[20 years ago]
Pullman strode onto the stage, took off his hat and saluted. The audience watched his performance intently, hoping to see something flaws.
Magic, as long as the interpretation of the right, that is the trick will never be cracked, this is magic.
A flowerpot was placed on a wooden table to the right. Pullman took out a flower, removed his hat, placed the flower in the hat, placed it miraculously on a crystal, and began to chant:
"Fluttering flowers, rippling water, winding wind, split vitality"
One invisible spell after another spilled out of the pot. When the hat stopped, Pullman lifted the hat and the beautiful flower was planted in the pot.
"WOW!! —— "As thunderous applause broke out, Pullman laughed and laughed.
"One more!!"
Pullman stopped.
"Please wait -" a huge rock slowly from the stage to move, then, the gentleman like the magician regardless of identity to lie on the top, and then, the edge of the stage full of flowers.
"Well done ——"
[today]
When the two patrol Robot come up to the beggar, one of them raises the gun on his arm and says in a cold mechanical voice: "City Regulation 25, paragraph 9, bans begging in and around the city center within a radius of 2 kilometers. You must reach the outskirts of the city within 5 minutes or you will use a weapon."
The beggar was silent, never stopping to weave a basket of flowers in his hand, and straighten the ragged hat with his other hand. "Leave a place for me. Everyone knows where they can't live."
"Article 25 (9) of the City Management Regulations prohibits begging within a radius of 2 km of the city centre and its vicinity. You must reach the outskirts of the city within 5 minutes or you will use a weapon."
"Well, I'll be off…"
Then two pink flowers fall from the old beggar's basket, while two identical flowers bloom from the central cores of the two robots and bloom outside, destroying their entire bodies.
As in the old days, the old beggar sat on a stone surrounded by flowers.