Chapter 22: Dangerous Magic Is Indeed Bad for the Heart

“Hello, the two of us are safety inspectors from XX Construction Site. We have a few matters we’d like to ask Mr. Xin about to get a clear picture. Do you know when he might be available?”

Although the performance was indeed thrilling, official business couldn’t be set aside.

While the tiny magician on stage continued to heat up the atmosphere, Belladonna had already pulled Tei along to find their target for today.

The one receiving them was naturally Mr. Xin’s secretary.

Belladonna spoke polite pleasantries with practiced ease, though she was inwardly somewhat speechless.

This was because Mr. Xin was actually standing right beside the two of them.

However, completely absorbed in watching the performance, he had no intention of paying them any mind whatsoever, leaving them with no choice but to communicate through his accompanying secretary.

“Alright, tomorrow at noon is fine then? Thank you. Since we’ve just arrived, we need to understand some past circumstances out of work necessity, which is why we’re bothering you.”

After politely finishing the conversation with the other party, Belladonna pulled Tei away and unceremoniously smacked him on the head with a sharp rap of her knuckles.

“You were having quite a blast, huh? Here I was doing work communications, while you were standing there watching the show and cheering… What’s the deal? Did you fall in love with her at first sight?”

“But she really is cute…”

Looking at the aggrieved Tei, Belladonna felt that all hope was lost…

How could a Reaper have his soul stolen away in a single encounter?

That loli on stage was indeed a thoroughly dangerous person.

“Alright, stop messing around. It’s not like I’m the type who can’t walk when seeing a pretty girl… There aren’t many cute girls in the Underworld in the first place, so it’s only normal for me to take a few extra glances.”

Pulling back his feigned aggrieved expression, Tei reverted to that slack-jawed attitude…

He was a normal boy in that regard, okay? What was wrong with liking to look at pretty and cute girls?

“Though to be honest, it really was pretty terrifying. I can also understand why her magic tricks manage to gather fans even in the Underworld.”

The girl on stage had already been impaled into a hedgehog by longswords, with a few even piercing straight through her body, yet she still acted as if nothing had happened, enthusiastically greeting the crowd below.

“Is this really a magic trick…”

A pirate barrel was not a rare magic trick.

However, if it were a transparent box where everyone could see the person inside being pierced through by longswords with their own eyes through the glass, that was an entirely different story.

Even after the box opened, the girl could still walk out carrying the longswords on her body to greet everyone…

This degree of visual shock was a bit exaggerated.

“That’s the only way to interpret it. We didn’t feel any spiritual power fluctuations, and besides, this isn’t something spiritual power can explain, right?”

Even for a Reaper with the absolute best control over spiritual power, the most they could do was use spiritual power to protect their body so a longsword couldn’t pierce it, or guard vital spots…

If someone were truly impaled like the girl on stage, they would definitely end up dead or crippled.

The two of them also roughly understood why this loli hadn’t been concretely convicted.

The Netherworld had most likely sent people over to probe and watch the show before.

The visitors must have been like them, confirming that there were no excessive spiritual power fluctuations at the scene.

In that case, the charge of violating regulations by publicly using spiritual power in the Living Realm simply couldn’t hold water…

So without evidence, how could you arrest someone?

The Netherworld was an order-maintaining organization that preserved the balance between the two realms, not some mob syndicate.

They couldn’t very well take the lead in finding trouble with a little girl, could they?

“Speaking of which, can a synthetic body really handle being ruined like this?”

“How could it? Synthetic bodies are manufactured to match the physical strength of humans in the Living Realm. To a certain extent, they count as a seal on us Underworlders, alright?”

Yet the girl on stage clearly displayed a performance far exceeding the levels of a normal synthetic body.

Furthermore, Underworld beings had to rely on synthetic bodies in order to be witnessed, communicated with, and interfered with by humans in the Living Realm…

“It really is a magic trick, then.”

“Is there any other way to explain it besides magic?”

It could only be said to be a massive eye-opener.

This was genuinely the first time the two of them had encountered a magic trick that even Underworlders couldn’t understand or crack…

Driven by curiosity, the tiny magician had indeed gained two potential new fans.

Immersion in flames, crushing by heavy hammers, dividing boxes…

Such terrifying and eye-catching magic tricks were precisely the performance theme and style beloved by the tiny magician on stage.

What Belladonna found most exaggerated was that this girl had somehow brought out a lion from somewhere, after which she stuffed her own head straight into the lion’s wide-open jaws.

To be honest, regarding performances of the head-in-a-lion’s-mouth caliber, both Belladonna and Tei had seen recorded magic shows from the Living Realm before, feeling it was nothing more than that.

Until the very next instant, when the lion’s mouth snapped shut…

Before the two of them could recover from their shock, the girl reached out and gently patted the lion’s head.

As the lion’s mouth opened once more, the girl pulled her head out from inside and attached it back onto her neck.

“Hi! Everyone! Were you scared?!”

This was far more than just being scared; the two Reapers below the stage were already dumbfounded with fright.

Especially seeing the girl act as if nothing had happened, even playfully blowing kisses to tease the audience below…

No, wasn’t this way too absurd?

They had actually seen blood just now, hadn’t they?

And didn’t that lion chew a few times earlier?

The entire duration was filled with thrills intense enough to make heart disease patients pass away on the spot.

By the time the performance ended, setting aside the ordinary audience, even the hearts of the two Reapers, Belladonna and Tei, were thumping wildly.

You ask about Hydra?

Haha.

The moment it saw the lion’s mouth snap shut, the fear of being preyed upon had already terrified it into fainting, and it hadn’t woken up even now.

“Top Student, your Raven isn’t quite up to snuff. It fainted halfway through.”

“I don’t think you can blame Hydra for this… If your bird came instead, it wouldn’t have ended up any better.”

“Little Feini? Hm…”

For some reason, Tei always felt that if that little bird were present, it would probably be the most excited one in the entire venue, bouncing around the most merrily.

With the performance dispersing, the two Reapers and one crow, having achieved today’s goal, had no intention of staying behind any longer…

Perhaps they had an interest in getting in touch with that tiny magician?

However, it was said that she was elusive and unpredictable, making it an unknown whether one could even meet her.

Besides, it really wasn’t appropriate for two Reapers to make contact with an overt wanted criminal of the Netherworld, right?

“Hm? A fan’s invitation~ Well, there’s naturally no reason to refuse… You’re saying you’d like to invite me to your home for a private performance?”

After the crowd dispersed, behind the stage, the tiny magician in her tattered clothing seemed somewhat drained of energy, perhaps due to the high-intensity dangerous performance.

Her legs appeared a bit unstable, yet she still maintained a relatively elegant posture.

Leaning on her small cane, she was communicating with a middle-aged man.

If the two Reapers were present, they would absolutely recognize this middle-aged man as the Mr. Xin they were looking for.

As for the expression on the man’s face at this moment, there was nothing besides desire.

Looking at Blue Iris—who was still teasing him, whether intentionally or unintentionally—the man’s eyes were filled with the written urge to possess this enticing little vixen before him.

“I understand what you mean. So tonight is an exclusive~ special performance for you? Tee-hee, naturally, there’s no problem at all~”

Using a seductive voice, her gloved finger traced an arc across her collarbone.

With her cheeks slightly flushed, the girl playfully blinked her eye and accepted this ill-intentioned invitation…

“After all, tonight’s performance is still missing a feast of souls~”

— Divider —

“Mentally deranged?!”

Having made an appointment the day before, the two Reapers arrived at Mr. Xin’s office the next day, only to receive exceptionally terrible news from his secretary.

“He was completely fine yesterday, and you’re telling me he went mad overnight?!”

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