The final day of the Pupil Tournament arrived. Pentarium’s waiting room was full as everyone checked the official participant ranking on their wall. It contained all one hundred and fifty participants as well as the tokens they possessed. The participants at the bottom had a single token, and weren’t in the waiting room. Fortunately, no one was interested in them.

“Hey, look at that...!”

“What? Oh, the number one rank? Of course, it’s… Huh?”

“... Surely it’s wrong?”

“It was installed today, so it shouldn’t be wrong?”

“If it’s true, how many times has she fought?”

The audience discussed in hushed whispers as they scrutinized the leaderboards. It was the last day, so it was clear who would take the top few spots in the rankings. Those who were satisfied with their rankings had decided to call it quits, since they didn’t...