Class is now in session!
Event Date: April 2021
Event Type: Onslaught
Element: Wind and Flame
Related Castle Story: Cultivated in Kindness
Event Type: Onslaught
Element: Wind and Flame
Related Castle Story: Cultivated in Kindness
Emile has opened up a set of school. Out of suspicion, Euden sends Ranzal and Louise as attending children to infiltrate with Mercury accompanying them.
This event contains examples of:
- A Day in the Limelight: The focuses of this event are Ranzal, Louise, and Mercury on account of the former being turned into kids and the later taking on a Human Disguise to pose as a teacher and get back at Emile.
- Bait-and-Switch: Quite a few happen in this event.
- When Emile first appears to the class, some rather ominous music starts playing as Ranzal and Louise expect his lesson to be something dangerous. Emile then announces his lesson, which is... fine arts.
- In order to get some info out of Emile, Mercury asks for the two of them to go someplace alone, all while coming of as a flirt. When Emile arrives at the designated spot with intent to turn down romantic advances, Mercury tells him how she is in love... with the school while saying she has no romantic feelings for him.
- During their investigation, Mercury overhears Emile talk with a guard about a secret weapon in the campus to show his might. The trio sneak into where the weapon is stored to find out that it is... a giant bronze statue of Emile. Of course, that doesn't stop them from defacing the statue.
- Batter Up!: Besides carrying a baseball bat, Ranzal does say the trope name when smashing in Emile's statue's face.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Mercury shows this with just this much of a Death Glare by having Red Eyes, Take Warning and Face Framed in Shadow to make Emile, Ranzal and Louise feel dread.
- Breather Episode: This event's story is comedic and lighthearted compared to several past events.
- Chekhov's Gunman: While explaining their plan, Ranzal, Louise, and Mercury hear somebody in the bushes and worry that they have been heard by somebody who would rat them out. Much later, when Louise is trying to escape an imperial guard, Ryu reveals that he was the one listening in, and that he wants to help her out by distracting the guard for her.
- Continuity Nod: Emile's love of art was dug up during the Phantom Thieves' time rooting around in his Jail and now he gets to share it with the youth of the Empire.
- Cringe Comedy: How the girls in school feel learning that Chairman Emile had a giant bronze statue in his likeness.
- Fountain of Youth: Sinoa invents a potion that temporarily turns some people into kids. While most of the party are unaffected, the potion does work on Pipple, Ranzal, and Louise.
- Late-Arrival Spoiler: While you can play this event after Chapter 2 minimum, it gives away that Emile becomes Emperor of the Dyrenell Empire after Chapter 14.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: This event's fourth wall is especially loose, which fits the intended tone.
- As if it was dangerous enough for fictional characters to stand near alchemical explosions...
Louise: "Kids, don't try this at home."- After Louise and Ranzal revert back to adult, Notte is already calling for the THE END card to appear.
Notte: "We can't show any of this! Quick, somebody put up the thing! HURRY!"
The End
Mercury: "And they all lived happily ever after..."
Together: "WE MOST DEFINITELY DIDN'T!!!" - Naked People Are Funny: The reaction given at the end of the event after Louise and Ranzal return to normal... at the expense of their clothes.
- Please Put Some Clothes On: After Ranzal and Louise revert back to normal, Luca says this.Luca: "Cover up the goods already, Ranzal!"
- Toyless Toyline Character: Of a sort. Child Ranzal, Child Louise, and Humanoid Mercury debut during the event, but only Ranzal and Mercury are on the focus banner. Child Louise never became playable.
