Highrise Cultural Festival arc

The Highrise Cultural Festival arc (高層文化祭アーク) is a story arc of Highrise and the first overall. This arc revolves around the Highrise Cultural Festival and their second time doing this since the Ishgar-Alvarez Conflict. Hoping the festival would brighten up the people of Malba City, Mary Jane Kelly hopes to bring the best festival. While Team Pendragon would help preparations, there seems to be something hidden in the shadows that might cause problems.

Chapter I
In Malba City, many of the Highrise guild members were preparing the entire city for their second Highrise Cultural Festival, which the citizens of the city were also helping with the efforts. Inside the Highrise guild hall sat its guild master, Mary Jane Kelly.

"Tell me again when he will arrive again?" Kelly asked her advisor, Index Librorum Prohibitorum, who was a blond and well-endowed woman wearing unique clothing of her country of Hyland all the way from Eurasua.

"He should be here in a few hours, but why are you concerned?" Index asked her guild master with curiosity.

"Because Team Highrise hasn't returned any communications and we do not know they're whereabouts. I even asked Daedalus, the guild master of the Labyrinth Guild and he doesn't know even with his Arcane Science. I even had Oscar to use Deus-Ex-Machina and its Super Archive with stronger telepathic power had no luck. "Kelly sighed in frustration and concern.

"Well.. it is a 100-year quest, a quest no one has done in over 100 years. I even heard it hasn't been done for even longer, over 500 years. But Master, these are the best of the best, I am certain they'll fine." Index assured her worriedsome master.