Tuxedo Megumi:

My main goal for Main Interlude II was to get Tuxedo Tama, but I also wanted Tuxedo Megumi almost as much.  Finally my free quartz rolls paid off and I secured Tuxedo Megumi as well.  With all of three days to spare.  This Megumi is dark element which is a great boon to my dark squad.  Previously I had Chiroru in my dark squad, but she didn't have an exclusive ability tied to the dark element, only a normal ability, so she didn't actually have much synergy with the rest of my dark squad.  Megumi's dark ability is fantastic -- 'One Hit Wonder,' it permanently reduces the enemy's dark defense before doing a powerful dark attack.  This is the type of ability dark squad needs to catch up with the likes of fire or thunder squad.

Megumi is also higher level than Chiroru (despite my giving Chiroru a limit break, which now turns out to have been a complete waste), so it works out in multiple ways.

I also beat Amon-Y, an Orb Boss III, at level 3 for the first time.  I did it the old-fashioned way and properly farmed Sparkgate bracelets by defeating Amon-Y's level 2 version over and over.  Once everyone was equipped with the item that exclusively exists to reduce Amon-Y's damage, I was able to pretty easily conquer level 3.  Of course it helped to have Yotsuha give everyone up to fire crit and fire damage against a boss vulnerable to fire.  The other Orb Boss III level 3's would be much harder to beat because I won't be able to beat them with such a dirty trick.  But I'm confident that if I got protective bracelets for the other bosses I could take them down too.  It would just take a lot of time and life points.

The new SAO Unital Ring volume is available for download, so I'll be delving into that next.

Rewrite Harvest Festa is slated for release on July 14th.  I'll finally get to see mai waifu Kotori's full story.  What a long wait it's been. . .