"Finally, after all that side-tracking, we're finally going to start the tournament!"
"Side-tracking?" Yue Chu gave me a perplexed glance when I started throwing my hands up and yelling in joy.
"Yeah. Not filler. Readers just complain about everything that they don't want to read as filler, but those side-tracking were imperative to move the story onward as it would impact what happens during the tournament. Like Anastasia, for example. I won't spoil the readers, but it's not a coincidence that she had something happen to her during the qualifiers. And Bu Fan's sister too…"
"Sorry." Yue Chu raised a hand. "You've lost me totally."
"Well, essentially, there are no fillers, and these events are all related to what happens in the main plot, so people whining about them being fillers are just wrong."
"I still don't understand."
"Never mind. Anyway, let's proceed to the first match. We're up against…uh, Adolf Academy, was it?"
