“Stop talking nonsense, you can't wear that skirt!”
The last time Yu was angry, he was at Rolderhelm. They had been taken to the police station and taken to court because of a false report by a lunatic.
But his anger now was many times greater than it had been then. Sharley was at least a lunatic with a purpose, but today he was a lunatic with no purpose at all. Yu's face reddened with anger, his voice and hands began to tremble.
“What do you mean I can't wear it? Who are you to tell me?”
“We can see dick, motherfucker!”
At this, the madman blushed, took a few steps back while covering what was coming out from under his skirt with his hands, and shouted “Pervert!” while trying to make his voice sound like a woman's voice.
“Fuck you! Fuck you, get out of here!”
He threw the wooden cup he held in one hand at the madman, while with the other hand he continued to cover the eyes of the brown-haired, cat-eared girl.
“Don't ever let me see you again!”
Seeing the glass coming at him, the man jumped aside and knocked over the table. The madman ran out of the tent as Yu grabbed another object to throw.
“Yu, you know, even though you tell me to cover my ears, I still hear the voices.”
Yu took his hand away from Yurine's eyes.
“You didn't see anything, did you?”
If the madman had come when Yu was alone, he wouldn't have been so angry with him, he would have just fired him for being mentally unstable, but when he came when Yurine was with him, he couldn't control his anger. If Yurine was away he would have beaten him.
“No, I haven't.”
“Good,” he said and picked up the table he had knocked over and began to arrange things on the floor. “What are we dealing with... If patience were a stone, it would crack...”
When he had fixed the inside of the tent, he went outside and looked around for someone to scold for the mess he had just made.
“Where are you!”
Hearing Yu's angry voice, brothers Shango and Fyano ran to him and stood at attention. Although they were both two-meter men, Yu was their boss and they had to bow down to him to get rich.
So even if they did not like Yu, they had to obey him
“A man comes to my tent shaking his balls and no one stops him! What the hell are you people good for? Useless idiots, have I hired you for nothing!”
“We apologize, boss. It's our fault,” Shango said, clasping his hands together. He was staring at his own feet.
“You apologized, what happened? What good did your apology do? I don't want your apologies, incompetents, just do your job properly and never have to apologize.”
Shango and Fyano were working as bodyguards at the circus, but their failure was disappointing. The madman from earlier had appeared several times before, and whenever he did, the two Yu had hired as bodyguards failed to stop him.
“Just because we're a circus doesn't mean we have to gather all the crazies under the tent... Oh, one crazy person is missing and another is coming.”
“Have Gaoi and the others returned?”
“No, boss.”
“Tch... Let me know when they return. Now get out of here!”
When they first came to İlonya, a few swindlers realized that he was rich and tried to swindle him, but in the meantime they were swindled by Yu and asked him to teach them.
Yu accepted the offer and became the head of what was then called the ‘Qrath Fire Circus.’ The circus was a criminal organization that traveled around cities and countries committing petty robberies and scams.
With the investment from Rolderhelm, Yu had developed the circus and planned a gigantic profiteering scheme. The money he was after in İlonya was much more than he had made in Rolderhelm. These events happened two weeks ago.
“Yu, you look so cool like this.”
Yu and Yurine did not want to be recognized or have their names spread. To prevent this from happening, they started using pseudonyms and dyed their hair.
Yue was the nickname he gave Yurine when Yu chose Ryuta to use again. Yue was one of the names he thought of giving Yurine until he found her name, and he wanted to give it to her because she had white hair.
Now Yu was taking care of his own face after finishing Yurine's makeup. Since they worked in the circus, they were both dressed in circus-appropriate clothes.
They had both chosen gothic clothes. Yu looked like a magician from his world, wearing a tall hat and makeup that made his face look whiter than it actually was.
With his white hair, the purple lipstick on his lips, the black pencil around his eyes and the black line from his left eye down to the middle of his cheek, he was a bit scary, but he still looked cool. And that was thanks to Yu Valarfin's innate charisma.
“Of course I'm going to look cool, no matter what clothes I put on, I always look perfect. Perfection is in my nature.”
Yurine's face makeup made her look as white as Yu. As a result, they both looked like ghosts, but Yu was still cool and Yurine was still sweet.
When it was time for the final touches, he completed his preparations with a few stars he drew on Yurine's face. The show would start when the sun went down and it was not long before the sun set.
Sitting on Yu's lap, Yurine began to examine her face in the mirror.
“Strange,” Yurine said. She brought her face closer to the mirror.
“They wouldn't pay to watch ordinary people. Although we are not ordinary people either.”
“Yu, yes. We're always number ten people.”
Yurine sometimes talked like Yu. Once Yu even caught Yurine copying his poses in front of a mirror.
When she was caught, Yurine blushed with embarrassment and tried to make Yu forget it by making different excuses, but there was no way he could forget such a sweet sight.
When they had finished preparing, they heard a voice outside the tent. It was the voice of a young man.
“Boss, we're here.”
Yu took his walking stick and walked out of the tent, holding Yurine's hand. Outside, one of Yu's other employees, Doriaty, was waiting for him.
“We have moved the people from the southern region to the back. Please come and check, so there won't be any problems later.”
“What did the Afollos do?” he asked as he walked to the back of the circus.
“No news from them yet.”
Among the tents used for circus workers on the side of the circus close to the forest, the ones with the highest security measures were the ones used for storage.
In fact, these tents were set up not exactly as a warehouse, but as a treasure room. Valuables that had been brought in, that is, stolen, were carried here.
They entered the tent and Yu started to open the crates that had been placed inside. Inside the safes were gold, silver, jewelry, necklaces, bracelets, antiques and many other valuables.
“You guys head east. You found out where we'll meet when you're done, didn't you?”
“Yes, we'll meet north of the forest, behind the little hill.” Doriaty would bring new goods there.
“Boss.”
When they stepped outside the tent, they saw four people coming towards them. It was Shango who called out to Yu, the others were Gaoi and her cinnamon-skinned, wolf-eared twin sisters Niuhe and Miuhe.
“Where have you been? The show is about to start, hurry up.”
“Sorry boss, we took a long time, but look at the goods we brought.”
As he wheeled his wheelbarrow full of magic stones into the tent, he sang a cheerful song, dreaming of the rich days ahead.
Yu didn't like people who didn’t have a hood voice singing, but since it was his last day here, he decided to ignore his singing.
“Put them in the wagons and keep the wagons ready. We will move after the demonstration is over.”
While Shango and a few others loaded the stolen goods onto the wagons to be pulled by the rinos, Yu went to the tents to check the preparations of the other members of the show.
While some clowns and magicians came to the circus area and entertained the people who had decided to stick around until the show started, Yu checked the acrobats, illusionists preparing for the big magic shows and finally the animals in cages.
“I am telling you, when we rewind time, I'm not going to let you do any of this.”
After checking everything, they walked to the show tent. The warmth of Yurine's hand warmed Yu's cold hand.
“I was already soothing my conscience by thinking that none of this would ever happen...”
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Even though there was a possibility that they could not rewind time and cancel the events, Yu believed that they would be able to rewind time, and his conscience was comforted by that thought.
“But how can I comfort her later? If necessary, I won't hesitate to do things I shouldn't do to keep her smiling. Even if time will be turned back and what happened after that can never be canceled again.”
As the sun set, it was time for the show. Although Yu was annoyed that Afollo was still nowhere to be seen, he had to go ahead with the show and move on to the next steps of the plan.
He entered the main tent where the show would be held. Although there were other performances outside the tent, this was the best place for the bigwigs to watch the show.
After making his final preparations backstage, he checked his voice and came on stage with his hands in the air while Yurine stayed backstage and painted the whole place blue with a light spell.
“Lucky guests of the Virgo Circus, welcome to the place of dreams! Get ready for an adventure beyond your dreams and don't close your eyes for a moment, otherwise you will regret what you missed for a lifetime!”
As he raised his cane, he pulled down the mechanism and the magic stone that shot up from the tip of the cane exploded after ten meters in the air, covering the ground in a cloud of red dust.
After the clouds cleared, the brothers Najo and Brao from Brahatul, who use the name Dragon Breathers, took the stage with somersaults.
Blowing flour into their mouths, they held a ring of fire in their hands and danced while displaying a mixture of blue and green flames that took the breath away from young children, but the show had little appeal for adults.
Yu knew the importance of the lights, so he chose such bright tricks to impress the audience. As the flames of the Dragon Breathers died down, a new and dangerous show began on the thin rope above.
As Gaoi's cinnamon-skinned, wolf-eared sisters danced on a tightrope with flaming swords in their hands, the entire audience held their breath and stared.
The wolf-eared sisters had finished their heart-pounding show to perfection and it was the turn of a rhino from Brahatul, moving on cannons.
After the rhinos, elephants, magicians, acrobats and different entertainers took the stage while Yu was backstage watching the show with Yurine.
“When you watch from backstage and see the background of the tricks, it's not so fascinating.”
Yu had learned all the tricks here. In his own world he was interested in illusionism, so he knew the tricks of magicians, but in this world the tricks combined with simple spells were more spectacular, until he learned how to do them.
“Boss, I'm back.”
“Where have you been?”
“I'm sorry, my companions were a bit of a nuisance.”
Afollo, who had come to report, raised his hands and showed Yu the bloodstains. Without questioning what had happened, Yu told him to go to the wagons and they would finish the show.
Then he clapped his hands, twirled his staff and walked away, while the workers who received the command immediately stopped their demonstration and set fire to the tent.
They had specially arranged the tent. They had smeared the fabric of the tent with a potion Yu had prepared with a formula from an alchemical book he had obtained at the Wizarding Academy, and it would take about an hour for the flames to cover the entire tent.
So they had time to rob the rich here and the guests had time to leave alive.
“Everyone! The dreams have been good, but it's time to wake up. Let's put our hands in our pockets and pay for the show, please, quickly.”
Some spectators were caught in the middle of the fire and frantically tried to get out but were stopped by circus security.
The bystanders who tried to attack Yu were also met by Yurine's wind spell and flew back the way they came.
The audience was now screaming, some of the men were trying to comfort their fainting wives, while others were trying to calm crying children.
Meanwhile, the circus workers began to collect the loot.
“Don't take it from them, it's shameful to covet pennies from the poor. Take it from the rich people over there.”
Although there were usually rich guests inside the tent, ordinary people were also seated in the back rows.
Yu knew that what he was doing was bad in every way, but his conscience would not allow him to rob people who were already spending the little money they earned at the circus to entertain their children.
“Probably someone in Rolderhelm lost their child's livelihood because of me, but my conscience was clear because I didn't see them.”
“Boss, everything is ready,” said one of the employees. He was holding a big sack with valuables in it.
“Okay.” Yu turned to his staff. “Hey, gather round! We're leaving this place.”
With a few strokes of his cane, they started to run towards the wagons waiting for them outside. Yurine was back on Yu's lap.
Even though she could run faster than Yu, she always asked Yu to hold her, especially lately, both to avoid leaving Yu behind and because she liked to be carried.
Yu and Yurine got into the front carriage, while the rest of the circus staff moved to the prepared carriages at the back.
“Let's go!”
When he saw everyone boarding, he shouted to leave before the city guards flooded the circus. With Gaoi holding the reins at the head of the wagon, the rinos began to run, quickly exceeding the speed of a horse.
As the tent was burning, Yu hoped that people were getting out. They had taken precautions to prevent people from dying and the flames were spreading very slowly. They had to get out soon and save their lives.
“THEY'RE COMING!”
“THEY'RE COMING!”
“THEY'RE COMING!”
People behind the convoy of wagons began to shout in turn, and eventually the voices reached those in front.
This was a sign that things were going badly. Not only were the city guards on their trail much earlier than they had planned, but they were faster than they thought.
Moreover, although the huge komodors on which the city guards rode were not as fast as the rinos that normally pulled the convoy, they could keep up with the slower rinos because of their weight.
Komodors were also much bigger and stronger animals than rinos. The rinos could therefore be afraid of them and get out of the way.
Yu opened the window of the carriage, stuck his head out and looked behind him. Two seconds later he saw an explosion at the end of the convoy.
“Boss, we're entering the forest!” shouted Gaoi, who was driving the wagon.
If they moved in a straight line they would be caught and it would be obvious where they were going. They had to go off the road and into the forest to reach the meeting place they had agreed with Doriaty.
They had arranged their wagons according to this plan, smaller than standard, so that they could move more easily through the trees.
“Go and check the back.”
Gaoi's wolf-eared sisters sat opposite Yu and Yurine. At Yu's command, they opened the carriage door and jumped out. Yu would have tumbled and broken bones after such a jump, but the wolf-eared girls made it look like the easiest thing in the world.
Yu stuck his head out the window again and watched as they quickly ran to the back of the convoy.
“Yu.”
Yurine grabbed Yu's hand and pulled him into the carriage.
“Don't worry, we have prepared this plan in advance, but their animals cannot move freely in the forest. We will get rid of them soon.”
Indeed, it was as Yu had said. By the time the wolf-eared girls had finished their work in the back and returned to the front carriage, they had dodged their pursuers and arrived at the appointed meeting place with Doriaty.
When Yu's wagon slowed down and stopped, all the wagons behind it stopped with it. Yu stepped out of the wagon, holding Yurine's hand. He went to Doriaty, who was waiting for them at the top of an empty hill with no trees.
“Show me.”
Doriaty brought him new chests full of gold and silver.
“All right, some of you go and check the forest so we don't get raided. In the meantime, we'll divide the spoils.”
Those who had listened to Yu's words moved a little away from the area for safety, those who stayed behind were unloading crates from the wagons.
At that moment, Yurine shook Yu's hand three times.
“Wow, you low-life assholes...”
Yu kept talking without changing his expression.
“As we agreed, fifty percent of the booty belongs to me. I will take what is light in weight, and you can divide the rest among yourselves.”
The haul was so big that Yu's share was worth five thousand gold pieces. Five thousand gold coins, added to what he already owned, gave Yu a fortune of ten thousand gold coins.
Of course, the money he received was out of his investment. Yu's share was calculated after he got his investment back.
They had disposed of the balance of one hundred and twenty gold coins for their own needs and for Sivina and Ana. This, combined with their current earnings, left them with ten thousand gold coins, which, in dollar terms, made Yu a dollar millionaire.
For the modern giants of the twenty-first century, this is a small sum of money, but for the medieval states, it would have been jaw-dropping.
And that was only fifty percent. The Virgo Circus's total earnings amounted to ten thousand gold pieces. No country in the world, let alone the İlonya State, had ever seen such a huge haul before.
Yu knew what they were going to do, but he hoped they wouldn't do anything stupid.
“If you've finished your work, disperse. Remember, we never saw each other.”
“Sure thing, boss. Nobody saw you-AH!”
The man jumped on Yu with a dagger in his hand and was blown into the sky by Yurine's wind spell. He probably would have died from the fractures in his body when he hit the ground.
“You really made such a fool of yourself, huh... Even though I knew it would come to this, I wanted to think you'd be smarter than you look.”
As Yurine took her place in front of Yu, they were surrounded by people who coveted Yu's incredible amount of loot and were angry at having been scolded by him for two weeks.
“Even after what you just saw?”
Shango, Fyano, Doriaty, Afollo, Gaoi and her sisters, in short, everyone Yu remembered and didn't remember from the circus surrounded him and Yurine.
The men Yu had sent into the forest to provide security had also come out of the trees, but Yu knew it would be like this because of Yurine.
“Well...”
Yu had expelled from the circus anyone strong enough to stand a chance against them. The most dangerous of those who remained were Gaoi's sisters, but they were still nothing compared to Yurine's power.
Before the other people could pounce on them, Yu took out a throwing knife from his cane, reinforced with a magic stone, and threw it at Gaoi.
Gaoi wasn't someone who knew how to fight. From what Yu had observed, he was just an asshole who took advantage of his sisters. That's why he knew Gaoi would freeze in fear at the sight of the knife coming at him.
And just as Yu thought, as Gaoi froze in fear, one of his sisters jumped up to protect his brother and stepped in front of the blade.
Seizing the opportunity, Yurine sent a deadly wind spell at them.
“No one here is Yurine's equal.”
The sharp gust of wind from Yurine's hand struck the girl and split her in two, reaching the older brother she was trying to protect, who was also split in two when he encountered the spell. Yurine's magic continued after that and after a while it disappeared into thin air.
While this was happening, others were not idle, dozens of people started running towards Yu and Yurine at the same time.
“Vixa Rhae Minue'e!”
Yu moved closer to Yurine to stay out of the storm and not be blown away, and a storm suddenly formed around the two of them, blowing away the people who attacked them along with the lethal objects thrown at them.
“Foolish creatures, low forms of life. Who do you think you are? You should have been grateful and prostrate and thankful for what has been bestowed upon you by the superior ones. Foolish beings, ingrates.”
Gaoi's other wolf-eared sister, who had survived the storm, rushed at them in a rage. Yurine sliced her in half with another windblade she sent, and the girl was dead before she even realized what had happened.
In fact, even Yu didn't think Yurine would be that strong, but when they came to Ilonia, he clearly realized that Yurine was quite high on the power rankings in places other than Rolderhelm.
The reason why Yurine didn't seem so strong when she was in Rolderhelm was that Rolderhelm was gathering a lot of people with potential, both because of the adventuring activities and because of the presence of the Wizarding Academy.
With most of the powerful people in the world gathered in Rolderhelm, even Yurine, who was normally very powerful, was dwarfed.
But Yurine, of course, was not this strong when she was in Rolderhelm. Yurine gained her current strength thanks to the books from the Wizarding Academy and the tricks she learned from Ana.
She was now so powerful that she had knocked back close to a hundred people in a very short time without any difficulty, even though her opponents were stronger than ordinary people.
When she fought Sharley, she had to wait for the storm to gather around her before she could cast such a spell and lost time.
It was astonishing that she could now cast a spell far more powerful than that spell in a few words.
Some of Yu and Yurine's opponents wised up and took what they could and tried to escape, while others who had not wised up got up and prepared to fight again.
“Yurine, don't let them escape.”
“Okay, Yu!”
With her wind magic she tore apart the wagons of those who tried to escape. Those who realized that they could not escape with the wagons tried to run away with as much gold as they could, but Yurine did not let them go again and killed them all.
Shango and Fyano were next, who had been receiving the harshest scolding from Yu for days. They wanted to beat the shit out of Yu to vent their anger, but Yurine would not allow it.
As they stood up and took their first steps towards Yu, their bodies were torn apart by a wild tornado. Yu found this method of killing too brutal for Yurine, but he just watched.
“Hmm... Really, Afollo? At least I thought you were smart.”
“You know what? I think it would be best if I left.”
Afollo walked to one of the wagons, keeping his face away from Yu and Yurine, and tried to escape with his share of the gold, but when Yurine smashed his wagon to pieces, he fell to his knees and begged.
“No mercy for traitors,” said Yurine. She blew Afollo's head off with her wind magic.
Some of those who were still alive and saw those who tried to escape or surrender dying thought that their last option for survival was to fight, but their thoughts did not last long when Yurine spoke the magic words again.
“Ultea! Vixa Rhae Minue'e!”
Yurine's magic tore everyone apart except Yu and herself.