Kurapika: "It was entirely through flawless tactics and coordination that they forced so many trump cards out of him... and in the end, they only made it to the final step because they got lucky."
Zhu Xuan: "Can 'getting lucky' alone explain it? Think again. Don't limit your perspective to this battle alone. Sometimes, victory and defeat are decided before the battle even begins."
Kurapika: "Hm?"
Kurapika: "Indeed. Thinking it over carefully, many things had already been set in motion before this battle began."
Kurapika: "At the start of this match, Hachiman Hikigaya encountered 'Cú Chulainn' and triggered a special scenario. That turned 'Cú Chulainn' against 'Red Archer,' giving the third team on Shinto's side precious breathing room."
Tet: "The rare items obtained by defeating 'Souichirou Kuzuki' and 'Medea' had seemed unrelated at the time. But under the wisdom of Kazuma Satou, the decision-maker, all of them ended up proving infinitely useful. They were also crucial."
Wise King Flash: "Yes, and there's another point. If he hadn't decided to use multiple Craft Essences and items to raise the strength of that player named Ryuguuin Seiya, giving them someone capable of confronting Faker head-on, this battle would have ended right from the start."
Archer: "Faker, huh? Heh. Let me add something. There was another reason: the third team had fought 'me' several times during the day, causing 'me' to misjudge the overall strength of those players—the foreign magi—and choose the wrong method of fighting."
Archer: "There were probably other reasons too, but... hmph, forget it. I won't say any more."
Sora: "I understand now. Luck was merely a prerequisite."
Sora: "It only turned a 0% possibility into 0.0000001%. The premise of this victory was that every person had to give everything they had in order to seize that negligible possibility and