Enmei Chiryou (Translyrics)

This might be horrible, so...yeah.

Enmei Chiryou is one of my favorite songs by Neru, actually, because of it's pacing and, well, the fact that it's rock and that it's NERU.

Neru's known for his dark works, so...yeah.

Please credit me if you wish to use these lyrics!

Disclaimer: I do not own the original song. I only created the translyrics. The song's composer is Neru, and the Vocaloid he used for this song is IA.

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This anesthesia; it’s piercing through my veins.

They say with only this, I can feel happiness…

And looking to the west, you see dolls being played,

While looking to the east, it seems like operations’ been stopped...

Hey, ain’t it strange?

It almost seems like my head’s bugging out…

Don’t get this life of late asphyxiation…

That binary knife; it’s driving me insane -

That cast, it can’t be removed.

Patient’s state: being stuck between machinery and pride,

As both sides, hurting each other with these two limbs; limbs full of tubes and wires.

This treatment, it’s bleak and really uncertain!

Hey now, I beg of you, take me away!

“But wait, you’re getting sleepy.”

That wooden bridge, trembling irregularly,

It crumbles after raising a dull voice.

And kicked away to the side, just like trash,

It raised its voice, and laughed towards the sky.

Its left behind on that operation table,

Along with the me of yesterday, who’s weeping.

The next day, it relies too much on miracles…

So really, what are we supposed to wish for?

Symptoms bud, even if I get my freedom from visions.

And us two, we expected that we'd meet again, embracing once again…

But a ward where we have lost our utopia;

It splits us, and I have known why, from the very start…

By admitting it, my life will go on without a hitch, now ain’t that right?

“Hey, I know that it’s all my fault,

Yeah, I know that I am to blame.”

That adult I’ve always dreamt of being; well, I can’t exactly be him now!

Well that’s that, so what should I become now?

Long life, grant me a long life,

And proof, give a question of proof…

Regret, that’s my diagnosis.

How’s that?

Trial X1 is ridiculous.

...it has been around 2 weeks after the arrival of Cardes.

AND NOW WE HAVE THIS NEW TRIAL.

If you checked out Ushi's new video on Trial X1, you can just cheese it with Hadaron, but I don't have him, so...

Imma do it MY WAY.

So, I was talking to the guys as per usual, and it seems as if I'm the second person in the group to beat Trial X1. The other person in the group, Tails, finished this Trial before I even got wind of it, but I beat it in my first try.

I used this team:

Grahdens (Lord, leader), with Legwand Gem
Mad God Narza (Breaker), with Dandelga and Evil Shard
Empyreal Drake Lodin (Oracle), heavily imped, with Legwand Gem and Evil Shard
Fire Goddess Ulkina (Anima), with Drevas and Evil Shard
Creator Maxwell (Lord), fully maxed, with Lexida and Advent Solace
Cardes the Malevolent (Lord, friend), with Dandelga and Glass Crown

There are three phases in this Trial. First is against Cursed Estia, then its against Princess Estia, and third is against Xenon & Estia. As you can see, all of these units are light...

Cursed Estia is pretty much like her encounter in the Cursed Tower. She's powered down a bit, I guess, but maybe that's because I used a Grah and Cardes combo. Not only that, she doesn't revive. THANK GOODNESS.

You want to mitigate as much as possible in this portion.

Phase 2 is against Princess Estia, who will regularly drain your BB gauges and who will also inflict a plethora of status ailments on your team. Okay, maybe just poison and curse.

You'll want to avoid BB-spamming here, and she's pretty weak, so yeah.

Phase 3 is against Xenon & Estia, and is easily the most frustrating phase of the fight. Every three turns, for the first 50% of their HP bar, they will drain some of your units' BB gauges, so having Narza's SBB up really helps matters. It's not much of a problem if you bring a Lilly Matah and her SBB is up, though.

At 50% HP, they'll start to use Elysian Glory, and at other points, they'll spam one of their AOEs multiple times that it'll best be classified as a pseudo-Endless. Because of this, you'll want to mitigate as much as possible. Every turn, if possible.

My Lodin plays the role of BB booster in this fight, but Zelnite might be a better choice for this.

So yeah. Good luck beating this Trial!

CARDES IS WAY EASIER WITH ZABOETH (+ Trial 004 Tips)

NOT GONNA LIE.

So, we all know that Cardes was released just a few days ago. In those three days that I was despairing after wasting God knows how much energy. And whaddaya know, I finally beat Cardes just earlier!

My first strategy was just using two teams. All units are at MAX evolution AND MAX level, with SBB unlocked, unless otherwise notified.

My two teams consisted of...

Team 1:

Lilly Matah (B) lead
Altri (O)
Oulu (L)
Rowgen (L)
Lucca (A)
Grah (L) friend

Team 2:

Grah (L) lead
Nalmika (B), level 82
Shera (A), level 78
Narza (B)
Ulkina (A)
Lario (A) friend

Worked out pretty well, until I started failing horribly at the 50% mark. Then I swapped the Lario with a Tridon after leveling up my units and fiddling around with my team.

Team:

Grah (L) lead
Narza (B)
Nalmika (B)
Ulkina (A)
Maxwell (L)
Tridon (L) friend

Same thing. 50% mark dead.

FINALLY I got Zaboeth and plugged 7 frogs to get his SBB.

I then also used the split strategy, so my teams then became...

Team 1:

Lilly Matah (B) lead
Shera (A)
Altri (O)
Rowgen (L)
Ultor (B), BB 4
Grah (L) friend

Team 2:

Grah (L)
Narza (B)
Zaboeth (A)
Ulkina (A)
Maxwell (L)
Cardes (L) friend

Zaboeth is really a better choice compared to Nalmika in this fight. Let's compare the two, shall we?

Zaboeth
+More survivability (Dark)
+BB is AOE
+Cost is lower than Nalmika, so you can add more higher-cost units to your teams
-Worse stats
-SBB does not inflict status effects

Nalmika
+Better stats
+STBB has high proc rate of status ailments
+SBB inflicts status ailments
-Need SBB for AOE status-effect inflicting
-SBB ailment proc rate is around the same as Zaboeth's BB (need confirmation, but it seems like this for me)
-Higher cost
-Less survivability (Earth, Luther can kill her easily if you're not careful)

The fact that Zaboeth's BB can inflict status ailments AND the fact that he's a dark unit and won't suffer from any weak element attacks in this fight is his main selling point. However, if you have Semira, I would suggest using her. So far, in Global, my choice of order for status ailment-inflicting units in this fight would be:

Semira > Zaboeth > Falma (Paralysis) > Nalmika = Luther or any other paralysis-inflicting units

As long as Luther is out of commission this fight would be easier compared to Maxwell. I was playing with no turn count (is there even one?) and won. There is really no use to try and curse Phee, but an injured Cardes is pretty much a godsend. His ATK and DEF buffs are RIDICULOUS.

Status ailments that can be inflicted include...

Zebra: Injury
Cardes: Weakness and Injury
Phee: Curse and Poison
Luther: Paralysis

Percentages to watch out for...

Zebra:

50%: Deadly End, 51000 damage on one unit. Guaranteed kill unless Tridon's shield and mitigator is up.

25%: Deadly End twice, 42000 damage on each unit. Guaranteed kill unless Tridon's shield and mitigator is up.

Sacrifice squad 1 here unless you're using Grah + Tridon combo lead.

Cardes (might need help for this):

70%: Foreign Light, heals 200000 HP. Deadly End twice, strong STBB

50%: Foreign Light, heals 200000 HP. Deadly End twice, strong STBB

20%: Endless, strong AOE BB

You need to kill Cardes, Luther, and Phee to officially finish this Trial.

And there you have it! Good luck fighting Cardes!

...I can't be the only one who has a weird anime crush on Cardes right? His unit design is AMAZING!

Hero Run 2015 Recap!

So, if you're living in Bandung, you might have an idea about what I'm talking about.

Does #runwithapurpose ring a bell?

I'm talking about the Hero Run 2015, people!

For people who have no idea what the flying frick is going on, Hero Run 2015 is a charity run organized by the Grade 11 and Grade 12 students of Sekolah Mutiara Nusantara, which is my school. The run itself was a 5-kilometer trail run, and afterwards there were 2 bands and 2 DJ performances. It was held on the 31st of January, 2015 (aka yesterday), in Sukawana Forest (actually it's called Desa Kertajaya, Sukawana is quite a ways from the actual area) of the Parongpong region.

First, let me talk about the prep. We took a total of around 4-5 months to plan and organize this event.

Not kidding.

And it was a pretty big event too! I believe around 700 tickets were sold. Sadly, my brother-from-another-mother KirinMax did not come. Something about having lessons, I think? Really can't blame him though, from what I heard his A-Levels are INSANE.

Well, re-registration started at around 11 am. Some of us were at the area starting 9.40 am or so, to help with setting up the area and cleaning up the spaces, as well as preparing the bib numbers. There were 6 re-registration tables, and two people were assigned at each table. I was with my friend Melina at the fifth table.

It really started to get packed at around...12.30 pm, I guess, when I saw three particular people form my Brave Frontier friendlist come and register: Wolves, Shiwi, and Wilosbp, along with their friend Jeremy. Let's just say we're on a race to get Cardes now.

It was drizzling at this time, but it turned sunny before the run started, thank goodness.

By 1 pm, people were coming in by the tens and the registration tables were PACKED. There were few troubles (like someone not having a ticket when registering), but other than that, everything went quite well. We were only able to sit down for a while and eat lunch starting 2.30 pm, and by then my legs were sore from standing up the entire time.

...and whaddaya know, there were already people finishing the race while we were eating. I helped give out medals for a while before going to my cousin, former Brave Frontier player Xemphis. I then took a break and started to catch up with the Brave Frontier players, Jeremy going so far as to ask me to beat Maxwell for him. I just told him he needs to get his Copra to 6* to stand a chance.

Later on, the two bands came and played. Midway through the band performances, I saw my classmate Andre and we noticed more of our classmates having SODA CANS in their hands and throwing them at the crowd.

They have really good aim, and the people in the crowd were poised to catch the cans, but we were still concerned about what the flying freak would happen if they missed and hit someone's head. We relayed this concern to our classmate Michael, and he expressed the same concern. And so we told those in the area about this concern...

Let's just say that we managed to have no injuries from that incident, and that most of us have taken to giving out the soda by hand. And people were shaking the cans and opening them so that a huge fountain of soda erupted when the opened the can. And they sprayed the soda at their friends.

Insert Not Making This Up Disclaimer here.

Then...the DJ performance started, and this is where the insanity happens.

Okay, so mineral water was given for free, right? Great! It's raining? I guess it's fine, let's just enjoy the musi- OKAY WHO THE HECK SPRAYED ME WITH WATER COME ON FESS UP

...yeah. I got drenched twice before evacuating to the sidelines. And I helped with distribution of the glowsticks, so yeah. I saw soda being sprayed too, so I was very thankful to have evacuated to the sidelines...

Another reason is that the bass was too strong for me. I literally could feel my heart slamming to my ribcage every time there's a huge THUMP. Hey, I'm a fan of J-Rock (FUNKIST and BACK-ON, anyone?), but this is just too loud...not to mention most of us were near the speakers...

It did not stop me from watching the dance-off that occurred in the middle of the crowd, however. I saw one of my friends from the church's Confirmation Sacrament Prep breakdancing in the crowd, and my classmate Melino joined in on the fun as well.

(Welp, looks like I mentioned all of the Physics students. It's just me, Michael, Andre, and Melino.)

When nighttime came, the second DJ performance was up (Astronaughty, I believe), and the crowd was in full swing.

IT WAS REALLY LOUD.

And we were tasked to be the 'barricades', so that people will not stand too close to the stage. After a while we stopped because then the people would lose their spirit and would not jump along with the music. Good idea, I believe.

It was raining by now...

We then returned to being the barricades during the fireworks show, so that people were able to see the fireworks show.

The event ended at around 8 pm, and we were ALL TIRED. My goodness.

I was only able to sit down and reply to KirinMax's messages at around 8.20 pm. But it was a fun event, as proven by the testimonies of everyone joining.

...I look like boiled crab tbh. Forgot to put on sunscreen...

All in all, I believe the event was a success and that it was worth it. We raised almost 40 million IDR from this event, which is quite a lot, for me. We also had a lot of bonding time between classmates and schoolmates, we met old friends, and got to know new people.

So, guys, Grade 11 and Grade 10 peeps...Hero Run 2016? Yes or no?