Kanda Shoichi Clears Chapter 7 of Fire Emblem’s Theodora Route as the King’s Curse Flares

NIJISANJI — Kanda Shoichi of Nijisanji cleared Part 1, Chapter 7 of the Theodora route in Fire Emblem on Wednesday night, a chapter in which the king’s cursed right arm took over mid-battle and her retainers learned of it for the first time. It was the 13th stream in his run of the game.

He opened by catching viewers up on the in-game days he had played off stream, including recruits and a higher renown rating, then spent the first stretch on the weekly routine of training and gift-giving. Along the way he recruited a swordswoman named Loretta by handing her three iron swords, joking that he had made her dream of fighting with three blades come true.

“I’m so sleepy I can’t even tell you why.” — Kanda Shoichi, partway through the night

The chapter’s battle was lopsided: Kanda’s party was around level 28 against enemies near 21. He still pointed out that the chapter forces a burst from Theodora’s arm, which cut her maximum HP down to 21, and he played through a scene in which the king lashes out at an ally before regaining control. He said the scene appears only on this route. Afterward her retainers pressed her on how she had behaved, she explained the curse and a roughly ten-year limit on using the arm, and the group decided to go back to the shaman who had given her a protective charm to ask for a new one.

After the chapter he recruited the pegasus knight Alexandra, put more characters through training and spent the rest of the evening on gifts and recruitment. Somewhere in there he mentioned he had been unusually sleepy all day and had a conversation with his managers around midday. He also talked about the first snow reported in Hokkaido that day, and about a news segment he had seen on children who struggle to read even manga, which led him into a long riff on how much explanatory dialogue manga now carries.

Kanda ended the stream earlier than the three hours he said he usually plays. He said tomorrow’s stream would be a chat stream held inside Final Fantasy XIV, and that it would probably be his last stream of October, with a studio job on Nov. 2 and a busy start to the month.