The trio was now having afternoon tea time inside the academy headmaster's room. After some idle banter, Lucia finally asked the question that she and Cecil wanted to ask.
"Mama, why are you here?"
"Hmmm...Well, mommy wanted to see how her children were doing~"
"Uhm... mother, is that really all?" Cecil asked unconvinced.
"Hmhm~ well, basically. I also wanted to inform you two about the reason for the upcoming tournament and why the changes."
"Oh...okay."
The two listened on in silence. Basically, the reason for the tournament's changes this year was because apparently on the 1st day of the New Year, the Tempest Kingdom of the Human Continent, Midgard, had suddenly launched a brutal assault on the beastmen kingdoms near the borders.
It was an awful assault that completely caught the
