"I've already signed you up. The event officially starts at 7:30 later."
"By the way, I still haven't seen the pet you're going to bring to the stage. Don't tell me you're planning to find one last minute?" Suoga finally realized and reacted belatedly.
"Don't worry about that. You'll see soon enough." Tilan glanced at the crowd below. To her surprise, it was quite lively — there were probably a few hundred people here already.
"Are events like this common?"
"Very common. But there's a rule: if you place in the top three, you can't participate in the same type of event again."
"Why?"
"Because if the strongest contestant always wins, the matches get boring. And when they're boring, no one shows up." Suoga leaned back on the sofa and explained the situation casually.
"See, even activities in the lower tiers know how to keep things fresh. But the Federal Upper Echelon is as stagnant as dead water."
