How Did Dragon Knight Lose?!

I've been very unlucky recently.

Not only was I misunderstood by Boss Shen and take a few inkstones to my face, I even screwed up multiple times when I tried to withdraw from the imperial martial arts tournament.

My original plan was to skip the preliminaries and dodge the competition since I wouldn't have to participate in the semi-finals.

But it didn't turn out as planned. My opponent got killed by the Black Winds Thirteen Wings before I even got to see what he looked like!

And so the innocent me ended up entering thesemi-finals.

Then it happened again yesterday. I had three matches, in other words, I had at least three chances to leave the awkward situation.

But then the Black Winds Thirteen Wings went and killed those three before I even got to see them once!

For fuck sakes, do you people have any respect for the rules of the pugilistic world?!!

Why is it that my opponents end up getting offed whether or not I'm present?! I can't even cast my "Hey! Your shit has poison!", "I've already expended all my energy…", "Hey you bald monk, how dare you steal from this priest…" and the sort of lines characters use when they have platform to show their skills.

And don't remind me… That fucking Yi Yixian… He looks exactly like Dong Po Tavern's Liu Zi, but the damn bastard brought me the braised pork shoulders from old Zhang's place where he sells shady pork. It was basically an insult to my tastebuds!

God damn it, I'm so damn pissed!

I pat my cheeks as I walked forward a few steps.

There was a huge suspended tower in front of me. This was the venue of the imperial martial arts tournament. Today was the last day of the tournament, so I'm forced to go down there and put on a show too….

The ring was set up outside the plaza of the imperial city where it was best suited for holding events where there would be a large audience such as this.

The ring was surrounded on four sides by a rowdy audience. Seats which were reserved for those with prominent identitie