A Grand Adventure in the Fairy-Tale World (2)

The person who fell from above the stage had a slender body, but his head was shaped like a rabbit, with two long ears standing upright in the air, twitching from time to time.

Alice took a step back in surprise. "Why is it a rabbit, and a talking rabbit at that!"

"What's wrong with the rabbit? Did the rabbit eat your carrots?!" Alice's words suddenly angered the rabbit that had fallen from the sky. "Isn't it normal for the inhabitants of Fairy Tale World to be able to talk?!"

"That makes sense. So, Mr. Rabbit, what brings you here?" Alice calmed down and quickly accepted the truth.

"That's because the Mad Hatter has been captured, and we need a hero to rescue him, and that hero is you!" The rabbit looked around, "Where's that poster from before...?"

Alice threw the poster to the edge of the stage, and suddenly a gust of wind blew it away.

"Found it!" The rabbit's eyes narrowed, and it launched itself forward with a push of its feet, instantly soaring into the air as if it had Jet engines under its feet. Before hitting the roof, it grabbed the poster, twisted its body, used its feet to gain leverage on the roof beam, and flew back along the same path!

Seeing this, the entire audience gasped in amazement. Such speed! This rabbit definitely has a very powerful Quirk! Steel Gate Rikishi Warrior watched the rabbit's display with a serious expression, and after a silent comparison, he came to a conclusion.

At this rate, even in my prime, I would have struggled, let alone now that I'm nearing retirement. So, is the opponent Pro Hero- level figure? Their appearance in this kind of circus is truly astonishing...

Alice took two steps back and exclaimed in surprise, "Wow, amazing! Are you really just a rabbit?!"

"Hmph, I am the Yato, the strongest fighting race in the universe!" the rabbit said smugly, hands on its hips.

"Since Mr. Rabbit is so powerful, why does he want me to be the hero?" Alice asked suspiciously. "You're sure you can defeat that dragon, right?"

"Of course, no one in this world is stronger than me!" the rabbit said proudly.

"And you..."

"Idiot!" Alice was about to speak when the rabbit scolded her sharply, getting revenge for interrupting her earlier. "Just as only magic can defeat magic, only the brave can defeat the demon king. This is the most important law in the Fairy Tale World!"

Alice blinked. "Didn't you just say it was a dragon?"

"..." The rabbit paused for a moment, then suddenly took out a carrot and tapped Alice on the head three times. "Is there a difference?! You're hopeless!"

Alice pouted and scratched her head, looking at the rabbit as she continued, "Anyway, no matter how powerful I am, if I'm not recruited into the hero's party, I'll just be an NPC who can't be attacked by the Demon King, and I can only watch helplessly as the Fairy Tale World is destroyed!"

"Is this the rule of your world...?" Alice suddenly thought of something and turned her gaze to the poster in the rabbit's hand. "But it says that the person who was captured was a conductor. Is he a very important person? He looks... like a clown."

"He's the most important person in the world besides the Queen!" the rabbit exclaimed vividly. "He holds the power to control people's smiles. The Mad Hatter has been captured by the dragon, and if the dragon forces him to hand over his smiles, then the people of this world will never smile again!"

"... That fits the fairy tale setting perfectly," Alice sighed. "But not smiling shouldn't be a big deal, right? People don't die anyway."

"That's true..." Surprisingly, the rabbit agreed with this answer.

But the rabbit immediately added, "However, my smile is mine, and I absolutely will not allow anyone else to take it away!"

"Hmm, you have a point... If something belongs to you and someone else takes it away, you have to get it back no matter what!" Alice suddenly became energized. "In that case, I'll lend you a hand. Anyway, I've been feeling a bit bored lately."

"Then let me travel to the Fairy Tale World and save the world along the way!"

After Alice finished speaking, the curtain was slowly drawn, and a female voice-over rang out.

Alice and Mr. Rabbit reached an agreement and decided to go and defeat the dragon. Guided by Mr. Rabbit, Alice jumped into a large hole and arrived in Fairy Tale World...

When the curtain rose this time, what appeared before the audience was a cheetah with a large belly running in a simple cylindrical treadmill that looked like a hamster's treadmill, and a seal leisurely watching him run in a circular inflatable swimming pool.

"How much time... how much time do we have left..." the cheetah gasped.

"Fifty minutes have passed, ten minutes left." The seal glanced at the time, then pulled his arm out of the pool and pushed it on the treadmill, making it run faster.

Animals can talk!

The audience was momentarily surprised when the two animals began to speak, but quickly realized that it was the circus performers providing the voiceover. The cheetah running on the treadmill was the result of the circus staff's training! They were showcasing the results of their animal training in this play!

However... this is Fairy Tale World, so it's only natural that animals can talk, right? Like that Mr. Rabbit from earlier, he could talk, couldn't he?

Because of their Quirk personalities, the audience quickly accepted the idea that animals could talk and became fully engaged in the performance.

"Ten more minutes? I really can't go on!" The cheetah, looking utterly exhausted and on the verge of death, pleaded with the seal, "Look, we both have the character 'leopard' in our names, maybe we were family three hundred years ago, please let me out to rest for a bit!"

"No way. You begged me to let you lose weight, that's why I made you this 'do-or-die' treadmill." The seal's attitude was very firm. "Before you got on the treadmill, you told me personally that no matter what you said, I wouldn't open the door for you until the time was up."

"Ah--I'm really about to die!" The cheetah cried out in despair as it watched the cylinder beneath its feet accelerate faster and faster.

Do even animals need to lose weight? Some viewers chuckled to themselves, rubbing their round bellies.

Alice, panting heavily, appeared on the stage behind the rabbit. "Mr. Rabbit, could you slow down? I really can't keep up!"

The rabbit turned its head away in annoyance. "At your speed, when will you ever reach the dragon and win back my smile?"

"I'm neither a rabbit nor a cheetah, how could I possibly have your speed!" Alice complained indignantly. "Besides, is the hero you're talking about really me? I haven't felt any boost whatsoever!"

The rabbit pondered for a moment, "Perhaps you can think of yourself as a trainer, a profession that relies on pets to fight. Even a hero doesn't always wield a greatsword, right?"

"Then what are you, Pokémon?" Alice rolled her eyes. "Don't joke like that right now!"

The two are positioned on opposite sides of the stage, with a plastic board of trees in the middle symbolizing a forest, representing that they cannot see each other.

Hearing the sound, the cheetah slowly stopped running, exchanged a wary glance with the seal, and said, "Prey is coming!"

"I heard that too." The seal quickly pressed a button on the treadmill, and the hatch opened with a click. "After training for so long, it's time for you to show off your results!"

"Awooo!" Alice heard a howl, and a cheetah suddenly leaped out of the bushes!

"This road is mine, these trees are mine, if you want to pass, leave your toll!"

The cheetah, shouting the bandit's usual slogan, stopped the rabbit and Alice. But Alice wasn't alarmed, and the rabbit even less so.

Alice looked at the cheetah's bulging belly with some sympathy and said, "You're carrying such a big belly and still going out to rob people, your life must be really tough..."

"That's just a belly, not pregnancy!" the cheetah retorted angrily. "Don't underestimate this big belly; when it comes to bravery and cleverness, I'm top-notch!"

"Hand over the money for the milk powder... ptooey, hand over the toll!" The cheetah pounced on Alice.

Alice took two steps back, stood behind the rabbit, pointed at the cheetah, and said, "I choose you, Mr. Rabbit, go!"