Silva: Hey! We were just-

Salv: (points to Silva) I noticed this young man right here and his dog were stealing your food and-

Silva: Hey what gives?! You tryna sell us out?! (nervously) He's a liar don't listen to him.

The mysterious man raises his eyebrow.

Salv: Oh come on are you gonna listen to a young punk or an actual adult like me.

Silva: Calling yourself an adult is a real joke.

Salv and Silva continue to bicker in the background till it's almost incomprehensible.

Mysterious man: QUIET!!!

Silence…

Mysterious Man: First off, I'm looking for a girl 'round here. Her name's Alisah. Y'all wouldn't know someone with that name right? (glares at them)

Salv and Silva share puzzled expressions but shake their heads and shrug.

Mysterious man: (calms down a bit) Alright, well, you two must have a death wish to pillage another man's campsite. You have any idea who you're messing with?!

Silva: What are ya? Some sailor?

Mysterious man: (slightly chuckles) Nah, I'm a pirate. Name's Edmundo Raynn.

Silva: (frowns) Never heard of ya.

Salv: (his eyes expand) Oh shit. Silva this guy ain't just some joe schmo. He's the real deal. I've definitely heard his name around different parts of Instivale.

Silva: Wait, he is that famous across our whole nation?

Raynn: Well at least the big guy has some clue. Enough chit chat. Y'all hafta pay for trashing my site.

Raynn's hands are encased in a powerful ectoplasmic aura. He charges at them with a sea-faring spirit that hurls whirlpools at Silva and Salv.

Silva: Oro let's get the hell outta here!

Silva and Oro start running around the cavern towards the entrance.

Salv: Hey wait up you two!

Raynn's whirlpools miss their targets but then he starts to pour rain down upon them as they escape, making the ground slippery.

Silva: This ain't good, fellas. Seems like he has aquatic weather powers or somethin'.

Salv's body begins to rust a bit.

Salv: You're telling me.

More whirlpools are hurled towards them but this time they were aimed to block the entrance. Silva slips on the ground.

Silva: The hell are we 'sposed to do?

Salv: I got an idea Silva, you have to trust me on this.

Silva: Trust you? You threw us under the bus earlier!

Salv: I know but we are both just trying to survive in this unforgiving world.

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Silva: Why are you getting philosophical aluva sudden?

Salv: Nevermind that just distract this guy while I do what I do best.

Silva begins to run towards Edmundo Raynn and his surrounding whirlpools.

Silva: How can I distract him if he's got us cornered-

Salv: Just improvise!

Silva: Fine.

Silva heats up his body. He notices steam emerging around him with the water on the ground rising. He stands confidently and lunges toward Edmundo with Oro. He splashes the water and punches through the incoming whirlpools. Steam surrounds the aquatic battlefield.

Raynn: Great, can't see those morons now.

Silva and Oro continue to run around Edmundo. With every step taken, the steam rises up higher to fill the cavern.

Salv: (yells) Great job kid! Now's my chance.

The water reaches Salv's knees. Silva and Oro start swimming and dodging Raynn's attacks. Salv's body mass increases and becomes more metallic. He smashes the ground floor repeatedly until it collapses. He falls to the giant pit. The water starts to shallow out on the upper level as it pours to the newly created lower level. Salv picks himself up and climbs to the upper level. He then repeatedly punches the rock walls until a new entrance is made.

Salv: Alright, Silva, time for us to bounce!

Silva and Oro start to cautiously fast walk towards Salv as the steam starts to disappear and the water drains.

Silva: We're right behind ya.

Salv, Silva, and Oro escape to the storm outside. Raynn starts to ride a whirlpool like a surfboard at an alarming pace. Salv immediately smashes the ground so hard that the ceiling of the cave collapses and before long, the entrance is sealed.

Raynn: (Faintly yells blocked from the blocked cave) Damnit! Y'all are dead once I get outta this shithole!

Silva: (fist bumps Salv) Cool power ya got there, Salv. Glad we didn't hafta deal with that maniac for very long!

Salv: This won't hold him forever, let's take a detour to the woods south of here where I previously ventured from. Hopefully we can reach there soon. I'm starting to get real sluggish.

Meanwhile…

In a far off village located southwest of Rattlesnake Canyon, Dante and a man in samurai armor are seen drinking at a bar with some strangers. The intrigued strangers are gathered around a table listening to Dante and the samurai tell a story together from a bordering eastern nation.

Dante: Haha tell 'em how you had to escape that proposal.

Unknown Samurai: Back home in my country of Kettudi, I had many women interested in our shogun, but none cared much about the military dogs of the clan! Except this one chick who could not stop obsessing over me every damn time I left my post.

Stranger 1: She sounds mad creepy.

Unknown Samurai: Needless to say I was not interested in the slightest, which I thought was incredibly clear to her. Regardless, she would constantly leave me love letters from her journal to the palace mailbox once my shift ended. These weren't the standard I love you with heart symbols type of letters. There were drawings of us together in wedding attire or with a family of five each with their own intentioned full names, one of them being a foreign name: Hubert. I mean she was nuts so I would just ignore them. One day, the shogun calls me up and tells me to end things with this woman right now because she was flooding our mailbox from important communications with our riders in the field and allying clans.

Dante: Still can't believe she really caused that much trouble to the clan's military all for a guy like you.

Unknown Samurai: (slightly ignores the roast) Yeah. So, I finally say to myself enough is enough. I waited for the right moment after my guard shift had ended and hid behind the palace. As always, her routine was not broken.

Dante starts to smirk.

Unknown Samurai: I go up to this woman and tap her on the shoulder to get her attention. I say excuse me you wouldn't by chance be the lady who has been sending me the love letters? She is caught off guard. Her face turns as red as a tomato! She nods. I reply, well I have one thing to tell you about those letters. I wave for her to hear me. She leans in. I whisper in her ear these words exactly: I think Hubert is an ugly ass name. She looks flabbergasted and then she tries to talk to me but then I said she needs to stop sending creepy letters. The lady slaps me and runs away sobbing. At one point I felt somewhat bad for what I said, but I reminded myself all the times that I rejected her original proposals and she was the same chick who spilt scalding hot tea all over some other girl just for saying hi to me.

Dante and the strangers laugh hysterically.

Stranger 2: She really is insane!

Dante: (wipes his slight tears back) I told you haha!

Stranger 3: Hey that was a great story and all but I can't help but shake a feeling…

Unknown Samurai: (accusatory) And what's that friend?

Stranger 3: I don't think you mentioned which clan you were from?

Unknown Samurai: Who's asking?

Stranger 3: My name is Shoto.

Tension in the room rises.

Unknown Samurai: And your surname?

Stranger 3 immediately takes off his winter hat to reveal a yellow headband.

Unknown Samurai: Oh… you're from the Huang Clan, I see.

The unknown samurai quickly draws his blade to the stranger's neck. His helmet falls off to reveal a red headband.

Unknown Samurai: I am Katsuo from the Akano clan. Your curiosity will be the cause of your downfall.