Flying over Floting, Rydge was shocked by the sight of the Ginza floating business district.

Hit the soul directly, so that the body can not move for a moment.

The distant Tokyo metropolitan area and the city are completely different worlds, Tokyo is in the style of the 20th and 30s, but Flotin goes back to the end of the 17th century, and the early 18th century, all the buildings are built in the British style.

In this world, England at the end of the 17th century had just entered the age of steam. At that time, Floting was not called Floting, but it was a sea prison floating in the middle of the Irish Sea, which was dedicated to witches who had committed serious crimes.

When its first owner bought it, the sea prison had been closed, and due to its long-term vacancy, all the facilities on it were demolished and rebuilt, and it was turned into a tourist city in the style of the steam age.

To this day, there is not a single modern style building on Floting. Although the network and power system are fully covered, the current owners do not want to let it integrate with the bustling metropolitan area in the distance, and continue to maintain a maverick style.

Even if the witches don't spend money at any of the shops in the city, they won't regret coming for nothing. You don't have to spend a lot of money to have fun, such as watching witches duel to the death.

The attendant pointed to a circular building built much like the Colosseum. Inside the circular building there are several rows of stands, and in the center is an oval-shaped dueling arena, which can accommodate a total of 10,000 people at the same time.

"Tickets for each game here are only 2,000 yen, and if a game is fully booked, the organizers can earn 20 million yen. What is the concept of 20 million, an ordinary Japanese witch earns about 5 million yen a year, and she can earn four years of salary for one game here. ”

"Do the people who participated in the duel have money?"

"Of course. High-risk and high-income, more earning than working at a convenience store. Ordinary witch high school students go to a convenience store to work, the hourly wage is 1,000 yen, and the part-time job is 4 hours a day, 4,000 yen a day, and it is only 120,000 a month. If you play a match here, you can get a minimum of 100,000 yen if you win, and the more famous the opponent, the more money you have. ”

"It's just an underground black fist."

"The duel here is legal, not black. When you come into contact with other, darker realms, you may feel that this arena is a star. ”

Then, the Lodger introduced Ruiji to some of the special projects in Flotin that attracted foreign witches.

"Floting is the world's largest black market for materials trading, and the sources of materials do not comply with the Japanese Material Exchange Management Law, and they are usually stolen goods, obtained by irregular means in other countries and regions, and are used here to change hands. A city on the water that is not regulated by the laws of any one country, there is no better place to sell stolen goods. ”

"Why do you know so much as a high school student?"

Riji bites off the chocolate matcha-flavored pocky in her mouth, and is once suspicious of the age of the host. The witch's youth is very long, and even if she is one hundred and eighty years old, no one can tell her real age.

"Part of it was told to me by Miss Rafatali. She was my confidante and worked as a bartender at the Flotin clubhouse. The other part, a few more times will naturally understand. Flotin operates in a peculiar way, and I personally don't hate places like this. ”

The waiter's expression was a little lonely. The sea breeze ruffled her long brown hair, adding a few strands of sadness for no reason.

The smiling friend was known to be a discordant family, with two mothers who divorced many years ago and started a new family, with the marshal living with his paternal mother, his stepmother and three half-sisters.

Discordant families will shape the witch's personality into a special desire for love, and fill the void by pursuing some mental and physical stimulation.

As for family harmony, my wife Risa, who lives a carefree life, neither wants to talk to other witches about the biological knowledge of the origin and birth of witches, nor does she want to shoot them, so pure as a blank sheet of paper, the standard pure love is the character of the heroine of the Japanese manga.

Following the floating indicator, the three of them officially entered Flotin's airspace.

In the distance, there are several towering steam towers, white steam spilling through the cracks in the metal pipes and permeating the sky over Flotin, keeping the place in a cloud of mist.

The pale golden light of the sky stained the clouds with the same color, and every evening, the crimson sunset sprinkled over the whole of Flotin, and the sky looked like it was burning.

"Where do we park our broomsticks?"

Riji had been riding a broom for too long and felt a little tired. It took her about half an hour to fly from Tokyo to Floting, and the combination of continuous flying and the exhaustion of the morning's schoolwork gradually made her lose the desire to continue flying, and she wanted to find a place to sit and rest.

She calls such reactions "rejection."

When you completely adapt to the identity and life of a witch, the rejection ends. There must be a process of adaptation, and it is conservatively estimated that it will take another half a month to meet the 21-day adaptation cycle.

"It is not advisable to park your broom in the public parking area here, and it is best not to leave it to anyone or place other than the hotel for safekeeping. The witches are slippery and will steal brooms while their owners are away, or tear down expensive parts and replace them with scrapped scraps.

By the time you find out that the broom has been dropped, it's too late, and you can't find out where the witch is, and Tokyo won't care. This is an unregulated place outside the law, and you can only pay more attention to yourself. ”

The attendant smiled and explained the brutal truth to her, and lowered his flight altitude to land in an open space with a drop point sign. The smell of warm steam and oil wafted in the air, and a steam train with silver and brass shells honked its horn past and carried a group of passengers to a nearby station.

Floting is larger, larger than the total area of Tokyo's four large islands combined, and steam trains are one of the most accessible vehicles needed to move around the city.

The streets are lined with horse-drawn carriages and bells and whistles, and the shops are lined with shops, and the sunlight adds a little warmth to the darkly colored buildings. Witches from all over the world roam the busy streets, ranging from bright and touching to wild and unrestrained.

Walking through the streets of Flotin, Rydge almost thought he had crossed over again, back to the world of the Witch in the 17th century.

Both Riki and Azuma were first-time visitors, and all their attention was drawn to the street scene, eager to carve everything new into their minds. The official lowered his head to reply to the message on his mobile phone, and his heart was a little itchy and unbearable.

"Two young ladies, are you going to eat now? If you have an idea, I know a western restaurant opened by the sea, and the chef witch has very good skills. If not, let's split up first. ”

That impatient mood, even a person as sluggish as Ruiji knows it clearly.