The movie was still pying, so Joshua took advantage of the time to look for Sir Weissenasche outside the sing room and thhly crified how the was theater would operate.

  "This is the ticket?"

  Joshua held a silver in his hand, and the front of the had a dark golden pattern on it, while the back had a number "38".

  The was not Nornd's currency, but it was simir to a token found in an arcade hall.

  "Yes, Sir. You are holding the ticket for the ordinary seats. There are also tickets for the superior seats and VIP guest seats."

  Sir Weissenasche showed two faint gold s to Joshua, and the differeweewo s was the color of the patterns on it.

  In an era where the printer did , it was undoubtedly more veo use a token pared to hand-written paper tickets.

  "The price of a normal ticket is generally one silver , while the special seats are one gold . The VIP seats are generally reserved for audiehat I've personally invited."

  Sir Weissenasche's ticket price was sidered fair. At least in an eically-developed small try like Nornd, normal civilians could fully afford the price of a normal ticket.

  "How about the publicity works? Handwritten flyers?"

  The leaflet Joshua had obtained from the Nornd National Theater was writteirely by hand.

  "In the past, we didn't need any publicity at all. The Weissenasame itself was the best publicity... but tely..."

  Sir Weissenasche did not revel in his past glory, instantly returning to face the cold and cruel reality.

  So his theater had been surviving on word of mouth all this while? There was a saying in a that good wine did not fear deep alleys, but if there was aavern right at the door of your alley pulling your ers away, no matter how good your wine was, your patrons would all disappear.

  That was the situation Sir Weissenasche was fag now... No, it was much worse. Not only had all of his ers been taken away, but even his "bartenders" had also been poached to the st man by Nornd National Theater.

  Sir Weissenasche was only left with his theater.

  "Publicity is a must."

  Word-of-mouth was, of course, important, but if oo depend on it alone, one would die without knowing it.

  "Of course, Sir... I'll hire someoo write the flyers right away."

  "Using flyers is just too slow, and I don't think that the National Theater would allow you to simply do that."

  Joshua recalled the Weissenasche Theater's ret experience, and he could clearly see that the Nornd National Theater was determio wipe it out from Nornd and then reign supreme there.

  There was nothing more profitable than an absolute monopoly!

  If Sir Weissenasche was to send someo to distribute flyers now, that person would definitely enter all kinds of resistance. So, it was a huge question mark if the flyers could be distributed or not.

  "Then... Sir, how do we promote it?"

  Sir Weissenasche wiped off the sweat on his forehead. Joshua had also noticed that the tter was definitely at a disadvantage in a petition against the Nornd National Theater. Yet, flyers were the only promotiohod Sir Weissenasche could think of.

  "Let's directly go to the posters."

  Joshua could make full use of the inium crystal's advantage in infinite magnification. The Weissenasche Theater was inally a magnifit building. By hanging a huge white background on the side of the theater's entrahey could project the most cssient of "Beauty and the Demon" on it and then add the name of the movie as well as the list of the performers on it. That was much more useful than any flyer...

  Just like the huge posters one could see everywhere iies oh.

  "To... aster?"

  Sir Weissenasche did not seem to uand the meaning of the word Joshua had just said.

  "No flyers are hat white background wall in the hall, while I have no idea what it is made of, I need ohat is big enough to stand upright beside your theater's entrance."

  "I prepare that, but I may wo to three days."

  Sir Weissenasche g Joshua after he said that and carefully asked, "Is there anything else?"

  "No, you go bad watch it. I think you probably haven't missed too many of the nice parts."

  "Yes, Sir."

  With Joshua's permission, Sir Weissenasche's hurried back to the performance hall.

  Joshua was actually w if he should be selling finger foods like pop or the theater, but after some sideration, he gave up on the idea. "Beauty and the Demon" was not a popovie, and they were not at a point in time where the movie could start making ancilry ine.

  What Joshua wao do now was to spread the popurity of the movie.

  ...

  Hyrn sat in her seat, at a loss for words for a long while.

  She had indeed been moved to tears by the plot of "Beauty and the Demon", but in addition to being moved, the movie gave Hyrn something to pte on.

  Hyrn was not as naive as Ciri was. Aside from the movie's outstanding storyline, what terrified Hyrn was the feeling that the movie brought to her.

  It had the ability to let her see a "new world". That was something impossible to achieve in any stage py, and Hyrn had been yearning for such a world.

  Hyrn yearo participate in the world of "Beauty and the Demon" through some method and help Belle meet the demon much earlier on, or to help the demon drive away the ignorant vilgers in the end.

  She truly had the urge.

  Hyrn looked at the window of Pong in her vision and remembered the elf Joshua had drawn using her device.

  Sylvanas Windrunner—Hyrn believed that the elf had more than just a here had to be an unknown story behind her, and perhaps just like "Beauty and the Demon", it would be an unfettable story.

  Joshua had indeed po tell the tale of Sylvanas to the world, but not through the method of "Beauty and the Demon", rather, through the way of Pong.

  Thinking of that gave Hyrn some sort of anticipation, which had no idea came from where. She had read plenty of travel stories in the academy's library aed at the experiences of the protagonists in those stories.

  However, she had never been so desperate to personally get involved in a story.

  "Sis, do you believe that demons could really love humans?"

  Ciri's out-of-the-blue question interrupted Hyrn's thoughts, and the movie had reached the part where Belle and the demon were dang in the castle hall.

  It was a very romantic se apanied by musiough to make anyone a part of the audieo have the urge to "fall in love" right then.

  Hyrn was affected by it, and Ciri was no exception.

  "Why the suddeion?"

  "No... Nothing. Maybe I'm just overthinking."

  Ciri touched the "colr" around her neow that she was aloh Hyrn, it was the best time for her to tell Hyrruth about her retionship with Joshua and also seek her help. Yet, Ciri hesitated for a bit before she chose to hide the matter.

  If she told Hyrn about it, she would lose her only e to Joshua...

  Weebkun