If I'm not mistaken, the country of Roses is also the smallest on the Western continent and really far away from all the trading ports to the Southern continent. That means they really don't have much trade and natural resources to rely on, either. Roses is basically a backwater country.
Yup. It will be revealed later but its not such an important spoiler, thT Roses rely a lot on the help of otber countries, specially Highland, explaining why Highland helped on the subjugation of the Taboo Dragons in The Great Labyrinth, since it is Roses territory.
I'm curious at just how bad the show was. Were they whipped like slaves? Were the elves half naked? Did any of them try to seduce Makoto? XD
And thank you again for the translation!
Here you go
The interior of the tent was fairly dim, with a round stage in the center under spotlights. There were tables spread around the area, and the guests were sitting at them, just drinking and watching. It was pretty different from a circus in Japan. We found a nearby table and ordered ourselves some drinks.
“Hey, is that a griffin?” Lucy wondered. She pointed at a griffin that was smaller than the one we’d fought, and it jumped through a ring of fire. I guess that is fairly exciting.
“The monsters are all beat up,” Sasa said.
She was right—the griffin was dressed up in a garish costume, but its feathers and fur were ragged. The other monsters looked to be in the same condition as well. The handlers had obviously been mistreating them.
Suddenly, a beautiful girl with pointed ears stepped on stage. She was wearing an outfit that didn’t exactly cover much, along with a collar.
“Is that...an elf?” I asked.
“She has black hair, so she’s probably a half-elf...like me,” Lucy told me.
“That collar’s one that slaves wear.”
Wasn’t Lucy concerned about the elf girl? Wait, she definitely was. Her face had taken on a distinct sharpness.
We continued watching the circus for a while, and the exhibition of monsters transformed into an exhibition of scantily clad elves and demi-human girls dancing around.
The monsters, on the other hand, performed and fought each other.
Essentially, it was a world of violence, blood, and sex.
I wasn’t exactly enjoying it, but it sounded like the rest of the crowd was. Maybe the townspeople wanted something stimulating like this? But then, I smelled that sweet scent from the bar yesterday.
Weed, right?Those narcotic leaves... Let’s not stay any longer. And so, after less than an hour, we were exiting the tent.
“Oh, you’re leaving already?” asked the clown from earlier.
“We’ve had enough fun,” I said.
The clown kept on with his sales pitch. “That’s good. But we’ve got an even bigger event tomorrow, so make sure you come along!” I just replied that we’d do so if we had time.
A little while after we’d left the circus, Lucy spoke up. “I’ll pass on going tomorrow. The girls were all demi-humans and beastwomen.”
“Yeah. I felt sorry for the monsters too,” Sasa said.
It seems that the girls hadn’t been fans of the show, though their main complaints were different.
As for me? Maybe if the circus hadbeen just the dancing women, I would’ve enjoyed it.
