(“The Cipher Frontier! With Emma, Shade, Yuzu, Randal, Alice & Val” is a regular column on the Fire Emblem Cipher website which summarises upcoming news concerning Cipher and other Fire Emblem materials. It is hosted by the six mascot characters. The following is a full translation of the 33rd issue of the column, which was originally published on the 19th of October, 2017.)

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Well, aren’t you diligent, Little Miss Yuzu. Eh… I suppose there’s no point giving up now. Right, let’s begin at once!

Wh-what do you mean?! We have been entrusted with such a vital duty… Would you have us fail to carry it out to the best of our ability?

Oi, oi, oi! You’re so stuffy… You really need to be more relaxed about all this.

In this installment of “The Cipher Frontier!”, Sir Randal and myself wish to pay tribute to the “Pan-Japan Autumn Cipher Gathering×Tournament” , which concluded a few days ago. I regret that we are a tad late on this, but please understand.

And the old guy’s here too! This is Randal!

How do all of you fare today? This is Yuzu!

As many of you would know, we held seven of these events: starting with Yokohama, then in Sapporo, Niigata, Fukuoka, Nagoya, Okayama, and Kyoto.

Oh, and by the way, we held the Sapporo event inside that TV Tower.

The matches were the real excitement - it was pretty interesting to see Cipher games beginning and playing out not just at the match tables, but all over the place!

Did you… Did you not eat at all, Sir Randal?

Nah, there was something pretty darn bizarre about people eating mid-Cipher game.

‘Twas marvelous how freely they could enjoy the events: eating, chatting, playing matches, all at once!

Al the venues were packed full of enthusiastic Cipher and Fire Emblem fans.

As I recall, we held one of last year’s Cipher Caravan events in the selfsame place. Such an unusual choice for a venue…

And naturally, the designated “Chat×Practice” areas for Cipher beginnners to practice were a grand success.

Putting such creativity into competing with one’s beloved characters… 'Twas a remarkably educational experience!

Mm. It was pretty fun how, whichever table you watched, you saw all sorts of different lords.

Further, everybody played with the character cards that they preferred.

Yes, yes! That truly was a thrill!

Other than competing and practicing, we had a lot of other activities there. Personally, I liked the Bond Quiz .

As fun as collecting Cipher is, playing the game fosters one’s love for one’s cards, enhancing the fun still further. May you all learn to play and enjoy competing against all manner of opponents.

The staff provided some thorough lessons on how to play Cipher.

“Everybody’s Battle” , which pitted a crowd of attendants against Sir Kawade, was also a popular event.

At the end, the table that gave the most correct answers was judged the winner… My, how exciting!

Even so… Should the most popular answer given be a word that Sir Kawade judges profane, it would still be incorrect!

In this case, I’d choose whichever one given by the most tables.

Alfonse, Alm, Artur, Abel, Arden… Th-there are too many!

For example, how about “a character whose name starts with 'A’”…?

The producer, Sir Kawade, would pose questions which each table would answer, but… “The same answer given by multiple tables is the correct one”, or so the rules say.

And at the end of each of the events came the “Fave Character Bingo Tournament!” Each attendee would list their favourite characters on a sheet of paper given to them at the start of the event, then put the sheet to use for bingo.

Whenever the number of orbs broken hit a milestone, KawadeP was nice enough to give away little prizes to players who dealt those milestone hits.

Mm. Remarkably, he did prevail at times… Nonetheless, 'twas a fine contest, its air running thick with tension.

Every so often, that inscrutiable KawadeP would completely obliterate the participants.

'Twas an easy-to-play challenge, fun even for those unschooled in the rules of Cipher.

It was a tournament in which all participants would try to break all of KawadeP’s many, many orbs - he’d have, say, 108 or something.

By the way, I wonder who Little Miss Yuzu’s favourite characters were?

M-me?! I… I mean, er… No, I… They’re secret! SECRET!

I guess this just isn’t Little Miss’s sort of game, huh…

Er, well… Nonetheless, it truly was an event befitting Cipher: lively and joyous!

I’m just glad that this was such a good chance for people to expand their circle of friends.

May those who participated this time, and those who could not come, participate again should the chance arise!

This old sod’s hoping he’ll be able to see you all again someday, too!

Have we covered everything? Whew… Our duty is fulfilled…

Good job. Now, how about we get the hell out of here?

No, not yet…

Huh?

Thinking back on the event, I have an overwhelming itch to play Cipher…! Sir Randal, would you grant me the honor of a match?

Huh, there it is all of a sudden… The face of a true warrior… That’s the Yuzu I know. Right, one match!

Hm! I shall not surrender till the dawn comes!

Oh, definitely… Wait. Did you say… till d-dawn?