"Apart from the core, do other things in the circus that have been 'infected' still need to be dealt with?"
Shade asked again, and Tifa thought for a moment:
"If they don't move, we don't need to pay attention to it. Let's go find the fortune teller. The lady asked us to focus on this matter. I don't know if she has foreseen that the core of the circus' arrival can have a huge impact on what happens next. After all,
He's a fortune teller, maybe he knows something."
Shade suspected that the great witch of time had foreseen the return of Rusty Edwards.
The tiger's body was set on fire on the spot, and after making sure it was completely burned, the maids followed Shade back to the circus camp.
After leaving the camp briefly and coming back, there wasn't much change here. The only thing worth noting was that the magician who had just been practicing throwing darts on the low wooden stage had his head turned 180 degrees to face behind him, so he turned his back to
He is practicing throwing darts in a difficult position on the target.
As for the originally hanging target, it now became a living person with fifteen steel nails nailing his body and limbs. Judging from his appearance, he seemed to be the original magician's apprentice.
The boy, who looked to be only seventeen or eighteen years old, was standing on his left foot with his right foot raised. His right foot, two hands and a red apple on his head were fixed there in a funny posture. His eyelids were held up by matchsticks.
His mouth was closed, his mouth was sewn with thin threads and he couldn't speak. At this moment, he could only look at the magician with his head back in horror. Several throwing knives had been inserted into the boy's body, and they had just avoided the vital points.
On Thursday morning, the weather outside the city was very good, and all this happened under the bright sun. But except for Shade and the girls behind him, no one else in the camp seemed to be able to see the scene in front of them at all. Even in the daylight
It's slightly sunny, which also makes people feel chilly on the back.
The weird magician didn't offend the group, but Shade still stopped. He looked at Tifa, and the brunette's big eyes also looked at him:
"You make the decision."
She lowered her voice slightly:
"Owner."
The girls behind Tifa all laughed again, and "she" laughed gently in Shade's ears. Shade felt that the roots of his ears were a little red. However, he did not walk over immediately, but asked as he drifted to the side.
By Rast:
"Should we save him?"
The little girl blinked at him and thought for a moment:
"Save him! Save him!"
"why?"
"Because Giles will praise me!"
From this point of view, in addition to the living members of the Edwards family, there are also people on Shade's side among the dead Edwards.
Shade told the maids not to do anything, and he walked to the high platform and jumped on it. The wooden stage seemed to be two worlds above and below. After stepping on the stage, it seemed that the whole world was covered with a gray filter, and the coldness immediately disappeared.
The soles of his feet went straight to his chest. But Shade also felt that what happened on the stage, as long as it didn't make too much noise, would not be noticed by ordinary people. But because of this, it was impossible for him to fight like that tiger just now.
Just let go of your hands and feet completely.
The magician who was about to throw the throwing knife did not move at this moment. His head rotated 180 degrees back to its original position and looked at Shade. His face was bleeding from all the orifices. The malice generated by his gaze at that moment even made him
Shade felt the pain of the knife tip piercing his skin.
The magician asked in a hoarse voice:
"Do you want to give it a try too?"
"What rules?"
Shade asked calmly.
"The target is an apple. If you hit the target three times, you win. If you lose, you can stay with me as an apprentice or a target."
The magician answered, Shade nodded and took a step forward, and the wooden stage made a loud creaking sound.
Suddenly the flying knife in the magician's hand was thrown towards Sha De's eyebrows, but Sha De caught it casually. He was holding the heavy flying knife in his hand and looked at the young man twenty steps away. The latter's face was,
A complex expression of panic, pleading, and despair mixed together.
Although the apple is not that big, if it is only this distance, even if it is twice as far away, there is no way that Shade will miss the target.
"Apprenticeship or target."
After taking a look at the figure of the magician whose head had temporarily returned to normal, Shade also understood that this place, like the [Fishbone Pirate Ship] he had encountered with Lesia, had the tendency to assimilate normal people into a part of himself.
"Okay. But if I win, I want this."
He pointed at the young man as the target. The magician just thought for a few seconds and nodded:
"Can."
His head turned 180 degrees again, turning his head backward again. Then he walked away from the red line on the stage and gave up his position to Shade.
As Shade walked over, he held the tip of the knife with his hand and made a motion to throw it, but then stopped:
"Can I not use the throwing knife?"
There was something profound in his eyes. Tifa, who was watching in the audience, smiled. She knew what Shade was going to do. And the ordinary people in the camp were also attracted at this time. Of course, they couldn't see the actual situation clearly.
The situation was that young people from outside wanted to challenge the circus magician. People started making noises, completely unaware that the target was a living person.
"Throwing knives is too easy, I prefer something challenging. How about throwing cards?"
The look of panic on the face of the young man on the target subsided a little. If it were playing cards, at least he would not be injured. The idle people watching from the audience cheered loudly, and they were very happy to see such fun without spending money.
things.
Turn your head towards the magician behind you and nod again.
Shade smiled, took out his deck, opened the first card and threw it away. The cards flew out parallel to the ground, spinning in the air. But immediately another silver light appeared, and the magician pointed at Shade's cards.
Throwing the throwing knife.
"I see."
The flying knife was extremely fast. It flew smoothly over the cards thrown by Shade and then broke into two pieces. Then it fell under the stage with a clang, and even hit the crowd watching the excitement, but no one paid any attention.
The card pierced the apple in the right hand of the target, and Shade's first card hit. People cheered loudly - including Miss Rusty Edwards, who loudly praised that this was more fun than throwing a throwing knife.
Shade didn't speak, and the second card was already out of his hand. Almost at the same time, the second flying knife flew sideways——
Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!
This time the flying knife was completely different from the last time. It even caused sparks after hitting the rotating cards, which attracted another burst of cheers and applause from people.
Shade was curious about what these ordinary people saw.
Shade, who controlled [Origin Darkness], felt extremely powerful and tried to deviate the flight direction of the cards. But for Shade, these impermanent cards were almost as easy to control as his hands and feet, and in the end they kept making noises.
The card that collided with the flying knife still hit the apple on the boy's left hand, and the flying knife that was knocked away pierced the target boy's right arm, becoming another "ornament" on his body.
"good!"
"Bravo!"
"Again!"
"Let the circus use playing cards next time!"
"Money back!"
"not enough!"
Amidst the chaos of the crowd, Shade pinched the third card and glanced aside:
"Um?"
I saw that the magician with his head backwards had raised his arms, holding eight shining flying knives between his fingers, and had already made a motion to throw them. He was also looking at Shade, obviously waiting for Shade to make the first move.
.
Even though Xia De knew that he was cheating, he still couldn't help but be surprised at this moment:
"Even if you have to play tricks, you should at least cover it up."
As he spoke, the third card in his hand flew out. In an instant, eight flying knives flew from the side, turning into silver lights and striking the cards together. Just now, the cards seemed to be really thrown out.
Shade, who was flying smoothly, finally controlled the cards to draw a complicated "8" shape in the air.
So the playing cards flew in front, and the eight flying knives quickly caught up behind them. They relied on their numerical advantage to block the way of the playing cards, and the playing cards flew higher, constantly colliding with the flying knives above their heads.
For a moment, people cheered and applauded, the playing cards and flying knives above the stage jingled together, the girl's soul clapped excitedly, she looked very happy, Tifa and the other two
The maid lady had a smile on her face, and even the boy who had become a target couldn't help but stare at this astonishing scene with his eyes wide open. He couldn't help but want to.
The flying knives kept colliding with the cards. In the end, the cards with the property of not being damaged were slightly better, and it was obviously Shade's card control ability that was stronger. After a five-minute confrontation, the cards found the right time, and from eight
Surrounded by flying knives, it pierced the red apple above the target boy's head. As [Origin·Knowledge] kept buzzing, it also meant that Shade hit the target in all three throws.
"good!"
There was a new round of applause and cheers from the audience. People who had seen the wonderful performance loudly praised the strange young people, and some even threw coins towards the stage. In order to verify, Shade asked the people in the audience whether they really
It will automatically filter out any unreasonable things, and even use spells to pull coins to fly into their pockets. As expected, no one is confused about this.
"I won."
Shade said to the magician, and with a wave of his hand, the three cards flew back into his hand. Then, he pointed at the target boy who looked lucky:
"As agreed, he belongs to me!"
The magician with his head turned behind him and bleeding from all his orifices nodded, left the stage, and sat down on a bench under the sun on the side of the stage. He lowered his head and stopped moving, as if he had been hit.
Shade breathed a sigh of relief. He first let the crowd disperse and told everyone that he would not stay in the circus. Then he was about to help the boy who was still nailed there to treat his wounds when he suddenly saw three of the four apples.
The apple inserted by the cards rotted into black, and the last intact apple turned into a bright golden color and rolled to his feet.