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With all the chosen students gathered, the trip to Kitakami begins. Upon arriving in the foreign land, the player makes their way to [[Mossui Town]] and meets [[Carmine]] and [[Kieran]], local siblings who are also students at Blueberry Academy, with the former acting aggressively towards foreigners. Once the students have settled down at the local community center, their caretaker tasks them with forming pairs and finding three signboards around Kitakami and reading the tale they describe. At Carmine's suggestion, the player forms a pair with Kieran and visits the first two signboards, which describe the tale of the trio of Pokémon known as the [[Loyal Three]] and an ogre they sacrificed their lives fighting against years ago. Unlike his sister, however, Kieran is a fan of the ogre, and takes the player to visit its supposed home, the [[Dreaded Den]], on [[Oni Mountain]].
With all the chosen students gathered, the trip to Kitakami begins. Upon arriving in the foreign land, the player makes their way to [[Mossui Town]] and meets [[Carmine]] and [[Kieran]], local siblings who are also students at Blueberry Academy, with the former acting aggressively towards foreigners. Once the students have settled down at the local community center, their caretaker tasks them with forming pairs and finding three signboards around Kitakami and reading the tale they describe. At Carmine's suggestion, the player forms a pair with Kieran and visits the first two signboards, which describe the tale of the trio of Pokémon known as the [[Loyal Three]] and an ogre they sacrificed their lives fighting against years ago. Unlike his sister, however, Kieran is a fan of the ogre, and takes the player to visit its supposed home, the [[Dreaded Den]], on [[Oni Mountain]].


The player and Kieran choose to leave finding the last signboard until the next day in order to participate in the first day of the yearly celebration known as the [[Festival of Masks]], where the Loyal Three are honored. During the celebration, the player and Carmine have an unexpected encounter with the ogre, {{ga|Ogerpon}}, who accidentally drops her [[Teal Mask]]. Carmine chooses to keep the encounter a secret from her brother for now. The next day, the player shows the mask to Kieran and Carmine’s grandfather [[Yukito and Hideko|Yukito]], who reveals the true story of Ogerpon and the Loyal Three: ages ago, a man arrived in Kitakami with Ogerpon, but they were shunned due to their unusual appearances, forcing them to live on Oni Mountain. Only the village's mask maker pitied them, creating them a set of masks adorned with jewels the man had brought with him, which allowed the man and Ogerpon to hide their faces and take part in the village festival. However, the word of the beautiful masks attracted {{p|Okidogi|three}} {{p|Munkidori|greedy}} {{p|Fezandipiti|Pokémon}} to Kitakami. They attacked the man and stole three of the four masks he tried to protect. Finding her home in ruins, Ogerpon, full of anger, donned the remaining mask, found the three Pokémon with the masks they had stolen, and defeated them. The townspeople, not understanding what had happened, assumed the three Pokémon had fallen trying to protect them from the violent ogre, and named them the Loyal Three. Ogerpon subsequently returned to the mountain alone and was not seen again.
The player and Kieran choose to leave finding the last signboard until the next day in order to participate in the first day of the yearly celebration known as the [[Festival of Masks]], where the Loyal Three are honored. During the celebration, the player and Carmine have an unexpected encounter with the ogre, {{ga|Ogerpon}}, who accidentally drops her [[Teal Mask]]. Carmine chooses to keep the encounter a secret from her brother for now. The next day, the player shows the mask to Kieran and Carmine’s grandfather [[Yukito and Hideko|Yukito]], who reveals the true story of Ogerpon and the Loyal Three: ages ago, a man arrived in Kitakami with Ogerpon, but they were shunned due to their unusual appearances, forcing them to live on Oni Mountain. Only the village's mask maker pitied them, creating them a set of masks adorned with [[Crystal Cluster|jewels]] the man had brought with him, which allowed the man and Ogerpon to hide their faces and take part in the village festival. However, the word of the beautiful masks attracted {{p|Okidogi|three}} {{p|Munkidori|greedy}} {{p|Fezandipiti|Pokémon}} to Kitakami. They attacked the man and stole three of the four masks he tried to protect. Finding her home in ruins, Ogerpon, full of anger, donned the remaining mask, found the three Pokémon with the masks they had stolen, and defeated them. The townspeople, not understanding what had happened, assumed the three Pokémon had fallen trying to protect them from the violent ogre, and named them the Loyal Three. Ogerpon subsequently returned to the mountain alone and was not seen again.


Carmine is outraged upon finding out that the people of Kitakami have been worshipping evil Pokémon for all this time, but Yukito tells her not to reveal the secret to anyone, as the mask maker, who had known the truth, had been labeled as a heretic for speaking against the Loyal Three in the past. Since the Teal Mask was chipped when it was dropped, the player leaves it for Yukito to be repaired while they visit the last signboard with Kieran, unaware that he had secretly listened to his grandfather's story and is feeling betrayed for having been lied to regarding the player's encounter with Ogerpon. The next day, the player and Carmine visit the [[Crystal Pool]] at the summit of Oni Mountain to gather a [[Crystal Cluster]] required to fix the Teal Mask. At the summit, the player has a brief encounter with Briar, who reveals that the crystals found there emit energy similar to the [[Terastal phenomenon]], which she hopes to use to make the phenomenon usable outside of [[Paldea]].
Carmine is outraged upon finding out that the people of Kitakami have been worshipping evil Pokémon for all this time, but Yukito tells her not to reveal the secret to anyone, as the mask maker, who had known the truth, had been labeled as a heretic for speaking against the Loyal Three in the past. Since the Teal Mask was chipped when it was dropped, the player leaves it for Yukito to be repaired while they visit the last signboard with Kieran, unaware that he had secretly listened to his grandfather's story and is feeling betrayed for having been lied to regarding the player's encounter with Ogerpon. The next day, the player and Carmine visit the [[Crystal Pool]] at the summit of Oni Mountain to gather a [[Crystal Cluster]] required to fix the Teal Mask. At the summit, the player has a brief encounter with Briar, who reveals that the crystals found there emit energy similar to the [[Terastal phenomenon]], which she hopes to use to make the phenomenon usable outside of [[Paldea]].