Gangral was devastated by his loss. Excusing himself from the training exercise, he hurried across the bustling city to the tavern they so often frequented. With every last scrap of coin he possessed, he drank. He drank. And he drank. And he drank some more. He could feel the weight of the world and the pressure of his life's failures crushing him beneath so much despair. The life that was taken away from him. The alcohol he used to try to patch the gaping holes in his life. The smiling little girl that had delivered the final, fatal blow to his state of mind.
In an angsty huff, Gangral stormed drunkenly out of the tavern with nothing but the clothes on his back. He removed those too. Rude and nude, he marched through the streets raving mad. After harassing the locals to his heart's content, he collapsed in a dark Roman alley, cold and helpless. He was not alone though. A dark cloaked figure soon approached him.
"What a sad sight we have here," said the shadowy figure. "What could possibly have brought a man such as yourself to such a pathetic state of affairs?"
Gangral vomited a bit and scratched his ass before bothering to reply. "The little girl! She has mocked Gangral! Made fool of him for all to see! Now I am but poor jester!" he lamented.
The dark figure laughed and pulled back his hood. He was a grimy looking man with a patchy beard and untidy eyebrows. The scent of old cheese and overwhelming failure wafted to Gangral's nostrils. "My name is Kettlebrick," said the man, "and I believe we're both after the same thing."
Gangral narrowed his eyes with deep suspicion. "And what is Kettlebrick and Gangral have in common?" he asked.
"Why, to put an end to the damnable loli once and for all!" roared Kettlebrick, his laughter causing him to shake gelatinously.
Gangral's eyes lit up and once. Perhaps there was some common ground between them. The enemy of his enemy was his friend, after all. "And what is it I can be doing for the helping?" he asked with a hellish grin and wild eyes.
"Son, I'll just be needing to borrow your face."
Gangral's face flashed briefly with confusion and then horror as Kettlebrick's dagger plunged into his heart. He had time for one muffled scream of terror as he died. Chuckling lightly to himself, Kettlebrick went about his business transforming Gangral's being into a convincing disguise. He emerged from the alley looking the spitting image of the man himself. A hearty Gangral-style laugh escaped him as he turned and made his way back to the gladiator school. A ruthless need for revenge burned deep in his loins.