King started at the ceiling, along the wall opposite the door was a high-up window showing that they were just slightly underground. The window was just above ground level and was filthy, but dingy light was better than no light.
With Suzie still fast asleep King hopped out of bed and looked up at the wooden door, as though waiting for him to wake up a slot opened at the bottom of the door, and a dirty tray was shoved through with more than double the amount of rations he'd managed to get for himself in a week, let alone a single meal.
The Food itself was the same as it always was in the lowest level, all the leftover food from the Colosseum's several restaurants on the ground level that was the thrid floor, selling food to guests and the staff, most of it the time it was cold or uncomfortably warm, and sometimes it was rotten, but this food was fresh by left over standards, maybe only a few hours old, although it was still just a slurry of barely edible slop.
King took a few bites before rushing over to wake up Suzie so they could share the meal, Suzie was less than happy to eat the slop but ate just enough so that she didn't have to worry about starvation for a good few days.
King scarfed down the entire slop as soon as Suzie declared she couldn't stomach any more without being sick, as he ate she told him of her new name for him, and he took it without complaint, it was better than what he had come up with, a heaping pile of nothing in the names department.
With eating done the two gathered around the area below the filthy window and tried their luck for any water that might have leaked in from the previous night's storm, their hunt failed when the door opened and a guard looked in at them, visibly disgusted.
"Alright filth," He said, King stood tall, while Suzie did as he had instructed her to do while they had been eating and swiftly climbed up into the bed and took shelter under the covers, being so far out of the way the guard would find a hard time to make up a reason to strike her, King could tell the guard knew that and proceeded to grab King by the collar around his neck, King let it happen as the guard escorted him out before calling out to another one.
"Hey, one of you go give that bitch in there a lashing, she needs to learn some..." The Guard was forced to go silent when King pretended to trip, caught himself, and swung his fist into the unexpecting guard's lower jaw. The Guard dropped to the floor, unable to electrocute King without frying himself as King used his foot to slam the man into the ground.
"The Rules state no one may touch the King's possessions," King's tone was firm and irritable, making sure his foot was firmly planted against some part of bare skin so any electrical current would surge through the guard, "Touch a hair on her head and the next time that door opens you best be ready for a fight cause I'll be the one tanning your hide," A Second guard managed to pull King off the first who immediately tried to electrocute King, only to have the device that did so kicked out of his hands by another.
"The King needs to be in tiptop shape to entertain the guests," a third guard noted as she glared harshly at the first, "Hence why it receives special care, We can't go fucking with its property since fighting with us before a match can and will mess with the entertainment of the guest, especially if it forces us to put it down, so go get you ass patched up, and do your dam job," The Guard pointed to the door to King's quarters and two others shut it tight.
"No one enters that room unless the King dies, and only the one who kills him claims the slave inside as a prize, anyone goes in there strip 'em to their skimmies and toss them into the basement with the trash,"
The two at the door saluted and the original guard was taken away for medical care, the one who had given the order handed the one now holding King the device to shock him before waving him off to the arena door, upon looking back the first guard was glaring back no at king but the lady Guard who had intervened.
Upon arrival the Guard set King down and took several steps back, King figured the man was supposed to pull out his spear but realized he might have been scared the King would suddenly rush at him at any sign of aggression.
King chuckled at the grown man cowering before him as the gate was opened, Since Suzie was still locked in the room King chose to do as he was told, since he didn't want her harmed as punishment for him being disobedient.
This time the sun was shining, and there was noticeable no one waiting for him as he walked out into the arena. The crowd was silent, all eyes on a section above the Colosseum's fighting arena, King followed their gazes and looked up at several people standing with the man who had three scars running down his face.
A mighty-looking man who had just enough grey making its way into his beard that King could see from a distance was laughing as he looked down at King.
"That's him hu?" he asked chuckling, his voice didn't sound loud but it still somehow carried to King as though he was right next to him "I know low-ranking adventures can be somewhat pitiful at times, but this is just sad, I thought he'd be bigger,"