Outside of the prison cell, there was a group of law enforcers that were talking to the security guards of the stadium.
The head guard sighed as he explained. "They grouped together to cause problems, break the rules of the competition and eliminate their fellow contestants. After investigating a little, we were able to discover they all come from the same martial arts hall and we also discovered that one of our staff had been taking bribes to hand over crucial information about the participants before the fight. It seems that all of the offenders have been captured and we should have no more problems. Do you wish to take them off our hands?"
The enforcer at the front nodded. "We have to thank you this time, we have been trying to investigate this martial arts hall for a long time but failed to gain any direct evidence. It is believed that they have gotten in with a bad crowd and have been using their abilities for various illegal tasks inside and outside of the island."
Belt looked up through the bars with eyes full of anger and grumbled in a low voice. "I would of gotten away with it if it wasn't for those rotten teens!"
This was his chance to turn over a new leaf and step out of poverty where he was someone else's dog.
His martial arts hall had been failing for a long time and many of his friends and loyal students stuck around had to take on each hardship that came next together.
They used their power to earn money and quickly got involved with the criminal underworld taking protection and assassination jobs but their debt was too heavy to pay off right away, one day one of the bosses of an underworld bought the proof of debt through various channels and placed an even higher amount of money on the top of what they owed, the longer they could not pay it back, the more they would owe.
This made him gain control of them all, he gained solid control of his organisation and pushed back many competitors after using them to his advantage, as the competition was coming around he knew that the chances of Belt winning was not high if confronted with a strong and unknown opponent so he put forward the plan to use various methods.
One of Belt's subordinates had built up a high immunity to poison and carried a poison needle in his mouth so even if most of them failed, the poison needle was there as a last resort to eliminate a strong opponent.
Many connected to this boss behind the scenes had already seen the odds of someone like Belt winning and the payoff was quite a decent amount so they all placed their bets and left the rest to Belt who had not let them down yet.
It was not faith in Belt's abilities but the faith in the desperation and greed within Belt and his people that would lead him to succeed, they were willing to do just about any dirty tactic to get the job done.
Belt and the others had also taken out a loan to place down on their on bet meaning that once they had won, they would be able to settle their debts and earn a little more for themselves but if they lost, they would fall further into debt.
This is what pushed them on and made them so desperate to succeed since they had trapped themselves.
What he did not think of, was that his goals had been discovered at one point during the competition and the targets would be warned.
He also did not count on anyone interfering in the battle as Monera was going to be hit by the poison needle.
After Alyssia's interference, he was dragged away and placed in the prison cell but not long after he was hand cuffed and then dragged away by the enforcers.
He tried to plead for himself and his people. "Please! Protect me and my people, there are many in the criminal underworld that would want our heads after failing our task. I can give you information! Yes! That is it! I can help you bring them down."
The group of enforcers continued to drag him forward as he pleaded but after some time walking and some shortcuts towards the law enforcement building, several of the enforcers were hit from behind knocking them out cold.