this day
　I moved to the frontier city of Batcombe in the morning.

　This is because we have entered the period of the great martial arts tournament to be held in Batcombe.

　This big martial arts tournament was
　It's a convention that Batcombe regularly hosts.
　I had heard about it even when I was still in King's Landing.

I never dreamed that I would be a part of it.

　This tournament is well known in King's Landing.
　If you do well in this tournament, the nobles in the capital often offer you employment during the tournament, and it seems that adventurers from the frontier are quite enthusiastic about participating.

　When I visited the lord's office in Batcombe
　The lord, Gelter, was tending to his armor in something of a good mood.
''Yo!　Are you sure you're ready for this?　I'm fired up, too.
　That said, I was a gerter who was ready to compete.
　
　After a while, a couple of women, who looked like maids, came into the room.
My lord. My lord, you still haven't received permission to fight.
　Didn't I tell you earlier that you are not allowed to participate in this grand martial arts tournament?
　As he said this, he took up Gerther's armor one by one and left the room.

　Geltar, who was left behind.
　I felt so sorry for him because he was all white and I felt so bad for him.
　Because of the circumstances, I didn't have any more words to say about it.
Give me a weapon to pity me!
　I left the lord's room in Batcombe, leaving Geltor to say so.

　The big martial arts tournament, though.
　The event period starts today, so
　
　First thing this afternoon.
　The opening ceremony will be held in the arena in the center of the Batcombe, and the preliminary rounds will begin.


　This grand martial arts tournament is
　Teams of three will participate in groups of three, and one leader will be chosen.

　The battle will be one 10-minute match.
　Stun your opponent's leader or surrender, and you win by one

　If both leaders are alive and well after 10 minutes of fighting
　　The winner is the one with more of the other two remaining
　If there are an equal number of people left
　　If the match is not decided within five minutes, the judges shall decide the winner.
　　If the match is not decided within five minutes, the judges decide the winner.

　In short, the rules of the game are as follows.

　Although magic is basically free, it is
　When using a summoning system, the summoned monster beast is also converted into a single monster beast, so the total number of monsters on a team cannot exceed three.
　However, since it is allowed to summon a new hexenbiest after a summoned hexenbiest is withdrawn, this is a pretty tricky opponent.


　By the way, the
　My team was originally supposed to be allowed to pass on the qualifying round, being a team from a co-host city lord.
　I'm daring to offer to participate in the qualifiers because I think it could hurt this tournament if my abilities are too far apart from those who will win the qualifiers.

　I don't know my opponents yet.
　I'm sure Unja and Sarah are already in the arena, ready to do it.

　I, too, finished the formalities regarding the co-hosting of the event at the town hall in Batcombe and headed to the arena.

''My lord, this way, this way,''
　then
　Sarah, who was near the entrance to the arena, waved her right hand and called me over.

　I ran up to her there.
　Sarah was apparently having some kind of conversation with the girls and the people who seemed to be their parents.

　Hmm?
　If you look closely, you can see something around you... especially people in the magic professions, buzzing around looking at this girl's mother....

　I've been wondering what's going on.
　Sarah parted with a wave of her right hand to the girl and walked over to me.

'That girl, she was my kind of person.
　That's what Sarah says.
　So that means that girl is a salamander too........
The two rescued her from being captured and enslaved by thieves.
　They're raising him as a child now... thank goodness.
　Sarah says, and smiles happily.

　
　I've heard this from Sarah before.
　Sarah's race, the Salamander, is an unfortunate dragon.

　She can't fly like a wyvern.
　I can't even dive under water like Leviathan.

　Therefore, salamanders/especially, children's salamanders are
　Easily targeted by adventurers looking for the title of Dragon Slayer.
　It's a rare case where a dragon can grow up to be an adult dragon like Sarah.


　And he's just a kid.
　If we don't get those two to protect us, eventually we're going to have to...

'If those two were insignificant, I would have forced myself to take them back.
　Well, I'm sure those two will be fine, and his wife is a legendary wizard.
　Then Sarah says that and laughs.

　Okay.
　That's why the wizarding types were buzzing around looking at that wife....

　However.
　When even such an amazing person joins in....
　I'm really impressed with this tournament.

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　In the afternoon.

　With the opening declaration by Guelter, the preliminary rounds began in the arena in the center of the Batcombe.

　The teams that made it to the finals last year were exempt from qualifying across the board, he said.

　Walter's daughter, Biblina's team, and
　Apparently, the Nirmana team representing the frontier small city of Picks is exempt from qualifying.

　The qualifying round will be held in seven blocks from A to G, and
　I've been assigned to C Block.

　According to Gelter, it would probably be tomorrow morning.
　Two teams will survive from each block.

　A total of 28 teams, including 14 teams that won this qualifier and 14 teams that were exempt from qualifying.
　They will play in the final tournament.

　The qualifying exempt teams are.
　The three heroes of Batcombe are also in attendance.
　Right now, the Great Sword, the Twin Swords, and the Great Bow are each calling themselves strongmen, and each seems to be forming a team with their own friends.

　Incidentally, Daiken-san, who is currently in Liberty and is also the coxswain of the Magic Ship Regular Service, who is also a bodyguard, used to be a strong member of the Great Sword of Batcombe.
　That's why I approached him about participating, but
I find this more agreeable at the moment.
　And she is dedicated to the job of steering the magic ship.
　She's always supporting her, though, with Daishi-san.
　Daiken-san and Daiken-san, who is much older than Daiken-san, these two really breathe well together, or rather, they are close. They're always together, even if you find them in the city, and after all, it's probably because they used to work together for many years as a party of the strongest people in Batcombe.......

　Unna, who has been following me in the bleachers to watch the qualifiers as my bodyguard, rolled her eyes and


　....What?　Was it?

　Well, in the midst of this conversation.
　The venue's Qualifying A match was reaching its climax.

　It seemed that one of the teams that would win the preliminary round had already been decided.
Senior Wizard Team
The representative team of Gatacombe, a frontier city
　These two teams are said to be playing for the remaining slot.


　Apparently, it's rare for a team like Advanced Wizard to participate in a tournament like this.
　It's true, even in my image, the only image of an advanced wizard is holding a study session in the bookstore in the royal capital.

　It was the last match between two winners.
　Just when you thought it was going to be a fierce battle...

　It was something that the Batcombe team won pretty easily.

　After the game.
　There was something about a group of senior wizards protesting in the back of the hall.
Don't tell me you're having a conversation when you've lost!
So, before Geltzer's batch, he hurriedly ran back to

　And so the first day of the big martial arts tournament came to an end.