Canto III: The Unconfronting

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Canto III: The Unconfronting
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Season	Season 1: Orientation
Focus Sinner	Sinclair
Associated Song	Between Two Worlds
Story
Location	K Corp. (District 11)
Date	984-02
Story Dungeon	Branch K-02
Involved Factions	Limbus Company Nagel und Hammer K Corp.
Involved Factions	Limbus Company Nagel und Hammer K Corp.
Character Debuts	Demian Kromer Guido Siegfried
Character Debuts	Demian Kromer Guido Siegfried

“

Curtains close on a blithe yet chilling comedy. Afterward, I could vaguely sense that a tragedy lies in wait. The bus rumbled along. In the window, I saw fall a silent night.

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The Unconfronting is the third Canto in Limbus Company, and Sinclair's focus chapter. It was available at game launch on February 27, 2023, alongside Season 1: Orientation, and takes place between Canto II: The Unloving and Intervallo I: Hell's Chicken.

Summary

The Sinners enter District 11 to claim the Golden Bough in Calw, Sinclair's hometown, but end up fighting while in a immigration checkpoint due to Don Quixote trying to save a family from being separated. Eventually, K Corp. calls one of their "star Fixer" Siegfried to deal with the Sinners. After killing all the Sinners on camera, Siegfried allows them to go, and Vergilius gives Don Quixote a dress down for her repeated offensives. The LCB then makes their way to Calw, only to be stopped by the Nagel und Hammer Inquisition, that call both Dante and Mephistopheles "tainted".

Eventually reaching Calw, the LCB discoveres that the entire town was targeted and destroyed by the Inquisitors, who carry a profound hatred for prosthetic users. The Sinners are welcomed by the voice of the leader of the Inquisition, Kromer, playing through the speakers of the town, and calling for Sinclair. After making it to Sinclair's family's mansion, they find Effie nearly dead from having been tortured by the Inquisitors, with Outis giving him a coup de grâce and Sinclair going into a blind rage.

After Sinclair's rage is quelled by Don Quixote beating him to a pulp, the Sinners reach the dungeon, where they fight Inquisitors having been corroded into monsters with E.G.Os. While there, they also learn how Sinclair caused Kromer to target and eventually kill all members of his family (save for Sinclair himself) by discovering that it was housing an L Corp. Branch Facility filled with Abnormalities in an attempt to escape prosthetic replacement.

Within Story Dungeon

Within the dungeon, they find more people being tortured and killed by the Inquisition, with many of said Inquisitors having corroded with EGO as well.

Deeper in, they find a heavily wounded Saude, who asks if Effie was still alive. Outis claims that he is, but just then, Guido, who the Sinners believed was dead, turns up again and attacks Dante. Guido gives Saude a chance to save herself by killing Dante with her gun, and she seemingly turns against the Sinners. However, it's just a trick to let Guido's guard down so he can be killed for real. After he is dealt with, Saude admits that she knew that the Sinners were lying and asks to be left behind so she can keep the Inquisitors off the team's back. They reluctantly do so, but doubt she'll do much.

Eventually reaching Kromer, she reveals that she wants Sinclair to join her, seeing it as preordained as she has seen it happen in an alternate timeline. Using the power of the Golden Bough, she then mutates into a monster resembling a Lust Peccatula. During combat, one of her attacks melts nearly everyone but Dante and Sinclair, who are then saved by Demian's sudden appearance, with him killing Kromer in one blow. He then talks to Dante and gives them the Golden Bough before leaving.

Members of the LCCA then arrive to rescue the Sinners, injecting Dante with a K Corp. ampule and healing their wounds. While Dante calls it a dismal defeat, back on the bus, the Sinners enjoy chicken kebabs as a reward for claiming their second Bough.

Enemies

• Hooligans
• K Corp. Security
• N Corp. Inquisition

Trivia

• In certain battle encounters, Kromer will periodically whistle, giving all Inquisitors 2 Fanatic FanaticSkill Final Power +X against units with Nails for this turn. (Applies to clashes as well) and causing Sinclair to lose 30 SP.
• This Canto introduces the feature where specific Sinner Identities can trigger unique effects during story encounters. In the dungeon of Canto III if The One Who Shall Grip Sinclair is brought into battle, Kromer will have a unique line of dialogue and become staggered for the first turn of combat.