Pokémon: Encounter

Chapter 467: 7 Nights of Wishing Stars, the Disappearing South

"Jujuer, use double kick!"

"Bang bang——!"

A sandalwood king was knocked down by the "firecrackers" of Curly-eared Cat.

"Is that all? I told you it was your girlfriend who came to me on purpose to ask for green bubbles, and I didn't say a word!"

Nan Fang clapped his hands and said to the energetic young man in front of him.

"Zhao! I lost the Pokémon battle! Let's have a battle between men!"

One minute later.

The energetic young man fell to the ground, wiping his tears sadly.

"Hey brother, I have a piece of advice for you."

"Don't be a fool and be a 'Fuel Sheep'. In the end, you will have nothing left... Look up and see what your girlfriend is doing now."

The spirited young man raised his head following Nan Fang's gaze, and saw that the spirited young girl, who also had a colorful afro, had shifted her target and was now shyly surrounding a guy with tattoos on his arms.

The energetic young man immediately cried even louder.

Nan Fang patted his shoulder.

"Pure love warriors usually don't have a good ending. This is my advice to you as a veteran. Well, you should learn from your mistakes~"

The South turned away coldly without taking a cloud with it.

This is an open area behind the mountain in Tainan Town. The deserted battlefield is now bustling with people and decorated with lights everywhere.

Only because of the arrival of the once-in-a-millennium "Night of the Comet" did this remote and lonely town regain its original look. The main character of this celebration was a temporary mobile magic performance arena located in the center of the battlefield.

It is because of this that Nan Fang met the first couple of "Shamatte" lovers here, and the previous scene happened.

With the noble attitude of saving as many people as possible, Nan Fang rejected the approach of the mentally ill girl and successfully woke up the mentally ill young man. I just hope that from now on, the young man can face his new life in the future again.

After the episode, Nanfang and Juanjuaner wandered among the small shops. They looked here and ate there, which was quite leisurely.

"Hey handsome guy, please stay!"

"I can tell from the looks of it that you're not from here. Do you want to come and take a look at this thing?"

"This is the amulet of the Millennium Comet, the 'Dream-Fulfilling Star'! It's also called the 'Seven-Night Wishing Star'! During the seven days when the Millennium Comet can be seen, if you silently make a wish every night and fold in the corner of a star, your wish will definitely come true at the end of the seventh night!"

An uncle stall owner stopped Nanfang and enthusiastically introduced the stall to him.

This was a beautiful pendant with seven petals. Nan Fang just glanced at it and ignored it.

Not a local? Are tourists being ripped off so blatantly now?

Are you serious about the label with three zeros on the back next to your pendant?

If wishes can be easily achieved, then why bother working so hard?

"Fifty."

"Zhao! At least five hundred! No deal if you don't buy it!"

"thirty."

"...Two hundred! Can you give me some money? How can you bargain like that? You're not sincere, are you?"

"Ten dollars."

"Take the fifty! Hurry, hurry!"

......

Nan Fang handed the pendant to Juanjuan'er.

If it weren't for the fact that the little rabbit was staring at it with shining eyes and was very fond of it, Nan Fang wouldn't have said a word to him.

He checked the time and saw that the magic show was about to begin. With Curly Ears, Nan Fang followed the crowd to the ticket gate of the giant tent and entered the performance venue.

The magician, dressed in a pure white tuxedo, opened his performance by conjuring a large flock of bluebirds from his top hat.

Then he put the hat on the prop table, and a Kirlia suddenly appeared from under the hat. Then the magician stood up the prop under Kirlia's feet, turning it into a vertical cylinder, hiding Kirlia inside, and turned the magic wand into a big red cloth to cover the cylinder.

Then the magician produced a magic wand that spewed fire, and set the red cloth on fire. The red cloth instantly burst into a cloud of pink smoke.

When the smoke cleared, the magician's assistant, a woman in red, stood up from the prop table with a black crystal in her hands.

They both bowed in thanks.

There was thunderous applause.

Nan Fang, who was sitting below the stage, tilted his head back and fell asleep lazily leaning on the back of his chair...

The beautiful assistant smiled slightly. She raised her hands above her head, and the black crystal in her hands instantly emitted a dazzling seven-color light.

The light faded, and the magician jumped off the long table holding his assistant's arm. Then he walked to the front of the stage and introduced loudly.

"Thank you all for coming today!"

“Watch the magic show by the great magician Butler.”

"I am the great magician Butler!"

"And this one is none other than my assistant, Miss Diane!"

"And! Pokémon Helper! Big Wolfhound! Kirlia!"

The emotions were exaggerated to the extreme, and the scene was in a turmoil. Nan Fang woke up slowly because of the noises around him.

"Um...Is this the end?"

“Milu——!”

Curly-eared cat had an excited look on his face, looking towards the south happily.

"Hahaha, as long as you enjoy watching it~"

"But I'm telling you, you may not believe it, but I actually had a dream just now! I dreamed that a little golden guy appeared in front of me angrily and wanted to slap me in the face!"

"Can I indulge it with my little temper?"

"I immediately pulled it back!"

"Guess what, Curly Ears?"

"I actually haven't beaten it! Hahaha~"

Nan Fang was teasing the curly-eared boy sitting on his lap without a care in the world. He didn't know that his figure had been firmly locked onto by someone on the stage.

"Next! I will invite a lucky audience member on the spot!"

"Let me do the next one, the last one of the show! And also the most difficult one!"

"Escape from death!"

The atmosphere suddenly reached a climax, and two beams of light immediately wandered over the audience seats below the stage.

"Bam—!"

"Okay! Then give a warm welcome! Our lucky audience member is coming to the stage!"

Enshrouded in the beam of light, Nan Fang, who looked confused, had not yet reacted when he was reminded by the audience next to him and was forced to move forward.

"It seems our lucky audience is really surprised!"

"It doesn't matter! It's just a simple escape!"

"I promise!"

Seeing the magician say this, Nan Fang, the most "lucky" audience, could only reluctantly walk onto the stage. Butler also showed a meaningful smile on his face.

"So... the escape... is about to begin!"

Diane pushed out a wooden box more than one meter tall from the backstage and signaled to Nan Fang and Juan Juan Er that they could stand directly inside.

The sudden darkness made Nan Fang feel a little uneasy.

I don't know why, but the way the magician looked at me just now seemed to contain something else.

"Now! I will take out ten sharp swords! And stab them one by one!"

"What will the result be like?!"

At this moment, Butler, who was standing outside, had a glimmer of madness in his eyes.

"Shh-!"

Suddenly, there was a sound of breaking through the air! Butler instantly thrust the sword in his hand into the wooden box where Nan Fang was!

"Well--!!!"

Exclamations filled the entire audience.

Butler smiled slightly, turned his head and looked at the wooden box beside him, a trace of doubt crept onto his face. After a pause, Butler stabbed the second sword into it again.

Butler: ???

He turned his head and looked at Diane beside him. Diane was stunned for a moment and gave him a look that said "what happened?"

Butler shook his head slightly.

"Shh-!"

The third, fourth, fifth...he started to lose his composure.

When all ten swords in Butler's hand were inserted into the wooden box, Butler showed an incredible expression. But to the audience, this was just a magician's exaggerated performance.

Why!? According to common sense, shouldn't bright red blood be slowly flowing out of the wooden box now? What's going on?

Butler had no choice but to continue performing.

When he and Diane opened the wooden box together, there was nothing inside except ten shining swords.

Butler gasped.

This is because the mechanism in this wooden box had actually been modified by Butler a long time ago.

Only he can control the timing of the mechanism's activation.

He was very sure that he did not activate any mechanism when he stabbed the sword.

The actors who had been selected in advance to serve as Southern stand-ins had already appeared in the audience.

The crowd's excited and enthusiastic cheers filled the entire stage like a tide.

So, where is Nanfang, who should have died in the wooden box, now?