Extra Chap— Hunter Carnival [II]

Going in through the side gate, Lucy hadn't walked far before she heard cheering, and she followed the sound.

Born of the Blackstone Family, and a noble besides, she'd lived a gloomy sort of life since childhood. The people around her never spoke without three parts calculation behind it, and even their smiles were fake. So this kind of crowded, ordinary liveliness was novel to her.

When she got there, the crowd was packed three layers deep, inside and out. She'd just started pushing forward when a man threw out an arm to block her, palm turned up.

Pay up.

Lucy frowned. A scam? A robbery? Or just the rule of the place?

She glanced around, saw that everyone else had obediently paid before going in, and paid as well.

What she got was a bronze ticket, marked: Time limit fifteen minutes.

She didn't buy a pricier ticket. Whether this place was worth staying longer for was something she'd have to see first.