Wiith two powerful opponents down and nothing but refuse remaining in her next two matches, Maria Traydor has a Middle championship all in the bag. Jessica, while a competent cleric, isn't the strongest fighter in the world, and Maria can capitalize on her weaknesses with one move: Energy Burst. One shot can zap all of Jess's MP, leaving her helpless against whatever comes next. Or Magnetic Field can paralyze Jessica where she stands, rendering the cleric helpless against Triple Kicks. One thing's for certain - there's no stopping the power of spatial manipulation, as Maria charges her way towards a Middle championship.
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A week after smashing the mighty Dark Adonis' vaunted face in with a big metal stick, Jessica now faces the leader of Quark, Maria Traydor. And Jessica's ready to offer a special prayer to the Goddess Althena for the draw, since healers just love those low-damage opponents. With no danger of being one-hit killed, all Jessica needs to do is play defensively and use her natural regeneration and she'll be able to out last her frailer, slower foe with ease. A few sleeping spells couldn't hurt either, of course - at least, they can't hurt Jessica. And since Maria will be out cold, she won't feel a think until the match is already over....
SageAcrin Two women, fighting their hearts out, to reach the finals.
Well, that's the way it should have been.
Unfortunately, this match happened to be held one day after Indalecio successfully installed his prototype Zidane Mentality Chip(ZMC, Patent Pending, available at all places weapons of horrible torture are sold. Also, Guido and Ramus have a few in stock.) into Cyril.
So about five seconds later, a insanely laughing Cyril lept into the arena and used Wind of Destruction to rip off Jessica and Maria's clothes.
The crowd was stunned for a moment.
Then the flood of perverts trampled Cyril.
Then the flood of women trampled the flood of perverts which, in turn, were still on Cyril, and beat them senseless while Maria and Jessica fled.
The judges were too busy trying to pick off perverts from afar to notice who left first, so ultimately the entire match was settled by coinflip, which suited the traumatized girls just fine.
As for Cyril? It seems that, between the head injuries and the chip's effects, he now honestly believes he is Zidane, true ruler of the universe and panty thief extrordinaire, the ultimate lady's man and conqueror.
Even after Indalecio removed the chip.
Indalecio's just going to drown him the next chance he gets. It's really simplest this way.