Jenso took a deep breath and sighed. "Look, sir. I'm deeply grateful to you guys for healing me. I'm sorry, I just want to see my friends." Jenso explained to Sera. "If they're at the infirmary, you wouldn't mind leading the way, right?"

"Unfortunately, for safety reasons, losers are under the castle guard's protection. I can't let you see them," Sera told Jenso, showing him the way out. "Now please.."

Jenso frowned as the man spoke. "Well, so much for being polite I guess." Jenso stated, and glared at the man. "I know you intend to drain Mikey and Ross's powers. I overheard your conversation just now. We don't need to fight, just let my friends go." Jenso stated bluntly.

Sera narrowed his eyes and stepped into the tent, closing the cloth behind him. "You have no evidence," He announced, "And no bargaining chips. What did you intend to accomplish by confronting me?"

"I think I've gathered a good amount of fans now. Even without proof, I think I'd be able to rally up enough people to start a riot. I don't know how long you've been doing this, but it seems like you've done it for a long time. I doubt I'm going to be the only one who will feel suspicious about people randomly dissapearing over such a long time." Jenso stated to Sera, and readied his fists. "I only came into this tent to see if my friends were in here. They are not, which means you must have teleported them or something judging from the lack of other exits, and because nobody saw them leave the tent. I didn't expect you to notice me, but confronting you seemed like the best option since I'm running out of time and will have to face Rajaka soon. So, you have three options. One, you actually manage to kill me. Two, you take me to Mikey and Ross and let them go, and nobody gets hurt. Three, I rally up the people and beat up you and your friends." Jenso said to Sera. "I suggest option two."

"You have no idea where you are, Jenso," Sera growled, "Your options are irrelevant. The moment you even think about doing anything that stupid, I'll have your friends killed." Sera paused and pulled a remote from his pocket. It looked strange, and unlike anything he'd ever seen before. "This is a walkie talkie, a device created by our allies over in Tech-mo city. One push of the button, and I can give the order to execute all of the captured fighters immediately. You wouldn't want that, now would you?"

Sere smiled and held his finger over the button. "Option 4, you fight Rajaka, and give the crowd the show that they're paying for. The fight ends, everything goes as planned, and maybe, just maybe, I leave enough life force in your friends for them to survive. Albeit, crippled from fighting for life."

Jenso began to walk past Sera and stopped near the main entrance of the tent. "Fine. You better make sure they survive, or I'll be coming for you." Jenso stated, and walked out of the tent. He continued to walk until he was a safe distance away from the tent, and would look around to see if he would be able to spot the castle anywhere.

Sera grunted and closed the tent cloth behind him. "That boy might be a problem for us.." He murmured to himself, biting the tips of his fingernails.

As Jenso looked around the city, he could see the rough outline of a castle, sunken into the landscape. But it was very far off in the distance, or at least looked that way.

Jenso tried to calculate, judging from what he could see, if he would be able to reach the castle quickly and get back in time for the battle with Rajaka. If he was able too do so, he would dash towards the castle. If he would be unable too, he'd head for the battle tent and wait for his battle with Rajaka to start.

Jenso made his way to the castle, but in moments, he was spotted by some of the healers from the tent. They casually walked off, towards the healing tent. Minutes later, Sera stood outside the tent and held his walkie-talkie to his face, pressing the button gently.

"There's a problem."

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As Jenso reached the castle grounds, he noticed that guards were lined up along the walls sparsely. It was strange. Not only were there very few of them, but they weren't wearing the armor that all of the other guards wore, nor were they wielding swords or magical artifacts. It looked like they had guns, but... Glowing metal guns. Were they magic? Even stranger, they all had black visors over their eyes that seemed attached to their skin.

The main courtyard was a large marble staircase, lined with at least 4 of the strange guards, and reaching all the way up to a huge pair of marble doors, where two more guards stood. As Jenso approached, they waved at him with smiles, as if there was no problem.

Jenso overlooked the guards and walked up to them. "Excuse me, I need to go see the king. It's important." Jenso said in a serious tone.

"The king is on an embassy trip to Tech-mo city. But you're welcome to tour the castle," One of the guards responded.

Jenso smiled at the guard and nodded. "Sure!" Jenso said in a cheerful tone, and headed up the staircase. He didn't want to cause any trouble if he could avoid it.

The guard smiled and let Jenso through. The massive doors opened slowly at his signal, and allowed Jenso access. Within moments though, one of the guards began whispering to another, and the doors shut behind Jenso with a mighty slam.

Jenso looked behind him for a moment and shrugged. It wasn't too surprising that the guards decided to trap him, knowing that that the elf-like people would have most likely informed the men at the castle that there was a possibility that he would be coming. 'Doesn't matter...I managed to get inside, and that's all I needed right now.' Jenso thought, and began to dash through the castle in search for the infirmary where he believed Mikey and Ross would be at. 'Now to hope that that guy wasn't lying about where they were..'

Jenso quickly made his way through the castle walls, but would soon come to realize that everything looked the same. The walls were all white, and almost blended together to anybody who wasn't familiar with the castle layout, and the floor was the same. No directing signs, and no guards indoors. What was going on here?

Eventually, Jenso was out of the endless chain of hallways, and found a door. But as soon as it opened, there were only more hallways. Was he just completely lost? Or..

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"Is he taken care of?" Sera barked into his walkie talkie. A voice spoke back, coarse and overladen with age.

"Yes. He's trapped. We'll keep him here for the next 5 hours, until the finals start. Then we'll warp him over to the tent."

"Make sure he doesn't break through that. Otherwise we'll lose those valuable kids. Without them, our plan won't come to fruition, understood?" The walkie talkie hissed for a moment, before a grunt sunk through the static. Then it went silent. Sera sighed and looked outside of his tent. "All according to plan."

Jenso stared in shock as he saw even more hallways. 'What the heck..?' Jenso thought, looking around the castle. "Man, this castle must be massive! It all looks the same! And there aren't even any guards around!" Jenso shouted, as he moved forward. 'Wait, what if..' Jenso thought, And aimed a punch at the wall on his right near the door in order to crack it. After that, he continued to dash through the hallways to see if his theory was correct and if he would encounter the same door with the crack.

Jenso kept running after the wall cracked, and sure enough, after running for about a minute, he saw the same crack in the exact same spot. It was definite! He was trapped in an illusion!

Jenso's eyes widened as he stopped in his tracks and noticed the crack. 'So that's how it is...' He thought, realising that he was stuck in an illusion. "I keep running into the same thing...so.." Jenso muttered, and turned to the wall on his right. "FLAME DRAGON PUNCH!!" He shouted, launching a flame dragon punch at the wall next to him.