p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: left;"strong [Mini Gladiator Tournament]/strong/p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"Wow.. Just Wow.. Who was the idiot that chose the name? Mini gladiators... mini fighting slaves.../p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"Really.. You couldn't pick anything else, Mini- champions/tournament./p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"Someone is getting fired after this. It might be hyped now. But when kids start getting broken bones and start to bleed then the public will probably wake up/p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"As i enter the venue i cant help but notice that there are a lot more people here than i expected./p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"People came to watch children fight. That's it, it's not some sort of festival like UA where there are obstacle courses and similar games. This is just straight-up martial arts with kids. If I were to be invited in this as an adult there is no way I would show up, I'd die of boredom./p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"My family sends me off to go with the other contestants, this tournament is invite only so I might allow myself a little hope that there will be interesting kids here to fight. I like the handicap I have, all older taller and more muscular than me. That makes me rely on my skills and polish them to perfection, I'm hoping that I K.O All Might one day. That would be funny to see./p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;""Be careful son" my dad just puts his hand on my shoulder as support/p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;""Good luck Shin~CHAN~!" We turn around to see my mother waving a big flag with the words 'Shin-chan is the best'/p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"Both of us facepalm when we saw her. Then i look closer I see Eri and Ran next to her. Eri has her hand on her face, and Ran is waving small hand flags with my name on them./p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;""I'll be going now" my father nods and mentalis prepares himself to the attention he will receive by sitting next to my mother/p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"$/p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"Hmmm there are a lot more kids here, and the ages are all 9-13, I'm the only one here, that's under 9. I guess I should be flattered. Though it might be an attempt to slow down my fame, teach the new kid a lesson and some humility I guess./p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"Oh, this will be so embarrassing for the tournament creators, usually, there are 3 people picked that are almost a sure win, and one of those will get all the attention and be used for promotions and stuff like that once he wins. Well, that's not going to happen./p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;""Yo Tetsuya how have you been?" I wave to him/p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;""Shinichi. I have been fine. You?" he says with a stoic face, but I know him well enough to spot the smile there/p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;""I'm good, this is much better than what I expected, bigger crowd and contestants."/p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;""Hmm" he nods/p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;""My first opponent is a boxer. Yours?"/p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;""Karate" a man of few words, one of the reasons I like this kid, sucks at Shogi though/p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;""Contestants it's time to take the pictures and to 'pick lots' " hahahah pick lots, they informed us who we are going to fight months ago, no one wants to watch a boring match, it's also stated in the contract not to tell anyone./p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"They weren't sure about me since I'm 'too young' and I might tell somebody. One conversation with me and I made the team that was responsible for this fell like idiots./p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"We go outside and line up. The crowd was cheering and pictures were being taken/p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;""Just Smile and wave boys, smile and wave" I say to the rest, some look at me weirdly but did as I said/p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"After a few minutes they announced that the drawing of the lots will happen. The box was already on the table./p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"They went one after another and pulled out a ball with a number (DBZ style xD)/p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"When it was my turn I put my hand in the box only to find it empty, then through pipes and air, the ball was shot in my hand through the hole in the bottom. I picked up the ball and it showed number 7. That means the boxing kid will be number 8./p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"I go to the side and the 'lots' continue, and the boxing kid did pull out number 8. when contestant 16 pulled out the last ball with the number 4, we were done./p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;""Ladies and gentlemen now that the lots are done, the tournament can begin. Can numbers 1 and 2 please enter the fighting arena."/p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"I look at the fight for a few seconds to check on what level they are, if it's worth copying I'll watch, If not I'm just watching videos on the internet in my head. I love this part about my quirk, I can cheat and slack off all I want./p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"I came back to reality when it was Tetsuya's turn. He is 10 right now and was up against a 12-year old kid who practices 'full contact' karate. They forgot to mention that detail to him, faking morons, they are corrupt or just plain stupid. Full contact karate as the name suggests focuses mostly all their attacks at closer range than regular karate, and it's a lot more violent./p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"Whatever it will be a challenge for Tetsuya a year or 2 makes a big difference when your a child, because they grow at a fast rate, a year is easily noticeable, usually by height./p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"This fight was actually interesting this kid is good for his age, he must be one of the 'sure win' contestants that people bet on behind the scenes. Yuuki is having a tough time. Full contact karate has a less range than most marital arts, it's just about the range of a fist, but sometimes that's all you need. But since this guy is older than Tetsuya by 2 years he doesn't have to worry about that./p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"Now let's see what will happen. The fight actually went on for 5 minutes, until Tetsuya did something totally unexpected, the little shit switched to boxing and laid out a lot of hard strikes to the face, his opponent was caught off guard and got K.O'ed ./p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"That little shit kept it a secret during our spars, and now he has a small shit-eating grin while looking at me. He just pulled a 'Gaolong'. Oh he is so gonna get it later on./p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"Word Count 1050/p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"Wow.. Just Wow.. Who was the idiot that chose the name? Mini gladiators... mini fighting slaves.../p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"Really.. You couldn't pick anything else, Mini- champions/tournament./p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"Someone is getting fired after this. It might be hyped now. But when kids start getting broken bones and start to bleed then the public will probably wake up/p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"As i enter the venue i cant help but notice that there are a lot more people here than i expected./p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"People came to watch children fight. That's it, it's not some sort of festival like UA where there are obstacle courses and similar games. This is just straight-up martial arts with kids. If I were to be invited in this as an adult there is no way I would show up, I'd die of boredom./p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"My family sends me off to go with the other contestants, this tournament is invite only so I might allow myself a little hope that there will be interesting kids here to fight. I like the handicap I have, all older taller and more muscular than me. That makes me rely on my skills and polish them to perfection, I'm hoping that I K.O All Might one day. That would be funny to see./p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;""Be careful son" my dad just puts his hand on my shoulder as support/p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;""Good luck Shin~CHAN~!" We turn around to see my mother waving a big flag with the words 'Shin-chan is the best'/p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"Both of us facepalm when we saw her. Then i look closer I see Eri and Ran next to her. Eri has her hand on her face, and Ran is waving small hand flags with my name on them./p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;""I'll be going now" my father nods and mentalis prepares himself to the attention he will receive by sitting next to my mother/p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"$/p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"Hmmm there are a lot more kids here, and the ages are all 9-13, I'm the only one here, that's under 9. I guess I should be flattered. Though it might be an attempt to slow down my fame, teach the new kid a lesson and some humility I guess./p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"Oh, this will be so embarrassing for the tournament creators, usually, there are 3 people picked that are almost a sure win, and one of those will get all the attention and be used for promotions and stuff like that once he wins. Well, that's not going to happen./p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;""Yo Tetsuya how have you been?" I wave to him/p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;""Shinichi. I have been fine. You?" he says with a stoic face, but I know him well enough to spot the smile there/p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;""I'm good, this is much better than what I expected, bigger crowd and contestants."/p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;""Hmm" he nods/p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;""My first opponent is a boxer. Yours?"/p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;""Karate" a man of few words, one of the reasons I like this kid, sucks at Shogi though/p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;""Contestants it's time to take the pictures and to 'pick lots' " hahahah pick lots, they informed us who we are going to fight months ago, no one wants to watch a boring match, it's also stated in the contract not to tell anyone./p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"They weren't sure about me since I'm 'too young' and I might tell somebody. One conversation with me and I made the team that was responsible for this fell like idiots./p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"We go outside and line up. The crowd was cheering and pictures were being taken/p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;""Just Smile and wave boys, smile and wave" I say to the rest, some look at me weirdly but did as I said/p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"After a few minutes they announced that the drawing of the lots will happen. The box was already on the table./p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"They went one after another and pulled out a ball with a number (DBZ style xD)/p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"When it was my turn I put my hand in the box only to find it empty, then through pipes and air, the ball was shot in my hand through the hole in the bottom. I picked up the ball and it showed number 7. That means the boxing kid will be number 8./p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"I go to the side and the 'lots' continue, and the boxing kid did pull out number 8. when contestant 16 pulled out the last ball with the number 4, we were done./p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;""Ladies and gentlemen now that the lots are done, the tournament can begin. Can numbers 1 and 2 please enter the fighting arena."/p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"I look at the fight for a few seconds to check on what level they are, if it's worth copying I'll watch, If not I'm just watching videos on the internet in my head. I love this part about my quirk, I can cheat and slack off all I want./p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"I came back to reality when it was Tetsuya's turn. He is 10 right now and was up against a 12-year old kid who practices 'full contact' karate. They forgot to mention that detail to him, faking morons, they are corrupt or just plain stupid. Full contact karate as the name suggests focuses mostly all their attacks at closer range than regular karate, and it's a lot more violent./p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"Whatever it will be a challenge for Tetsuya a year or 2 makes a big difference when your a child, because they grow at a fast rate, a year is easily noticeable, usually by height./p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"This fight was actually interesting this kid is good for his age, he must be one of the 'sure win' contestants that people bet on behind the scenes. Yuuki is having a tough time. Full contact karate has a less range than most marital arts, it's just about the range of a fist, but sometimes that's all you need. But since this guy is older than Tetsuya by 2 years he doesn't have to worry about that./p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"Now let's see what will happen. The fight actually went on for 5 minutes, until Tetsuya did something totally unexpected, the little shit switched to boxing and laid out a lot of hard strikes to the face, his opponent was caught off guard and got K.O'ed ./p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"That little shit kept it a secret during our spars, and now he has a small shit-eating grin while looking at me. He just pulled a 'Gaolong'. Oh he is so gonna get it later on./p
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #241e12; font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line; margin: 10px 0px !important;"Word Count 1050/p