Kaiden committed her.
[3v1 Clash: Luna + Aria + Nyx vs Champion 5 (The Bladed Stalker).]
"Gremlin and the yandere scissoring each other in the fanarts would be fun to see, but who’s ready for the threesome pictures?" Nyx mused as she arrived beside them in the arena, spatial pressure distorting the air around her. "I wonder how they’d draw it... Who is on top? Maybe the gremlin gets double teamed? Hmm... It’ll probably be me who gets topped, huh?"
One more piece vanished from the board.
[Board State]
[♚ Claimant]
[Row 1: [] · [] · [] · [] · [] · []]
[Row 2: [] · [] · [] · [] · C8(E) · []]
[Row 3: [] · [] · [] · [] · [] · []]
[Row 4: [] · [] · [] · [] · [] · []]
[Row 5: [] · [] · [] · [] · [] · []]
[Row 6: [] · [] · [] · [] · [] · []]
[♔ Successor]
[Active Arenas: Vespera + Bastet vs C2 + C6 + C7 | Calypso vs C3 | Luna + Aria + Nyx vs C5 | Alice vs C4.]
[ELIMINATED: C1 (Siegehorn). ENSNARED: Scarlet (off-board).]
[Defender: 0 on board, 7 in arenas. Claimant: 1 on board, 6 in arenas, 1 eliminated.]
The Kaiju roared. Rawer than the arrogant bellow it had used to recall the Ravager from Scarlet’s cage, this one was torn from the chest of a creature that had watched its board dissolve in a handful of turns and struggled to keep up.
All six eyes locked on Kaiden through the dimensional barrier.
He stared back.
Every champion it had was locked in combat or dead, all except one. C8. The Shade, drifting alone at E2, the last piece the Kaiju could move.
Kaiden could see the decision forming behind those six eyes, slow and agonized, because the creature’s brain had never been built for choices like this.
It had two options.
Send C8 straight down column E to Row 6. The finish line. Four turns of unopposed advance with no defender piece on the board to stop it, and the match was over.
The Kaiju wins while every one of his girls bleeds in an arena they can’t leave.
Or send C8 to reinforce Champion 5 against the three women who engaged it.
Kaiden kept his face still because the Kaiju was watching him.
The Kaiju’s massive body shifted behind its board. Its claws scraped the ground, grinding deep furrows into the surface, and a low rumble built in its throat that was half growl and half confusion.
For a long moment the creature swayed between the two decisions with the visible distress of a predator being forced to think in a way its brain was never designed for.
[Claimant Turn.]
[Champion 8 advances to D3.]
It sent the Shade diagonally forward, toward the arena where Luna, Aria, and Nyx were going against Champion 5.
[Defender Turn.]
Kaiden drew two more cards. He banked both without looking at their faces. His hand was fat with cards now.
He had no pieces left to move. The turn passed in silence while the viewing panes burned with violence.

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