He focused harder, trying to listen in, but they'd ducked into a side room before a word passed between them. The fly tried to follow, but the door had already shut behind them and it was reinforced with some kind of anti-listening and infiltration sigils.
Kain opened his eyes again, the stadium coming back into focus.
His mind still lingered on that strange gesture.
A signal? A code? A greeting?
A secret society?
He didn't know.
Not yet.
But he would.
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There was no suspense in Kain's subsequent matches. After Addison and Lukas, he beat Hailey, Kairos, and Dwayne rather easily.
Surprisingly, it was Dwayne—whose affinity was for descendants of the Triton bloodline—that proved the most difficult.
He'd obtained a new fourth spiritual creature since they last fought.
It was... weird.
Kain didn't even know how to describe it properly.
