Ratnatraya, the capital city of Nirvana. Mira rembered it as being quite a big city, and in the last thirty years it had only grown even more. A population of half a million seed like a very safe estimate considering its size.
The streets were well taken care of, with plenty of street lights to make them safe even at night. The brick buildings lining the streets were also reminiscent of late nineteenth century London, making it easy to imagine Sherlock Hols walking around there.
Only the enormous tournant arena stood out in the cityscape, next to which Mira and Bruce landed.
The scenery on the ground was also quite different, resembling the surroundings of a Colosseum. It was also filled with festive crowds, showing just how big of a deal the tournant was.
“Well then, I’ll leave the tournant in your hands. I don’t expect you to win if she takes part, but I hope you can make it up to the finals at least.”
“I’ll try my best…”
There were many reasons why Mira had stayed for a week in Valhalla, but the main one was to get Bruce ready to perform well in the tournant.
It was still too early to tell whether they had accomplished that, but at the very least, Bruce was far stronger than when they first t. At least it was fair to say that he had gotten past his limits.
Mira was hopeful that Bruce would do well, painting summoners in a good light once again. She had been barred from participating in the tournant, so all the responsibility to do that rested on Bruce’s shoulders now.
There was also the likely chance that ilin would take part, making it much harder for him to win. So Mira was just hoping for an impactful performance from his part to be satisfied.
“I’ll be seeing you around then. Also, here’s a farewell gift from , and don’t neglect your daily training.”
This was as far as they would travel together, as further ahead was the tournant registration desk. But before leaving, Mira gave Bruce a notebook.
“What…is this?!”
Bruce took the notebook and looked through it, his eyes widening with shock. It contained information on how to further expand the skills he had learned in Valhalla. As Mira explained, his training was not over after that week, and she had thought of a training plan he could follow even while the tournant was ongoing.
“Thank you very much! I promise I’ll make good use of your teachings and study diligently!”
There was still so ti before the actual tournant matches would start, so that notebook would allow him to keep training and beco even stronger when the ti ca.
He had suddenly found himself enlisting into the free-for-all division, but now even he was starting to believe that he had a chance. But more importantly, he was delighted to be able to learn even more from one of the Nine Wisen.
Since Bruce was going to participate in the tournant, he lined up to register. Mira went on a different way, quickly scouting the surroundings. Her main priority now was to find ilin, assuming she was there.
There was still a week before the preliminaries, so at least Mira had ample ti to search for her. Not to ntion that with all the strong combatants that already gathered, there already were streetfights on a smaller scale happening nearby.
Knowing her, there was a high likelihood she was already embroiled in so sort of 1 vs. 100 fight sowhere. With that in mind, Mira began looking for the more hot headed crowds.
(It looks like it’s been a while since the last ti there was a festival of this scale…)
There were countless stalls serving food or for other activities. Not everything was related to fighting either, there were quiz shows, fashion shows, orchestra performances, and things of the sort.
There was sothing for everyone to enjoy there, almost like a collection of all sorts of amusent spots.
Surrounded by all of that, it was only a matter of ti before Mira got distracted, regardless of how strong her determination to search was.
(Mhmm… There’s no better companion than this when watching!)
Mira stood in front of a platform, holding a plate with various pastries in one hand, and a fruit sour cocktail on the other. She was watching a Magical Knights showcase, as they unveiled their new autumn collection.
On top of that, they also revealed their brand new line of clothing nad Magical Lady, aid at a more mature audience, which was received with thunderous applause. Those designs had a more intellectual and grounded appearance, with only a hint of whimsical flourishes.
(Ah, that looks like sothing Luminaria would be into.)
Those were Mira’s thoughts as she watched the show all the way to the end.
“Mira! I knew it was you!”
With the show over, Mira recalled she was supposed to be searching for ilin and stood up, when soone suddenly called to her, soone who seed to know Mira.
Wondering who that was, Mira turned around and saw a blonde lady, fully clad in Magical Girl style clothes.
“Hmm…you’re…”
She seed familiar, but with Mira’s usual struggle at rembering faces, she could not pinpoint where she had seen that girl before. All Mira knew was that they had t sowhere.
Seeing Mira stunned in thought trying to rember, the lady decided to give her a hint to jog her mory.
“We sat together on the continental train, rember? I even took a picture of you for Magical Knights.”
She raised a cara and reenacted that mont. That finally made Mira rember, as she loudly exclaid, “Ahhh! Yes, I rember now!”
But it was not enough for Mira to rember the lady’s na, so she had to **Examine** the lady before acting like she just recalled the na and said, “Theresa, right?”1
“Aww, you rember? I’m so glad!”
Theresa smiled happily, then leaned in and lowered her voice to a whisper. “By the way…” she began, asking if Mira was the Spirit Queen who had recently been spotted in Sentopolly and Haxthausen.
“Yes, that’s .”
Seeing no reason to hide the truth, Mira replied confidently. That only made Theresa beam even more as she exclaid, “I knew it! Can I please take more pictures?!”
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