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Originally Posted by r4bbitdragon

...On another note, since the original thread for Desast's Walk translations I linked is no longer available. I, uh, actually had already been working on my own google doc Desast archive, in case I ever needed for inflict Saber on my own friend group. So here you go? (I still want to get all the links and pictures and more formatting into the final version for this, but I did at least order all the translations!)

Oh good! I appreciate it!

This'll be useful, but first...

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER SABER EPISODE 26 - ?ENVELOPED IN DARKNESS, HIS SWORD IN HAND?

Let's talk Episode 26. In which just like Die, it's one of my absolute favorite episodes in Saber, and one of my favorite Rider episodes in general. What helps with these episodes though (yes I'm counting 25 because...) is that we've got Kamihoriuchi back in the directors chair for them. Dude's good at setting atmosphere and this episode is no exception.

Before we get into the meat of it. Let me talk about one of my favorite scenes in Saber... which is where we suddenly start getting scenes that end in dramatic cuts to black with stinger music hitting as the cut happens. In which we get one of my favorite exchanges ever.

Master Logos in the most ominous voice ever "So you've come... Victor."

Tassel with his usual cheeriness, "Hey now, please call me Tassel." *dramatic cut to black*

I don't know what it is about that scene, but I just adore it.

But yeah, a lot of people talk about how Kento kind of goes through an emo phase, and this also starts a lot of people I saw talking about how irrational he's being and how he's being counterproductive and I feel like... they didn't see this episode?

Like, as this thread has gone into good detail with... Kento is not in a healthy mental space during the initial run of Q1 Saber. He is literally teetering on the edge and him getting swallowed up and left to wallow inside darkness... pretty much tips him over that edge. We see Kento look at every possible variation, every potential plan, every differing scenario... and none of it works. There's only one way to completely win and to him that involves a lonely path he must walk against everyone.

The kid was already traumatized by what his father did, and Kamijo's reveal did not help. And now we know we've added further trauma onto that. Kento while still functioning... is worse off mentally now than he was before thanks to those visions. And I love how the actor really gets across Kento's aura of just feeling dead inside. He's tired and alone.

And I really love how we get to just see a rapid flash forward of just everything going wrong, every, single, time. It's such a chilling sequence and it's still crazy to think about. Also hey, Kurayami is kind of a screwed up Seiken ain't it what with what we learned of it this week.

Then we have the fight itself, in what can only be described as... chaos. Kento is not willing to back down, Reika is here to run interference as best she can. And of course the big reveal during said fight that I already covered. And of course we have Primitive's one appearance here, which is just screaming in anguish... man, this episode did not pull any punches.

Also if there was anyone's sword to seal first, it was Daishinji's. He's the one who has the most personal connection to his Seiken, and the absolute anguish you hear in his voice is heartbreaking.

Overall, fantastic episode.

As for our story... I was not expecting you to make something out of that random bit of Mei shoving candy in a jar before shoving said jar in her purse. I had to actually rewatch that particular part of the episode to realize that you were actually taking from the episode itself and not making something up after seeing the screencap.

It's such a random scene, but I really love how your story frames her mindset and how she got to that point. Really nicely done.

No Desast Walk this time though. They'll be slightly more sporadic, especially with how you've ordered certain things in this thread.