V3C67 (2/2)

Then, she chanted something like an incantation.

【According to his land, his time and his contract, appear, king of the skies, now is the time for you to show your form! Summon Bird!]

As soon as she recited that, she removed the cloth — 3 doves appeared within the hat that shouldn’t have anything in it and took off.

” … Impossible!? Doves appeared at where there wasn’t anything! It’s Summoning Magic!”

“Unbelievable, it’s a miracle! A miracle happened! Normally, Summoning Magic will only summon one each time but she summoned multiple birds at the same time.”

“Genius. It’s a genius magician!”

The gallery applauded as the onee-san waved her hat and collected the offered coins.

“It’s amazing right, master. I never imagined that I would be able to see Summoning Magic with my own eyes.”

“Carol also, Carol thought that she was in cahoots with the shopkeeper but it looks like she really is a genuine Archmage.”

… Eh?

Are the people here seriously saying that?

Just now … no matter how I look at it, it’s just a simple ‘sleight of hand’ trick?

I mean, her job isn’t Magician either.

It’s 【Street Performer Lv29].

Secondly, by showing some pretend Space Magic, the cheers erupted. The coin donations were flying in.

Yup, although it was impressive skill, it’s still a sleight of hand after all.

It’s just like a teleporting playing card magic trick.

The pigeons flying in the sky circled around.

The skies were blue.

I waited for a while until the audience dispersed.

All that remained were the 3 of us, the pleased-looking Marina who earned a mountain of coins and the onee-san who was originally doing her business here.

“How was it? What are your opinions on my great magic?”

“Nope, isn’t it just a simple sleight of hand?”

I said to Marina who was proudly boasting.

Marina stiffened.

“Master, what is sleight of hand?”

Haru asked.

“Instead of magic, it is a technique relying on manual dexterity to make it seem like a paranormal phenomenon happened. For example, by hiding pigeons or such in your sleeves, you can make it seem like they appeared from within the hat as you pull off the cloth.”

“But, 3 doves flew out at the same time?”

“If you fold their wings in and tuck them in, pigeons will look very much smaller compared to when you look at them normally. Since pigeons are creatures with bodies mostly made up of feathers after all. You can try looking inside her sleeves, I believe there would definitely be fallen feathers.”

The moment I said that, Marina instantly made a gesture to hide her sleeves. At that moment, her black scarf slipped … and a slave collar could be seen.

” … I see, as there is a slave contract, everything will be invalidated if the master just states that the slave acted without his permission and the master will not be implicated. So it’s a scam using that system.”

“Eh, so there was such a system?”

By speaking up until that point, the shopkeeper onee-san raised her 2 hands,

“I surrender, it’s our defeat. Oh man, you’re good, onii-san and friends. Anybody can reasonably see through the first sword but I didn’t think that anybody would be able to see through the second act. Ahaha, even though the day before yesterday, an idiotic couple bought everything, the Excalibur sword and armour set as well as the metallic whip that was said to maybe awaken the power of a Monster Master and a robe merely painted with silver, today’s such an unlucky day.” (TL: So the previous sword was called Excalisur because Excalibur was bought by Jofre lol)

” … You’re acting surprisingly innocent.”

“Ah well. Since I didn’t lie at all. Even this staff, it really does raise magical power. Only to the extent of 1% though.”

The onee-san said so, pulled the staff from the stone and tapped her own shoulder as she said.

“The one who said that she wants to buy the staff is Marina there, it has nothing to do with me.”

“So cruel … didn’t you say you were my friend.”

“Be quiet, stranger anxiety.”

The onee-san pulled off Marina’s mask.

When that happened, her Japanese (Mongoloid) eyes were revealed and she crouched in panic as if to hide her eyes. Her face was beet red.

“Hau … Please, return it, please return my mask, Kannon.”

“Give me half of the coin donations if you want me to return it, Malina. Who do you think feed and raised a Wanderer like you?”

The 2 of them got along well together as they competed for the mask.

Eh?

“Wait a moment, erm, I don’t know if you’re Marina or Malina but you, are you perhaps … ” (TL: She introduced herself asマリーナ while Kannon called herマリナ. Both the same pronunciation just with a longer ‘ri’ drag for the former. I’ll use Marina to indicate the former while Malina for the latter since … I prefer Marina and it’s what the author used for the volume title so I’ll stick to that as her name.)

I said in amazement.

“A Japanese?”

Author’s note:

It’s in the volume title but the 3rd volume’s heroine has finally appeared.

Marina. A street performer and accomplice to a swindler-like business.