The tournament had moved to the next phase. The wide variety of duelists who'd reached the island for the tournament had all been filtered down to just eight duelists. Among them were Molly, Cassidy, Korrin, Jane, Price, and three duelists from other schools, two male, one female. All of them had been escorted to the large castle in the center of the island so they could officially meet Mr. Unihol, and then begin duelist each other to decide who would get to face him and have a shot at being declared the actual, literal most skilled duelist in the world.
Anton was still present of course, the contestants were allowed to have friends and family join them in the castle for morale support and what not. For this reason, Molly and her friends were confused to see that Jackie wasn't present. Even if she'd not qualified, they figured she would have been there to cheer Price and Jane on anyway, considering they were her friends and possible overs.
Or perhaps the dynamic of that relationship has changed. Azle suggested, I've never known my brother to keep friends. Even among the demons he's always been a sour, fairly unlikable being. The only time he was ever pleasant was when we, well, not important. 'I watched Cassidy suck Anton off literally four days ago, I'm not gonna be freaked out to hear that you demons don't have any hang ups about stuff like that either, honestly it'd almost be weird if you didn't considering the whole lust demon thing.' Molly replied.
Fair enough, Azle conceded, I was always able to keep him in check before whenever we shared pleasure, but he always becomes unruly every so often and slips away. I always feel that it's my fault when he slips into the human realm for a game like this. 'I thought you and him fighting was like an annual thing.' Molly said, confused. It is, but not my grand design. He simply gets bored or me, or I of him, at regular generational intervals. If he were more pleasant, or perhaps I less so, then the two of us could likely cancel each other for the rest of time. I'd be lying if I said it were an entirely unpleasant idea.
'Well for right now, let's just focus on getting to that battle with Price and Liak in the first place shall we?' Agreed, though it still unnerves me that you refuse to let me duel for you up to that point. I feel it would be rather unfortunate and underwhelming to have worked so close to the end game, only for me to lose the trial by default because you lost a duel before getting to him.
'Oh ye of little faith.' Molly scoffed at the succubus as she and the other contestants were shown into the tournament room. It was a large dueling field, the tech looking state of the art. The contestants looked over it in awe for a bit before the main event made himself known, the owner of the island, of the vast majority of sex monster cards in circulation, the man holding the title of current sex monster king.
Mr. Unihol was a tall man. He wasn't particularly muscled, but he didn't look weak either, just slim. He was well dressed, with a suit that somehow went beyond looking formal and looped back around into looking social, long white hair, and a smile on his face as he looked over the duelists who'd earned their way into his castle for a shot at dueling him one on one. Around his head floated two sex monsters, one of Loli Fairy, the other of Shota Fairy. Neither were especially powerful cards, just generally cute ones, which was supposedly Unihol's whole deal.
Molly, and likely everyone else in the room, could tell that the fairies floating around him weren't just dueling holograms like he probably told people they were, they were duel spirits. No one was surprised. It would have honestly been more shocking if such a high class duelist hadn't discovered duel spirits yet. The Fairies seem to notice that they'd been discovered, and nervously hid behind Unihol's back, needing him to coax the back out into the open, holding their hands as he turned to address the duelists.
He praised all four of them for having made it this far, explaining that he'd been using his cameras, set up all across the island to prevent anything fishy, to watch their duels. Of course he hadn't been able to watch every single duel on the island-not yet at least, though with them all recorded he would likely have plenty of time to after the tournament-but as soon as the eight finalists had been determined, he'd made a point of watching all of the duels all of them had been in.
This was, on the one hand, rather flattering. On the other, slightly unnerving, as it meant he'd have a great feel for their strategies and have seen the majority of their cards, while few if any people had ever actually seen Unihol's duels in full, just the paired down for TV versions that were played for views. Unihol couldn't help but laugh as the duelists one by one came to this realization, "You couldn't have believed I'd make it easy for you~" He teased, "But there will be time for that later. Right now, you all have one hour to be alone or talk together, to strategize and reorganize your decks before the final duels of this game begin!"
Price and Jane, of course, vanished from the scene to be alone while they organized, as did the various other duelists, leaving Molly alone with her friends. As they spoke to each other about how they'd get Molly as close to Price as they could, a fifth person came in, Jackie letting them know that Jane planned to help them out as well, not Price. They weren't sure if they could trust this at first, but Korrin believed she was being sincere, and Azle didn't sense any deception. It seemed Liak's unruliness wasn't so great when it came to making allies.