Qualt was in his room. Every fighter had his own room for the tournament. And he was on the bed, alone. The night was advanced but he couldn't sleep for what he had to do today. And that's a thing he would have to do three more times if he wanted to win... In addition, the next one he was going to fight was a child! A teen cheetah with his mother watching! Fuck! He went here only to fight, not to kill! And he felt guilty. Why? For the reasons he had to come here, next to the others. He just wanted revenge... while others were just here to surve, to have a new life, to gett out of the shit, to help their family... But he had to continue. He had to! First of all because he wanted to survive, but also for Gloria and Gloria, to avenge her death, to kill one of those darkers outside... Some were counting on him and he didn't want to disappoint them. No, he had to win! But killing just a child for a story of egoist vengeance...

Then, he heard a voice coming from behind his door.

"Ah! Ironhorns. Can I enter please?"

It was Bourgoistic.

"What the fuck do you want, crocodile?" he answered.

"Just to congratulate you for the magnifique combat you showed us and to talk to you."

He went to the door and said:

"I hope it won't be for a cheating story, because I refuse before you even ask."

He opened and...

It wasn't Bourgoistic.

He took a punch in the face and ended up on the ground.

"That's my way to say Fuck you for what you did to my cousin!"

In front of him was, indeed, Drer. This one sighed and entered.

Qualt put his front right hand on one of his horns.

"No, I'm not here to fight, Qualt, don't worry, you can chill out. Plus, if I wanted to kill you, I could have just slashed your throat."

"How the fuck did you do that?"

"It's not complicated to imitate his voice."

"Yeah but, how?"

"Did you, at least, follow your classes about elements."

"Oh, you have the Sound element..."

"You guessed it, Sherlock!"

"Listen, I know you're angry for what I did today but..."

"Who wouldn't be angry? But, yeah, I know, you didn't have a choice..."

"Okay, so..." said Qualt while getting up, "why did you come here? Only the punch on the face?"

"No. I just wanted to talk with someone friendly. With all the murders that I will witness, I think it's the better thing to do for me."

"Eh! Look at me too. Some of those murders, I will do them."

"True."

And so they talked to each other for a good while before, finally, leaving Qualt alone again.

Oh! And you're probably asking yourself how Drer could have entered the rooms sector. It was easy: he imitated, hidden, the Bourgoistic's voice and, then he entered. Consequences? He didn't care. And, consequences after that? First of all, only the Bourgoistic men that have been played knew that "Bourgoistic gave the authorization" and, if this last knew about how Drer imitated him, he would just laugh and applaud the action. It's simple: if someone is intelligent enough to elude all his "traps", all the security he placed, he would just applaud the action if this wasn't for messing with him (and, here, Qualt was still alive and not injured, so it wasn't messing with him).

So, don't worry, reader, Drer won't die for doing that.

Then, the next day, four more fights were planed.

The first one was Perlaoct against Martin. The first one was a water dragon and was here because he wanted the money for personal reasons and the other was the 1st Class, a trained cheetah, a good friend with the two writers Qualt encounter when he was playing Sherlock Holmes on the Pold's case. He went here to fight and know more about the 3rd Class Citizen and the district. Plus, a good tournament would have been entertaining, eh? Too bad he couldn't go back when Bourgoistic said it was fighting until death...

When the fight began, Martin jumped on Perlaoct but was repulsed with water. He rolled when he landed and dodged the dragon at the last second. This one showed his back by failing his attack. It was the perfect opportunity for the cheetah. He jumped and landed between the two wings, that he grabbed. He pulled and, with a good kick, he broke one wing and the other right after. Perlaoct screamed but Martin didn't cared, he continued to pull until ripping out the fly members. Blood flowed and the dragon fell on the ground because of the pain. So the cheetah ended his suffers by breaking his neck wit his right foot. Martin was the winner.

Pause then the next fight.

Two cheetahs entered at the same time in the arena. Two cheetahs that looked the same except for a black stain on the forehead of Samud. Before the presentations were done, the two hugged each other. They were indeed, as Troth said to Qualt, twin brothers. They came here to test each other, as the family tradition wanted, to see which one was the strongest. They were totally destroyed by the Bourgoistic's little surprise... Now that they had to kill their brother, they just hugged themselves before the final fight...

And the brawl began when the presentations were done. The fight longed long long minutes because the two had something for that: they knew their adversary very well.

And, at the end, Samud was on the ground. And the two said goodbye to the other before Amer finished the fight by killing quickly his twin brother.

Pause then next fight.

This time, the two presented were unknown by Troth. But not by Bourgoistic, who still wanted to keep surprises by saying only the names and the fact that they were 3rd Class. The two were dragons: Milhrio Oster was dark blue and Trelkra Yjeco was dark red.

And Trelkra attacked first. He ignited his fist with blue fire and punched Milhrio in the guts. This one stepped back before being punched again. He flew right into the wall but got up quickly. He then turned around of his adversary. He was fast. But not fast enough because he was touched by the fire once again. He groaned but he jumped on his adversary right after being touched. His claws were out and he hit the jaw. Blood began to get out and Yjeco tried to fight back but it was too late: Oster took him by the neck and made him hit the ground before strangling him with strength. The strangulation was long and, finally...

Finally, Milhrio Oster won without even using his element.

Pause then the next fight.

Lœg versus Helch, an Electricity dragon versus an Earth one. The first one was here to help his entire family to eat, the second, he, was fighting for a really good friend of him (even if, I will be honest, she was more than just a friend).

The presentations were done and the fight began.

Lœg used his electricity on Helch, who didn't have the time to dodge. He took all in his chest and pain was great. He tried to fight back but Lœg used again his electricity and the beam touched the head and penetrated to the brain. Mortally.

Lœg won. And the day was over. Every fighters had to return to their room.

Unlike the last night, Qualt didn't have any visitor and it passed without anything special happening.

The sun got up high in the sky, even if they couldn't see it because they were underground.

And the third day began...