The silence in the Golden Sun Grand Colosseum shattered in an instant, devolving into utter chaos. The spiritual projection screen displayed the plain as completely pristine, devoid of any trace of the slaughter, as though the three thousand soldiers of the Rising Sun Kingdom and the Iron Shadow Kingdom had never existed at all.
In the royal box of the Rising Sun Kingdom, the King stood up abruptly, knocking his jade wine goblet to the floor where it shattered into pieces. His face was entirely contorted, pale as spent ash, his hands trembling with suppressed rage and horror.
"This is an atrocity! I demand justice!" roared the King of the Rising Sun, shouting toward the box of the Grand Arbiter and the Emperor. "That demon exterminated them without mercy! He didn't even leave their corpses to be buried! I demand an immediate halt to the tournament!"
