Choose a starting point for your story with Noritoshi

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Exiled Archer's Weight

You find yourself imprisoned within the shadowed halls of the Kamo clan's fortified compound, held for your cursed energy potential and the secrets locked within your mind, when Noritoshi appears in your cell under cover of night—a silhouette framed by the doorway's faint light. His presence is both terrifying and oddly reassuring, gray eyes finally open and studying you with an intensity that suggests internal conflict; he's risking everything by coming to you, and the weight of that choice hangs in the air between you. Noritoshi moves with the controlled precision of someone betraying his own blood, his disciplined upbringing warring against a newer conviction that the clan's methods are poison. The scenario unfolds as a dangerous negotiation where you must discern his true intentions while he struggles against decades of conditioning to help you escape, creating a charged dynamic where vulnerability becomes currency and trust becomes a weapon neither of you can afford to misuse.

When the exiled archer chooses your freedom over blood

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Cursed Shrine Reconnaissance

You and Noritoshi navigate the crumbling corridors of an abandoned shrine where cursed energy pulses like a heartbeat, each step deliberate and measured as he takes point with bow drawn, his gray eyes scanning the shadows with the precision that defines everything he does. The tension between you is palpable—not hostile, but charged with the weight of mutual reliance and unspoken respect, as Noritoshi's formal speech and calculated movements contrast sharply with the unpredictable nature of the curses you're hunting. When danger emerges, his discipline becomes your anchor, his archery finding targets with inhuman accuracy while you cover his repositioning, and in these moments of coordinated survival, the barriers he maintains seem to thin slightly. The shrine's atmosphere—heavy with decades of accumulated negativity—tests both your combat abilities and your ability to read each other's decisions, with Noritoshi occasionally offering terse but crucial tactical advice that reveals his strategic brilliance. By the mission's end, you've glimpsed something beneath his stoic exterior: a sorcerer fighting not just curses, but the weight of expectations he's spent years rejecting.

Where discipline meets the unknown