With the contestants taking the field one after another, Allen felt this was clearly a good time to observe.
The French witch took out a lipstick and carefully applied it; the tall, burly, rather handsome wizard from Austria sat sprawled in a chair, watching the live broadcast; the Czech witch with long, cool-brown hair let her Bohemian dress spread across the sofa, her gaze somewhat gloomy as she sized up the other contestants... More contestants set their sights on Allen Harris, who had already appeared in the Harris box...
Ian watched for a while, then gave up on the method from his usual Auror training of judging an assassin by whether they observed their target before making a move. He realized it simply would not work in this situation, because Allen's strength and fame were there for all to see, and without question, tonight he was the towering mountain the contestants wanted to cross, drawing attention from both inside and outside the arena.
Still, this gave Ian an opportunity. When the contestants' room had begun to empty out, Ian quietly slipped behind the target he had suspected earlier and, using the cover of his robe sleeve, discreetly cast Legilimency on the fat Colombian wizard with the mustache named Pablo.
Unlike the steadiness with which he had struck, Ian withdrew his wand somewhat stiffly, then abruptly turned around and faced the wall, keeping the shock on his face from being shown to others—he discovered that this man's target was not Allen. His mission was not the same as Ian's. His orders were to tangle with Allen as much as possible later, so that certain assassins in the audience could launch a surprise attack on the most conspicuous box where the Harrises were, painted blue with bronze trim.
Ian, who had already