Chapter 285: A Rowdy Calm

The majestic, illustrious rewards of black and white settled high up their pedestals curtsied, waved, and left, retreating into the grand double doors once more, disappearing from everyone's charm-glazed gaze just as graceful, glamorous - leaving this tingling aftertaste behind in everybody's mouth, this impulsive sensation in their senses, this… awakened carnal instinct spurring forth insidious intents.

A rising desire, an insatiable want. 

Looming above, the bell struck, tolling almost incessantly in the murmuring, squirming fervor of the crowd. The clangor eventually ceased, and with its end, came a new beginning. 

The announcer, his smirk from ear to ear, stepped aside with his arm extended, raised, like a signpost signaling the way forward, and just like a ring of the bell, he told, "Participants, curious onlookers, please enjoy yourselves plenty if you would."