Just to clarify, in Luminor Academy, there wasn’t originally any festival after the hunting season.

The academy’s hunting festival was an intense final exam where students risked their lives to hunt monsters in the dungeon connected to the academy’s forest. Students would return with their trophies, and the competition would be about who caught the strongest monster and who captured the most.

It was a test where injuries were common, and while not every year saw fatalities, it wasn’t unheard of. That’s why, in the original Luminor Academy, a festival after the hunting season would have been unthinkable. After all, …