There are plenty of elements in that are brand new in the tactics-based spin-off of , and one of the biggest, most immediate ones is Erina. You meet her i🎃n Marie’s Kingdom as the leader of the Rebel Corps, but questions arise quickly about who she is and where she’s from.

As Toshiro joins the gang, wires get mixed between him ⛄and Erina several times throughout the story, until he recalls exactly why she’s felt so familiar all along - Toshiro🅷’s recollection of Eri Natsuhara, a fiery friend from high school, has kept his rebelliousness alive.

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This guide contains major end-game story spoilers and main plot points from Persona 5 ൩Tactica.

Erina, Leader Of The Rebel Corps

Marie's Kingdom

When you first meet Erina, you're barely into the tutorial of Persona 5 Tactica. She's the brave Rebel Corps leader that you meet in Marie's Kingdom, fighting with her comrades to start a revolution against the Kingdom's ruler.

Erina, a girl with a metal leg and one eye covered, saves Joker and Mona from potential execution, and she agrees to join the Phantom Thieves if they agrꩲee to help her and the Rebel Corps rebel against Lady Marie.

From here, Erina is a pivotal 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:party member in your battles a♔s you push forward into the Marie Kingdom in an effort ꧙to free your friends from her spell.

She specializes in guns and, despite that she doesn't have a Persona, she's still able to cast 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Forget spells in battle.

Erina is the only party member who is unable to equip a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Sub-Persona, either.

She's crucial to rescuing your friends from Lady Marie, uprooting Marie's flag and planting her own flag to rescue the Phantom Thieves from her control.

This is the final step that breaks Marie's spell over them, making Erina critical in the rescue mission. From here, Erina learns Flag of Freedom, a support skill that breaks enemy Cover and heals nearby allies when 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Voltage is full.

But along the way, Erina falls in battle after being shot by one of the Legionnaires, and Toshiro picks up the flag and plants it himself to end the battle.

Before the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:final battle with Lady Marie, Toshiro remembers that Marie is his fiance in the real world, but insists she's an awful woman to whom his engagement was arranged for monetary and political gain.

Yoshiki and Nakabachi Kingdoms

After the boss battle against Marie has finished, another bullet door opens nearby, and much to their surprise, Erina proceeds to the next Kingdom with the group, despite only knowing about herself that she's been rebelling against Marie her entire life.

Regardless, Erina is available to use in your party throughout the Yoshiki Kingdom as well. She helps fight through the revelation that Yoshiki is Toshiro's two-faced, controlling father in real life.

Erina is there as you battle through the Yoshiki Kingdom and learn that Toshiro blames himself for his mother's death, helping Toshiro overcome this needless blame and defy his father for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a final time in battle.

Once all is said and done in that boss fight as well, Erina continues into the Nakabachi Kingdom with the Phantom Thieves and Toshiro.

Upon arrival in the third Kingdom, the rebels here insist that the Phantom Thieves need to collect four "keys" throughout the Nakabachi Kingdom before they can have their fina🎃l showdown with him.

However, the keys they're discussing aren't physical keys - they're key items from Toshiro's childhood that are able to make him remember who he is as a person when he touches them.

It's through these flashbacks that we realize Erina has a striking resemblance to Toshiro's friend from high school, Eri Natsuhara.

Eri Natsuhara

As Toshiro continues to touch the keys throughout the Nakabachi Kingdom to reveal his memories from high school, you learn more about Eri Natsuhara, but the main thing Toshiro remembers about her is that Eri has a ceaselessly rebellious spirit and refuses to settle for injustices.

When Toshiro was in high school, he was on the student council as Class President, and Eri came by to introduce herself after transferring to the school mid-year as Eri joined the student council with him.

Through their work on the student council, Toshiro and Eri worked tirelessly together to listen to students, provide counseling, and work together to find solutions to problems th💖roughout the school, growing clꦗoser all the while.

While it's never explicitly stated in the game, it's heavily implied that Toshiro had feelings for Eri.

Eri likes to tease Toshiro often, often poking fun at him for being so steadfast and serious, the opposite of everything Eri is. While Toshiro respects her rebelliousness and carefree nature, though, he can't seem to make himself participate.

Nakabachi And The Subway Incident

By the final key in the Nakabachi Kingdom, Toshiro remembers 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:why Nakabachi is so awful - Nakabachi was blackmailing students for his own 💃personal gai🧸n, many of whom had come to the student council for help on the matter.

When Eri finds out about Nakabachi's mistreatment, she's adamant that she and Toshiro confront Nakabachi about his misdeeds. He's blase about the encounter, demanding that all his so-called victims come forward about their allegations.

Shortly after, we see Eri and Toshiro with Nakabachi again, who reiterates that he's able to worm himself out of any situation and that nobody would believe high schoolers. He maintains this position until every student being blackmailed appears to confront Nakabachi at once.

Not only that, but Toshiro voice-recorded the entire encounter, including all the tauntin🦩g about how Nakabachi would g💛et away with the crimes he was well aware were torturous.

But while Toshiro and Eri feel initially like they're doing the right thing, the school gangs up on Nakabachi and aren't able to relent, eventually stalking and tormenting Nakabachi for his misdeeds, which leads to Nakabachi having a mental breakdown.

Shortly after they believe the dust has settled with the entire situation, Toshiro and Eri were standing on a subway platform waiting forꦫ a rush hour train home after school. As they cha💝t, we see Nakabachi enter the subway platform, eyes affixed to Toshiro and Eri.

In a dazed fit of anger, Nakabachi snaps and pushes Eri onto the train tracks just as the train is pulling into the station, and in slow motion, we see her make eye c🍬ontaꦚct with Toshiro as she reaches out to him for help.

Unfortunately, Toshiro wasn't able to save Eri from being pushed onto the train tracks and maime🍌d.

We learn later that Eri survives the attack, but she struggles to walk, with the implication that one of her legs was brutalized, and the bandages on her face suggest she lost an eye.

However, Toshiro remembers, as he begins to confront Shadow Toshiro, who's well aware that Toshiro can't get over that he wasn't able to save Eri, that Eri wanted him to forgive himself, to keep fighting the good fight even while she's not able to help him.

Because of this, Toshiro admits to himself that Erina is a manifestation of Eri Natsuhara, and, at just the right moment, he awakens to Ernesto, his Persona.

Ernesto, Toshiro's Persona

If Eri was Toshiro's memory of rebelliousness and what it means to stand up for yourself, then it should come as no surprise that she would manifest into Ernesto, Toshiro's Persona.

Between the name Ernesto and the flag motif, the implication is that Ernesto was inspired by Che Guevarra, a major leader in the Cuban Revolution who's become a catchall in recent media for the spirit of rebellion.

With Erina's focus on guns, Toshiro and Ernesto have an attack called Baywell 45 MkII, a gun-based move that costs Toshiro no SP to use, which sees Ernesto transform its body and make use of itꦗs enor⭕mous weapons.

He's also able to use Liberator to cast Almighty damage in a medium range as another attack, and for support, Ernesto has Crystal of Rebirth, which is able to heal party members around it.

Should you finish Quest 015, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Lavenza's third trial, Toshiro will also be able to use his ultimate skill, Light of a Promise, which deals heavy Almighty damage in a large area.

Salmael Boss Battle And Erina's Goodbye

Toshiro is a required party member for the entire Salmael Kingdom, so becoming comfortable with Ernesto's range and attack is pivotal to finishing the final battle with as many party members standing as possible.

Once you've freed her from Shadow Toshiro, you can use both Erina and Toshiro in a party together. Erina will vanish for a ♓moment to allow for her spirit to become Ernesto 🔯before reappearing back where she was.

Before 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:your final showdown, Salmael lets the Phantom Thieves know that he created this entire metaverse to squash Toshiro's rebellious heart. Toshiro is trying to become Prime Minister someday, and stirring the pot would 💫only tarnish his reputation.

As such, Salmael has made Toshiro overcome his cruel fiancee, Marie, and puppeteering father, Yoshiki. What Salmael wasn't planning on, though, was Erina, the memory of Eri Natsuhara that kept the flame of rebelliousness alive in Toshiro.

In order to truly stand on his own two (shaky) legs, Toshiro and Ernesto must join the Phantom Thieves for their final battle against Salmael, and you'll need to defeat Salmael to end Toshiro's trial metaverse for good.

After Salmael falls, Erina tells the Phantom Thieves that she knows her time with them is short. Everone says an emotional goodbye before Erina vanished back into Toshiro's heart again at the end of the game.

However, before the credits roll, we see that Erina's resolve has worked on Toshiro in real life, as Toshiro dumps Marie and indicts his father for criminal activity after overcoming Salmael an♕d awakening to Ernesto.

Toshiro calls Leblanc at the end of the game to confirm that he's happy with everything, shortly before he reunites with Eri Natsuhara on the street for the first time since high school, af🎀ter her memory is ꦆwhat helped him change his own heart.