It was a couple of hours since you arrived at the taitle. Some crazy mosquito-looking girl gave you some metal stuff but you immediately threw it away, keeping the oil. Seriously, you're a murder DRONE. Why would you need all of that metal scrap?

You were just walking around, examining the buildings that all looked left behind. You decided to check some of the building just incase there could be one of the competitors inside. You opened one of the doors, imitating a uncomfortable creaking noise, which made you cringe. "Ugh how old are these buildings..."  You thought out loud as you were now in the building. You looked around, taking note of your surroundings so just incase there was INFACT a competitor, you'd have a bigger advantage.

'Alright, so there's a pipe over here, probably has water in there which I can use against my opponents. And we got a vent... Could use that so I can have a faster transportation... and  the floor... I could maybe make fire if I scrape it with my sword good enough... and we got a raven-- wait-- a raven?'

You noticed a raven that had a somehow piercing red eyes. You tilted your hand, raising an eyebrow and it mimicked you. The other side? It still mimicked you. You furrowed your eyebrows and raised one of your hand. It immediately flew and landed on your hand. You hesitantly petted it and it immediately got comfortable by your touch.

"Heh... Who would leave a ridiculously cute fur ball alone in this place..." You murmured to yourself. You resumed petting it and looked around for any light sources. You spotted a flashlight and using your 'Solver™' abilities, you brought it to you and turned in on, and began pointing it around to see if you can fight some oil just incase you overheated. Good thing you brought an umbrella-No- Good thing you sometime overthink, if you were a little more... carefree... Oh, how you'd be eliminated without even fighting anyone...

While you were doing your examination, you found a random picture. Out of pure curiosity, you took it, aimed your flashlight at it, and took notes of the picture.

In the picture, there was a man. He had a dirty blonde hair that was tied in a pony tail with a yellow bandana hat with stripes. He wore a light beige dress shirt, brown pants and boots. Not the mention he had a black eyepatch. Perhaps, he was a pirate? But then you noticed that the raven you currently had in your arms was in the picture.

"That must be your owner, Ay?" You looked down at the raven before laughing, "What am I even saying! You probably don't understand me do you? Ah, now I get it why these walking metal scraps call me crazy..."

"Ah Arma! There you are! And I see you got company!" A random voice chirped. You turned around, pulled a gun and aimed in at the person's head all in one swift movement when you actually just created it using the 'Solver™' To make yourself seem more 'human'

"And who dares disrupt my 'me' moment?" You squinted your eye at the guy...

"Woah there I don't hurt people! Plus I don't bite!" He raised his hand to show he's harmless.

You looked down to look at the raven, but they dissapeared you looked back up and saw the same person scratching the raven's chin.

"So you're the owner?" You asked.

"Why yes, Arma's quite the cute one, dontcha think?" He rose an eyebrow, but you weren't paying attention to his words, you were staring at his grey scar he had on his face. He seemed to notice that.

"Ah, don't mind these scars, I just fell on a buncha stairs, recovered, and it gave me those marks." He claimed. You only stared at him in disbelief.

"Alright," you started.

"Hm?"

"How hard did you fell to the point your scar is FREAKING GRAY!?" You emphasized the 'freaking gray'.

"Hard enough." He shrugged, still having a smirk. Your eyes twitched when you had an idea.

"Say, you in the tourney? The 'Law of Talos' one?"

"Oh no, no no no! I'm the judge! I just go around checking if the competitors don't cheat or something like that!" He waved his hand- which also happened to be gray- in denial. Although, you know dang well he's lying, so why not play along?

"O...Kay... Anyway, what's your name?" You asked, tilting your head.

"You can call me Karl." He closed his eyes nodding once, before opening them again. His eyes diverted somewhere, then at you again.
"Also, why would you join the tournament?"

"Eh?"

"You know, since you look... Quite human to me..."

"And you look like that dude from the photo." You raised the photo with the blonde man on it.

"Oh! So that's where it was!" He snatched the photo from my hands and dusted it off.
"Funny thing, it's actually me!"

"You look like you weren't traumatized."
His eye twitched.

You mentally claimed that at some point, he may or may not attack you. So you putted one of your hand behind your back, and used the 'Solver™' To create a knife. In the other hand, Karl also putted one of his hand behind his back, and Arma transformed into a sword.

"Say... Sometimes you should be careful on who you fight... Cause you know- there could be non-humans that won't show mercy..." He mockingly warned, waiting for the perfect time to strike.

"Thanks for the warning, Blud..." I innocently thanked.

"Blud?" He rose an eyebrow, still smiling.
"Actually no," He took out Arma and swinged, which you blocked with your knife.

"I'm not gonna ask..." He said, trying to slash your throat but fortunately can't as you were blocking his sword, restraining it from doing any harm to you.

"Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you my name... It's [NAME]..."

"Why would you think the perfect time to tell your name is when you're in battle?" He rose an eyebrow.

"I dunno, I'm being me!" You grinned. He chuckled before pulling back, which caused you to lose your balance. You noticed he was in for another attack, so you crouched when you slashed, pulled out the gun from before, and shot the arm he used to attack you, making Karl let go of the sword, also know as Arma. You caught the sword, got back up and kicked him as hard as you can, which actually made him fly against the wall couple meters behind him. Slowly he slid down the wall. You realized there was a couple of cracks on where you kicked him. Which proved, he wasn't human. Well, atleast the staircase theory is solved.

"Lord.... How much do you weight..." You held your ankle, "Cause my ankle may or may not have broke..."

"Quite alot..." He looked up at you "But obviously you're not human..."

You sweat-dropped, "Wha... No! I am a human!  What makes you think that!" You nervously asked him.

"Well clearly a normal human being can't just pull weapons out of nowhere, as you don't have pockets, and they definitely can't kick me THAT hard..." His left eye twitched again. "Which leaves me to only one question..." He stalled for a bit before finally asking the question of the day:

"What are you?"

You groaned loudly, "Gwahh... Fine I'm not human... And I don't have pockets, oh noeesss....." You sarcastically said.

"That didn't answer my question." He stated, now infront of you. At that sudden jumpscare, you yelped and backed up, accidently throwing Arma in the air. (How did you do that? I dunno) Karl immediately catches the sword-shaped bird while his smirk slightly widens.

"Do you really wanna know?.."

"I do."

You mumbled something to yourself that even you didn't understand and finally revealed yourself.

"I'm a murder drone... Happy?"

"So a robot?"

"No, a drone. They're different things." You raised your head thinking you did something.

"Oh? Then mind telling what's the, so-big difference?" He cockily asked you.

"Mind telling me why you think I know? I just say they're different cause honestly, I dislike being called a robot." You explained.

"Well then," He walked closer to you and extended a hand to you. "Cause clearly I won't be able to defeat you, why not be acquaintances, Robo-person?" He recommended.

"First of all, sure. Second of all, it's [NAME], THANK YOU VERY MUCH..." You took his hand, extremely tight on purpose, and somehow, you managed to crack his hand a little, making  him shudder, then shook it.

"Right... [NAME]..."
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(And that's how you befriended a animated psychopath that's a resin statue! Yipeee!)