Indeed, just as Yukinoshita Yukino had said, the cultural festival had only been held for a mere morning.
But except for the stage over by the auditorium where performances were still proceeding in an orderly fashion, the rest of Sobu High was a post-modern scene after a chaotic battle...
It seemed the previous wave of crowds had thoroughly trampled the stalls of the Sobu High students, dealing a huge blow to these students who had never entered society and were insufficiently prepared for all unexpected matters.
At least when Asakura was touring with Asagumo Chihaya earlier, he had already seen several stalls putting up signs that read "Sold Out."
At those kinds of stalls selling fried noodles or teppanyaki, the students responsible for cooking were sitting on the doorsteps, leaning against the walls. If this were an anime, they would probably have turned completely white as if the artist forgot to color them in—a look of being completely burned out, ready to pass away at any moment...
Not just the stalls, traces of the previous surging crowd could be seen everywhere on the ground. In many places, there were even piles of trash—because the number of visitors had been far underestimated, the trash cans provided on campus could not keep up with the rate of trash production at all, eventually leading to trash overflowing.
It was estimated that after the school festival ended, the Student Council would urgently arrange for students to conduct a major cleanup of Sobu High.
"Will President Amakusa be blamed by the teachers because of the arrangement failure?" Asagumo Chihaya said with some concern.
After all, because of Asakura, her personal relationship with that President Amakusa was actually quite good.
"Don't worry, although her preparations were indeed insufficient in some areas, the school should not have any objections." Asakura shook his head, quite certain.
After all, although the students all looked very tired, almost all the stalls had made money. Even the vending machines arranged by the school were a huge harvest, with most of the various items inside being bought out—it seemed there were quite a few tourists who had concerns about the students' cooking skills—this level of prosperity was something Asakura had never seen in previous cultural festival materials, a truly unprecedented success.
To be able to hold onto such a volume of tourists that far exceeded expectations under this premise (though the main reason was that Asakura and the others helped), the school side would not even have enough time to praise Amakusa Shino, so some trash or whatever wasn't a big problem.
"That's good..."
Asagumo Chihaya's mood seemed to have improved a lot as well: "Although it felt very rushed and busy, now that I think back on it, it was actually quite interesting."
"Want to lick a sugar painting?"
"You're really mean, Takuma-kun." The girl said with a feigned pout: "If it hadn't been for losing the duel with Yukinoshita, I would have been very confident in my nerves."
"But Yukinoshita didn't get the Holy Grail over there either, so even if it's a draw, what of it?" Asakura mediated with the look of a good old man.
"I ate a lot of sugar today, I feel like I need to exercise well..."
"Isn't there a folk dance tonight? I think the amount of exercise there should be quite large." Asakura said: "That kind of slow-looking social dance is actually quite energy-consuming to dance."
"Does Takuma-kun have experience in this area?" Asagumo Chihaya's eyes lowered slightly as she asked in a soft voice.
"If it's experience in stepping on a partner's feet, I have some of that." Asakura said seriously.
Even though it was all a matter of a past life.
"Why do you say that with such a proud expression?"
"Because I'm quite confident in my learning ability."
"That's not the point, right?"
"True..." Asakura nodded: "So Miss Chihaya, for the folk dance tonight, do you already have a dance partner?"
"No, Mr. Takuma."
"If I could dance the first dance with you, I would be very honored."
"Me too."
The two of them spoke in a serious tone with a bit of a translator's accent, and then they couldn't help but look at each other and laugh.
They walked hand in hand through the school festival campus—although Sobu High at this time looked like a delicate flower ravaged by a violent storm, already infinitely close to the feeling of fallen flowers and withered willows, a normal school festival actually didn't have many interesting parts. One would get tired of the same old things from childhood to adulthood. Instead, this kind of situation that was different from the normal state had a different kind of fun and freshness.
However, no matter how much you said about Sobu High's school festival, it was just stalls run by students, and the number and richness were honestly quite limited.
It didn't take much time to finish a round.
So in the end, Asakura and Asagumo Chihaya came to the auditorium, planning to watch the performances of various arts clubs and classes here for a while.
"Actually, in our class, someone originally wanted to perform a stage play..." Asagumo Chihaya looked at the student on stage who was reciting loudly 'Oh, Romeo, why art thou Romeo!' and whispered to Asakura: "But I thought that way—I wouldn't have a way to be with Takuma-kun, so I didn't agree to that proposal."
In other words, you can already cover the sky with one hand in the class to the point of being able to manipulate the voting results?
Asakura subtly complained in his heart.
However, he was quite appreciative of the girl's thoughts.
As for the performances on stage, they felt not very interesting—of course, not to say that all the performances were very bad, but most of the so-called stage plays were actually quite formulaic, feeling more like projects that those classes and clubs put together haphazardly to deal with the school festival. Only a few programs could be seen to have had a lot of thought put into them, allowing people to appreciate the fun within.
After watching for a while, Asakura, feeling a bit bored, focused his attention on his own system—before, he had only glanced at the rewards given by the task and hadn't confirmed what the new task was yet.
[Task: Discover and eliminate an Evil God Cult]
Asakura rubbed his chin.
Compared to the previously ill-defined 'Becoming Great' and the like, this task was actually a bit interesting.
At first glance, it looked like he was being asked to go and eradicate an evil cult, but there was actually a lot of nuance to it.
Just like that Happy Science cult that had produced the famous "number one male spearman of the Japanese server"—although they indeed made many families break up and even committed some events close to terrorist attacks, the main purpose of the high-level members of that thing was to amass wealth and have orgies. They didn't worship any deity at all, let alone an Evil God. Even if Asakura went directly and eradicated them, this task would probably not be completed.
As for whether encountering a real Evil God Cult would be dangerous...
To be honest, Asakura had already dealt with true Multiverse-level Evil Gods capable of performing dimensional reduction strikes on the world. By contrast, the deities of this world had hardly ever shown any so-called miracles. Most were just "winners by default..." let alone the native Evil Gods of the Rainbow Kingdom, who were even more pathetic—at most, they could only sit at the same table as a fox spirit.
So the real difficulty of this task was not eradicating the cult, but finding a cult that worshipped an Evil God...