Lunetta collected her sword from David's rapidly evaporating corpse. "You fought well" and like that she was swept up in a cool breeze, teleported to a room with a bed, food and water. On a note stood "Final Challenge In Three Days. Be Prepared" Ah so now she had to rest. This thing seemed to be cheaping out on her. Mana and other potions did exist. With a sigh she went to the bathroom and bathed.

The gunk and blood she had on her wasn't good for her complexion, and it made her look like some kind of hobo. She washed her body getting rid of the aforementioned blood and dirt, then went on to wash her hair. The water kept itself hot so she was soaking quite peacefully. She felt the stress from the days prior just melt away. Each stage of the game had taken at least a day, though it was hard to tell with no real sun there.

She vowed that if she ever built a town, that it would have baths like this, running clean water and other hot water luxuries, it was simply too good to go without. She kept telling herself that, more to console herself than anything else. She was going to get dirty again, and she was going to bathe in cold water again. At least her affinities helped make the experience as pleasant as it can get.

After bathing she dried off her body with a super fluffy towel, once again reiterating her vow before dressing in the clean clothes the place provided. A relaxed smile formed on her lips and she went to bed. She was absolutely drained after that last fight.

***

The next morning she gets up quite early, more out of habit than anything else. She then promptly falls back asleep. In her dreams are many bunnies hopping about and eating carrots. One of the bunnies end up licking her finger when she wakes up.

"Aw what a cute bunny" She says out loud giggling. After a lot of effort she gets herself up and plays around with her tailoring profession. She makes a hairtie from some of the cloth the place had as extra, it looks quite cute. At least she hoped so, it would be a travesty if her tailoring sucked so much.

After a bit of breakfast she feels more invigorated, so what does she do? Draw bath water! Because there's an endless amount and she wanted to enjoy it as much as she physically could. She soaked away for the entirety of the day before getting out with a content smile, drying off before going to bed.

Not very eventful, but for a person that's not used to having a bath at all, a hot bath is quite a luxury.

***

Her next day was also spent in the bath. There were gardens outside, more food and other things to do, but she was practically addicted to chilling in the warm water. Or is it referred to has heating in the warm water? With a shrug she got out of the bath for the final time, she even kissed the side of it before going to bed.

The next morning she finds herself dressed and on a small wooden platform, though not too small that she has to strain to keep balance, she sits on the chair on it. All of the other contenders are giving her a strange look. From their perspectives she looks clean obnoxiously so and it ends up making her look even more like a beauty.

When she notices the strange glares from the other contenders she bursts out laughing. They looked refreshed, but not so refreshed.

In total there were three people in the finals, Corey, Janice and Lunetta. Corey was the main source of the lecherous gazing, Janice was confused and felt inferior in some way she couldn't tell. Maybe her ponytail looked better than she had originally thought. Her brown hair streaked through with highlights from the sun, but more of it was a darker shade of brown

Probably due to her adventures in the hot tub. With a blush she discards that thought entirely and focuses on the situation. Janice was weighing her odds with Lunetta, Lunetta on the other hand was looking dreadfully at Corey. When they made eye contact a loud bell chimed twenty five times. Not instantly, but once every second.

All that was needed to start the competition was the competitors to look at one another. After the last chiming of the very convenient bell, everyone was extremely ready to start. The blocks evaporated and they all jumped to the opponent they were most assured of taking.

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Lunetta jumped after Janice, and Janice after Corey. Then it became some kind of chase with Corey interpreting that they were ganging up on him. He was quite a good runner Lunetta remarked internally and kept following Janice, trying to send a cut her way, but she was just out of reach.

A few moments later Corey turns around suddenly and with some momentum left kicks Janice in the cunt, she was sent flying for a meter or so groaning the entire way. Although Lunetta hadn't experienced anything like that, she did not want to find out what that felt like. Thinking that Janice is out she turns her attention to Corey and launches herself at him with [Moon Body].

He unleashed a kick her way, but it wasn't aimed at any of her privates. She had noticed Corey glaring at Janice when they were on the platforms for some reason she couldn't guess. She had initially assumed that they had some kind of rivalry. But apparently something entirely different is going on. A blush appears on her face and she steps away from Corey.

"Are you two a couple?" She asks.

"With that bitch that castrated me in this world? No fucking way." He said crassly, without a further ado he unleashes his signature [Galelight Flurry] Lunetta takes a stance and uses [Moonlit Slash] she wins while her slash was going. But after that not so much, a few strikes later and she feels her hand numb. Taking a step back to reposition herself, he doesn't give her a chance and launches a roundhouse at her ribs.

She dodges quickly and also does a roundhouse kicking him in the butt. He stumbles forward but doesn't fall. They were evenly matched, for the most part at least. Corey notices Janice getting up and runs to get some distance. Lunetta promptly does the same, Janice is truly enraged now.

"What kind of man are you?!" She screams and runs to him like an enraged bull. He laughs and dodges her easily. She wasn't even an opponent at this stage, rather this was a game a game he would win. With an impish smile he uses a fist technique Lunetta hadn't seen from him yet to punch Janice in the face causing her to hit the dirt. He then stomps on her skull.

She disappears. "She fights quite well, except when something unexpected happens then she goes into a panicked state, most people are like that myself as well. But I knew my revenge would get to her on a deeper level" Corey remarks and Lunetta nods. That was a fair and logical conclusion, she did feel some remorse for Janice though.

Corey then launched himself at Lunetta with a smirk. She had lost in the exchange related to abilities, but she had more up her sleeve than that one attack. Okay maybe not a lot, but she would figure something out. She dodges his next flurry, parrying some blows that get particularly close, he then slashes at her blade before backing away.

That's her opening, unless he's baiting to get her to reveal an opening herself, she lunges at him with [Moonlit Slash] he's a bit surprised, but he does what she did, he dodges most of it, using his curved blade to curve the force away from him. Yeah he is winning if they fight like this too. Lunetta scowls and backs off looking at Corey warily.

They both jump off this time and meet each other head on with their abilities, this time Lunetta gains some ground. She decides to quickly put this round of testing on it's broken back. She had lost severely, but if she acted quickly she could catch him off guard.

Her slashes was diverted at the last moment, but her kick connected on his knee. She then thrust out her blade after his knee buckles and she could control the recoil of her sword. He dodges at the last moment giving her a glare. "Playing dirty?" He smirks and throws a pile of dirt into her eyes.

Although she hadn't expected it, a quick step back prevented her very clean attire from getting dirt in them. Her eyes were also spared luckily.

Gathering her wits she looked at the situation. It wasn't good in any sense of the word. He could have her back in the main room in seconds if she let her guard down, he was good at basically everything, and the few things he weren't, he could divert, or avoid. A highly skilled fighter like him would normally wipe the floor with someone like her, but she had enough oomph in her stats and [Moon Body] to resist the instant ass whooping she would get.

She had been paying attention to his moves and have actually learned some things about swordsmanship.

Swordsmanship[Common]: You've become more familiar with your blade, good job.

That sarcastic comment made her day. She wasn't as good as he was, not close. But she wouldn't be a mouse in a cat's paw anymore. She moves forward and meets his blade again, then with another sly move, she slashes down with [Moonlit Slash] and just before it hits his body, she ups the Mana in her [Moon Body] normally she couldn't do this because she would be like a grape that had decided to tan in the sun for a week.

Okay maybe not that bad, but she wouldn't be happy about it. But with how they were in combat directly, she could use this. Normally she wouldn't resort to such things on normal opponents since she would be vulnerably right after the attack, but here in this magical space, she doesn't need to hold herself back. So she strikes with power she normally doesn't dare to.

Her cut was angled in a way that would make parrying awkward, and she succeeded. In getting him disarmed. A loud *crack* was heard as the small bones in his hand broke, he grunted and with the small window of surprise the attack had gained me, I strike removing his head, soon after I appear to be in the void, to collect my rewards of course.