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You awaken on a cold brick floor. You don't know how long it's been but your injuries have healed. You stand and stretch. Due to the experimental technology in your veins there's no lingering soreness from pain or stiffness from lack of motion like your instincts expect. You notice several things immediately. Your hands are free, you're wearing a linen shirt and pants, and you are trapped behind a set of rusted iron bars.
The cell is lit by torchlight from the hallway outside and on closer investigation, looks like a dungeon. That can only mean one thing. You've been captured and are being held prisoner by whoever sent that samurai. Something indecipherable about the air feels off. You don't know what to expect. Torture? Dissection? Solitary confinement? You try to break free but the bars are sturdy and when you examine closely, you can see they've been etched with more of those moon runes. If they're anything like what you were fighting, it'll take more muscle to bend them.
You can keep at it for a while and so you do. Once you find a piece that seems more corroded than the rest, you strain to snap it. Your stamina is only human so you're forced to stop after a couple of hours. When you've had a short rest, you resume with equal vigor. Around your third attempt, a deep voice speaks and snaps you out of it. "Four more days and you would have broken its wards." You look up to see a man in the same getup as the samurai you fought, the differences being that he's much larger, his armor's engraved with similar runes, and he has a pair of curved swords sheathed on his belt.
You rise to your full height and look him in the eye. He's built like a quarterback but his voice is old, either out of his athletic prime or getting close. He keeps out of reach of the bars as he continues. "My son tells me that you should have died. I instructed him to try his best to kill you if you refused to surrender, yet you remain. Excellent. You are strong and will serve our purposes well." Your interrogator gives a faint nod. "I am Takeshi Daiyamondo, Fourteenth Shogun of our venerable clan."
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