57 Stand Up (2/2)

He slowly stood up, feeling the pain all over the body. Dragger had a sudden memory of an arrogant kid beating him up flashed in his mind. His face turned ugly from frowning even though it was covered in bandages.

He then staggering exited through the only door from this little room and outside was a hallway and on the walls were doors.

'Must be the resting area…', Dragger sighed.

This should not be far from the stadium but where is the noise? The cheers and shouts from the audience?

On his right, he saw a dotted light, he decided to go there and when he got closer and closed, staggering, he started to hear something.

”What is seriously happening?”

It was a sound filled with doubt but at the same time awe.

”How can he stand up?! Look at his hoodie! It was white before, right?!”

”Is his blood bottomless?! Is he a human…?”

”No, that can't be right. Even a zombie would die from that.”

Those words were said in complicated feelings but in all of that, there was a tinge of awe.

”He was dodging everything at first but when his opponent finally decided to use skills, he was supposed to be dead.”

Dragger sweated from all these words that he was hearing. Closer and closer, the dotted became bigger and bigger until eventually, Dragger got out of the dark hallway.

It was the stadium, in the middle, the cage. Inside of it was blood splattered everywhere and a body was prostrating himself on the left side while the one whose clothes, suit and tie to be in tattered was heavily panting.

Dragger's eyes widened when he noticed the dark blue light flickering around the one in suit and tie. It was a Fourth Stage of Focus Practitioner? 'Why is a practitioner at that stage doing in here and on top of that, he was beaten up.'

He ignore the one body that was prostrated in the left side until it jerked and started to move slowly by pushing himself up.

It was Rin! Still with the koala hoodie and face mask but it seemed that it is starting to wear off.

Rin looked skinnier and had no energy what so ever but after he just closed his eyes and breath deeply I and out.

Tom frowned.

”What kind of breathing technique is that? Since he was always getting interrupted before but now that his opponent was tired, he can complete it now.

After a few breaths, Rin suddenly gain weight.

He took another stance, ”I'm still not losing-”, he tiredly said.