Whispering Verse

"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 we foresee 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. After making sure it was completely burned, the maids followed Shade back to the circus camp.

After leaving the camp briefly and coming back, not much changed here. The only thing worth noting is that the magician who was practicing throwing darts on the low wooden stage just now has his head turned 180 degrees to face behind him, so he is practicing throwing darts in a difficult position with his back to the target.

As for the originally hanging target, it now turned into a living person with fifteen steel nails nailing his body and limbs. From the looks of it, he seemed to be the original magician's apprentice.

The boy, who looked to be only seventeen or eighteen years old, stood on his left foot with his right foot raised, with his right foot, two hands and a red apple on his head fixed there in a funny posture. His eyelids were held up by matchsticks and could not be closed, and his mouth was sewn shut with thin threads and he could not 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 he just avoided them all. The vital point.

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 though the sun is slightly shining, it still makes people feel a bit 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, and Shade felt that the roots of his ears were a little red. However, he did not walk over immediately, but asked Rust, who was floating aside:

"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 and girls not to do anything, and he walked to the high platform and jumped on it. There seemed to be two worlds above and below the wooden stage. After stepping onto the stage, it seemed as if the whole world was covered with a gray filter, and a cold feeling immediately rushed from the soles of my feet to my 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. However, because of this, he could not completely let go of his hands and feet like he had just fought with the tiger. .

The magician who was about to throw the throwing knife did not move at this moment. His head rotated 180 degrees and returned to its original position, looking at Shade. His face was bleeding from all the orifices, and the malice generated by his gaze at that moment even made Shade feel the pain of the tip of the knife 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, Xia De will not 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 one hundred and eighty degrees again, turning his head backward again. Then he walked away from the red line posted 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 from the audience, smiled. She knew what Shade was going to do. The ordinary people in the camp were also attracted at this time. Of course, they could not see the actual situation clearly. They only thought 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 frightened look on the young man's face at the target subsided a little. If it was a card, at least he wouldn't be hurt. The idle people who came to watch from the audience cheered loudly. They were very happy to see such interesting things without spending money.

Turning his head towards the magician behind him, he nodded again.

Shade smiled, took out his deck, opened the first card and threw it away, and the cards flew out spinning in the air parallel to the ground. But immediately another silver light appeared, and the magician threw a flying knife towards Shade's cards.

"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 people didn't pay attention at all.

The card pierced the apple in the right hand of the target, and Shade hit the first card. People cheered loudly, including Miss Rusty Edwards, who loudly praised that this was more fun than throwing a throwing knife.

Shade didn't say anything, 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 round of cheers and applause.

Shade was curious about what these ordinary people saw.

Shade, who controlled [Origin Darkness], felt extremely powerful and tried to deflect the card's flight direction. But for Shade, these impermanent cards were almost as easy to control as hands and feet. In the end, the cards that kept clanging against the flying knives hit the apple on the boy's left hand, and the flying knives that were knocked away pierced. The target boy's right arm became another "ornament" on his body.

"good!"

"Bravo!"

"Again!"

"Let's use cards next time in the circus!"

"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. Shade, who just now made the cards fly smoothly as if they were really thrown, finally controlled the cards to draw in the air. A complex "8" shape emerged.

So the cards flew in front, and eight flying knives quickly caught up from behind. They relied on their numerical advantage to block the way of the cards, and the cards flew higher, constantly colliding with the flying knives above their heads.

Suddenly, amidst the cheers and applause of the people, the playing cards and throwing knives above the stage jingled together, and 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 wide eyes. He couldn't help but want to.

The flying knives kept colliding with the cards, and the cards with the property of not being damaged were slightly better in the end, and it was obviously Shad's better card control ability. After a five-minute confrontation, Solitaire found the right opportunity. Surrounded by eight flying knives, it pierced the red apple on the target boy's head. As [Creation·Knowledge] continued to buzz, it also represented Xia. All three of De's throws hit the target.

"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 man, and some even threw coins towards the stage. In order to verify whether the people in the audience would really automatically filter out any unreasonable things, Shade even used a spell to pull the coins into his pocket. As expected, no one was 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 that among the four apples, three of them had just been The apple inserted by the card rotted into black, and the last intact apple turned into a bright golden color and rolled to his feet.