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About three days in the real world before the actual start of the competition, Adrian is suddenly contacted by Mariposa as she is now ready to claim the help that he needed from Adrian. The one who is being asked for help is shocked because he learned from Vayu that Mariposa is actually competing for the Japanese team.
He knows that some of the national players are forbidden to actually play the game while they waited for the competition. It seems that the restriction is not placed on the national players of Japan as they are still playing the game until the last day before the competition.
In actual fact, Atlas inc. did not ban any of the national players from playing the game before the competition. The data in their accounts will still be replicated for the fight but their game characters will have a freeze when it is loaded into the gaming pods for the competition.