What Do You Mean I'm The Captain Of A Yandere Mercenary Company?

Chapter 216 The Arena District

This time, we took the little egg shaped train to the Arena District to participate in the battle royale.

It took us quite a while before we reached our destination as it had to make several stops along the way. It seems like the trains were designed to make a stop at every other district at least once before going to the Arena district.

Thankfully, we could just sign up through our personal terminals so we registered ourselves as participants while on the way there so there was no problem.

As we stepped out onto the supposed Arena District, I realised this was the most crowded area of the station.

Unlike the gambling district where it featured an open hall with various games scattered around the area where the visitors were free to move around, this district had several large buildings that served as individual areas to cater to the guests.

From the station, the path diverged itself towards each of these buildings and what event was taking place at each of these locations were clearly displayed on a giant holographic screen in front of said buildings.

There was the dome shaped building that had two robots facing each other in a boxing pose with the words 'Bot Fight' underneath them.

I'm guessing that's the place you would go to see robots beating the shit out of each other.

There was a colosseum shaped building opposite the 'Bot Fight' arena and this one had the hologram of a group of humans facing a mass of various animals. This one was literally called 'The Colosseum'.

I believe they had bots fighting bots and humans fighting animals facing each other on opposite sides intentionally.

There were several other smaller buildings around where most of them were simply selling food, drinks and other merchandise to visitors.

Then at the very end of the path was a towering building that stretched all the way to the ceiling of the station.

There was no name in front of this building but most of the crowd was heading there and we had received directions to head towards that building to participate in our battle royale.

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"I dunno about you, but it kind of feels like he's compensating for something," Amber mused while looking up at the tower in front of us.

Ries tilted her head slightly, "His height, maybe?"

Oh yeah, he's pretty much the same height as Ries wasn't he?

Amber grinned, "That wasn't what I was referring to but that may be possible too~"

She even wiggled her eyebrows suggestively at me.

Yes, yes, I know exactly what you are referring to, Amber... No need to keep looking at me like that.

I looked down at my Codex, "Seems like we need to be there in an hour to... Err... 'Suit up'? Whatever that means."@@@@

We had to verify our participation in the event before we were guided to an elevator.

They even made sure that only one group of participants were allowed into the lift and I realised that each team would be sent to a room of their own to make the Virtual Dive.

For our group, we were ushered into a featureless lift that sent us up to one of the floors where a pair of armed guards and a well dressed woman was there to receive us.

The woman perked up the moment she saw us, "Welcome participants! I shall serve as your facilitator and guide today! Please follow me to complete your registration!"

We followed after her while the guards flanked us from behind to escort us.

I was already wondering why there was such heavy security around when Lea leaned over to whisper, "The owner of the station is watching the event inside this building as well."

Ah... So it's just in case some people are trying to target him by masquerading as a participant. Got it.

We were led to a dimly lit room where several spheres were lined up against the wall, which I assumed was this universe's version of the VR Capsule.

Our guide turned to us as we filed into the room, "May I ask if any of you have neural implants that would allow you to Virtual Dive without the use of a Virtual Pod?"

All of us shook our heads.

Not gonna lie, I was actually expecting Ries to have one.

The woman smiled at our answer, "Alright~ Then we would need you to each pick a Virtual Pod so that we could start our calibration! This will only take a while and you will be sent to the waiting room until the time for the competition to start! If you require any assistance, please open the menu and tap on the panic button to bring yourself out of the virtual space.

Please note that even if you are eliminated from the competition, you would be transported back into a virtual waiting room and only be released from here when the competition has concluded!"

I raised an eyebrow, "We can't leave early?"

She shook her head, "The room will be sealed while the competition is taking place and only unsealed after it is over. Any attempts to unlock the doors will trigger an alarm. If you are unable to dedicate the time needed to participate in this competition, I'm afraid you would need to leave."

Hmm... I guess they don't want people to be wandering around the place which would make it hard for the guards to manage them in case there's an assassin hidden amongst us.

Well, we already intend to win this competition anyway so I guess this rule doesn't bother us. If we ended up losing halfway through, it would be entertaining to watch the show anyway.

Amber raised her hand, "Are we allowed to make bets on ourselves?"

The facilitator's smile widened, "Of course! Please note that participants of the competition are only allowed to make bets on their own team winning and nothing else. You can make the bets once you are in the virtual waiting room!"

Alright, time to strap in then.

Also, I'm obviously going to bet on us to win!