Today, the city was bustling with even more people than yesterday. The preliminaries - arguably boring in comparison - were over. The main tournament, the real competition, was here. Of the hundreds of contestants who originally signed up for this tournament, only sixteen elites remained.
"Welcome, everyone, to the Annual Qilian Regional Tournament!" the mayor of Qilian City, Zhen Yuhan, announced from the stage via his megaphone. It seemed that we had gotten here just on time.
As an aside, Nadeshiko ended up walking here with us together, much to my dismay. With her here, we couldn't talk about anything careless, so the whole walk was just silent, though the person in question herself didn't seem to mind whatsoever. The moment we arrived, however, she broke off from us and went over to another area of the crowd.
