South Blue #3

Although she was tall and looked strong judging from her the muscle on her body, her age and gender seemed to be an issue for the man so in his opinion he was kindly advising her to give up or attempt to register somewhere else.

Alyssia's face turned from excitement to serious in a second as she spoke in a sligjtly colder and serious tone of voice. "Sir, I would still like to register and I am confident in my skills. I believe that you have no right to deny anyone that comes to register so please put my name down for the no rules competition with no age restrictions."

The number of female participants were low this year like many other years and most years they did not have any big achievements when they participated, unless they came from a stronger race or tribe.

This year was the same as most of the people involved had been pushing for the organisers to offer some persuasion to female participants to avoid registering to avoid them being harmed and giving the competition a bad public image.

Despite their attempts, some still slipped through and registered in some of the groups during this time and with those coming with Alyssia, other booths experienced an increase in female participants.

Some men and women from the martial halls in Kano registered for the karate competition along with Liushi while some chose to enter the mixed weapons or swordmanship competition.

Tristan joined the boxing competition but strangely enough, Carrot registered for the wrestling competition which was an unusual choice.

The big three powerhouses of the crew were now in separate competitions and would be participating on different days.

If Archie and Clifford had chosen to come then one would have joined the swordsmanship competition and the sumo or wrestling competition but they had missed the opportunity due to their duties and their lack of interest.

As everything was going on, Alyssia continued to purchase the upgrade to expert for her upper body martial arts to make up for the lack of attention she had given that skill just so that she could collect some of the upper body martial arts to help her better block and parry attacks aimed at her chest and face area and add some counters if needed.

When she entered the island, she had already gained much from many people around herself as they all had many types of unique types of combat.

She stood there absorbing the surrounding skills to further complete her various skills including her staff and scythe blade skills and waited for the mans response for a while as she stood overlooking him with her arms crossed over her chest.

The man looked at her helplessly. "Fine.. but do not say that I did not warn you. This one is not for the faint of heart and those participating can often be brutal individuals. Are you certain? If you get hurt, do not come crying and complaining to me."

It was like he was tired of such situations happening as previous participants had done the same after having their martial arts path destroyed by a heavy injury.

"Un." Alyssia nodded her head. "Of course. Sign me up."

The man wrote down her information and handed her the details, her identity card and where she would be staying and seated. "Thanks for your participation, good luck and try not to get hurt. Farewell."

With a slight wave of her hand, she turned around and left the man behind.

As she was disappearing from his sight, he looked at her with eyes filled with regret. "Another flower is going to be ruined."

If Alyssia had heard his words then she would have responded with a kick to his face to punish him for looking down on her but the future events would soon prove the mans thinking to be very wrong.

Alyssia continued to explore the island and visit various places to gather more skills from those living or visiting Karate Island and later found herself near a garbage dump full of metal and scraps.

Several people were tinkering with what they found and among them was a red haired young man who was surrounded by many others including a blonde masked man. 'Found them.'

She quietly crept up on them without them noticing and then began to close her eyes accessing the system.

Killer was in possession on many skills including blade based skills focused towards spinning blades so that was something that had interested Alyssia but what caught her eye was Kid's skills.

He possessed high martial arts mastery, engineering knowledge and his own insights towards electromagnetic forces that he had learned from using his Magnet Devil Fruit including some additional ideas that he had for attacks including some mech based constructs and a rail gun type of attack.

After taking a short look through what she had gained from them, she left them alone and headed toward the stadium to enter and begin staying within to wait her turn for turn to participate.

She sat within a specially prepared small hotel room and rested her body while drinking a glass of cola. "Tomorrow will be fun.."