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(November 10th – Oahu – Smoking Area within Coral Street Shopping Mall – From the camera in the magician’s cell phone.)
As the magician pulled out her cell phone to check the time, she heard dry gunshots in the distance soon followed by the screams of onlookers.
“The scary thing about amateurs is how they will go through with something to the end once they are determined to do it.”
She was not speaking to herself, but she received no response.
Standing next to the magician was a black girl of about 10.
The girl was standing utterly still while using her right hand to hold the end of a flathead screwdriver up to her temple.
“It truly is frightening,” the magician whispered. “All I had to say was that I would have you tear your head apart like a frozen orange and he was ready to do it.”
Birdway had analyzed the magician’s spell.
She knew that the magician used the stories of the Leshy to control people by spreading her role as the ruler of the forest animals.
If the magician had sent one of the people she was controlling with the Leshy spell after Birdway, the traces of magic power and the spell would have been detected and eliminated before they could get close.
The people controlled by the magician’s magic could not approach Birdway.
That was a foregone conclusion.
However, there was not just one way of controlling people.
For instance, she could control a certain daughter and order her father to do things while he maintained his true self.
“She is quite skilled, but that in itself creates openings. Since she is determining danger by the presence of my spell, I can slip right past her defenses.”
The magician grinned.
In addition to the black girl, she had a few other children gathered in the smoking area.
Every one of them would function as a hostage to pull off that kind of secret trick when it was needed.
The magician had prepared as many disposable pawns for those tricks as she had hostages. For instance, one was targeting President Roberto Katze.
“And once he is past her defenses, it’s all over. Whether she is a magician or not, she is still a human who can be killed by a single bullet.”
The girl’s father must have wanted to make absolutely sure she was dead or a police officer had shown up and shot him to death because further gunshots rang out. However, it did not matter. When Birdway was in a completely defenseless state, the first shot was all it would take.
Part 10[edit]