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The stadium lights hummed, a low electric thrum that seemed to vibrate in your bones, casting stark shadows across the arena floor. Seven nights of brutal competition had earned you this: Rank E in the Z-A Royale. Now you stood on the polished concrete, shoulder-to-shoulder with an eclectic lineup of rivals—Sorel, Linnea, Vespera, Kaelen, Iris—and the radiant hostess herself. Althea, all sweet smiles and poised grace, beckoned her maid Rhiannon forward. With a theatrical flourish, she unveiled the tournament’s bizarre, glittering prize: a pack of diapers printed with cartoonish, fairy-like creatures. The air turned thick and still, heavy with confusion, before Vespera’s voice cut through the silence, sharp with outrage, and Sorel’s followed in a horrified shriek.