Bright lands of despair.

After the fight with the masked person, Reima continues through the village, the path leads through a roof of a destroyed hut. Looking around for anything interesting he knocks on a door of a hut that seems to have someone inside... No reply. He knocks again but still receives no reply, listening closer, he hears quiet sobbing and desperate scratching sounds coming from inside. Thinking that someone is in danger he kicks the door open and sees a huddled figure in a shadowy corner of the single room hut.

Reima "Hello?" he asks cautiously, in the game there wasn't anything like this from what he can remember...

The figure doesn't seem to hear him but continues scratching something on it's face. Reima walks up to the figure and turns it around, they're wearing a mask... The mask has blood all over it, probably from the bloody fingers that seem to be worn down to the bone.

The person pushes him away and holds it's head like it's in pain. It grasps the edges of it's mask and tries to tear it off, but can't seem to manage it.

Reima "I can try and help you, if you let me..." Seeing no reaction from the person he decides to try and pry the mask off. He grips the hair of the person and the masks rim before applying inhuman strength to separate them, he feels something give but he only manages to tear hair from the persons head.. They don't give any indication of pain and just continue to manically pry and claw at the mask to rid themselves of it...

Reima "I'm sorry, I don't think I can do anything for you..." he sadly shakes his head and leaves the hut... Focusing his hearing he hears similar sounds coming from the other huts nearby... "What's going on here..."

He continues to walk through the village, it gradually gets more cluttered as he goes. Paths across the top of the buildings provide slight relief from the sun, eventually he comes to a dead end... The path forward is blocked by a 8-9 foot tall shimmering door that seems to be made of stone that's been folded over itself, his Medallion almost tries to tear itself from his neck as it shakes more than it's ever done before... Looking closer he sees some sort of map on it with glowing icons, a rectangle that seems to be this door and a path that leads to a glowing white dot... Reima remembers that this is the first "boss" that you have to fight to continue... He could just teleport past it but that would defeat the point of coming here in the first place.

Reima decides to follow the map and walks up the stairs to the right that lead to the overhead paths... As he's halfway to the top of the buildings he senses something moving behind him, using Observation Haki he sees a peculiar sight, instead of just a human silhouette the head of the human where the mask is placed seems like a... Portal?

As hes distracted by this new revaluation the male masked figure lift it's leg into the air and performs an axe kick towards Reima... Reima manages to move his head out of the way of the vicious attack but receives it on his shoulder. The plating of his armour blocks a good amount of the impact but it still manages to dislocate his left shoulder.

Reima "Fuck!" he almost shouts as he feels his shoulder pop out of it's socket, he quickly spins around and back-fists the ambushing enemy but they back away as he tries to follow with a straight kick.

The figure stands straight in a stance that Reima recognises as Windfall... It's the evasive martial style that allows practitioners to agilely dodge and evade attacks while delivering quick, technical or complicated attacks that require a high dexterity to utilise properly. He stands straight on with both hands open and showing their palms. His right leg is almost directly behind his left and seems ready to pounce at any moment.

Reima observes his stance closely as he wishes to incorporate it's techniques into his own repertoire of known moves.

The figure slowly approaches Reima, not looking away for a second and seeming to watch his every action. They crouch for a moment before spring up and turning mid air, it's only when Reima has to dodge the lightning quick foot approaching his face that he recognises the attack... One of less useful techniques that almost no one used, the 360 tornado kick... If you know what to look for and see it coming it's easy to counter due to it's low speed and inability to stop once you start it.

The figure lands correctly but Reima sees an opportunity as they recover, as they plant their feet to the floor he brings his leg up and stomps on the side of the knee. CRACK!

The impact of the stomp seems to disintegrate the masked man's knee cap and he falls to the floor with a grunt. Reima follows it up by foot-ball kicking him in his masked face, causing him to explode from his head down in a flash of various shaped particles.

Reima holds his dislocated arm and groans as he tries to pop it in, causing him to grunt in pain for every failed try. After the forth he manages to force his arm back into it's rightful place and proceeds to sit for a moment to ingrain the Windfall stance and movements so he can possibly use them later.