The movie theater screen starts showing the memory of the mysterious person walking on an open road and passing a mature girl wearing traditional Asian clothing. The environment is familiar to the countryside, nothing modern.
Walking past the girl, they felt a force grabbing their arm and heard a concerning voice.
"Sir, are you ok?"
The man yanks his arm back and continues walking without giving the girl an answer.
The girl then jumps in front of him and warns him: As the apothecary of my village, I won't let a sick person like you walk past me.
The man then violently pushes the girl to the side of the road, knocking her off her feet then continues walking away. Only able to walk about 10 steps forward, before he heard rapid footsteps approaching him.
He immediately draws his sword and swings at whatever ever behind him. Then a loud sound of metal clashed to reveal that, the apothecary girl was attacking him.
Apothecary girl: You know who pays attention to me most? DYING PEOPLE!
Man:…
The girl seems to be struggling in the clash, due to the fact that she isn't as strong as him. To him right now she just seems like a nuisance, a petty thief, a waste of time and energy.
The man breaks the clash and then kicks the apothecary in the side of her torso. The girl wasn't strong but she was very fast, being able to quickly react to the attack, she stabbed the man's leg and took the hit.
The girl got violently flung into a tree, lying lifeless in it and a few seconds later the tree fell and brought her with it. While the man now has a sword through his leg.
The man used his sword to cut part of his outfit then pulled the apothecary's sword out of his leg and used the cloth from his outfit to patch up his bleeding leg.
While patching himself, he didn't hear any sound coming from the direction of the apothecary. When he was done, he threw the apothecary's sword into the tree that was nearest to her location, and continued walking in the direction he had been walking, before all of this mess, but this time his pace got affected by the wound in his leg.
Wasn't able to take at least 5 steps he already heard sounds coming from the apothecary direction. Turning around, he saw the apothecary using her sword to support herself approaching him.
Apothecary: heheh, ok… I may have underestimated you. I thought I could just beat you up and help you recover at our village like many before you.
Man:…
Apothecary: hahahah, still not talking. You, are an interesting traveler. I'm also, an interesting apothecary too. Carrying an unknown condition, that will break my body if I go over its limit.
Man:…
Apothecary: Oh, this must be destiny. Do you have a condition that makes you unable to speak? Just come with me and I'll get rid of it for you.
Man:…
Apothecary: Even that, can't make you make any noise. Fine, you can beat me at my full strength but let's see if you can do it again.
*pull out a candy from her pocket and eat it*
Within a few seconds, the apothecary was able to stand on her own. She sheathed her sword then summoned two water swords each in her hand.
"There are three outcomes. I drag you back to my village to treat you. You beat me and left me here to die. We both die due to blood loss."
Man:…
Apothecary: Don't make that face. If you were following me from the start, this wouldn't happen.
The man sheathed his sword and gestured 'Come at me' at the apothecary. The apothecary dashed at him and attacked with her water sword at a speed that he didn't expect her body to be capable of performing.
Even though she is faster than before, he's still able to see and catch up with her movement. All of her attacks did minimal damage to the man because he was able to break the water concentration with his bare hand before it could hit him directly.
Every time they clashed, all it took was three hits for it to end. Two hit to break the apothecary's weapons concentration and one hit directly at the apothecary's body.
The apothecary tried her best to get any advantage against him, become faster, reconcentrate her weapon at the moment he broke them but none of that worked and the pain kept getting worse and worse.
It's like, every time she is one step closer to closing the gap, he takes 2 steps and stops. Their fight keeps going on without a destination in sight until one of them forces that destination to appear, and it won't be her.
After breaking one of the apothecary's swords with his hand, the other hand goes in for her arm and breaks it. Then he elbowed her in the face, grabbed the other hand that was holding the sword to restrain its movement, then he broke that arm with his other hand.
Finally, he grabbed both of her shoulders and kneecapped her in the torso, she coughed up blood onto his outfit and fell limp on the road.
The man stared at the apothecary's lifeless body for a moment, before checking which part of his outfit got some of her blood. Then he cut off the bloody part with his sword and threw it away.
Before he started walking away, he felt something ramming his foot and heard some grunting.
Man sighed and looked down to see the apothecary ramming her face into his leg. When he moved his leg away, the girl slowly looked up to him and ask
"Mind helping out an injured apothecary?"
Man:… *lifts her body up and leans it against a tree*
Apothecary: haha, you can be quite the charming person. *cough*cough* sorry, don't want to get blood on you again. Before you go, I have a request. There is a pill in my pocket can you *cough* put it in my mouth?
Man:…
Apothecary: *cough* do me the favour please, just open my robe and you'll see it… you beat me up and going to leave me here, at least do me a favor and help me end this suffering.
The man was reaching for her robe but stopped when she said she wanted to end her life.
Apothecary: Come on why did you stop?... were you thinking that I was killing myself *cough*, how ridiculous. My condition, it's acting up and I need that pill to stop it *cough*.
The man opens her robe, which has a lot of pockets that all look the same except for one that has the pill. After taking the pill and putting it in the apothecary's mouth, he closed her robe.
Apothecary: thank you, you can leave now… I'll be ok… I hope…
The apothecary fell asleep in the middle of her sentence and nearly faceplanted herself into the dirt again but the man was there to hold her body. After adjusting her position a bit, he stood up and prepared to leave but stopped.
Man sighed and grabbed the apothecary's sword, put it on his other side then grabbed the apothecary and carried her on his back.
He then continued to walk the path that his vision was showing him, an aura leading him to his next destination.