Bushin Festival

Bushin Festival (武神祭) is a massive semi-annual seasonal tournament hosted in Midgar Kingdom.

Background
The Bushin Festival is an annual international tournament competition held by the Midgar Kingdom that attracts fighters from other lands across the country which held once every two years. Here the fighters display their skills and strength before the king and powerful nobles who watches how the fights will play out.

Besides the local fighters, there are also famed renowned knights from around the world come to participate. Not only that, Midgar Royal Spellsword Academy also especially has an obligation to send their representative in entering the Bushin Festival by holding a qualifying preliminaries through a selection tournament to determine a student that will represents the Academy.

Purpose of the Festival
Apparently, the Bushin Festival superficially was for sport for all have different races, nationalities, and occupations as they nonetheless share a strange sense of unity and the common goal of wanting to enjoy the event.

Participants

 * Lutheran Barnett
 * Beatrix
 * Grease
 * Iris Midgar
 * Quinton
 * Goldoh Kinmeki
 * Gonzales
 * Annerose Nichtsehen
 * Shadow / Jimina Senen (Unofficially)
 * Rose Oriana (Disqualified)
 * Claire Kagenō
 * Kevin (Manga only)
 * Imatry Nottaloos (Anime only)

Trivia

 * Registration for the Bushin Festival is handled at the arena’s reception desk.