After hearing Kozue explain what had happened on the way, Red Ponytail was completely speechless.
You dared drink a free beverage being handed out on the street? Didn't you know that free things were the most expensive?
It was fortunate that this had been a witch. What if it had been a person?
If someone slipped something into your drink, making you unable to live without it and crave more, then waited until you were hopelessly addicted before asking you for money—that would already be the good outcome. If it went like so many comics, they might squeeze you for money first, then, once you had no money left, say you had to pay with your body, do this and that to you, then sell you off to other men or make dirty movies...
Yeah, looking at it that way, it was good that it had been a witch.
Compared with witches, humans were truly terrifying.
Thank goodness, thank goodness.
"It's here."
It did not take long for Kozue and Felicia to lead Yachiyo, Red Ponytail, and the others to the place. Free drinks were still being handed out there. But in everyone's eyes, the people who should have been sales staff had become things resembling Paper People from a sketchbook, shuffling through the streets with bizarre steps, while the surrounding pedestrians seemed utterly oblivious.
The scene had a distinctly surreal kind of strangeness.
"Hey, you!!"
Before Kozue could say anything else, Felicia had already charged over and grabbed one of the Paper People.
"How dare you make me drink that weird stuff!"
"I don't know what you mean. This is Owl Lucky Water, which brings good luck..."
"Shut up!"
To everyone's surprise, Felicia roared. Then, in the next instant, she transformed right there in public and raised a hammer