Getting Punished

'Yet you'll win your ticket to the ace league, right?' the old man said before adding, 'winning this small competition of the qualification is considered by that place as a tournament in itself.'

'Oh,' Jim's eyes shone brightly as he realized what the old man was speaking about. 'That's why you said I have a chance to be the master tonight,' he said, 'but I won't be the only one to win the competition. Does that mean that place can have many masters?'

'I doubt anyone will know the right ceremony to be the master of that place,' the old man said, 'and in theory there can be an endless number of masters there and they won't know that others even exist.'

'This sounds nice,' Jim said, 'but what if others leaked the info about the group to others?'

'The academy had to catch you first, but how can they do that while you'll be the only one determining who can enter and who can't?'

Jim found this idea more appealing the more he thought about it.