Since the referee had already told them to start, Theo and Valerya stared at each other for a few seconds.
Theo did not want to move right away, and he was also waiting for her to bring out her beast.
He saw her as an acquaintance, and attacking her with a cheap move while she was not even armed with her beast seemed unpleasant to do to someone he considered an acquaintance.
Valerya kept looking at him with no sign of bringing her beast out of the beast space.
Both of them simply stared at each other as if trying to figure out what the other would do first through their eyes alone.
The crowd had already gone wild, but to Theo, it all sounded a little farther away now.
All he heard clearly was the wind in the open coliseum and the slow breathing coming from his own chest.
That was when Valerya moved first.
Her hands went toward her waist, and Theo's eyes narrowed.
'Hm?'
The next second, two short daggers came out, shining under the sunlight. They were high-quality weapons.
