A week later...
The subway doors slowly opened, and Cheng Tian and Su Han stepped off hand in hand.
"Let me see... It looks like all of Nanhe Province has been celebrating the Harvest Festival lately!" Cheng Tian scrolled through the notifications on his phone. "It looks pretty grand... Want to stay here for a couple of days and join in?"
Su Han smiled and nodded. "Sure!"
After finding a random hotel nearby and checking in, Cheng Tian began searching Baidu for the Harvest Festival's schedule of celebrations.
Ignoring several entries such as [Villagers loot Nanyang Music Festival venue bare], [Went out for a ten-minute bathroom break, came back to find my place robbed], and [Tires removed in five minutes: expert makes an appearance at Nanhe Music Festival venue], Cheng Tian finally found an entry about the Harvest Festival.
"Mm-hmm, it's pretty similar to how it was in the anime."
The Harvest Festival was a holiday established to celebrate a bountiful grain harvest. In the real world, it was held twice a year, once after the second grain crop was sown and once after the harvest. Cheng Tian and Su Han had arrived in time for the first.
The Harvest Festival's biggest attraction was the evening performance featuring the Pokémon Flute. These days, people had begun celebrating with electronically synthesized or prerecorded Pokémon Flute music.
When the Pokémon Flute played, Snorlax would dance along to the music. This was a prayer for a good harvest that year.
In short, that was roughly how the first Harvest Festival went.
The evening celebration happened to be today. They could stay here for the day and continue their journey tomorrow.
"Our supply of Pokéblocks happens to be running low, too," Su Han said. "Let's go down and stock up!"
"Are you two