[DreadBringer]

Following Minato's betrayal it's the (partly) repeat of first episode.

Houtaro got humiliated in the class even without Rinne taking an act. And there's a scene of them trying to access the Academy door, now it's closed.

Geryon's goal sounds similar to Shiori's back then, to reach alchemy beyond what the Academy teaches via the Door of Darkness. But Geryon's the leader, and he's the one who got admired as ambitious by at least Lachesis, like how Shiori admired them.

The reveal of the mystery of some characters are answered here with Houtaro's devotion of Chemies based on him already befriending them as a child, but seemingly got his memory erased by Fuga. As well as Fuga revealed to not be bad at all, or even traitorous, it's all Geryon's machinations of memory altering. I thought Fuga can be still good while being traitor due to him freeing the Chemies and going against the awful Academy (still keeps the tradition of the supposedly heroic organization being bad after AIMS, SoL, Fenix, DGP).

Houtaro finally is able to perform alchemy by time traveling to the past with the help of TimeLord, due to seeing his past self is able to perform alchemy as well before memory wipe, using the goggles from his past self. Fire Gotchard is simply about speed due to the rocket boost. Houtaro achieving that also inspires his friends to continue collecting Chemies after being despondent before and got captured. They're using the Kitchen Ichinose Alliance as new HQ rather than Kyoka's hideout.

Turns out Gotchard Daybreak seems to be future Houtaro, likely using TimeLord too, and I guess his warning about interacting with his past self is about time limit like Daybreak's time being up now, rather than his self being erased. Still though Daybreak is just vague and can potentially miscommuniate in his dialogues....