"Myke? Myke?" Ying is calling him out while searching for him. She visits every single locker room and each training room. Then she went outside the arena, where it was empty. Ying still couldn't find him yet. Then she remembered about Ming. So she goes back inside to search for her.

  And as she went to Ming, she felt the strange aura in the hall surrounding her. She scanned the hall and found the broken long pipe. She immediately took it, and just in time, Hennah, the witch, attacked her from behind with her devil hounds. Ying hits every single hound that targets her, and as she goes near Hennah, she soon blows in her face to force her to sleep. "She has potential...I suppose?"

  "You think?" Jug interferes. "She's the one who sliced up my neck, and it hurts."

  "Come on, Juggy boy, it's not the first time you feel that way."

  "Why did I think you'd help me there?

  "Nope, just watch you die seems amusing," Hennah scoffed.

  "Shut up, bitch,"

  "What did you call me, soft arms?!"

  Then both of them begin to fight with words and swearing until Myke stops them. "You both are like children in adult form," he says.

  "Shut the fuck up, Lyo," both of them said simultaneously as they ignored him and proceed cursing each other.

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  In the Tavern, Ming sits at the bar, writing words in her daily book while enjoying her Hysha tea, a herbal drink with a delicate smell and aftertaste. Suddenly, a man approached next to her and sat with her. She ignores him for sure before he says anything. "What are you doing?" the man said. He is good-looking, slight tattoo around his body, muscular, and has strong arms. Yet, Ming didn't answer. She focuses on her writing instead. He was about to play with her hair until Ming flinched by leaning back slightly so that he could not touch her. He didn't stop there. "You know, I was having a thought that I can be with you, right?" he fake smiles as if he has something to say.

  "Is it necessary?" she said in a serious yet calm tone while her eyes were on the book.

  "Oh yes, you see, I've seen a lot and all about you. And yet, you look lonely. Maybe to break that loneliness, I can't be on your side, yes?" Then he ordered Butter Beer for two.

  "I don't drink," she said.

  "Oh, I think you are. Here, have a bit of taste," he said as he pushed the beer next to her. "You know, every girl around me wanna be with me, but my heart is always vacant for you," he flirts, thinking that he could catch Ming's heart.

  "Not interested."

  His heart suddenly hit like a train as she refused to be with him. But he keeps trying as hard as he can. "Why...you are the rough girl I want. Maybe I can be harder for you," he says calmly as he puts his fingers on her chin and gently turns her head to him.

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  "If you want, you should die first," she harshly said, grabbing his hand and throwing it away, taking her book with her as she finished her writing.

  Soon, the man grabs her hand immediately, so hard, and says, "Ooh...but I kinda like that."

  Without a second thought, she swung her book to his face, punched his nose until it was bleeding, and as for his hand holding her wrist, she grabbed it, put it on the table, and instantly pulled out her dagger and stabbed it into his hand on the table. The pain stings fast to him fast as he screams. "Like that?" she asked, then left the tavern.

  "Fucking bitch..." he muttered, and as she sense it, she went back to her and kicks his balls, weakened him more, pull out her dagger once more and left out without a word.

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  Visions, so blurred under the light, and Ying just woke up. "Morning sunshine," Hennah smiles with her untidy hair. "Boo!"

  Ying then fully awakened, moving away from Hennah with her unhinged attitude. She laughed so hard as if she scared her. "You should look at your face, red hair," she continues to laugh.

  Then a strike hits her head, and Ming appears behind her, hitting her with her knuckle. "That's not nice for the newcomer."

  "Oh, just a little bragging with her, Ming," she said as her smile faded.

  As Ming looks at Ying, she immediately looks away. "Myke is waiting,"

  As Ying looks at the locker room, it doesn't look like it. More like a casual living room. With warm, dim lights and simple furniture. She then stands up, looking for Myke, and the moment she is about to walk, she almost falls. Ming immediately caught her on time. "Hennah..." she said.

  "Oops, forgot to take it off," she chuckles and chants out to remove her half-paralyzed spell. Then Ying can finally stand up.

  As soon as Ying looked at Ming, "Thanks, Ming," she said. Ming had a glance then quickly stared away.

  "He's in the training room just by next door. Go right, then go left, and you see there's a word 'exit'. There you'll find him,"

  Ying stands up again and gives another gratitude to Ming and leaves the room.

  As Ying left, Ming gave a heavy sigh. "Ooo, seems you have something with her, huh?" Hennah said with a bit of a playful smirk.

  "Silence, go have a bath, you smell stinks," Ming said and gave her a towel on Hennah's head.

  "You know I hate baths,"

  "It's an order," Ming said as she left the room.

  As Ying searches the room, she walks down a long hallway. "Walk right, and then...left?" Soon she found the door with the name 'exit' on it. "Finally," she whispered.

  As Ying was about to open the door, she saw that Jug and Myke were fighting, too aggressively. The trees fell for their brutal attacks, the soil full of craters, and fire was blazing around the leaves. She stops, she is stunned, she can't do anything but just look at them training. Soon, Myke noticed Ying's arrival, and Jug immediately pinned Myke down and grappled him. "Yield! Yield!! Yield!!!" and soon, Myke stabs Jug out of the blue.