The Daihasei Festival was a seven-day athletic meet jointly hosted by every school in Academy City each September. During the event, Academy City opened certain areas to ordinary tourists, while live broadcasts of the competitions were shown to viewers around the world. It could be considered Academy City's most important festival.
Many ordinary people came to watch as well. Since overly powerful abilities were not permitted, the spectators would not be harmed. Plenty of people wanted to see battles between espers up close.
Of course, it was all for promotional purposes—to attract more children to Academy City to study and develop their abilities. After all, aside from homeless children, everyone else was out in the open. They could not conduct those inhumane experiments.
For Academy City's schools, it was a matter of benefits and reputation, one of the most important aspects for them. For Chen Fan, of course, it was about prize money.
Last Order, Index, and Himegami Akisa were all cheering for Chen Fan. Kamijou Touma had already been completely abandoned by Index; she did not expect him to win.
Of course, they were not the only three cheering for Chen Fan. Saten Ruiko and Uiharu Kasumi had come along to support him too.
The group ran into one another outside the venue, along with Misaka Mikoto and Shirai Kuroko.
"Chen Fan, are you on the White Team or the Red Team?" Misaka Mikoto asked.
A smile appeared on Chen Fan's face. "What, you want to know which side I'm on? Are you afraid you won't be my match?"
Seeing Chen Fan's smug expression, Misaka Mikoto said angrily, "Are you going to tell me or not? It's just that abilities with an interference value over 5 aren't allowed, but your ability is Vector Manipulation! In a sports competition like