We pick up with the boss Monster roaring, and Mokdai signals to Andrew to attack when they find a tiny opening to exploit. The thing is still stronger than expected as Andrew notes, but he signals to Flamier and Maculata to go next. Flamier says she’ll blast open a hole on the Monster’s body, which Maculata should use to pull Sui out. Maculata agrees to the plan, and Flamier proceeds to create a bomb that shines like an ether crystal before firing it at a bunch of monsters. The blast works as intended, and Maculata fires her strings out to drag Sui out from the one that ate her.
You call Sui’s retrieval a success, and Crowne runs to catch Sui as she gets pulled into the air. The Monster’s body regenerates the hole, and its enraged counterattack sends Mokdai and Andrew flying off. Maculata asks Crowne to look after Sui since the battle is still ongoing, which Crowne agrees to as she asks you guys to take care of the rest. There’s still plenty of the monsters around, and they frenzy like they’re trying to get Sui back.
Flamier volunteers to draw the monsters’ attention away as she asks how Mokdai and Andrew are holding up. Said two push themselves back up, mostly alright. Mokdai says he can still fight, and Andrew protests it’s too dangerous for Flamier to go alone, so he’ll take point in front. Maculata tells Crowne to take Sui and get away and waves them towards her direction. Sui however holds herself and shudders in silence, and you try to talk to her and ask if she’s okay.
When Sui finds her voice, she slowly gets back up and says ‘she’ is in there. Crowne is shocked when Sui runs off, asking where she’s going and grabbing her back. Sui demands Crowne let go and says she’s going to where her mother is, inside the Monster. You react in shock at that, and Sui throws a tantrum about wanting to be left alone because no one understands her, so she’ll just go back there where her mother is. Her rant is cut off when Crowne slaps her, and you react to that in surprise and/or silence.
Sui is surprised enough at being hit that she takes a moment to process what happened, so Crowne takes advantage to tell her to stop acting like a spoiled brat clinging to her mother’s shadow. Sui is right in that everyone else doesn’t understand how she feels, but that’s because they’re different people. There will be people who won’t even try to understand, but Crowne points out that everyone here is busting their backs out here to save her. They all care about her, even if she’s acting out. Crowne is about to say more when you yell that they’re in danger and run to push them out of the way. Seconds after you do so, monster tentacles swing at their earlier position.
Mokdai calls out to ask if you’re okay, and Andrew attacks the monsters in a fury over them going for defenseless people. Crowne prompts Sui to really look at the monster and ask if her mother really is in there. Was she really the sort of person who’d try to kill her? Sui admits she wasn’t, but she still clings to the idea of her mother still being there. You tell her that may be possible, but that monster here is not her.
Sui doesn’t say anything, and the monster starts trying to call to Sui again. Crowne hears the voice, and the Monster starts transforming to look like Sui’s mother. Maculata is offended at this course of action, and Flamier points out that it can’t complete its transformation in its current size so she wonder what it’s trying to do. Sui is shocked by the monster doing so, and it calls to her again as it shoots off tentacles at her. You tell them to run, but the tentacles are coming too fast for that so Crowne opts to bodyblock for Sui instead.
A bright light flares up behind Crowne as Kouki dramatically comes to the rescue and throws an energy frisbee at the incoming tentacle to stop it. Sirius follows up by charging at the frisbee and bites through the tentacle. Hitomi also runs in saying they’ve been searching for you and asking you, Sui, and Crowne to get behind her. You call out their names, and Maculata asks why the two kid heroes are here. Kouki points out it’s unlike her and Sui to miss out on a business meeting, so they came looking for them figuring they must have been caught up in something. Hitomi is glad you guys are alright, then asks who the two people fighting next to Mokdai are and why there are fireworks popping off.
Maculata answers that those two heroes are Andrew and Flamier, though she can’t go into detailed introductions at the moment. The fireworks are Flamier’s hobby as far as she can tell, and she warns Hitomi to not get burned by them. She does add that Andrew is a war android who’s a truck driver though. Hitomi protests that this is information overload and that there’s too much there to unpack for her to just casually drop that and move on. She does however accept that this isn’t the time to be asking for further details though.
Hitomi and Kouki ready themselves to fight, and Kouki declares he’s totally going to kick its butt defeat it in style while Sirius growls at the monster. Kouki says he saw how the thing tried turning itself into Sui’s mom and lure her over to it. He doesn’t know what its deal is, but he’s so offended at it toying with the heart of a child who’s lost their parent that he’s taking it down, even if it wasn’t his parent involved. You comment on how invested Kouki is in that, and you ask if something happened to him in that vein. Hitomi tells you Kouki’s father was eaten while his mother is missing. She thinks he understands how Sui feels and notes he sometimes looks really lonely. Maculata is surprised at Kouki blowing up like that and tells him it’s too dangerous to charge in like that, so Hitomi suggests they go too before the two run off.
Sui is concerned for Kouki, but at that moment one of the monster’s tentacles slips by Mokdai. Flamier yells for you and Sui to run, and you are too surprised to keep up with this. Crowne runs in to bodyblock for Sui, and the tentacle slams her aside. Crowne attempts to tell you two to run, but the tentacle slings forward and grabs the two of you in a flash. The constriction of the thing crushes into you a bit, enough to tear a part of your clothes away and exposes you to direct skin contact with the thing. When that happens, a vision of a fragmented and vague memory fills your head of a child that looks like Sui.
The vision passes quickly, and you ask if you saw one of Sui’s mom’s memories. When you look to Sui, she looks surprised, but that only holds for a moment before sadness overtakes her again. Mokdai intervenes and punches through the tentacle holding you and Sui, and you freak out upon entering free fall. Mokdai panics a little as he runs to catch you, and you end up landing on his body. The impact winds him a little, but Mokdai pulls himself together to ask if you’re okay. You say you are, thank Mokdai for saving you, or comment that his body became a cushion for you. B gets an extra line where Mokdai laughs it off and says it’s a given since you guys are friends. C has a different extra line where Mokdai is surprised at how his body shape came in handy.
Flamier asks if you two are okay and if Crowne can stand up. Crowne is feeling it a bit, but she says it’s just a scratch compared to what everyone else has been taking. Andrew yells that the tentacles are still coming at you guys, so if he, Mokdai, and Flamier don’t hurry it up things could go badly. Flamier agrees as she asks you to take command of her and Andrew. Crowne picks the camera back up and says it’s still working, and she asks you guys to take care of Sui. Mokdai readies himself again as he says it’s time to get everyone back, and the episode battle begins as Crowne tells Sui not to die before she lets her have it.
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