#12

Kawaki was walking through the capital, remembering yesterday's meeting with the organizer of this tournament.

[Retrospection]

In the rich hall there was a young girl who looked like some kind of princess, the girl was accompanied by several guards. At one point, most of the guards fell unconscious to the ground

"What's going on?"

Kawaki appeared in front of the girl, who grabbed her by the neck.

"Princess, let her go bastard." The guard lunged at Kawaki, who activated Isshiki's doujutsu and fired several black rods that pierced the man's body.

"Listen, you will make me fight against Boruto Uzumaki from the Fairy Tail guild in this tournament, do you understand?"

In response, the girl nodded slightly, Kawaki released the girl and left the building.

[End Flashback]

"How long are you going to follow me?"

Sarada came out of the alley facing Kawaki "I thought you came to this place as well"

"You came to stop me from killing Boruto?"

Hearing this, Sarada activated her Mangekyo Sharingan into a fighting stance "Why are you..."

"Don't worry, I haven't gotten rid of him yet. Are you really going to fight me in this place and in front of all these people?"

Sarada turned off the Sharingan, calming down. "I won't let you hurt him."

"Then you have to find him, before me. Good luck!" Saying this, Kawaki turned and walked in his direction

Sarada stood there for a moment, staring at Kawaki's back until he disappeared from her sight, a moment later and she went in her direction

A few hours later, when it was evening, the first task began, a spherical arena appeared in the sky, a ladder appeared in front of each team's room.

"What's the job supposed to be?" asked Natsu

"We must probably climb up this ladder and find out" Boruto answered first jumping on the ladder, the rest of his team jumped after him

When they got inside, they started looking around and saw nothing but a corridor, not knowing what to do, the group kept walking.

"What's going on here, why do I feel like we're walking in circles?"

"This place resembles a labyrinth" Boruto announced "Wait, all teams are participating in this and we have an hour to complete the task. So that's it"

"What do you mean Boruto?" Gray asked

"Think why, despite so many players, they gave us an hour to complete the task? Because they want to get rid of as many teams as possible"

"That makes sense," Erza agreed, "So we need to get to the exit as soon as possible"

Suddenly Lucy remembered something and pulled out something "Look, I took a compass just in case"

"Great, it might come in handy," the former shinobi admitted

With the help of Lucy's compass, Boruto and the others made it to the exit before the time ran out, but a large number of the contestants dropped out.