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When you've finished eating, you pack a couple of boiled eggs and a small box of rice into your bag, and wash your bowl. You also take your <span class="mu-s">Wooden Katana</span> off of it's display on the wall of your bedroom, and sheath it at your waist. Finally, you step out of your house and onto the soft sand of <span class="mu-s">Hidden Village Island</span>. There are only dozen or so buildings, mostly one or two bedroom houses of dark, old lumber with grey paper windows. A few are larger, however, like the four story <span class="mu-s">Pagoda of Whispers</span> in the center of the village, where the Elders meet to confer on matters both worldly and spiritual. The inland side of the village features a handful of rice terraces just alongside the treeline, and the farmers have already begun working them for the day while the sun is low and the breeze is warm.
On the beach, a couple of middle aged men are fishing with long bamboo rods, and near them is the wooden pier that extends out into the open water, with short docks extending along the left side, closer to you. There are a few canoes and sailboats still tied down, but most are out at sea, collecting fish or awaiting pearl divers to below the surface to return. Past the pier, on the far end of the beach, is the start of a stone path that ascends up a cliff face just along the water's edge. You make your way directly there.
Gentle waves dash against the ancient steps, spraying bits of cool salt water on the side of your leg as you bound up to the plateau where a tall bamboo watchtower is situated. You waste no time climbing up the ladder, and when you start to emerge at the belvidere, you see <span class="mu-s">Tano</span> is facing out to the ocean in front of you, and positioned in a battle stance. Above his head, between his knuckles, he is holding the <span class="mu-s">Gale Shuriken</span>, the powerful <span class="mu-s">Sheikah Artifact</span> he recovered from the <span class="mu-s">Shadow Temple</span> a little over a year ago when he came of age. You also notice there are lengths of parchment hanging sporadically from the canopy of the watchtower, affixed to strings, with monsters drawn on them in black ink brush strokes.
You don't move, staying on the ladder with only your head having come up above the bamboo platform that serves as a floor here.
<span class="mu-g"><span class="mu-i">"AIYAH!"</span></span>
With this battle cry, <span class="mu-s">Tano</span> arcs his arm and looses all three of the <span class="mu-s">Gale Shuriken</span> at three of the paper targets. They slice the substitute beasts in half despite being narrower in diameter than the paper - blades of cutting wind carry the projectiles through the air. What's more, this magical wind curves their trajectory, and each individual shuriken diverges in flight path, honing in on separate targets. In only a moment, they've bisected another two pieces of parchment each, and returned to <span class="mu-s">Tano</span>, who catches them from the air with one hand. When he does so, he turns to the side, and notices you at the ladder.
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