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Demikids Dark version any% Speedrun route.

Hold A and mash B through text fast
Go to setup and change text speed to fast and animation to off.
You can just hold A and run into stuff instead of mashing to talk/investigate stuff.
Fuse demons in the order I specify, for example doing say razor than aminoz, will have a different effect to aminoz razor.
You don't have to wait for Repel to run out before using it again.


Bookshelf top left ointment, plant top right mana juice.
Leave and go left door, pick up 500 macca from locker. Revive orb and mana juice top right.
Continue into next room on the left for repel charm and attack gum in lockers/bookshelf.
Rightmost door to the Library
Love Charm and guard gum leftmost bookshelf, repel charm next to stairs and mana juice bottom bookcase talk to Lena
Crush Claw and dark howl Gargoyle.
Buffer start and A to skip menu's.
Go to setup and change text speed/animations
Move diagonally upstairs (move faster on stairs diagonally)
Auto attack pixy
Go to roof. Talk to dude and try to leave
Enter Hueyville.
Go to the leftmost house and go to flowers for resist gum.
Top-left house table for speedgum.
and sell all gums other than attack, buy two angel wings and all the smoke bombs you can.
Fuse Lava Rat and Windling onto gale

Go right use a repel charm (only use one) Pick up troll seed from chest.
Try not to let Aminoz die, it's needed for fusion.
[Optional safety strat] recruit Tsunami for healing, do this if Aminoz dies.
Recruit two tail, recruit Garum. (preferably recruit as much as you can to fuse onto Gale)
In cave open chests for smoke bomb and attack gum, open two chests in next area also
Use a love charm once repel charm wears off, should wear off at the start of Jungle Maze.
Jungle Maze: Go up, then right. (open chests along the way)
Equip Garum before ringing bell and use attack gums on Gale

BOSS (Tupon):
2x Crush Claw with Gale and heal with him, do basic attacks with powerboost and throw the troll seed with garum. Remember to use Auto repeat (works with items too).
Angel wing back to town.

Angel Wing back to town, sell remaining gums and stock up on smoke bombs
Fuse two tail and garum to make Razor, inherit powerboost. Fuse Aminoz and Razor in to windlord, inherit heal and powerboost.
(If you can't fuse windlord/razor, MC is too low level. Fuse in the next town).
Fuse everything other than windlord onto gale.
Head south past the time rift, go left then up then down.
Recruit Ice Baby and Krane x2.
South house pick up Wyregg, luck gum.
Pick up 2000 macca from chest after bridge.

Central town.
Enter Un building and take demonary quiz from top left green guy. (only need to do this one)
Answers:
2
1
2
1
2

Go up out of central town and recruit an Arakneus and Cait Sith
Save reset until Krane inherits repel.
Fuse Krane with the other Krane and inherit repel, fuse krane with repel with Ice baby into war lion with powerboost, repel and heal all. (repel whenever you don't need fights)
Fuse Arakneus and Windlord into Talos.
Use gums on Gale and repel charm.

BOSS (Grevir)
Crush Claw/heal with Gale, Powercharge basic attack with Talos.

Pick up alarm in top left of map in chest and equip.
Talk to time maiden on left for time chain and
leave and teleport back to central town
Go west out of town toward ice dem.

On the way to Frostyville fight things along the way.
In Frostyville pick up the gem from the well and go to the house right of the shop
Press A inbetween the bookshelves and answer "Light Ikonda"
Go to top right of town and recruit doll using the gem
Barrel in front of inn has attack gum.
Fuse Cait Sith and War Lion into Gargoyle, inherit heal all, powerboost and repel.
Fuse Gargoyle and Ikonda into Apsaras, inherit heal all, teleport and repel.
Fuse everything else you don't need into Gale.
Leave by going north and go to ice temple.

Go west up stairs
Enter Temple and talk to fat looking dude.

BOSS (Harborim)
Crush Claw with Gale, Frenzy with Talos and heal as necessary.
ignore Gale

Go around the back and open chest for mana shake and down the stairs.
Go down left till you find a chest and open it.
Go up and open chest on left (don't open right) and down stairs
Recruit a fairy and bearlord

Heal at healer duder and open rightmost chest (Guard gum)
Go left and up to town
Demipyre can one shot in this area so practice your rng idiot.
Go up till you get to Hydraville

Fuse Fairy and Talos into Sylph with Healmore all/Powerboost and attract.
Fuse Apsaras and Bearlord into Horus with repel.
Fuse Coperia into Gale
Team of Gale, Sylph and Horus.
Go into house to the right with Guy and Judy.
Go up to the next area.

Go left and open chest for gum.
Repel and fight encounters along the way to rank up Akira.
Go left to next area

Open chest for energy cube. and continue left and up to Hydraville
Buy guard chip for 1400 in shop equip on kingloc.
go to inn top left, down stairs and talk to weird thing to the right of bed for revive gem
House in top right, right door to progress. Talk to green shelf thing for holy orb
Leave and go up to Hydramine.


Use attract if you have it.
Go up and left into a middle room and talk to the npc. Get Roksaur and open both chests (top has 5000 macca)
Once a high enough level (18), recruit 2x Osiris and equip him over Sylph and Horus also pick up an 2x Inkubus.
Go downstairs to the right if you need healing

BOSS (Crosel)
Crush claw and earth crush. Heal as necessary.

Gale answer: Do nothing
Teleport back to Hydraville and talk to Naomi, the piano player in the rightmost building (left door)
Go to Hermit
Buy Revive orbs at shop till you have five and at the shop.
Leave town left of the shop.

Go left to the next area and go down and left to next town.

Go behind waterfall and talk to barrel after the scene ends for attack gum
Go up into the next room and open all the chests
Go down out of this room and down to the chest you need to jump to for another gum, use them all
Teleport to Time Tower and go to future Rem
Go outside to the right and all the way right and up till you reach blue dude

BOSS (Agni)
Earth crush and ice blade.

Now go back to Time Tower and teleport to Hueyville and go north to present Rem.

Once you're in Rem go to the bottom floor and destroy the portal downwards.
Go to the bottom right in the next area and talk to red thing

BOSS (Kanos)
Crush claw and basic attack with Gale and heal/Earth crush with Osiris.

Talk to Blond girl and say yes
Teleport back to the school and go back to future Rem
Go back towards where you fought Agni and talk to Libra, now go to center town.
before you talk to Lucifer, Fuse Osiris and Inkubus into Baku and inherit healmore all (do this twice)
(Keep Roksaur for the rest of the game, he is used on the final boss if Baku dies as he can tank one hit)
Feed everything else to Gale
(Keep in mind you still need Horus for Teleport)
After talking to lucifer teleport back to ice temple, return to times edge and enter the third red door

In Dem past go up, watch the scene and grab the letter/time key.
Return to lucifer in center town.
After talking to lucifer teleport back to center town and travel down.

In the next area go right. Fight battles till level 20
(death breath)
In the next town make sure you have 5 revive orbs and 10 mana shakes if not buy them, you'll need to save macca after this.
Fuse Osris and Inkubus to make Baku x2
Go up to leave the town and get the chest to the left for an attack gum.
Fight battle till you have about 5000 macca.
Continue till you find a chest with 1st strike, unequip all talk powers and equip this.
In the next town to the shop with the sword sign and buy repellent. Equip it on Demiloc over alarm
Go up and right, you can ignore all chests on the way
Enter the temple and open the chest to the right at the top for a boss fight

BOSS (Bifronz)
Crush Claw and powercharge basic attacks, use attack items and heal as baku, save attack sprays (if you were lucky enough to get any) for last fights unless you have more than two.

Choose "Let the power flow"
Teleport back to center town talk to lucifer

Teleport to hydraville and leave bottom
Head left towards Elysium
If you need to grind levels (level 21 is sufficient) use shockbolt on Gale, also do this if you don't have 4500 macca
Open chest for guard gum
Go left and enter Avalon and immediately leave, Go north towards Elysium
Once you reach the town go to the top and right of the big building to talk to the trainer
Pay him 4500 maccca and equip magic cross.
Go into the building and head all the way up after the cutscene with Jin leave and teleport to Avalon (this is why you went here earlier)
[Optional safety strat] Buy three revives orbs before leaving
Go left out the town and continue going left till you reach the final area.
Use the gums you have if you have any.

BOSS (Grimlee)
Spam Magic Cross, heal with Baku as usual
Continue on to the next boss

BOSS (Empra)
Spam Magic Cross.
Continue up to the final boss.

BOSS (Seipher)
Spam Magic Cross, Use holy orbs, attack sprays and whatever you have.
Should go down after about 10 buffed Magic Crosses, the more demons you have in your party the better since they can throw healing items and revives.

I guess timing ends on final input so I split (as of writing this at least) on the start of credits. Used to be last boss hit but I don't really care when to split last.

Misc (You can ignore this, it was just for reference when I started routing and I decided to keep it):
Krane level 7 has Repel.
Teleport war lion level 11
Yeti LV 6 has healmax and heal all when Leveled.

LV 13 Aquarius = LV 17 Icyberry
LV 17 Windmare = LV 18 Icylemon
LV 27 Hanuman = LV 19 Icymelon