Given that there is a massive number advantage between the two parties involved in this sanctioned duel, the audience themselves starts thinking that this is a hopeless case for Diluc, said audience including even the two elven ladies who are currently watching the proceedings of this event with quite some worry on their eyes, thinking that this is partially their fault.
This line of thought is also the very same one that is currently running through his opponent's mind: a group of young men smiling as if this victory is already guaranteed for them, and all they need to do is make it so that this young man in front of them experiences the worst kind of defeat ever imaginable.
Meanwhile, Diluc himself wasn't even concerned in the slightest regarding this matchup among them, especially since he could hardly see these young men as his opponents despite the similarity of their age, quite possibly the only thing that they shared similarities with.
