Because you are too young. Or too stupid. Or both.
Chapter 5, node 1:
The party are all safe, finding themselves having been punted away to another forest. MC has turned into a pumpkin head. They start moving to find a place to think. As they're wandering, they encounter Molay, who looks different (first ascension). Before Mordred can attack, Molay surrenders. She got punted away by the MC monster as well.
Chapter 5, node 2:
Molay has a flashback to when she was attacked by the MC monster. Back in the present inside a house, Molay says she's not sure what went wrong. She hopes she can help the party out, to their displeasure. She explains her objective was summoning the All-Mother using the dream-like Singularity, even if the result may end up being a fake distorted by Innocent Monster.
If they want to resolve the Singularity, they'll have to beat up the MC monster. Yet Molay does not spill the beans on how to return MC to normal.
Something big rouses outside. Molay says that with the ritual's success, the fairy-tale world has inverted, becoming a world of horror. But the house should be safe, as long as no one goes out. But the monster picks up the house in its entirety and they are forced to leave. It's a giant monster tree. Napoleon orders Molay to fight.
[battle]
The tree is defeated. Napeleon decides the party should continue exploring.
There sure are a lot of things in the shop.
Chapter 6, node 1:
At an unknown place, ??? says they'd wanted to hide longer, but can't.
Back in the forest, Molay is cheerfully talking to MC about her interests. The others get annoyed at her overly familiar behaviour, still suspicious. Napoleon metes out her punishment with a flick to the forehead. MC is being carried by Liz.
They still have to back to the castle. Liz and Molay have a cat-fight over whose it is. As they're arguing, a monster appears. They fight it off, but note it appears to be somewhat different from the monsters before. Mordred wants to go back to their hut, and uses her NP to burn down the forest again. But the trees grow back in almost an instant.
However, the remaning of the 7 arrive after they noticed the NP activation. Tsuna says they've been brain-washed. 'S o please defeat us.' Only Touta is fine. They prepare to fight, but an unknown voice calls out that such behaviour wont save them.
The voice tells Liz to sing, for the sake of this world. Liz asks who they are, and they say they're a prince, before departing. LIz and Molay are confused. Wasn't MC supposed to be the prince? But now they now Liz has to sing to win! She gets fired up, humming about bloodshed.
Touta joins in with the singing. It's time to fight off the brain-washed people with song.
[battle]
Chapter 6, node 2:
The forest starts turning back to its original form as Liz is singing. The party looks on in disbelief. Tsuna and the others wake up from being brain-washed. They're a little worse for wear, but nothing serious. They're not sure what happened. Bedivere asks about Molay, who has to explain her actions again. They're in disbelief at her stupidity.
Still, what's with the singing? Liz explains it was her Love that healed the forest. Though it pains everyone to admit it, they'll need her singing. Molay will lead the way, Mordred will cut down trees and Liz will sing. Liz demands everyone cheer for her, to which Mordred hesitates. She'll only do it if Liz can beat her in battle!
[battle]
With Mordred cheering her on, Liz sings and the forest loses its potency. Mordred fires her NP and clears the way. Napoleon offers to help, as his NP also has huge destructive potential. The other join in as well, cheering on Liz while cutting down the forest. Liz is overjoyed at her 7 knights.
Liz smiles at MC, telling them she'll return them to normal in no time.
So we still don't know who ??? is?
Because you are too young. Or too stupid. Or both.
Technically no, but Li Shuwen is still the only one in the support list who still hasn't shown up, so...
I swear if all of this is an "Ojii-sama" pun...
I heavily suggest people to pick the Kiss option when you're given a choice. It leads to a bad end forcing you to repeat the node, but there's also a very interesting spoiler in it.
The drop rates for gold gems are really good for the last nodes. I'm probably going to stay in the Saber node until the event ends, I still need more of them.
Thanks Petrikow for the summaries!
For those that want to see the Bad End if you missed it, you can view it here as well, and the Bad End and the foreshadowing after Epilogue has been directly translated by Justiciar:
https://grandorder.wiki/Halloween_Rising!/Story
You can also use atlas as it shows every scene, SE, and shows how it branches mechanically (bad end page specifically). It's also up in under 5-10 mins as its an automatic parser https://apps.atlasacademy.io/db/JP/script/9406280830
I had fun using Percival and Qin Liangyu to clear the CQ. It's agains Zenobia which I was kinda expecting it to be.
Nothing special in terms of gimmicks, the most important one is in the second bar. She will get tons of debuff clocks on herself that trigger on hit once (Buster/Arts/Quick/NP/Crit/Extra), and will apply a permanent unremovable damage resistance down on herself if they trigger, and the clocks will appear again if enough time passes so you can debuff her even more. She also gets a damage resistance up, so you are basically mitigating the effect here. The key factor here is that she has three bars, and if you break the second bar you will not get more clocks but the damage resistance will stay, so if you rush it she will take less damage on the last break bar as you probably applied less debuffs. Not that it will stop people from 3 turning it of course.
Chapter 7, node 1:
Liz and her troupe are advancing on the castle. They get to the throne room and confront the Goatling of Darkness. They are intimidated by it's size but nonetheless charge at it.
[unwinnable battle against Goatling of Darkness]
Chapter 7, node 2:
Liz wonders why her singing isn't working. Molay realizes something. The Goatling comes from another genre from the fairy-tale world they are in. It is a "Deus Ex Machina" which signifies the end, I cannot be beaten. But, as it is not a fairy-tale element, they can beat it in a way opposite of a fairy-tale. They need to break genre conventions.
Liz is shocked that she can't continue her musical and has to give up her dream of being a princess. Zenobia chews her out, she herself never gave up being a queen despite being humiliated by the romans. Liz regains her convictions. She's going to save MC. Liz once again asks of everyone to support her.
[battle]
Chapter 7, node 3:
They managed to beat down the Goatling. Liz tries to retrieve the grail, but doesn't know how to finish it off. Everyone reminds her to do some thats not fairy-taley. She asks MC for help.
Kiss Liz
MC proposes for Liz to do a headbutt. She starts headbutting the Goatling over and over, and its masks starts to break. Molay says that the mask is the cause of the Singularity. Liz breaks it and the Singularity starts to be restored.
The grail appears and Liz retrieves it, turning back to her normal, non-cinderella form. Zenobia apologizes for her behaviour when they first met, Liz was truly a real songstress all along. They promise to meet again, as Zenobia fades away.
The 7 starts to fade away as well. They give Liz their farewells, promising to cheer her on again. Everyone fades away, and MC returns to Chaldea.
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Epilogue:
Da vinci congratulates them on restoring the Singularity. She apologizes for the mixup when they first arrived in the Singularity. Molay reveals it was her doing. Everyone wonder what Molay is now doing in Chaldea. She wanted to say that Liz accidentally rejected the
prince that had been setup in the Singularity. Liz can't understand how that'd happen.
Molay reveals the prince. It was Li Shuwen (Old). Liz angringly demands to know why he of all people was the prince. Flashback to when Liz reminded Li Shuwen it was Hallowen, and he then remembered to prepare candy. Back in the present, Liz thinks that's a stupid reason.
With her job done, Molay starts to disappear. MC promises to meet her again, this time as an ally. She agrees, maybe she'll try being his shield for once. Molay disappears. Liz transforms into her Cinderella form again, and prepares to have a concert...
So Zenobias sole reason for being in the story was just to tell Eli to man up when she lost hope?
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Thanks for the translation Petrikow.
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