He looks about the crowd and cheers some more. What a show! "Go Champ Go!"

Eriko smirked at the Hotaru and gave him a coy nod. "Ah, rather considerate of you, Hotaru-san! Pretty nice of you to not ruffle feathers around here."

She did reach into her coat pocket and take out Watanabe Confections Watermelon Rush! gum, offering some to her seating partners as well in the same gesture.

When the fireworks started, she cheered with several claps and raised her homemade sign up. While it wasn't exactly inconspicuous, she was still hoping that maybe she would appear on the holovid on one of these shows. Alas, the camera seemed to have only panned to the front rows where a majority of the miai guests would be seated. "It's going to be a good show, I know it. Relax, take a load off, fellas..."

"LET'S GO, MENACE! KICK HER ASS!" She called out with both hand in front of her to project her voice.

Ryo did give a bow to the young Crane who approached the row in front of him. He was courteous, even if envious of the Crane's slightly better seat, "Good evening, Doji-san."

He did look to back when he heard some cheers. These visitors don't even know who to cheer for...

The Menace rolled out of the wrestling ring from under the ropes that prompted the whole arena to break out in boos and jeers as she displayed some cowardice. She circled around the ring to walk by some of the seated audience, waving a hand in refusal. Hikaru walked over to the ropes and demanded that she get in. The referee did the same, as she could get a disqualification if she stayed out long enough. The Menace continued to favour her back like she has suffered a great bruise.

"The Menace thought this was going to be easy but it looks like she just found out that Hida-senshu is the Vermillion Bird Champion for a very good reason."

Just as Hikaru looked away for a moment, the Menace jumped up to grab Hikaru's head and pull her down toward the ropes, effectively using them to choke her. Hikaru put both hands on the ropes and attempted to pull away to no avail. The referee quickly demanded the Menace to unhand her opponent as using the ropes were discouraged from the match. The Menace coyly feigned innocence on the matter at first before letting go of her with a smug look on her face. Hikaru staggered back and fell to the floor as she caught her breath. The audience broke out in displeasure and made themselves heard in greater volume than before.

"Underhanded tactics from the Menace! But it worked, it seems she put on the breaks to Hida-senshu's momentum!"

The Menace gave a hapless shrug at the wave of displeasure for the crowd, as if not knowing what they were upset by exactly. She jumped back into ring with ease and walked up to her opponent to snap a quick kick to her back that seemed to sound quick audibly painful by the impact alone. Before the magistrate could recover from the attack, the Menace knelt down and put her arms around Hikaru in a headlock. Thankfully, Hikaru managed to get a hand in there to prevent it from fully locking in but it did only offer a token defense.

"The Menace taking advantage of the downed Hida-senshu and putting more pressure on that neck again. It didn't even look like she had a chance to catch her breath! That kick might have taken the breath out of her lungs!"

The referee knelt down and gage what was happening, both looking to see the well-being of the wrestlers and to see if Hikaru was going to submit to the hold. Hikaru struggled against the hold as she tried to wiggle out futilely. She held one shaky hand up to show that she was not giving up. This prompted the crowd to clap their hands together rhythmically to encourage the champion to keep fighting. "Hi-da! Hi-da!"

"Hida-senshu not giving up just yet! The fans are lending their support and hoping she hangs on!"

[The Wrestletron Recap thread link]

The Mantis paused to look the Crane over for a moment. "Maybe find a place in the back? We're both on the taller side so we'll likely block some people's views if we sit too far forward."

"You're right about the noise though, I take it, that this is your first time at one of these" If she agreed to his seating choice he'd lead the way to a pair of chairs towards the back half off the area set aside for those of the miai.

Hide couldn’t help but feel pumped up by the match. And that heel... She was so brutal! She just had to have some Matsu blood in her somewhere. Though, Hida were also known for some pretty brutal shit. Either way, Hide felt the need to cheer at her going for the throat.

Wrestling was not the first among Shion's interests, but she had seen it from time to time and worked on a few things related to it in the MEN, so she was happy to tag along to watch the fight - even if she would most likely sit at a corner and keep chill while seeing things unfold.

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He winces as the Hiruma is almost pinned, and then cheers as she rally back, "Looks like this is going to be a good one!"

Joining the audience. "Hida, Hida, Hida, Hida!" She shanted. "Be the Storm of Osano-Wo!" The Moshi cried to the screen.

Looking back with a smile she dipped her head, "Good evening, Asako-san!" she said, cheerily. "How're you enjoying the show?" she asked, a skip-happy sorta manner of talking.

"HI-DA," Mal-Chin joined the crowd's chant. "HI-DA!"

"HIDA!!! SMASH HER FACE IN!!!!!"

Izumi was loud and very frenetic in the front row.

Hyeon-ju had been there all along, of course! Totally!

Dressed in her modern and hip take on the old hanbok of the Unicorn, the Sky Rider was quite caught up in the match herself. She had started off as her cool and calm usual self, sipping at her colorful boba-tea, but as the match was going on, even the Ice Queen was getting more heated in her cheers near the front row.

"To be honest...I had no idea what to expect." Ishiyo opened her arms to display the uniform fully, "As you can see I over dressed."

Her eyes move to gaze at the back, "Yeah that would probably be foh the best. Some of the people here seem way more invested in it then myself."

...If the Crane was going to be cheery, it was kind of hard for Ryo to maintain his resting courtier face. However, he still had his reservations.

"I am, thank you. It's been a long time coming between the Law and the Delinquent Club. For a while, I thought the Club was going to run amok without anyone doing anything..." He said with a nod toward the match.

"I am Asako Ryo, son of Asako Naokuni. It might be awkward for us to continue talking like this...perhaps I could join you?" He said, gesturing to the free seat next to her.

Hikaru slowly returned to her feet as the other wrestler tried to keep hold of her and doing her best to keep her from doing so without much success. With one free arm, Hikaru began to elbow the wrestler behind her and she was released after two strikes. Hikaru took advantage of her moment and yanked the Menace toward the ropes. She dipped forward as it seemed like she was about to grapple the Menace. However, it seemed her opponent managed to fully expect this tactic and jumped high before she could connect, got on Hikaru's back and rolled off. The Menace landed on her feet and snap high kick to the back of Hikaru's head and caused her to crumble like a sack of yams without support.

"A show of agility from the Menace and capitalizing with that stinging kick to the back of her head!"

The crowd seemed to gasp loudly at that show of athleticism not quite knowing what to expect until Hikaru took that vicious kick to the back of her head. After the proverbial smoke cleared, everyone started to boo at the woman left standing. The Menace looked rather smug and merely bowed mockingly at their displeasure. After the bit of showboating, she went to pin her opponent. The referee was on point and got into position to do the count, "One! Two!"

Hikaru has some sensibilities returned to her apparently and angled her shoulder to the side to avoid the full three count, which prompted the audience to clap that managed to get out of her predicament. Although, it didn't seem she put much effort into it, given her current condition.

"Hida-senshu managed to get up after that deadly kick but it doesn't look like there is much left in her. It looks like she might have been hit somewhere serious."

The Menace glared at the referee and held up three fingers, clearly having a difference of opinion of how the count was handled. "That was three! Learn to do your job! One, two, three!" She would shout at him while clapping her hands three times in quick succession as if to show exactly how he should have counted it. The referee would shake his head at her antics with a rather stoic expression on his face, seemingly intent on keeping things fair, holding two fingers to indicate his final judgment. She rolled her one eye at him and stood up, pulling her opponent back to her feet as well.

Hikaru attempted to push the opponent back with a light elbow jab which caused the Menace to stagger from the hit. Incensed, she counter-attached with a running knee strike that connected to Hikaru's gut and sent her reeling.

"That powerful knee strike pacified Hida-senshu!"

Those sitting close could hear an audible growl from the Menace as this annoyed her. She drew a thumb across her throat in a rather threatening gesture, as if to show that was going to be executing someone. Making her way over to the weakened Hikaru, she picked her from the side. Menace hefted her ontop her shoulders and after a beat, she immediately flipped her over in an exerting move to send her falling headfirst onto her waiting bent knee in a gruesome display of strength.

"Ooof! Oh no! An ushigoroshi from Menace-senshu! That might be lights out now!"

[The Wrestletron Recap thread link]

As some of the crowd begin to stand after that devastating move or at the very least move to the edge of their seat, rather unsure what will come next and filled with excitement. Eriko gave a glance around, not looking nearly as investigated. She instead pulled out her communicator and started typing a message to a few people.



With that, Eriko slipped her communicator in her pocket and stood up. "Excuse me, fellas, I'm going to get something to drink," she said before making her way out in short order.

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He watches the knee slam and actually rises in his feet, "YES!" as he drops his fist in excitement.

"Better over dressed then under, right?" Hayato offered with a wry smile letting his eyes pause on the woman's uniform. At least she looked good in it too.

Leading the way to the back he let Ishiyo pick her seat before taking one of his own. "As for what us it, think of it as a cross between a play and a wrestling match?"

"Come on Hida san..." She just pressed her hands together. "Show what truly a daughter of Hida can do! You can get up."