Time Turner

They were dumbfounded by what they going to saw, by the few seconds they lift their attention from the Arena's stage, Dioz was already flat on the Arena's floor with Henry pointed a dagger at him while laughing evilly.

"What's with that creepy laugh?!" Dioz shouted as he pushed Henry away from him. He quickly stood up while he reached for the neglected gun in his waist pouch. He fired at Henry.

Fortunately for Henry, Dioz who had fired the gun while stabilizing his center of gravity from standing too fast, didn't manage to wounded Henry. The second bullet was blocked by Henry's dagger, and the said dagger was thrown away from the impact.

"You finally upping the game?" Henry chuckled as he throws the remaining dagger on his left hand while taking out another two dagger out at the same time.

From the time the spectator's attention was snatched back by Dioz screamed to this point where Henry closed the distance between him and his opponent, all of it was happened not even with a dozen of seconds.

Henry dodged two bullets then he sacrificed one of the two remaining daggers to blocked another bullet, that was too closed to him to dodge without sacrificing one of the daggers, from the Dioz who tried to keep their distance.

He still couldn't hold on his dagger that was hit by a bullet, something Henry decided to work on later since losing a weapon in a fight was not a good thing to happen.

Unfortunately for Dioz who can't back off from Henry as fast as the senior pursued. Henry crouched down to swiped off Dioz foot with his own.

Thump!!

Dioz fall on the arena's floor with a loud thumping sound, his entire back's nerve suit light up a barely noticeable pale yellow. It was definitely going to bruise.

He refused to give up, Dioz gritted his teeth to keep himself from groaning in pain. He quickly aimed his handgun at Henry to fire, he pulls the trigger but Henry didn't even bother to dodge or block the upcoming bullet.

Click! Click!

Dioz eyebrows shot up in surprise, he pulled the trigger again. But to no avail, there was no more ammunition in it. An evil grinned stretched out on Henry's face. And not to forget the addition of evil laugh.

"You should have kept track of how many bullets you have shot." Henry made a mocking face at Dioz. His dagger was on the Dioz's neck, threatened him to give up.

The system will only announce the winner if one of them said they give up, or in an unconscious state.

Dioz face reddened with anger, he took the chance of Henry's distracted with his own act. One of his hand slipped into his waist pouch, pulled out a dagger and slashed Henry's arm.

Henry who only noticed Dioz's suspicious action by the last second, could barely back off to dodge the dagger.

Bam!!

Henry's forehead was suddenly hit by something hard. The pain was enough to make him dizzy and fall flat on his back.

Just like what had happened to Dioz back, a barely noticeable pale yellow light, was light up on his back as he falls on his back with a quite loud thumping sound.

[3! 2! 1!] A mechanical voice sounded out and the glass cage displayed a countdown. Henry had to get up before the countdown reached zero, much like boxing.

When the counted down reached one, a short victory music was played while both the mechanical voiced and the slowly opening glass cage announced the winner.

[Winner: Dioz Hanson

Condition:

Artificial: Wrist (Bright orange), low blood pressure from losing too much blood from the wound on the arm.

Real: A light bruised on the back.]

[Opponent: Henry Leonore

Condition:

Artificial: T.h.i.g.h (light yellow).

Real: Bruise on the back and forehead.]

Dioz was dumbfounded to know that he had won against Henry. That last lucky 'attack' was unexpected to Henry who was trying to show off in front his supposed little brother which was the main reason for his loss today. He didn't even use his own gun!

Dioz was on his b.u.t.t not far from the groaning Henry. As the adrenaline slowly faded from his bloodstream, Dioz finally feeling the dizziness from his 'supposed' blood loss.

As for Henry, he was out for a few seconds after something hit his head. By the time he regained consciousness from his really short a few seconds of unconscious state, he had heard the winner announcement.

Henry g.r.o.a.n.e.d irritatedly. He sat up to look for the thing that had hit his forehead. He was at a loss after he knows what that thing is. He smacked his own bruising forehead, feeling stupid.

"It was stupid to lose because of a lucky throw from Dioz," Frans commented eyeing the gun that was out of ammunition. It was lying innocently beside the victim.

"He is your senior you were saying stupid," Vianzo said stifling his laugh in.

"For real? You said Henry stupid in front of his brother?" Rachzi said as he shook his head amused. He gave another light smacked at Frans' head.

"Just how many times do you plan to smack my head today?!" Frans growled as he rubbed his abused head. Rachzi smiled sweetly at him then he stood up about to walk away.

"Until you buy a filter for your mouth." Rachzi chuckled.

"If not with you guys, with whom can I said what was on my mind out loud to?" Frans grumbled. Smacking Frans head, mocking each other, and light fights once in a while was a normal thing to happen.

They won't hold a grudge over small things like that. Even for Alfizar who was a new addition in their group already used to it, and he never really takes their words seriously.

But, in this era of peace, there was still a lot of arrogant powerful people who would have a grudge over petty things. And to avoid stupid things like that to happen, the children were taught to respect each other and to not say unnecessary thought.

"Don't mind his words." Vianzo patted his shoulder.

"Actually, I also found that way of losing was stupid." Alfizar laugh.

"See? Even the little brother thought so!" Frans said defensively.

After the duel between Henry and Dioz that ended up with Dioz winning unexpectedly, they get off from arena three.

The moment they were off from the arena ground, the previously activated nerve suit automatically turned off as the line of light disappeared and returned to its former state. Each of them received a towel and refreshment from the club's member that was on duty.