The God of Remnant Chapter 3: Kinto-Un
" " – Dialogue
' ' – Thinking
"Renewal Taekwondo" – Technique
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Mori couldn't understand what he was seeing. There was what appeared to be a battlefield surrounding him for as far as the eye could see. The ground was littered with the bodies and body parts of giant white creatures that appeared to be dead. The ground had large craters in it, as if a long cylinder slammed into it circle-side down. There were even places that were smoking, with the soil blackened as if lightning had struck.
He took this all in before shifting his eyes down to his current clothing and from there his confusion only continued. He was now wearing a black long-sleeved jacket that parted before reaching his stomach, revealing the same figure he was used to seeing. The odd part came when he saw the tiger skin printed wrist-guards, secured by a beaded wristband, and matching tiger skin material that hung in two distinct flaps. The only normal part of his outfit being the beige pants he had on and the similar shoes, although these were a different color than his usual. Finally taking in what he was seeing, Mori did what any normal person would do.
He freaked out.
Mori tried to put his hands on either side of his head in order to ruffle his hair in panic at everything going on but found that he couldn't control himself. Not one to give up, Mori tried several more times to control what appeared to be his body but to no avail. Finally giving up as the mental effort was proving to be too much, Mori just decided to see what this forced viewing had in store for him.
Slowly, his body began to move seemingly of its own will. First it was slowly walking, then it sped up to a jog and gradually into a run. As his body got faster, Mori started to feel what had to be the emotions driving the actions. Confusion. Betrayal. Heartbreak. Anger! Each emotion stronger than the last, Mori slowly felt himself bring swept along in the current. Feeling tears stinging his eyes, Mori's body made a mighty leap and called out a sentence that felt so foreign yet so familiar.
"Tathagata! I'm coming for you!" he heard himself boom with so much fury that he hardly recognized it as his own. The next name he heard, however, sent him out of his voyeur position and into a sea of white.
-3 Days Later-
-Team JS Dorm-
Seraphina opened her eyes slowly as the morning light drifted into the window, illuminating the room with the soft glow of a new day beginning. Slowly turning her head to the right, she was hoping to see her teammate, quietly snoring in some new sleeping position as she sometimes found him. Her hopes had been met with an empty, neatly made bed as they had been for the last three days.
Ever since she had spoken with her mother, Seraphina had been lost. To say the conversation had been unpleasant was the understatement of the century. Finally finding the courage to stand up to her mother wasn't easy and had probably earned her an unpleasant set of consequences, but the elation at being somewhat free was well worth it.
She had hoped to talk about it with her teammate and quite possibly the driving force behind this decision, Mori. The last thing she had expected was to walk into the room and find her teammate burning up and otherwise incapacitated. She had been visiting him every morning and every lunch break since but there had been no change in his condition. They had informed her that they would transfer him to Vale's hospital if there was no change on the third day. Bearing this in mind, Seraphina decided to get up and visit her teammate for the last day he'd be cared for at Beacon.
Putting on her school uniform as usual, Seraphina looked at herself in the mirror. Her eyes drifted to the pony tail that she always wore. 'ladies must always have professional hairstyles' her mother always said, her own hair always being pulled into a tight magenta bun with naught a hair out of place. Her hands moving before she thought about it, Seraphina grabbed the hair tie holding her ponytail in place and removed it. Taking in her slightly changed appearance, hair going all the way down her back, Seraphina smiled softly and set out to visit Mori. Making sure to toss her hair tie in the trash on her way out, she wouldn't be needing it anymore.
Making her way to the infirmary was almost muscle memory at this point, having made the bidaily visits for the past 2 days had that effect on her. Enjoying the solitude that walking there so early provided, Seraphina decided to reflect on the odd happenings that she has witnessed since attending Beacon, specifically her partner's lack of a weapon and the strange fighting style he used to supplement that deficit.
Martial Arts were by no means dead in the world of Remnant, such could be seen in the fighting style of Yang Xiao-Long, who she's gotten to see quite frequently in combat class. Even Lie Ren, the silent support of team JNPR, seemed to implement martial arts into his fighting style. The difference between these people and Mori, however, was Mori's complete reliance on Martial Arts whereas they use it to supplement their weapons. That led Seraphina to another point of mystery with her partner, his semblance. Mori has never used nor mentioned his semblance thus far, making her wonder if he even had one. Late-blooming was certainly possible as she witnessed with the leader of team JNPR not even having his aura unlocked prior to initiation, but Mori didn't seem like the type.
Seraphina had her inner thoughts interrupted by her arrival at the door to the infirmary. Bracing herself to see her incapacitated partner once again, she opened the door only to have her eyes widen in surprise at what she saw.
-GoR-
As Mori fell into the sea of white, he reached out towards the rapidly retreating vision as he heard in a voice that sounded eerily similar to his own.
"Kinto-Un"
At the sound of that strangely familiar phrase, Mori found himself on his back, reaching towards a white ceiling. Looking at his hand, he noticed something that wasn't there the last time he checked. There was now a white, fog-like effect floating around his hand with small lightning bolts dancing throughout it. If asked to describe how it felt, Mori would not have been able to; the fog felt alive, responsive, like a part of him that he never knew or had simply forgotten. Testing the waters, Mori softly called out "Kinto-Un" while willing it to disperse and just like that, the fog dispersed into the air as if it were never there.
Finally deciding to take note of his surroundings, Mori looked around and found that he was in the school infirmary. The infirmary was a room that heavily resembled a hospital, with the stark white coloring and the advanced atlas-made medical tech beeping around him. The thing that stood out of this monotonous color scheme, however, was the figure in Beacon's uniform standing in the door way.
"Hey, you're finally awake." Seraphina remarked with a little more emotion than Mori was used to hearing from her. "How are you feeling?" She said, now standing at his bedside.
"I'm feeling just fine honestly besides the fact that I'm really hungry" Mori said with a loud grumble permeating the room not a second later. The monkey faunus just chuckled and smiled sheepishly while scratching the back of his head.
Smiling softly at the goofy antics of her teammate, Seraphina just turned and started walking towards the door to the infirmary. "I'll go get something for you to eat, but when I get back, we're talking about that semblance you've kept hidden from me." She said as she closed the door behind her, the cafeteria her new destination.
Mori continued to sit there as his partner left, letting a thoughtful expression replace his previous goofy smile. He thought about the dream that he had, the battlefield he saw, the outfit he had on and finally the semblance he seemed to have gained. As he thought, he re-summoned the cloud on an outstretched hand, letting lightning dance between his fingertips.
'Was that really me?' the young faunus thought, 'was I the one who killed all those things?' he thought with a furrowed brow. You see, as much as Mori wanted to fight and get stronger, he really disliked killing his opponents. To see that he may have killed so many and was seemingly on his way to kill another made him wonder what could have made him act in such a way.
It was amidst these thoughts that a heat made itself known in his head. He had noticed it before, but it was a very slight heat that seemed to build whenever he thought of those visions he had. Deciding to think about it later, Mori filed his thoughts away for later and the heat stopped building but stayed present. Placing a hand on his forehead and exhaling, Mori began to relax when a knock sounded from the door seconds before his roommate let herself in with a small cart of food.
Rolling the cart next to Mori's bed, she stopped and stood nearby. "First you eat, and then we'll talk because I am not encouraging you of all people to talk with a mouthful." She said with a deadpan as she took a further step back. Taking that as his signal to start, Mori grabbed a fork and a plate stacked high with pancakes before he dug in with reckless abandon.
-One Decimation Later-
Stepping closer as Mori stacked the final plate onto the cart, Seraphina gained a sweat drop at the sheer amount of food her teammate consumed. Hearing the final burp of satisfaction that her teammate released, Seraphina began her questioning.
"So, what happened before you passed out? When I got back from the Forever Fall, I returned to find you knocked out on the ground with blood dripping out of your mouth." Seraphina asked, suddenly serious.
"Honestly, I don't remember. I just remember getting ready to practice some taekwondo after finishing my homework and the next thing I know; I'm waking up in here with a new ability." He says, omitting the parts about the weird dream he had and the annoying heat pulsing within him.
"I see..." Seraphina said before allowing her expression to lighten up ", so do you have any ideas as to what your semblance can do?" she prompted.
"well I haven't had much time to test it, but I think it takes the form of a cloud of whatever size and opacity that I want. Although the further I spread it, the more aura it seems to eat up" Mori said, reactivating his semblance and manipulating the small cloud in response to each point he made. He made sure to carefully hide his growing discomfort as he continued, "I seem to also be able to generate electricity from the cloud, with the amount and strength being aura-dependent." He concluded as he allowed lightning to crackle between his fingers once again before dismissing it.
"That semblance is really versatile and seems like something you can easily weave into your fighting style." Seraphina thought with a hand finding its way to cup her chin as she visualized the monkey faunus using his new abilities. Looking over at the clock, Seraphina noticed the time and decided to cut their reunion short. "Well, I should go, or I might be late to class, so I'll see you later." She said as she started towards the door "Oh by the way, Professor Ozpin cancelled your punishment since you ended up In here so we should go out to Vale and hang out this weekend" The cat faunus said, briefly pausing to look back at her teammate for confirmation. At his cheerful acceptance, she let a small smile grace her features as she headed out of the room.
At the click of the door, Mori dropped the act and seemed to deflate. He began to pant slightly as a bead of sweat fell down his head. Suddenly feeling exhausted, Mori decided to lay back down and go to sleep. Mori didn't even get the chance to put on his iconic sleeping mask as he passed out the instant his eyes closed.
-GoR-
Ozpin took a long sip from his coffee cup as he slowly rotated in his chair to look out at the grand sight of the school he managed. Perched in his clocktower-based office, he had the perfect view to see all of Beacon Academy below him. So seemingly entranced with the sight as he was, he didn't even bat an eyelash when a ringing sound began to permeate the previously tranquil air. Taking a break from sipping his favorite beverage, Ozpin called out a single word:
"Answer" he commanded the phone with a tone of authority, with the phone connecting the call-in response to his voice.
"Good Morning, Headmaster" Greeted one Professor Peach, Beacon's resident medic. "The patient you instructed me to keep my eye on, Mori Jin, has awoken in seemingly perfect health." Peach soundly reported.
At that news, Ozpin let a mysterious smirk grace his features. Thanking Peach for the report, Ozpin allowed her to hang up the call as he let out a small chuckle. Standing up and relocating to a certain wall of his office, Ozpin placed his hand against the glass and channeled his aura. In response, a circle of the glass faded, and Ozpin reached behind a cog in the wall to pull out an old book with the cover fading.
"Welcome back, Jaecheondaeseong; I hope you will be the difference I need." Ozpin said as he opened the book to the first page which contained a two-page wide portrait that had many figures drawn into it. The one he had his eyes on, however, was the monkey holding a staff located to the left. Admiring the photo for a bit longer, Ozpin placed the book back into and re-hid it but not before admiring the title one last time.
The God of HighSchool
-GoR-
-7:30-
-Free Combat Training Area-
Mori had just arrived at the practice area, the constant bedrest he was subjected to finally getting to him made him decide to sneak out. Clad in a typical white gi that was a little loose on his lean frame, Mori entered one of the many light-encased cages and began stretching. For some reason, the heat he was experiencing earlier was not affecting him anymore, so he decided to avoid using his semblance until he figured that out. Finishing his stretches, he stood up and was about to start practicing his forms when he heard his name called out by a familiar voice. Turning towards the entrance to his cage, he was greeted by the sight of Team RWBY's resident bombshell blonde, Yang Xiao-Long.
"Hey, Mori. How's it hanging? I heard you were knocked out in the infirmary the last few days, but you look just fine to me!" The Blonde remarked as she gave Mori a light once over.
"O-oh yeah, I was but it turns out it wasn't anything too serious, so I just came to practice and stretch my legs since I've been bedridden." The brown-haired boy replied, only slightly modifying the truth with a small guilty stutter making itself known as he averted his eyes slightly.
Catching on easily, Yang let a sly smile cross her face. "You snuck out, didn't you?" She prodded and her sly smirk grew before evolving into full on laughter at Mori's unsuccessful attempts to rebuke her. 'He's just like Ruby when he gets like that' she thought offhandedly as she calmed down a bit.
"Alright, I'll keep your secret on one condition. Fight me, right now." Yang announced throwing down the proverbial gauntlet.
"You're on!" Mori replied with an enthusiastic grin crossing his face. He came to practice but now he gets to fight a strong opponent AND practice? That was too much of a good offer for Mori to pass up.
With that settled, the two found themselves at the control center of their cage, setting the rules for the bout.
"How about we do it tournament style?" Mori suggested to which he received a questioning look from the Blonde. "Tournament style is based on knockdowns rather than aura levels. The match still ends when your aura enters the red, but it adds the condition that you lose if you get knocked down 3 times." Mori explained to the attentive Xiao-Long.
"That's fine by me. It sounds much more spar friendly than the typical 'punch till one person's almost knocked out' style." Yang explained to Mori's agreeance.
With the style of spar decided and the timer counting down before the match started, the screen morphed as the two combatants walked to their starting positions. The screen changed to hold Mori and Yang's student portraits with a white bar next to them. These were their aura bars and they would deplete and change color as their aura decreased. Accompanying their aura bars were three hollow circles beneath them. These circles were their knockdown indicators, giving each fighter three knockdowns before they were declared the loser.
Standing opposite each other with about six feet between them, the two began to get into their respective stances. Mori slid his bent legs apart with his left a little further back then his right, hands out to his sides and his tail wrapped around his waist. Yang got into her normal stance which consisted of her standing with slightly bent legs shoulder length apart, left in front. Her fists were held in a similar orientation to her legs with her holding them in front of her, much like a professional boxer, although she held her fists at chest level. This made her weapon all the clearer, the golden wristbands-turned-shotgun gauntlets, Ember Celica.
Ember Celica were two golden bracelets that usually rested on both of Yang's wrists and could even be mistaken for jewelry by the unwise. With a single pump of her arms, Yang could turn the aesthetically fitting bracelets into two shotgun gauntlets that amplified her punches to an explosive effect. Mori made a note to avoid getting hit by a shotgun-enhanced punch if he could help it.
As the timer approached zero, the combatants locked eyes and not a word was said. A leaf floating to the ground could have been heard over the silence that claimed the arena. Suddenly a loud buzzing filled the previously silent arena as the timer reached zero, at which point Yang took one step forward.
A single step was as far as she got however as Mori, who was at least six steps away, appeared in front of her faster than she could register it. Just as she recoiled from shock to prep an attack, Mori moved. He leaned in and stuck his left leg behind her right knee, causing it to buckle and disrupting her balance. With her off balance, all the Mori had to do was shove her with his right hand and just like that, Yang was down. Shock crossed Yang's face as she realized what had just happened as she looked at her now only 2 empty circles.
Mori was going to jump back and gain some distance to reset when suddenly the heat came back full force. He winced slightly when a sharp pain pierced his head and a silhouette overtook Yang's figure. Some green-haired man he didn't recognize was looking up at him with the same shock that Yang now bore. Before he could try and make heads or tails of it, Mori heard a shotgun go off before he felt an explosive pain on his face. The force of the hit, causing him to go flying back and land on his back. The his knocked him back into the present however as he looked up at a seemingly frustrated Yang, her right gauntlet smoking slightly as she cocked it with a fist pump. Putting two and two together, Mori realized she shot the ground to give her the momentum to sock him one without needing much setup.
"First you knock me down in such an embarrassing way barely five seconds into the match and now you're spacing out right in front of me? You must really be trying to annoy me or something!" Yang declared as she rushed towards him, formerly lilac eyes bleeding into a neutral purple as her annoyance grew.
Rolling backwards to gain his footing and shooting a quick glance towards the board, Mori raised his hands to engage Yang once again. Yang came towards him with a storm of heavy blows that promised pain if any of them found their target. Using the vast experience, he gained in Vacuo's combat academy and his natural flexibility, Mori blocked and weaved through every blow.
'My body is absolutely burning up, what the hell is going on?' Mori thought as he redirected a straight form Yang. Beginning to pant from the heat he was feeling, Mori jumped back to put some distance between him and his opponent. As he landed, another pang of pain hit him; this time when he looked up at Yang, there was a young man in her place. The young man was dressed fairly formally as he wore a white dress shirt and black dress pants. The young man had spiky black hair and droopy, almost lazy looking eyes as he looked at Mori with anger. The young man charged and began to engage Mori again, with his attack patterns being eerily similar to the girl that used to occupy his position.
Yang's frustration grew proportionately with her number of misses as her eyes slowly became a darker and darker purple. Her anger peaked when she lashed out with her strongest punch yet and was met with the top of Mori's foot. The faunus had jumped in the air and kicked, countering Yang's punch as he continued his combo. Mori disappeared from her sight as she felt two hits from the left and back of her head respectively, bringing her to her knees (and into her second down) from the concussive effect.
Being brought to her knees and with the pain of Mori's kicks registering, Yang looked towards the scoreboard. Seeing her aura down to 40% and the second circle below her lit up, awoke an anger in Yang that cause her eyes to fully bleed to red. The rage flowing through her system strengthening her, Yang stood back up as her blonde hair caught fire.
This was Yang's semblance, Burn, it builds up based on her anger and damage taken and manifests in the form of red eyes and fire erupting from her hair. With a yell of frustration, Yang turned around and charged Mori with newfound speed. Mori, recovering slowly from his landing, turned around and took a fist to the chest that sent him flying towards the wall of the arena.
Spinning through the air, Mori's chest felt like it was about to explode. That powered up punch from Yang took most of his remaining aura, her punch earlier knocked him to 80% and the one he was currently flying from knocked him down to 35%! Catching himself but coughing as he did so, Mori's feet hit a wall of the cage as he launched himself into the air above the blazing blonde. Eyes going blurry from the damage he's taken; Mori suddenly had a technique name enter his mind. Deciding to risk it all, Mori pulled back his foot and announced his technique.
"Jin Mori Original: Blue Dragon Kick!"
After yelling that and kicking at the same time, the air around Mori shifted and flew towards a surprised Yang. To the young dragon*, the air seemed to take the shape of a much larger blue dragon that seemed to roar before crashing into her. The blast from Mori's attack caused a large cloud of dust to form and a loud boom to reverberate around the area.
Upon landing and seeing the smoke begin to clear, Mori began to shakily walk towards where he last saw Yang. Upon seeing her passed out and slightly injured form on the ground, he looked towards the scoreboard and found himself declared the victor. He had won both by knockdown and Yang's aura meter depleting to red. It was only after confirming this that Mori fell, faceplanting the ground. The monkey faunus was snoring before he even hit the ground as his body had reached its limit.
-GoR-
The sounds of birds chirping are what awoke Mori as he was greeted with the familiar white ceiling of the infirmary. "What happened?" Mori asked himself as he tried to rub his eyes only to find that he couldn't move his arms. Looking down, he realized that he was strapped securely to the bed with only his neck able to move freely. Eyes widening at his predicament, a chibified Mori tried struggling against his restraints until his stomach started loudly growling.
"Oh, you're finally awake?" a scarily calm voice said from Mori's left. Looking to his left, his face went as white as the room he was in. Standing at his bedside was Seraphina and Beacon's resident nurse, Professor Peach. Both of them had their arms crossed and a dark aura around them as they stared at him with eyes that promised pain.
"H-hey Seraphina, how's it going?" Mori said only for her to glare at him harder, making him cower at her intense gaze.
"So, when Professor Peach here tells you to get a few days of bedrest, you find it more appropriate to sneak out and pick a fight with Yang? She's fine, by the way, she only had minor injuries that her aura healed once she recovered it" Seraphina informed in an eerily calm voice that made every word fill Mori with dread despite the good news. "Hey Professor? What's an appropriate punishment for your rebellious patient?" Seraphina asked in a less emotionless tone.
"While I would love for Mr. Jin to recover as fast as possible, I believe stripping him of his access to breakfast and lunch would be a great punishment. Maybe the hunger he has to experience will make him remember this anytime he wants to disobey his doctor in the future." Professor Peach suggested to a nodding Seraphina.
Seraphina then began to make her way towards the exit while Professor Peach made her way to her desk. As Seraphina exited, Mori yelled out a loud 'NOOO' that would have reverberated throughout the halls, had Seraphina not shut the door on her way out. Seraphina smiled as she walked down the hall because even though her teammate was troublesome, he was undeniably interesting.
-GoR-
-The Weekend-
-The City of Vale-
"I feel like you're doing this because you're still mad about before" Mori said as he was forced to carry an ungodly number of bags.
"I have no idea what you're talking about, I'm completely over that already" a completely unburdened Seraphina said as she walked next to Mori.
The pair that made up Team Jasmine were currently exploring the city of Vale since they finally had a day off from class. They had started by going into a higher end fashion retailer where Seraphina used her family's credit card to its best effect. The receipt was so long that Mori would have had to spend the better part of an hour to reach the end. That made him think of how much of the closet she would take up with these new additions, wait would he even have a closet after this?
"Mori, we're stopping here." Seraphina said, which caused Mori to look at the shop she was walking towards.
"A piercing parlor?" Mori asked upon seeing the seemingly uncharacteristic stop for the normally strait-laced girl.
"Yeah, I'll be back in a few minutes" She said before disappearing into the parlor, leaving Mori to just stand outside.
Deciding to take this as a moment to rest, Mori sat down against the wall of the parlor after placing down each of the bags containing Seraphina's clothes. Just as he was about to close his eyes to fully enjoy his rest, he heard a yell from down the street. Looking in the direction of the yell, he saw a fellow monkey faunus who had yellow hair and fur dash across the road. That was odd, but what was even more odd was when team RWBY dashed in the same direction being led by Weiss. Deciding briefly between following them or waiting for his partner, Mori decided to wait for his partner.
A few minutes later, Seraphina emerged from the parlor, three new studs in each ear showing her new piercings. "Anything interesting happen while I was gone?" Asked Seraphina sarcastically towards her relaxing partner, to which she received a shake of his head in response.
"Wanna go get some Bubble Tea?" Mori asked to which his partner accepted with a slight hesitation. The duo then set of to Karate Tea, the biggest bubble tea chain in the four kingdoms that was helped in no small part by their company-wide acceptance of faunus.
-GoR-
Upon arriving at Karate Tea, Mori instantly noticed that it was next to a good-quality café. Filing away his desire to try some of their drinks for later, he and Seraphina entered the shop. Ordering a Peach Black Tea for himself, Mori was surprised by Seraphina's order.
"A mango tea? For some reason, I thought you'd go with something more refined like unsweetened green tea or something…" Mori said with genuine astonishment at his partner's choice.
"Hey, just because I grew up in the same environment as that Ice Princess doesn't mean that I have the same stuck-up tastes." Seraphina shot back with a slight jab towards Weiss.
"Ice Princess? Isn't her nickname Ice Queen?" Mori said quizzically, not knowing his partner to make such a simple mistake.
"Oh right, you guys don't know but Weiss has an older sister named Winter who's even colder than Weiss on her worst day. She has a softer side but it's rare to see it now-a-days, so I think of her as the true Ice Queen." Seraphina explained to an interested Mori.
Before they could continue their conversation, their names were called by the barista. Hearing that, they both got up and grabbed their drinks before deciding to call it a day. Leaving the store and heading back to the airport, Mori was stopped in his tracks when a black figure crashed against him. Being careful not to lose his balance and spill his tea (again), he looked down to admonish whoever knocked into him only to be surprised by who he saw.
"…Blake?" Mori questioned the girl who was currently looking back at him with slightly red eyes and her signature bow missing, exposing… Cat ears?
Deciding that she had done enough running, Blake took a deep breath and locked eyes with Team Jasmine. "Hey, I know we don't know each other that well but could I ask you two for some help?" Blake asked in an unusually unsure voice despite her best efforts.
Mori and Seraphina just looked at each other before nodding with Seraphina beckoning Blake with a "Lead the way". At this, the cat faunus responded by leading them to the café next to Karate Tea where they got a table. Once they were settled and Blake had ordered a cup of tea, she began her tale to the slightly apprehensive duo of Team Jasmine.
*Yang's name literally translates to "Little Light Dragon" so this is just a little wordplay on that.
First of all, I want to apologize for taking a two week break from this story because I intended to update it every week. The reasoning for the break was a combination of wanting to write a longer chapter (around 5-6k words) but while also pacing it so the story doesn't go too fast.
As you may know, the next chapter will end Volume 1 of RWBY and I would like to fit that all into one chapter so the chapter may end up being shorter than all the others. I'll try to come out with that before next Sunday but no promises because college and my laziness kinda hits.
Now, talking about the chapter. This time I did a little peek into the story's relation to the universe of GoH and what may have led to Mori waking up in that green crystal. I don't want to release it all at once, so I'll probably try and space it out because that air of mystery is one thing I loved while reading GoH.
Regarding Ozpin's kind of questionable motives with giving Mori the peach, I want to make Ozpin kind of gray character more so than a plain hero. This is partially inspired by Mujin Park in that he was always in pursuit of his own agenda despite his interest aligning with the protagonist's occasionally. This decision was also inspired by the Ozpin found within the Naruto/RWBY Xover called Shattered Pieces by Orpheus Kidwell, because they took a really interesting approach that changed my view of Ozpin.
Anyways, Thank you guys for reading and reviewing to help me make the story better and I'll see you next time with Chapter 4!
-Mango G