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The Deer Nushi is one of the confirmed Nushi bosses in Beast of Reincarnation. It is an early encounter on Emma's journey toward the Capital, and it is one of the game's first real progression gates. Pre-release gameplay material has shown the fight in motion, but most of its specifics, including named attacks, weak points, and the exact district where it is encountered, have not been detailed publicly. This article covers what the trailers and developer-direct material have actually confirmed.

Position in the Journey

Pre-release footage frames the Deer Nushi as a very early stop on Emma's arc. In confirmed gameplay clips, she approaches the fight with only one flower in her hair: the shakuyaku she gained from Koo's resurrection scene at the start of the story. Because the visible flower count tracks how many Nushi Emma has absorbed power from, that single-flower silhouette places the Deer Nushi before any other major boss in the gameplay-confirmed roster.

Recaps of the gameplay material consistently group the Deer Nushi alongside a carnivorous-plant Nushi and the Bear Nushi as the visible Nushi roster from current trailers. Within that group, the Deer Nushi is the one shown in the earliest-feeling state of Emma's progression.

As a Nushi

Nushi are the gigantic class of Malefacts that anchor the major boss fights of Beast of Reincarnation. Pre-release coverage describes their encounters as set-piece battles built around scale, with the broader plant-and-flower motif of the game woven through how each fight unfolds. Defeating a Nushi is the gameplay event that lets Emma absorb its power, and that absorption is what physically blooms a new flower in her hair.

That framing applies to the Deer Nushi as much as to any other Nushi. The footage shown so far emphasises the boss's silhouette and the scale of the arena rather than any UI-visible health bars or stat numbers, which lines up with how the rest of the game's Nushi material has been presented.

Reward

Defeating the Deer Nushi adds a new flower to Emma's hair, the second of the visible flower count. The first is the shakuyaku she carries in from Koo's resurrection scene; the Deer Nushi grants the second. The specific species of that second flower has not been confirmed in any published gameplay material, so the wiki does not name it.

What is consistent across the pre-release footage is the broader rule of the Flower System: every Nushi Emma takes down adds another bloom to her hair, and that visible flower count is the most reliable cue to her progress through the story. This also ties the Deer Nushi to the story's wider arc around The Blight. Emma is a sealer, and the Nushi she faces are corrupted reflections of that same plant-and-decay imagery; absorbing their power is part of how she carries her sealing role forward.

Where the Fight Fits

Within the Nushi roster shown so far, the Deer Nushi is the boss positioned earliest on Emma's road to the Capital. It is the first major test after the opening sequence with Koo, and clearing it gates Emma's continued progression through the early Blighted Forests stretch of the journey. Because the world is structured as wide district-level stages rather than a seamless open world, the Deer Nushi is a clear bookend on the early game in a way that fits the staged-encounter shape of the rest of the route.

Beyond that early-game framing, very little else is locked down. Specific attack patterns, the exact biome the fight takes place in, and the exact gear and Blooming Arts loadouts that the developers expect players to bring have not been detailed.

Expected Loadout Profile

Confirmed at a Glance

• The Deer Nushi is one of the confirmed Nushi bosses shown in pre-release gameplay material.

• It is an early-game encounter, with Emma carrying only the shakuyaku from Koo's resurrection scene going in.

• Defeating it adds a new flower to Emma's hair as part of the visible Flower System; the species of that flower is not publicly confirmed.

• Specific attacks, weak points, and the exact district it inhabits have not been confirmed in any cited gameplay material.

Expect this article to grow once the game is in players' hands and the encounter can be documented from the launch build.