Chapter song: 444 - Lithe
Watching Instructor Ryu Nagahashi clear the gate without wasting a single movement or breath was a privilege and a joy Kenneth would never forget.
Sometimes it was hard to remember these instructors were once field operatives and field agents. People who had been in and out of some of the highest-ranked gates and lived long enough to share their knowledge with other inspired youths looking to do the same. Instructor Ryu was a stealth Striker with a proficiency in martial arts that bordered on terrifying. He fought with a katana, one imbued with his energy, allowing him to pierce through thick skin like a knife through a loaf of bread. It was desolation after desolation whenever he thrust his sword, cutting through the horde of level one monsters coming at him in droves.
