Ieremia knelt down, until he was at eye level with the samurai's wife. "You lose," he told Ayumi, with his damnable smirk on his face.<br/><br/>He was familiar with the rules of the tournament, having learned those along with his little crash course in the island's poisonous plants. Combatants fought until one couldn't continue to fight, and this usually resulted in a death. However, he also knew that the man running the tournament, the shapeshifter, had mentioned casually to some of the Outworld fighters that they could claim the fighters they defeated in combat. The vampire planned to do precisely that.