It's time for Battle System Implementation!!! This was a challenging thing for me to implement, as I am quite inexperient with coding... BUT! after many sleepless nights, and many horrifying battles with bugs of all kinds, finally this system is complete~~~ (at least the core aspect of it, I'll add many small touches later in development). Now you will be able to have meaningful battles, and all equipment that you equip really does something, and influences battle outcome!
For the next update, I plan to focus on events and characters, so you may get to know them better, maybe snuggle with some of them, and with others even do something more~ So! Stay tuned as we will venture into a barely explored land of events and character interaction~

✧ Implementing Battle System main framework - This is a significant battle system update, the temporary battle system is substituted by a new, permanent one, where you can have a team of 6 your characters battling team up to 6 enemy characters, with initiative, weapons, potions, and in future updates - spells. With this new system making battle encounters will be significantly easier, and they are much more interesting to experience! Of course, this system will be polished in future updates, with the addition of ranged\melee weapon distinction, AOE spells, different status effects, etc... But the main point - now we have a basis on which all this may be built!
✧ Inventory system expanded - Having a sword in inventory is good and all, but equipping it - makes it a much better experience! But weapons are not the only things that you can equip! There's a whole range of different items that you will be able to equip as the game develops further. As for now, there are 3 weapons and 4 slots for consumables (healing potions) that are ready to be used. Items for other slots will be implemented in future updates~
✧ Niwair (also known as Recruiter) image change -  character image was changed to be more aligned with her character.
✧ New intimate interaction! - New intimate interaction added for the female main character, with a new image to enjoy~ 
✧ And many small adjustments - Balance changes, image additions, lots of buttons, text corrections, and many more small changes.