"Stop desecrating the word Hope! You sicken me, Kupo!" Seeing how Komaeda didn't do anything to save himself, both him and the disguised Sree got taken in a Tornado. "You've given up, your hope is nothing but an illusion, despair hidden under the shape of hope, Kupo!"

The tornado moves by one of the endless pits and drops Komaeda in it. Sree has a chance to escape this fate. Komaeda is out until the end of the battle. The dreadful pit is actually... Not a pit at all. It just teleports him and he finds himself outside of the arena and can watch the battle unfolds through the energy walls, though the others can't see him. But from the perspective of everyone in the arena? He's fallen and is gone.

Needless to say, she didn't pay attention to Vax and Max as this happened, and opened wide eyes as Vax stole her crystal. All the tornadoes died off at once.

"Kupo?? My Crystal?!" She looked around and flailed panickedly. "Where is it? Where have you taken it!"