The one who walked in was a woman.
She was wearing a deep purple gauze dress, a thin layer that barely covered her body. After her slender waist was cinched, her legs flared out like a fishtail with darker lace.
The woman, dressed in a highly seductive outfit, swayed as she pushed open the beast cage: she wore thick purple lip gloss, her eyeliner hooked temptingly upward from the corner of her eyes, and a head of satin-like black hair was coiled atop her head.
Yet, her face was pale and lifeless.
Mori Tsukisa's eyes lit up.
A very beautiful girl.
"Your eyeballs now look like two stones enchanted with a Fluorescent Charm." Bastet looked at the woman in the iron cage, then at Mori Tsukisa: "Aha, don't you like dragons anymore?"
Mori Tsukisa raised her hand to cover the cat's mouth, but Dumbledore beside her frowned deeply... "Maledictus..." He murmured the word, and then, two pairs of curious big eyes looked at him in unison.
"That woman, she is a Maledictus, a Blood-Cursed Beastman." The middle-aged wizard explained to the two curious children: "This is a curse of the bloodline, inherited through the mother."
"The cursed person will transform between human and Beast forms..."
"Animagus?" The black cat blinked, then turned to Mori Tsukisa to explain: "An Ability to transform between human and Beast forms at will."
Dumbledore shook his head, wanting to explain the difference between the two, but old Skender proudly took over.
He still had his loud magic on, and after having his subordinates bring a small chair, he stood on it haughtily, looking around—
"Ahem, ladies and gentlemen!"
"Come and see the new monster I've found!"
Everyone's gaze swept over the woman in the cage; her face visibly grew paler, and her long eyelashes drooped to cover her eyes.
Mori Tsukisa noticed that her hand was tightly clutching the small lace ribbon on the edge of her gauze dress.
"Monster and marvel, it—a Blood-Cursed Beastman!"
A gasp went through the crowd!
"Once trapped in the jungles of Indonesia, this female monster carried a blood curse, I guess, from the womb? Haha!" Skender played with the wand in his hand, even blowing kisses to a few Children not far away: "Good babies, you find it interesting too, don't you?"
"This female, inferior creature took old Skender several days of effort to catch!" Skender stomped his foot, and the small stool beneath his shoe began to creak: "So, I want everyone to see! See how interesting this foolish and dirty monster is!"
Creak, creak.
Mori Tsukisa snapped her fingers.
Whoosh.
"Oh, what did you say? It..." The annoying rhetoric continued: "That's right, it can't experience the pleasures you speak of. Sir, perhaps you can try? Give me ten Galleons, and I'll let this thing accompany you for a night. I'm also curious if monsters have those organs."
The men in suits surrounding the cage all shook their shoulders, and beneath their hat brims, the polite gentlemen burst into laughter!
"Where was I?"
A voice from the crowd shouted: "You were talking about letting her accompany someone for a night!"
"Hahahahaha!"
"Skender, I want to see a striptease!"
"This thing doesn't listen to you, Skender!"
Crack.
The sound of wood splintering softly reached Mori Tsukisa's ears; the small stool under Skender's feet suddenly shattered!
Smack!
Bang!
A huge mass of flesh rolled down from above, knocking over several men and women. The crowd shrieked and shoved, and a few guys took the opportunity to pull out their wands and retreat!
A crazy human bowling competition!
"Don't touch me!"
"Who took my wallet?"
"Help him up, help him up!"
"Where's my Child?!"
The scene was chaotic. Although the accident happened at the other end of the cage, Dumbledore still drew his wand and protected Mori Tsukisa, retreating a long distance. His tall stature made him seem not to be trifled with, which kept the people around the girl from crowding her.
Bastet gave Mori Tsukisa a thoughtful look.
Similarly, the woman in the cage also looked—she stared at Mori Tsukisa's finger, then her gaze went upward: Arrietty was swinging up like a wild Child, pulling on Mori Tsukisa's hair, her coral-colored hair fluttering upward like a tiny spark.
The victorious female knight!
Noticing the other person looking over, Mori Tsukisa waved back without hesitation, mouthing a silent message.
'You're so beautiful.'
The woman forced a smile.
The chaos only slightly subsided after the circus members rushed out. After helping their boss stand up with difficulty, they were horrified to discover... he had many shoe prints of varying sizes on his clothes and face.
Perhaps because his face was quite large, it could accommodate more things relatively.
"Damn it! What a good stool you brought!"
Skender angrily pushed away the employee who was helping him, and with a clenched fist, he repeatedly hit the Boy's head!
"You made Skender look like a fool! You've lost half a year's salary!"
Huh, he actually pays salaries?
"Hey! I paid money, not to watch you beat your stupid employee here!"
"Are you still performing?"
"Give us our money back!"
Skender's eyes bulged, and he bared his teeth, staring intently at the woman in the cage. His voice, no longer as high-pitched as when he started, was now somewhat grim: "You'd better obey, Nagini..."
"I'll offer fifteen Galleons! Skender, let her accompany me tonight!"
"Twenty!"
"You're still with a Child, hey, who pushed me?"
The noise started again.
Skender tapped the iron cage with his wand: "If you don't do as you're told, you'll go with them tonight."
After uttering the threat, the circus director was stumbled away by his employees, leaving the woman in the cage alone to face the fervent taunts and ridicule from the crowd.
"You had it all planned out, didn't you? That's why you didn't listen to Skender?"
"How did the old man catch you? Set a trap in bed? Wearing pajamas?"
"Hahahahaha!"
The young woman called Nagini stood rooted, helpless, as voices drilled into her ears, shouting and laughing. She lowered her head in embarrassment, biting her lip tightly, leaving a faint tooth mark on her deep purple lip.
Then... her pupils turned black like spreading ink.
"Look! The monster is transforming!" A tender childish voice came from the crowd, filled with curiosity and wonder.
The woman's soft body twisted backward, her torso bending into an extremely strange posture, and then her head emerged from between her legs—it was a huge python's head!
Her limbs intertwined, tightly adhering to the deep purple gauze dress; as if all the bones in her body had been extracted, the bundled flesh instantly changed color, and thick, dark brown python patterns powerfully appeared on her elongated body.
In the blink of an eye, the woman transformed into an enormous and ferocious jungle python.
"Big monster! So amazing!"
It was still that tender and innocent childish voice.
"See, I'm the only one who's childish and cute, aren't I?" Mori Tsukisa nudged Bastet's head with her own.
The black cat said nothing.
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