"Back at the FFC temple, when I looked in the mirror for a sec, that was you." - Ryu
"Where even are we?" - Ryu
The figure wrapped in thunderstorms stood there ominously in the empty void, it's face shrouded like a distorted surface.
It then slowly started to approach Ryu, it laid it's feet on the platform, then...
"You're dead" - figure
"Oh...you can tal-" - Ryu
"Wait wait, you said I'm...dead?" - Ryu
"So how come, I'm still, alive?" - Ryu
"..."
"Hello-" - Ryu
"You're not brightest in the room, are you." - figure
"...What's that supposed to me-" - Ryu
"You are dead, but your conscious is still here, for now. This place is what your brain perceives me as, hence, that's why you can't see me." - figure
"I have a condition for you, and you have about...5 minutes before you really die." - figure
"...O-kaaay" - Ryu
"So, what's the condition?" - Ryu
"Those things are yokais, the most deadliest creatures you'll ever meet. Raw power and inheritance won't get you anywhere with them, you need a certain level of...skill." - figure
"And you have, said skill?" - Ryu
"..."
Figure's hands appear and it starts slitting it's palm
Puts hand out as it drips blood
"You need me, you're gonna die, I can help you kill them." - figure
Ryu stares in fright
"What's the condition..." - Ryu
Figure smiles grimly
"I get possession of your body" - figure
Ryu's eyes widen in disarray
"How...long-" - Ryu
"As long as I need to" - figure
"..."
"You don't really have a lot of options Ryu" - figure
"..."
"You sure you can beat them?" - Ryu
"Nah" - figure
"I can fucking kill them" - figure
"...Huff, just down wreck my body" - Ryu
Ryu slits his palm as well
They shake hands
"Do you even have a name?" - Ryu
"Hmph" - figure
Figure's body appears from the thunderstorm
"It's Zero" - Zero
Cuts to the real world
As the yokais finally prepare for the possessing ritual, the atmosphere suddenly changes, the weather shifts, a storm converges in the sky out of nowhere, and Ryu's unconscious body starts twitching and gasping, his mark glowly violently again, and a devilish smile carves on his face, ear to ear.