The second day of the annual fox festival was very crowded, and everyone could not wait until the matched would start. Everyone was looking forward to the match of Nana and Kaida, and the match of Cuan and Huli. When the drums sounded the audience hurried to the stands.
Taka stood already in the middle of the tournament field and waited until all spectators had taken place. When everyone was sitting he spoke with a loud voice
"good afternoon dear ladies and gentlemen. On the second day the matches of the quarterfinals are held in the morning. Four beautiful matches are held today with the match of the queen and the second general of the foxes tribe as the first. The final match is between the king and the crown prince of the wolves tribe. In the evening the two matches of the semi-final are held.
When Taka had finished talking, Kaida entered the tournament field from the right. She had her hair in a bun and had a cotton capri pants and top on. Also For this match she had chosen not to use weapons. She wanted to use weapons as late as possible so that she could keep as much of her skills a secret.
Nana entered the tournament field from the left at the same time. She had her hair in a ponytail and wore a light blue combat uniform without armor. She held a thin long sword in her hand. She looked towards Kaida and grinned she was sure she would win the match.
Today was the day that she would show everyone that she was much better off with Huli than Kaida.
Kaida looked at Nana who was grinning like an idiot and felt the emotions of the night before. Huli's words kept haunting her thoughts all night, until she fell asleep.
She continued to follow Nana with her eyes until she stopped walking. She looked at Nana from head to toe and shrugged. Mmm nothing special she thought.
Nana mockingly said
"Your highness doesn't need a weapon? I know you don't have any experience with a real fight, but now it looks like I'm bullying you "
Kaida looked up and held her head a bit to the side
"you talk too much, we'll see who is bullying who"
While Taka was counting down to give the go-ahead, Nana said arrogantly to Kaida "the game is over in a minute"
Nana was just done with talking when Taka had given the go-ahead, and Kaida ran towards Nana at a great speed. In contrast to her first match, she had now chosen to start the attack first. Just when she was a few centimeters away from Nana, she saw that she drew her sword.
Kaida quickly turned a step to the right, putting her body just a few inches beside Nana. With a strong force she hit her palm against the hands of Nana that was holding the handle of the sword.
She looked at Nana with a relentless look and said
"it's a minute then"
Nana looked startled at Kaida who had launched the attack within a few seconds. She was so surprised that she didn't have enough time to respond. The moment the palm of Kaida touched her hands, she heard her bones crack and it felt like her hands were on fire.
Her sword was knocked out of her hands by the force of the blow. Before she realized what had happened with her hands, she gasped for air beacuse the fist of kaida hit her with full force in her belly.
Kaida saw that Nana cringe and gave her a flying kick before she hit the floor. She knew it was so easy because Nana had clearly underestimated her and was not on her guard.
That didn't stop Kaida from going full out and seizing her chance. Because of the power of the flying kick, Nana flew toward the lines of the tournament field.
The whole audience was in turmoil and could not believe what they were seeing. They were especially surprised to see that Kaida showed Nana all corners of the tournament field. Now that Nana threatened to fly outside the lines, everyone was on edge.
But just before Nana fell out of line, Kaida appeared behind her with a frightening grin on her face. Nana still had not recovered and could not recover herself. This was because Kaida hit a vital point when she gave Nana a fist in her belly, This prevented Nana from moving.
Due to the heat that Kaida gave off, the tiles of the tournament field were glowing.
"I am not satisfied with a dropout or a surrender"
Nana flew with her back towards Kaida. Kaida raised her leg straight and let it down with full force at the right moment.
With full force, Kaida's leg landed on Nana's side. She felt her ribs break when she got hit by Kaida. Nana slammed her head against the tiles of the tournament field. And lost her consciousness.
The whole audience was silent and nobody said anything. Taka stood next to the tournament field in astonishment and did not know what he had just seen.
It was clear that Nana would have flown out of the lines because she could not move. The kick after had not been necessary and looked pretty cruel. He was taken out of his mind by the cold voice of Kaida.
"Are you not going to announce the winner? It is clear to see who won "
she turned and walked to the dressing chamber without seeing how Nana was doing. She didn't feel sorry for her at all, because she knew that Nana also wanted to hit her unconscious.
As Kaida went to the dressing chamber, she saw a few servants running towards the tournament field with a stretcher.
Taka examined the unconscious Nana and shook his head. He gestured to the servants that they could put her onto the stretcher. He turned to the rear servant
"she has certainly broken two of her ribs and a few bones in her hands, in addition, her hands seem a bit burnt by the heat"
When Nana was carried away, it really go to the audience what had happened and it became noisy. There was intense discussion among the public.
"For the people of the dragon tribe this victory does not come as a surprise, we know our crown princess"
"I never knew the queen was cruel like that, it had certainly not been necessary to kick her unconscious"
"I don't know if I should believe this victory. She won within a minute, I think Nana let the queen win "
"Mmm if she really let her win, she plays it very credibly. Lady Nana is still unconscious "
The audience went wild. Many thought the act of Kaida was cruel because it was clear that Nana would end up outside the lines.
Ronin and Hu were already ready for a few minutes on the tournament field to start their match, but Taka had difficulty controling the audience. When the audience was finally quiet he could give the go-ahead and they started their match.