The Extra Prince Sets Out To Conquer The World

Naturally, the quality and location of the seats in the circus performance hall differed according to the ticket price.

As guests invited by the vice-captain, we naturally sat in the best seats in the front row.

“I’m not sure if it’s okay for us to sit in such good seats without even paying for the tickets.”

When Abassael worried in a small voice, I grinned.

For a once-popular wizard, he had quite a miserable side.

“I paid for the tickets, so don’t worry and watch.”

“Huh? You paid money?”

“Of course. I’m not that stingy.”

The gold bar I gave Yard would be enough to cover the ticket prices and even the entire revenue of today’s performance.

“That’s right. Young master is someone who bestows more than anyone else.”

Precia agreed with my words and nodded her head as if proud.

“Thanks for acknowledging it. Ah, El, watch the performance carefully. They’re the people you’ll be moving with until you reach the destination I told you about, so you need to get friendly with them.”

There’s no better way to get close to someone than praise.

“Am I really going to move with them?”

Abassael, who seemed to be very shy, was tense and determined.

It was natural for him to struggle with suddenly being thrown into a situation where he had to mingle with unfamiliar people after living in an environment where his encounters with people were extremely limited while being confined for a long time.

“That’s the quickest and safest path. Honestly, it’s not that safe for you to be in the capital either.”

“That’s true.”

I patted Abassael’s shoulder and comforted him.

At that moment, Precia started looking around with a displeased expression.

“What’s wrong?”

At my question, she hesitated slightly and answered carefully.

“No… It’s just that I had an ominous feeling, or rather, I felt unpleasant.”

At Precia’s words, I also looked around, but I didn’t particularly feel anything.

Seeing my expression, Precia smiled awkwardly.

“I guess it’s just my imagination.”

At her words, I thought for a moment and answered.

“It would be fortunate if it’s just your imagination, but it’s not bad to prepare for the worst. I trust you.”

Above all, as a female protagonist prone to getting involved in incidents, it was better to be careful.

Precia seemed touched by my words.

“Young master…!”

“So always be ready to grab me and run away…”

As I was answering leisurely, I saw pink hair among the audience entering through the entrance.

That uncommon hair color made me feel a sudden chill.

No way, it can’t be. No matter how unlucky I am, I couldn’t possibly run into them here, right?

“Young master?”

When Precia called me, I put a mask on Abassael’s face, pulled his hood down, and said:

“Precia, be ready to draw your sword at any time, and Abassael, never reveal your face. Don’t even make a sound. Stay still no matter what happens. That’s an order.”

At my serious voice, Precia tensed up slightly and checked the sword hidden inside her coat.

On the other hand, Abassael looked at me with eyes that didn’t understand what was happening.

I touched my face to check if the mask was working properly, then checked the inside of the circus troupe.

The only entrance was crowded with audience members entering, making it impossible to leave, and it didn’t seem easy to quietly move to another place due to the crowd.

Moving would have to wait at least until the audience was seated.

Of course, even if a battle broke out right now, if it was just me, even the current Precia would be able to protect me sufficiently.

However, it might be difficult to also protect Abassael.

I didn’t want to lose a hard-earned talent so helplessly.

“Abassael, keep this in mind. If you open your mouth at the wrong time, a disaster that kills hundreds of people will occur.”

At my warning, Abassael was flustered.

However, it didn’t take long for him to realize the meaning of my words, and he was shocked.

“Nivel…!”

Abassael gritted his teeth as he found the indigo-haired woman approaching the seating area where we were sitting, along with the pink-haired girl among the audience.

Puppet Master Nivel, who moved together with Necromancer Arisa, was the Shadow Tower wizard who approached Abassael and cursed him 10 years ago.

In other words, Nivel was Abassael’s one and only enemy.

Although he wanted to kill Nivel right away, Abassael, who couldn’t use magic, pulled his hood down and covered his face.

“Grrr!”

Precia, who sensed that they were enemies from Abassael’s reaction of grinding his teeth, looked at me as if asking if she should make a surprise attack.

If Precia made a surprise attack, their heads would surely be severed in an instant, no matter who they were.

However, I shook my head at her.

Those two were top-class wizards.

If we made a surprise attack, we would definitely kill one person, but I couldn’t guarantee killing both of them.

Moreover, it was a problem even if we succeeded.

The performance hall would be covered in blood, and if we caused such a commotion, we wouldn’t be able to entrust Abassael to the Slavan Circus troupe.

The value of Abassael regaining his magic was far greater than killing the two here and alerting their background organization.

“Nyahahaha! Nivel is really an idiot, right? We were so close, yet you wandered around so much for nothing.”

At Arisa’s words, Nivel rubbed her swollen cheek and pouted her lips.

“You didn’t have to hit me so hard. I’m not good at healing magic.”

As Nivel grumbled, Arisa laughed as if it was ridiculous.

“Nyahahaha! Who told you to talk back like that? Be grateful I didn’t separate your bones and flesh.”

“Tsk, if I could use my full power, you’d be the one getting beaten.”

“I couldn’t use my full power either, you know? Nyahahaha! What an ugly excuse from a loser~!”

The two bickered and checked the seats written on their tickets, then approached where we were sitting.

“Still, it’s fortunate we got good seats to watch the performance. Right?”

“Yes, it was lucky there was a ticket scalper. Otherwise, we would have had to watch the performance from way back there.”

Arisa and Nivel, who said that, sat side by side next to Precia.

I don’t know who that ticket scalper was, but they were probably killed by the two.

Tsk tsk, you should have been more discriminating in reselling tickets.

I pitied the unknown ticket scalper, who was probably already dead and buried in Arisa’s shadow.

Arisa, smiling as if she were looking forward to the performance, noticed Precia and me and laughed strangely.

“Huh? Nyahahaha! You’re wearing weird things on your faces.”

Just as Yard said that those sensitive to mana would notice, Arisa noticed right away.

Precia, who was tense when suddenly spoken to, tried to reach for her sword for a moment.

I grabbed her hand and answered.

“Oh, you noticed it, so you must have quite the discerning eye. Are you a wizard?”

When I asked back, Arisa laughed cheerfully and boasted.

“Nyahahaha! Seeing that you know, you have a good eye! I like it.”

On the surface, it was a cute girl’s lively smile that was pleasing to the eye, but the madness in her eyes gave me goosebumps.

“By the way, where did you get that thing on your face? It looks nice, can you give it to me?”

Arisa casually demanded that I hand over the Thousand Changes Mask to her, someone I was meeting for the first time.

I was one of their assassination targets, so of course, I couldn’t take it off and give it to her.

However, if I refused here, the greedy girl might try to kill me.

If she was skilled in magic, she could kill me without a scratch and put my corpse into the shadows before a commotion occurred.

Of course, if she tried, Precia would stop her.

I hid my true thoughts, smiled brightly, and said:

“What I’m wearing isn’t anything great, so I don’t mind giving it to you, but I’m reluctant to take it off here where there are many people.”

“Why?”

At Arisa’s seemingly innocent expression, I smiled bitterly inwardly.

“I’m a bit famous, you see. And if it’s revealed that I’m playing around in a place like this, my elder will scold me for not doing the task they assigned me.”

I skillfully lied and created a plausible fake identity.

“Is that so…?”

At my words, Arisa slightly hesitated.

If I was a famous person with a high status, she couldn’t recklessly kill me and take it away.

She wouldn’t know if troublesome things would happen if she killed me without knowing my identity.

The two were quite crazy, but while Nivel couldn’t judge the situation well, Arisa was quick at assessing the situation.

It was because Nivel grew up being pampered in a noble family, while Arisa was born and raised on the streets.

So even though Nivel was stronger in terms of pure power, Arisa was a much more difficult opponent.

“It’s not much, but I know a place where you can get one. Shall I tell you?”

“Really? Is it not far from here?”

Arisa’s face brightened, and she asked me to tell her where she could get a mask.

“It’s not that far. If you go northeast from here, you’ll reach a market street, and there’s a square with a clock tower nearby, right?”

“Yeah, yeah, there is.”

“If you enter the alley next to the bakery there, you’ll find a small, old cathedral with a broken-winged angel statue. It’s where you can see the clock tower between the buildings.”

When I described the characteristics of Boutique, Arisa made an ambiguous expression.

“Ah… that place.”

It would be stranger if she didn’t know since Boutique was also the biggest client of the organization Arisa belonged to.

I pretended not to know that fact even though I knew it clearly.

“Oh? Do you know that place? I guess you were also a customer there.”

“Well, yes.”

“I’m also a regular there. I’ve bought quite a lot from them.”

Of course, I didn’t pay the money myself though.

“It’s an item I obtained by making a request there, so you should be able to get it there.”

“I see.”

She seemed to have lost interest as if her excitement had deflated at my answer.

Given Arisa’s personality, she wouldn’t bother hiding her face, so her interest in my mask wasn’t because she really wanted the mask but because she was interested in the magic engraved on it.

Abassael’s engraving was excellent, but she probably already had a few of them, so she didn’t feel the need to study it further.

At that moment, the lights in the performance hall turned off, and colorful, flashy lights moved in a dizzying pattern, accompanied by the sound of drums.

“Ladies and gentlemen! Welcome to our Slavan Circus today!”

With a voice echoing through magic, all the lights gathered in the center of the performance hall, and a small smoke bomb exploded, making Yard, wearing a clown mask, appear as if he had teleported.

“Woah~!”

The audience gasped in surprise as he suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

Yard bowed to the astonished audience.

“Arisa! How did he do that? Spatial movement magic?”

Nivel tugged on Arisa’s arm and asked with sparkling eyes, and Arisa also watched seriously.

“No, there was no movement of mana, so it’s not magic. This Slavan Circus is the circus troupe created by that pervert old man Javan, so it must be the trick that pervert often used.”

“Ah! So this was the place created by that Sir Javan? No wonder he kept telling us to come and watch.”

Arisa and Nivel seemed to know Javan and focused on figuring out the magic trick Yard was performing.

Music flowed inside the performance hall, and the circus members came out one by one, showcasing their skills and matching each other.

As the circus performance was heading towards its climax, Arisa made a puzzled expression as if something was bothering her, pondered, and then asked me:

“Ah, by the way, wasn’t it taboo to mention Boutique in a crowded place like this?”

Ah, was it?

Arisa, who was smiling while pulling out a magic wand from the shadows, had madness flickering in her eyes.

This is bad.

(To be continued in the next part)