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Today was the day of the final of the secondary tournament. By sundown there would be a winner, and the winner would walk into the principal bracket through the eighth seat that had been waiting for them since the draw.
Lin Kai was already on the platform. His opponent stood across from him with the weight of a young man who had clawed through round after round to be standing where he was standing now.
Down in the contestants’ box, the rest of the secondary bracket watched with the resigned attention of people who had already lost and were now studying how the win was going to look.
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