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Chapter 5 - Foundation Set

The scene begins with Sugi entering a large, dojo-style room. People inside look at her, many react with respect, however, two men look at her more intrigued. She bows before the two men, the camera focuses on them, one is a 'larger' man, being overweight, with shorter black hair, ugly, but he is charismatic, good speaker. "Sugi, you have proven yourself well, you demonstrated excellent efficiency and form during the fight", the other man speaks, a tall, slender, more attractive man, "I'm proud of you", he holds up his sword, gold. The positions hold as the screen flashes with their names and titles, On the left (the larger man), 'Dai Itaochi', and 'Rida Itaochi', the man on the left has sub-text, 'Head of Itaochi clan/head of psychological magic research', the man on the right, 'Co-Head of Itaochi Clan'.

The scene cuts to a jail scene, Lim stands inside his cell, hung up by his wrists, starved visually. A man walks in, he looks almost amused, "Structer, you've caused… Cost, us quite a lot", "But you still, unfortunately, are entitled to a few things." He holds up a bowl of soup, poorly made, small dish. "I feed you this", he then places the food down before opening his phone, and reading off a script, "Lim Sube, you are entitled to a hearing from the head of National Magic association in Illinois, you have to right to a testimony". Lim asks, "Anything els-", "No", cold, staring. He then places his phone back in his pocket, and without a second thought practically forces the food down Lim's mouth as he grabs the bowl and force-feeds Lim. The narrator explains, "The world has fallen under Autocracy, falling German victory in the first world war, the international governments collapsed, forming under an international autocracy, barely united, barely functional, mostly, big shot families run everything locally to keep it all stable, and they can do pretty much anything to any person". The camera pans to another person, slim, bone-slim, with a ninja outfit on, outside the prison, the screen labels them, "K", nothing more, K walks towards the front entrance, but stops a few feet before it, they jump superhumanly to the architecture's stilts, jumping from one block, to the next, to the next, to the next, until they arrive at the sign, standing on top of the raised sign, reading just below him, with an arrow pointing to the left, as K jumps towards the direction, off-screen, the sign reads "Prison Block".

The Camera pans to Lim, now exercising inside of his cell, with not much else to do. Lim passes his time by figments of his imagination, exercise, and not much else, the days are long, Lim frequently carves faces into his soup when he gets unshackled for his daily run, waiting for his trial, the faces he carves represent people seemingly, some are more amalgamated than others. Lim has a grimace across his face when drawing, he continues to draw however. During Lim's time exercising, he begins to realize the walls, he can embed his substance into them, so he does so, slowly, trying to find something, or think of something. It all feels useless, the walls are too thick, there are no windows, no sunlight, the only cellmate left in the prison that is remotely close, is a crackhead, gone seemingly crazy from years of capture, never talking outside of bursts of random energy, he seems to prefer being locked up then his out-time the guards offer him, Lim stares and observes him frequently. 14 Days pass, then, all of a sudden, alarms blare in the prison, all guards rush from around out the doors, there is no explanation, just something that happens randomly at 3 in the morning. No one know him, No one knows how, but a ninja enclosed character sprints toward Lim's cell, he breaks the cell door effortlessly, grabs Lim, and runs, full speed, K. K Kicks a wall effortlessly, throws Lim down almost 3 stories, peace signs the guards that are still far behind. We hear Lim hit water as he reacts by screaming in the background followed by a splash, the screen goes to first person for K, as they fall back, and down. As K hits the water…

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