COLISEUM

Chapter 8

"You can go scavenging for illegal Rave parts while I take a break and enjoy the show." Octavia took her coffee and walked out, leaving Logan to his own devices. Uiwo stood in line to order just as Octavia past by him.

"I'm hungry." Mewmi whined. "Is a good I packed food inside my satchel." Eimy stated.

"Yay! Food! Gimme gimme gimme." Mewmi opened the zipper of the satchel before Eimy swatted her hand away.

"No! This is for Faim. He gets hungry after fighting." Eimy glared at the gijinko.

"No fair!" Mewmi whined before she shapeshifted unto her cat form as she meowed, begging for food.

"The answer is still no." Eimy barred her teeth.

"Eimy, can you get me some egg salad with baked potatoes and hot coffee? I'm kind of famished." Dirlu requested as she passed a roll of 1,200ğ.

"Sure thing." Eimy takes the money and takes her satchel with her.

"No fair! Buy me something to eat!" Mewmi whined in her cat form.

"Master Yin, do you have any news yet?" Faim asked, but the Yamitzu master shook his head as a response. Ryo looked at the other competitors, Herring was not far as he approached the elf, mesmerized by the large sword that was on Ryo's scabbard.

"That's a fancy sword you got there, what's it made of?" Herring asked wit genuine interest.

"What you see here is a Spellblade, it's a special sword forged by elven blacksmiths. I imbue spells into this sword." Ryo replied as he took out his sword with a radiant smile on his face.

"So you are saying that you can cast spells with a slash of your sword." Herring implied.

"Correct." Ryo raised the Spellblade.

"But you didn't answer my question. What metal was used to forge it?" Herring asked.

"It's made out of a special metal that can absorb magical properties, only the elven blacksmiths know the name of the metal." Ryo explained.

"Oh, it makes sense. Reminds me of an old folktale about a sword that was forged by a coppersmith who found a magic ore and used it to forge a sword for his beloved who was destined to rule a nation, though the fabled blade only acknowledged her and her bloodline worthy of wielding it. The fable was called the Sanguine Sword or the Blood Blade, I won't bore you with the details." Herring scratched his chin at the name of the folktale.

Ratu watched as the Indoraptor and the Daoitu thief chewed on their candy. "Can I play?" He asked while her heterochromic eyes landed on him.

"Sure." She answered just as Ratu swiped the coin in a blink of an eye.

"Tails!" With a flick of his thumb, he flipped the coin in the air and caught it when the coin was in arms reach before he put the coin on the back of his hand. His hopeful expression immesiately changed into disappointment. "Heads." He frowned.

"Wanna try again? The Indoraptor asked.

"No thanks." Ratu declined the offer as he returned the coin to the owner before he walked away, holding a piece of candy that he stole from Hwa Hae Ji's pocket while he unwrapped the strawberry wrapper and chewed on the piece of candy. Like stealing candy from a babe. Ratu thought as he smirked.