They walked to the carnival grounds and flashed their badges. "Oh greatest greetings to you my lord." The guard said bowing to Asura. "No need for such a compliment man." Asura said. "Good day to you my lady." The guard said bowing again. "Likewise mister guard." Priscilla said.
They walked through the gates to the carnival grounds that surrounded the colosseum. They passed the occasional group of children that ran through the dirt streets playing with their friends happy to be off school but not able to see the arena prep. After a short time of walking they arrived at the tavern at nightfall. They went to the barkeep and flashed their badges. "Last door on the right on the top floor. Two others are already there." The keeper said.
They went upstairs and entered the room to see Athena and Conrad playing cards. "Well if you too aren't cute all up here by yourselves." Priscilla said trying to push Conrad's buttons. "Well we've been waiting for you guys because we wanted to go see the arena prep fights." Athena said. Couldn't you guys get a room with four beds?" Asura asked. "No because all the other rooms are full because its time of the festival. Athena replied. "You guys can go I'm going to get a few drinks before I'll go with you." Asura said. "Well I'm not going to force you." Priscilla said giving a kiss to Asura. "Ew get a room you two." Conrad said with a giant grin on his face. "Go fuck yourself man." Asura spit back towards Conrad.
After they all left Asura went down stairs and order a few drinks and took a seat at the table in the farthest corner of the room. After a few drinks and a few people left and came one person caught Asura's eye. A tall man with a long trench coat that as the color of red wine. He had heavy leather boots that thumped across the floor as he made his trip to the bar from the door. He also had long swept back hair and as he sat at the bar he ordered some food and the tavern's signature drink, Nord mead. Occasionally the man would look in Asura's direction and after a while he asked the barkeep who he was. Asura could faintly hear what the barkeep was saying "He's some royal envoy or something. I heard that he destroyed the other gladiators in the arena last year. He came in with three others with the same envoy badge."
With that knowledge the man ordered to large mugs full of Nord mead and went to sit with Asura. The man greeted Asura with a tint of German accent in his voice "So you must be lonely, over here all by yourself. Vhats ze matter friend? Somezing eating avay at you?" "No just enjoying a drink until you came up. What do you want?" Asura said not really trusting this person that stands out from the crowd.
"My name is Kenneth and I travel the vorlds resting in taverns. I'm a gambler and sadly I'm not allowed at some of ze outer systems to attend ze large name gambling games anymore because I play fair but zhey zhink zhat it is cheating." Kenneth said. "I stop on my travels and order a drink or two and maybe have a game or two.
After a long conversation about their two favorite knights, one obsessed with the sun and another one made of rock, and one moment where both of the in a drunken state burst out singing about Nord Mead, they had both become what some would call friends and were happily talking about stuff they had done.
"So Asura are you a betting man?" Kenneth asked. "No I believe that's your shtick." Asura said "and I don't have any money on me so I can't make any bets."
"Vell how about a friendly game of cards." Kenneth said as he pulled out a large black leather card case with the words, Cards Against Humanity, sewn in with white string. "No bets, it's just for fun. It's usually made for four or more people but since it's just ze two of us ve'll just play and see vhat combination of ze cards ve shall get." After playing a few rounds of just seeing which rude and immoral cards they were getting they decided to go back to more rounds of Nord Mead. They didn't pick Cyrodilic Brandy because it was too fruity for their tongues. "So is there any rumors that have been heard by you during your travels." Asura asked. "Nothing more than a few stories about ze two swords that emerge every other time of crisis. I doubt I vould ever lay eyes or hands upon zem. I would zhink zhat zhey would be a good prize of a hefty coin purse. I heard a few rumors from a drunk in ze outer systems. Zhere's vord of a religious uprising on ze other vorlds. Zhey believe zhat ze gods on one of the vorlds zhat is covered in an eternal blizzard zhat vould freeze ze blood in your veins in an instant deserve to be undone. Zhey preach zhat zhey are not vorthy to command the people of Krosis to Ahrann. I decided to go into greater lengths to learn more about zhem but I have had no luck except for the fact zhat zhe leader vears a mask." Asura was expecting a few rumors of tall tales but a religious uprising that's main goal is to kill him and his friends was something he would not just shrug off.
The conversation was cut short when there was a group of drunk customers harassing the girl that served everyone and took their orders as well as brought them their drinks. "Hey girly since you been doing such a fine job how about a give you a tip larger than your average." One of the men at the table said while sliding his hand down her side and cupping her ass. "Fuck off creep." The barmaid said. "Don't give me such a cold shoulder you bitch! Do you know who I am?! You'd be lucky to get with a guy like me! Not like uuuh…" The man looked around the tavern to choose someone to compare himself too. "Like that freak over there with the fucking horns. We don't like your kind around here. You and your weird animal-like details." The man was yelling at Asura due to his horns. There was a problem of racism to the Faunus species due to them having animal like traits such as ears. "You must be mistaken I'm not a Faunus." Asura said not wanting to deal with this guy's shit. "The hell you aren't! You got the horns! You're a filthy creature and you shouldn't be here, go back to you fucking shit hole you call a home. You and your whole family deserve to be slaves! You are not people!" The man yelled at him. "You wanna fucking go you fucking cunt!?" Asura snapped and smashed his clenched fist against the table and drawing blood from his own hand. "I'll make you think twice next time you want to try and act tough when your head shoved up your ass!" Asura began to get up.