The tournant was scheduled to be held in October, and by the ti the date was drawing nearer, nearly everyone in the world was talking about it. Say anything you want about the Superhuman Alliance, but the one thing that they were very good at was spreading information as quickly as possible, and with them putting the news of the tournant and the contestants on every major channel out there and manipulating the attention of the masses using attractive adverts, it was no surprise that people would steadily gain more and more interest.
There were complaints from so of the guilds in Arica when they realized that most of the contestants going for the tournant were going to be from the Vanguard guild alone. They all felt like the Vanguard guild was monopolizing the tournant and the governnt was allowing them to do that just because they were the strongest guild in Arica. But the guilds couldn’t really say too much about the choices that were made because they knew that there wasn’t a single person in any other guild that could defeat any one of the contestants that were chosen for the tournant. All ten contestants were very active during the last Armageddon attack, and the guilds saw just how good they all were, so there was no doubt about their abilities.
The day they were ant to fly out, a large bus from the Vanguard guild carried the five mbers that were chosen from the guild to the airport. Throughout the journey, Pat stayed silent while working on sothing on his laptop, and when Mark asked him what he was working on, Pat just said that he was trying to recalibrate the satellite nearest to Japan so that he could use it when he got there. There were a lot of system blocks that prevented Pat from being able to use his MDS to scan so countries like Russia, Germany, or Japan. But if Pat is inside the country, then he would be able to bypass those system blocks, and it would be easier for him to scan the area around Japan.
Mark nodded and decided not to bother Pat for the remainder of the bus ride as they headed towards the airport. After a few minutes, Pat asked Mark why they weren’t using his private plane to get to Japan since it would be more comfortable and Mark just scoffed and said the governnt wouldn’t allow it.
Mark knew that he could have simply used a private plane owned by his company to fly them to Japan, but apparently, there was a very strict law in Japan about foreign aircraft, and according to the organizers of the event, all the contestants were only allowed to arrive in Japan using national aircraft so that each country’s participants would arrive at the sa ti.
The tournant organizers were going to be responsible for arranging both the hotel and als and entertainnt before the tournant for the contestants, and they were told to pack light since there was also a variety of clothes to choose from over in Japan. Mark left Talia over with Jas and his family. Talia had wanted to co with them to Japan, but Mark didn’t know what they were going to be facing over there, and they were only going to be gone for a short ti, so Mark told her to be a good girl and stay with Jas. Talia complained a little, but thankfully, it wasn’t that hard for him to convince her since Talia liked being with Jas.
By the ti they got to the airport, Mark saw that the entire place was filled with reporters and fans who had co to see them off. There were so many people crowding around the entrance area that Superhuman Alliance Agents had to co in and form a long line of bodies to make space for them to move!
Mark ignored most of the questions that were being thrown around by the reporters and the screams from the fans asking him to sign one thing or another. Mark was already so used to all of this that it didn’t even move him anymore. As they finally started to clear the crowds, Mark saw Alec Ben and the rest of the Alphas waiting inside the boarding area at the airport. Alec gave the group a nod, but the only people there who greeted him back were Luna and Tina. Tina raised her hand excitedly as she saw her brother and shouted!
"Turner! So you’re really here!? Thought you were going to hide in an office for the rest of your fucking life!"
Tina knew that Turner did not like fieldwork, so she was surprised when she saw his na on the list for the tournant! Turner was going to be one of the non-combatants heading to Japan and he would just be there to handle any ergency that might need his expertise. Tina was even more surprised to see that he actually ca!
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For a second, Tina thought that Turner just put his na up there as a way to pad the number of people that would be going for the tournant and that they would change it later on to soone who actually wanted to be on the field. Seeing Turner there was very surprising for her. At least, Tina was relived when she saw that Turner had registered as a non-combatant. Tina knew that Turner had not been on active duty for a long ti. So unless Turner had been secretly training when they weren’t in contact, then there was no reason for him to have been chosen.
Turner sighed tiredly at his sister, but he couldn’t help the small smile that appeared on his face as he waved back at her.
"Hey, Tina. I’m glad to see the ti we spent apart hasn’t made you mature enough to give a normal greeting yet."
Tina laughed happily before going over to jump on him excitedly. The both of them hadn’t had that much ti to et since they were both so busy with work, so this was the first ti they would have a chance to et each other in close to a month.
Henry ca up to the group from the side once he saw that everyone was there, and he clapped to get their attention before he spoke up.
"Glad to see you are all here. The plane is going to take you straight to the airport in Tokyo, and you should be eting the other contestants since they are also going to be arriving today. But I’ll give you this fair bit of information: the Japanese governnt does not like us. I know they invited all the participants for the tournant, but I am sure they are going to be far harder on the Arican contestants than on those from other countries. For the sake of the tournant, just try your best to put up with it for the ti being. Rember that we represent the entire country, so it wouldn’t be good to get on bad terms with the organizers themselves. Is that alright?"
Henry turned and gave Mark a look when he asked this question, and Mark just shrugged nonchalantly as he heard it.
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