| Ostensively a prime-time contest between various martial arts experts to win the Gold Cloth, old Kiddo had some idea of what was going on and arranged the games as a reason to train the Bronze Saints in support of Athena -- for ulterior motives we'll learn about later in the series. If events had transpired as he'd planned, the winner of the Gold Cloth would have been one of 'his' Bronze Saints, and thus devoted to Saori's protection. |