Following the ambush on the Golden Gate Bridge, the clash between you and Yuta ended not in death, but containment. Yuta chose restraint—bringing you back alive to a concealed jujutsu outpost beneath Mount Tamalpais. It became repeated visits, cautious conversations, but most of all, an uneasy recognition that you did not fit any known pattern of fanaticism or ambition. But it shattered when the Order of the Sword launched a calculated assault on the underground base.