Sharc 1:9

And if any mischief follow, then though shalt give life for life,
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
Exodus 21:23-25

Leprechaun knew he had committed great sins. He had to. Otherwise, punishment in the form of Sharc would not have been unleashed upon him. Leprechaun was on a one-way street to hell at Drastic Measures 3. God was punishing Leprechaun for his many, many sins. The man punishing for Him? Sharc.

There were four things in this world that nobody should be stupid enough to fight. Because they are forces that cannot be defeated. They may be controlled or put off for a while, but when one of these four forces decided it was time...it was time.

Nature. Look at the thunderstorm. You hear the rumbles of thunder in the distance. Then you see the flashes of lightning. You may even hear the breeze rustling the leaves, rocking movable objects. Then you'll hear nothing. And then it will be upon you. In a flash. Overwhelming and powerful. Destructive, possibly deadly.

God. Every day, people die. No pure human being has ever avoided death. Sharc will die. Leprechaun will die. Everyone in PIW will die. Every fan of PIW die. Every non-fan of PIW will die. Death rules all. There is no defeating the man who put the system in effect. Of all the things He can be blamed for, Death is the only one that holds any water. But everyone is just a character in this world anyway. Real, fake, everyone dies.

Fate. There is a greater mission we are all here for. What is it? Even the top one percent of our kind could not accurately explain for what purpose we are here. Test? Accident? Experiment? There are almost as many theories as there are humans. Some care, some don't, but the fact is, we are all on his planet, living and existing, for a reason. Things will happen to you when they are meant to happen to you, whether you're ready or not. If you recognize why everything happens, you may have some success in this existence. If you don't, you will be a failure.

Sharc. Every match is a war. Every day is a battle. Every enemy has a test. Every victim has a name and a face and a story, but they are still a victim. If not today, another day. Nobody escapes forever. They may avoid disaster for a day, a week, or even a year. But eventually the fate that Sharc has decided for everyone in PIW will come to pass.

Starting with Leprechaun.

In a variation on a scaffold match, Sharc and Leprechaun would battle on top of a cage. Tables, stacked two high, will surround the ring. The match will continue until one body falls and is bruised, if not broken.

It is not yet time for death or natural disaster. Just revenge.

'Our sense of revenge is as exact as our mathematical faculty, and until both terms of the equations are satisfied we can not get over the sense of something left undone.'
- Inazo Nitobe, Bushido

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