This is another overly dramatic scene, where Marianna, still alive but severely wounded, wants to 'test' Claude in combat to see if he's ready to face the Ten Wise Men...
Claude makes his best to make the scene sound as corny as possible. I bet if he simply said that he'd already beaten Marsilio easily, Marianna wouldn't have been so persistent.
Claude is still feeling some pressure about the battles our heroes going to fight: after all, he's the main fighter, and he needs to whack the enemy and protect the spellcasters behind, so he decides to go to the Battle Stadium by himself to see how well he can fight alone. On the way, though, he meets Marianna (remember her? The leader of the Nede Defense Force who covered the group's retreat from Fienal, that eveyone left for dead). Astonished at finding her alive, though badly wounded, Claude cannot believe his eyes, but he's even more surprised when she tells him to fight her. I think the two screenshots here do a good job at summarizing the scene, so we shall fast-forward to the Fun City inn: Marianna couldn't fight after all, as she fainted on the spot, and Claude brought her in a hotel room, because apparently there's no first aid facilities or personnel in Fun City (you'd think they should have those in the Battle Stadium... Weird Nedians).
This scene was a bit long-drawn, but the 'reward' for going through it is nice enough: Marianna is lying on the bed, conscious but still in severe pain, as they couldn't find a doctor yet, but she finds the strength to hand Claude a couple of battle accessories, one of which is extremely useful. The Slayer's Ring (the name alone makes enemies quiver in fear) makes a character's weapon hit 3 times in a single attack (although only the first hit is at full power), making it a deadly combination with the Eternal Sphere, as it pretty much guarantees that your enemy will be stunned by Claude's attack; you'll have to give up one accessory slot for it though, I had to unequip the Berserk Ring (considering Claude now goes berserk if any of his friends falls in battle, it's not much of a loss).
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