Academy City's Puppet Master

"The AiM diffusion field characteristic of the target has been locked!"

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At the same time, on the night of August 8th, in the commercial street of the fifth school district.

The puppeteer's street performance unfolds again.

Soon, the audience gathered around while complaining "Long time no see".

The fiery popularity surprised Saten Ruiko and the others who came here to support.

"At first, I thought that there wouldn't be too many people watching." Saiten Ruiko said.She proposed to come over to support her, and she also had the idea of ​​helping Ling Xingye increase her popularity.

But now it seems that they don't need their help at all!

"Xingye said that pure skills will never lack audiences." Hitomi Shiranui explained with a smile.

"That's an exaggeration..." Shirai Heizi watched absently.

Because many of the audience present were not only watching, but also took out their mobile phones and cameras to shoot the whole process.

The others knew that Shirai Heizi was thinking about Misaka Mikoto, and she didn't get along with Ling Xingye, so they didn't care about her faux pas.

After half a month, Ling Xingye finally started his street performance again, which made many of his "fans" very excited.

The animation of "Detective Sherlock" has been updated for two episodes. Except for most of the reasoning and dialogue links, some action scenes can still be cut, which is enough to support the performance of a puppet show.

In fact, the form of Ling Xingye's performance has not changed much all the time, only his increasingly proficient skills.

What his fans want to see is actually this "skill".

Turning the impossible into the possible, turning a doll puppet of a dead object into a lively image, jumping up and down in front of the audience, lifelike.

——It's as if the doll has life.

Knowing that it's all fake—no, knowing that it's all fake makes her even more attractive.

The Ling family class where Ling Xingye lived and studied was a traditional juggling troupe. What he learned and mastered were actually "juggling", which were all kinds of skills honed through thousands of years of practice.

The performances of the Ling family class all have a style, which is to clearly tell all the audience that the content of the performance will never be mysterious.Even if it is performing tricks, it will declare openly that "all these are skills learned from practice" rather than "inconceivable miracles".

What they sell is "skills", and they impress the hearts of the audience with their honed and proficient techniques.

Therefore, the Ling family class is not afraid at all that the "magic" or "tricks" they perform will become outdated or be deciphered.

After all, they are selling the skills of the performers, not any specific show.

Changing to Ling Xingye is the same here in Academy City.Many of Ling Xingye's "brainless fans" just want to watch him manipulate the puppet to move. As for what show to perform...it's up to you.

Ling Xingye still insisted on updating the content of the program, which is actually quite a performance of dedication.

Because I felt a breakthrough in the battle recently, and I have a better understanding of the manipulation of puppets, Ling Xingye performed a very difficult "ten machine exercise" today-controlling ten puppets to perform at the same time.

This became the climax of the whole performance.

Because when performing on the street, Ling Xingye will not use the super power of "Phase Fulcrum" for auxiliary manipulation.He completely relies on his own body to control ten puppets to perform.

Of course, such a performance must rely on the surrounding tree branches, light poles, billboards and other fulcrums, and the stage must be arranged in advance.

In addition, the dolls used for performance are all small and medium-sized puppets, and the action requirements are not as fine as manipulating sprites. The joints of each finger are retracted and retracted. Through the joint movements of fingers, palms, wrists, shoulders, elbows, and even legs, Ling Xingye can still control them by himself.

But in this way, when the ten puppet puppets are dancing group exercises, the movements of the puppet master behind him are somewhat funny—Ling Xingye looks even more flustered than the dolls in front.

The audience burst into laughter.

But this kind of "hustle and bustle" is also part of the performance - it is precisely because of Ling Xingye's slightly embarrassed performance that it can better reflect that he is truly "handmade" and controls ten puppets to perform together.

"Senior Xingye is really amazing!" Saten Reniko and Uiharu Shiri praised sincerely.

===Chapter [-] Generous Audience===

The performance time of Lingxing Ye is not very long, usually about half an hour to forty minutes.

Because this is an outdoor street performance after all, you can't let the audience stand and watch for a long time, right?And it will block traffic.

And if the time drags on for too long, the outermost audience will lose patience and leave early-this will cause Ling Xingye, who only ends up collecting money after the show, to lose a considerable part of his tipping income!

So Ling Xingye has always known how to accept as soon as it is good.

Now, it's finally time for the little monkey puppet to raise the coin box and go down to collect money again.

Today, even Hitomi Shiranui is not needed as a babysitter, and someone will take the initiative to invest money in it immediately.

"It's a good sign! It seems that today's harvest is good!" Ling Xingye was overjoyed, and manipulated the little monkey puppet to continue to shuttle among the audience.

"Let's invest some money too!" Saten Ruiko also took out some change from her wallet and said enthusiastically.

"We're just here for friendship, so there's no need to give him money, right?" Shirai Heizi disagreed. She saw that the box raised by the little monkey was filled with more and more change, and there were even thousands of banknotes, "But... I didn't expect that I could actually make money!"

Hitomi Shiranui said: "Of course, Xingye has a lot of fans. When his income was the best, it was even higher than my level 4 scholarship!"

Misaka 10001 stood aside and remained silent.

"How is sister Misaka feeling?" Hitomi Shiranui asked her.

"Misaka thinks that the performance of seniors is more exciting and powerful when manipulating sprites. Misaka expressed her own feelings, and Misaka can't understand why people like the simplified version."

"It's different, because when manipulating sprites, he uses abilities, but now Xingye completely relies on the most primitive silk threads and body control."