Arc 3 - Chapter 1: Virgo Circus (1/2)

"Stop talking nonsense, you can't wear that skirt!"

The last time Yu was angry, he was at Rolderhelm. They had been taken to the police station and taken to court because of a false report by a lunatic.

But his anger now was many times greater than it had been then. Sharley was at least a lunatic with a purpose, but today he was a lunatic with no purpose at all. Yu's face reddened with anger, his voice and hands began to tremble.

"What do you mean I can't wear it? Who are you to tell me?"

"We can see your dick, motherfucker!"

At this, the madman blushed, took a few steps back while covering what was coming out from under his skirt with his hands, and shouted "Pervert!" while trying to make his voice sound like a woman's voice.

"Fuck you! Fuck you, get out of here!"

He threw the wooden cup he held in one hand at the madman, while with the other hand he continued to cover the eyes of the brown-haired, cat-eared girl.

"Don't ever let me see you again!"

Seeing the glass coming at him, the man jumped aside and knocked over the table. The madman ran out of the tent as Yu grabbed another object to throw.

"Yu, you know, even though you tell me to cover my ears, I still hear the voices."

Yu took his hand away from Yurine's eyes.

"You didn't see anything, did you?"

If the madman had come when Yu was alone, he wouldn't have been so angry with him, he would have just fired him for being mentally unstable, but when he came when Yurine was with him, he couldn't control his anger. If Yurine was away he would have beaten him.

"No, I haven't."

"Good," he said and picked up the table he had knocked over and began to arrange things on the floor. "What are we dealing with... If patience were a stone, it would crack..."

When he had fixed the inside of the tent, he went outside and looked around for someone to scold for the mess he had just made.

"Where are you!"

Hearing Yu's angry voice, brothers Shango and Fyano ran to him and stood at attention. Although they were both two-meter men, Yu was their boss and they had to bow down to him to get rich.

So even if they did not like Yu, they had to obey him

"A man comes to my tent shaking his balls and no one stops him! What the hell are you people good for? Useless idiots, have I hired you for nothing!"

"We apologize, boss. It's our fault," Shango said, clasping his hands together. He was staring at his own feet.

"You apologized, what happened? What good did your apology do? I don't want your apologies, incompetents, just do your job properly and never have to apologize."

Shango and Fyano were working as bodyguards at the circus, but their failure was disappointing. The madman from earlier had appeared several times before, and whenever he did, the two Yu had hired as bodyguards failed to stop him.

"Just because we're a circus doesn't mean we have to gather all the crazies under the tent... Oh, one crazy person is missing and another is coming."

"Have Gaoi and the others returned?"

"No, boss."

"Tch... Let me know when they return. Now get out of here!"

When they first came to İlonya, a few swindlers realized that he was rich and tried to swindle him, but in the meantime they were swindled by Yu and asked him to teach them.

Yu accepted the offer and became the head of what was then called the 'Qrath Fire Circus.' The circus was a criminal organization that traveled around cities and countries committing petty robberies and scams.

With the investment from Rolderhelm, Yu had developed the circus and planned a gigantic profiteering scheme. The money he was after in İlonya was much more than he had made in Rolderhelm. These events happened two weeks ago.

"Yu, you look so cool like this."

Yu and Yurine did not want to be recognized or have their names spread. To prevent this from happening, they started using pseudonyms and dyed their hair.

Yue was the nickname he gave Yurine when Yu chose Ryuta to use again. Yue was one of the names he thought of giving Yurine until he found her name, and he wanted to give it to her because she had white hair.

Now Yu was taking care of his own face after finishing Yurine's makeup. Since they worked in the circus, they were both dressed in circus-appropriate clothes.

They had both chosen gothic clothes. Yu looked like a magician from his world, wearing a tall hat and makeup that made his face look whiter than it actually was.

With his white hair, the purple lipstick on his lips, the black pencil around his eyes and the black line from his left eye down to the middle of his cheek, he was a bit scary, but he still looked cool. And that was thanks to Yu Valarfin's innate charisma.

"Of course I'm going to look cool, no matter what clothes I put on, I always look perfect. Perfection is in my nature."

Yurine's face makeup made her look as white as Yu. As a result, they both looked like ghosts, but Yu was still cool and Yurine was still sweet.

When it was time for the final touches, he completed his preparations with a few stars he drew on Yurine's face. The show would start when the sun went down and it was not long before the sun set.

Sitting on Yu's lap, Yurine began to examine her face in the mirror.

"Strange," Yurine said. She brought her face closer to the mirror.

"They wouldn't pay to watch ordinary people. Although we are not ordinary people either."

"Yu, yes. We're always number ten people."

Yurine sometimes talked like Yu. Once Yu even caught Yurine copying his poses in front of a mirror.

When she was caught, Yurine blushed with embarrassment and tried to make Yu forget it by making different excuses, but there was no way he could forget such a sweet sight.

When they had finished preparing, they heard a voice outside the tent. It was the voice of a young man.

"Boss, we're here."

Yu took his walking stick and walked out of the tent, holding Yurine's hand. Outside, one of Yu's other employees, Doriaty, was waiting for him.

"We have moved the people from the southern region to the back. Please come and check, so there won't be any problems later."

"What did the Afollos do?" he asked as he walked to the back of the circus.

"No news from them yet."

Among the tents used for circus workers on the side of the circus close to the forest, the ones with the highest security measures were the ones used for storage.

In fact, these tents were set up not exactly as a warehouse, but as a treasure room. Valuables that had been brought in, that is, stolen, were carried here.

They entered the tent and Yu started to open the crates that had been placed inside. Inside the safes were gold, silver, jewelry, necklaces, bracelets, antiques and many other valuables.

"You guys head east. You found out where we'll meet when you're done, didn't you?"

"Yes, we'll meet north of the forest, behind the little hill." Doriaty would bring new goods there.

"Boss."

When they stepped outside the tent, they saw four people coming towards them. It was Shango who called out to Yu, the others were Gaoi and her cinnamon-skinned, wolf-eared twin sisters Niuhe and Miuhe.

"Where have you been? The show is about to start, hurry up."

"Sorry boss, we took a long time, but look at the goods we brought."

As he wheeled his wheelbarrow full of magic stones into the tent, he sang a cheerful song, dreaming of the rich days ahead.

Yu didn't like people who didn't have a hood voice singing, but since it was his last day here, he decided to ignore his singing.

"Put them in the wagons and keep the wagons ready. We will move after the demonstration is over."

While Shango and a few others loaded the stolen goods onto the wagons to be pulled by the rinos, Yu went to the tents to check the preparations of the other members of the show.

While some clowns and magicians came to the circus area and entertained the people who had decided to stick around until the show started, Yu checked the acrobats, illusionists preparing for the big magic shows and finally the animals in cages.

"I am telling you, when we rewind time, I'm not going to let you do any of this."

After checking everything, they walked to the show tent. The warmth of Yurine's hand warmed Yu's cold hand.

"I was already soothing my conscience by thinking that none of this would ever happen..."

Even though there was a possibility that they could not rewind time and cancel the events, Yu believed that they would be able to rewind time, and his conscience was comforted by that thought.

"But how can I comfort her later? If necessary, I won't hesitate to do things I shouldn't do to keep her smiling. Even if time will be turned back and what happened after that can never be canceled again."

As the sun set, it was time for the show. Although Yu was annoyed that Afollo was still nowhere to be seen, he had to go ahead with the show and move on to the next steps of the plan.

He entered the main tent where the show would be held. Although there were other performances outside the tent, this was the best place for the bigwigs to watch the show.

After making his final preparations backstage, he checked his voice and came on stage with his hands in the air while Yurine stayed backstage and painted the whole place blue with a light spell.

"Lucky guests of the Virgo Circus, welcome to the place of dreams! Get ready for an adventure beyond your dreams and don't close your eyes for a moment, otherwise you will regret what you missed for a lifetime!"

As he raised his cane, he pulled down the mechanism and the magic stone that shot up from the tip of the cane exploded after ten meters in the air, covering the ground in a cloud of red dust.

After the clouds cleared, the brothers Najo and Brao from Brahatul, who use the name Dragon Breathers, took the stage with somersaults.

Blowing flour into their mouths, they held a ring of fire in their hands and danced while displaying a mixture of blue and green flames that took the breath away from young children, but the show had little appeal for adults.

Yu knew the importance of the lights, so he chose such bright tricks to impress the audience. As the flames of the Dragon Breathers died down, a new and dangerous show began on the thin rope above.

As Gaoi's cinnamon-skinned, wolf-eared sisters danced on a tightrope with flaming swords in their hands, the entire audience held their breath and stared.

The wolf-eared sisters had finished their heart-pounding show to perfection and it was the turn of a rhino from Brahatul, moving on cannons.

After the rhinos, elephants, magicians, acrobats and different entertainers took the stage while Yu was backstage watching the show with Yurine.

"When you watch from backstage and see the background of the tricks, it's not so fascinating."

Yu had learned all the tricks here. In his own world he was interested in illusionism, so he knew the tricks of magicians, but in this world the tricks combined with simple spells were more spectacular, until he learned how to do them.

"Boss, I'm back."

"Where have you been?"

"I'm sorry, my companions were a bit of a nuisance."

Afollo, who had come to report, raised his hands and showed Yu the bloodstains. Without questioning what had happened, Yu told him to go to the wagons and they would finish the show.

Then he clapped his hands, twirled his staff and walked away, while the workers who received the command immediately stopped their demonstration and set fire to the tent.

They had specially arranged the tent. They had smeared the fabric of the tent with a potion Yu had prepared with a formula from an alchemical book he had obtained at the Wizarding Academy, and it would take about an hour for the flames to cover the entire tent.

So they had time to rob the rich here and the guests had time to leave alive.

"Everyone! The dreams have been good, but it's time to wake up. Let's put our hands in our pockets and pay for the show, please, quickly."