Being trounced once again turned Hyrn's attention away from Pong as she looked at Joshua and Sir Weissenasche walk out of the room.

  "Joshua, is your discussion done? Ciri... you should e with me to the academy, then."

  Hyrn still uimated Ciri's "favorable disposition" toward Joshua, plus Joshua had already remihem that the talk could take some time before he ehe room.

  So, Hyrn was going to take Ciri back to the academy to try to salvage her student status. However, Ciri stuck fast by the door and refused to budge.

  It was as if Ciri would die the moment she strayed a little too far away from Joshua.

  That was a faly Ciri and Joshua knew. Until now, Ciri had yet to find a good opportunity to expin her retionship with Joshua to Hyrn.

  Fortunately, the theater's hospitality for its guests was top-notch. Coupled with the charm of Pong, Ciri mao distract Hyrn's attention.

  "Sister, it's already te in the evening now."

  Ciri poi the clo the corridor wall. It was one of the arotech appliances produced after the patent revolution thirty years ago. Sihe advent of the rune-powered clock, humans in this world had finally been able to accurately t time to the sed.

  "Evening? It's obvious that ten-plus minutes have just passed..."

  Hyrn's sentence came to an abrupt end when she saw the clo the wall. The hour hand of the clock ointing unerringly at seven.

  It was five when Hyrn arrived, so that meant she and Ciri had been sitting there for two good hours!

  Yet, Hyr like the two hours had passed in the blink of an eye. All she did that afternoon y a few rounds of Pong with Ciri.

  It was... terrifying!

  Hyr a chill run down her spine as she looked at the white Pong window in her vision.

  She had always thought that wasting time was a cardinal sin, and the game just wasted two hours of her life.

  She was now hesitant about using magic to erase Pong from her sciousness.

  The reason for her hesitation was that she had not reciled her losses. She had lost three games to Ciri earlier, and she would only win whenever she persisted.

  So, Hyrn gave up the thought.

  "Sorry for making you dies wait. The agenda is to prepare for the premiere. I'm afraid that she may not want to go back that early," Joshua said.

  Joshua's words prodded a little thought within Ciri's mind.

  A real movie buff would not feel bored even if they were to watch a movie a dozen times, and Ciri did not receive the same treatment as the Duke of Bones. She had not seen the pleted final part yet.

  Hence, she had been waiting for this day for a long, long time!

  "But, Joshua..."

  Hyrn was a little flicted. The academy she studied in es csses at eight. If she was to rush there now, she might be able to make it in time for the teacher's csses.

  Ciri had not beeing to school for half a year now. If not for the fact that Ciri's magical talents were much more terrifying than Hyrn's, Ciri might have already been expelled by the academy. In fact, there were whispers of the crazy little brat's half-year absence from song the teag staff.

  Being a mage was a real symbol of status in Nornd, and Hyrn truly hoped that Ciri would tinue her studies in the magic academy.

  "I've already been absent for half a year now. It doesn't matter if I wait for another day. Sis, I'm choosing to stay for the premiere. I'll regret it for life if I miss it," Ciri said.

  Hyrn always believed that a stage py was just something to past the time. She had been dragged to one by her cssmates before, but she was not ied in it.

  Even if Hyrn dragged Ciri to school as her older sister, it would be useless because... she was no match for Ciri.

  Despite possessing a Rank 3 mage certificate, she was not a match for a Rank 2 magic adept.

  The magic Ciri used was more ined toward actual bat, while Hyrn's magic was more toward academia.

  "Alright..." Hyrn finally relented and agreed.

  So, with Sir Weissenasche at the lead, Joshua went straight to the theater's performance hall.

  There were two performance halls inside Weissenasche Theater, and the first hall was the one used for formal performahe auditorium was divided into upper, middle, and lower floors with enough seating to aodate two thousand people during a single performance.

  Although no one had visited the theater for a long time now, the seats in the auditorium were spotless. The ceiling was inscribed with intricate pale-gold patterns, which made the eheater feel a little mlorious...

  And the theater indeed had its glorious days...

  "Sir, what do you think?"

  Sir Weissenasche moved to Joshua's side, and his humble air from earlier totally disappeared, as he was very pleased with everything around him and he could stand with pride before others.

  "The stage is too small."

  Joshua walked to the side of the stage and looked at the back of the auditorium. It was definitely a worthy pce for an opera, but for a stage py, the audieting ohird level and above would o use "Eagle Eyes" magi order to see the se oage.

  "Sir, I swear that this is the biggest stage in all of Nornd. Even that despicable theater atch it."

  "It is still too small."

  The theater was indeed much rger than a normal ema, and if Sir Weissenasche could accept it, Joshua would have torn dowire theater and rebuilt it.

  However, Joshua did not have the luxury of time now, and Sir Weissenasche, who saw the theater to be more important than his life, would definitely not accept it.

  "Take the curtains above down."

  Joshua poi the curtains hanging above the theater. They would usually be drawn during the switg of ses in a stage py.

  Sir Weissenasche hesitated for a while, but he still ordered his men to take down those red curtains, which had been hanging above the stage for decades.

  After the curtaiaken off, the eage was pletely dispyed before the audience. Joshua did not care about the stage but the huge whiteboard at the back of the stage that almost occupied the entire space of the stage.

  "Sir, that is a white wall used for background decoration..." Sir Weissenasche expio Joshua.

  " it be moved?"

  Joshua did not expect this world to achieve circur-s movie levels yet, but a giant s was the most basic... The ve part of the inium crystal's proje was that no matter how big the s was, it would not affect the picture's quality.

  The whiteboard behind the stage was undoubtedly an excellent projeedium.

  "Of course."

  "Push it to the front of the stage."

  As per Joshua's order, Sir Weissenasche had his men slowly move the huge whiteboard to the front of the stage.

  "Perfect. Sir Weissenasche, please turn off all of those glowing stones."

  Joshua felt that the whiteboard could indeed serve as a projeedium... He walked up along the steps to the tenth row of the auditorium's first level, and after infusing mana into the crystals, the image was magnified many times over onto the whiteboard.

  The effect was... not bad at all.

  Joshua sat with a soft cushion and looked at the picture that rojected on the whiteboard s. He finally experiehe feeling of watg a movie in the ema again.

  "It's starting." Ciri straight up pnted herself in the seat beside Joshua before she whispered to Hyrn, "This... is a stage py?"

  pared with Ciri's about the movie's plot, Hyrn was more ed about what earing on the whiteboard. It was nothing like any kind of stage performance Hyrn had ever known.

  Weebkun