"William!"
By the time Yi Chen turned around, William had already vanished.
Following his aura, Yi Chen quickly found William trembling inside the filthiest dumpster deep in the alley, one finger pressed to his lips to signal silence.
Yi Chen simply grabbed him by the collar and hauled him out.
"Stop pretending."
With a banana peel hanging from his head, William continued pretending. "It's a circus~ The place I fear most! If Boss and the others find out I'm helping Evil now, and even dragging Catherine into this, they'll kill me for sure."
But just after saying that, timid William suddenly became serious.
"Just kidding. I only suddenly ran into my former employer, which passively activated my actor attribute, so I put on a little impromptu performance.
"The circus is spreading fear, isn't it? Naturally, I had to cooperate with the act.
"What a coincidence~ I never expected my very first assigned mission to bring me face-to-face with the circus."
Just then,
Strands of seawater spilled from the corners of William's mouth. Octopus Tentacles immediately emerged, and Catherine crawled straight out of his mouth.
Catherine had not even had time to put on her Clown Makeup. She simply grew tentacles from her palm and used them to pull over a circus advertisement flyer.
Clearly, she was also excited by this chance encounter with the circus.
"After I left, did the circus start recruiting audiences through a different method?"
William seemed to have seen through everything and explained with a smile:
"This isn't recruiting audiences. It's world devouring.
"When the circus descended upon this world, it distributed flyers to every corner through some method, telling people that the circus's performance was about to begin.
"As the shadows gradually spread across the surface of the world, anyone who fell into the shadows