You will end up at a river's edge (there is another Letter for convenience nearby, so if you die in the next area, you won't have to rewatch the transition scene.) This next puzzle involves pushing pieces around a giant chess set. You need to get Tomoya's chess piece to the gate on the far left, where pushing him onto a square in front of it can trigger a pressure plate. The danger here comes from the black pieces. Every time you move Tomoya, the General piece will move two spaces closer to the player, and every time you move a white soldier piece, the black soldier piece opposite it will move two spaces closer to the player. The player's movement is paused when pushing a piece, but it's possible to quickly move before the opposing pieces make their movement, so use this to your advantage. This puzzle probably has hundreds of solutions, but I tend to stick to something like the arrangement below.

 

Essentially, I use the positions of the soldiers of both colors to  restrict the General's movement, and I make sure Ana only moves in directions that are blocked. Using the method above, the General can't move left or down; if I were to move Ana up or too far to the right, the General would be able to pursue.

When you've pushed Tomoya to the platform and the gate drops, continue to push him down the platform to the end. Follow the guide to finish Transition One.

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