138 075. Rescue -1 Part Two

The soldiers wordlessly blinked their eyes.

This silence lasted for a surprisingly long time, but eventually, they all exploded into a loud peal of laughter again.

“Hahahahah!”

“Listen to this kid! Look, everyone! Some crazy kid just showed up!”

The guffawing soldiers shouted out, and even their colleagues up on the fortress walls peered down to take a good look at me.

“This kid, he looks outwardly fine, but it seems he’s lost his mind! He says he’s from the Imperial Family. Not only that, he says he’s the Seventh Imperial Prince, no less!”

“Seriously now, the whole world must’ve gone mad. I had no idea that a boy this young can also work as a clown!”

One of the soldiers dug within his pockets, found a copper coin, and tossed it in my way.

While looking at them, I shook my head as if I found something to be quite unfortunate. “How sorrowful. None of you believe me even though I speak the truth. Working as a clown? You do know that’s lese majeste, don’t you?”

“Oh! Is this one of those situational comedies? Don’t you have any other talent besides this? Like, juggling or balancing on a ball?”

“Talent, is it?” I asked.

The soldiers stared at me with amused eyes.

I shrugged my shoulders nonchalantly. “Well, I don’t have much of a talent, but mm… Well, I can show you this one cool trick though.”

“A cool trick?”

“Yes. Well, I guess I’ll show it to you guys in commemoration of rescuing my older brother, and also to advertise my new wares.”

“…Your new wares?”

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“Now, please concentrate on this upcoming trick that will even stun the likes of Mister Jok*r!”

“Indeed! You can’t see anything there, right? But when I do this…”

I spread open my arms wide like a showy illusionist performing on a grand stage. My hands smoothly, slowly tilted and turned. The gazes of the soldiers all drifted towards the ends of my fingertips.

Just as their undivided attention was focused on me, I loudly clapped my hands before spreading my arms again.

“Ta-da~!!”

The soldiers’ gazes instantly left my hands and their faces all hardened like stone while staring not at me, but at the ‘beings’ currently standing right behind me.

I turned my head and looked back as well. “Oh~ my~ goodness! Can you see now? In this previously-empty space, a whole bunch of undead suddenly showed up!”

They were none other than one hundred or so ‘mummies’, with forged steel-like rotting flesh wrapped up in white bandages. They were currently outfitted with white balaclavas and matching white-coloured steel armour. They stood tall with their heads bowed while wielding the curved scimitars.

The corners of my lips curled up.