>>5570798You finally reach your destination just a few hours after noon, having driven past plains, into another desert, and right through a forest trail. You find yourselves at a rather simplistic but fairly large training ground enclosed by a stone wall, presumably with just a few buildings contained within for activities that would be unsuited to being exposed to the elements. A sign over the entryway declares the location as exactly what you were looking for - "Mutaito's Training Academy". This would be where you could find the man who knew how to create lightning from thin air...the very thought gets your blood pumping again.
Parking outside of the building, the four of you enter through the gateway into the grounds. There, you see a collection of dozens of people in purple outfits, all of them save two of them bald, and another man whose back is turned to you that seems to be running them through drills that have them take fighting stances and throw strikes against nothing you can particularly see. Based on your own training with Barbar, you'd assume that this is to correct problems in their forms before they can develop into issues later on...
You watch them quietly for about a minute, before the man in white raises a hand and shouts to them "Continue the katas! I must speak with our guests." despite not having actually looked back at you the whole time. He tucks his arms behind his back and turns around, showing you the rather impressively bushy mustache gracing his face. You honestly didn't expect that kind of facial equipment, and it kind of makes him look like a walrus-person in your opinion.
"Mutaito, I take it? Glad to meet you, we came a long way just to see you in person! We heard that you were the one to develop the 'Flash Lightning' technique we saw...and to be honest, we kind of wanted to-" You start to say, while he sizes the four of you up.
>"- fight you! We really want to see how the Way of the Warrior matches up to your style.">"- learn directly from you! I think your style could pair well with the Way of the Warrior.">"- get your advice on how to train better, so we can become better warriors ourselves.">You wanted something else... from him?You can choose to pair fighting him with any other option, if you wish. Other options may be mutually exclusive from each other, however. 