The Cruel Battlefield
Actually, the reason behind all this was surprisingly simple.
"You know how festivals have always been important occasions for couples, right?"
Asagi explained the situation to the bewildered Yukina.
"The Haronin Festival is the biggest annual celebration on Kageno Island. During it, there's not only a fireworks show and a costume parade, but also a courage-testing event, matchmaking charms, fortune-telling, and many other unique activities from the Demon Race Special Administrative Zone. There's even a special blessing ceremony. Supposedly, if a couple prays together at the ceremony, they'll be able to stay together forever without ever parting. There are lots of events like that during the Haronin Festival."
Because of this, couples were usually extremely eager to participate in the various activities during the Haronin Festival. Other boys and girls who had someone they liked would also take the opportunity to invite that person to the festival, then confess their feelings to them.
To make matters worse, during the Haronin Festival, there were also people who specifically targeted this business opportunity by providing romantic, interesting, or heart-stirring venues. As a result, many people successfully confessed their feelings at the festival and smoothly began dating.
In view of this, the Haronin Festival held an especially unique significance for boys and girls in their youth. Most of them would choose to invite someone of the opposite sex out to have fun, and would eventually become a couple.
In that case...
"Do you think that guy Luo Zhen could spend such a festival leisurely?"
Asagi laughed maliciously, teasing Luo Zhen, who had been swallowed up by the crowd, like a true bad friend.
However, Yukina's keen instincts still detected the displeasure hidden beneath Asagi's schadenfreude.
There was nothing she could do about it.
"Because of that, Yao has always been