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[b][color=DarkOrange]Location:[/color][/b] Forbidden Kingdom - Esaka’s Low Tier
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It looked like the proprietor of the establishment also wanted them to leave, and Amaterasu wasn’t in any disagreement with her there. Actually leaving without getting chased out was kind of the problem, especially with the irate crowd’s Gleaming status. Truth be told though, she was more concerned about the sage who’d picked up on them breaking the rules of Galeem’s reality however. He was likely to be more calculatingly insistent.

Fortunately at least one person was on their side, which was the very small… person who’d poked her nose into this mess after Nadia got thrown into it. Probably an adult. Maybe. Height wise, child. Voice tone, difficult to judge because of the feminine pitch. Weapons and armor should have given it away, but then this was a world where people like Rika and Bowser Junior existed so that was most certainly not a given. Smell could have solved it, but they were just a little crowded so picking up on the substitutes would be difficult. Attitude though, that was quite adult.

Ultimately it didn’t really matter to her. She’d already gotten used to the idea that just because someone was unassuming in stature, that didn’t mean they weren't a force to be reckoned with, or unwise in word (not that the koopa kids were in any way contributing to that half of the equation, mind). Either way, respect was due, and the divine wolf would offer the armored stranger as much as she would anyone else.

The various betters, worked up as they were, were less inclined to be polite or respectful, but fortunately they immediately started getting their wires crossed as a result of her words.

The first instance of this was the big cybernetic bear insisting “Oh yeah, what do you know, pipsqueak! That fight wasn’t done at all because that guy’s still standing!” jabbing a claw at Captain Falcon, only for a [url=https://i.imgur.com/iB9Xd8p.jpeg]goat cowboy[/url] to get up in his grill “You're only saying that because she’s just proven you’ve lost! So pay up!” prompting the two to start shouting at each other rather than the seekers.

Others soon followed suit, getting into arguments with each other over who’d won, and directing some attention away from the seekers.

The wolf inclined her head towards the small woman in recognition of her aid, but they weren't out of the frying pan yet, and there was still risk that they were going to go into the fire.

Two groups still had issues with them. 

The first were mostly Yokai, such as a durable looking [url=https://i.imgur.com/etMzbpp.png]Eyellure[/url] who insisted that “It was still rigged!” while a less imposing looking [url=https://i.imgur.com/clotehP.png]Tsuchinoko[/url] in a Tshirt “Yeah these guys totally know each other, it's so obvious!”

The second was the sage and his two reploid minions who were circling around the crowd to put himself between them and the exit. As he did, he casually pointed out that “Their fight might have had an obvious winner, but the other did not” before addressing specifically Sakura and the captain “you two were in the middle of trading blows, only to drop everything upon seeing that blast. That  should not be possible”

“Unless they were faking it all!” a long clawed [url=https://i.imgur.com/HqPkRmo.jpeg]ghoul[/url] of a yokai jumped in to insist, causing the man to sigh as the chant of “Rigged!” started back up amongst the other Yokai, and threatened to drag the betters back into the conversation.