"Too much nonsense."
"Mm, mostly too much nonsense... If you're going to fight, just fight cleanly and decisively. What's the point of saying so much nonsense? They got drugged for nothing. Let this be a lesson!"
"But I still stand by what I said earlier. That talisman was very powerful, enough to seriously injure that Dark Wizard..."
Yellow Flower Cat rambled on, doing its best to preserve its authority.
Then, under everyone's watchful eyes, the Five Fireball Talisman that Zheng Qing and Yellow Flower Cat had placed such enormous hopes on blew apart one of the short wizard's paper Avatars.
It was not even an Alchemy Doll.
It was merely a cheap paper Avatar made from parchment.
The stench of scorched parchment drifted into the two observers' noses on the hot wind.
Yellow Flower Cat raised a paw and scratched its chin, tucked its tail back between its hind legs, straightened its forelegs, and sat suspended in midair, radiating an aura called "awkwardness" from head to toe.
"This is what I wanted to emphasize tonight," the tabby said, turning to look at Colmar, whose eyelids had lowered. It waved its paw, its attitude making a complete one-eighty. "...Young people always think that just because they've mastered a few talismans and a few interesting spells, they can look down on the heroes of the world and casually pick fights with Dark Wizards... That's wrong."
"They have to suffer a little before they remember these lessons."
Hearing that, Colmar finally could not help confirming, "You mean we should let those two Dark Wizards take Zheng Qing and Jiang Yu away?"
"Why not?" The tabby snorted and flicked its tail. "Those two wouldn't dare do anything to them anyway. Besides, doesn't a crushing defeat leave a deeper impression...?"
Before the echo of its