Princess Salamandinary leads me, my sister, and Tusk to a building known as Hustle 1. She said it's an ancient arena where warriors gathered to show their might.

"Wait, is this facility five hundred years old?" Tusk questioned first. Come to think of it, even if this place looks five hundred years old, it's still perfect. Maybe the princess did keep the place fresh. "It's perfectly preserved."

"The princess restored it herself," Naga explained. "Princess Salamandinay uses her great intellect to study the old world. She has restored many artifacts for modern use."

This is so unbelievable.

"Even our Ryushinki was..."

Before she could finish her sentence, she was given a nudge by Kaname to keep quiet of this information.

"That's confidential, remember?" her partner reminded her.

"Sorry."

I swear I just heard the word Ryushinki. What does that mean, anyway? But now's not the time to wonder what that is.

Anyway, Angelise talked to the princess about what are they doing here, and the response is that she is asking for an alliance between them. For a common goal: recapturing Aura, which I'm not mistaken is the first DRAGON, and taking back the balance and stability that they had lost. She even said the prime evil that is responsible for stealing Aura, killed their people, and made my sister fight is Julio.

Is that so? Well, he made me betray my sister, and that makes us even. I wanna get some payback, really.

"Defeat him, and our fighting will end," Salamandinay continued. "We get Aura, and you get your freedom."

This should be interesting. Their goals may differ, but they have the same enemy. Therefore, they can cooperate. With Sister laughing at this matter, I just knew she won't believe this. She thought the princess is just using her to fight. To think the princess said to confirm it. That is the reason she brought her here; a competition between them for my sister's future. If Salamandinay wins, she can have her as her property.

"This is so unbelievable," I facepalmed on the matter.

"Why do you get to decide?" Sister asked the princess.

"But if you win, I will release the three of you," the princess spoke of the bet. "Go where you wish, do what you will. It will be up to you."

As of this moment, Sister looked tense.

"Ange..." Tusk said.

"Sister..." I said.

"'Slavery or freedom. Seize it with your own hands.' Is that right?" Angelise then makes a smirk. "Fine. Let's do it."

"Great," Salamandinay said with a smile in agreement.

You know the phrase, 'let the games begin', right? Because the 'arena' the princess describe is just only for playing games, but that's okay. It's about time Angelise, Tusk, and I take a break for some time, although I know we won't be taking a long break anytime soon. So, a short break will do.

Anyway, I'll just be an audience to the games. Too bad I didn't bring my notebook so I could take notes, but who needs notes when you could watch the games. The first one has my sister and Tusk pitting against Salamandinay and Naga to a game where to use those things they carry to hit the ball back into the box. After this, it's a game I like to call baseball; to tell you the truth, I don't know much about it, but I've seen movies about it when I was living in the castle.

This baseball game is interesting to watch. I'm just the audience.

Sister throws the ball intensely and the princess successfully hits it that it was sent flying to one of the handles.

So much for home run...

They went on and on, until the game the DRAGONs called Twister where players must touch a part of their bodies under a specific circle. I press the button for my sister's turn.

"Angelise, left hand, red," I instructed.

And she went for the spot I told her. Next, I heard their argument about how Salamandinay never thought of finding an equal until she fought her. Eventually, they lose their balance. Then, they share a good laugh.

"The princess is laughting," Naga commented.

"I don't think I've ever seen her like that," Kaname also commented.

"Well, you should have fun once in a while," I commented with a smile. Sister is surely having a good time with the princess.

Looks like the games are over.