We went inside after paying the admission fee of 10 El per person. (Total: 30 El for the three of us). Based on the estimation of 1 El = 150 yen, the entrance fee for each person should be 1500 yen. It was slightly expensive but it couldn’t be helped since it’s a festival price.
The interior looked pretty simple with a stage at the back and rows of chairs lined up on the floor for the audience. The chairs were placed on the steps installed so the stage would be visible for the audience sitting at the back row as well.
It didn’t seem possible to find any available seats in front judging from the number of customers coming in so we decided to grab the seats in the middle.
“Have Diana or Marina come to a place like this before?” [Jirou]
“If I have 10 El with me, I can use them as my food expenses for 5 days…… Besides, the place Marina was staying was situated in a rural area.” [Marina]
“This is actually my first time too. I’m quite excited about it.” [Diana]
Then it’s the first time for all of us.
Come to think of it, since the people in this world do not have something like a television, if they were to watch a magic performance all of a sudden, it didn’t seem likely for them to not be engrossed. Although I have seen a magic show performed by the natives from Africa in one of the programme before, the response was fairly laughable. Even if this show might not reach that degree, it may still be somewhat close.
Diana aside,……..I might be able to see a nice reaction coming from Marina……
Rather than watching the magic show, it should be more interesting observing her instead……
“……..? I-Is there something on Marina’s face? I-It’s really embarrassing if you were to keep looking at me.” [Marina]
Marina fidgeted. Whoops. It was a false start. My observation ended up being too obvious unintentionally. I wound up checking out her face, her hair and etc.
As soon as I seated myself next to her, she was looking at me with upturned eyes…….That has quite a high destructive power.
「Since the inside of the tent is dark, it will be alright to hold onto her……」
That thought crossed my mind for an instant but my sense of reason managed to win over at the last moment.
No, my arm was twisted at the last moment! It’s quite painful!
But it’s alright! My arm will not be broken easily just by the strength of Diana’s slender arm.
By the way, Diana is sitting on the other side, next to me. A flower in both hands. I am currently in such a blessed state if you exclude the part where my arm was being twisted.
“Diana. It’s feeling quite painful so can you release it soon?” [Jirou]
“It doesn’t seem that painful to you. I’ll need to learn the right way to do this from Rebecca the next time…..” [Diana]
It’s fine even if you don’t learn it!
If my arm were broken in this other world, I have a feeling that they might connect my arm back using a mysterious treatment. To begin with, why is she twisting my arm…….
“That’s because goshujin-sama is a liar.” [Diana]
Diana answered it as if she heard my inner monologue.
Well I do understand that I am certainly not the honest type. I have swindler as one of my vocation but I don’t think I can bring myself to say that out loud honestly……
However I am not really lying about anything in particular now so I don’t really understand what this High Elf-sama’s talking about.
Just as I thought of arguing back, the stage was illuminated by a strange bright light all of a sudden. The show seems to be starting.
The song played using the violin and harpsichord prime the audience’s expectation as to what will follow. Audio recording and playback equipment don’t exist in this world so real live performance is used as the BGM.
I am not sure what are the worth of musical instruments in this world but if I were to bring them over from the other side, they might be able to fetch quite a good price in my opinion…. I’ll be adding this as one of my subject to research as well.
While I was thinking of various things as I stared off into space absent-mindedly, an elderly man who appears to be the 「so-called magician」 got up the stage and seemed to be making some kind of preparation. Although, the setup done appeared to be indescribably poor.
My anticipation of watching an illusion magic is completely shattered now.
After a while, the elderly man who was finally done with his preparation turned to the audience.
“A good day to everyone here today. I’m Jiri Balazs the magician…… I would like to extend my appreciation to all the audience for coming to my booth today. Well then, please take your time and enjoy my various demonstration of mysterious magic from the Country of Fire!” [magician]