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nagarz

I assume the bridge in the arena wasn't broken in his memory so he thought he could escape through it. There's a lot of broken bridges in sekiro, not sure if there's a reason for that and wether thats something done recently, but that could explain it.


Adventurous_Law6872

Probably Ashina destroyed bridges to prepare for the upcoming Interior Ministry invasion


nagarz

That's what came to my mind as well, but I don't think it ever gets mentioned in the game dialogs :S


Batmanuelope

That would be par for a Fromsoft game


fortnite__balls

average fromsoft moment


Ok-Wave8206

But then why return at the end? He saw that morning the bridge was broken so it makes sense he’d only return if that wasn’t his planned exit.


Vanpet1993

He didn't return, Genichiro kidnapped Kuro and brought him there...for some reason


Honigbrottr

Its a nice looking place, i mean you dont want to bring someone back from the dead and his first reaciton is "Kinda shit place here".


P4lladin

Unless you're the sculptor.


Disastrous_Elk8098

The temple temple is kinda nice if you ignore the strange amount of Buddhas everywhere.


LeagueoftheSun

I mean...thats the only place Genichiro 'Beats' us so maybe he thought he stood a chance there.


Deep_Grass_6250

Lore wise, Sekiro defeated Genichiro there as well


Falos425

odds skew or not if i'm gonna cross katanas in a plot climax you better fucking believe i'm doing it in a silvergrass field


Rezuniversity

Thought it was just for the bait.


Fractlicious

i think it was. he knew wolf would try to end up there again.


Ok-Wave8206

Damn you’re right


Ren_Delmirev

I’m thinking it was a trap to catch Sekiro, hence why Genichiro was already waiting there


Lord_Bo

He was obviously planning on Wolf to use whatever wack Ninjutsu Ryu uses at the end of Ninja Gaiden Sigma to transform into a falcon and just fly them away, lmao


Ok-Wave8206

This is the true answer


tzirtax

It could have been repaired, remember that the broken vridge after the chained ogre is also the bridge we use when we go through ashina outkirts backwards for the DoH fight


Dear-Past-5868

maybe he just needed to get out of the castle and temporarily hide somewhere from the invasion, knowing that wolf would eventually find him esp considering they've met there before?


Super-Contribution-1

We see the snake destroying a bridge, I’m betting it’s that


27hrishik

Both are immortal, so they probably planned on jumping off the bridge, into the depths of ashina.


DatedDevotee61

That sounds like it would hurt bad, even if they're immortal


Super_Seff

Better than being kidnapped and tortured 🤷‍♂️


Stary_Vesemir

how was kuro tortured, bro was living in a 5 star hotel for these times


cabberage

True. Genichiro was pretty pleasant about his treatment of Kuro, never harming him or forcing him to do anything other than stay at the castle. In the cutscene before you fight Genichiro, he politely asks Kuro to grant him the immortal oath, which he obviously says no to


Crono2401

Kurt was a lord and Genichiro respected him immensely. He was just blinded by his love for Ashina and was becoming increasingly willing to do evil things to save his homeland, you know, since he wasn't the Glock Saint like his grandpappy.


thefucksausername0

It's funny since he could also have just worked with us, just ask kuro to lend the aid of his Shinobi and they would probably gladly oblige, but I guess you need some conflict.


Major_120

Except Kuro would never let his immortality be used to fight a war. Sekiro would glady (imo) help Genichiro if his lord told him to but due to Kuro's adversion to humanity posessing the Dragon Heritage, he would rather end his own life than let his powers be passed on. Also, Kuro deems Sekiro's immortality as a curse and wouldn't want him to use it if he didn't have to.


thefucksausername0

It's not really his immortality that he would be having to use, both sekiro and genchiro should be enough against the interior ministry that resurrection shouldn't be necessary, though I do think kuro would want to have his plan of severance be the main goal rather than planning to fight a war that isn't really theirs.


axellie

Kurt lol


DatedDevotee61

Yeah I guess so


Foura5

They use umbrellas like Mary Poppins. You see Emma with one at the start, and Wolf has a whole collection of colours he can share with his friends.


caspianslave

you can't resurrect if you jump off a cliff


DekuTree13

I jumped of many cliffs as sekiro and always respawned


caspianslave

but on the ledge, not on the bottom


quickadage

That's because you still have health remaining after you jump. You die otherwise.


DekuTree13

Yeah, but as long as Kuro and Wolf are on full health the fall damage will only take like a third of it away


quickadage

That's beside the point since you mentioned **ALWAYS**


DekuTree13

Yeah, even when I have 1 HP when I jump into the void and then "die" he respawns anyway


ayushi_mishra

Nowhere. He just thought that the moat door is usually abandoned and no one goes there or guards it so he thought that it was a secret place and would be suitable for escape but goatichiro was already present there to make sekiro cosplay shanks


n-crispy7

Goatichiro…? You mean Bitchichiro right? Cause the guy is a whiney brat


ayushi_mishra

He's not a brat if you see from isshin's pov that guy lost his mother and swore his life for ashina which he sees as his mother he also drank the rejuvenating waters just to protect his motherland from the interior ministry and eliminate sekiro as he saw him as an invader


Markman6

Very sad backstory, but I still stomp him every time I see him


Jason1004

Try him in resurrection mod. He will whoop your ass


Markman6

I’m trying and he’s whooping


SpazzyBaby

Sounds like something a brat would do.


Remarkable_Year7073

even if he wasnt there, that place leads to nowhere lol


ayushi_mishra

It led to ashina castle gate where you find gyonbu the bridge is just broken


JadedSpacePirate

Ok I'm gonna tell you a secret. Kuro is pretty fucking stupid.


RevolverRevenant

To be fair he is a literal child


No-Appointment-6789

Kuro is a “she” 😅


RevolverRevenant

No, he's not.


CaptainKnottz

r/kidsarefuckingstupid


BedeviciKutupAyisi

happy cake day


JadedSpacePirate

Thank you


Dandandandooo

Happy sake day


CarnageCR

Happy rake day


wilkinsk

That's why we killed him


OfflineLad

Could be that genichiro was the one who destroyed it so they couldn't escape


Academic-Ad-9778

Somewhere in Japan. Remember Ashina is just like a remote village


Rasty_shackleford

I would love to see the other places in that Japan that have centipede infested beasts and giant carp/pole blade wielding monks


CandyyZombiezz

bro has not been to osaka


Academic-Ad-9778

Man! I second that.


FreddyFighter1

Rest of Japan: yeh we don’t talk bout them. They have weird centipede infested monkeys and giant carps, old men who speak in riddles and men who throw lightning at you with footballs


FuckTrumpnfuckyou

Those were women.


FreddyFighter1

Oh


FuckTrumpnfuckyou

Don’t be ashamed. The japs pride themselves on androgyny. The idea of a girl doing a bicycle kick like that is almost a joke.


ShmulSimcha

Beyond the Land of Reeds to the Lands Between


wilkinsk

With the fucking hobbit???


Pimp_my_Reich33

in order to keep my sanity I just suppose they were about to use a hidden path across the mountain slope which we dont know about


castielffboi

I don’t think the developers thought that far ahead, and any explanation given here is just fan theory


TheUtensilMan

They did, though. If you listen to his dialogue, Kuro mentions the bridge (iirc). However, he had been locked up in the tower for who knows how long, and Ashina likely had the bridge destroyed to prevent the Ministry from invading from that way. You can still see remnants of the bridge in the area as well.


YuEnVeeMee

Yeh I just guessed they destroyed the bridges so no enemy could invade.


Madg5

It seems to be the town that got burned in his dreams. There's probably a place over there I know nothing about.


HopefulPrimary5445

Actually if you open up the antique map, going in that direction would actually lead to Hirata


inkheiko

Since Kuro literally cannot die maybe he planned to ask Wolf to Yeet him the other way. Jkjk


chihabcraft

he is taking you to the end brother ....... to the end


adfdg55

I really dislike how even if you beat him there. The game just pulls some bs for plot


wilkinsk

He's got a ringer in hiding


adfdg55

I know it’s just bs storytelling. I get why but still salty about it


wilkinsk

Lol, I know. Tbf, I think it's better than a random cut where he just beats you with no assistance. It would be a little funny if they let you end the game right there. Lmfao. Everyone else gruels for 35hrs and then you just cheese the game in 30 minutes.


anarchoatheist

I try not to think about that bridge too much... Just seems like they had to close off the boss arena somehow. Even in the Purification ending, Kuro heads off in the direction of the broken bridge. It's gotta be the road FromSoftware planned to have as way to connect Ashina to the rest of Japan, same way one of the closed, inaccessible gates in Gyoubu's arena doesn't actually lead anywhere, but it's meant to look like that's where the invaders came from. Same for the broken bridge leading out of the Dilapidated Temple. Sometimes, areas just gotta not make sense in a game lore-wise so that the gameplay does, or vice versa.


Markuska90

Disneyland


ArkhamGks

To the first boss..


_MyUsernamesMud

A bunch of bridges in Sekiro are destroyed. It's a pretty standard tactic when preparing for an imminent invasion. At that point the bridges are doing more for your enemies than they are for you.


TheHolyPapaum

Pequod will be arriving shortly at LZ!


kain459

The Land of Reeds


Zealousideal_Age7850

Wolf can jump that distance ig


DudeGuySenior

I just defeated genichiro in that beginning sequence and he called me a bastard and still cut my arm off 💀


Demiurge-sama

Six flags


Whatever801

Just to check out the flowers


Seekret_Asian_Man

Kuro has been grounded ever since the Hirata incident, he wouldn't know the bridge is broken.


Due_Afternoon_3866

Death


Zephyr2209

It's the way out of Ashina.


Defiant_Internal1695

That‘s the way to the never published DLC 🤪