Part 76: Update LXXIII - Featuring: Humans, dragons, and everything in between

Update LXXIII - Featuring: Humans, dragons, and everything in between

Video: VS Chika and Rika
Music: Battlefield - The Hunter




Chika and Rika come in with just shy of 9K LF each, putting them a few thousand ahead of Hypnos' 13K combined.



Aiden is a bit awkward here, as TROYs can only hit one of them at a time, but he has a special job for this fight.





Kamaitachi is one of the biggest threats these two have, dealing 0.7x damage with a 30% chance of Death on the entire party. Suffice to say, I made sure to give everyone Death resist before coming in here.



Rika does not have Instant Death, thankfully. Her Zanmai instead deals 6 hits of 0.35x damage on random targets.



For Reasons, I need Rika to survive for a while, so all my damage is getting piled on Chika.



So, what's Aiden's EX skill?







Just a god damn satellite cannon, that's what!

Of course, this is VFD, so it goes right back to being stupid as hell the second you go time travel and the satellite follows you. 12,000 years in the past? 5,000 years in the future? That baby's gonna be right there for you to use.





...my hack.









As they demonstrated earlier, the twins can put out some serious hurt. Taking a moment for Trick Hand will help me patch up.





Petal Blizzard is their combo attack, and it's... a slightly stronger Zanmai.

Only slightly, at 0.5x for 6 hits compared to 0.35x for 6.



Another 7D1 callback here, the Leaf Maiden had a 1.25x weakness to all elemental damage, while the Cherry Maiden had a 0.75x resistance. Rika and Chika carry this over.

However, the devs botched it, as the flip side to this was that Leaf had a matching resistance to all physical damage, and vice-versa for Cherry. They forgot to carry that over for the twins, so now Chika's just flat out stronger than Rika.













Tsukikage is a free turn, as all it does is have an 80% chance to hit one person with a 0.5x accuracy Blind. The strange thing is that while both of them share the move, Chika's version has negative priority while Rika's doesn't.









Blizzard Omen is Petal Blizzard's telegraph skill. They weren't able to use it for the last one because of the 80% negate chance on Indra's Flames.











Aria in Team 2 lets me use Team 3's Support without slowing down Unison, which acts nicely as a Hit Harder tool.

Shame the only time I get to use it is when I'm using my worst team.















Now that people have stopped exploding, Aiden can get back to his job.





ffffffffffffffff





On one hand: Annoying.



On the other hand: It's turn 9.





I'm so desperate to make this work that I've resorted to throwing out blind hacks.







And since I'm not trying to instantly end the fight, Valerie and GEORGE! have to hold back.









And did you know you can block during Unison? It does absolutely nothing but you can do it.



Hey thanks for putting most of the damage on Opal.







I'm... sorry...

Chika! No!





Oh hey that finally went off.

It extends all those backrow buffs, I guess?



Eh, might as well.







The damage on it is decent, but no status riders, no natural way to buff her attack, and being attached to Duelist makes this the worst offensive EX.



Yes.



Killing one twin will make the other use Sange, a self buff that gives 2x ATK for 9 turns! It also has a 100% break chance so they should never get a chance to make use of it lol. They also start taking two actions a turn.

The survivor will also unlock a new unique move. Chika gets Yanagi, which has an 80% chance of inflicting Sleep on the party and a 40% chance of Skill Seal. Rika, meanwhile, gets Adabana, which has an 80% chance of Charm while still keeping Skill Seal. This makes exploiting Rika's elemental weakness early on in the fight a trap, as Sleep is far less annoying to deal with than Charm.



Finally.

See, while Chika and Rika have the usual spread of 0.25x to 0.5x ailment resists across the board, the devs thought they'd be cute and make Rika completely immune to sleep to reflect her workaholic nature and love of energy bars.

sleepmode.exe bypasses immunities.

I brought in my worst team and had an actual boss fight just to make Rika have a nap.



That is the entire joke.



Please laugh.

Edit: I'm an idiot and misread the charts. Chika's the one with Sleep immunity so I did all this for nothing.

Music: Finish Them Off


Music: None


Unit 13 is really strong...

You're right, Chika... I'm so relieved... Please, Unit 13... Tear our hearts out...





If you don't, you won't be able to use our Dragonslayer abil—



I won't kill you.



You dummy! How soft—hearted can you be...? You're so stupid... Unit 13...

~

I'll win without a Dragonslayer.

No...

You can't... Our desire is...

~~















Yuma, you have absolutely atrocious timing and-



-Yooooooooooooooooou got a little something on your face?







Music: If these Hands could Reach


This is... what... we want...





Why would you do this!?

It is because of your indecision. You will lose sight of your objective if you allow yourself to become clouded by emotion.

~

You look... different.

Does my appearance bother you? I shall be the 7th True Dragon. This is the future of humanity.

~~

Please try not to disappoint me before this has even begun.

Chika, Rika...! Let's get you down to the Infirmary right away!



Unit... 13... Please... defeat the dragons...! Take the hopes and dreams of humanity... with you into the new universe...

I'm glad... I got to work with you guys... Thank you...

I am so... happy... I met... everyone... Thank you... Unit 13...











And the final Dragonslayer is... two katanas, as another nail in the 'the plot was written under the assumption that you'd play as F!Samurai and no one else' coffin.

For bonus points, Chiru + Saku, the dual swords we got from Chika's date, use this exact weapon model with the glowy bits removed.

Next time: It gets worse.