“Êtes-vous sûr que nous allons trouver le cirque ici?” Frenchman said.
“Of course it is! Bread and circus, it’ll be a hell of a time!” Rat said.
“D'accord. ...C'est à quelle distance, déjà?” Frenchman said.
“…Uhhhhh…” Rat pondered for a bit.
“…I think it’s about… about 14 minutes away! Pretty short.” Rat said.
“Dieu merci.” Frenchman said.
14 minutes later, The Frenchman and Rat finally arrive at the circus.
“...Tiens. Je dois admettre que je ne m'attendais pas à ce que ce soit aussi grand.” Frenchman says, slightly marveled at the size of the circus tent. Rat laughs.
“You of all people are surprised? You?” Rat says.
“Eh bien, je ne suis jamais allé au cirque auparavant. Je m'attendais à un petit chapiteau rempli de gens pitoyables essayant de divertir le public avec un humour lamentable.” Frenchman says, Rat following up with “Oh, this will be good.”
Frenchman and Rat walk into the circus, Rat gets a baguette from a concessions stand, and The Frenchman and Rat find two seats in the middle row of circus seats. As the two sit down, a booming, loud voice gets everyone’s attention.
“LADIES, GENTLEMEN, AND OTHER FREAKS OF WEIRD VARIETY! PUT ALL OF YOUR EVERYTHING TOGETHER FOR… MISS MANQUER!” The loud voice manages to get an applause from the audience, and as the clapping stops, there she is. Front and center. “Thank you, everyone, for attending this year’s circus performance! We got a lot of good freaks to show off this year, so let’s stop stalling, and…” Miss Manquer says, before yelling “GET TO IT!” with most of the audience yelling with her, before clapping for a bit, and then stopping.
“...Pourquoi ces idiots font-ils autant de bruit?” Frenchman whispers, Rat following up with “My guy… it’s a circus. Why shouldn’t they be loud? They’re excited!”
“Up first, we have ‘Stronggal Jester’!” Miss Manquer says, a tall, strong jester walking into the stage, with a blank face.
“She can lift, she can kill, she can do it all at your command! Watch!” Miss Manquer says, pulling out a whistle, before saying “Stronggal, crush a crate with only your bare hands.” and then blowing into the whistle.
The Stronggal Jester goes backstage to get a crate, and comes out with a really big crate, before crushing it with only her hands. This gets applause from the audience, before The Stronggal Jester goes backstage again.
“Est-ce que... Est-ce qu'elle va bien?” Frenchman whispers.
“…Probably… Probably not, if I’m gonna be honest.” Rat says, eating the baguette, a few crumbs getting on his whiskers.
“Next up, we have ‘Mr. Arms!’” Miss Manquer says, with a very slim, malnourished man with 6 arms (3 pairs of arms).
“C'est quoi ce bordel?!” Frenchman says, very shocked and somewhat disgusted at the freak of nature he sees.
“This… uhhh… T-This thing can grab anything you throw at it! As an example, how about…” Miss Manquer takes a look at the entire audience, before pointing at 2 specific people, and saying “YOU TWO! The Frenchman, and his anthropomorphic rat!”
Frenchman is surprised. Rat is excited to have been picked for a circus activity this year.
“Do you two have anything to throw?” Miss Manquer asks.
…
“WE GOT A BAUGETTE!” Rat screams, the entire audience screaming back in excitement. Rat throws the baguette at the multi-armed freak with extreme force, as it catches the baguette instantly.
The freak tries to eat the baguette, but Miss Manquer snatches it from him.
“You see? Even with the most forceful of throws, he-“ Miss Manquet is interrupted by the freak trying to get the baguette back.
“…Excuse me for a second, folks.” Miss Manquet says, before getting into a tug of war with Mr. Arms to get the baguette back. It quickly devolves into a fistfight, as the two try to kill each other after Mr. Arms punches Miss Manquet. The excitement roars through the circus tent as most of the audience cheers for violence.
“C'est quoi ce bordel?! Pourquoi tout le monde applaudit?!” Frenchman says, Rat immediately following up with “I dunno why you’re scared, this is high quality entertainment!”
Eventually, Mr. Arms uses all of those arms to his advantage, and starts scratching at Miss Manquet’s skin, and then tearing her skin off through small portions. The excitement through the audience does not stop.
Frenchman cannot take the violence anymore. He says “Rat, je m'en vais. Cette tente est une maison de l'horreur.”, before leaving the circus tent to go back to his home. Rat doesn’t leave, however.
“Suit yourself.” Rat says. The violence is a real rager tonight.