The tournament resumed the next day, with everyone knowing already who was matched up with who, it was no longer a surprise who will fight who on this day.

The two candidates stared at each other. Appletun chuckled to himself, he was the opening act, and he was going to make a spectacular show of his cooking skills just like before.

Corviknight looked at Appletun, and wondered what he was laughing at. The slime he kept flinging on Aggron last time… It won't work on him, not when he was aware of what it could do.

"As you all know folks! We have resumed the matches for today! DId you all have fun with your day off? And I'm not just talking about you folks! I'm talking about the candidates too!" Gliscor announced.

"Y-Yes! And today we'll be having another match! With Appletun and Corviknight as the opening act today! I hope it pleases everyone that our good chef made it to the second round! Though I'm worried if the dark knight, Corviknight, would ruin his luck!" Grumpig said as he nervously looked at the two candidates.

"Right you are there Grumpig! But we will see if our chef is cooking up something for our eyes to feast on tonight! Can the dark knight handle such cuisine that our good chef will serve him? Or will he be serving him instead! Let's find out!" Gliscor said as he and Grumpig took their seats.

Appletun began to take out his frying pan… and heated it up with the fire stone attached. While wielding a spatula with the other hand, already having some of his signature slime on it.

"Do you really think I'd fall for such a trick? You've already revealed that slime trick of yours in Aggron's match" Corviknight said as he brought out his sword.

"Oh I know… Though I wonder if you are fast enough to not get hit by it" Appletun said, flinging a piece of his syrupy slime right at Corviknight.

Corviknight dodged and charged at Appletun swiftly, flying up high to make it more difficult for the chef to use the same technique.

"Fool! Your pathetic attempt at that slow and stupid rival of mine was a lucky victory! I will show you the true power of a knight that employs speed in his arsenal!" Corviknight said, dive bombing towards Appletun.

Appletun smiled and began to swing the pan right at him…

And before anyone knew it… Corviknight slammed hard against Appletun and kicked him right down on the ground, leaving a small Appletun shaped hole on the arena floor.

"T-That was fast… I couldn't see anything!" Grumpig said as he didn't even see the point of impact.

Gliscor saw the whole thing though, and realized that Appletun's pan saved his life, blocking the blow with his pan, and thus, Corviknight resorting to kick him hard.

"Impressive… He blocked the attack by the pan but was kicked down.

Appletun got up from the small hole, and groaned, feeling his back ache a bit from the blow, before looking back up at Coviknight.

"Do you now see the difference in power between us? That was with you blocking! Now surrender and maybe I'll show mercy on you. Aggron, however, will meet a harsher fate being a slut to my subordinates!" Corviknight gloated.

Appletun cracked his back, and pushed his spine forward a bit, before he chuckled.

"My, I admire your spirit… It would be nice to have my lover have a playmate whenever I'm around. I'm more intrigued to have you for myself" Appletun said as he began cooking some fried rice in the middle of the battle.

"Fool! Cooking in the middle of battle. You're not even taking the battle, much less your life seriously" Corviknight growled, the disrespect of cooking in the middle of their match… He never met someone so arrogant in his life…

"Well then, come get your meal then" Appletun said as he finished speed cooking very fast, taking a wooden spoon and tasting his own cooking…

"Wait… Ohoh! He's healing himself with his own cooking!" Gliscor yelled as he looked at Appletun's sore looking back, turning from red, back to green again.

"But how!?" Grumpig asked.

"You dare heal in the middle of our battle? You fucking coward" Corviknight growled at him.

"A good question my piggy friend. Oran berries. Well then, come have your fill my feathery friend. I got more where that came from" Appletun said as he began to wield the pan like a baseball bat once more.

"I'll be glad to keep destroying you. I won't even let you recover enough to cook your stupid dishes!" Corviknight said as he swooped in hard, taking advantage of his flight once more.

Appletun and Corviknight began clashing, with Appletun trying to block and hit the bird, and Corviknight trying to injure Appletun as fast as he could.

Appletun however, had trouble even blocking him, with Corviknight just avoiding the hits from Appletun, and even dodging the slime.

"Appletun can't keep this up! Corviknight is just too fast!" Grumpig said as he watched cuts and bruises appearing on Appletun.

"Did Appletun meet his match? Can you harm someone who is too fast for you" Gliscor said as he watched with bated breath.

"All talk, and no action to back it up. You really did get lucky!" Corviknight said as he swooped down for one more strike.

Appletun smiled, and got ready to try his luck once more… And used protect right as Corviknight was about to hit him, causing Corviknight to stop mid flight, and become off balance, slow enough to give Appletun a fair swing.

"GOOOOOOOOOOAL!" Appletun yelled before Corviknight felt a heated up, scorching pan hit him square in the face… And found his feathers being set on fire as he desperately rolled around on the ground to put them out.

"Amazing! Looks like appletun wasn't putting his day off to waste! He must have learned that move yesterday!" Gliscor said.

"And I don't think Corviknight is going to take flight for a while. His wings look a bit weird now" Grumpig said, hiding as he earned a glare from Corviknight.

"You… Couldn't be… Hmph… This just makes my attacks stronger, you're just speeding up your doom until I can hit you with one blow!" Corviknight said as he managed to put out the fire and stood with a sword in hand.

As it turns out, Appletun wasn't even listening to him, and was cooking an omelette the whole time he was on fire, before consuming it right in front of him.

"Sorry, this recipe of mine, sitrus omelette is just too good to pass up! Though if you wanted to know, cooking these things weren't to heal me. It's to cover them in oil and boost the fire type damage done to your feathers. I wonder if you will become an extinct species now that you probably can't fly. Go on, try it~" Appletun said, covering his mouth in laughter before taking a spoonful of the omelette, healing his injuries even further.

Corviknight growled and saw he couldn't take flight anymore, his feathers were ruined… This was Aggron's opponent!? Now he understood why he lost… His rival's opponent had cunning wits.

Corviknight went berserk and began to slash at Appletun, not taking his eyes off of Appletun as he gave the chef a hard time.

"You think that can defeat me? Aggron was a fool and you are a delusional bitch! I will make sure you are a broken mess like Tropius. Yes, that right! I saw him begging for a god to save him. Just for that, I will fuck him harder next time!" Corviknight declared before he began using drill pec.

Appletun blocked once again, but the drill pec Corviknight began poking holes until there was a gaping hole in the frying pan.

With the hole in the pan, Corvingiht switched to the sword and began trying to stab Appletun.

Appletun wasn't much for dodging that well, and tried to keep blocking, but now that the pan was rendered ineffective, it managed to go right through the hole and reached Appletun's chest.

"Guwagh…!" Appletun groaned, he couldn't only feel physical pain, but felt like his very soul was being sucked into the sword.

"Hah! And to think that you made the crowd think you can defeat me… Didn't you say you were going to make me your slave? This fight ended faster than I thought…" Corviknight said, flaring the dark flames of his sword further, intensifying the pain that Appletun felt.

"Oh no… I didn't think something like this would happen! I can't look!" Grumpig said as he felt scared if someone was going to die.

"Looks like this is it for our chef… His creativity and cooking will be missed" Gliscor said as he looked at Appletun, it didn't seem like he could move much.

"Grgh…!" Appletun gritted his teeth and started reaching for his pocket.

"If you think I'll let you use another weapon before you can attack me, you're stupider than you look" Corviknight said as he had an unamused look on his face.

"Just… One more bite…!" Appletun cried out in pain, as he took out a small bag of popcorn in his apron's pocket.

Before Appletun could even get a handful of popcorn, Corviknight grabbed his hand and took the bag from him.

"Maybe I'll have you work for me as my own personal chef once I'm done punishing you. You've kept your creations to yourself, now it's my turn to get healed" Corviknight said as he grabbed a handful of the popcorn, and ate it.

That turned out to be a mistake as he then felt the popcorn explode in his mouth. Not in a deadly way, but in a sticky way.

Corviknight felt the popcorn become sticky, he tried to open his mouth, but the food just kept expanding in his mouth.

"Mmm… *gargle… S-S-Squuaaaaaawwwwkkk!" Corviknight screamed like a feral animal in fear as he didn't understand what was happening.

The popcorn had expanded vastly, becoming too much for Corviknight's mouth as it all came out and began getting stuck on his wings, his feathers, almost his entire body.

Appletun though, pushed the sword out of his chest, before he began flinging he grabbed handfuls of the fallen popcorn, and throwing it disrespectfully at the panicking pokemon.

"Let's go and quench your thirst, what do you say?" Appletun said as he produced a bottle of smoliv oil, opening it before he began covering the panicking pokemorph with it.

The handfuls of popcorn began expanding even more, covering Corviknight in the gooey substance until the only thing that can be seen was his beak.

Appletun wiped the sweat from his head, as if it was just a hard day's work in the kitchen.

"I guess that's it… Start the countdown my dear customers~" Appletun said.

"... R-Right! Everybody start counting!" Grumpig said as he and the crowd started counting down.

"You heard my partner everyone! Start the countdown!" Gliscor encouraged the ground.

"10… 9… 8…7… 6… 5… 4… 3… 2… 1… 0!" The crowd counted before they cheered as Appletun won the match.

After being healed by the medics, Appletun was being interviewed by Gliscor and Grumpig.

"Unbelievable! For someone who doesn't regularly fight, you seemed to nab one knight, but his rival as well! Tell me, was getting stabbed part of your plans?" Gliscor asked Appletun.

"Well honestly speaking, it wasn't. But I didn't expect him to be that strong enough to break a pan with his beak. Buuuut that just means I can have two strong knights next to me, it would be heavenly to know that I have two bitches. Though if I'm speaking about them… My favorite opponent is still Aggron, and I love him so much, that I honestly want to reward him for being a better fight than this dumb bird haha!" Appletun said as he patted his stomach.

"And uh… Can you explain the popcorn thing? Why were they expanding so much?" Grumpig asked him.

"Oh, those aren't popcorn actually. It's an imitation. You see, those are bubblegum, I took the mind to boil the bubblegum and put them in a popcorn mold. Soft enough that when exposed to water or any other fluids, they begin expanding so much. So I then decided to bait Corviknight into consuming it. As you've seen, the super soft bubblegum, along with him screaming like a bitch, made him blow bubbles and covered himself in it. I just had to add the finishing touches with more bubblegum on his body and he completely trapped himself. It was his own doing that he lost. It's almost like he forfeited the match" Appletun said, as it was now his turn to gloat.

"I see! So it was a trap all along!" Grumpig said, now understanding why the popcorn expanded so much.

"Let's not delay. After all, everyone's been waiting for… It's… PUNISHMENT TIME!" Gliscor said as he announced it to the crowd.

"Hold on. I did say I'd reward Aggron… My liege, would it break the rules if a slave of mine participated in the punishment?" Appletun asked the king.

The king thought for a moment, the throne glowing again and making the king grunt in pain quietly before giving his answer.

"I shall add a rule then. If the slave wants to assist their master before, during, and after the matches… Then I shall allow it" The king said.

Soon, Aggron was called from Appletun's room and onto the arena, looking at Corviknight's restricted body, one thing crossed his mind… He was going to enjoy punishing his rival after all the shit talking that was done to him yesterday.

Appletun splashed a reagent on Corviknight's body, dissolving the gum that trapped him, before splashing him with a bucketful of water.

"N-No… You tricked me…!" Corviknight said as he backed away from both Appletun and Aggron.

"And now you'll get a taste of what I felt!" Aggron said as he stepped closer to Corviknight.

"Show him how you bred me, my love. Show him how you treated me like your slut~" Appletun urged Aggron.

"... Gladly" Aggron said, ignoring his annoyance with Appletun.

I decided that the loser's bracket will have their own exclusive day of fighting. Which means the second round winners will have their own matches two days after the second round winner's bracket.

I was also thinking that the slaves, if they want to, they can assist their masters in their fight, but only if they wanted to.

As for Hypno, he can participate in breeding the slaves while inside the rooms at most. But that's all. He will be the referee for the loser's bracket.

Voting results:

Appletun - 28

Corviknight - 4