Next morning, after wake up, I leave the hotel with Ken and Chun Li to look around about this island. The drawing for our opponent in the tournament will be held after lunch in the tournament arena. So we have plenty of time before the drawing time, and we decide to investigate the hotel surrounding.
I see some other participants also leave the hotel and take a walk around. Some other participants choose to spend their time in the hotel's gym to train their body for the next tournament. Some other else choose to relax and enjoy the luxury facilities of the hotel like pool, spa, bar, and other facilities.
We decide to explore the nearby forest while searching for some edible fruits to fill our empty stomach. Well, seem our luck still good because we found some fruits that edible and grow freely in the forest. We also take some for the lunch later, because I'm still worried if they put something in our food and drink like what they did during the banquet.
"Ryu…Aren't you too precautious with these food things?"
"I don't want to be sorry later, Ken"
"That's right brother Ken. We can't lower our guard in this place, we don't know exactly what they planning by held this tournament here"
"I hope that Guile will get the info about that food I ask him to examine, so I can sure whether or not, there's something in that food"
"We can ask him when we go to the drawing event brother Ryu"
"Ryu…I want to ask something"
"What is that Ken?"
"When we jump from that plane yesterday and must swimming to the island...what you are doing to make you can move that fast?"
"Ahahaha…that's thing, huh?"
Whoa! What should I tell to him? I can't say I use Kamehameha moves to make me can move like a rocket in the water right?
"That's secret moves that I secretly training and I use it to make my body move like being pushed by a jet engine. But that moves is quite tiring you know"
"Give me some clues how to do that, please? We are buddies right?"
Ken seems interested to learn that moves from me. The question is…can he do that like I do?
"Okay, I give a clue how to do that. You know our Hadouken moves is concentrating our inner force into our palm and release it all in once moves right?"
Ken nodded when hear I'm explaining this. Well, this is common knowledge that I and Ken learn from master Gouken.
"The differences are, this inner force is not just released all in one move but channeled through our hand to make some blasting energy, and continue to release for couple second before it stopped"
"Whoa! That's a really new thing for me. Ryu, did master Gouken teach you that?"
"Nope, I'm just thinking it by my brain how to develop our Hadouken. That's all"
Well, it's a bit lie but Ken seems to believe it. Chun Li only listening to our conversation with admiration looks on her face.
"Wow, brother Ryu is so cool…You even can develop your own moves"
"Haha…really? Martial arts world is like skies…there're no boundaries. Sometimes we create our own boundaries and never leave that border. How we can develop ourselves is depend on can you break that boundary or not"
"Such deep words from brother Ryu. I will take that words deep into my heart"
I just smile wryly when hearing that. It's some quotes that I pick from a game that I played before and I just modified that quotes to impress them.
"Shall we continue our exploration in this island?"
"Yes, let's go!"
After eating the fruits we found in the forest, we continue our exploration on this island. Too bad, this island is quite large and we don't have much time to explore the whole island with the time we have now. We return to the hotel after searching for a while with nothing to gain.
When we arrive at the hotel, there're some transportation vehicles already prepared to carry the participant to the arena. We change our clothes and with the other participant boarding to the vehicle and heading to the arena.
There's nothing much to tell about this drawing event. It starts with a luxurious lunch in there, which we don't take a single bite of the food or a sip of the drink that provided there. After the lunch, the event continued with the drawing for tomorrow tournament. One by one participant goes to the platform and pick the lot. There are 128 participants which make 64 matches for the first stage. My opponent for the first stage is a taekwondo expert from Korea, Kim Jong On, which I never heard his name before. Ken's opponent is a Capoeira expert from Brazil, Daniel Santos. Chun Li opponent is a boxer from England with the name James Ryan. All our opponent is someone that I never heard the name before. So I assuming that we can easily go through the first stage tomorrow.