You take your first steps into the 5th Stratum, the beautiful Porcelain Forest... and you immediately see Monsterous Rats tusseling with a man with a powerful physique, and an even more powerful blade! He eventually slays them all brutally... Yggdrasil, never change...

The young man notices you, and smiles at you, while his chest is still heaving from his heavy breathing due to the battle.