We come back to our Ranglers, them rushing back to the tournament during the final rounds here.

They get back to the stadium to find Clive seemingly waiting in the arena alone.

But after some worry, it turns out that what he's waiting on was not Narcissus, but Carrie Quirk for the finals of the losers bracket.

But apparently she is a no-show,

and it's quickly called that Clive does get basically passed on up to the finals,

and they basically

announce the next

round is going to be shortly. I believe

Narcissus was

wanting to go procure some more

ritual components. Yes.

Okay. So you're

given a brief period to do that

and perform what rituals you do there.

And in the meantime, as the rest of the kids start filing in, there seems to be a large gentleman and a policeman's uniform with a big old

push-brew mustache and the cleft chin

kind of waiting there

and he's kind of

standing there with his arms at his sides

as he clears at the rest of the group

and says,

kids,

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