Chapter 178: The Guardians

After exploring all of the stalls in the New year festival, Kraftvoll and his companions decided to go to the stands owned and managed by Aredhel and the other girls. 

When there are only hours before the Fireworks event, Kraftvoll and his two sworn brothers decided to go on their way to the venue of the event so that they would have time for their preparation and practice.

"See you later!" said Kraftvoll to the girls while he and his sworn brother departed to the venue of the event they were going to join.

"Good luck!" The girls shouted while the boys go on their way. The boys happily went on their way to the event after hearing the girls.

The girls decided to stay behind so that they can still sightsee more at the festival. Unlike Kraftvoll and the other boys, they decided to not join any of the events at the festival.

If they join the boys now, they don't have something to do there so they decided to just follow them later on. After exploring the New year festival for hours earlier, they were still unable to visit all the stores so they did not hesitate to be left behind by them.

Time passed by very quickly. The three girls, who were exploring all the stalls at the festival, decided to go on their way to the main event of the festival. It will start any minute now, after all.

Before going on their way to the venue of the Fireworks festival, the girls decided to invite the three that were managing their stall.

Without any hesitation, Aredhel, Sabina, and Adele decided to close up their stand to watch their classmates. Sabina was the fiancee of Godwin so she would not want to miss it.

These six girls decided to come together. After arriving at the venue, they realized that they were too late because the center part of Verrater Academy's Central Park was already fully packed.

Despite the situation, the girls still decided to go inside these big crowds just to watch the event. They wanted to give their support to their dearest friends so they persist even though it was hard to do it.

Shortly after the girls had found a nice place to watch the event, the master of ceremonies entered the stage.

He was the master of the ceremonies who led the previous yearly tournament where Kraftvoll and the others had joined a few months ago.

He started talking as soon as he reached the podium. All of the people that were watching the event started to become wild when they saw the emcee.

He said with his sound-amplifying seishin device, "Happy new year! Greetings to you, students of our beloved Verrater Academy! We're gonna start the main event of our New Year Festival for the 1210th year of the Nidriege Welt continent!"

All of the students who were spectating the event suddenly cheered after the emcee's opening statement.

The Verrater Academy decided that no one will be giving any opening remarks for this event. Midnight was upon them so they immediately started the competition without any shenanigans.

The emcee announced, "To start the competition, let's welcome the fifteen contestants of this year's Fireworks competition!"

All of the audience became even wilder than before. All of them cheered for the students that they were rooting for.

After the announcement of the emcee, all of the fifteen students entered the stage one by one.

The last three contestants who entered the stage were Godwin, Prince Aragorn, and Kraftvoll respectively. Kraftvoll and Godwin showed a very bright smile while they were entering the stage.

All the contestants of this competition have their specific contestant number, Kraftvoll had the contestant number 15.

Behind Godwin was his two sworn brothers. He said to the two of them, "It's going to start now! Do your very best, First Brother and Second Brother! Or else, I would take the first place myself!"

Kraftvoll just smiled at Godwin's words. He was looking forward to the performance of his two sworn brothers.

Although Kraftvoll decided to not say any words, Prince Aragorn decided to respond to his Third Brother.

He said, "If you manage to get that place, then I will be beyond the first place!"

Usually, Prince Aragorn was a quiet and not a showy person. But deep inside, his true personality has a little arrogance to it. He had a great pride as part of the royalty of the Fhinnuisce Kingdom.

When he was dealing with his two sworn brothers, he was not hesitating to show them all of his personalities that he was hiding from others.

After all of the contestants managed to enter the stage, the emcee decided to introduce the judges of this competition.

He said with his sound amplifying seishin device, "Everyone, let's welcome this year's judge for this special new year event of our academy. Please welcome, the highest person in our academy, Headmaster Wylris von Schwert!"

Everyone clapped after the announcement of the headmaster's name. He was one of the most renowned figures of the Verrater Academy. That's why he was revered by all of the students and teachers that were under the wings of the Verrater Academy.

After Headmaster Wylris entered the stage, he waved a little to all of the students and teachers that were spectating. After doing that, he immediately sat in the middle of the seats that were given to the judges for this competition.

The emcee continued his introduction. He introduced the other two judges of the current competition. He said, "Everyone, let's welcome the other two judges of this competition. Here are Teacher Zorn and Teacher Liebe!"

After the emcee said his introduction, two teachers entered the stage. Every student at the cheered and clapped as they did to the headmaster of the academy.

Every student venerated this teacher as they did to the headmaster.  No one in the academy did not know about them.

These two teachers were the only seishin practitioners, except for Headmaster Wylris, amongst the teacher that were at the rank of Lower Seishin Overlord.