Tiki Lowell vs Chika Igarashi

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As Chika tried to roll towards the ropes, Tiki got to work to make sure the Raven Knight stayed put. She would force the smaller woman back on top of herself, making sure her hand was out of reach with the floor below, ensuring there was no way for Chika to drag the two of them to the ropes for a break. With the greenette's legs tightening around the Joshi's midsection, Chika lost any way to get oxygen into her body.

"Ghhhgk..."

Chika's vision started to blur, as the ref approached her, checking on whether the Raven Knight wanted to quit...or would choose to be knocked out for the fall...

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If there was an angle of escape that Tiki had left open with her Rear Naked Chokehold, Chika did not seem capable of finding it. The ref could read the writing on the wall, practically hovering over the two of them to wait for the smaller woman to submit, or failing that, pass out. Chika had grown too weak to resist by now, so Tiki didn't care in the moment what the joshi would end up doing. All Tiki was focused on was continuing to squeeze for as long as it took until the referee told her to stop, which shouldn't be much longer.

On a macro level, looking ahead to round 3, Tiki did hope that Chika would ride this out to a KO. It would mean the Lightweight spent more time in the hold taking damage, and obviously, going unconscious would always be worse in the long term than tapping out and staying awake. So if Chika did want to be prideful and refuse to tap, then all the better for Tiki.

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The ref, tired of asking the obvious question, would finally try and check on the Raven Knight trapped in the hold. Lifting her arm up, Chika no longer had strength to keep the arm upright. Another time, another fall...

...and the third one...

...and the arm would fall down immediately.

"SHE IS OUT RING THE BELL!" the ref would announce, waiting for Tiki to release the hold. From there, she had to check whether Chika would be fit to wrestle the final fall...or whether the contest would end here and now...

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And just like that, Tiki had tied the match. Chika had spent the entire first round surviving and grinding until she was able to eke out a lead over the veteran. But then as soon as she went down, Tiki turned it up, and brought the match to 1-1 in dominant fashion, leaving the Lightweight unconscious on the mat. It left the greenette feeling very good about her chances for the final round.

Round 2 really had gone as perfectly as it could have for Tiki. It was always a risk amping up to full blast before the final round of a multi-round match. If you didn't win fast enough, you'd get burnt out and be a sitting duck later on even if you won the round you ramped up for. But with Chika on tournament point, Tiki couldn't afford to hold back, and the call paid off. She should have no issue with taking the time to rest up a bit between rounds, and then come at the Raven Knight with just as much intensity as in Round 2. The ref was checking to see if the whole match needed to be called, but Tiki knew that there was no way she hurt Chika badly enough for LAW to ever let the ref call off the deciding round of a tournament final.

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Typically, a knockout under a match conditions like this was an instant match ender...but the contract for the match stipulated that a KO wouldn't end this particular match outright, for the sake of determining a clear victor. Only if the loser of the previous fall was unable to continue the match would the extra point be awarded to their rival, and declared victorious.

"Chika, can you hear me?"

"...mgm..."

She stirred, opening her eyes as light from above flooded into her too quickly. Once she could see the ref's face, next was the matter of the crowd...sounding way too loud for the Joshi. Once her ears managed to make out the ref in the sea of voices, she could hear a question:

"Can you continue?"

"Grrrh..."

The round was a complete disaster for her...one that she wouldn't let the match end on. Still, it was difficult to push her arms underneath herself, trying to get herself to at least a seat...but with effort, she managed to get strength into her aching body. Slowly, she got back up to her feet, before telling ref a sharp answer:

"Yes..."

The ref could see the Raven Knight was still weak after the knock out...but would be satisfied by the answer, checking with Tiki whether the greenette was read for the final round...

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Yeah, that looks about right, Tiki thought as Chika confirmed that she would finish the match. While the veteran certainly wouldn't have refused winning two rounds at once to win the tournament, even she didn't want such an unsatisfying ending as the match to be cut off like that, much less anybody else involved. At most maybe a non-fan watching at home who was getting their actual programming cut off by this match running long because of the first round would want that.

"I'm ready," Tiki confirmed when the ref came over to check her. Obviously a much less thorough check than had been received by the woman who had just been unconscious, but they still had to ask. Tiki definitely felt good about the third round. The first had been a long, slow grind that she had only just barely lost, while the second round had been a total domination victory once the veteran kicked it up with the tournament on the line.

Once the ref gave the okay, Tiki stepped forward, arms crossed over her chest as the bell rang, starting the final, deciding round of the LAW MILF tournament. Tiki widened her stance and held out her arms. "Are you going to come and get me," she said. "Or do you still need a breather after the last round?"