Cecil gets a rather different reception this time. Reactions range from impressed to incredulous, and at the very least, there's far less hostility now. Also note that Cecil can now use nearly all the equipment sold here. Anyway, it's time to see the elder again.

The EasyType makes a linguistically interesting change here, replacing the elder's もっとも (motto mo) with だが (da ga). Both express contrast, so there's little impact on the meaning, but it does affect the connotations. だが indicates a simple contrast—he sent them to watch Cecil, but it turned out to be unnecessary. もっとも, on the other hand, expresses a more complex sort of contrast that affirms the original statement even as it introduces an exception or partial disagreement. I get the impression here that it adds the implication that he still feels as though he acted properly in assigning the twins to keep an eye on Cecil, even though Cecil turned out to be trustworthy after all.

The EasyType describes the legend as ふるくから (furuku kara, from old times) rather than いにしえより (inishie yori, out of antiquity). Both mean essentially the same thing.

The screen fades, and the legend appears line by line.

ねむりのちに should be taken as 眠りの地に (nemuri no chi ni, to the slumbering land), rather than 眠り後に (nemuri nochi ni, after slumbering) as I had initially read it. I'm fairly certain the second interpretation isn't entirely grammatical anyway; のち (後) would be used without the に.

Fade out, and back to the building.

The EasyType replaces the archaic しんぜよ (shinzeyo) with its modern equivalent, しんじろ (shinjiro).

Tella steps forward.

I never understood why Mysidia sealed the Devil Road in the first place. Baron already got what they came for, and if they wanted to come back, they'd just use the Red Wings again like they did the first time. Yet other NPCs indicate it was sealed to prevent what happened before from happening again, even though there's no indication that Baron has ever attacked through there.

As Cecil and Tella start to leave, Palom and Porom move to follow after them.

The elder heads upstairs. From this point on, he can be found praying in a tower beyond the crystal room.

The building containing the Devil Road portal is now no longer blocked off. But first, a few words from a small selection of townspeople:

I can't recall why I decided to include this particular line when I first put this page together. However, I've recently been watching Legends of Localization's Funky Fantasy IV videos, which play through a fully machine-translated version of the game, and this line came out as "Please do not forget the paladin's sex." Apparently, Google Translate (in late 2016) misinterpreted the せい of せいしん as being 性 (and ignored the しん entirely), rather than correctly taking せいしん as 精神.

Out of curiousity, I tried dropping the sentence into Google Translate (in mid-2018), and out came "Do not forget the spirit of Paladin." Better! Except that it also notes "Showing translation for パラディンの精神を 忘れないでください。" So, what happened when I clicked on "Translate instead パラディンのせいしんを　わすれないでください。"? It gave me "Please do not forget the paladin's sex." Which seems especially strange given that it was able to guess the kanji correctly, and translate more-or-less correctly from there, except for apparently assuming "Paladin" to be someone's name.

The Devil Road links to a building in Baron, and despite what the townspeople say about it, passing through brings the party no harm at all.

Gameplay and Story Segregation at work. It would have made sense for this form of travel to take a chunk out of everyone's current HP.

This seems like a good place to try, except that soldiers bar the entrance. What's more, they don't appear to recognize Cecil, though to be fair, he looks a lot different without his highly concealing Dark Knight armor.

Even worse, they've apparently been afflicted with clunky translation syndrome. There's a lot of that going around.

This is going nowhere, so let's try the town.

While things don't look much different at first, the townspeople are more uneasy than ever. Cid's daughter is home, but there's no sign of him.

That doesn't sound too good, especially with the other townspeople talking about how unusually ruthless the king has been lately.

The bartender in the inn has heard more rumors, unsurprisingly enough.

But Yang is here too, at a table with some of the castle guards. He must have survived Leviathan's attack somehow!

Number of times someone has survived apparent certain death: 2

Wait, what? Maybe he's not okay after all. The guards attack!

They're not too difficult, with only 280 hit points. Just be careful, since they'll counter physical attacks with Minimum and magic with Porky. They don't have any weaknesses, either. You might want to have the twins take them out just to be on the safe side.

Yang attacks!

Don't worry too much if you have lingering status effects from the last battle. They don't have much meaningful effect on this one.

This is actually a more of a survival game than a real battle. Yang will Kick twice, with the following lines, then repeat indefinitely.

The script also includes lines for Cecil in rounds where Yang attacks him specifically. These incorrectly target Dark Knight Cecil, however, so the text never appears and Yang does nothing on those turns. This may actually have been deliberate, since enemy player characters using normal attacks will use the Deathbringer's attack animation. In any case, if he seems to spend a relatively long time idle, that's why.

However, the battle ends immediately if (Paladin) Cecil attacks him at any time after his second kick.

Take advantage of the scriptedness. Palom can defend the whole time, Porom and Tella should each have a Healing Staff and use it to keep health up, and Cecil should defend until Yang's second kick, then immediately attack. It's that easy.

This still seems to work the same way in the DS remake, though the kicks come faster and hurt more. Cecil's lines now display, as well.

Yang collapses, then gets up slowly.

They approach the innkeeper.

They head into a room. Palom hops in bed, while the others gather to talk.

Curiously, the EasyType leaves Yang's ごじん (go-jin) alone this time, instead of changing it to おかた (o-kata) as it did the last time he used it.

I always mentally appended an "-in-law" to the "Edward's father" remark, but as written it could defintely be taken the wrong way. Originally, Cecil never finished his sentence, and it's more likely he was planning on (accurately) introducing Tella as the father of Gilbert's lover—Yang has at least heard of her, since Gilbert mentioned in Fabul that she was killed in the attack on Damcyan.

The party proceeds after resting up. Unlock the equipment shop with the key to outfit Yang and get a Thunder Rod or two (and slip through the secret passage to clean out their treasure chests), then head to the west side of town to unlock another door...