Kawaii princess's Arc

Chapter 47 of 54

Pinned against the glass, Kawaii Princess watched the rival's iron obelisk above the field pour blue flame down in steady sheets. The chains around it glowed brighter with each pulse. Her dome fogged again where a follower's hand slipped. She could not stay inside the wall of bodies and still win the crowd. She called for the frost plates stacked near the door. Her followers passed them hand to hand and pressed each layered slab of ice and stone flat against the panes. The plates held the cold on their own. One by one, palms came free. She stepped out into the open. The luminous dome behind her swirled with frost and heat vapor, holding its shape against the rival's heat. The head scout looked up from the boundary and marked the dome standing. The crowd turned toward her as the plates clicked into place along the inside wall. She climbed onto the platform at the dome's base, hands free, stage intact. Above, the obelisk still burned — but her followers were no longer her walls. They were her audience again, and the broadcast lens swung back to her.