*While Sunz and Grace were enjoying their date, Grimm was finally enjoying himself after a long time*

Sogae: You sure you should be drinking at this hour? Your match is like hours later.

Grimm: As the Organizer you suppose to stop me from this? But you are here serving me.

Sogae: My job is to give you the best service. If you go out of line, you know what will happen. We also have ways to make sure you don’t have drunk or hangover feeling inside your body.

Grimm: Good, gotta have to those rules to protect your young, innocent soul from those fucking preying hands.

Sogae: But those rules are always being violated/bypassed in many ways, no matter the warning.

Grimm: Only by those that have more power and richer than you.

Sogae:… So how do you feel about fighting Sunz? You seem to be fond of him. You even made him a new sword before his previous match.

Grimm: The kid is a dark horse, nothing more than that. Everyone dominated their round, while he was really close to losing all of his rounds.

Sogae: Expecting the same result? Him winning with a last bit of luck or something magical will happen.

Grimm: Who knows? I always like to see people around his age losing all their confidence right after one mistake.

“It helps build character and let them know where they stand.”

Sogae: You seem to be “good” at this mentor thing. What if you actually win against your ‘Golden Boy’?

Grimm:…

“I win I lose.”

“I lose I win.”

“Simple as that.”

Sogae: So you guarantee that you ain’t winning against One. What makes you so sure that Sunz can?

Grimm: He saved me...that night would have been my last if he hadn’t stepped in. If he can see what these old eyes can’t, then he will have a better chance.

"…"

“That boy, One. How did your clan find him? He doesn’t seem normal.”

Sogae: Yeah… he is bloodthirsty but just like training an animal, it’s all take time.

Grimm: heh, animal. Even a hippo is less violent than him. He is not human or animal.

Sogae: You expect him to be a mythical creature?

Grimm: That would be better. *drink* So, the kid killed one of your clan members and you still allow him to join.

Sogae: Did you eavesdropping on one of my conversations? *pour*

Grimm: It’s pretty easy to bug the most clueless guy.

Sogae: And here I thought I wouldn’t get any use out you… Did they fuck yet or has any steamy thing happened between them yet?

Grimm: No, I don’t eavesdropping in personal life. Ask him yourself.

Sogae: Nooo, I don’t want it to become weird when I talk to him and her. I don’t want them to know what I know about them.

Grimm: Your lost then. Now let's come back to that murder.

Sogae: Win this then you can ask some secret information. And who said someone died by that murderer.

Grimm: So you lied? *drink*

Sogae: I didn’t lie. *pour*

Grimm: Move on then. Before leaving this tournament I still have some business with you.

Sogae: Oh yeah, that. Go ahead!

Grimm: How the hell did you find me? I know for sure, that only I and one other person know that secret base.

Sogae: Grimm, the only truthful detail here is, I don’t know you. I only know about you through “God” because he asked me to find you.

Grimm: Yeah, “God”. Superheroes are already a thing now then why not. So why did you agree to find me for him? Blackmail, hostage situation or he’ll kill you?

Sogae: I’m an orphan.

Grimm was surprised: Same.

Sogae: Another reason is, crunch time. I was supposed to find another contestant for the tournament, but I don’t talk to anyone or travel outside of Korea. So no hope of finding a new contestant.

“Then he arrived out of nowhere and gave me a thing with all of your information and location. And now we are here.”

Grimm: Then where is he now?

Sogae: Yeah… I’ve only met him once. He just appears out of nowhere at the most random time.

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Grimm: So the “God” that interferes with my personal life doesn’t want to talk with me, even though he “hired” someone to find me for him.

Sogae: Well, he is here already.

Grimm: How can you be so sure? Have you seen his face?

Sogae: The other gentleman keeps glancing at us, and he looks like one of the famous movie stars I follow.

Grimm: You Koreans are all the same.

Sogae: True, but he is different. Have a scar on his face, caused by a Yandere fan kidnapping him.

Grimm glanced at the man and only saw his suit.

“Fancy. Rich, famous, and handsome are all the traits a “God” wants us to perceive.”

Sogae: But that is the “God”. The actor is filming overseas right now and his name isn’t on our celebrities list.

Grimm: So I’m supposed to walk over there and talk with our “God”. If he can appear here then he can take a few steps and talk.

…

Grimm heard a familiar voice, which made him feel very angry but try to not show it.

Voice: Grimm. God is here to talk with you.

Sogae duck behind the bar (It’s is “God”.)

Grimm jumped off the seat and had a clear look at God’s face. The face that had been the bane of his existence. It’s Ben's face.

Voice: Finally we mee-

Grimm delivered a combo of left and right hooks at God, knocking him to the ground.

“That is not a face I want to talk with. A God using another God face.”

Voice stand up: I can’t dictate what you are seeing, all I can say is, the face you are looking at is convenient.

After standing up Voice retaliated with his left and right hook, pushing Grimm away.

After getting punched in the face twice, Grimm had flashes of images of devices that he had never seen before but suddenly had all the knowledge about those devices.

Two of them have no visible injury even though they both got punched really hard.

Grimm: So that’s how we’re going to do it.

Voice: An all-out street brawl.

…

Sogae: Can you two not fight in here? This room is expensive.

Voice: Don’t worry, as “God” everything will return to normal after this.

Grimm: You seem to not see yourself as “God”. What are we supposed to call you if you aren’t “God”?

Voice: I go by Merchant.

Grimm: Ok Merchant, to me you have a very punchable face!

*Fight initiate*

Merchant threw down a device before getting kicked toward the entrance by Grimm. His body didn’t go throw the door but slammed into an invisible wall.

Merchant: 1 witness and 2 fighter. No one getting in or out.

Merchant and Grimm continue to trade blows until Merchant gets the upper hand and throws Grimm into the alcohol shelves.

Bottles of alcohol shattered and impaled into Grimm’s back. Up until this point, both of them have no visible injuries on their body.

Grimm standing up: Ohhh that sting, I’ve never thought about drinking alcohol this way.

Grimm pulls out a baton from his pocket and with one swing extends it 3 times its original length.

Grimm: I’ll kill you!

Merchant creates a normal wooden chair from thin air and uses it as his weapon.

“We’ll see.”

When the two fought with their weapon, it was clear that Grimm had a better weapon. The baton was easily able to break the wooden chair into pieces. But that didn’t give Grimm the upper hand.

Taking the opportunity when the chair got broken in one hit, Merchant grabbed the stick size pieces and impaled Grimm with them, reducing his arms and legs movement. Then he delivered a powerful kick at Grimm’s face, knocking the baton off his hand and flinging his whole body into the invisible wall.

Grimm couldn’t do anything except panting while the blood soaked into his outfit.

Merchant picks up Grimm’s baton and inspects it.

“Great weapon you have here, light, compact, can do a lot of damage. All those attributes can be fit nicely in your pocket.”

Grimm: ha…ha…ha… What do you want? You hired Sogae to find me, disguised your face as Ben and you are clearly more powerful than me.

“What is my role in your master plan?”

Merchant: My master plan? It’s to see your progress. When you’ve been alive as long as I am and have been to many places. The only interesting thing left is seeing how people's lives progress.

Grimm: Go read a book or watch a movie, there you can see how people's lives progress. Want to influent someone's life, go play those simulator games.

Merchant: I can’t, you see. There are no books, movies, or games about a German orphan boy who became a Hero and quit being a Hero because of a guy named Ben.

Grimm: Scheisse!

Merchant: Scheisse indeed. So what is your plan for the future now, Grimm?

Grimm: I think you already know.

Merchant: *sigh* I do. Such a waste of your talent.

Grimm: A waste? I’m already a waste in this world. There are more talented people in my field. So go bother them instead.

Merchant: But none of them can create your weapon.

“Right now, you are stuck in front of a wall. A wall named Ben. I am here to help you destroy that wall.”

Grimm: You mean kill him? An ordinary man can’t kill God.

Merchant: Kill or not that's your choice. You need to get rid of that bane first before you can progress.

“You have no one left here, your student San will be ok but her mind is complicated. Go with me and I will prepare you for your mending.”

Grimm: Those devices. The thing you implanted into my brain after every punches and kicks. What are those?

Merchant: Practice material, crafting one sword doesn’t mean you are rid of rust.

Grimm: I accept. This healing trip of your better work.

Merchant: Don’t worry. Now let’s fix you and this place up.

He pulled out a device and smashed it. Grimm’s body was instantly healed and all of the damage they caused to the room was instantly fixed.

Merchant tossed the baton back at Grimm and he caught it.

Merchant: It was great meeting you Grimm, see you after the tournament. And put on a great show to push the kid.

After saying that he walked out of the room.

Sogae stood up from behind the counter and went to check on Grimm after seeing him resting against the floor.

Sogae: You… seem to be… ok?

Grimm: It seems so… How much did you hear?

Sogae: Hear? Hear what? You two were speaking a foreign language, not English or Korean for sure.

Grimm: Germany maybe.

Sogae checked Grimm’s clothes to see if he fully healed.

Grimm: What are you doing?... This is harassment.

Sogae: Just making sure you have no wounds on your body. The wooden chair and alcohol shelves did a lot of damage to you.

Grimm: Not as bad as what you did to me.

Sogae: A stab through the heart is the most merciless and painless way to take someone down.

“Ok, you are fully healed… in a magical way.”

Grimm: Great. Now please get away, don’t want people to get the wrong idea.

Sogae: Sure, want another drink?

Grimm: Probably not now, how long until the match?

Sogae: Still long, your squabble lasts at most 30 minutes.

*making herself a drink*

…

*ping*

Sogae (Someone texted)

-From Sunz: We will go to the tournament ourselves. Will that be ok?

*calling*

*calling*

*connected*

Sogae: Hey Sunz, calling to tell you about what you just texted.

Sunz’s phone: This is not Sunz. It’s Grace holding onto his phone.

Sogae (moving so fast):… Did you steal this from him?

Grace: No… he asked me to hold onto it while he learns how to bake.

Sogae:… And you?

Grace: I’m learning how to make coffee or better coffee. He knows that baking will be a lot more messy than coffee making so he asked me to hold onto his phone.

Sogae: Great, good for both of you. I call to tell you two that, I will be picking you two up and drive to the tournament.

Grace: No problem, we’ll probably visit a few more places later. So call ahead so we can stop and wait.

Sogae: Great, see you two much later.

Grace: See you later too.

*hang up*

Sogae: These two are so carefree. Having their date night right now.

Grimm still on the floor: Why are you saying that out loud?

Sogae: Because those two are not wasting time wallowing in alcohol.

Grimm: You want me to sleep to pass the time?

Sogae: I got something better and still include alcohol.