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2024-10-29 19:42:56Two days before the Selection and the Palace has already completed its preparation for the First Game. Participants were already told what to do and what not to do. Clothes for the commoners have arrived, too. Eurydice promised Ares that he would be sent there so that he would feel at ease having other people around him, but as of now, he just stayed on the same wing as the other Princes.
Icarai said he would be changing rooms once he is introduced during the First Game.
While Ares and Icarai were sorting out the clothes he would be wearing for the First Game, Ares became conscious of this 'introduction'. "What would others say if they knew I skipped the Trials?"
Icarai shook his head, "Nothing."
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