bookbashuk Chapter 133 Instantly Following Up on This One Piece [5K Long Chapter]
Chapter 133 Instantly Following Up on This One Piece [5K Long Chapter]
Chapter 133 Instantaneous Team Fight [5K Chapter]
Kingsley and Tonks completely blocked Kane and Harry at the hotel entrance.
Two serious faces stared at them. Clearly, a suitable reason was needed.
Kane pointed somewhat helplessly to a small alleyway nearby: "How about we settle this privately over there? There are so many Muggles here?"
Kingsley looked at the busy street and thought Kane was right. So this little wizard wasn't as bad as he thought; he even knew to keep the Ministry of Magic's duties in mind.
It's really just a question of whether there's a possibility that this child hasn't reached the point of being utterly wicked yet.
With that thought in mind, Kingsley followed Kane and Harry into the alleyway with Tonks.
"Now you should give us a reasonable explanation." Kingsley's voice became slightly less serious as they entered the alley, while Kane, surprisingly, began to explain.
After a series of complicated explanations, Kane finally put down the small pumpkin he was carrying on his back and took out the panpipes from it.
"That's right, this is the mysterious magical item Dumbledore sent us out to find for him." Kane said, waving his hand as if to put the panpipes to his lips: "Would you like to hear what this thing sounds like?"
"Of course not." Kingsley and Tonks, being highly skilled Aurors, didn't hesitate for a second to shield themselves upon seeing a magical instrument like the panpipes, regardless of whether they were surprised by the length of Kane's map of Yan.
Unfortunately, the panpipes' code was above the ability to close one's ears and block out sound. As the melodious sound faded, three thuds fell into the alley.
Kane tried it out, and the little pumpkin's mouth was big enough to barely squeeze Harry in. Next up were Kingsley and Tonks, who fell asleep immediately. Although the probability of homeless people in such a bustling crossroads was not high, what if they were?
Thinking of this, he pulled out the Shadow Codex from his own shadow. As the Shadow Codex moved without wind, the shadows inside bared their fangs and claws, trying to crawl out of the book. Then he slammed the book shut.
After this incident, the Ministry of Magic will likely send someone to investigate soon, and will naturally take Kingsley and Tonks back with them.
Kane, carrying the little pumpkin away from the alley, looked up at the moon in the sky and sighed, thinking to himself that he really was a good person.
Then he walked to a small alley across the street and hid himself in the shadows. After hearing two loud Apparition sounds, he glanced at the two people dressed as Aurors and took Kingsley and Tonks away before leaving and heading towards the park mentioned in the elevator poster.
Soon, as he entered the park and saw the huge circus tent in the open space not far away, the little pumpkin behind him began to stir restlessly.
Sensing this, Kane quickly walked towards the public restroom not far away, gave the restroom attendant two coins, and then went into one of the toilets behind the attendant.
After going inside, I placed the little pumpkin steadily on the toilet seat, and when I opened it, I saw Harry looking sullen.
"Couldn't you choose a more dignified way?" Harry struggled to hold the little pumpkin's mouth open with both hands, trying to pull himself out.
"Do you think this is Hogwarts? I can just use the Levitation Charm to make you fly behind me and go wherever you want!" Kane said, pressing his hands down on the shadow behind the little pumpkin, which turned into two claws that grabbed Harry and pulled him out with a pop, like pulling out a radish.
Soon, as the door opened, the old man watching the toilet was about to turn around and remind Kane to flush the toilet when he suddenly couldn't speak.
He clearly remembered seeing only one person back then, so why is there another one now?
Unlike the bewildered old man, Kane and Harry walked straight toward the circus tent not far away without saying or thinking anything.
After buying two tickets, he casually found a place to sit down and started watching the performances on stage. Kane didn't really care about these tricks of playing with monkeys, dogs, and lions. After all, he could charm rich women to no end with just magic tricks, without using shadow magic with his left hand or magic with his right.
Watching this kind of stuff only lowers one's own standards and appreciation threshold.
Kane saw from afar that the host on stage suddenly took out a small stick and pointed it at the roaring grizzly bear in the cage. The next moment, the cage and the grizzly bear slowly floated up.
Okay, if this trick isn't based on the principle of a dog pulling a string, then this circus has hired a wizard to act as a magician.
error?
Kane suddenly entered a state of flow, and he seemed to know what he could do if he couldn't find a job after graduating from Hogwarts.
How can this not be considered turning a hobby into a job?
After a while, Harry suddenly yanked the drowsy Kane awake, because their purpose for being there had been revealed.
The latter looked up and immediately broke down.
The walrus had two long tusks draped with checkered ribbons and a red and blue beret with geometric stripes on its head. The walrus was lying down, without its offspring or hyenas behind it, otherwise he would have really thought that the walrus had run away from the Eternal Realm just to bring him ivory.
"How's the walrus?" Harry whispered.
"Absolutely perfect," Kane murmured. Now that they had their target locked in, all they had to do was wait for the performance to end so the two of them could sneak backstage, pull out the tooth, and remove the hat in one smooth motion. Wouldn't that be wonderful?
Soon, as the circus's final performance came to an end, the audience began to go home, but Kane and Harry went against the flow of people and slowly made their way backstage.
With a creak, Harry stepped on something. Just when Kane thought the circus people would notice them because of the little noise and throw them out without hesitation, nothing happened.
Harry bent down and picked up what he had just stepped on; it looked like a wand.
"A wand? It seems that magician really is a wizard. Maybe this will be convenient for us. We can talk to the owner of this wand directly and then we won't have to steal it. We can just buy it with Galleons."
After Kane took the wand and finished speaking, a person suddenly walked over from a short distance away. Harry, who had been watching the performance very attentively, immediately recognized him as the magician who had just performed magic for them. Of course, the mystery was probably solved now; this magician was likely a sorcerer.
Just then, the magician also noticed Kane and his companion, and of course, the wands in their hands: "Oh, where did you find that thing?"
"Did you find this on the ground? Is it yours, Mr. Wizard?" Kane said this without the slightest bit of guilt. After all, he was just a child, and the person in front of him had just performed magic on stage. Even if he and Harry were wrong and the person in front of them was a Muggle instead of a wizard, there was no need to worry.
Just consider it as something a child says out of ignorance.
However, it was clear that the two of them were not wrong. The man in front of them ignored the wand in Kane's hand, and instead glanced suspiciously at his watch before realizing, "That's right, it's Christmas now, Hogwarts is indeed on holiday."
After saying that, he looked at the wand in Kane's hand: "As for this wand, I have never seen it before. Ah, I remember whose it is. If you are not afraid, you can come and take a look."
Kane is always hypocritical when it comes to fear; he'll coax you with words but never stop his actions. Faced with a circus member who you don't know is either friend or foe, and this person invites you to visit their circus headquarters, what would a normal person choose?
I don't know how a normal person would choose Kane, but he has already made his decision.
go!
After saying that, Kane and Harry walked together down a road of no return, and followed the man backstage, where they learned his name: Jenkinsonar.
"So your circus isn't just about you being a wizard, it's all wizards? But we've never heard of that at Hogwarts!" Harry suddenly asked, following behind Jenkinson.
"Yeah, we just got back from Germany. This kind of business always requires a hit-and-run approach, otherwise those guys at the Ministry of Magic will never let us off the hook. In fact, that's always been the case. They don't like us because of that damn magic secrecy law..."
"In short, our circus mainly serves Muggles, and we have a pretty good reputation in Muggle society. But in the wizarding world, we're still in a gray area. So why do we still exist...?"
"As the saying goes, a million wizards depend on us for their livelihood. Although there aren't that many, the fact that over forty of us adult wizards have suddenly lost our jobs will cause the Ministry of Magic a huge headache," Jenkinsnal explained as he walked ahead.
"That sounds pretty good. It lets me know another path after graduating from Hogwarts. It's about why wizards need to... earn money from Muggles? I thought they could use a copying charm or something?" Harry suddenly said.
"Have you used it?" Jenkins asked, raising an eyebrow.
"I've never used it. I think it's illegal, but if someone did use it, no one would probably notice, right?" Harry shook his head.
"In fact, it is possible. The British government now collaborates with Gringotts to produce coins. Gringotts creates magical anti-counterfeiting features for Muggle coins. For example, if a counterfeit coin comes into contact with a real Muggle coin, it will turn to ash, and the magic on the real coin will be reported directly to the Ministry of Magic." Jenkins shrugged helplessly and continued walking forward.
Soon, the corridor, which had been enchanted with spatial magic, came to an end, and Jenkins suddenly clapped his hands:
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"Guys! Welcome our two little guests!"
After Jenkins finished speaking, he pushed open the door at the end of the room, and the three of them went inside. Then Kane and Harry saw a familiar face again, the same one they had seen not long ago.
"Lupin?"
Kane and Harry instinctively called out to the familiar figure sitting on the wooden crate eating a hamburger.
Lupin saw the two of them and quickly stood up.
"You know each other?" Jenkins looked at the three of them in surprise.
"Obviously," Kane said, glancing at Lupin's waistband hole, which was now empty, confirming that the wand Harry had found belonged to whom.
"So... I thought adult wizards would be more reliable." Kane raised his wand, and Lupin subconsciously touched his waist, only then remembering that he had just been working with his hands in a circus full of Muggles, and hadn't had a break yet. It was normal that he might have accidentally dropped his wand without noticing.
"I was indeed too careless, but I was also lucky to have met you all and to have the opportunity to teach you a little spell." Lupin chuckled and held out his hand, chanting, "Wand Returns."
The next moment, Lupin's wand in Kane's hand didn't fly away, but teleported back into Lupin's hand.
"That's it. It's a magical mark that's been drawn on the wand beforehand. If you want to learn it, I can teach you. It's very useful for countering weapons that remove you."
As soon as Lupin finished speaking, Jenkins raised his eyebrows in surprise, looking at the wizard who had just joined a few hours earlier.
It seems this wizard isn't like most wizards who ended up in this circus to earn a living because their magic skills are too poor; on the contrary, Lupin's magic seems quite good.
Surprisingly good.
Jenkins gave Lupin a rather surprising assessment.
However, just as Lupin was about to give Kane and Harry, the two young wizards, some practical tips as a way of repaying the kindness of a meal he had given them during the day, a circus worker suddenly pushed a huge cage into the room, which would have been perfectly normal for a circus.
The only minor issue is that the cage doesn't contain an animal, but a living woman who looks to be in her early twenties.
Lupin, who was about to begin the lesson, suddenly froze, his grip on his wand tightening. He looked at Jenkins with shock and said, "I remember we're supposed to be a circus, how come there's human trafficking involved?"
Jenkins glared at the wizard who pushed the cage in, then turned to Lupin somewhat awkwardly: "I was supposed to tell you this later, but since you saw it today... it's obvious that the animals in this circus are all blood-cursed orcs... well, it's that simple."
Jenkins made an apologetic face as he spoke, as if he were apologizing for keeping it from Lupin.
Lupin certainly knew what a Blood Curse Orc was. Back in Hogwarts, there were very few students who did well in school. It was an extremely rare curse that was passed down only through maternal bloodlines and manifested only in women. Those cursed would have an animal form like Animagus.
The difference is that Animagus is controllable; it really just gives you an extra form.
The Blood Curse Orcs are an irreversible curse. Those cursed will only watch helplessly as their time as beasts gradually increases and their time as humans gradually decreases, until they finally become beasts.
Although the number of people carrying this curse is pitifully small, if they traveled all over the world, selling or kidnapping them, they could easily fill a circus.
Lupin slowly stood in front of Kane and Harry, holding his wand upright in front of him: "Jenkins, I think you need to give me a reason."
Jenkins shrugged. "Reasons? Of course there are. We're not exactly popular with the Aurors at the Ministry of Magic. It's just that we have the tricks of the circus and magicians to cover up our misdeeds, which prevents them from legally throwing us into Azkaban."
"But what if we use the Imperius Curse? Even on animals, that's still displaying dark magic in front of Muggles. Aurors don't care if Muggles think it's an Imperius Curse or a beastmaster's trick."
"In comparison, those insects in the Ministry of Magic aren't as... concerned about the blood cursed beastmen."
Kane nodded; he understood now. This magical circus, in order to avoid being caught by the Aurors, had changed its targets of persecution from animals to humans... well... after all, animals really do require the Imperius Charm to control.
But the Blood Curse Orcs don't need that; after all, it's much easier to subdue a person than an animal.
"Kane, do you think this is right?" Harry whispered in Kane's ear.
"It depends on whether you consider the Blood Curse Orcs to be beasts or humans."
After Kane finished speaking, Harry asked again, "What do you think?"
The answer to Harry was not language, but the Shadow Codex that slowly emerged from Kane's hand.
Well, all in all, this Christmas holiday was quite interesting; I even got to fight with someone. It would have been even better if the person I fought with wasn't an adult wizard...
Harry slowly reached into his pocket and grasped his wand.
"Hmm..." Unlike Kane and Harry, who were already prepared to take action, Lupin was not so impulsive. Although he also strongly disapproved of the circus's behavior, he still had two young wizards behind him.
Moreover, the other members of the circus also sensed Lupin's eerie hostility and slowly surrounded him. He definitely needed to be more careful at this moment to avoid conflict. Otherwise, if something happened to the two little wizards behind him, he really wouldn't know how to explain to James and Dumbledore whether he lived or died.
Lupin slowly took a step back, and then he suddenly heard Harry let out a painful groan.
In an instant, without the slightest hesitation, Lupin combined his precise reflexes honed from years of experience outside Hogwarts with the vast knowledge he gained during his school years, and with a single, zero-frame Petrify Charm, he petrified the wizard closest to him.
Immediately afterwards, three Iron Armor Spells precisely protected the three of them.
While most people backstage at the circus were still unaware of what had just happened, Kane and Harry, who had already followed the direction of Lupin's wand, were driven by muscle memory honed from the battles of the Eternal Realm and Harry's innate talent and bloodline to act entirely on instinct!
Instant response to the start of a group purchase...