A young male had reached his apartment as he reached for his keys, unlocking the door. He opening the door as he placed the keys back into his pocket, walking in seeing the letters that were laying on the floor next to the mail slot as he noticed them. "Hm..? He picked up the them as he then flipped them over to see the back, it being sealed with the letter "R". He then started to head to the kitchen to put away the the food he had bought.

He then went to the living room, seeing his two friends. Itazura and Koroshiya were playing poker at the dining room table. "You lose again itazura.."

Itazura gave a slight sigh of disappointment as Koroshiya gathered up the money he had won. "Oh well, i'll figure this game out sooner or later.. So what you do you do with the money you win from me anyway?"

"..put it back in the bank, why?"

"Don't you buy things you want?"

"..from time to time I do but I mostly I just get what I need."

Itazura looked over as he smiled some. "Hey Sakkaku, wanna join the game?"

"No thanks. It seems we got some interesting mail though.." Sakkaku sat down as he set the letters on the table.

"Was there any sender?" Koroshiya spoke this time, picking up a letter and looking at it.

"Nothing from the looks of it.. but whoever it was they sure seem to know who we were.." Sakkaku spoke lowly as he had started to drift into thought.

Sakkaku then took up his letter, opening it as he read the content:

KING OF FIGHTERS

"You have been chosen to be a part of the next great tournament of fighters, teams must be of 3 members and will compete in a 3 round 1 agains 1 match. If you lose your match your team is disqualified and then removed from the roster"

Below the sentence was a picture of a test tube looking vial now containing a form of liquid.

"For the team that stands above all other will be given this chemical that would give the team the ability to learn any technique just from watching it being performed as well as $100k to the team and the crown given to them, winning the title "The World's Greatest Fighters". The tournament will begin on march 1st."

Sakkaku was quiet as Koroshiya had spoke. "March 1st.. Three weeks from tomorrow..

"So what do you think this chemical is..? Itazura had asked as Koroshiya just shook his head somewhat, speaking calmly. "I've never even heard of a chemical that could give that sort of effect."

Itazura looked over to Sakkaku whom hadn't spoke since reading his letter. "Sakkaku...? Ya alright there?"

The two now looked to their teammate, after a few moments Sakkaku spoke. "What ever it is it can't be good.. If we can win it then we can get rid of that chemical, that way it can't get into the wrong hands."

"So we're going then?" Koroshiya had spoke this time as Sakkaku gave a nod.

"We'll give them everything we got then." Itazura chuckled. "So does anybody wanna play again?"

Sakkaku just chuckled. "Alright but no betting this time."

"Eh? Why not?" Itazura asked.

"You'll end up broke by the end of it." Sakkaku replied with a bit of a cocky tone.

"Hey!" Sakkaku and Koroshiya just began to laugh some at their friend's reaction.