I was dragged along to the tournament to watch the supposedly best matches together with a couple of older guys from the military. At the start I had no idea if they were being actually serious with it or if they only came up with an unthoughtful excuse to drag me onto a date or worse. But I had to give it to them, they were at least honest if not anything else. They got me to this huge tribune, on the side of a fighting area a bit separated from the rest. It looked far more glamorous and it was clear why it was built here.
Although in the end all of them still talked quite flirty to me. They might have held their promise but their ulterior motives shone through.
We were far from the only people at this tribune, many bigshots of the military also already sat on it as we arrived. I recognized some of them right away, while I could only guess others identities from how people behaved around them and how well they treat them.
