【Clown House】

Unlike the magic area, which has a large area and multiple rooms connected by circuitous passages, it is suitable for different types of magic training and assistant training.

The Clown House is tucked away deep in the circus, and there is no elevator connected to it, so the only way to reach it is by special 'roller coaster'.

There are two factories in the underground area like a dark cave.

On the left is a factory painted with black and white wall paint and hardcover polishing, more like a dance room.

The right side is dominated by red bricks and matched with colorful colors, and the specifications of the factory are the same as those next door, but it looks extremely bloated. The bloody graffiti painted on the wall tiles with spray paint is even more irritable, swollen and full of viciousness.

Any outsider who applies for a trainee clown will be sent here on a roller coaster once they pass the pre-screening of the poker face. Without any hints, they will make the most important choices of their lives here.

If you choose the black and white factory on the left, you will be pierced and suspended by various steel wires as soon as you walk in.

If you can't fall asleep within one minute, you will fail the assessment, and if you wake up from a nightmare within an hour after falling asleep, it will also lead to failure.

But this kind of clown assessment is still much simpler than next door, at least some trainee clowns have come out of the black and white factory room to serve the circus.

Once selected, the colorful factory on the right will never be able to leave, and it seems to be permanently left inside, and their voices can occasionally be heard.

Instead of dying, he took another form as a trainee clown, a form in which he could not survive and could not die.

Today is a special day.

Since there were no newcomers to the clown house for the time being, the young woman in black and white stockings walked out of the black and white factory and took the initiative to go to the next door. Compared with the fear when he used to visit the door, now he is quite calm.

Slippery black octopus tentacles grew out from under the woman's skirt, clasped the heavy sliding iron door, and the rusty rollers slid away with difficulty.

In the middle of the open and empty factory,

Sitting sat a vicious, hateful-looking clown,

With a needle and thread in one hand and scissors in the other, he was trimming, cutting, and sewing the flesh beneath his clothing, and a low cry was constantly coming from within.

"Boss, I'm taking a leave of absence today to play with Uncle Jain."

"Reason."

The girl put her finger against her lower lip, "Well~ Well~ because there was an interesting person, and it was because of me that I came to the circus."

I thought he would apply for a job as a trainee clown, but who knew that he ran to Uncle Jain's side.

I'll go see him and see if I can dig it up. ”

"As long as your show is rehearsed."

"Thank you, Boss, bye-bye!"

The girl smiled and waved, stepping back slowly on her tiptoes.

When she was about to leave the factory...... Syllable! The clown sitting in the center of the factory suddenly had an uncontrollable explosion of his back flesh, and the swollen and twisted abscess tentacles frantically poured towards the girl.

When it is about to be curled and devoured,

The girl had already stepped out of the factory lightly, using the hook of the umbrella in her hand and the tentacles under the skirt to close the sliding door in an instant.

There was no change in his expression, as if he had long been accustomed to such things.

A bouncing roller coaster heads towards the inside of the circus.

……

【Magic House】

After arranging his ocean-blue hair a little, Jahn took Guy out of an alien space with a very quick stroke. The Fox mask is put on for himself.

He didn't cover his face,

Instead, masks are used to cover the abyssal structure between the eyes, so as to reduce the impact of "abyssal phobia" on others, otherwise the audience will already fall into the abyss before the magic show begins, and their souls will not be at peace.

William looked at the magic hat badge on his chest, "Am I a member of the circus now?" ”

"Barely so, but if you want to officially become a member of us, you need to attend at least one show and get the boss's affirmation, and then the "fear seed" planted in your brain will connect to the fear network created by the boss and become a member in the true sense.

Being praised by the boss is one of our greatest honors as performers.

You have to be well prepared, if you can win the applause of the boss, the road to the circus will become more wide. If you are good enough, you may even get the opportunity to meet your boss. ”

"I'll try." Along the way, William's interest in the circus grew exponentially.

"Go ahead, go start your training. The other assistants will train you when they see the badge until you find the type of magic you are best at. ”

William thanked him sincerely and exited Jain's magic house.

The corners of his mouth turned up slightly, and it seemed that he had made the right choice. As one of the circus' most famous magicians, Jain often shows concern for his juniors when he first appears in Nightmares, even if Catherine is not in the same department as him.

While taking the initiative to rescue Catherine, he tried his best to avoid a conflict between Yat the Clown and humans.

Such an 'amiable' boss is the best choice for William to get started.

……

Back in the roundabout passage, when William was thinking about who to find to practice magic,

Who knows, Pinu Ulisse, who is in charge of leading the way, is still standing at the entrance of the passage.

"Mr. Ulise, you're still here~ It's just right, can you take me to learn magic?" William also seized the opportunity to start with acquaintances, and by the way, he could also get closer by using his status as a slave.

"Ahem~ According to the rules, the assistant who has just joined the company can indeed apply to other assistants to learn, what I am good at is "camouflage", if you are interested, come with me."

Ulise also pretended to be calm, he still couldn't figure out why this foreign young human was favored by Mr. Jain, and took the initiative to open the door for him before he even changed his clothes.

As he walked, he said in the tone of his senior: "Every qualified assistant will be assigned a [magic house], and when you find a magic direction that suits you, you can submit an application for a personal magic house to the circus, and then a receptionist will come to help you create a room and give you some basic props."

The first rooms were very simple.

When you complete a show, earn fear for the circus, and get a pass or higher, you'll get a 'monetary reward' that you can use to renovate and expand the magic house, and even buy things at the circus' fear shop. ”

"Fear Store?"

"That's right, it sells fear products specially produced by the circus, which help us develop our own "phobia".

One of the prerequisites for being at the heart of Mr. Jain's circus is to have a unique and mature phobia.

That's all for later, so let's learn magic first. ”

"Hmm......" William focused on memorizing important information in his head.

Soon came to the magic room in Ulise, and when I opened the door, there was a pungent smell of rubber.

"Welcome to my camouflage room, as you can see, my best magic trick is disguise, and I occasionally appear as a stand-in for Mr. Jain."

When it comes to this, Ulisea is quite proud.

But in reality, he has only been a stand-in for Jain once, and has only been on stage for a few seconds, mostly disguised as someone else.

William stepped into the magic room and looked at the one-bedroom room in front of him.

Various paints and sebum solutions are piled up on the shelves, and the pungent smell comes from them.

Directly on the opposite wall are also covered with various ready-to-make and air-drying face masks, perfectly delicate and flawless.

William's keen gaze quickly spotted the distinctive piece of the mask,

It is a delicate, dark woman's mask with a white foundation.

"Mr. Ulise, is that mask yours too?"

Looking at William's point, Ulise was also a little confused.

"Huh? This mask, it's weird...... How come I am not impressed? Maybe I did it unconsciously during my creative rhapsody. ”

Ulise himself was quite curious,

When he approached the mask and tried to touch its material to remember the origin of the human skin mask.

Hum ~ (Mind Swings)

Not only did he touch the skin of the mask, but he also felt the flesh underneath it, and even two pitch-black eyeballs that weren't supposed to exist grew out of their sockets.

meanwhile

All the masks in the room began to animate, with eyes, black slime flowing from their mouths, and even tentacles burrowing out and flying in the air.

(End of chapter)