It's been a while since Lucio and Luz fought Adegast. Despite this, many adventures were still waiting for them. It was Saturday and Eda told them that today they would be selling more human junk. When they arrived at the market, Eda set up a shop and Lucio helped her while King slept.
"So how does it work?" Lucio asked Eda.
"It's easy! When a potential customer walks by, I show him the product and he buys for as much as he has," Eda explained.
"By the way, where's Luz?" Asked King as he began to wake up.
"I told her to stay at home, I don't want her to go trusting some crazy wizard-puppet-thing again," Lucio told King.
"Anyway, do you understand how my business works?" Eda asked and the boy nodded. "Good, because I have to go."
"Wait, what? Where are you going?" Lucio asked, bewildered, "What should I do if the guards come?"
"I have more important things to do, but don't worry, I'll come quickly if something catches on fire… probably," Eda said, summoning her staff and sitting on it. "I'm off now, kid. Byeeeee!" Eda flew off in a random direction.
"I still don't understand how this will help me learn magic," Lucio said as King went back to sleep.
Immediately, a boy came up to the stand and began to look at the assorted goods laid out on the table. Lucio decided to attract his attention.
"Oh! Welcome to Human Collectibles!" Lucio said "There are unique things here from another world that you won't find anywhere else!"
"What is it?" The boy asked, pointing to a pair of nail clippers.
"Oh, this... um… a torture device that you use to tear the nails of those who wrong you," Lucio said, deciding to lie to the buyer.
The boy's face lit up, "Cool! How much does it cost?"
"How much do you have?" Lucio asked and the boy showed his money- or rather snails, as they called them in the Boiling Isles.
"That's good," Lucio said as he took the money and gave the boy a "torture device".
"Thank you. Come again!" He said to the departing customer.
An hour passed and there were no more customers at all.
"God, this is so boring." Lucio groaned, "And today I managed to forget my phone, of course."
At this time, King, who woke up a few minutes ago, jumped on the table trying to get a flag, "You will be mine, and I will plant you on my territory!" However, he overshot his leap, and instead went tumbling off the table. "Stupid flag!" He cried out.
"Can you be quiet? I'm already bored and you just annoy me even more," Lucio said to King. King glared at him, before grabbing the flag and hiding under the table.
Lucio was already closing his eyes, but then he saw three teenagers passing by, all girls. One had lettuce-green hair, one with white and black hair, and one with pink hair. The most prominent feature of the pink-haired girl, however, was a third eye on her forehead. They all wore strange, pajama-like outfits.
Lucio decided to attract these potential customers.
"Welcome to Human Collectibles!" Lucio called out, "What would you like to buy?"
They looked at him in disgust. The girl with three eyes spoke, annoyance clear in her voice, "Ew… no. As if I would like to buy something in this trash can." The black-and-white-haired girl laughed while the green-haired one just stared.
"Hey! It's not a trash can! There are things here that you've never seen in your life!" Lucio objected to them.
"Honestly, I'm glad I've never seen most of this stuff," She said, laughing. Then, she made some movement with her finger and a small scroll appeared. She snatched it out of the air.
"What are you doing?" Lucio asked, confused.
"I'm making an ironic Penstagram next to this weird trash," She said while taking a selfie.
Lucio decided to intervene, "It's actually rude. Get out of here. Now, please." He said.
The girl, hearing this, looked at him and grinned, "Oh yeah? Make me. What are you gonna do?"
"I think you've received enough punishment already, three-eyes," he grinned, and then all three girls' eyes widened.
"What did you say?" She said, "Do you know who I am?!"
"Nope. Honestly, I don't even care." Lucio said calmly. "Look, this isn't a library. You either buy something or get out of here."
The pink-haired girl clenched her teeth in anger. "You think I'd buy something from you?! Listen to me, you idiot," she said angrily pointing her finger at the boy, "I'll have you know that I'm the Grudgby Captain at Hexside! And, if you don't apologize, I'm going to make you regret this!"
"Oh, wow, look! I'm a girl with three eyes, I'm so tough!" Lucio said mockingly.
Then a green-haired girl decided to intervene in the escalating dispute. "Okay, Boscha that's enough. You're wasting your time."
Boscha (apparently that was her name) turned back to Lucio, "Yeah! As if I would waste my magic on a miserable loser like you." She said, giggling to her friends, "By the way, has anyone told you that you look like your mother dropped you as a baby?" She added with a laugh.
Lucio's eyes widened at that. "What did you say?!"
Enraged, he climbed over the stand, raised his fist, and punched her in the face, causing her to fall. Her friends just stood there, shocked. Boscha abruptly stood up and glared at him with fury. "You're gonna really regret that!" She said as she made a motion with her hand. The motion summoned a fireball, which she hurled at Lucio.
"Santa mierda!" Lucio shouted as he leaped to the side. The fireball narrowly missed him, but he jumped right into the neighboring stand.
The surrounding people started to run away as Lucio dove under his booth, grabbing King.
"What's happening?!" King asked fearfully.
"What's happening is this crazy woman is throwing fireballs around here and we have to get the hell out of here!" Lucio explained.
Lucio brought King into his arms and crawled out from under the table. He immediately broke out into a sprint.
Behind him, he could hear Boscha calling out to her friends, "Follow him!"
Lucio and King continued to dash through the market.
"Are they gone?" King asked.
Lucio looked behind him, still running, and saw no one was there. "Yeah, I don't see th- OOF!"
Lucio did not have time to finish his sentence as he crashed directly into something huge, causing him to drop King.
Lucio's face turned to terror as he saw that it was a guard. What did Eda call them? Coven Scouts? Feeling that something crashed into him, the scout turned and saw Lucio.
"YOU!" He shouted, grabbing his leg. "You're under arrest for helping prisoners escape from the Conformatorium!" He pulled out a poster of Lucio holding his bat. Under the picture was his bounty: 1,000,000 snails.
"Actually, Eda made me and my sister do it. You know, the Owl Lady!" Lucio tried to explain.
"Yeah, yeah. I'm sure your cellmates will love hearing your stories." The scout said sarcastically. "We might have to get a smaller cell for this little guy, though." He joked as he picked King up by the tail.
"Weh?" King squealed in fear.
Suddenly, a bright beam struck the scout in the face. He dropped to the ground, releasing Lucio and King.
Lucio turned around to see Eda, looking furiously toward them.
"What the hell have you two done?!" She said viciously. "I leave for one hour! Now, everyone's panicking and my stand is empty!"
"That doesn't matter right now! We should get out of here; I'll explain everything later!" Lucio said as he lept up onto Owlbert, grabbing on tight. He still didn't see how these things were safe to fly on. The three zoomed away, off in the direction of Eda's house.
Meanwhile, Luz sat at home, rereading her favorite Good Witch Azura book. Her focus on the pages was broken when she heard Hooty's voice.
"Welcome home, hoot hoot!"
The door abruptly opened, slamming Hooty's face right into the wall. "Ow!" He said and the trio appeared from the doorway.
"Oh, hi guys!" Luz said happily. Immediately, she saw that they were all exhausted. Lucio looked like he had been set on fire. "Woah, hermano, what happened to you?" She said, shocked.
"I don't want to talk about it," Lucio said curtly. "I'm going to sleep," he added as he walked to his room in the attic.
Luz stared at him as he left and asked Eda again, "Seriously what happened?"
"Oh, it's nothing, just a little brawl in the market," Eda responded, laughing nervously. Then, in a serious tone, "And by the way, from now on, I only take you to the market."