>>10597079>"Ladies and Gentlemen, please stand by for a declaration made for Divine Trials Tournament Series!"=======
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The arena lights dim as the main screen begins playing a video package. It's somber in tone, depicting seemingly unrelated shots in sync with the dirgeful backing track.
Empty roads, the dotted divider pulled towards the bottom of the frame in a steady track.
Starry night skies, hazed blooms of colors overhead.
Footprints in the sand, washed away by the waves.
Ruins, with glass, debris, and athletic equipment scattered around haphazardly.
Shots of metropolitan Spaghetti Town at night, timelapsed so the traffic is a blur of streaking lights and colors.
As the first chant finishes, the video lingers on a shot of the WWA arena, empty, from the perspective of an audience member, high up in the cheap seats. It pulls back even further, still focused on the ring, but from the nosebleeds.
The chanted vocals repeat...
Videos of the rookies working in the dojo program.
Unused TV angles for Taking The Piss with Hailey Britannia.
Shaky recorded footage of the mayhem on the jetliner to Tokyo.
Dashcam footage, where the driver stops in a certain spot. The scene of an accident, long since cleared out. An accident that changed the course of the company. And the subject of this vignette.
The final shot, like the last, remains focused, but pulls back.
It's of a figure, standing in the middle of that road, the bright headlights behind them casting a deep darkness that obscures their features.
Eventually, the camera pulls back so far that, between the distant dots of the headlights, the sillhouette has blended into the black of the night between the beams.
The lights come back on.
And for the first time in over a month, a familiar theme plays over the loudspeakers.
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