🩸SCENE: The Glass Chamber—Central Viewing Hall | Season 2, Episode 1—"The First Game” The setting is cold and sterile but illuminated in bl...

The setting is cold and sterile but illuminated in blood-red and sapphire-blue lighting. A holographic board flickers behind Emmanito and Juancho as they stand side by side, draped in their dark ceremonial robes, watching the 490+ new players already gathered in the lower arena.

CASTOR (leaning back, watching through the elevated platform window): "The betrayal of their bloodline must be corrected. Let them carry the price of their parents' disloyalty."

JUANCHO (stepping forward to the edge of the glass floor, smirking): "Attention players... Before the first game begins, we bring you a gift: ten more lives to compete and ten more heirs to treachery."

EMMANITO (unfolding the paper Castor handed him earlier, his voice cold but elegant): "These are not ordinary contestants. They are the children of the very ones who once sat where the VIPs now reside. Their blood turned away from us, but fate, oh fate… brings them back."