Chapter 271: A Day Late and a Dollar Short
"Good evening all contestants! We have some exciting events that just barely occurred. First things first. The fire dragon has been slain by Bart McKenzie, Elwin Bell, Patricia McIntyre, Patrick Sullivan, and Owen Andrews. Each of them has now completed 5 challenges. The battle was fierce and was long, but with the sheer persistence of Patricia McIntyre and Patrick Sullivan, the fire dragon was cornered and finally slain.
"In the battle Leon Bell was killed by the fire dragon, so we now had another contestant die, so we hope our audience enjoyed watching that. Although, I'm sure many of you are now wondering what will happen to Elwin Bell, since he can't access his system without in contact with his brother. So, in regards to that, he won't have access to his system, even if he brings part of his brother with him. However, he will still be able to participate as he hasn't died yet. If he'll survive much longer, we'll have to wait and see.
"In other news, we'll be announcing the next set challenge for our contestants tomorrow evening. While it can still be completed now, if any of the contestants are lucky enough to meet the conditions, chances are none of the contestants will even think of what this one is to be.
"In other news, for Heather Goldblum, we'll be making sure you'll be giving birth soon, since many of our viewers are getting tired of you and Sonya playing house for so long. As well as finding a way for you to have your child cared for so you can actually start doing something again. Our committee is getting tired of you not going anywhere.
"Aside from that, we hope that all of the surviving contestants will try their best to stay alive until morning. Just as a reminder, we don't like having to showing your deaths in the highlights of what happened in the night. Our viewers always like watching it directly."
Jonas felt like the announcer had stolen Elwin's chance to tell them what Jonas had already suspected, though the announcer certainly didn't pull any punches with his making a statement that was a little informative, but mostly a waste of their time. Some of it was a pain, but at the same time, he couldn't argue that it at least kept giving him motivation to get through this. If only to get that announcer to shut up altogether.
"Are you okay?" Elin asked, pulling Jonas out of his thoughts.
He couldn't help but feel surprised at Elin trying to offer some comfort towards Elwin when Jonas had a feeling she wasn't versed in even experiencing loss like that. While he didn't doubt that Elin couldn't sympathize with Elwin, he didn't think that she'd be able to react so quickly here.
Elwin nodded, looking like he was lost. Which Jonas felt seemed rather strange, since Elwin had seemed to be so together up to this point. Or at least all the times he'd seen Elwin. While now it was clear he was struggling to keep himself together. Even though he understood the reasons behind it, it still felt strange to him, though he knew he shouldn't say anything about that.