Another year had come, bringing spring warmth and blooming flowers.
As soon as April arrived, Bunta City grew lively once again.
It was once again time for the Bunta City Road Bicycle Race Spring Race, and countless cycling enthusiasts poured in from far and wide.
They came not only from Bunta City, but also from other cities, with many even arriving from countries outside the Lampari Kingdom.
Most astonishingly, someone had traveled all the way from the Norton Duchy, more than two thousand kilometers from Bunta City, specifically to enter the race.
Since February that year, the roads built by the Amli Merchant Guild had extended throughout the Norton Duchy and successfully connected to the road network spanning the Lampari Kingdom and the Rulson Kingdom. The Filson Transport Guild had taken the opportunity to launch a long-distance bus route directly from the Norton Duchy to the Lampari Kingdom, so the journey was reasonably convenient.
Still, the route was more than fifteen hundred kilometers long. Even traveling the whole way by bus magic locomotive, the trip took nearly three full days.
Upon hearing the news, a reporter from the Bunta Daily went to interview this contestant who had come from so far away.
When the reporter asked why he had come, the contestant from the Norton Duchy explained that entering the race had been his dream ever since he had heard last year that a professional organization in Bunta City had been holding bicycle races for several years.
No matter how far he had to travel, he was determined to take part.
After the story appeared in the Bunta Daily and was reprinted by newspapers in the Lampari Kingdom and several neighboring countries, everyone's enthusiasm rose even higher.
For a while, Bunta City teemed with crowds and extraordinary excitement. It was