The Spellless Sculpture Contest was held in the square in the center of the Ice City, around the Ice Palace, and the audience moved chairs around the side. Although not everyone in the town came to watch the game, it is estimated that there were more than 1,000 spectators, and the crowd together gave the illusion of bustling people, as if there were still many human beings - but when you think about it, it is actually only the entire number of people in an elementary and junior high school thousands of years ago.

"The Mana Carving Contest is about to begin, so please wear your badges and assemble in the venue. The duration of the competition is four hours, starting at 2 p.m. and ending at 6 p.m. Repeat......"

The loudspeaker on the ice palace sounded, so we cleaned up the remaining food in twos and threes, and then put the snowflake badge on his chest as the identification of the participants, and stood up amid the cheers and encouragement of Rina: "Mika, Sa, you have to come on." And Ori and Mamura, it's up to you! It must not be at the bottom! ”

"Don't worry, Rina you can sit here with peace of mind, we will definitely be champions."

Mika puffed up her chest and reached out to pat her flat chest, with a confident smile on her face, which looked quite imposing against the background of the rabbit ear cap on her head. Shaze pursed her lips and didn't speak, she looked a little uneasy, always reaching out to play with the pointed cat ears on her head, and her eyes kept wandering in the crowd.

"Okay, it won't be at the bottom."

I can't boast like Meijia that I can win the championship, but it's not very likely that I will finish last, after all, the opponents are only kids who are no older than seventeen, of course.

All in all, the goal is not to be on the championship, but at least not to be at the bottom. According to my observations and inquiries over the past few days, it is not very difficult to achieve this goal. Because there are six teams participating in the team competition, except for our own one, the other five teams have all practiced on the east side of the river.

I took a rough look at the results of their practice and found that there were only two teams that could be called opponents, while the other three were probably just playing with the idea of having fun.

This can be seen from the carved finished product style, if you want to participate in the competition, then the choice of the carving style must be carefully pondered, after the selection of a suitable style, the selected carving style to practice is a rigorous attitude.

Of the other five teams, only two of them practiced a certain style of carving, and the other three only carved whatever they wanted, and sometimes even separated, with each member carving their own.

In terms of attitude, those three teams are amateurs, even if they have participated in previous competitions, but this is not magic carving, and if the skills in their hands are not practiced, a year is enough time to be rusty, which can be seen from the fact that their practice products are always out of shape, or mutilated.

The two teams with the right attitude are strong rivals, both of whom are older than us and who have probably competed in previous editions. In addition to this, their exercises are extremely well completed, with very few incompleteness, and there are almost no flaws to be found if you don't look closely—from this point of view alone, we are already quite inferior, after all, the only work we used to practice can be called the finished product this morning.

After judging the merits of my friend and foe, I finally chose the third place as the target, which is not a loss.

"Mamura, let's go. Don't be nervous, just think everyone is a bug. ”

Patting Mamura's slightly trembling shoulder, I looked at the yarn again, and was about to say a word of comfort, but she nodded and smiled at me: "Fold, I'm okay." It's a little exciting. ”

"It's disgusting to see everything as a bug, and I'm scared."

Mika complained dissatisfied, she didn't have an ordinary aversion to bugs. So I smiled apologetically at her: "Then you can think of it as flowers and trees." ”

"I'm not nervous."

She pursed her lips, as if to show her courage, and walked forward first. I shook my head and smiled, and followed along with Sawa Mamura. At the suggestion of the person in charge of the town office, we stood on the left side of the main entrance of the Ice Palace, and the building facing us was the building that spiraled upwards in a circle.

Mika had said that she would go to the high platform with a dome above the building to see the stars, but unfortunately the past few days have only been during the day, and her wish to see the stars will not be fulfilled until the last day of the Snow Festival, which is tomorrow night.

Of course, according to the weather conditions of the past few days, the sky has been obscured by thick clouds for most of the time, and this wish must be useless.

In addition to us, several other participating teams were also placed in their respective positions, which happened to divide the area around the Ice Palace into six equal parts, and each team occupied a share. While it is convenient for the audience to watch the game, it can also judge the support rate and level of the participating teams from the number of spectators gathered. However, this method can easily cause psychological effects on the participants, making the slow progress of the team play abnormally.

"Fold, Mom and Dad are here! Go for it! ”

As soon as we were seated in our place, I heard my mother's familiar voice, looked in the direction from which the voice came, and saw that my parents were sitting in chairs facing us, and the two of them snuggled together, smiling and waving in this direction. Mika and Mamura's parents could be seen nearby, and they were all waving their hands and cheering loudly.

I waved my hand over there, and then glanced around the rest of the audience, and with my sharper and sharper eyesight, I easily found some familiar people in the crowd. They are Rina, Shizue and Hoko, the children of the early season, Takashi Takeda and Takeuchi, and even Miss Tomiko, who claims to be the grandmother of Satoru Asahina.

In it, Rina was alone with a chair because her parents weren't there. Jing didn't need to say much, and sat with Suizi inseparably as in the past.

In the early season, the children sat in the front row, and the appearance of standing up and waving was too conspicuous. Takashi Takeda and Takeuchi were standing in the back, looking around, not like they were watching the game, but more like they were looking for someone.

I paid special attention to it, and noticed that the two of them quickly walked up to Ms. Tomiko, who was sitting at the edge of the crowd, and the two of them stood and said something, and then turned away. Before leaving, Takeuchi waved his hand in this direction, clenched his fist and made a cheering gesture.

"Okay, you're Team No. 2, all the members are here, right?"

The head of the town office was a middle-aged man who walked over with a stack of papers, and behind him was another younger man who was using mana to carry the tools and protective gear used in the competition. I took my eyes back from the audience and nodded at him, "Well, all four of us are here." ”

"What's your name?"

He flipped through the paper in his hand and turned it around us with a scrutinizing gaze.

"Shiraishi Ori, Rokuchisa, Hashimoto Mamura, Hasegawa Mika."

I answered truthfully, and I understood his intentions for safety and fairness.

"Both parents are here to watch the game, right?"

"Yes, but Sa's mother is in the hospital, so my parents are the guardians for the time being."

"That's right."

He nodded, glanced at the yarn, and showed a look of sudden realization: "It turned out to be a child of the Six Senses family, is your mother going to give birth to a second child?" ”

This was obviously said to the yarn, and it was inconvenient for me to interface, so I shut up. In my heart, I felt more and more curious about Miss Rokuchi, and many people in the town seemed to know Miss Rokuchi, was it really just because she was a genius in magic power at the beginning, and that red hair was highly recognizable?

It's not that there's anything unreasonable, after all, the entire Shenqi 66 people add up to only more than 3,000 people, and the name of a genius plus a conspicuous red hair is enough to make most people remember it deeply, just like the Dysprosium Wood Star.

But somehow, I always feel that Miss Rokuchi seems to have an extremely mysterious aura on her, and why did the person in charge of the town office in front of me suddenly know that Miss Rokuchi is going to give birth to her second child?

Although I have a lot of questions in my mind, out of fear of Miss Liuzhi, I don't plan to explore her secrets—it's still the same sentence, and I will know sooner or later. If you shouldn't know, you don't need to know.

"Yes, my mother was hospitalized in the maternity hospital some time ago."

Yarn's attitude towards unfamiliar people is polite and reserved, and she shows a shallow smile and lowers her head slightly, causing the cat ears on her head to droop a little.

"That's right, every generation of your Six Senses ......"

Before he could finish his words, he seemed to realize something, and the rest of his words came to an abrupt end, and he vaguely changed the subject: "The game is about to start, you all wear protective gear, be careful not to get hurt." ”

"Got it."

"Okay."

……

Seeing that we responded, he shook his head and walked to the next team.

When we put on our protective gear and checked all the tools on the ground to make sure that there were no missing or damaged ones, a piece of ice was delivered to us, which was similar to that of the practice.

The person in charge of transporting the ice cubes was the one who had sent us the tools before, and he first used his magic to create a concave surface on the icy ground that matched the shape of the ice cubes, and then controlled the ice cubes suspended in the air to slowly fall on the concave surface, firmly embedded in them, and prevented the ice cubes from slipping.

"Stay safe."

After saying that, he walked away. Soon after, the overhead radio rang to announce the start of the race: "Pre-race announcement, if you make a mistake during the race, you can apply for a replacement of the ice." When the game time is over, put down your tools immediately and stop any work at hand. I now declare the competition officially open. ”

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