"Welcome to the Grand Championship! Welcome to tonight's Kazimierz Knights Special Championship! Everyone present already knows today's two contenders: Radiant Knight Nearl, two-time Grand Championship winner.
"And the other is a singular exception even across the long history of knight competitions—pure bloodline, pure terror and strength, a lone wanderer from the depths of the steppes, the last Kheshig, Nightmare Chaser Tola.
"Both are independent knights as well, without corporate sponsorship or the training and support of knight orders. They reached this point solely through their own strength."
Big Mouth Mobu was still providing commentary for the match between the Radiant Knight and the Nightmare Chaser Knight. It was rare for him to appear at the Central Grand Championship. The generous pay had made him put considerable effort into preparing beforehand. As long as this Grand Championship concluded perfectly, the money he received would be enough to bring his parents to the Grand Knight Territory and let them live comfortably.
Independent knights were exceedingly rare in Kazimierz arenas. Generally speaking, as soon as someone gained even a little fame, major corporations would come knocking, hoping they would endorse their products.
Take the Left-Hand Knight, for instance. Every time he appeared, his armor was covered in the labels of major corporations. Quite a few people privately called him the Label Knight. Naturally, he knew about it, but he did not care in the slightest. Someone in his previous life had once summed up the Left-Hand Knight's conduct perfectly: you laughed at Left-Hand for throwing matches, while Left-Hand laughed at you for paying your mortgage.
Because he constantly endorsed major corporations' goods and had always obeyed every order from the Commercial Federation, throwing matches whenever told to do so, along with the gambling involved, it could be said that among the many knights—even