———Lynda———
*Slash* *Punch* *Kick* *Punch* *Slash* *Smash* **Thud**
…Is the slugfest finally over? They were all out of steam and just traded attacks by the end.
“” Coach Wana said as the two fighters were on their knees. Compared to the first pair they are clearly struggling to even move an inch, let alone getting back up after all the attacks being thrown at each other.
Neither of them are getting up and Gwiyen loses the grip on her weapons. Their hands are twitching and trying to push themselves back up to no luck.
“” She starts counting as neither of them are getting up. Looks like this might be a draw if neither of them get up on ti. “”
Yeah. They’re not getting up at this point. Way too late for that.
“” She finished counting to ten, and neither of them are getting up despite still being responsive. “”
“Well that was kinda painful to look at by the end.” Trener remarked. Their speed decreased a lot in the final few minutes, and more importantly, any strategies go out by the end. With the last two matches they didn’t really do that, just more of a mutual agreent to end it with one last attack, this match actually turned into an actual slugfest right at the end.
“They were also really strong.” Fiss comnted. Well, that’s sothing you could say about every fighter so far. It’d be boring if they just brought so random schmucks to fight. Last ti was maybe a bit too much, the fight was stalling out for way too long, and hard to follow.
“Yeah yeah. Of course they were.” I said dismissively before ordering another glass of milk. Cheers to liquid for the youth, tasty and used in so many dishes worldwide. “This should be all for the first half of the day.”
“” Coach Wana announced, and I think I’m good. I’m just gonna laze around here. “”
By the ti her announcent is over, Trener and Fiss already left along with the majority of the audience. So are still around, probably eating their food and lazing around just like I am. I don’t really feel like moving around right now or doing anything else.
…Glery is still here, of course. She is eating so fries and staying silent the entire ti.
The air is still cold and the light of the sun shines bright on the arena. The terrain already dissolved away and left a flat playing field.
“You gonna speak at all now that most people are gone?” I asked Glery now that the place has beco quiet. The murmurs are barely present and can hardly be considered background noise at this point. I see about… maybe less than a tenth of the audience present, which is probably like a hundred people or less.
“...What should I say?” She asked. I an, just anything? Surely she got sothing to say after all those spectacle that we had seen.
“Anything. You got so opinions, right?” I asked, knowing that she tends to hold a lot of opinions to herself. She isn’t lacking in those, she just doesn’t want to say it publicly.
“...It’s fun. Feels like the power level went down each fight.” She finally said sothing, and I think that’s correct? It does feel like I am less overwheld each ti, but that could just be feeling more used to the spectacle.
“Is that like, a definitive feeling?” I asked, since I don’t really feel sure about it.
“Yeah. The power progression is going backward.” She said without a hint of doubt in her tone. Hard to argue against that when I already have a similar if less certain feeling. “I think the pair at the end might only be comparable to the students in the Perfect Class.”
“Huh? Seriously?” I wouldn’t have expected that. Never saw them pull out any strong flashy moves before outside of the obvious suspects. “I an. Those guys are monsters, so I guess… Huh. Well… I would’ve thought they’d bring soone stronger than them, at least.”
“I don’t think they’re going to go weaker than them, I think.” She gave another opinion piece. It’d be ridiculous to go lower than that at this point. That much seems pretty clear. “I really am not sure who they are going to bring out at this point.”
“Hmm… I an, they have only used two of their mbers so far, probably seeing a few more guests, right?” That seems like the main point of this welco back party. Last ti we recognized all but one person, that green lady. “Probably a few more faces that we don’t know about. You got so idea who they could be.”
“No way. Even the previous two picks are hard to understand. They lived extrely far from us if the locations they were spotted in is any indication. They could bring people from anywhere to this place if they wanted to.” She replied. That narrows it down to how many people exactly? “Besides, they don’t really pick on who is popular, just who is strong. Do you recognize the first pair at all?”
“I an, I think I have seen that blonde lady in the news sowhere… The dog guy is a mystery though.” You would think soone with such a fancy hair color would’ve been talked about a bit more often. The superstitions around fancy-haired folks were already a lot before all of this, just imagine what it’s like in a world with magic.
“Very clearly. We have no way of knowing who is going to co up next. It’s pointless to speculate.” She replied. Alright then, if she wanna be like that, then it’s okay. “Are you going to stay here?”
“Yeah. I don’t feel like doing anything today. I was expecting to just go back to school work, but I guess we’re not doing that today.” Certainly a pleasant surprise, but it doesn’t stop the fact that I am coming in with pretty low energy. I don’t really feel motivated coming in today.
“I see…” She muttered without much thought. Unless I give her sothing to talk about she rarely yaps on her own even in such a quiet environnt.
…How long until the next match again? One in the afternoon, right? That’s gonna be a long while, actually. More than an hour of waiting.
I guess I could read up on stuff I didn’t quite finish reading yesterday. There were a few things happening in the world that we didn’t really get to talk about, even if it’s quite interesting.
“Have you been looking into what happened to those conquered towns as of late? Feels like everyone is scrambling to understand what is actually happening.” I asked, seeing as that seems like one of the topics she ntioned she looked into yesterday.
“It’s been a ss. It looks like most people don’t have any idea what to do after taking over their local governnt and imprisoning so many people. It doesn’t help that no one has the ability to completely subdue magic users, it’s been a ss of people breaking in and out.” Right… Wiina is the only one that we know of that can seal soone’s magic. I doubt she’s the only one with how big the world is and all that. Less we forget, there was a sighting of soone fighting her on what seems like equal level.
“...Are those guys involved with the revolution at all? The last two, I an.” I feel like those two probably got roped into it at so point, right? With how high profile they are.
“I believe the man in black armor had made his stance of neutrality, while the cat lady never said anything publicly. Both of the places they lived in are part of that movent. You know it’s bad when the big loud boisterous guy wants to steer away from it. He did say he would intervene if things get very ugly, to give him so credit.” She answered. Guess even they don’t want to get involved with that hot ss. Kinda thankful nothing like that happened where I am… I do wonder why it’s not a nationwide movent if the majority of the places have sothing like that. I guess considering not all operations went smoothly or even successfully, that should’ve probably been enough to guess why not everyone is doing it.
“Huh. Kinda glad we aren’t involved with sothing like that. If those guys are troubled, imagine how troubled we’d be.” If it happened in these neighborhoods then… Huh. What would happen?
“Anyone trying to cause a scene would’ve been brutalized by soone. Rember the purple snake?” Glery suddenly bring that up. Oh. That incident from… I think it was… four months ago? Maybe five months ago?
“Yeah. Who could forget what looks like a giant dragon coming out of the sky… What even was that thing, actually?” It ca out of nowhere and disappeared the mont it gulped up the small army of gang mbers.
“There was no way to track where it ca from or who did it. It’s still rather terrifying to even guess. It could be Wiina, it could be Rico, it could be anyone. No obvious suspects were at the scene.” She answered. Was there really no one there? “...I believe Karra was there, at least, alongside one other person, but they don’t look like they do so much as lifting a finger.”
“It does look like an eternal cold case with that one. Who knows how long it’ll take for magical forensic… thing to happen.” And that is assuming sothing like that can even happen. There seems to be a limit on how long the traces of magic can linger if it’s no longer active.
“It’s definitely one of the incidents that really makes it clear that this town is a place you really should never try to get involved with. There are way too many things scaring dangerous people off.” Glery said. Certainly sothing we could probably talk about for quite a while with how many strange things are happening yet none of it is really harmful… I guess there is that wrecked lab that we could talk about, if we really want to talk about it.
“...Aside from the lab and the snake rain, was there any big incident? Karra’s failed stream where Wiina rescued her doesn’t count, by the way.” And the snake rain thing was a global issue, that can hardly be counted, especially since so many people were out there eradicating them before they could even hit the ground.
“Uhh…” Doesn’t look like she recalled anything, and she’s way more thorough with these researches than I do. Heck, it’s kind of a miracle she helped with so many projects for basically nothing in return. She’s a good friend all around, even if she’s kinda awkward.
“Nevermind then.” I said before ordering more drinks… This is gonna be the last one before I need to go do the thing. I am already pushing it with how many milks I drank. “...I’m gonna go in a bit. Try not to panic, alright?”
“I won’t.” She quietly said while I drink another glass of milk before logging out.
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