Chapter 27 (1/2)
Chapter 27: The smell of magician in the other world’s magic
We went inside after paying the admission fee of 10 El per person. (Total: 30 El for the three of us). Based on the estimation of 1 El = 150 yen, the entrance fee for each person should be 1500 yen. It was slightly expensive but it couldn’t be helped since it’s a festival price.
The interior looked pretty simple with a stage at the back and rows of chairs lined up on the floor for the audience. The chairs were placed on the steps installed so the stage would be visible for the audience sitting at the back row as well.
It didn’t seem possible to find any available seats in front judging from the number of customers coming in so we decided to grab the seats in the middle.
“Have Diana or Marina come to a place like this before?” [Jirou]
“If I have 10 El with me, I can use them as my food expenses for 5 days…… Besides, the place Marina was staying was situated in a rural area.” [Marina]
“This is actually my first time too. I’m quite excited about it.” [Diana]
Then it’s the first time for all of us.
Come to think of it, since the people in this world do not have something like a television, if they were to watch a magic performance all of a sudden, it didn’t seem likely for them to not be engrossed. Although I have seen a magic show performed by the natives from Africa in one of the programme before, the response was fairly laughable. Even if this show might not reach that degree, it may still be somewhat close.
Diana aside,……..I might be able to see a nice reaction coming from Marina……
Rather than watching the magic show, it should be more interesting observing her instead……
“……..? I-Is there something on Marina’s face? I-It’s really embarra.s.sing if you were to keep looking at me.” [Marina]
Marina fidgeted. Whoops. It was a false start. My observation ended up being too obvious unintentionally. I wound up checking out her face, her hair and etc.
As soon as I seated myself next to her, she was looking at me with upturned eyes…….That has quite a high destructive power.
「Since the inside of the tent is dark, it will be alright to hold onto her……」
That thought crossed my mind for an instant but my sense of reason managed to win over at the last moment.
No, my arm was twisted at the last moment! It’s quite painful!
But it’s alright! My arm will not be broken easily just by the strength of Diana’s slender arm.
By the way, Diana is sitting on the other side, next to me. A flower in both hands. I am currently in such a blessed state if you exclude the part where my arm was being twisted.
“Diana. It’s feeling quite painful so can you release it soon?” [Jirou]
“It doesn’t seem that painful to you. I’ll need to learn the right way to do this from Rebecca the next time…..” [Diana]
It’s fine even if you don’t learn it!
If my arm were broken in this other world, I have a feeling that they might connect my arm back using a mysterious treatment. To begin with, why is she twisting my arm…….
“That’s because goshuujin-sama is a liar.” [Diana]
Diana answered it as if she heard my inner monologue.
Well I do understand that I am certainly not the honest type. I have swindler as one of my vocation but I don’t think I can bring myself to say that out loud honestly……
However I am not really lying about anything in particular now so I don’t really understand what this High Elf-sama’s talking about.
Just as I thought of arguing back, the stage was illuminated by a strange bright light all of a sudden. The show seems to be starting.
The song played using the violin and harpsichord prime the audience’s expectation as to what will follow. Audio recording and playback equipment don’t exist in this world so real live performance is used as the BGM.
I am not sure what are the worth of musical instruments in this world but if I were to bring them over from the other side, they might be able to fetch quite a good price in my opinion…. I’ll be adding this as one of my subject to research as well.
While I was thinking of various things as I stared off into s.p.a.ce absent-mindedly, an elderly man who appears to be the 「so-called magician」 got up the stage and seemed to be making some kind of preparation. Although, the setup done appeared to be indescribably poor.
My antic.i.p.ation of watching an illusion magic is completely shattered now.
After a while, the elderly man who was finally done with his preparation turned to the audience.
“A good day to everyone here today. I’m Jiri Balazs the magician…… I would like to extend my appreciation to all the audience for coming to my booth today. Well then, please take your time and enjoy my various demonstration of mysterious magic from the Country of Fire!” [magician]
After saying so, he fluttered his mantle and withdrew back once to the inner stage.
The audience started applauding or whistling, building up the excitement. As I thought, there aren’t much entertainment in this world. It has been many years since I last heard something like that……
The magician re-appeared again after a short while with a gla.s.s bottle in his hand.
“Now please watch this carefully as I perform this mysterious water magic. In just a moment, I will fill up this empty gla.s.s bottle with water!” [magician]
Uhhiyo~ what an old fas.h.i.+oned trick!
But it might still be interesting to watch.
The magician closed his eyes as he looked up and spread both his hands out. He seemed to be murmuring a chant. He stretched both his hands out to the bottle and cried out loud as he opened his eyes.
“Oooouuu! Rise up from the atmosphere, fill this up with rain! Water! Heed my demand now and make your appearance–! Oooouu—!!!!” [magician]
After the magician shouted that line out, water could be seen filling up the bottle little by little.
It’s quite a cla.s.sic magic method but it’s not that bad. Though is it a way of attracting the attention by overflowing the bottle with water?
The audience still appeared to be excited nonetheless.
As I have expected, Marina was astonished by that sight. “It’s amazing. It’s mysterious.” She kept repeating those lines over and over.
However, it was unexpected when Diana also seemed impressed as she muttered, “It’s unbelievable for him to be able to perform that miracle with his own power….”
After that, the magician performed various kinds of magic one after another.
An apple teleported from point A to point B 「Teleportation」.
An apple that was thrown was stopped in mid-air 「Telekinesis」.
Making his body float up 1m above the ground 「Levitation」.
An audience was asked to write a symbol down and he was able to see through it and guessed it correctly 「Remote Viewing (RV)」.
Is the magic in this world something similar to ESP?…….
I recalled a special supernatural program shown on television before in the olden days…..
So, does it mean that using psychic power is the same as using magic? Since this is the other world, I can’t deny that possibility but it’s hard to tell if this is a fake or a real thing…..
Even when I tried asking Diana and Marina, all they replied back was, “What magic trick?” In the first place, it was their first time seeing a magician themselves. Well I guess I should stop looking at everything with a curious penetrating gaze.
“Then this is my final great magic! I’ll show you a fire magic!” [magician]
So the last one is Pyrokinesis?
But a fire magic should be the most magic-like one among all the magic shown so far. It’s the basic magic even in RPG.