Chapter 17 second quarter

"Fraud is gentlemanly crime—that is, 'gentleman crime'. That's what the British writer Henry James said." That night, sitting in front of Chef Mahiro's luxurious dinner, Kantaro said while gesturing. Lao Tie stretched his chopsticks towards the Japanese-style tofu salad, and let out a sigh of relief. "The writer knows a shit, and it's true. You send that kid to Japan and give him a 'gentlemen's crime'." "This tofu is super soft, like a butt." Baxun likes to interrupt others suddenly, and he doesn't seem to feel it at all.And she seems to love ass.

"It's completely different." "Yeah. Well, anyway, I like liars. Anyway, liars use technology to deceive people. It's very handsome. It's like magic. By the way, when it comes to magic, the difference between ideal deception and ideal magic , do you know?" Before the soup in his mouth was completely swallowed, Kantaro spoke.The juice splashed, I don't know if it was saliva or what.Zhenxun, who was sitting opposite, reached out to cover his bowl. "Well, the ideal deception is when the other party does not realize that they have been deceived. This is a perfect deception, but it would be a mistake if magic also pursues this effect. Magic is the complete opposite of deception. If the other party does not realize that they have been deceived , magic is meaningless."

It's very interesting, Wu Ze thought, but he really didn't like Kantaro's condescending tone. "I said, did anyone call you deadheaded?" "Yes. Some people keep calling me fat." "That's really pitiful. There are dumbbells here, you can use them to exercise-in a word, the layman who doesn't understand anything, don't pretend to understand it, take an 'ideal' or something. We rely on that for food of." "Yes, yes, we are professional liars." The old iron next to him also echoed, but at this moment, Kantaro's answer surprised Wu Ze.

"Did I say I was a layman?" "what?" "what?" Wu Ze and Lao Tie asked questions at the same time. "Professional, Guan Guan." Ba Xun said while drinking soup. With a sound of "mi", the cockscomb called. "Ah", Kantaro shouted. "I forgot, I heard that there is a cat at home, so I brought a gift." He stood up suddenly and left the living room.Pat-pat up the stairs. "Hey, what does that guy do? Are you traveling with us?" When Hachiro was about to answer, Kantaro came back and said "right" himself.He was wearing a tuxedo, but only the top.This appearance surprised Wu Ze and raised his eyebrows.Lao Tie opened his mouth wide, and Ji Guan quickly turned around, ready to run away at any time.

At this moment, Kantaro suddenly sang a song. "One day...in the small house...for dinner—" It was the same weird song that sounded like a nursery rhyme.Kantaro hummed a song whose lyrics seriously exceeded the limit, sat heavily in front of the table, and pushed away his own dishes on the table to make a small space.Looks like it's going to do something. "Cockroach, there, next to the tofu salad..." "what?" Lao Tie subconsciously looked at the tofu salad, where there were no cockroaches.Looking back at Kantaro, at some point, he placed a square wooden box on the empty table in front of him.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, on the box—" Kantaro slowly swung his fat arms.That arm was like a car's windshield wiper, swinging over the wooden box several times.When Wu Ze didn't know what he was going to do, he saw him place two cards on the wooden box.King and back, the two cards lined up just to cover the wooden box. "This way, that way—" Kantaro's singing continued, and his arms continued to swing like wipers. "I gave birth—" Kantaro suddenly took away two playing cards.Something appeared inside the wooden box that was supposed to be empty.Is it canned?Wu Ze couldn't help looking.

"Yes, a gift for a cockscomb!" Kantaro took out the can from the wooden box, it was cat food, and the lid had been opened.Kantaro put the canned food on the ground, and the rooster comb showed an expression of "Oops", and leaned over to sniff the taste, and started to eat it wheezingly. "Kantaro, why did you do this?" "Hey, didn't I say that I've been performing on stage before?" "Stage...are you a magician?" "Didn't I tell you?" "I haven't heard you say it. Don't you make music?" "When did I say I'm in music?"

Oh, I never said that. "But, didn't you say you sang?" "I sang. Just like the one just now." "Guan Guan's stage performance is super fun. While singing the song just now, it changes a lot of things." Yahiro said with sashimi of sea bass dipped in soy sauce. "Old Wu, did you see the guitar case behind you, and misunderstood it?" "Misunderstood." "That," Kantaro explained, "that guitar case is also a magic prop, and it also has the function of storing props. In other words, all other props are placed inside."

Kantaro seems to have been bullied since he was a child, everyone called him fat fat fat fat fat. "Well, it's a fact that you're fat, so there's nothing wrong with calling it that. But things like shoes being hidden, mapo tofu being poured into the desk, it's still annoying after all." Kantaro folded his arms like a child, recalling thoughtfully. "The most incomprehensible thing is the firecrackers. I was taken to the park, and then everyone threw firecrackers at me together. What is the relationship between the fat man and the firecrackers? I am afraid until now, and I dare not even go to the fireworks festival."

"That's why Guan Guan went to learn magic." Ba Xun added. Kantaro continued happily: "Yes, I think if I learn some skills, I won't be bullied—but actually after learning magic, being bullied is actually nothing at all Well. Although I am fat, I can perform magic tricks. Although everyone is thin, they cannot perform magic tricks. They are all the same in comparison. Everyone has their own advantages. Now I only have one wish, to be a thin magician .And then it’s the same as everyone else.” It's a paradoxical logic. When the food on the table was almost finished, Lao Tie began to urge Kantaro to perform magic tricks.Kantaro pretended to decline for a minute, then said "I'm not an example" as if to be kind, and happily came down from the second floor with the guitar case.In the following time, Kantaro's weird background music played in the living room, the change on the table increased, decreased and disappeared, and the playing cards stood up, floated up and moved around.At the end of each trick, Kantaro wore a blatantly proud expression.But each trick is really worth seeing, and one of Wu Ze's favorites is to put a handkerchief on the tatami, and then scratch it with a plastic rake similar to that used when catching the tide, and shallow clams will come out.

"That... Asahi boy... the tatami..." Although the clams that are raked out are fakes with pulp stuffed in their stomachs, it seems that real clams can also be raked out if they are prepared well in advance. "Where did you buy these props?" When Wu Ze asked, Kantaro showed a smug expression and shook his head. "It's all done by myself, all of it." "That's really amazing. But Kantaro, why are you out of work? I think it's funny." Kantaro in a tuxedo folded his arms and showed a serious expression. "All of my tricks actually have a serious shortcoming." "What shortcoming?" "The audience can't participate. They can only watch me doing magic tricks while singing. If I want to talk about how to excite and surprise the audience, it's better to let them participate in the magic in person. It's a pity that my magic can't do this. So it's a shortcoming." "Then why don't you change the way once in a while? Let the audience participate together." "No," Kantaro said immediately, "I like it like this. Let the audience enjoy my singing and magic tricks, not participate in it." "If you refuse to change it, won't everything be meaningless if you don't have a job in the end?" "Isn't it great to perform in a place like this without a job? Whether the landlord can make money or not, I don't care about that." "Anyway, it's better to find a job early-hey, it's rare to be able to do magic tricks, and it would be best if there is a business that can make money from it." Wu Ze said this casually.At this time, he didn't expect that he would really "do business" with Kantaro soon. "Speaking of which, it might be a good thing that the landlord of that apartment drove us out." As Yahiro said, he took one out of KOOL's box and held it in his mouth, and Kantaro immediately handed over the lighter and lit it. "What, they were kicked out, and you said it was a good thing?" "Well, that apartment, recently there are always weird men hanging around, hiding in the shade of the trees, and when I and Zhen find out, they will look at us furtively - it feels very annoying." "Well, it feels disgusting." "Pervert?" "Yes. I wanted Guanguan to drive him away, but Guanguan is so cowardly that it's useless." "Oh, that guy is too strong. I can't beat him. I hate violence." With a sound of hello, Wu Ze stopped their conversation. "What kind of a fellow is that? What does it look like?" "I didn't see the face. As soon as we looked at him, he immediately turned his face away. My eyes are not good." "who is it?" "So I don't know." Wu Ze glanced at Lao Tie.Lao Tie was also looking at Wu Ze. — There was a tall strange man. This is what the owner of the dolphin pavilion said. ——When I came to the store, I asked a lot. It is said that he was asking about Wu Ze's situation. And then there's the strange phone calls I've received several times at home, and the person is speaking with a hissing voice, insisting that I tell him where you are. ——Yes, yes, a man named Huokou! Will it matter?Between these few things, is there some thread that strings them together?No, no, although he knew that Kazuru was actually investigating Wu Ze's situation, but he had absolutely no reason to appear near Shinhiro and Yahiro's apartment.The two of them are the two girls left by the mother who forced her to commit suicide when Wu Ze was "pull out the intestines" under Huokou.There should be no reason for Cinder to hang around such two people. Wu Ze took a deep breath slowly, concealing the panic in his heart and asked: "Then, when you came here...were you not seen by that man? No one followed you secretly, right?" Yahiro and Mahiro looked at each other, and then looked at Kantaro together.The three nodded respectively. "Probably not." Yaxun replied. "Because the feeling was annoying, we looked around very carefully when we came out." "--yes." Although his heart was still shrouded in inexplicable doubts, Wu Ze finally let go of his heart for the time being.However, Wu Ze himself didn't know what to worry about. Crackling, Lao Tie's fingers tapped on the table nervously.