Mahora Festival Introduced
In classroom 3-A, the girls all sit as Negi begins to speak.
"Okay girls, as I'm sure most of you are aware that the Mahora Academy's School Festival is coming up." He tells them and a lot of them exclaim in excitement.
Fleur looks completely confused.
"Um, what iz a festival?" She asks.
They all turn to her.
"Um we didn't 'ave anything like zis at my old school." She tells them.
"Dear a festival is a grand school wide celebration!" Ayaka tells her.
"It's a fun event that allows students to show what we're all capable of!" A girl with a single ponytail named Yuna says.
"It's an excellent moment to establish a devious plot." Chao says to herself and laughs.
"That's not the plot of this saga." Saotomi tells her, making Chao a bit upset.
"I liked being a villain." She says.
Kazumi walks over to Fleur and puts her arm around her neck.
"And above all, a festival is the perfect place to be a reporter like us." She tells her. "Enough gossip to make up an entire newspaper!"
Fleur looks confused by everything going on as they all explain. Outside, numerous students, teachers, and citizens are readying the festival.
"A festival?" The Pyro Ghost reads a flyer. "Do schools like this really have such huge events like this annually?" He suddenly looks interested by something on the flyer.
On one of the stages that a club is working on, a leader of the working group looks mad.
"Hey you! Stop slacking off!" He yells at a boy that looks half asleep.
"Mmmm, I don't even go to this school, why am I working on this again?" He asks, a young teen with twin blades at his sides.
"Because you destroyed our progress by running through it!" The leader yells back.
"…" The boy is snoring now.
"Wake up!" The leader continues to yell.
Near the World Tree, an old man stares at the tree and smiles.
"So this is the magical tree I've heard of." He says and laughs. "We should find some real fun in this place."
He begins to walk away; another group of teens walk past him.
"Luc I know we're here to understand Japanese culture, but can't we at least have some fun!" A male teen with short red hair asks.
Another male with medium length chestnut colored hair turns to him.
"We're going to be here until the end of the festival Lyon, just stay calm." Luc tells him.
"Lyon? Staying calm? I'd sooner be damned to hell." Another male with long black hair says and laughs.
"Oh you want to go right here Vincent!?" Lyon exclaims; a pair of bladed claws extract on the back of his hands.
"Bring it lion boy!" Vincent exclaims as he draws a spear.
"Both of you stop! You're going to draw attention! And don't break those weapons!" Luc tells them. "It would be a pain to make another pair of those blades Lyon."
They both grumble and withdraw their weapons.
"Now then let's go find the girls." Luc says as they start to walk off.
In another part of town.
"You aren't down yet?"A young short teen girl asks a leading working student on a stall.
"N-No Miss Zettai!" He tells her, looking afraid.
"Now what are you so afraid of?" She asks and smiles at him.
She then suddenly slashes him down onto the ground using a horse whip.
"GAH!" The student cries out in pain.
His workers all gather around him, worried.
Zettai walks up to him and steps on his face.
"Hehe I don't see why you seem to enjoy upsetting me." She says with a creepy smile. "If you did it right to begin with you wouldn't get hurt." She then laughs before kicking him.
The students all look afraid of the girl.
"What are all of you looking at? Get to work!" She commands them, causing them to all run back to working.
Zettai continues to laughs sadistically.
Back in classroom 3-A, the girls are getting excited.
"What should we do for a theme this year?!" Makie asks.
"I suggest a haunted house!" Fumika, the younger twin, exclaims.
"We did that already!" Fuka, the older twin, tells her sister.
While everyone is talking about that, Fleur manages to sneak out.
"Ze girls 'ere are so 'yperactive." She says to herself.
"Aren't they just?" Evangeline asks, now next to Fleur.
"AH!" Fleur screams.
She laughs before walking off.
"Good luck surviving the biggest event of this school." She says, though not sounding sincere.
Fleur just looks more nervous than before.
Suddenly Fleur sees a familiar young boy running up.
"Huh? Izn't zat zat boy zat 'elped me with Blossom?" She asks.
He runs past her and into the classroom. She hears sounds of a struggle before he runs out; now dragging Negi with him.
"AH! Kotaro! Where are you taking me?!" Negi asks.
Fleur looks confused and scared.
"Maybe I'll fake being ill till zis festival ends." She says to herself.
Back in the streets, the boy who was sleeping earlier is now running away from the group of students that he was helping.
"Get back here!" They yell at him.
"Sorry! I hate to run but I love to run!" They boy says and laughs as he speeds off.
"Man he's fast!" The leader says.
They lose sight of him as they look around. The boy watches them from a roof top and laughs.
"Well that was fun. Hmm?" He sees a flyer and looks at it. "Heh now this might be more interesting."
Sitting at a café in the city, the old man from earlier is drinking tea while reading the same flyer.
"Well I suppose this might be worth my time." He says with a weak laugh.
Walking around the city, the group led by Luc is also reading the flyer.
"Heh this shouldn't be a problem." Lyon says.
"We have been involved in much worse I'm sure." Vincent says.
Meanwhile in the distance. A young man is struck down and sat on by Zettai as she reads the same flyer.
"Oh this will be a delight!" She cries in excitement and laughs.
"A fighting tournament?" Negi asks Kotaro, who shows him the flyer as well.
"Of course! We're going to have that fight this time!" Kotaro tells him. "It's an all ages tournament so even we can fight the stronger opponents!"
Negi thinks to himself and nods.
"Sure! I'll participate! It'll allow me to test my abilities again!" He says.
Both kids smirk at each other.
"I'll take the victory!" Everyone reading the flyer says at once.
Meanwhile, in a dark room.
"The tournament has been given to us to use." A figure says.
Another figure smirks.
"Perfect. Then we can monitor the best fighters in the battles." The figure has a female voice.
"I also took care of the other matters; we're well ahead of schedule." The other figure says, having a male voice.
They both laugh.