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Chapter 49 - Semi-Finals (3)

<🎧 Song Recommendation: Daddy Issues (Remix) by The Neighborhood, Syd>

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The arena remained dark, and the gigantic led screens lighted up with a video of a house covered in massive flames while rain poured down. You could hear a little girl screaming.

The scene shifted to a dimly lit room. Celine sat in a velvet chair. She looked down at a collection of old, scorched photographs on the table in front of her. She touched one and gave a small, downcast smile.

"Oh... I remember that one," she whispered and her expression quickly turned solemn. "That was the day I lost them all. My mother, my twin brother, and my younger sister... they didn't make it out. The fire was too fast. Only my father and I survived."

The screen changed to show a series of pictures taken in a hospital room. A man lay in a bed, surrounded by beeping monitors and a maze of clear tubes. He looked like a shell of the man from the fire footage.

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