"Temporary prop for the performance." The beautiful woman lifted her chin and pointed over there. "Put it on when the show starts, then jump around viciously in the cage. It'll definitely be more lifelike than our mechanisms."
Okiya Subaru: "???"
Ever since stepping inside, he had kept feeling that something was off.
Earlier, he had thought it might be an aftereffect of Uzo's nightmare.
But now, looking at the empty cages before him and hearing the beautiful woman's words, Okiya Subaru suddenly understood.
He abruptly turned to look at the advertising flyer nearby, then belatedly realized that the flamboyant stylized English against the backdrop of the London Eye read "magic," not "circus."
This was actually a Magic Troupe... What happened to the circus they'd promised??
Okiya Subaru could not help asking, "Um, I remember hearing that you were a circus. Why are you performing magic now?"
The beautiful woman lit a slender cigarette and gently exhaled a puff of smoke. "Isn't it all more or less the same? You don't think Circuses only have acrobatics and no magic, do you?"
Okiya Subaru said, "No, no, no, there are still some differences. Those animals..."
At the mention of this, the beautiful woman snorted.
"We'd only put on a couple of shows when animal protection people came protesting. They insisted on taking the animals for examinations and talked about giving them proper placements—I think those bastards were just deliberately looking for trouble!
"But there was nothing we could do. They're the Local Bullies here, so we can only perform like this for now." She pouted unhappily, then slapped Okiya Subaru hard on the shoulder. "Don't worry. We can handle acrobatics that complicated, let alone a little magic like this."
Okiya Subaru: "..." What they performed did not really matter, and he did