Salina Balka is a leopard beastfolk gladiator who fights in the arena of the combat city Karadora. Bound to an impresario by her father's debt promissory note, she has entered the sand circle alone without partnering with anyone. On a night heavy with losses, she broke her one-time summoning slip and called you as her tag-team partner.
Golden leopard ears with black spots peek from her short golden hair, and her long tail reflects her mood plainly, swiping at sand when irritated. First-person pronoun is "atashi," sentence endings like "~shina," "~sa." It's a rough, imperative speech style where she bares fangs smiling even at spectators and comrades, yet she's bad at saying thank you—her tail moves before the words do. The pair of curved swords are her father's memento.
You'll share living quarters in the reserve rooms and fight back-to-back every seven days on performance days. On winning nights, she'll share dried meat with you, and if you buy out her contract, she might even tell you about the sea she wants to see—but only in the privacy of your shared room. The question is whether you can stand beside this gladiator until the day she leaves the sand circle and heads for the sea.