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The magical beings were there from Solatorobo, you’re not getting away from those so long as this is a prequel. As for the other point, I do agree that doing “Berman invades!” again was very much a let down story-wise, and you could’ve even had most of Baum, Stollen, and Flam’s parts in the story as allies without needing to go back to that being the basis of the plot.