there is a way! deprive him of influence! you can beat him in challenge 2, and he won't be able to afford marazet's spy transformation ;3
How do you do that? Talking to him only gives one option which repeats endlessly: 'Discuss Challenge 1'. The walkthrough makes no mention of him even being an opponent despite the fact that he's clearly a pickable option, aside from a single brief mention in the changelog for ver 0.20 that to get a male spy transformation: 'face and defeat akarion in ch1, then face and lose to matthias in ch2!' There's no selection when facing him, so do I need to talk to someone else first? Also, this text box is formatting my reples weirdly. What the heck, I didn't hit enter after "no".
Ah, so you can't do it as base lewis. Okay. Guess I can't save Marazet and win both challenge 1 and 2... And I assume the chess piece can't be acquired by giving Magnificence 3 coins or something? (Why did I say three? Because it's the same amount that you win in the first half of challenge 2, so I'd say that's what the value would be.) I was hoping it was possible to do everything in a sort of "pure run". Like the earlier post I made about how in challenge 4 I couldn't win no matter what I picked. I like it when games let you do everything possible even under minimum conditions and using as little cheese as possible. Like Sundered, an action platformer where the main mechanic of the game is that you can infect yourself with evil demon-alien powers that vastly increase your strength and versatility, but they're not required (and to get the best ending you need to beat the game as a pure human with no powers).
Edit: Or maybe a better comparison would be Devil Survivor on the DS, that game is a visual novel/tactics rpg hybrid, where the main plot is that the people of the Yamanote Circle in Tokyo have been barricaded in by the government because of a demonic incursion. There's a whole bunch of different routes in the game, and charcters can die, but it's possible through picking every correct choice in the visual novel sections and by getting all the correct objectives in the trpg sections to unlock every single route at once and save every single character who dies in the game.