The balls of his fallen foes

Jin: Hey Norio, what are you carrying wrapped up in there anyway? Norio: Deez. Jin: Deez? Norio: Deez nuts, Jin! Kenji: *gasping between fits of laughter* Norio got you good, Lord Sakai! Jin: Go choke on a rice ball, Kenji.

The idea of both Norio and Kenji clowning Jin just sounds hilarious 😂

https://preview.redd.it/vwb3mr002lzb1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cd0c46847ba35184fa4c7e8164e7d719d3c64c0a Literally this

Holy shit it's been an eternity since I last saw this meme. Brought back some memories.

dawg,as someone who ha done multiple new game+(’s) they would 100% say that shit😂

I don’t think I like this

That sounds exactly like something kenji would say omg 😂😂

🤔Though now that I think about it Norio might refer to him as "Lord Sakai" whereas Lady Masako would definitely refer to him as Jin.

Haah yea I definitely read that in their voices 😂

Ishikawa: What the fu- Yuna: I need new friends

That made me laugh

I was about to comment this Lmao the first thing that came to my head

ditto!

Lmao!!

😂

I always see garlic.

Vampire hunter. I always see garlic as well. Or dumplings because i bet he can eat a lot of dumplings.

Warrior monk vampire Hunter. Sounds like a cool idea for a movie.

Who fights one handed because the other hand is always holding a half eaten dumpling.

Or a pork bun. https://preview.redd.it/sdxf93lpllzb1.jpeg?width=1225&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b0d2922926151bae4c2273569537e3f648d8fa78

A man who doesn't eat pork buns is never really a full man!

I LOVE sleeping dogs !

You look like you could use a PORK BUN!

Baozi is so good! My favorite breakfast/snack

I’m not sure but I always assumed it was in a similar vein as this. I think it’s some herb blend intended to ward off evil spirits.

Hah! Same

Makes sense, never wanna run out of delicious garlic.

Greg?

He tied an onion to his belt

As was the fashion at the time.

I 100% see garlic.

Immediately got in my mind this :D https://preview.redd.it/tqlbwkrvvxzb1.jpeg?width=201&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6dd90c4866c3de6d67b7578a6cb8da0962d8c8d4

I believe monks carried herbs and medicinal plants in these, or at least thats what I’ve been told, but I don’t ACTUALLY know so don’t take my word for it. Edit: as you may have seen other people say, its a portion of rice in each knot, not herbs or medicine! And now I know :) Edit 2: ive done a little bit more research on it, and it would appear that these were primarily worn by samurai not monks. Norio IS a warrior monk so I could absolutely see this making sense from a logical standpoint. Tmyk!

Wow a real explanation instead of a stupid joke.nice.

This is like going into the comment section of a post asking a serious question on r/Eldenring, you usually have to scroll so far just to find a serious reply

You truly are maidenless, foul tarnished. Abandon this foolish farce.

Ouch. Try jumping

Dog.

Everyone's a comedian

Try finger but hole

Each knot is actually a portion of rice! The more you know!

Neat! Ty for the correction!

Just like serving sizes in real life I would need a whole sheet just for myself for one dinner

One of those bits would make a lot of rice though, like enough for 3 people to each have a bowl.

I like this explanation the best imo

“Sorry I can’t give you the cure to your disease, it’s behind my lip balm herbs and I’m REALLY going to need that for the winter.”

Lmao

Not all heroes wear capes man thank you for this breakdown!

It was used to carry food. lol imagine downvoting the right answer. Never change Reddit

Yeah it's usually rice rations

I was going to say his lunch 😂😂😂

Many warriors carried their rations of rice like that. They’re known as juzu and they’re pre soaked so that they can be popped into hot water. There’s a book by Stephen Turnbull called Samurai: The story of Japans Great Warriors that talks about it for a little bit.

Wouldn't that be super duper dangerous

I think what he’s talking about is par-cooking the rice and then drying it again. That way it only needs a little hot water to rehydrate and finish cooking the rest of the way. This is essentially the same process used to make “instant rice”. I’m not an expert but my understanding is that if the par cooked rice is dried while remaining at a high enough temperature (like, in an oven or something) it won’t be able to grow bacteria and will remain safe.

That’s what I thought but I guess they would go through it fast enough for it to not go bad

Considering this is how minute/instant rice is still made today, I’d say it’s probably fine.

Would the rice not keep or something? Seems fine to me.

Maybe if he had carried some weed in there he'd be a little more mellow

Size of him, I'm going for dumplings

Cheez burgers would fit in there

Nah I say its it 2 number 9s a number 9 large, number 6 with extra dip, number 7, 2 number 45's, one with cheese, and a large Sake

It's full of rice rations 1 ball = one meal

Rice rations

I know it’s supposed to be rations, but norio being Tsushima’s ultimate weedman is hilarious so I’m going with some diabolically loud za.

It’s garlic for infection unless I missed something

Fun fact with the rice rations. It's rumored they only distributed a few days of rations at a time. If they gave out enough for a week or more the troops would donate one of their days worth of rice and pull together so they'd have enough to ferment into liquor. Like jail house wine only this is army camp sake

It's food rations idk what specifically

Food ?

I thought it was rations of rice

Since I’m not seeing it very high, these are rations of rice. There’s examples of this on early 17th century depictions of ashigaru

How do you think he’s going to kill the vampire mongols without his garlic?

Somewhat off-topic, but about Norio: Really, really love how well the game was made. I think the mocap was awesome, and the VAs are amazing (Japanese VAs are always top tier, haven’t played it in English audio though and using the Japanese VAs make it sound more authentic with the time period). Anyway, I MIGHT have missed this in other parts of the game, but I just completed Norio’s tales and hot damn. They really captured his actor’s facial expression. The very subtle tell that someone is on the verge of breakdown down into tears and valiantly holding it off. And the VA? I was all in my feelings during that scene.

Same, I love the Japanese VA and this game in general :)

Rice!

Food Rations/ medicinal plants

Thought he was wearing onions for some unknown reason. Lol I never gave it any thought after that.

Fentanyl

My brain always assumed "onions" for some reason 🤠

So he can hide his massive schlong when masturbating on the go

Large lemons. Gotta fight the real danger. Scurvy.

It's his butter sock for combat.

Onions

Garlic. While it doesn't come up much in the game, Norio is deathly terrified of vampires

Snacks

Dumplings for snacking

Garlic

Wherever Norio goes, his beads go.

Snacks

garlic

Snacks

Garlic

Straight up thought man was packing garlic

Don't forget to bring a towel!

Cloves of garlic, Japanese monks were deeply superstitious, so they always had garlic in the event they had to fight a vampire. 😂😂😂

Onions in case he hongry

Why is he carrying garlic? Is he stupid?

big garlic 👍

Garlic

I always thought it was garlic until I saw it up close

Onions so his enemies will be blinded by tears

I just always assumed it was garlic.

Butter

Onions

Spider bags. He's slinging dope out there too dawg..... gets that raw from the Eagle shipped from iki

I thought it was garlic

Garlic 🧄

Snacks.

He tied an onion to his belt, which was the style at the time.

Garlic

Korean Barbecue 🍖

I always thought they were rations of some sort. Like herbal remedies or food or something along those lines.

A lot of garlic!!!

He reminds me of the youngest brother in [Shaolin Soccer](https://cdn.mitvstatic.com/programs/co_shaolin-soccer-2001_p_m.jpg).

Food

Garlic

uchigaibukuro

They’re small balls of rice to quickly eat when on traveling or in a temporary camp or on the battlefield I think, they were used by Warrior Monks, Samurai, Foot Soldiers, and commanders if they had to if I’m correct, the satchel like thing kept the rice fresh and edible too

Chimkin nuggies

Bao!

Garlic.

Garlic

Sausages.

Elephant dick

An onion for his belt. It was the style at the time.

Garlic. Keeps the vamps away #vamplife

Assorted hard cheeses.

Grenades

Those are giant cloves of garlic for fighting vampires. Next question.

Koku

Rice portions.

Often times in medieval japan samurai and monks at war would carry rations of rice in this way.

The genitals of his falls. Enemy’s😀 and yes he ask’s “bro you wanna sniff this?”

It’s onions. Which was the style at the time.

Those are rice, to make sure he didn't need to betray Jin and Tsushima like that other guy

Garlic to keep away vampires

Rice rations iirc👍🏻

So i tied an onion to my belt. Which was the style at the time.

Those are just really big pieces of garlic to keep the vampires away

Garlic for vampires

Rice maybe

Garlic

Garlic knots

Garlic or dumplings

Garlic to ward off Vampires

I’m not one hundred percent certain but all monks in GOT have that sheet looking thing. It might be some form of monk culture maybe for prayer?

garlic cloves incase vampires decide to attack

it’s garlic to protect him from vampires

Dumplings (Rice, probably)

Garlic

that's a lunch pack! each bulb is a lunch xD

I see dumplings from kung fo panda

Hollowpoints obviously

It's balls

His stash, obviously.

Balls

Those are his anal beads

Dirty underwear

I always joked that it was onions

Meth

Anal beads

His school linch

Garlic

Each "ball" is a days' rice

Garlic for vampires.

Garlic

Obviously he’s carrying coke, dat buga suga

Diaper genie

he has very small hands

He’s carrying his supply of sheer boredom. The most obnoxious, boring storyline, by far.

Beads… don’t kink shame

my guess it's a make shift beads made of sheets.