Chapter 31

ALLAN'S POV

I am currently watching the opening show of the tournament through the monitor in the waiting room with the other participants.

The opening show was amazing but the show is already coming to an end.

After the live was over the organizer Akihiro appeared and started to explain what the tournament will be like.

"Dear viewers, did you like the opening show? I hope it was to your liking."

"Well now let's talk about the swordsman tournament. Altogether we have 128 swordsmen participating in the tournament, each of them having different nationalities and sword styles from each other."

"The way the tournament will be organized will basically be 1 VS 1 battles where the winner of the match will advance to the next match."

"In the first round 128 will fight and only 64 will go on to the next round. Then 64 will become 32, then 16, then 8, then 4, and finally 2 will fight in the final."

"Each match will have a maximum duration of 10 minutes. If the match has not ended in those 10 minutes, the 7 judges who are hidden among the people in the audience will decide who will be the winner of the match."

"Each of the participants will be vying for the only prize of this tournament which is the cash value of 100 million dollars that will be awarded to the winner of the tournament."

"Now I will show everyone the order in which the fights will take place."

Organizer Akihiro explained about the tournament and soon after, the monitor image is replaced by a list showing the order of fights.

"I see. So I'll fight in the fourth match... While Shizuku Yaegashi will fight in the eleventh fight. It looks like we're going to face each other sooner than I thought." I thought as I looked at the monitor.

After that the organizer Akihiro called the first two participants to start the first battle.

I must say that the first fight is not impressive at all.

As I wasn't interested in the first fight I started to observe the other participants who were also in the waiting room.

Overall, 70% of participants are men and 30% are women.

The vast majority are in their 20s. Those who have passed their 20s like Shuuzou-san are very few, with the oldest participant being in his early 40s.

For those who haven't turned 20 like me and Shizuku Yaegashi there are less than 10 participants.

Among these 10 participants there was one that caught my attention.

He is a young man with blond hair and blue eyes, he has a lock of hair covering his face and he also wears glasses. He is dressed in a business suit and has a calm, elegant expression.

But what really focused my attention on him was not his appearance, but his aura.

Despite being very well hidden I could feel a faint familiar feeling...

It was holy power.

It was too weak to feel and most likely some spell had been placed to hide it but it was holy power, I had no doubt about it.

The blond young man looked in my direction and narrowed his eyes in my direction.

Probably he felt my magic power.

We both stared at each other for 30 seconds.

There was no animosity between the two of us. There was just a little curiosity and a desire to have a sword fight. Only that.

"It looks like this tournament will be more interesting than I expected." I thought a little excited thinking about the future.