HomeWaking up in a dark and dank cell, Shichiro found himself quite confused about the events that led up to his capture. He was a bit groggy and couldn't really make out his surroundings too well. Laying on his back, Shichiro decided it was in his best interest not to move for the time being. Laying motionless for a couple of minutes, he had closed his eyes before opening them, figuring it was a good time for him to try and stand up. He wasn't bound, gagged or anything of the sort, rather he felt like he was drugged and taken against his will. Upon getting up, Shichiro began to dust himself off before turning around to the object in question and gazing upon its figure. What laid before him was a rock at all, it was a creature not commonly seen around these parts of the town. A turtle. Currently, it was on its back attempting to fix itself upright in order to make an attempt at escaping its ‘assailant’. It was having no such luck on its own as it seemed to be quite stuck in its predicament. Shichiro thought the whole situation was funny so he decided to help it out a little bit. Walking back over towards the creature, Shichiro began to lift it up and sit it on all fours like a normal turtle. Noting its features briefly, he noticed this turtle was a bit ‘unique’. This one had spikes sticking out of hits back and its shell was slightly bigger than its body, almost resembling a turtle’s. As soon as Shichiro let go of the creature, he watched it stand up on its hindlegs before it started to scurry towards a pair of trash cans that happened to be nearby a food stall. He’d never seen such a peculiar creature before and as he watched the bipedal turtle run towards the trash can.
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Now that Shichiro was fixated on the creature, he couldn’t just leave it alone and wondered what the hell it was attempting to do. Following the creature to its destination. The creature had begun to shake the trash can that was nearby in order to topple it over. Shichiro figured it was just hungry or something so he decided he would go over to the food stall and purchase something for it to eat, although he wasn’t an expert on the diet of a turtle. As he began to walk, he saw the owner of the stall come from behind the counter with a spatula to begin whacking the creature’s shell. The creature didn’t really pay the owner of the stall much attention as it was fixated on shaking the trash can. Watching the event unfold, Shichiro figured the creature was surprisingly resilient despite its short stature, which was quite amusing to him. Eventually, he had enough and decided he would make this thing his companion. Walking over to the two, Shichiro had called out to the man to stop whacking the turtle shaking the garbage can. The owner then began to yell at Shichiro, pinning the creature's actions on him since he was the one to come to its defense. He decided in that moment to take responsibility and pay for the creature’s past transgressions and assured the owner he would take responsibility. At the same time he said this however, the creature had finally knocked over the garbage can and proceeded to rummage through the trash in order to find something to eat. Before it could search the trash however, Shichiro had picked it up away from the garbage, cradling it in his arms. After touching it, he felt himself feeling lightheaded as if he was poisoned. looking down into his arms, he saw the turtle ripping into his flesh as it began to turn into a hideous creature.
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Immediately after shutting his eyes, he opened them to find himself in a dark, dank cell with his hands bound by a piece of cloth. It turns out that previous ordeal he had been in was a strange nightmare and he was actually still in his cell but this time he was bound. Struggling to get the cloth off, Shichiro attempted to pull the cloth apart but to no avail. Sighing, he thought he might have made this training scenario a bit too hard and thought about toning it down a bit by saying the safe word to end it and readjust the difficulty. Then he thought, he was only at the beginning and hadn't even gotten up yet. If he gave up now, he wouldn’t be able to live with the shame. Standing up, Shichiro began to look for something that would help him get out of his bind. After a few moments of observation, he found a sharp piece of brick sticking out of the wall where he proceeded to run the piece of cloth between his two hands where the cloth had connected his wrists. After a few moments of doing so, he eventually got free from the bind he was in, rubbing his wrists a bit. They felt sore like he’s been bound for a very long period of time though, the simulation had started. He enjoyed that the simulation had a sort of realism to it though if he had died in the simulation, it would come to an end and stop mimicking the effects of the injury. Now that he was free, he looked around his cell to see if there was any way out, when he could think of a way out, he began to form the appropriate hand signs to conjure a spell but to his surprise, there wasn’t anything coming out. He couldn’t even feel his own mana at the moment as he was in the simulation.
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Well, this was a new experience, he thought to himself as he leaned against a wall, cocking his foot up against it. Now how would he get out? Soon after he thought that, a man clad in knight’s armor could be heard walking above him. Looking up, Shichiro noticed there was an iron trapdoor that had to be opened from the other side. As he watched, the sounds of a man in metal armor drew closer. This was it, this was how Shichiro would make his escape. Bracing himself, Shichiro figured he’d jump up towards the ceiling in order to get out. As he figured, the man had opened the iron trap door and peered into it. The man was clad in full armor from head to toe, wearing a full helmet, concealing his face. As soon as Shichiro saw the trap door open, he attempted to jump; much to Shichiro's surprise, he now jumped like a normal citizen that had no training. Even though he had confirmed he was cut from his mana, he figured he’d still be able to jump up and escape at least. Something was hampering his physical capabilities as well. After his attempt at jumping, the knight seems to have chuckled before dropping a corpse into his cell and closing the trap door. Well now, Shichiro was a bit worried. Not only could he use the skills and techniques he was used to having, he had to deal with the awful smell of a rotting corpse in the same cell as him. Pinching his nose, Shichiro tried to get as far away from the smell as he could but in a tiny cell like his, he had no luck. Looking at the body, he had to figure out a way to get rid of it or at least try and mask the smell a bit.
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Then there was the issue of being able to escape from the cell as a whole but for now, he would have to deal with that stench. Before he disposed of the corpse, he figured he'd search for anything useful on it since it seems to be wearing tattered armor and leather. Maybe he’d find something that would aid him in his plan to escape the cell. As he searched the body, he had come across a ring of keys that would be attached to the corpse’s hip. Taking the keys, he thought it would be funny if one of these keys would be the one for the cell he happened to be in. Chuckling, he didn’t think himself that lucky in thinking one of these keys would potentially open the door but he decided to give it a try anyway. Long story short, one of the keys did. Well, he had no time to think about it since he couldn’t stand the putrid smell of the corpse that was in the same area as he ran out into a corridor that seemed to have weak and sick people in separate cells, crying, screaming or muttering some unintelligible nonsense. Running down the corridor, he came to the end of the corridor to a flight of steps that he easily climbed before entering a new room from where his cell was located. Judging from the structure and the layout he was in, Shichiro figured he was in an old run down fort of some kind that seems to be used to store prisoners that are left to die. Well, Shichiro didn’t want to be one of the guys that lost his mind to something like this, even if it was just a simulation so he pressed on. The new room was a lot darker than it was before since the corridor at least had lit torches he could use in order to find his way out.
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As he continued, he started walking down a few steps and felt his leg sink to a rather deep puddle of water. After taking his break, Shichiro had gotten up and proceeded to go straight ahead. There were large, rusty double doors in front of him, far too large for humans to walk through. Almost sort of like they were made for a beast of some kind. Well, he expected them to either be too heavy or locked for him to get through but it was worth a shot. Shichiro had attempted to pull the doors open but they were fastened tight. Trying a different approach, he had tried to push the double doors open and to his surprise, they started to slowly open although they were a big heavy, even for him. Pushing the door open took no more than a minute as he opened the door with enough space for him to squeeze through before slipping through. As he slipped through, the door had rapidly shut behind him as if they had a life of their own all of a sudden. Stepping in, he noticed the floor was uneven as the ground seemed to be in a stationary ripple similar to water frozen in time. That wasn’t the point right now, the point of his observation was to let himself know that something had caused this kind of damage, something huge. Now that his astute observation was over, Shichiro cautiously tread further into the giant room. Looking to the right, he saw nothing out of the ordinary other than how old and dated the walls were. Now took another step forward before he noticed he heard rugged breathing. Looking around a second time, he looked to the right. There was a set of large, old jars and vases all piled up near each other but that was about all he had noticed at first glance.
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Still, he could hear the sound of breathing but he was sure he checked everywhere in this large area. Suddenly, he realized he hadn’t checked everywhere and decided to look up. There it was, standing on a ledge large enough for a creature to stand upon. Standing twenty meters tall, a large demon-like looking creature wielding a giant hammer could be seen looking down at Shichiro, drooling as if its next meal had just walked in. Well, this didn’t bode well for him. He was hampered and didn’t have access to his mana at the moment so he was in quite a pickle. As soon as they locked eyes, the creature had jumped down from the ledge in an attempt to fight Shichiro but Shichiro wasn’t interested in that without a weapon. For now, he'd retreat the large creature back the way he came until he could figure out who exactly he was and a means to defeat the massive, undead looking creature. The only thing he knew for certain was he was underground in the catacombs of Oak's church. He didn't know who or what brought him down here but he knew he'd have to escape this place and figure out what happened. He didn't have his memories, his gear nor access to his magical abilities. In the end, he figured he'd have to purge the entirety of the underground as best as he could so he didn't have to return to this foul place ever again, at least willingly. One way or another, he was sure the church was in on this and was banking on him to fix their messes without even formally contacting him. These weird spirits and specters were completely going out of control and Shichiro would make sure to bill the church for his 'services'.
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