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This takes place as the party heads towards Lacour (I spell "Rakuul"), and are caught in the midst of a storm. Ashton hears the sound of a bell, which no one else hears, and sees a girl, who no one else sees... (Celine: "moshikashite... rorikon?") He follows her, everyone else follows him, and they all end up in a mysterious castle, where they are greeted by the host, who tells the story of the girl's ghost. After the story, Ashton asks, "Do you have any barrels? In a castle like this, you must have barrels... I'm a barrel mania." Then blasts off in the direction. Later, as Precis and Rena are taking a bath, for some strange reason, their breasts get larger...(eh~to...) Someone's watching them, and they hear Crawd's voice. Celine has the same strange run-in with Crawd, as she hears him laugh hysterically. Ashton is drooling over his barrels, but when the barrels turn against him, he can't bear attacking his beloved barrels, and ask Gyoro and Ururun if they would die for his beloved barrels...  They're stunned
he would ask such a thing, but he hears what he wants: "You're such
good friends to make this sacrifice!" Luckily, they're saved by the
girl, who tells him of a terrible monster, and gives him a bell that
would warn him of danger.
Precis and Rena come to the conclusion that it couldn't have been Crawd who peeped on them =^^= But they find that Celine had the same strange encounter, and unlike them, she doesn't exclude the possibility that Crawd could do such a thing. When Crawd comes in and sees the three of them looking at him strangely, they ask him if he really did what they thought he did. Was he really in the girl's bath, watching Rena and Precis? ...Which gets him thinking about Rena, naked... Celine: "It must be true, look at how red he's getting." He's so off-put by the allegations, that he grabs Rena and demands to know if she really did think she saw him. But she's so freaked out that she takes off, and Crawd follows, but doesn't know which way she went. Meanwhile, Ashton tells Celine and Precis about the girl and that there's a monster in the castle, but Celine still doesn't believe he saw the girl, and if he did... he's a rorikon, then she keeps taunting him. Precis think's it's a ghost, and neither of them really believe there's something strange going on, 'til Celine sees a bug and freaks out, but neither of the other two see anything. Rena finds herself in a library, and Crawd enters, saying he was worried, and if she really believed in him. But then he starts to speak very... suggestively... Then comes on to her, but she slaps him, and this pisses him off. He begins strangling her, and asks her, "How do you like this? Are you suffering? Do you still believe in me? Hurry and die!" Just then, the real Crawd bursts in, and confronts the fake Crawd, and both begin to battle. The fake Crawd laughs at the real one, taunting that there's no way he could win, since they're essentially the same person. But then the fake Crawd transforms into Dias, who does "Kuuhazan" against Crawd. There's no way he could defeat Dias, and the fake Dias threatens to kill them both, but when he does Kuuhazan against Crawd, Crawd does Kuuhazan right back. I'm gonna be evil and stop right here, since I pretty much went through my favorite parts =^^= POINT: Ashton and his barrel obsession, Celine making fun of Ashton and calling him "rorikon", the bath scene and Crawd, fake Crawd (or as Mami Kingetsu calls him, "H-na Crawd" =^^= ) vs. real Crawd, Crawd vs. fake Dias, and in the final battle, when the demon pretty much jumps from character to character. And, if you're a Hiro Yuuki fan, you're gonna love this CD drama =^^= in which you hear him as a good guy (Crawd), cutesie (Rena... naked...?), and as a villain (fake Crawd). You wouldn't know it from Omi, Marcel, and the like, but he makes such a good villain (check out VS. Knight Lamune & 40 Fire, from eps. 13 on). And if you played Star Ocean Second Story in Japanese, you know what the original voices sound like =^^=, and Yuuko Sumitomo makes a MUCH better Precis than Tomomi Hanba... Mayumi Iizuka and Mami Kingetsu are okay as Rena and Celine, but I think I like Aya Hisagawa and Yuki Kaida better. And fogive me, but as much as I like Tomokazu Seki, Daisuke Sakaguchi was such a great Ashton =><= ...At points, Yuuji Ueda and Hiro Yuuki have similar voices, but I think it's obvious who I'm going for here =^^=  But Takehito Koyasu is definitely a much better Dias than
Ryo Horigawa =^^= And as for Gyoro and Ururun, I like the original CD
dramas better... Ururun's voice is the same as the original Precis,
(which you can make some twisted doujin based on that, hint, hint =++=
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Star Ocean EX is
Štri-Ace.Inc, Mayumi Azuma/
Enix, Televi Tokyo, SOP 2001