Letty and Pip find themselves in a margrave's gladiatorial dungeon, where they encounter Steve, an orobas, and a lot of other monsters imprisoned, but living quite comfortably, to entertain the human masses in staged fights. However, their easy life comes to an end when the margrave abruptly dies and his oldest son and successor decides to have all the monster gladiators killed. Steve assigns Letty to a team tasked to distract the new margrave's mercenaries while the other monsters escape. They succeed, but nearly end up killed themselves until Diaria arrives to disable the mercenaries. After their successful flight, Letty and Diaria resume their home-hunting journey.