[Nintendo Switch] even if TEMPEST — Crius Castlerock Let’s Play and Review

Warning: This will spoil every detail of Crius’ story. For a spoiler-free review, scroll down to the very end under the heading “Final Thoughts”.

Trigger Warnings: Abuse, suicide, dismemberment, cheating, gore, blood, parental abuse, forced violent sexual assault

Quick rundown of the prologue: even if TEMPEST begins with the heroine Anastasia following a Cinderella-type storyline. Her father remarries a woman who, along with her daughter, abuses Anastasia. Her father also participates in the abuse. She is locked in an attic from ages 10-18. She is freed by Prince Conrad, who wants to make her his queen. While training to be queen, she starts managing the kingdom’s finances and determines there are a lot of numbers that don’t match up. Prince Conrad doesn’t like that she noticed and she ends up killing herself. Then, she goes back in time to just before her maid dies and her own death. She tries to prevent it. However, this catches the notice of Tyril, who thinks she’s a witch. She’s given a trial where Conrad and her sister combine forces to twist her motives and words. She’s found to be a witch, she burns at the stake.

A witch named Rune says he can send her back in time after she dies using his powers. She decides to go back before she’s put in the attic all those years, saying she wants to become a nun. Instead, she joins a knight cadet academy and trains for those years to get her mind and body ready for revenge against Prince Conrad, exposing all his misdoings and evil plots.

This brings us to the present. You have the choice of doing Tyril or Crius first in the beginning. Crius is my second playthrough. Click here to read through my review of Tyril’s route.

Rune has sent us to the point just after we won the war games and chose to go down the path of knighthood.

Anastasia misinterprets this as Crius joining the Royal Guard, but in reality, he’s being promoted from vice-commander to grand commander.

At the ceremony to attain her knighthood, she sees the two princes. I admit, the first time we see Prince Conrad again in Tyril’s timeline has a much stronger impact and visual. But our girl still gets her word in.

They don’t even make it back to the barracks before the sky turns black. The Witch of Ruin is back.

Anastasia is cautious of the witch, but nothing happens. Crius isn’t a suspect in this timeline. Instead, Anastasia goes about her first day as a knight. She sees her Garuda, Huma, for the first time. It’s a beautiful, giant blue bird.

Crius gives her one week to earn Huma’s trust. Otherwise, she cannot be a Garuda knight.

After going back home to prepare, Maya, her maid, informs Anastasia that no one was killed last night and no one has been made suspect. The people think the darkened sky was a result of the weather, not the witch. Anastasia thinks it’s odd, but it’s small in the grand scheme of things. She has to get the bird to trust her and the witch takes second priority.

Time passes and she and Huma aren’t enemies, but she still hasn’t fulfilled Crius’ condition. She talks with him and he rescinds the condition, stating that he likes having her around.

I’m already not enjoying this, LOL. I don’t like it when character obstacles are *changes voice* “It’s super easy. Barely an inconvenience.”

Anastasia’s quest to get Huma to like her leads her to discover Huma is pregnant. Because she noticed this, she gets a bonus. Huma trusts her now that she was able to figure it out and help make her nesting more comfortable.

The witch still hasn’t been found, but everyone in the city is excited about a new Garuda being born. It only happens once every few decades and the birds are symbols of the Goddess, so it’s seen as the city being blessed.

The pacing on this opening arc is rather slow. Not to mention the only source of tension, the ticking clock of a week’s time, was brushed away with a single comment. Come on, Witch of Ruin, let’s get some action going!

After receiving her bonus, Anastasia decides to buy Maya a present. Who does she meet while shopping? Crius, of course! She asks him for help and he reveals the secret to make women happy:

I am so not vibing with this dude.

She chooses a gift but doesn’t tell us what it is, only that it’s high quality and will take several days to arrive. While going back home, she bumps into the former Grand Commander Kyle. Except, he’s acting odd. Anastasia asks him to stop by the barracks because everyone misses him.

Kyle explodes, saying that he was ousted from his position. He regrets trusting Crius and claims Crius manipulated things behind the scenes to see himself promoted and Kyle booted from the order.

He claims Crius is no better than a prostitute because he has affairs with multiple married women and blackmails them for money and presents. Even Anastasia’s acceptance into the order was because Crius wanted to have a connection with the Lynzel family to exploit.

She refuses to believe him. She owes a great deal to both men and can’t see Crius acting that way.

Then, right on cue, Anastasia sees her stepmother walking with Crius. They get into a vehicle and drive off together. Anastasia is left wondering if Kyle was telling the truth, after all. Before she can meditate on this some more, the sky turns black. The Witch is back.

Back at home, Anastasia still can’t stop thinking about what she saw.

She completely forgets about the Witch’s night. When she wakes up that morning, it’s a nightmare of a sight.

Tyril interrogates Anastasia about Maya’s connections to those around her and any possible suspects. However, there has not been a Membrum show up. Anastasia asks if there isn’t a Membrum at fault and if the person doing it is out of sheer cruelty. While Tyril agrees that he’s seen his share of gruesome murders, this particular case has a detail that proves it was a Membrum at fault. But since Anastasia is not connected or a suspect, she doesn’t need to know.

Back at her lonely home, Anastasia broods over the murder. She decides that she should take advantage of the rewind magic and go back to the time before Maya died to save her. Thus, she unalives herself.

That’s errr… I mean, I know it works and all, but if that’s an option, wouldn’t it be better to play the timeline out to the end and discover the killer or more clues? You’re rewinding time with the same amount of knowledge you had before: zero. What would you do? Same as Anastasia or wait until you know more?

Time rewinds back to just before the night Maya is murdered. Anastasia asks her to sleep with her that night. She creates blockades and stands watch while Maya sleeps. But soon, she falls asleep too. Thanks to Tyril’s route, we know that the Witch of Ruin casts sleeping magic on everyone except the Membrum on Carnival night.

What rouses her is the scent of blood.

Her bedroom is a horrific scene. Maya has been murdered in the same way as before. This time, however, there is a seal on the wall.

The barricade is still intact. No signs of it being moved. There’s something else that’s different.

Around Anastasia’s neck is a heavy crimson chain.

The mark of a Membrum.

She looks at Maya one last time and decides to try again. She unalives herself and goes back to the Carnival night.

Over and over and over again.

No matter what she does, she can’t save Maya from her horrific fate.

Rune finally stops her and warns her that she is approaching the breaking point. Maya’s death may be set in stone. The only way to save her now is to stop the Witch of Ruin. Curiously, he mentions that the Witch of Ruin killed all the other witches. The form that Anastasia sees is not his true form. Rune says she cannot use the rewind magic until her heart is healed. She asks how to do that and he says he doesn’t know… but we do as gamers! She has to fall in love, of course!

That morning, she wakes up to Maya’s lifeless form strewn about her bedroom. A crimson iron chain weighs upon her neck. She tells her neighbor to call the Inquisitors and waits for Tyril to arrive.

The Inquisitors think she did it. It’s a locked-room murder, after all. No signs of another entering. Tyril seems like he holds suspicions that she didn’t do it. He tells her that she can do whatever she wants because once midnight comes, the Witch’s magic will teleport her to the courthouse for the trial. Rather odd behavior from him. He’s much more kind than normal.

But, for the first time ever, there’s a knock on the door.

It’s Crius.

He embraces her. She sobs into his arms.

He helps convince her that she’s not the Membrum that murdered Maya. (side note: I just figured this out, but the suspects on trial are called Sacrificia and the guilty party is a Membrum. This vocabulary is so confusing to me…)

He’s going to assist her in discovering who the real Membrum is.

The suspects this time include Prince Lucien, Orla Lynzel (her evil stepsister), and Mael Diaz. Anastasia instantly recognizes Mael as the Witch of Ruin in disguise.

While visiting her sister, we discover that she’s been abused by Evelina for being chosen as a Sacrificia. Anastasia, being the noble-to-a-fault person that she is, decides that she’s going to advocate for her sister’s innocence at the trial. I have a feeling that’s going to backfire on our little heroine…

Personally, Orla’s my #1 suspect at the end of this conversation. She mentions that decorating is the highlight of her life and the way that Maya’s body was –errr– arrangedĀ  makes me think it’s Orla.

The other people you can investigate didn’t really have much of an impression worthy of comment IMO.

Just before the trial, Crius tries to help ease Anastasia’s worries. However, he begins coughing and hacking. Apparently, he’s battling a lifelong illness and the only ingredient he’s missing from the cure is a red Garuda feather. But red Garudas are the rarest beasts of all. That’s the reason why he became a Garuda knight, though now he genuinely loves caring for the birds. He wishes her luck and leaves.

There’s still another 30 minutes before the trial starts, so she goes to see Tyril at the Inquisitor’s office. But Lucien intercepts her. He gives her a warning that it’s not going to be easy to convince the masses of her innocence. The details of the case leaked out and no one trusts her word.

Anastasia says that Lucien’s truly changed from being a cowardly and meek child, but realizes that she’s referring to the first timeline Lucien, not the current one. But Lucien says something odd in response.

Very interesting! I wonder if he’s also bound by a witch or some sort of magic power? Does he also repeat timelines or have memories of previous ones?

Before Anastasia can question it, they’re whisked away to the circus-tent-turned-courtroom.

Tyril is again the facilitator for the trial. This time around, not sure if it’s because it’s my second playthrough, but the trial segment is more fun to play. During certain sessions, you can use skills you received from talking to people to perform actions during the trial.

Overall, this trial is a lot more fun than the one with Tyril. Perhaps it is because we’re a direct participant. And, perhaps it’s because I know Orla has to be the one that did it and I’m eager to give that little wench the just desserts she deserves!

The trial plays out in a tragic manner. Prince Lucien had to die for us to convict Orla. However, considering how easily he seems to put himself in danger or easily he accepts that he must perish, I can’t help but speculate if he knows about Rune and our continued timeline shenanigans.

I admit, her “snapped” face is amazing. The vocal performance at this point is also a delight.

While they did paint a horrible picture of abuse from Evelina in order to make Orla more sympathetic, it just doesn’t erase everything else she’s done in my eyes. With Lucien dead, the king is dying of grief. Looks like we’re going to face off against Prince Conrad again but there’s more urgent matters: our Garuda, Huma, is about to give birth!

Huma gives birth to a sparkling blue egg. Anastasia is disappointed because the eggshell shows the color of the bird and the only way Crius’ mysterious illness can be cured is by using a red feather.

But if red feathers are so rare… how does he know that it has to be a red one? Who gave him the recipe and how did they know it needs to be a red Garuda feather in particular, especially since it was mentioned earlier that Garudas are treated like sacred animals and there’s not much active knowledge about them or their anatomy (because it would be a sin to desecrate a symbol of the goddess by doing autopsies or dissections). Even the vet that sees the bird has a sense of “Welp, guess we’ll have to wing it” attitude.

I’m thinking too hard about this, aren’t I? He needs a red feather, let’s leave it at that.

Anastasia feels sad about this news, but suddenly Huma glows! Then her feathers turn red!

Why is it that every time that something happens that gives our characters a bit of a wrinkle in their plans, it’s quickly ironed over like nothing ever happened? Characters having to go through their worst nightmares is part of the fun of reading.

Well, now he has everything he needs for a cure and everything is rainbows.

Anastasia and him have a chat about mostly nothing important but she pays him a compliment and we get our first blush sprite!

It is rather cute to see the collected ones lose their cool for a second, no?

Outside of its cuteness, the scene it appears… not so much. And truthfully, I don’t feel attached to Crius. He hasn’t played a big part in the story so far. I do like that Anastasia fought the trial on her own but the lack of romance up to this point (and perhaps the blandness of the conversation it occurs in) lead this to be a cotton candy type of experience. Sweet, but gone in a blink.

…. I spoke too soon. Or did I just magic some good romance vibes to appear?

Crius asks her on a date and Anastasia has, as expected, the density of a neutron star.

This was voiced rather well, too, in fact! Ah, and I also just noticed if you leave the default name in, he’ll voice Anastasia’s name.

Anastasia muses about how she has been so focused on the Witch of Ruin and her revenge, that she hasn’t taken a chance to look at Crius as a man. She knows that after all this, she’ll rewind time again, but she wants to get to know Crius better before that has to happen.

That’s an interesting change from Tyril’s route. This realization makes me wonder if she’ll probably end up with erased memories like Tyril’s route. Well, let’s hope not! That was sad! hahaha

Anastasia has a dream about a boy with chestnut hair (hmmm… I wonder who that can be? ) and his older sister, a nun named Isabella. After a standard sort of cutesy sibling scene, we learn Isabella was murdered.

Anastasia doesn’t know if Rune or the Witch showed her that vision, but she’s going to go to the church and find out if Isabella is there. Maybe she can save her life. But before that… she has a date with Crius!

The people in the street are head over heels for the perfect couple. I don’t blame them.

Crius buys Anastasia a sweet roll and it makes her think of the dream she had where the boy gave his elder sister cookies. She asks Crius about his sisters and he gives a quick rundown. None of them became nuns.

But something’s bothering Crius. They’re on a date, but she’s wearing her knight uniform! She sheepishly says she doesn’t have any dresses to wear, so he decides to buy her one. The crowd doesn’t recognize them at first, but when someone starts to figure it out, they run away to somewhere secluded.

Now we get a second CG and a sweet romance scene to accompany it.

But just as you relish in the cute feels, Crius abruptly changes the subject to Evelina. He knows that Anastasia is dying to know why she’s seen them together.

He says… they shared the same illness: inability to feel pain, lack of smell and taste, and color blindness in later stages.

Okay, not exactly what I was thinking, but, uhh I guess? Blackmail, political maneuvers, money… something like that was my guess. Pleeeeeease don’t tell me that bitch is going to get a redemption arc too.

DON’T TELL ME THAT BITCH IS GOING TO GET A REDEMPTION ARC

I SWEAR I WILL TOSS MY SWITCH INTO THE DISHWASHER—-

Okay but also like, he was coughing before and that was supposed to be his illness… this isn’t really anything that would be respiratory in nature…. skjfdlajwsdf;l I’m sorry I will stop trying to overthink this story. It’s clearly not written for readers who like to look at the little details trying to parse together subtext. Or maybe it’s more noticeable when you’re tying together your thoughts in real-time as you’re playing the game. (Dual monitor setups FTW)

Anastasia says, “Orla and I never did anything to her, yet she tried to ignore her own feelings by taking her problems out on her own daughters. I’m enraged at her selfish, thoughtless actions, but I’m also deeply saddened when I think of what the grand commander has suffered through.” The gamer is presented with a choice, asking if Anger or Sorrow is the stronger emotion Anastasia is feeling right now.

Me, personally, is anger. I don’t want the woman who heartlessly tortured Anastasia and Orla to get a pass because she had a disease that is just a bulletpoint on a plot list currently, because it’s only come to light when it’s convenient to the plot and easily cured with a “miracle” of changing bird feather colors.

We’re supposed to pick sorrow, though, obviously. This is Crius’ route. Anastasia starts crying. Crius asks why, but she knows if she says that it’s out of pity for him he’ll think it trite, so she says nothing.

He says he has one more place to show her.

They go to the church.

ASDFGHJKLLLLLLLLL AND THE GAME SHOWS THE FLASHBACK CG OF TYRIL’S LAST MOMENT BEFORE HE POISONED HIMSELF

HOW DARE YOU GAME HOW DARE YOU PULL MY HEARTSTRINGS LIKE THIS

Anastasia, of course, doesn’t know what it meansĀ because her memories of him are gone how dare you do this to me game did you know I wasn’t vibing with Crius enough or what

She’s like, yeah, cool, that’s why you brought me here and he says

PFFFFFT WHAT

we have gone onĀ one date my dude.Ā one date.

You may have been crushing for 8 years — I’m not going to do the math on that one because I’m not going to like the answer — but come on. One date? ONE DATE? THE ONE DATE ISN’T EVEN OVER YET AND YOU–

Oh it’s a joke because that’s the type of character he is

well, that’s embarrassing

Good for him. Too soon for marriage. Yeap yeap.

He wanted to introduce her to someone but they’re not there, so he leaves to find them. Meanwhile, Hugo (one of the minor characters, a fellow Gardua cadet) sees her and goes to talk a bit. He apparently lives there because his father’s a cardinal.

She asks if Hugo knows that person and he’s shell-shocked. Good old Anastasia, dense as iridium. Hugo says Isabella died years ago.

Anastasia muses aloud about her murder and Hugo becomes confused and asks what murder.

My girl, you cannot just think those sorts of things aloud. But somehow she knows that the murderer was a cardinal now?

How?

“I just can’t come out and say a cardinal killed her. There are seven of them. I can’t assume Hugo’s father is the culprit.”

When did you learn that it was a cardinal?Ā In the dream scene, she names her killer, but the killer’s name was XXXXXX because Anastasia couldn’t hear it clearly. This is the first time I’m learning about it being someone in the church itself. The church is a public place, you know? We can’t just assume suspects wouldn’t walk in and do something to a nun there.

Thankfully, Crius returns to save us from the awkward situation. Hugo sees the commander and turns white as a sheet before bolting.

Weird.

Oh, maybe I’m looking too much into it, he probably assumes they’re on a date because she’s in a dress.

Crius asks what they were talking about and she mentions the murder. He says to leave the past in the past, but he’s curious how she heard about it. Hmm… was it covered up, in that case?

She says she saw it in a dream.

She really has no regard for her own life since she can rewind at will, can’t she?

My girl, they burnt you at a stake for saying something was a dream in the first timeline and you just blurt it outĀ in a church where theĀ inquisitor headquarters is and you don’t have the luxury of a Tyril crushing on you to keep you safe must be nice to rewind your life when you make fatal mistakes. must be nice.

Thankfully, unlike Tyril, Crius isn’t that sort of dude. He tells her not to mention that to anyone else. Thanks, bro. You’re a real one.

There’s a time skip where nothing special happens. Everyone is living happy and normal lives.

What happened to getting revenge on Conrad? You were so dead-set on becoming a knight so you’d have easy access to the castle and you could take down Conrad. He hasn’t been mentioned at all in the storyline so far. Where’s her drive?

While getting dinner, she runs into the Witch of Ruin again. He’s complaining that a seed of chaos he planted is refusing to sprout.

He tries to make her his slave, but Crius interrupts them.

They’re no match for the Witch. Then, behind him, appears a weird monster harlequin owl thing.

Then… the thing opens its mouth and eats the Witch’s chest

wut is going on here

The monster thenĀ eats the Witch

wut

WUT

WUUUUT

Crius draws his sword. The only way out of this is to fight.

Then, just as quickly as the monster appears, it disappears.

OH I remember now, that was the monster that kept killing you in the prologue!

Guess there’s two weird things going on here now. Interesting! I wonder if the next route will give us more clues about this third entity.

Poor Crius is shell-shocked from what just happened, so they go to a pub so he can grab a cold one. Crius goes to clean up and Anastasia does what she does best: thinking highly incriminating things aloud when she’s a celebrity of whom people would be very interested in knowing what her thoughts are.

And guess who heard her?

Zenn! Who I hope has more braincells than the three I’ve currently been entangled with!

He tells her not to go back in time because you can’t predict what the monster, Endy, will do and you can’t control it.

omg he knows she can go back in time yesss yesssssss things are getting spicy

They have a little tiff about going back in time and using Endy when he adds:

He knows about all the timelines.

NO, STOP THUMB DON’T MASH SKIP ALL TO GO STRAIGHT TO HIS ROUTE RESIST THE TEMPTATION

He’s so dreamy too Ah, okay, let’s get to the end of this so I can meet Mr. Mysterious Plot Device

He warns her one more time not to turn back time and leaves.

Anastasia is back home, determined to end her life and do another rewind. But she’s interrupted by news that Crius is missing.

is our rose knight going to save the bird knight?

The seven cardinals had a meeting last night and were brutally murdered during it. Crius is the main suspect. Anastasia tells him everything, changing Endy into a violent human because she finally realizes self-implication is a dumb idea.

Tryil refuses to tell her any details because she’s not a part of the case. So, let’s make ourselves a part of it!

Anastasia goes in with the only type of plan she can craft: brute force. She asks him questions and refuses to let him brush her.

A Garuda feather was found at the scene, a longsword was the weapon of choice, Hugo was at the crime scene too but only poisoned, Crius had been preparing documents to ensure the Garuda knights would be running smoothly after he leaves, and the nun murdered in that dream, Isabella, was Cruis’ older sister.

Armed with intel, Anastasia sets out to find the real killer. As she’s leaving, Tyril adds one thing: the cardinals were gathered because they think a Membrum still walks among us. Well, he adds one more thing:

I do adore this aspect of his personality.

One more for the road

Anyway, she also takes the feather, and thinking she can see the past now, decides to will a vision into the past to discover what really happened that night.

We see Hugo talking to Crius.

Hugo forced the Cardinals to admit what happened. They forced themselves on Isabella and as a result of the trauma, she took her own life. Crius says Isabella wouldn’t have wanted revenge.

That explains why in Tyril’s timeline Hugo said that he refused to follow in his father’s footsteps and joined the knights. I’m surprised he could still live there, though. Maybe it’s more difficult to find housing in this world.

Anyway, Crius does things to make it look like he did it and tells Hugo to get lost. Hugo, however, watches him do it and after Crius leaves, poisons himself.

She goes to the city and runs into one of the other Garuda knights, Landon. I haven’t mentioned him before because, well, he just faded out of the story after the introduction. This minor side character is about to become a major side character though, because…

He stabs Anastasia in the stomach.

He was in love with Maya and blames Anastasia for her death.

Just before he can stab her again, Crius appears and saves Anastasia. Except… he’s snapped a bit, and he keeps beating on a man who is down.

I mean, he did just stab Anastasia out of the blue… Keep it up a little bit longer, Mr. Grand Commander Garuda Knight Crius Castlerock!

Unfortunately, Anastasia is losing a lot of blood fast.

Her vision blurs.

She can only rasp out, “Crius”.

Her frustration evident, she lashes out at fate and her inability to conquer it.

But she’s not dead yet.

She’s in the woods, with Crius. He jokes that he tried to force a double suicide on her. (That’s not something you joke about…)

He reveals that the Witch of Ruin revealed itself to him. But he had no desires to speak of, so he couldn’t be turned into a Membrum.

But then, he started falling for Anastasia.

He kept putting his suicide off further and further… until a desire presented itself. And then, the Witch returned.

The Witch may have been killed by Endy, but he still won in the end. Even if she turns back time, there’s no way to stop the chain of events from happening.

Unless…

Crius says he loves her and disappears. Soon after, she succumbs to her wounds.

end of Crius’ route

To be honest, I feel neutral about his route. Sure, it likes to leapfrog to the next bullet point, but at least I don’t have the same sort of moral conflict I had with Tyril and perpetuating a horrible status quo.

I didn’t vibe with him as much as I did with Tyril, so I wasn’t entirely heartbroken by the ending. It suffers the same issue where so many things happen at once you can barely process them and how the story got to those points before you’ve hit the roadblock ending. Why was Landon gone most of the route? Why did Hugo commit mass murder, including patricide? I can understand Hugo being upset about learning the truth of what happened to Isabella, but the sort of madness that presented itself is more like the madness artificially created by the Membrum contract. The story established only one Membrum can exist at a time, so Cruis is the only Membrum active. Without that, you mean to tell me that good friends of Anastasia would both turn into crazed killers? Within one day of each other?

The vagueness of Crius’ illness is also something I have to nitpick. When we first see it, Crius is coughing. Then, when he lists out the symptoms, none are fatal. Yet, in the end, he went from implying that he would commit suicide to implying that the disease itself would kill him in a few months. You can’t predict when something will kill you, ya know? So if you’re putting it off for months, to me that sounds like it’s intentional. The whole red-feather-magic thing revolved around the cure. Why is that unnamed disease still a problem if the cure was made into such a big deal in the narrative?

This simultaneously felt too long because the pacing was all over the place and too short because nothing is fleshed out and the parts that didn’t need to be fleshed out were fleshed out. I can excuse the fluff scenes for the romance, like buying a dress. That’s just the sort of scene you always get with a rich older love interest. The twist of having Crius turn into a Membrum would be fantastic if it was properly foreshadowed. There’s plenty of good ideas here, just not executed well.

I wonder if the flashback scenes when you haven’t recovered your memories with Tyril are replaced with Crius when you do Tyril second. In that case, I wonder where they chose to put those moments. Though, I thought Rune erased the memories of Tyril entirely? Well, it won’t be the first time this game can’t get its facts straight.

Final Thoughts

In some aspects, Crius’ route is better than Tyril’s. The romantic scenes are definitely written to make the reader swoon over him and for the most part, they succeed. But the leaps of logic and several stark character turns don’t make sense. (Unless it’s explained in another route, in which case I will make a note.) The reader will constantly be jolted from one extreme to another and trying to puzzle out what happens makes the experience worse.

However, the route is light on romance until after the first half/trial and because it’s all crammed into the second half, the reader feels cheated of a complete arc. There’s no romantic tension. One of the main plot points is unresolved, so the best ending the reader can hope for in the most ideal scenario is bittersweet.

3/5 hearts

Stay tuned for part three, Zenn, coming soon!

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