Now then, I wonder how they celebrate festivals in this world. I don’t really know what a showy festival should be.

    It would have been food, drinks, and merrymaking in the previous years, but......

    「Hey, what kind of showy festivals were there?」

    「Mikoshi [1]?」

    「No, this isn’t Japan.」

    「Bon Festival[2]?」

    「We can go with a dance, but that wouldn’t be Obon.」

    「Naked Festival [3]?」

    「That’s good...... no no, I’m kidding. Besides, isn’t the Naked Festival indecent?

    That was dangerous. When I was got a bit deep into a joke with Akane, Sophia and Maria gave me a cold look at the mention of a Naked Festival. That festival was basically a man’s festival.

    When we first met Marnie, she was wearing revealing clothing. Perhaps that’s why she wasn’t as hypersensitive about the word “Naked”.

    「In Yggurle Kingdom, every territory holds a harvest festival, and the Royal Capital holds a founding festival.」

    「Huh? Is there no festival to worship the Spirits?」

    「Now that you mention it, there isn’t one.」

    Sophia informed us that food stalls sold cheap food and drinks in the festivals held in Yggurle Kingdom, That was the same even in the Sanctuary, so I wonder if we should increase the scale.

    「Eh, that’s all? What about parades?」

    「Yes. That is all. It was said that a parade is held when there is a change of Kings.」

    「It was said...? Oh I see, there probably hasn’t been a change of Kings in several centuries.」

    The long-living Elven race were incredible.

    But it doesn’t seem like there were parades.

    When I thought about who would be paraded if it’s the Sanctuary, I had a bad feeling. I thought it would be possible if it was just Sylph, Undine, and the others, but......

    「I don’t know what kind of festivals Takumi-sama and Akane are talking about, but as far as i know, harvest festivals are the most typical. The population has increased since last year’s harvest festival, I believe it’s only natural the festival becomes bigger.」

    The advancement of science isn’t necessarily bad, but we shouldn’t be careless about its rapid advancement because of war.

    There were also things like pollution, which isn’t good for this world.

    「I will make everything related to the fireworks. I’ll make a golem to launch them.」

    「Sounds great.」

    「I don’t think we need to be that worried about it. Anything that happens in the Sanctuary wouldn’t be seen outside of it.」

    「That’s true. Still, I will make the fireworks by myself just in case.」

    As Sophia said, thanks to the barrier, what happens inside the Sanctuary isn’t visible. But I should be extra careful. We don’t know where information could leak from.

    Especially the loose tongues of low and intermediate ranking innocent Spirits. While there’s no worry over accurate information leaking, it was inevitable that the fact that something happened in the Sanctuary would come out.

    「Can you tell me what’s done in normal harvest festivals?」

    「「「............」」」

    Since I will be preparing the fireworks by myself, when I asked about how other places do their harvest festivals, everyone aside from Akane exchanged glances.

    Until last year, Mimir-sama raised a prayer to the gods before the offerings, and we simply had food, drinks, and made merry, but I wonder what happens in a formal Harvest Festival. Mimir-sama said that the harvest festival was like this in Yggurle Kingdom, but there were people of various races and countries here, after all.

    In the end, after asking various residents, there really are a variety of customs based on race and region.

    I wonder how we can find a middle ground.

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    Footnotes:

    1. A Mikoshi is a sacred religious palanquin. It’s carried by people from one shrine to another during festivals.

    2. Obon (お盆) or just Bon (盆) is a fusion of the ancient Japanese belief in ancestral spirits and a Japanese Buddhist custom to honor the spirits of one’s ancestors.

    3. Hadaka Matsuri (裸祭り, ‘Naked Festival’) is a type of Japanese festival, or matsuri, in which participants wear a minimum amount of clothing.

    4. 花火大会 – Fireworks festival / display dedicated specifically for the fireworks. As far as I know, there’s usually a competition for it by various groups that people go specifically for. As for the dedicated fireworks, imagine a show at the end of the night to close the festival.