After eating and some slight tomfoolery, they were sent to the rooms they had to get dressed in. Even if it was early in the morning, most if not all the students present were tired to different degrees.

Even Diana was a bit tired after eating so much food. Vita had more or less forced her to eat a bunch of, "healthy" food, as it had claimed. Which had involved lots of fish. A bit too much fish, as she had started to feel sick.

Now she lay on a bed made of wood. It wasn't quite as nice her bed at home, but it was OK. She started to think about her family while laying there. Her father, Sir Knight, and the many maids and servants who had played with her and taught her about the world.

Sometimes she would follow Sir Knight and attempt to train with him. The head maid would never tell her what her name was, but she would just call her whatever she felt like. Lady Ice, Snow maid and so on.

Diana looked at Vita, who stood in front of the door, facing towards her. Six of Vita's eyes were staring into nothing, except for the one eye in the middle. It would move around from time to time, but mostly looking at her. Having nothing better to do, she had a staring contest with Vita.

She stared. The eye in the middle of Vita's face held the eye contact.

Diana continued to stare, but her eyes started to hurt a bit. Vita didn't even seem bothered.

Diana started to squint to not blink. Vita was still staring.

She used her hands now to not blink. Vita looked fine.

Diana couldn't keep her eyes open and started blinking. She rubbed her eyes and saw that Vita still hadn't blinked, even with its other eyes. She decided to not think about it any more and tried to sleep. Only for a guard knock on the door before she got to lay down.

"Vita, could you open the door for me." She laid back down, covering her entire body with the simple blanket. Vita opened the door with a creaking noise. The guard opened his mouth to speak, but closed his mouth. Looking up at the massive Vita who didn't fit into the door frame, he was clearly not sure of what to say.

"Uh, could you, uhm, tell your master that the tournament is starting again?" The guard stammered forth his message before powerwalking away.

"What was it, Vita?" Diana peaked over the blanket.

"Back to winning again." Vita announced to her. She smiled and posed.

"I'm ready!" She got up and walked out to the waiting hall with Vita right behind her. When they arrived, the number of people had slightly decreased. Heracles was already there, but before they got to speak to each other, his ring started to glow. Shortly after he left, Noels ring started to glow as well.

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He didn't go into the fight without looking at the brackets, unlike a certain few people. But that didn't mean he was comfortable fighting a massive slab of meat. He ignored Earl's attempt to cheer him up and walked out to the arena.

There weren't anyone she knew left in the arena, as she couldn't see Beatrice anywhere. Sad because of the lack of friends, she decided to just wait for Heracles to come back. Vita oh so kindly reached out a hand for Diana to sit on. And so she sat there waiting, swinging her legs.

Finally, Heracles walked back into the waiting hall with a few small bruise marks on his chest that quickly disappeared as he walked over.

"Haha, Diana, how was your rest?" He asked.

"I'm doing fine, thank you. Are you OK? You have a few bruises here and there." Diana pointed to the few remaining bruises, which were barely visible at this point. Heracles patted his chest with a wide smile.

"Oh, I've been hit harder, I should tell you later about it!" He looked around, and his smile turned to a frown.

"Where is Beatrice? I'm sure she was with us during the feast." Scratching his head, Heracles mumbled to himself.

"Maybe she fell asleep in her room?" Diana guessed.

Her ringed glowed. She and Heracles looked at it, then at each other. He smiled and gave her a thumbs up and left. Diana jumped off Vita's hand and walked to the arena gate. After the announcer said her line, Earl walked in.

"The liquid fire, the red ocean! Who will win between the unstoppable force that is Diana and Vita and the fire mage Earl!" They stood there waiting for the announcers signal to start the duel. But before that, Earl spoke up.

"I'll tell you this. I did feel a bit bad for you when Cliff spoke to you like that. But I am pretty sure that you don't need me to say that. I just want to say sorry." He pulled out a sword and held it up to his chest. The sword itself looked simple, but one side of it was jagged while the other was smooth.

The fight started and Earl quickly swung his sword. With it, fire spewed from it and landed on the ground in front of him. Without anything to burn of, the fire should have dissipated. But magical fire is something else.

He didn't stop spraying fire around, quickly covering the ground with fire. The heat building up with every swing of his sword. The sword at this point was also covered in fire, yet it didn't show any signs of heating up. Vita picked up Diana just in case those flames got any closer. She didn't seem to have any troubles with this and had a determined expression.

When more than half of the arena was covered in flame, Earl took in a breath before focusing again. This time, when he swung his sword, the blade of fire moved towards Vita. Despite Diana's protest, Vita let it land. The blade hit Vita in the arm and the fire stuck. But this was exactly what Vita wanted.

Hmhmhmhm, so that's why it's burning. It's like an alcoholic fire, no wonder it's burning on the ground. But it's not exactly alcohol either, so what should I call it? Earl fire? Oh, who cares. Should I just beat the shit out of him?

Earl sent another blade of fire, but it Vita dodged it with ease. The flame landed on the ground. Earl continued to send out blades of fire towards Vita without stop. Except for the first blade that landed, all the other attempts at landing a hit never did so.

"Diana, should I continue dodging?" Vita turned one of the eyes towards her. Maybe it was because of all the rapid movement or all the fish she ate, but she didn't look too good. Vita dodged one more blade before leaping into the air towards Earl.

Arms wide apart, mouth open. It looked like Vita was going to eat Earl up. With the moment of panic in Earl, Vita landed and used a single vine to punch Earl in the chest. He stumbled a few steps, getting closer to the edge. Vita sent another vine, using two vines to grasp around his shoulders and lowering him off the arena.