Chapter 51: ABABABAB…

Chapter 51: ABABABAB…

“Do you have any more interesting magic?”

“None… Wait, that magic of yours, is it my ‘Make the person disappear’ trick? No, no, it’s somewhat different, somewhat different!” Harold frowned as he thought—this focused madman was only thinking about this magic trick, as if he had already forgotten his current situation.

“Alright.” The Faceless One took the shackles from Harold’s hand and put them back on Harold.

“That’s enough for today. The commotion here was a bit too loud; it seems someone is coming. Harold, I hope you get out of prison soon. I look forward to your new magic tricks.”

Then, to Yingling’s astonishment, Louis reached out and grabbed the magician’s large, round face. Like rolling up a piece of paper, he rolled up a confused Harold and stuffed him into his sleeve.

After that, from a mirror inside Louis’s sleeve, a burning magic claw urgently reached out, pulled the rolled-up paper man into the Mirror World, and, taking advantage of Harold’s depleted mana, cast a series of magic spells on him.

“Stuart? You damn fellow, he really is connected to the Magic Prison. Get me a private cell. I’m not leaving; I need to properly study these new magic tricks of mine! Damn it, this paper magic is my ‘Card Trick’? No, no, my ‘Card Trick’ can’t turn a person with mana into paper… What magic is this… Damn, help me undo this spell. I need to write something, quickly bring me my magic notes! And a pen!”

“Don’t rush, Harold. In a few days, you’ll change back on your own.” Stuart said leisurely, as if singing: “After I eat your dream, the time will be up, heh heh heh heh heh…”

The dream of the Jack of Diamonds! He had been looking forward to it for a long time! The Boss indeed did not disappoint!

By now, rain had started falling from the sky; it seemed the storm from the other end of Blackhorn Alley had howled over.

The air in the alley rippled, as if the people Louis mentioned were about to arrive.

The Barbie doll in the cage, with a rose in its mouth, was already happily dancing. The Faceless One was puzzled at first, then seemed to find it quite interesting. He curiously looked at Yingling and listened to her thoughts.

Originally, Yingling wasn’t this happy, as the identity of the Faceless One still needed verification.

But just now, twelve people wearing long coats and felt hats suddenly Apparated around them.

Yes, the Faceless One must be their leader. Look, these twelve people all gathered behind him! Some of them glanced at the Faceless One, then, treating it as a serious threat, surrounded the Magician’s Box.

—These fools still don’t know their leader has already dealt with the magician!

This Faceless One must definitely be one of these twelve agents.

‘Who exactly is it? Let me guess, I know all of them. You secretly played the Faceless One, did so many bad things, and even used Dark Curses. This violates quite a few Ministry of Magic regulations. If you don’t bribe me, I’ll tell on you~’

[Oh? Little fox, you’re quite bold.]

A voice sounded in Yingling’s mind. Yingling’s body stiffened suddenly. She realized in confusion that, added together, there were exactly twelve agents.

An icy chill crawled from Yingling’s tail up her spine, spreading to the top of her head. Covered in cold sweat, she slumped down in the cage.

“Miss Yingling, are you alright?” The lead agent first glanced at the Faceless One, then took off his felt hat. With great elegance and courtesy, he gave a slight bow to the Barbie doll in the cage and said, “We came as soon as we heard the news. This time we finally weren’t late… ahem, it seems we arrived just in time!”

“Sir Kevin, Harold must have escaped.” An agent who had just checked the Magician’s Box said, wiping rain from his face.

“Damn it. It seems he must have forced the information about us investigating him from Miss Yingling’s mouth.”

The leader Kevin cursed loudly, glanced at the Faceless One surrounded by the crowd, and said, “Take ‘it’ back. We’ll question it thoroughly later. It should be that puppet of Harold’s. I wonder which poor soul is inside—that lunatic has refined all the Dark Wizards he captured into puppets!”

The mana on that ‘puppet’ in front was decent, but just that. The elite agents didn’t pay it much mind.

From their words, their thinking was the same as Louis’s—the serial culprit was Harold.

After speaking, an agent took out magic shackles, and another agent showed his badge: “We now suspect you of colluding with the Magician and using forbidden magic spells. You have the right to say… What are you doing? Put your hands down! Don’t try to take out your wand! Then slowly get down on the gro…”

Before he could finish, Kevin and the others saw the Faceless One wave his sleeve. Immediately, the scene before them suddenly changed, and the group found themselves inside a large hat.

Here, there were about a dozen idle Wizards—seemingly the ones who had recently disappeared. They didn’t look like they had been refined into puppets.

They were very leisurely watching their companions play cards, chess, Halma, and the like, looking just like a bunch of idle old men playing chess by the roadside.

The sudden appearance of the agents made the Wizards all look up. Both sides stared at each other for a long time, and then a Wizard tossed a deck of Playing Cards to the agents.

Looking at the deck of Playing Cards in his hand, Kevin was completely baffled: “Oh no! Oh no! Miss Yingling!”

Kevin broke out in a sweat all over—the legend of the Faceless One was true! That vicious, atrocious criminal!

Thinking of this, Kevin’s face turned pale.

He wouldn’t, wouldn’t do something to Miss Yingling…

“Do any of you know information about that Faceless One?! How do we get out of here?”

The Dark Wizards glanced at those idiots: “Pair of Queens.”

…

Louis looked up at the trembling Miss Yingling in the small cage and the Narration that appeared before him.

[That’s right, no need to recall. She is that friend of Ocris. It seems you’ve also recognized this little underachiever who needs to make up lessons. A rare opportunity, you decide…]

[A. Teach a proper lesson to this disobedient little fox.

Completion reward: Strange Protection Fee1, Dancing Barbie Doll1, Simps’ Hats1, Experience +20]

[B. Of course, properly give her some math problems to solve.

Completion reward: Homework1, Random Attribute +1, Teaching Ruler1]

…

When Yingling woke up, she found herself back in her own home.

Suddenly, she remembered she should have been hit by Infatuation.

The Faceless One seemed to have asked her many things, but Yingling couldn’t remember what he had asked.

Thinking of this, Yingling felt waves of fear. Her legs went weak, and she slumped onto the sofa.

She had thought the Faceless One would kill her, but unexpectedly, he had only punished her a little and then let her go.

“Ouch…” Yingling rubbed her bottom and suddenly remembered.

He had asked her several math problems!

Then gave her a few spankings…

And left some homework, telling her to study hard from now on…

…

Stuart was, as usual, excitedly chattering inside the Mirror. Louis, in front of the mirror, seemed to have an unpleasant expression.

‘Why did it add to Strength again?’

Louis checked again.

[Louis Lv8 (25/100)]

[Strength: 14.19 Dexterity 8.23 Mana: 30.58]

[Storybook Energy: 1]

After calculating, Louis found that this week’s routine task did indeed add to Strength again. However, the random attribute from option B was added to Dexterity.

Louis rubbed his face. He felt that even if he participated in the world’s hardest parkour show, he could break that two-minute world record and bring it down to within a dozen seconds.

And after Mana reached a certain level, the higher the Strength, the higher the resistance to magic seemed to be.

As for damage from swords and such—now, even a musket couldn’t pierce his muscles. He could be considered thick-skinned and could sign up for the unicorn mountain trolls’ world ‘slapping’ competition and get a ranking.

Sighing, Louis sat back down at the stone table, took out over twenty ‘Strange Little Fox Porcelain Dolls (Value: 2 Silver Yordel each)’ from his pocket, threw them into the Magician’s Box, then tossed all the people from the hat in as well. After that, he used his fingers to play with the porcelain dolls and Dark Wizards in the Magician’s Box like a Marionette.

‘I clearly gave her over twenty spankings, so why isn’t there a single Barbie doll? Yingling also swore she would study hard from now on. I did get the 20 experience, so why are the items so strange? Was there a problem with my teaching?’

The Teaching Ruler also seemed quite strange. It looked like a whip with a little fly swatter or a back scratcher.

Even stranger was that, according to the Storybook, it seemed he hadn’t paid the protection fee and was urging him to pay it early this week.

Otherwise, someone might come to collect it actively.

“So strange…” Louis found it strange.

No wonder. Louis hadn’t chosen A or B before; he had chosen ABABABABAB.

Increasingly shrill screams came from inside the box. Louis stopped looking at the Storybook and turned back to the box.

“It seems they must be hungry.”

Louis took a piece of magic bread from his pocket, broke it apart, and sprinkled the crumbs into the box.