"You're quite cocky for a mortal," Hermes laughed as both the competitors took their places, "don't worry about your family. I have heard your wife is beautiful. She would make a great concubine for me or maybe even for my father."
"I thought it was a battle to test out strength and not how fast you can run your useless mouth." Arnold was completely unprovoked by Hermes' remarks.
'This bast.ard is awfully calm... If he had been anything like he was in the past then saying those words should have made him lose his shi.t by now.' Hermes thought while waiting for Heimdall's signal to start the battle.
In the meantime, Arnold had heard what the pipsqueak was telling a bit Nina, and was infuriated beyond any limit. He had the visor on, thus Hermes couldn't see his angered face, but that was the moment Arnold had decided to end the bast.ard's life in the most humiliating, gruesome and painful way possible.
