Well... Fuck...

So the first match happened and it was pretty cool. I vaguely remember hearing things about Malkator. He took out his opponent pretty easily. Might be a challenge... I wasn't paying that much attention.

The Game Master said that it was to the death or unconsciousness now... That's... Not good. I'm not great at knocking people out without killing them and even if I was it's almost impossible to knock someone out without at least causing brain damage. I don't want to kill or harm Cerise. I don't... I need to come up with a new plan to get her out of the fighting.

I don't want her to die. I was hoping after all this we might... Still be friends in the outside world... Me and Cerise... Working together. Fire forged friends...

I need... I need to do something. I can't let her die.

I need her.

Oh also apparently the audience is now made up of our families. That doesn't really affect me... My parents died of natural causes many years ago, I don't have any siblings and I killed my wife and children myself a little while ago. So... I don't really have any family left.

Man... You'd think that would bother me, but nope. I'm pretty sure Cerise said her family was killed by some kind of psychopath or something shortly before she became a proxy so I doubt she had any family in those stands either. I guess I'll know when she posts about it.

Endgame.

One minute you're watching your new friend resting and the next minute you're both teleported to the finals. I was wrong. There are seemingly quite a few more than my original estimate still alive. Also I'm pretty sure one of them is an actual Fear... That seems unfair. Also Hella's here. Hi Hella. Looking forward to killing you. I waved. Cerise elbowed me in the ribs. Cerise might be enjoying killing now, but she doesn't seem to have quite grasped the joy of friendship.

Looking around the room... I'm thinking I've got a pretty good shot of winning this. I mean the fear guy isn't completely unkillable, just difficult. I'm sure I can figure something out. As for the rest. They look tough, but not tougher than anything I've killed before.

Honestly Cerise could probably even take some of them and of course I already have a plan for her.

Yeah I think this is gonna go great. We were ushered towards our rooms. I tried to get as close to Hella as I could during the movement... You know just to tease her. I bet she enjoyed that.