Today was the release of a new event in Heaven Burns Red. The event itself was fantastic, about one of my favorite characters, Hisame, the loli genius swordswoman. It appears she had a traumatic past wherein she had to kill her own fellow disciples to graduate as the master of her sword arts. She refused to do so, but the other disciples had other plans and Hisame ended up the sole survivor anyway. Then she went on a killing spree against the masters who set up the death game and in the end she was the only person left in the entire dojo. On top of that a Cancer arrived. Only seraph weapons can defeat Cancers, so everyone in the village was doomed to die anyway, though ironically Hisame was scarier than a Cancer. In fact, Hisame spent an entire day wailing on the Cancer with her sword to the point that the Cancer grew too disturbed and confused and ran away.
Hisame's frustration is the Cancer ate her friends' corpses so she at least wanted to kill this Cancer. But deeper in her heart she really wanted to die by this Cancer's hands and join her friends -- except the Cancer is too afraid of her swordplay and always runs away when she approaches.
Hisame's trauma is solved when her new friends in the Seraph butai convince her that whatever happened in the past is past and now it's time for her to move forward. They also help her take down the Cancer by surrounding it and not letting it retreat anymore. For a while I thought maybe Hisame really would kill it with her normal physical sword, she's such an esteemed prodigy, maybe she could overturn all physics and logic. But no, she eventually gave up and used her seraph gun to kill it, so the laws of physics hold. For now.
The event also came with a new group of SS Memoria you could recruit. There was a special paid quartz event featuring the winners of the popularity poll -- which meant the best characters' best memorias were on a special sale offer. With a deal like that I simply couldn't miss it and forked over $45 for the right to roll randomly between the 7 girls on offer. I lucked out and got the two best options -- swimsuit Yuina and thunder Tama. They're both very beautiful, as expected of the winners of a popularity contest. Thunder Tama even contributes a new skill I can cast with Magical Girl Tama, so she properly aids my vanguard power party too. With swimsuit Yuina I can now field a full squadron of 6 swimsuit-clad girls.
At the same time, you can use your free quartz (quartz you get from playing the game instead of paying Yostar money) to try and recruit a new Hisame in pajamas. Obviously I also want that, but I failed all my rolls and she still eludes me. That's why I'm still not satisfied with the results.
Hisame is growing in importance daily because I found the latest score challenge couldn't be beaten with Karen. It only worked when I added Hisame to my power party instead. The latest score challenge is pretty crazy, though. I had to beat another Orb Boss III to get another thunder bane orb just to stand a chance against the score challenge boss. With that tactic I was able to score 262,000 points and get most of the high score rewards, but by no means all of them. There are still rewards climbing all the way up to 400,000. It took heroic efforts -- I must have tried a dozen times, to get 262k, so there's no way I can get any higher. This game continuously reminds me that no matter how much time and money I invest into it I'm still not doing enough.
It's pretty shameful that Hisame with a level 1 limit break is stronger than Karen with a level 2 limit break and an eternal daphne, but what can I say. They made Hisame's Munechika ability so broken that it defies the laws of physics, much like how she's going to be the first person to defeat a Cancer with a sword someday. All I can do is lean in to it and make use of the tools they give me.
Speaking of the popularity poll, the winners were the six main characters plus Yuina, Mari, Charlotta and Erika. I can agree with all those selections except for Yuki, who I hate because she bullies Tama. But I was especially happy to see Charlotta in the top ten. It appears the English speaking world loves Russian lolis as much as I do, despite all the bad press ginned up against Russia. The heart is wiser than the head.
The event also gave me some dungeon passes so I stocked up on some more powerful thunder and light rings. That was especially productive. I also got base Bungo's SS Memoria by free ticket, which I guess is worth something. Bungo is pretty much the last character I'd play willingly, but SS is SS.
Meanwhile I'm most of the way through Chisaki's route in Riddle Joker. Chisaki is Nanami's best friend and also incredibly beautiful, sort of like Sherria and Wendy. In fact Chisaki and Sherria share the same red hair with blue eyes combo, which is perfect. The only difference is Sherria has big breasts while Chisaki has small ones like a proper loli. But enough about how good looking Chisaki is. She's also a great girl -- friendly, bashful, wise, bold and indignant against evil. After seeing how she behaved around Nanami, Satoru, and the train molester she made it her life goal to catch, I quickly promoted her to my wonderful hall of fame. I kicked out Hazuki to make room, who is only good for her looks -- and at that point who cares because Chisaki is also better looking.
Between Heaven Burns Red and all these Yuzusoft visual novels I can't imagine a better life.
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