Chapter 77 Festivals
Theo and the girls arrived in an ice cream shop that was near the theater.
The theater was in a commercial street where all types of shops could be seen.
They arrived in the Ice Cream Shop and ordered their ice creams.
"What are you guys going to do next week, in the Autumn Festival?" Sayuri asked as she ate her sundae.
"My school is preparing a festival, you guys can come to see it," Aurora said with a smile.
Vivian, Megan, Umaru, and Carolla agreed with that.
The Yukihime High School was going to throw a super festival to celebrate the autumn.
They had a traditional festival that was famous in the city.
Aurora and her friends spent the last weeks preparing and rehearsing for what they would do.
Aurora's classroom would be doing a Manga Cafe.
Aurora asked Theo if she could dress as Kakashi from Naruto. It was her favorite character in the manga.
Theo helped her make her costume for the festival.
"Yes! I would love to!" Ayia said with enthusiasm.
All of them smiled and promised to visit Aurora's festival.
"But we have to go to the Flame Festival!" Ayia said suddenly.
All of them became excited about it.
The Flame Festival was the most famous celebration of autumn in Elffire City.
It happened in the northern part of the city where there was a park next to the Pedrarruna Forest.
The Pedrarruna Forest was painted by flames sakura at this time of the year, so it was the perfect place to do the Flame Festival.
The Flame Festival lasted for seven days.
There were all types of attractions on the seven days of the festivals.
But the most characteristic thing was the flame decorations all around the festival location, and all around the city too.
The Festival was the longest tradition in the city, tracing back to the time before the Yamato Clan and Pendragon Clan made the truce treaty.
It was said that the villages around the flame sakuras used to gather and celebrate autumn every year.
And the tradition lasted until the current time, and it became an even bigger celebration.
Every year the whole city visited the festival.
Most of the 5 million citizens went to the park next to the Pedrarruna Forest to celebrate.
Even Theo's restaurant would be open for only two hours every day.
And during the celebration week, Theo would introduce dishes in the theme.
"How about we go there on Monday?" June said.
"Yeah, the restaurant will be closed that day and we can enjoy without worrying too much." Theo said as he agreed with her.
"I agree with it too. Right, Shizu-chan?" Ayia asked with worrying eyes.
"Sure" Shizuka said after a while.
The truth was that Ayia and Shizuka had to travel at the end of the Autumn Week to Sakura City to their family celebration.
All members of the family needed to be present at the occasion.
Shizuka only agreed because they would go to the Flame Festival on Monday.
The two of them had to go to Sakura City Thursday.
They even already asked Theo for a leave from the restaurant for a few days.
Obviously, Theo agreed, he understood that the girls came from an important family, and with it, some family traditions had to be respected.
"So, it's decided! We will visit the girl's school festival. And Monday we will go to the Flame Festival!" Sam said with an excited voice.
They all agreed with enthusiasm, they enjoyed each other's company.
"Are you girls going with the traditional costume?" June asked afterward.
"Of course! It's going to be fun!" Sayuri said with shining eyes.
"I agree with Sayuri!" Ayia exclaimed.
"Hmm, I don't know…" June said with hesitation.
"Come on, June!" Sam said with pleading eyes.
They all looked at her with pleading eyes.
Even Vivian and the girls.
"Okay." June said with a defeated voice.
"Yay!" Ayia exclaimed.
They started talking about the festival.
The traditional food, the clothes, the decorations, the attractions.
"I love the flame decorations they put in the festival." Sam said.
"Yeah, me too! It's my favorite part of it!" June said with enthusiasm.
"We should take tons of pictures of it and with it!" Sayuri said with a smile.
"Hell yeah!" Ayia exclaimed.
They continued to talk and they did not even notice that hours passed and it was already late.
"We should go. Aurora has classes tomorrow." Theo said suddenly.
"Oh goodness. It is already super late." June said as she looked at the clock.
"Yeah, we should go. We have to work tomorrow morning." Sam agreed.
They came outside and three luxurious black cars were waiting on the street.
"That's us" Vivian said.
"Thank you for inviting us!" Megan said with a grateful tone.
Carolla, Vivian, and Umaru also thanked them.
All of them enjoyed hanging out with Theo and the girls.
It was so different than they were used to.
"It was our pleasure, girls." Ayia said with a smile.
The rest of them agreed with Ayia as they said goodbye to the girls.
Then they proceeded to head towards their cars.
They bade goodbye to each other and went back to their homes with a warm heart.
They could feel that their friendship was solid and that they enjoyed each other's company.
The next day arrived and Theo kept his usual routine.
He just arrived in his office to continue to project his house.
When he received a message from Ayia.
He opened it and it was the news article from the Daily Sakura Journal.
Theo opened and read it.
The more he read, the more he was surprised.
He did not expect that Ayia had connections with the Daily Sakura Journal.
It was important to notice that this journal was not only famous in the capital of the country but also all around the nation.
The online version of the journal had millions of followers all around the country.
And to Ayia have connections to be able to release the article in this journal.
Theo became surprised yet again.
What Theo didn't know was that Ayia's family was the owner of the journal.
So, she could order them to make an article about anything she wanted.
Theo was happy with the visibility of the case, he was sure that now the Fury Jump would be destroyed by the public.
He was even happier that his name was not mentioned in the article.
He did not want his name to be associated with the case, even if he was the victim.
Theo replied to Ayia with thankful text.
He appreciated all her help in this case.
They texted each other for a while, and afterward, Theo started to work on his house project again.
He was halfway done with the project.
After he was able to level up his engineer proficiencies, he came to know that some machines he was planning to put in the house had to be redesigned from the scratch.
Or it wouldn't be able to work.
Even the power grid, Theo had to redesign and increase the capacity. Because his house would have to have a constant supply of energy and he wanted to install solar panels to power up the house.
But to design a power grid that needs so much energy from solar panels had to be done with extreme care.
Even the design of the house itself had to be reviewed. Because after he leveled up his Architect Skill, he saw that the previous design he envisioned was flawed.
But Theo was able to pass through all these difficulties in the last 5 days.
Theo estimated that he would finish the project in the timeframe he expected, in other words in another 5 days the project would be done.
Theo was looking forward to seeing his dream house becoming true.