Yuri, who was wearing a red-eyed skull tie in a crimson suit and black shirt, looked at the magic hat with a puzzled expression.

"I'm obviously locked in the 'slaughter line', so I can't miss it...... But it's this thing that cuts off? Is there a 'exchange' on the material level? The moment the slash hits, the hat is replaced with the Nightmare itself.

This woman has run out of oil, and it is impossible for her to use such subtle powers.

Are reinforcements coming? ”

Yuri, however, was undaunted and was about to catch up with the group of executioners.

Marco and Martin, who were supposed to be in the rear, chased to the front line at an unimaginable speed and reached out to hold Yuri's shoulder.

"Marco...... How did you come to the front? ”

"Senior Yuri, since the other party's reinforcements have arrived, we will not chase them for the time being. As we talked about before, the forces behind the other side should not be head-to-head with them, and it is enough to chase and kill them.

Let me negotiate later. ”

"Since you know the situation better than I do, the rest will be up to you."

Yuri is still very face-saving for his juniors, and Marco and Martin are his most promising young prophets, and this time they can decipher the 'hidden streets' all rely on Marco's divination.

Yuri raised his arms in the air, and the group of executioners behind him all stopped their pursuit, taking advantage of the treacherous mountain environment to hide.

As Marco marched forward,

Two figures gradually walked up from the bottom of the hillside.

One is an 'acquaintance' that Ma Ke knows, and the magician Jain, who is comparable to a gentleman in his gestures, also nodded slightly when the two met.

When another person appeared, an instinctive sense of danger forced Marco to take a step back.

Even the main personality that is sleeping in the depths begins to rise on its own, ready to take over from the secondary personality to deal with the dangerous situation in front of them.

"Another clown different from Nightmare?"

In the field of vision, a clown with a round head, big ears, hooked nose, and a crimson smiling face painted on his face slowly squeezed into the [eye sockets] on the hillside, and even continued to expand between the eye sockets, as if to occupy his entire field of vision.

Or rather, there was something under the clown's loose costume that drew his vision, and at the same time exuded a pure vicious atmosphere.

Marco had never seen such a sick person, and he could also be sure that the other party was a strong enemy in the true sense of the word, far above the Nightmare Clown.

Then

A nightmare tentacle slowly emerged from the round hat in the magician's hand, the top of which was faintly visible as Catherine's humanoid silhouette, and her body appeared extremely weak.

Even so.

Catherine still held onto her voice, "Thank you...... Mr. Jain, and Lord Art's rescue. ”

Yat the Clown hurriedly stepped forward, reaching out and gently touching the surface of the tentacles.

"It's okay! A clown like Catherine can't die now~ Otherwise, I will need to play two roles in the follow-up show, how tiring it is.

I just didn't expect you to be embarrassed to this extent, if it weren't for Jain urging us to hurry up, you might have died here.

Hey~ It's a shame,

Catherine, when you come back from this trip, you should practice with me. If it weren't for Jain's intercession for you, I would have punished you well.

For the sake of your regular help me with errands and errands, I'll help you kill all these humans...... Hahaha! ”

"Lord Art doesn't ......" Catherine wanted to veto, after all, it was her business, but she was gagged by Art in the middle of her words.

Art's claim of revenge for Catherine is nothing more than an excuse.

He took the opportunity to go out this time to take advantage of the matter of 'saving Catherine', to vent his natural desires, and to bring malice to this group of human tribes who accidentally got involved with the circus.

Still with his slow, strange steps, Art slowly approached the prophet Marko.

It always felt like his legs weren't supporting much, and it was more like he was relying on some kind of limb hidden inside the costume, or multiple limbs to move.

Funny, grotesque and slow,

In Mako's eyes, he saw an enemy full of vulnerabilities, but he did not dare to attack, and at the same time began to "draw cards" in his mind, divining the next situation.

however

Marco drew four kings from a deck of cards, and each one had a different posture, or became more and more bizarre as it went from left to right.

While Marco was doing his inner divination, one of the circus' trump cards, Arter the Clown, had already arrived in front of him.

Its stained yellow and black teeth are fully revealed in a smile, showing his malice to anyone who faces it.

The right arm is raised high,

The five fingers twisted and clenched together like rubbers, forming a kind of spherical 'weird fist', which smashed downward in a very rusty motion.

The punch seemed non-threatening, slow and ordinary, like a fat man who had never learned boxing...... But it is full of malice, and once hit, there will be serious consequences.

Syllable!

At the critical moment, the Prophet Mako suddenly reached out and firmly grasped Art's wrist to stop the fall of the punch.

There is also a layer of 'pus-like' yellowish material on the pinch, which prevents him from coming into direct contact with Art.

The breath of the whole person has also become different, which makes Yate in front of him shrink his neck and blink his eyes, which feels incredible,

"Oh, there are two things in you! What I just spoke was only [secondary], and what appeared in front of me now is the main ...... It's funny, no wonder Catherine is suffering from you.

It's not like a remote, weak human tribe at all. ”

With the appearance of Martin in the front, he was also followed by the group of executioners led by Yuri, as if a war could start at any time.

That's when it happened.

Whoosh~ A magic card spins and flies at a tricky angle.

Firmly inserted between Martin and Yat the Clown, the card is painted with the image of 'earth'.

Airplanes!

Effect activation,

The card directly adds a piece of land between the two to achieve the effect of forcibly splitting...... Both Martin and Art can clearly feel the wonderful sensation of spatial expansion and land reproduction.

The land of reproduction and mobility also sends Art back to the magician.

"Yate ~ During the non-performance period, if you let the boss know that you are causing trouble outside, and there is even a certain possibility that you will cause 'trouble' to the circus, what will be the outcome, you should know very well as a core member."

"Hold me the boss again, right?"

"Just to remind you that now that Catherine is all right, the purpose of our trip has been accomplished. The 'quality' of this group of humans has exceeded the 'baseline' set by the boss.

In the future, we may be able to become our audience, or even participants, which will help the development of the circus.

If you want to vent, on the way back, I don't mind if you go and destroy a few sick strongholds that don't meet the baseline. ”

"It's boring......"

Art stopped stepping forward and descended the mountain with grotesque steps.

Magician Art tucked his hat to his chest, bowed goodbye to Marco and Martin, and left, while Catherine was contained in the hat space by him, enjoying a rare moment of peace.

Until the figures of the two disappeared completely,

A drop of cold sweat slid down Marco and Martin's sideburns.

Just now, he let two personalities control the body at the same time, and the main personality is responsible for providing strength, courage, and momentum for a head-to-head duel, and the secondary personality to maintain reason.

This is done in order to be able to stabilize and avoid conflict with the outbreak as much as possible.

This has never been done before, and the existential pressure just now has made Marco and Martin achieve their first 'cooperation'.

Yuri stepped forward and tapped him on the shoulder with his re-wrapped palm.

"Let's go~ It's over, it's good."

"Thank you Mr. Yuri for your trust, I'm really afraid that you just waved your hand and killed the group directly."

"The first gentleman is in danger, the production of skins is becoming more and more tight, and the organization has been hit to varying degrees in recent times, which can be described as a great loss of vitality.

If you provoke such a mysterious organization again, as you said, it may invite destruction.

Before everything completely collapses, let's hold it up for a while and give young people some time to develop.

The current group of young people is quite good. ”

"Hmm."

(End of chapter)