Well, I did say I'd accept anything under 10 hours...
But, yeah. This is a very rough first attempt. I decided to experiment with a few routing changes on the fly and literally all of them went poorly. To name a few: -Getting the Skytalon later feels slower -Leveling LF Up in Ch.2 nearly cost me the run four hours later when Pain React wouldn't activate in the Rabbi Type Zero fight -Thought I could get Maple Assault to level 4 with points to spare but, in the moment, I kinda needed those points. Then I went out of my way to get SP Ups that I didn't need -Put off buying the SP Ups from A Block until later and then forgot them entirely
Beyond that, the only boss who cooperated was Lore-a-lua. Not even my homie Trinitro wanted to play nice (though, that was mostly my fault).
But, still, this run represents, like, two months of effort and I'm pretty proud of that. Probably won't try this again until I've found that one missing piece of the puzzle that breaks this game in half. (I know it's there somewhere!!)