Much to everyone's surprise, even though Leon said the battles would be of ten versus ten, only Gisela stepped forward and threw her brown armor and massive great sword on the floor. Even without saying a single world, she challenged Yuki to a fight just by looking at her.
Yuki accepted the challenge, and she did the same, threw away her equipment and even her gauntlets before she approached the arena alongside several soldiers. Gisela's underlings also understood that the two leaders would fight, and they would only watch. Some of them were ready to fight, but soldiers of both sides didn't dare to interrupt the battle of their leaders.
"Now that I think about it, I should have made the arena using only steel..."