Lingering Shadows

(Enter battle against Baryon ×1, Voidranger: Reaver ×2, Voidranger: Distorter ×1

(Interactive tutorial)

(After entering battle)

Himeko can launch follow-up attacks during battle.

Every time an ally inflicts Weakness Break, Himeko accumulates Charge.

(After reaching 3 stacks of Charge)

When Charge reaches 3 points, Himeko will automatically launch a follow-up attack.

(Approach the Repulsion Bridge)

▶ March 7th: The exit's over there... how do we get to it?

(On the path to the railway platform)

▶ March 7th: Aww yeah, it's the platform!

▶ Dan Heng: ...The Express isn't here.

▶ March 7th: It has to be nearby! Let me go take a peek with my sharp eyes.

 Tooltip for 18px|link=ⓘThis sequence is a cutscene  Sequence 01

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You raced with March 7th and the others toward the Astral Express platform. The Doomsday Beast chased after you and caught up, attacking your group at the supply zone platform.

(Upon approaching railway platform, cutscene begins)

Dan Heng: Wait, March!

Himeko: The Doomsday Beast...

Himeko: It's really here.

March 7th: Hey! Get down here!

Himeko: Careful everyone.

(Cutscene ends, enter battle against Doomsday Beast ×1)

 Tooltip for 18px|link=ⓘThis sequence is a cutscene  Sequence 02

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The Doomsday Beast unleashed a widespread attack, and you used your body as a shield to protect March 7th. While falling after absorbing the blow, you felt a powerful entity glance at you, causing the Stellaron in your chest to emit a blinding light. Right before you lost control and went into a Rampage, Welt appeared and gently touched your forehead with his cane to stabilize you.

(Cutscene begins)

Astral Express Crew: March!

???: I must leave now

Trailblazer: What happened...

???: You must see the end of your story.

Trailblazer: ...Who is that?

???: Reach the end of the story in your own way.

???: See

???: THEY have already noticed you.

March 7th: Mr. Yang! Is (he/she)...

Welt They're okay now

Welt Let's talk somewhere else.

(Cutscene ends)

Sequence 03

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After the Doomsday Beast fight, you woke up again. (March 7th/Dan Heng) had been waiting by your side and greeted you.

(After waking up)

▶ ▶ (Trailblazer): (Is this... the space station?)

(If playing as Caelus)

▶ March 7th: Hello there~

Sequence 04

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March 7th praised your performance during the battle and exchanged phone numbers with you. She also said Himeko had been waiting for you to wake up and look for her.

▶ March 7th: Not bad. It would've been even better if you didn't faint. But thanks to you, the Doomsday Beast was as tame as a kitten. It had no temper at all.

Did we win?

▶ March 7th: Yes, and you are the hero.

Even the Doomsday Beast is no match...

▶ March 7th: Alright, alright. I just gave you a compliment, don't let it go to your head. However, you are indeed the hero this time.

Who am I, where am I...

▶ March 7th: Er, you are kidding, right...?

▶ March 7th: Get up when you feel better. Himeko wants you to go find her. I have something to do, so I won't go with you, alright?

▶ March 7th: By the way, we should exchange beacons. If you get lost or something, feel free to text me.

You exchanged your cell phone number with March 7th.

▶ March 7th: Okay, off I go. Bye!

Messages
March 7th

March 7th

Hey there, this is March :D

Himeko wants to talk to you about something. Don't forget~

(Obtain Shadow of Destruction ×1)

(If playing as Stelle)

▶ Dan Heng: Hi.

Sequence 04

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Dan Heng was relieved that you were alright, mentioning that the Antimatter Legion threat was over, and exchanged phone numbers with you. He also said that Himeko was looking for you, and you should go to her when you're ready.

▶ Dan Heng: It's good that you've made it through in one piece. You can rest easy now that the threat from the Legion has been neutralized.

Did we win?

▶ Dan Heng: Well, this invasion seems to be nothing more than a random provocation. As soon as the Doomsday Beast fell, the Legion retreated.

Even the Doomsday Beast is no match...

▶ Dan Heng: You're not wrong, but be careful about blurting things out loud — it could attract unwanted attention.

Who am I, where am I...

▶ Dan Heng: Well, this is the Herta Space Station.

▶ Dan Heng: I guess I'll leave you to rest up a bit for the time being. By the way, what's your beacon address? That way if anything happens, I can contact you.

▶ Dan Heng: Go see Himeko when you have the time. She said she had something to discuss with you.

Messages
Dan Heng

Dan Heng

Hi. This is Dan Heng.

Remember to go find Himeko.

(Obtain Shadow of Destruction ×1)

(Interactive tutorial)

Open the Character menu and activate an Eidolon.

Enter the Eidolon screen

Select an activatable Eidolon

Activating Eidolons will enhance a character's abilities.

Activate the Eidolon.

(Unlock Mail)

Sequence 05

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You met up with Himeko and set up an appointment with the real leader of the space station, Herta. Herta met with you through a puppet she controlled, and said that the Stellaron in her collection had been sealed inside your body.

(Approach Himeko)

▶ Himeko: You're awake. I had March and Dan Heng stay by the Express to keep an eye on things.

▶ Himeko: It's almost time. She should be arriving any moment now.

▶ ???: I've only been gone, what? A few months? And the space station is already in this state?

▶ Himeko: Welcome back, Herta.

▶ Himeko: This is the true master of the space station — Genius Society number 83, Herta.

▶ Herta: At least give me a proper introduction! Genius Society number 83... Of all my outstanding achievements, that's what you want to mention?

Space station... Herta...?

▶ Herta: Yeah, up to speed yet? That place you all turned upside down? That's my property.

You're... a robot?

▶ Herta: What you're seeing here is one of my puppets. I'm using her to talk to you.

Heh, Genius Society...

▶ Herta: Alright, laugh it up. That old Zandar came up with the name. You think I like it?

▶ Herta: So this little twerp has the Stellaron now? Huh.

▶ Herta: Hmm, I'll have to take a good look.

Sequence 06

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Herta suggested using you for research and hoped you'd stay on the space station. Himeko, on the other hand, invited you to board the Astral Express but left the choice up to you. Go to the railway platform to look for Himeko once you've made up your mind.

▶ Herta: Hmm, truly amazing! I built a whole space station just to contain this unactivated Stellaron and keep The Blue from disaster...

▶ Herta: Yet someone was able to achieve that with this little twerp's body. How did they do it?

▶ ▶ Himeko: Moreover, the Stellaron is still very stable in (Trailblazer)'s body.

▶ Herta: You're right. This little one's body truly is strange...

Don't call me "little one."

▶ Herta: Hah! Compared to me, you are. How old are you even?

▶ ▶ Himeko: Don't judge a book by its cover, Herta. Case in point, that puppet body of yours is actually much smaller than (Trailblazer).

▶ Herta: That's... beside the point. Hey is this one the same kind as that March 7th? If that were true...

My name is (Trailblazer).

▶ ▶ Herta: Alright, (Trailblazer). I got it. But I'm still gonna call you little twerp. The space in my brain is too valuable to store peoples' names.

▶ Himeko: Oh! Well, thanks for remembering my name then.

▶ Herta: That's different. We have business with each other. Umm, what was your name again?

▶ Herta: Forget it, let's focus on the one who can store a Stellaron in their body...

Must you two discuss this right in front of me?

▶ Herta: You can leave. I'm discussing science with what's her face... Himeko? Science exists in objectivity, there's nothing to be secretive about.

▶ Herta: But as far as you're concerned, I think it would be better for you to listen in. After all, I have a lot of plans ahead involving you. Speaking of which, Himeko...

▶ ▶ Herta: Can I bring (him/her) in for some research?

▶ ▶ Himeko: That's not up to me to decide. You can ask (Trailblazer) yourself...

No way!

▶ Herta: This little twerp really has a temper. Don't worry, I won't hurt a hair on your head. With my skills, even surgery would be painless!

▶ Herta: Aren't you worried about that bomb inside of you? Let me help you while I'm still interested. Once I'm not, I won't do any studies even if you beg me.

Study what?

▶ Herta: Study you of course. Your body contains a Stellaron, which, in some sense, is no different than storing a bomb. Who knows what might happen? Maybe it'll blow you to bits someday.

▶ Herta: You should be grateful that this genius is willing to help you out. I still have some interest now, but once that's gone, I'm not studying you even if you beg me.

What's your price?

▶ Herta: This little twerp's pretty financially motivated. I like it.

▶ Himeko: Alright, give the poor child a break, Herta.

▶ Herta: I'm very interested now, so there's almost nothing I won't accommodate. A Stellaron in your body, how interesting is that! Be grateful that I'm offering to help you out. This is a service even the IPC can't buy.

▶ ▶ Himeko: You understand now, (Trailblazer)? Herta wants you to stay in her space station.

▶ Herta: Well, I'm going to have to modify your wording here: This little twerp can only stay temporarily until the research is done. Or maybe I'll lose interest halfway through and they can just beat it.

▶ Himeko: And after that?

▶ Herta: Not my problem.

▶ ▶ Himeko: (Trailblazer)... You also have another option — the Astral Express. If you want, you can leave with us.

▶ Himeko: The Express has its fair share of experiences with Stellarons. The thing you're worried about, and the answers we're looking for are one and the same. Besides...

▶ Himeko: We can come back any time to let Herta conduct her research. She's absolutely fascinated now.

▶ Herta: Hm, works for me, keeps this subject fresh, too. And that way I won't need to keep worrying about this little twerp all the time. Perfect!

Get on the Express, or stay behind...

▶ Herta: My advice would be to get on. You're not doing me that big of a favor by staying anyway.

You really are the most self-centered person I've ever met.

▶ Herta: You should meet the others of the Genius Society. Some of them will trick you into thanking them after they milk you dry. At least I have my honesty going for me.

I'll think about Himeko's offer...

▶ Herta: Yes, give it some good thought.

▶ Herta: Just remember to come back often. Make an appointment in advance with Asta or Arlan so I can make time to study you.

▶ ▶ Himeko: There's no need to rush into this, Herta. Asta's in the master control zone. Let's let (Trailblazer) have a talk with Asta first and decide for (himself/herself).

▶ ▶ Himeko: (Trailblazer), I'll be waiting for you on the platform. It's no hurry if you still have things to do or someone to see.

▶ Himeko: Come find me when you've made your decision.

Messages
Herta

Herta

Hey, (Trailblazer), it's Herta. I need you for something good

Come to my office quickly! I'm waiting!

(Trailblazer)

?

But you're right next to me

(Trailblazer)

But you're right next to me

Can't you just tell me

(Trailblazer)

Can't you just tell me

Herta

[Automatic reply] Hi, I'm currently unavailable, and I won't be contacting you later

(Trailblazer)

???

( Himeko has left the team)

(Interactive tutorial)

Open the Team Setup menu to adjust your team composition.

Add a character to the team

Talk to Herta

Trivia

• In the cutscene where the Trailblazer draws Nanook's gaze, images from future Trailblaze Missions, including Not Good With Farewells and Roads to the Past Have Long Been Closed, can be seen.
• Herta's proposed name "Metaverse" for the Simulated Universe is a reference to the Metaverse trend.
• When speaking to Herta, the Trailblazer can respond with "42." This is "the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything" from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

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Trailblaze Missions   Prelude Today Is Yesterday's Tomorrow Chaos In the Deep Eye of the Storm A Moment of Peace Lingering Shadows Simulated Universe: First Closed Beta The Voyage Continues Drifting Between the Stars   Act I In the Withering Wintry Night A Grand Cool Adventure Travelers on a Winter Night Everwinter Night You Can Run, But You Can't Hide Hide-and-Seek The Eighth and Final Rule Long Wait for the Blade's Edge Ones Fallen Into the Abyss A Sunset Rendezvous The Past Will Return as an Avalanche Lying in Rust To Rot or to Burn Not Good With Farewells In the Sweltering Morning Sun Cleanse in the Darkness Outside Unattainable Idol Young Guard Soldiers Stay Silent The Stars Are Cold Toys Roads to the Past Have Long Been Closed The Dawn Here... The Return In the Dangerous Muddy Swamp No Time for Me, My Friend Silent Galaxy   Act II Windswept Wanderlust An Invitation Without Proffer Amidst the Mara-Struck Devising Stratagems Scattered Memories of Hooded Past The Hound Chases the Fox Stars Spun, Prescience Sprung New Friends Bring New Joy Omniscient Inquiry of Arcana Wood Sprouts Anew, Fate Tilts Askew Tranquil Amidst Turmoil Humming Antlers, Entwined Horns Topclouded Towerthrust Desolate Depths of Despair Dragon Mislay, Dreams Astray Oblation Obtained, Order Ordained A Dragon Gallant, Its Ocean Distant Demise of Immortality, Finale of Calamity Karmic Clouds Faded, War Banners Folded Obsequies Performed, A Long Road Ahead   Act III The Sound and the Fury Long Day's Journey Into Night The Knocking at Ungodly Hours The Youths Who Chase Dreams Sleepless Night Tales from the Golden Age Good Omen, My Friend Lullaby of the North Wind Gentleness, the Name of Nocturne Through a Glass Darkly Should One Awaken at Midnight Whodunit Cat Among Pigeons The Devil in Velvet Lost Generation Double Indemnity When the Sacred Ginmill Closes Heaven is a Place on Earth Why Do the Heathen Rage? The Tell-Tale Heart All the Sad Tales A Walk Among the Tombstones In Our Time The Great Train Robbery The Fool Always Rings Twice Small Town Grotesque The Public Enemy Bullet & Brain The Only Path to Tomorrow Seabiscuit Beauty and Destruction Then Wake to Weep Everything that Rises Must Converge The Sun Also Rises And on the Eighth Day Farewell, Penacony Unconquered All About Eve Rivers Run Without Return Life is But a Drifting Dream Soldier's Pay A Thousand Bells at Dawn Stranger in a Strange Land A New Venture on the Eighth Dawn All Who Wakes The Departed Will Return First A Misfortune of Survivors Reality is But Dream's Echo Sound of Farewell Hums Reunion Bow Out At Moment of Début A New Venture on the Eighth Dawn Memories are the Prelude to Dreams Another One, Same One Nonexistent Iron Cavalry The Gala of Crossed Destinies The Dream Split in Two The Moment Before My Death Omen in the Trees Every Dawn of the World That Which Shall Be   Act IV Heroic Saga of Flame-Chase Silver Chariot, Away to that Blackened Land Distant Travelers, Listen to this World's Prayer Night Stars, Accompany My Slumber Wasteland, Hark Back Glory of Old Night Veil, Shroud the Silent Past Kremnos, Cleanse Thy Rusted Blood (I) A Cleansing of Gold Kremnos, Cleanse Thy Rusted Blood (II) A Witch's Scientific Repose Hero, Bear Thy Coreflame Light Slips the Gate, Shadow Greets the Throne Strife, Dispel the Accompanying Fears Glory, Turn From Imbibed Poison Grove, Wherefore Are the Wise Silent Lamentations, Bring Not Empty Tears Memories, Veiled in Blazing Mist Passages, Knocking Echoes in Dreams Nemesis, Scorched by Golden Blood Throne, End Those Long Years Forlorn Passage, Reveal the Past Once More Through the Petals in the Land of Repose Spindle, Laboring to Weave the Tapestry of Time Olive, Cast to the Conference Chair Papyrus, Read the Blasphemer's Will Debate, Discourse Without Spears Broken Dream, Enlighten From the Beyond Pathstrider, Set Sail Upon the River of Souls Death, Dripping Like Morning Dew Ferryman, Ferry Me Across the Stream of Souls Sea of Flowers, Adored Only by Death Citizen, Listen to Those Roaring Tides Scholar, Let Us Meet Again Before the Gates of Truth Homeward Journey, Never Look Back Upon the Path Whence You Came Witch's Mirrored Reversal The Fall at Dawn's Rise Stars, Cleanse the Troubled Thoughts Scrolls, Turn the Blade's Gaze Chest, Bear the Bygone Dust Golden Thread, Relay the Savior's Fate Grove, Judge the Past and Present Poet, Speak of the Sky Through Me (I) Poet, Speak of the Sky Through Me (II) Slate, Why Neglect That Light's Shade Dawn, Shine at the World's End For the Sun is Set to Die Hero, Honor That Crimson Call Mother, Parted by the Turning of Seasons Hero, Return to That Peace of Home Hero, Shatter That Woeful Effigy Hero, Ignite That Primal Sun Hero, Sing That Anthem of Creation Before Their Deaths Time, Ferry Me Through Ages Sun, Repel Stars and Pale Moon Wanderer, Decipher the Waxen Imprints Zephyr, Uplift Bygone Dust Cloudsward Nectar, Saturate the Hollow Treecore Sea, Bury the Wine-Dark Dreams Captives, Behold the Expanse Beyond Light Back to Earth in Evernight Night, Coming Before Dawn Breaks Homecoming, Within Sight Yet Beyond Grasp Traveler, Find Truth Beyond the Illusion Memokeeper, Backtrack the Destiny's Current Blazing Sun, Illuminate the Path for the Lost Earth, Bear the Suffering of All Great Tomb, Hide the Secrets of Incarnations Reunion, Promise of Tears and Smiles Gods, Sound the Anthem of Creation As Tomorrow Became Yesterday Dawn, Caress the Distant Lands Once More Traverse Stars and Stride Cosmos The Witch's Ardent Research Hero, Return to Dawn in Mortality Pages, Ripples That Engrave Memories Silver Chariot, Part With That Humanity's Epic Fallen Petals, Leave Fading Traces of Fragrance Tale, End Upon The First Encounter   Act V Welcome to Arcadia Phantasmoon, the Merciful Queen Topological Structure of an Imagenated City Artwork in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Fundamentals of Imagenesis Killers Don't Get Vacations Symbolic Exchange and Detection Here's Your Fifteen Minutes of Fame Medical Disputes on the Ship of Fools The Discreet Charm of a Streamer Girl The Indifference of Those Who Yet Live Unraveled for Daybreak Portrait of a Middle-Aged Artist Society of the Spectacle and Its Enemies Confessions of a Righteous Sinner The Bum's as Holy as the Seraphim Simulacra and Simulation, or Even the Just Echoes from a Sombre Empire Real Holy Laughter! So Laughed the Masses Philosophy of the Tourist In the Shadow of the Millennium A Superhero Caught in a Moral Dilemma If We Spoke in Laughter Howls, White Noise, or What You Feel A Resounding Gong or a Clashing Cymbal Mass Deaths and Detective Fiction Postmodern Imagenesis Metaphors We Live By Serotonin Exposure Phobia The Generative Grammar of Liquid Modernity Happiness, or a Fatal Ailment Arcadia Revisited The Lethe Below the Living Illusion of the End Living Sacrifice for Gods and Mortals Arcadia of Mystery and Terror Best Farewell to the World Primeval and Other Times Yesterday's World Non-Existent State In Ravages Does the Whistle Sound How I Met Your Father To Be or Not to Be The Comedy of Errors Every Arcadian Corner All At Once Limelight To Roll the Stars in Astropolis Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? World Hunger Theater Regarding the Pain of Others The Conspiracy of Art, The Flesh of Images Identity and Resistance, Play and the Police Mythological Philosophy and Fair Game   Universal Equilibrium Trial of Equilibrium: Part One Trial of Equilibrium: Part Two Trial of Equilibrium: Part Three Trial of Equilibrium: Part Four Trial of Equilibrium: Part Five Trial of Equilibrium: Part Six