The rest of the challenges after Dmitri went by in a flurry of matches and a growing mountain of bruised egos.
With the rest of their second-year classmates quickly finding that their limits were decidedly lower than they had optimistically assumed, it left Kain and Serena to shoulder the bulk of the embarrassment-infliction duties.
Soren, who had loudly proclaimed his ability to challenge at least half of the upperclassmen at the start, managed exactly one glorious victory against Jin before promptly getting himself knocked out of the arena—both metaphorically and quite literally—by an annoyed fourth-year, Theo.
