42 – Crowd
Jane was the daughter of a royal shoemaker.
Her mother took over the shoe repair shop for several generations and currently holds the title of craftsman.
And when her mother retires, she plans to take over.
The main customers are the employees of the royal palace.
Among them, they mainly repair the shoes of servants outside the palace, that is, commoners.
The royal capital is divided into classes like this.
Royalty and nobility.
The primary commoners who serve them.
Secondary commoners who provide convenience for the commoners.
Jane’s family was a second-class commoner, the lowest class in the royal capital.
Nevertheless, the fact that she lives in the royal capital makes her a chosen one within the 1% of the kingdom.
Jane was secretly proud of that fact, and she didn’t want to give up.
That’s why there have been frequent quarrels with her mother recently.
“I guess I’ll have to go back to my hometown soon.”
My mother was scared because of the recent ugly events in the royal capital.
A mother’s greatest mission is to continue the shoe store.
If Jane, the only daughter, dies or becomes disabled, she will be completely deprived of money.
“It’s okay because the Sorceress is here. I’ve been there.”
Thanks to Anna, the daughter of a first-class commoner with whom Jane was friendly, she was occasionally able to enjoy high-class cultural life, such as the theater.
But her mother is more worried because of that.
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“That’s why I’m more worried. Your arm isn’t fully healed yet.”
Jane then got hit by shrapnel and got a few scratches on her arm, which still had a scar.
“I have no intention of going to the countryside! The sorceress will give a speech today, so I will listen carefully and tell it to my mother! Then you will gain faith!”
Jane snapped, kicked down the front door of her house, and ran out.
“Jane! Come back!”
Her mother’s cries were heard behind her, but Jane paid no attention and ran into the square.
Anna was waiting in the square as promised.
“Anna, I was waiting. I was late because I had to argue with her mother again. Sorry.”
“No, we’ll start soon. Let’s go.”
Anna was the daughter of a gardener outside the royal palace.
As a commoner, this is almost the highest family.
Nevertheless, Anna had a gentle personality and was not arrogant, and Jane liked her like that.
‘I don’t want to be separated from Anna either.’
I will tell her mother how strong and proud the Sorcerer is by engraving it in her eyes.
When I arrived at the scheduled location, I noticed a cloud of audience in front of the podium.
The legendary sorceress, who has always been shrouded in mystery for hundreds of years of the kingdom’s history, reveals herself publicly.
Of course, everyone will be curious.
What is surprising is that the proportion of men is significant.
Usually, it is a virtue for men to stay at home and not go out on the streets, and this is also their habit itself.
But today was different.
‘Is it because the legendary sorceress is the same man…’
She was a Jane who felt a little strange for some reason, but she was fun to look at.
This is because she doesn’t usually see this many men gathered together.
Just as her face was about to brighten, the Sorceress came up to the stage.
Jane was at the theater at the time of the incident, but she did not see him.
In other words, this is my first time seeing it.
‘Big…’
That was my first impression.
He was very tall for a man, and his thick-lined face and jet-black hair made him look bloated.
I don’t know what it would be like for the opposite s*x, but for some reason, I felt a sense of security.
“Well, you look really strong.”
I spoke to Anna standing next to her.
“Well, that’s right…”
The sorceress who came up to the podium paused for a moment and then opened her mouth.
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I spit out the last sentence and raised my right hand that was clenched into a fist.
“Waaa~!!!”
The audience applauds and cheers.
Honestly, I don’t even know if I did well or not.
I was just out of my mind.
Because I have never stood alone in front of such a large crowd.
But looking at the reaction, it seems like they did it in a somewhat convincing way.
“Onii-chan~!!”
Christine, who was in the front row of the audience, called me and shook my hand.
Beside them, Maria, Betty, and the old man, who had transformed into an ordinary-looking old woman, were clapping along with the audience.
“Brother~~! It was cool….”
The moment Christine opened her mouth again, I felt a strange sense of discomfort.
It feels like a strange wave of magical power has swept through this place…
Christine stopped speaking with a stiff expression on her face, and the applause from the audience died down.
More than anything, the old man’s transformation was resolved and he returned to his original form.
But the audience didn’t seem to notice him at all.
That’s because everyone’s eyes were focused on me.
No, to be exact, behind my back.
-Clap clap clap.
I turned my head as I heard applause right behind me.
“It was a touching speech~”
What was there was a woman with brown skin and a voluptuous body that is rare in this world.
‘I’ve seen it somewhere…’
When I saw her, a certain scene came to mind, like a sense of déjà vu.
‘Theater…’
That’s right. Although it was only for a short time, the sight of her looking at me from the back of the theater remained quite vivid in my memory.
“Who are you? Come down from the podium immediately!”
One of the palace guards shouted to her.
But the brown-skinned woman just smiled seductively.
The guard knight jumped forward as if there was no need to say anything more.
But…
‘Slow…’
The knight wearing heavy armor seemed very slow.
Something is strange.
‘With that skill, you’re a Royal Guard knight? It’s like…’
It’s like putting armor on an ordinary woman from the world I originally lived in…
In short, it feels like there is no magic power…
“Mo, my body is heavy…”
The knight was unable to overcome his own weight while running and fell down awkwardly.
“Puhahahahaha! Is this the appearance of a woman who is considered the top class in the kingdom!”
A group of men can be seen coming up from the other side of the platform.
The man who burst into laughter was dressed as a scholar wearing a robe, and next to him was a man with a large sword on his back that looked like something out of BerXXX.
Men in light armor follow behind them.
They were all large and had bodies like spears.
In one hand of a man dressed as a scholar, there was something like a crystal ball shining rainbow light.
He walked right next to me and stopped.
Only then did the knight commander seem to come to his senses and shouted.
“Arrest them! Protect the Sorceress!”
The guard knights rushed to the platform, but they were all subdued by unidentified men.
He suffered all kinds of insults, including having his weapon taken away and being kicked, having his helmet ripped off and being slapped, and having a man sit on top of his fallen body.
“hahahahaha!! Did you see, gentlemen! This is the true appearance of a creature called a woman who has lost her magic! They are infinitely weak, irrational, and cunning lower-class creatures! Wake up! Wake up! Be by your side. The woman in is of a much lower race than you!”
The large man dressed as a scholar shouted to the crowd infinitely cheerfully, infinitely bitterly, and infinitely sorrowfully.
– Roaring Roaring Roaring Roaring Roaring Roaring Roaring
“Hey, I can’t use magical power…”
“uuu…”
The crowd was gripped by collective panic.
It would be worth it.
What if you can’t use the magic power that you’ve been using your whole life at all in an instant?
Wouldn’t it be similar to feeling like you suddenly lost the use of your legs?
While women were caught up in such collective panic, the situation for men was different.
They also seemed to have been suppressed by magical power, but they were people who were not given much magical power in the first place.
They started looking at the women next to them with different eyes.
“Oh, brother, what’s wrong…”
“Honey…?”
Women suddenly began to look with fear at male acquaintances and family members who were giving them strange looks.
There was resentment in the men’s eyes.
One by one, they began snatching the arms, grabbing the collars, or pushing the women around them.
“Ha, hahahahaha. Ahahahaha!!!”
“aaah!!”
It was an instant for the group to fall into madness.
The men were going crazy and assaulting the women around them, and the women were busy running away screaming.
I looked back at the strange phenomenon that suddenly occurred.
From there, a wave of magical energy began to stir, and a feeling of anger rose in my heart without my knowledge.
A brown-skinned woman was standing there with a mischievous smile.
“How…?”
There is no doubt that some kind of ‘field’ has developed in this place and the magic power has been restricted.
She calmly cast a spell that drove the group into madness.
“Well? Uhuhu…”
She came up to me and smoothed my breasts with one hand.
My body stiffened like a herbivore in front of a wild beast.
‘This b*tch is at a different level.’
It was both because of his crazy side and because he was strong.
She pressed her face against my body completely.
Her voluptuous breasts were touching and pressing against my front panel, but I didn’t have enough taste to get excited about it in this situation.
But my body was tied up in her arms and I couldn’t move.
‘It’s strong.’
I had no idea whether I would be able to escape from her even if I turned on her strengthening magic to its highest power.
So I couldn’t hastily pull out my trump card.
Everyone’s magic power was sealed in the first place, but I wonder if I can use the bracelet’s magic power.
When her lips were almost touching mine,
-Hwiik!
She quickly fell from me, and a sword split the spot.
“Haaak… Haaak…”
“Betty!”
Before we knew it, Betty had run up to the stage and was standing there, breathing heavily, pointing her sword at the brown woman.
Having never seen her breathing so hard, I was able to understand her situation right away.
‘Even Betty lost all her magic.’
I followed the last bastion with my eyes, praying that it would not happen.
The last bastion is, of course, the monster old man.
But the moment I checked that place, I had no choice but to close my eyes.
The situation was going to the worst.
The old man looked haggard, as if he had aged 20 years, and was being supported by Maria and Christine.