Fairy Tale: Little Red Riding Hood's Wolf Mentor

Chapter 11 Wolf's Disguise
[Return of the Loop: Little Red Riding Hood: Wolf in Disguise]

[The unsealing ceremony has been completed, and the fairy tale power has been obtained! ]

[Three guards praised you at the same time?! Well... maybe you really are a dog?]

[Fairy Tale Power: Use the clothing of others to disguise yourself as the owner of the clothing. The more detailed your knowledge of their appearance and the more complete your ability to wear their clothing, the lower the chance of being discovered.]

[Description: But... Grandma, how come you have such a scary big mouth? ]

In an instant, the Poro knew the power he had gained!
Disguise? Like in a fairy tale?
He stared at the armor of the guards in front of him and fell into deep thought.

When the guards saw Poro suddenly squat down and stop moving, they stopped paying attention to him. Since he was just a dog, there was nothing to worry about.

As for Lake, although her appearance was distorted by the cloak, the soldiers could still see that she was a little girl.

Well...it's nothing to go to the small town.

"Well, what are you doing in town?"

But the captain of the guard looked at the direction from which Lake came and asked casually.

But this problem could no longer stop Lake. She took out a letter from the basket beside her and said.

"It's the old hunters from the forest who asked me to go to the church and deliver a letter to their daughter!"

"I see, it seems there are indeed a few hunters living over there."

The captain of the guards looked at the emblem on the letter and, without doubt, made way and said, "Go in, little girl!"

"Thank you uncle!"

Lake bowed politely, and out of the corner of her eye she saw the Poro grinning foolishly.

After a little thought, she understood something.

"Wait a minute, uncle!"

Lake suddenly spoke up and called out to the captain who was about to leave.

"Anything else, kid?"

"It's like this. The weather is so hot now. Thank you uncles for patrolling and protecting us!"

Lake looked up and took out a few fruits given by the old hunter from the basket under her arm. She handed them to the three guards and said, "I picked these from the forest. They are very sweet!"

Several guards were stunned. They looked at the fruit and smiled kindly.

"Thank you, little sister!"

"What a lovely child."

They thanked him and took the fruit. The captain of the guards, who was in the lead, scratched his head and said a little embarrassedly:

"Sorry, little sister, we didn't mean to stop you just now."

The captain of the guards took a bite of the fruit before explaining, "It's just that the town has been very dangerous recently. The bishop said that it was a witch from the forest who kept sneaking into the town to kill people..."

"Witch? Murder?"

Lake looked puzzled.

"Yes, the bishop said that the witch was good at hiding, so there were no witnesses. Some townspeople did have doubts, but the bishop is a man of high moral character and would not lie!"

"Who is the Bishop?"

Lake asked again with some curiosity.

The Poro beside him also pricked up his ears, because only this man and the wolf knew about it.

The only "witch" in the forest—Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother, the Forest Witch—hasn't been out of the forest lately!
“His Excellency the Bishop… He is a great man, and everything he does is for the benefit of the town.

Eight years ago, he first came to this town. At that time, he wanted to develop the forest and expand the townspeople's farmland, but... he was obstructed by the witch in the forest and was seriously injured! "

The captain of the guards sighed as he spoke, but then he showed a slightly fanatical admiration.

"But that witch won't be wreaking havoc for much longer!"

"It's the Bishop..."

Lake and Poro looked at each other. They had some guesses about what the captain was going to say next.

"Yes, our wise bishop has summoned witch hunters to the forest to make the witch who killed a hundred people in the town pay with blood."

After hearing the captain's words, Lake's lips turned pale from being bitten. But she just nodded slightly, agreeing with the captain's words without expressing any opinion.

"Oh, right--"

After the captain of the guards finished expressing his admiration for the so-called "Bishop", he suddenly slapped his head and said,

"Recently, a guy who slandered the bishop and the witch hunter was caught in the town market. Um... he will be executed tomorrow, probably by hanging.

That scene is too bloody. A naive child like you would not be able to sleep after seeing it——

Remember to go home early and don’t go to see it! "

After waving goodbye to the guards, Lake and Poro walked into the town.

Pointed-roof houses are lined up on both sides of the road, and townspeople dressed in various clothes are walking in a hurry.

Poro is fine, at least this small town in another world is nothing special. Although it has some exotic features, it is still far from the magical world in fantasy.

Looking at the scene here, he even breathed a sigh of relief.

At least... not everyone is as dark as the crazy hunter in the forest, the witch hunter!
At least... there are still normal people!
And Little Red Riding Hood Lake, since entering the town, has been staring at the surrounding houses and passers-by with her eyes under her hood.

"Polo, look, the house at the entrance of the town seems a little different from the others!"

Poro followed Lake's finger and looked at the towering stone house at the entrance of the town. There were high walls around the house.

“The others are residences, and the one at the town entrance is a sentry post.

The sentry post is where the three guards at the town gate live. After all, this town is quite large, and it's impossible to rely on just three guards."

"Is that woman also a guard?"

Lake thought for a moment and pointed at a woman who had just walked out of the outpost.

The woman looked poorly dressed, had thick limbs, and was holding a wooden basin between her arms.

"It must be the washerwoman at the outpost."

Poro thought for a moment, then continued, "After all, there are so many armors and weapons in that outpost, and the guards have to patrol, so someone has to wash them."

The man and the wolf wandered aimlessly in the town. After all, they had no map or anything, so it was no big deal to explore the terrain of the town first.

"And where is that house? It looks different from the others, too."

Lake pointed to the distance, towards the center of the town, where there was a building that was obviously much more exquisite.

Poro looked up and saw a golden cross in the center surrounded by low houses!
"That should be the town's church, where the guards said... the bishop lives!"

"The Bishop... and the witch hunter..."

Hearing this, Lake's expression, which had just been a little excited, suddenly became a little depressed.

"Puro, that bishop... is he really a good person? Why did he frame my grandmother?"

The Poro glanced at Little Red Riding Hood and said, “Your grandmother never left the forest, and she wouldn’t kill people indiscriminately—we all know that. She’s a good person, and you understand that.

Isn’t that enough?”

"But...the townspeople seem to love and adore him?"

"So what does it matter? His kindness is based on his own reasons. No matter how good he is, to us who stand on your grandmother's side, we are not good people!"

Poro said as he looked at the golden pages in his hand.
"Besides, you have to know that people can lie! Every single one of the townspeople here could have been deceived!"

"Polo, you mean..."

"Those so-called clergy are best at brainwashing and manipulation—"

Poro glanced at a white-robed priest walking by the roadside with his head held high, and continued, "What I mean is - hearing is believing, seeing is believing!"

"So how should we go about...seeing is believing? Go straight to the church?"

"No, if anything goes wrong, we are no match for those guards!"

By the time he got here, Poro had already roughly grasped the town's topography. "Let's listen first. Not only listen to those who agree with the bishop, but also listen to those who oppose him."

"An opponent of the Bishop? You mean..."

"Yeah, remember what the captain of the guards said just now?
A slanderer...who is about to be executed!"

(End of this chapter)