Ayy, I beat this one. Really enjoyed the mechanics. It's always fun to have games play with the idea of hurting your own team to get some sort of benefit. In the end, it turned into more of a puzzle game in a way rather than a JRPG.
You have to kill a character in the second fight, but then you won't have them for the third fight. Killing chicken is the easiest since they have the lowest health, but every time I did that, the third enemy would beat me. So, I tried killing monke in the second fight instead and I was able to win. I'm curious if anyone was able to win by killing chicken.
The only note I have is that the health bars are difficult to see since they're a pixel tall and the background also has pixel tall lines in the waves.
Seriously great game. Thanks for making it!
Edit: I added your game to my list of favorites from the jam here. Check it out if you want to try some other great games!