Chapter 286: The Additional Participating Nations, and the Opening Announcement

Preparations for the festival are steadily progressing.

The initial plan was to hold a festival for two days, but it has now been stretched onto four days. Their reason for that is due to the peoples request of wanting to see, not just one tournament, but other tournaments as well.

Certainly, the finals for the shogi and the martial arts tournaments take place at the same time in the same day, which is something sacrilegious in some sense.

Because of that, the schedule now is:

First day:

Opening ceremony

Baseball tournament (first match)

Second day:

Baseball tournament (including finals)

Shogi tournament (Preliminaries)

Third day:

Shogi tournament (Finals)

Martial Arts Tournament (Preliminaries)

Fourth day:

Martial arts tournament (including finals)

Closing ceremony

Something like that.

Even so, it would still be difficult for the participants of each tournament to visit the other venues if they win their matches.

In addition to that, other countries have applied for participation in this festival.

Our initial plan was to basically invite just the members of the East-West Alliance, but the Kingdom of Paluf isnt our ally yet. Since thats the case, how can we ignore other countries? It was then decided to send written invitations to the kings of countries whom we had contacted with before, just in case.

The said countries include Hanock, Ferzen, Lail, Zenoasu, and Elfrau.

As for Ishen, I sent a tentative invitation to Ieyasu Tokugawa-san since I really had not met their king (that is, the emperor). After all, Tokugawa-san is the ruler of Ishen in all but name.

Honestly speaking, I just sent those letters with a feeling that It may turn into trouble if I dont invite them. They probably wont come either way, but I definitely didnt expect that all of them would accept the invitation.

They might very well be thinking that they may hurt Your Majestys mood if they refuse your invitation, in which you will then invade them with frame gears(Nicola)

That is the input of one of the Vice-Commanders of our household, Nicola-san. You know I wont do something like that, right?!

Moreover, those countries will even be sending their knights and martial artists to the martial arts tournament. All of them are referred by their respective kings, though it seems like the King of Ferzen himself plans to participate in the tournament.

Which reminds me, that person is an avid collector of weapons Hes a muscle-b