Advice

Valo spent about half an hour recounting everything that had happened, including how his wife and best friend had tricked him into investing all his money in Egypt's linen trade, then deceived him into signing that fatal contract in a daze, after which he had become a slave and been sold to the Gladiator School.

It was not until the others sharing the room gradually returned that Valo finally fell silent. Yet he still could not contain his grief and sobbed loudly on his bed. Just then, Bach and the group of Germanic peoples who had been with him entered from outside.

They seemed to have adapted to their new lives. Although Bach had once believed that Gabi was targeting him, he was not completely stupid. Though his training load was twice that of everyone else's, Gabi had also found him more than one trainer. At Gabi's request, those trainers had not only tailored a personal improvement plan for him, but two of them had even been willing to teach him their most closely guarded techniques for free.

In light of Gabi's earlier conversation with Macrus, this was clearly not an attempt to make things difficult for him. Gabi had already made up his mind to forge him into the next Sisnatas, even at the cost of favors he had accumulated over many years.

Yet Bach was still somewhat dissatisfied. He did not know what the hell Sisnatas was or what glorious history he had, nor was he willing to become the next Sisnatas. He wanted to be Bach—one and only Bach. He had now accepted the fact that he was a gladiator. All he had to do next was defeat every opponent standing in his way and become the new legend of this arena.

The Germanic peoples seemed to