138 Grand Finals (1)

Regardless of the undercurrents occurring in the background, as the saying goes, the show must go on.

The audience had begun trickling in roughly 30 minutes before the Grand Finals were slated to start. Some came back just because they had nothing else to do, after having eaten and rested, there was nowhere else to go.

After all, there were countless citizens left jobless and unemployed or underemployed, unable to find enough work to occupy themselves even on a festive day with many visitors to the city. Albeit the number of guests was also far lower than it would have been prior to the devil disaster...

Lars had retreated for barely 10 minutes to test out this new equipment before heading over to the contestants' waiting area - though he was the only one there apart from the tournament support staff and admins.