor skewered on the end, just before Mira's face.

... That was very bloody and intense for Namco, man.

The Time Factor breaks, strangely leaving a gold shiny gear behind this time, and Musee starts to turn to black dust. Mira watches all this and reaches out for her fading sister before fainting as the world shatters, and just before it's destroyed, Elle throws herself over Mira, hugging her tightly.