It was a day before the big show at the town theater, and Kenzumi, Satoshi and Ms. Beatia were pretty excited to go. Kenzumi also heard from Senpai that she was pretty excited to go.
Ms. Beatia was doing a little walk down the street in the late evening to help clear her mind of anything related to her daughter. She found that pretty hard to do. Because as disappointed as she was in her daughter, she still missed her in a way. So she tried her best to clear her mind of the bad thing that her daugher did.
She was nearing her house when she noticed a man in samurai robes right next to the house. She didn't know who he was, but she felt like she needed some reassuring that he wasn't there to attack her. So she slowly walked over and said. "Excuse me sir, are you lost?" The man glanced over her, but didn't say a word.
Ms. Beatia looked along the edge of the house, and noticed something hoping along the side. She recognized it as a shadow ball from Rhythm Heaven, which are creatures that try to take your rhythm. So either Queen Rhythmia sent them down here to take rhythm, or they went through the banishment portal by mistake. It was wearing a red mask, and was heading to the man.
It jumped off of the edge of the house, but the man sliced it's mask off with his sword like it was nothing. Ms. Beatia then realized that this man must be trying to protect the house, which relieved her.
She walked past the man as he continued to cut up more shadow balls and entered the house. Kenzumi was working on some Power Calligraphy for his writing class, and Satoshi was watching the Quiz Show on the TV. "Hey there Ms. Beatia." Satoshi said. "Excited about the big show tomorrow?"
"Of course." Ms. Beatia said. "Say, did any of you notice the man outside the house.?"
"You mean the Wandering Samurai? Yeah, we've seen him plenty of times. He's usually fighting off these weird shadow creatures."
"What are those even?" Kenzumi asked.
"They're shadow balls. They're a common pest in Rhythm Heaven, and they probably got to this world by accident."
"Probably so." Satoshi said.
Ms. Beatia then went off to her room to go to sleep. The morning afterwords, she went out to see how the Wandering Samurai did, and found a pile of cut up red masks and a note, the note said, "There are roads that a samurai must travel."
"Wow." Ms. Beatia said.