Papa continued looking straight at the cheater, and the cheater had closed his eyes and let go of Eddy.

  As soon as he did that, Trixie felt the ToyBox attempting to claim hold of Eddy, but before that was able to happen, Trixie felt a flare of magicks from the cheater and the body of Eddy started to be filled with plants and roots, soon all that was left of Eddy was a patch of flowers...

  One patch of disgusting flowers that Trixie hated, so she banished them from the ToyBox, since she didn't feel as if she could affect them. Those were Green Chrystantheum.

  A flower that Trixie couldn't help but loathe, they were nice and even could think of them as cool when they were golden and red. But Green? There was something utterly wrong about them.

  "So how do you wanna do this?" The cheating green said, pulling out a handgun and a short sword, heh, Papa's swords were bigger. "You may think I am at a disadvantage, but you couldn't be more wrong. You may have more circles than I do, but that is not a good enough excuse for you to think that I am weaker."

  But didn't the squiggles dictate strength? Trixie had thought so, most of the Knights that they had were stronger the more circles they had right? Just like how Papa was the strongest of them all.

  "First, they all attacked my Daughter, you do understand that they will not leave here correct?" Papa said looking around and then nodding to Trixie.

  Trixie wasn't sure what that meant, but she nodded back. A second later, Papa put his swords overlapped as if these were scissors and made a cutting motion.

  Oh... Right that!

  Trixie snapped her fingers and then all at once all the baddies' heads were cut. That was Papa's signal to cut their losses!

  Trixie didn't know why they called it like that, but that was okay too, Trixie didn't mind cutting the heads of her Toys, she could replace them later!

  For some reason people always thought that when Trixie cut their heads it meant that the toys were now of Trixie and they usually left her alone, it was weird, but who was Trixie to say no to free toys? If all she needed was to remove their heads a little it was all the same to her to be honest.

  "... That was uncalled for." The cheating Green said frowning, "Same as the attempt to do the same to me."

  Yeah, the cheating one had blocked it too, Trixie had tried to focus it on him too, but his stupid magicks prevented Trixie from latching on him.

  "And yet, you claim to be of a lesser circle?" Papa said, shaking his head too, "But I find that hard to believe, how are you unaffected then? No one should be able to prevent the effects of Trixie's ToyBox."

  Yeah! How was he unnafettered?!?!?

  That was not how Trixie's ToyBox worked! That was unfair! That was cheating! Trixie hated Cheaters the most!

  "... You really are a weird fifth circle user." The cheater said laughing, "It's common sense, never allow someone's else magic to affect you, even if you trust them. Why do you think we don't have that many healers even though getting the Heal Circle is among the easiest things one could do."

  It was?

  "Magick is all about intent, so having evil intent can twist your magic and turn it hostile, it is a very hard thing for one to have pure magic and pure intent." The cheating said shaking his head yet again at Trixie, didn't he get tired? "Today was my second time seeing pure magic... A shame it is this... corrupted."

  Whose magicks was corrupted? Trixie could get them to her ToyBox and wash them by the faucet! She was sure she had one of those things to get her water!

  Or if not she could always get one of the maids to wash them with some soap and use that chance to play with the bubbles! Everyone would win!

  "Any chance you let yourself be affected by the ToyBox?" Papa asked as he made a motion to Trixie to walk further back, was he going to play with the cheater? Papa always liked to play with Trixie far away, "We can promise to let you walk out if you answer why you aren't affected."

  "Will you now?" The cheater said, waiting for Trixie to walk away, so she did that, took a couple of steps back, and ran to her favorite chair. As she moved away, the ToyBox reconfigured itself to the colosseum mode.

  It had nice, raised chairs for Trixie and all her toys, and a big area for Papa to play around!

  Everything one would want when play-fighting!

  "Yes, you have my word," Papa said pointing to Trixie, "Trixie wouldn't lie either, would you Trixie?"

  "Nu-uh!" Trixie answered, even though Papa was far away they could hear each other perfectly, if they couldn't how would they speak with each other after all! "Trixie promises to let the cheating man go away if he stops cheating!"

  "... Well I have already told you, but yeah sure." The cheating man said shrugging, "I am using my circle to repeal the magic of your daughter, any competent Third Circle learns how to do this."

  But Papa was a fifth circle and he didn't know how to do that... Did he?

  ".... And that is common knowledge?" Papa asked frowning, "The White Concord has several high circle users, and yet you would hide this knowledge from us? What are the GreenHaven doing?"

  Papa was angry, actually angry, Trixie could see him clutching quite strongly those two swords, if it wasn't because Trixie's ToyBox was keeping them intact and working, they would have been broken quite a while ago.

  "... We hide nothing, this is common knowledge among all knights a nd mages," The cheating man said shaking his head, "This only makes me think that you really have sold your soul to a devil... or well, I guess you let your daughter help you?"

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  Trixie was helping! Even if she hadn't made Papa's squiggles, he didn't let Trixie do that, Trixie had tried several times after all! But no matter what Papa would never let her draw new ones!

  "... Assume that knowledge didn't make it to our high circle knights because you all assumed we already knew," Papa said, letting a breath out, "But how do you explain it from not getting to our low circle users too? I have invited teachers and all kind of people for Trixie, someone would have told her this at some point too."

  "Not if they assumed your daughter was normal, and low circles aren't told because they have not the means to make use of this information." The cheater said shrugging, "Give your complaints to the council... which you can actually stand in."

  Trixie hated the council old men, they were stinky! They all stinky!

  "I will," Papa said nodding, "Now let Trixie's ToyBox influence you, we will only strip the memories of the ToyBox and nothing else, in honor of you righting this wrong."

  Trixie would? She wanted to turn him into a lizard! Because he was a dirty cheater lizard!

  "I refuse," The green cheater said and instead raised his gun and dagger into a combat stance. Why was he taking a coolz pose? He was going to lose! He was going to be a sore loser! "Our men were wrong in attacking you, but your family does hold a terrible danger and we can't stand that. Your family must face an inquisition."

  "..." Papa too raised his swords and stood at guard, Papa's pose was more coolz, even if he seemed to only stand there with his swords to the sides... unlike the green cheater who had his dagger under his gun, pointing at Papa... He was stoopid anyway, no matter how coolz his pose was. "You will regret that, even if you know techniques I do not, you are still of a lower circle."

  "Probably," The cheater said, "But we are knights, our strength is not only in our circle but in our techniques."

  It was? But Five was more than.... Trixie turned her eyes to see the cheating man, one...two...three....and a half? Four?

  He had four squiggles!

  Papa had one more so he would win!

  "Then... die," Papa merely stated as Trixie turned off her eyes and returned them to normal, even like that she felt her body as if it was moving through sludge.

  This always happened when Papa used his magicks inside the ToyBox, the ToyBox reacted and wanted for Trixie to watch, in this pseudo frozen world Papa was running forward with his hands behind him. Each step was measured and controlled.

  Papa was moving forward with clear intent, when he was two or three steps away from the green cheater Papa started to raise his swords forward, placing them once again in the scizzors configuration.

  Like that, he aimed to cut clean the cheater's arm, merely by running forward at that speed would be enough, Trixie knew that. She had seen Papa do this a few times before. Not always inside the ToyBox, Papa didn't like to use his powers within the Toybox after all.

  Trixie also didn't like when that happened, she felt as if Papa was slipping away from the Toybox's effect after all, and that was no good, Papa needed the ToyBox too!

  They all needed it!

  *Clang*

  Only... something that shouldn't have happened occurred.

  Papa was stopped and he looked surprised, as was Trixie.

  "That is one dangerous skill to have." The green cheater was saying that as he stood there, with both his arms intact and a green shield flickering in front of him. Papa's swords were stuck in that, "Air Shield, my third circle skill."

  The shield had stopped Papa's attack and both of Papa's swords were stuck there.

  "My turn," The green cheater said, raising his gun and pointing at Papa, he shot it.

  *Bang-bang*

  One, two, three discharges one after the other, Papa flared his circles with each shot and moved out of the way, but since he needed to use it each time, Trixie felt more and more how the effects of her ToyBox were slipping away, she would need to focus all her attention to ensure the ToyBox was still making contact with Papa!

  "Speedsters are bullshit," The green cheater said, "Well, wonder how long you can keep that up, even with your daughter's help there are hard limits."

  There were no limits to Papa! He was that good!

  "There are hard limits to shields too, and the side from which they protect." Papa said raising both his hands to the sides, and Trixie moved his swords there, only... Papa's swords were stuck in the green floating shield and Trixie couldn't get them, so she made new ones!

  "... I fricking hate these kind of magicks." The green cheater said, "Do your worst."

  "I will, trust me." Papa said smirking, "Trixie, prepare yourself to get me new ones."

  And like that Papa turned into a streak of white light once again, this time Trixie wasn't quite able to follow him, since she was dividing her concentration between trying to get the cheater into the ToyBox and making new swords for Papa.

  She could hear the clang of Papa's swords hitting new shields, but with each attempt Papa discarded a new set of white swords and got hold of new ones.

  One, two, three, four, five... Papa continued running around as a white streak of light, and more and more swords continued piling around the green cheater. Trixie could see him looking all over as more and more green shields materialized around him.

  Soon enough he would run out of shields, Trixie knew it, Papa knew it... and the cheater also knew it.

  They could already see cracks showing up in the shields around him, every new one was more fragile than the previous one, Trixie could almost tast- I mean! The ToyBox could almost taste him already, yeah... that... totally the Toybox, not Trixie... This was all because of the ToyBox... yeah...

  "There goes that then," The Green cheater said as he cocked the revolver he had in one of his hands, what was that even going to do? Papa was too fast! He was faster than a speeding bullet!

  Why? Because he was that coolz!

  "One," The Green cheating guy said as he shooted his gun forward, the bullet traversed straight (without hitting Papa) and got embedded into the wall, then less than a second later he shot once more, and so on two, three, four, five, six, seven times.

  With each discharge a new bullet embedded itself into the wall of the Arena, Papa didn't even run there anymore!

  Trixie did notice something weird about the bullets though. Those things kept spinning even though they were embedded into the wall... And Trixie also couldn't touch them with the ToyBox.

  "That will not help you," Papa, however, didn't seem to have any problem. "I am faster than your bullets, more so if you aren't even aiming at me."

  The green cheater didn't say anything, and neither did Trixie. She could feel the ToyBox nearing the breaking point the more those bullets kept spinning though. Surely they wouldn't continue spinning forever... right?

  "You really aren't a good Fifth circle Knight," The cheater said sighing, "First rule of Knight fights, the one with the most understanding of the other wins."

  Nu-uh, the one to win was the coolerz one!

  Trixier knew that was the truth of the universe! She had seen it in her comics!

  "I know you are a speedster knight, that you are fast... and that you are ruthless." The cheater said moving slowly forward, he kept his guard up and continued with his green air shields around himself, "But I also know that you don't really have a way to attack besides physical damage, which my shield can block, so how will I win?"

  "You can't." Papa answered, Trixie also thought so.

  "Wrong, my winning condition was to recover my men," The cheater said first, he continued moving slowly forward, towards the wall where the bullets kept spinning, "You made that a moot point by executing my men."

  But that also looked so coolz...

  "Should Trixie get them back?" Trixie asked, "It is not the first time for half of those baddies."

  She had woken them up from their eepy time before after all!

  "No," The cheater said shaking his head, "Instead I will teach you both a valuable lesson."

  A valuable lesson? But Trixie didn't want homework...

  "When you have an enemy that seems to be willing to explain something, and that is from a hostile enemy." The cheater said finally standing in front of the wall were the bullets kept spinning.

  Now that Trixie was looking at it clearly, the bullets seemed to make a rectangle, similar to that of a door...

  "Always suspect their reasons to do so," The cheater added as he raised his knife, the one that had started shining as soon as he got it closer to the wall.

  As if it was butter, the knife sank into the wall and the bullets from before seemed to link thanks to a green lightning coming from the bullets. That... Trixie hadn't done that had she?

  "See you in the real world." And he sank the knife into the wall, as soon as he did so, the wall crumbled away giving way to a portal, one that Trixie could see got them back to normal space.

  But... how had he done that? Trixie hadn't managed to do that either before, not that she had been practicing long, maybe a week and a half or so?

  It sounded about right.

  "Trixie, close the Toybox, we have to chase after him.," Papa said as soon as the cheater sank into the portal. But Trixie was comfy here... Why would she want to go outside?