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I still don't know who this person is. Someone is rigging the tournament, and now they are just going around stabbing people. Obviously, the most suspicious people are the Dark Elves, but I still don't know for sure.

It is strange, I don't know why I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt, but I will test them to see. It's real simple, for the knife to pierce someone, someone has to, y'know, use the knife. This doesn't necessarily mean that they're holding the knife, of course, there is a possibility that they have telekinesis or something. You never know with magic.

There is also the time before where I saw myself get stabbed before it happened. It's possible that that was an illusion meant to scare me out of the competition, and when I didn't leave, the person, whoever they are, decided the next course of action was to remove me by force.

After that, it's obvious that they want to win the competition, removing competitors and all, but I don't know if they are still in the competition, or taking out their frustration of losing out on the people who are still in the competition.

In order to eliminate the last team from my suspect list, I need to do one simple thing, use bait. If I can get them to "stab" a random member, I can trap them in an infinity room, like the thing I created to hide my house.

Of course, this only works if I trap the bai- I mean volunteer too, so I want to make sure that they are safe when I do this, and there is only one way to pull that off, I'm going to have to be the bait.

It's real simple, I will create a scenario that is perfect to eliminate me from the competition, and constantly repel anything coming towards me, that isn't the ground of course, and that will allow me to protect myself while dragging in the person who is doing all of this.

I walk into an empty room and pretend to fall asleep, yeah it's a little obvious as bait, but I hope it works... guess I'll wait, the competition has been put on hold after all. The two royal twin's spell fell apart after they were both injured, so they were revealed as royalty.

Because of this, the tournament had to be delayed while they deal with this chaotic situation that's come from all this stuff.

However, this also creates the perfect opportunity for this perpetrator to take advantage of the chaos and do something else, like killing me for example.

Almost just on cue, a knife bounces off of my gut and I surround the room with a border. Now the person can't escape from me! Muahahaha! No, I'm not the villain here!

Next up, I increase the gravity inside the barrier to immobilize the attacker and feel around until I find them, can't see an invisible person after all. I eventually find out where this person is, despite their struggling. You try moving in five G's, I'd be surprised if you didn't pass out, the only people I can think of who can handle that are jet and stunt plane pilots, and they need special training.

I put my hand on them and try to dismantle the spell keeping them invisible, there is a bit of fighting back, but I eventually break through and take down the spell. The person I see is surprising, or rather the lack of a person, it's a robot? Can robots use magic? Does that even exist?

Wait, the robot's waking up! What the heck? Now it looks like a human? It must be some sort of 3D projection to make it appear human, that explains how it got in here.

"Ugh... my head... wait! How are you still okay!"

"First of all, who sent you! You tried killing me! Wait, why am I asking a robot that, it won't just tell me that stuff... it's probably programmed not to do that. Well, now I'm just rambling... whatever!"

"What do you mean robot? Are you talking about me?"

"Wait, you don't know? How is that even possible?"

"I'm a normal Elf thank you very much, not some robot!"

"Uh... well... you see... I might have a little bad news for you."

So somehow someone made a robot with an AI so advanced it thinks it's a normal human being. That is both funny and depressing. I just can't do it! I know that machine tried to kill me, but I can't help but feel so bad for it!

"Uh, you'll never kill me loser lol!" Ugh, that was the stupidest thing I've ever said, but it avoided the robot point, so whatever.

"Anyway, why are you trying to kill me? Or anyone for that matter?"

"You eliminated me from the competition! Don't you remember! I would've made it much further if it wasn't for you!"

"What did I even do?"

"If you didn't place well during the talent show I would have made it further!"

"..." Is this person serious, first of all, how am I the only guilty one, literally five other teams beat you!

"Well, okay, how does that justify murder, and why did you try to kill me during the round before that!"

"What do you mean, that wasn't me."

Wait what. Okay now I just have more mysteries to work out, are you actually kidding me! This is just ridiculous at this point! Can one thing go right for once! Well whatever, I don't know what to do.

I tie up the robot and call the cops. By the way, if you want to know what the robot looks like, well in it's human form it looks like a normal elf, blond hair and blue eyes, and average height too. Honestly, kinda average in all.

Of course, the robot form looks different. She has cameras for eyes, and no they don't glow, it's a camera, and not a complicated one. It looks like the robot was created by a genius using scrap parts. That's the best way I can put it. The torso front was obviously created by a noob at welding, and the joints are exposed.

Other than that, AHHH this sucks and the tournament might be canceled, on the last round!!! Are you kidding me! I've gotta find a way to fix this! Not much you can do when royalty are injured though...