Miss Witch, please don't leave your fragrance everywhere

When Kelly on the gallows stopped moving, the citizens felt as if their souls had been sublimated and they experienced great satisfaction.

Criminals who committed serious crimes would be buried in unmarked graves, and Brand even lost the right to bury Kelly.

Kelly was initially suspected simply because she did not cry over her son's death during her testimony.

In the future biographies of the City of Justice, it will be recorded that he was once again a citizen who used his wise eyes to sharply see through the subtle flaws revealed by the criminals.

She did not cry for her son's death, and her son had been ill in bed for a long time. She happened to be at home when the crime happened. The complete chain of logic can easily win the suspicion of the public. Then, justice will prevail.

47 The City of Justice, Leer

Brand couldn't remember how he got back home. It must have been the witch who brought him back.

Eva pulled Brand's shoulder in confusion and asked why her mother didn't come back.

Brand came to his senses and hugged Eva tightly, crying. He cried for a long time before he came out of the pain of losing his beloved wife. Eva was at a loss. In order to prevent Eva from having wild thoughts, Brand never let Eva know the whereabouts of her mother.

Brand recovered and quickly made up his mind.

"Let's go, Eva."

"Dad, where are we going?"

"Where to go...anywhere is fine. There's no war nearby. There must be a city that can accommodate us."

Brandt took out the suitcases from under the bed with a hoarse voice and began to pack clothes. These suitcases were the ones that the couple had planned to use for traveling as a family in the future when Kelly was pregnant. Unfortunately, their dream did not come true.

"We can't continue to live here, or else we might be eaten alive by this city one day."

"What about my friends here?"

Eva couldn't help complaining because she didn't understand what was going on, but Brand couldn't care less. If he stayed in the country of Leer tonight, he would definitely not be able to sleep.

No matter what the cost, Brand had to protect his last daughter. Unlike Stuart, who had plenty of time to sell his property, Brand had no spare energy to take care of that. Brand had a good skill, and the armorer also knew how to work as a blacksmith. In the medieval context, blacksmiths had a stable job wherever they went.

After Brand packed his luggage, he hurriedly fled the country of Leer with Eva. Leer had to go through cumbersome inspection procedures for entry and exit, but it was not a closed country. The guards had no reason to intercept Brand without authorization. They knew that the person hanged was Brand's wife, and thought that Brand was just going out to travel and relax.

Brand dragged his tired body and Eva to the outside of the city. No matter how his daughter on his back called him, Brand did not stop until he left the country of Leer far behind and could no longer see the city where Brand had lived for decades when he looked back.

"Dad, someone was calling us from behind."

"Huh...Huh...Whoever he is, we have to hurry..."

"Brand! Eva!"

Brand's whole body was shocked. This voice did not belong to anyone else, but the person he had been thinking about all this time.

Brand turned around in astonishment, and saw the living Kelly standing behind him, along with Miss Witch and Abigail.

"You guys are really fast. It's not gentlemanly behavior to make a girl use magic to chase you."

Angelica complained unhappily, but what made Angelica even more depressed was that Brand didn't seem to notice her at all, and his whole attention was on Kelly.

The two looked at each other for a long time. Suddenly, Brand stepped forward and hugged Kelly in his arms. Feeling Kelly's real warmth, Brand finally realized deeply that this was not a dream or an illusion, and Kelly was really still alive.

Brand and Kelly were kissing passionately, which made Abigail blush and her heart beat fast, but Angelica next to them was still verbally abusive.

"What a terrible kiss."

"Can Sister Angelica tell the difference?"

"I'm a master."

"Could it be that Angelica-sister kisses often?!"

"Not often, but I haven't tried it in a while. I live alone."

After a long time, the embarrassing couple finally regained their composure. Brand lowered his head awkwardly to the angry Angelica as an apology for ignoring the witch lady.

"Miss Magician, what is going on?"

"A substitute puppet. There is a kind of puppet magic that can make a real puppet look real. The prison in the country of Leer is heavily guarded and protected by magic. Even if I want to sneak in without alerting anyone, it will take some time."

Brand finally understood why Angelica looked a little tired this morning.

"From the beginning, I didn't think that Kelly could be rescued through normal means. She would definitely be sentenced to death. So I could only follow this line of thought and let Kelly nominally die in the country of Leer. In order to make the doll, a part of Kelly's soul was lost, and her life span will be reduced. I will not accept after-sales complaints."

"How could that be! I can't even thank Miss Magician enough!"

Brand was very excited, and so was Kelly. When she saw a stranger breaking into the desperate cell, she almost thought it was the god of death coming to take him away early.

"Oh my God... How can we thank you so much! All our possessions are not worth the kindness from Miss Magician!"

"I only came here to visit my friend's grave. As for my thanks... you'd better stay away from the country of Leer. If they find that the dead are resurrected again, they will definitely fall into chaos."

"Of course! No matter what, our family will never come back!"

The Brand family thanked Angelica profusely before parting with the witch. Brand, Kelly and Eva, who left the Lear family, will live a free life in the future, even if the pain caused by the City of Justice is irreversible.

“What a surprise…”

"what?"

"Sister Angelica didn't take advantage of the opportunity to blackmail me... It hurts."

"Am I the kind of person who asks for money regardless of the occasion?"

Angelica hit Abigail's head with her hand knife in displeasure. Her image in Abigail's heart was really getting worse and worse. Witches would occasionally do some good things without reward. By the way, the reason why she didn't ask for a large amount of reward this time was definitely not because she already had enough gold in her pocket. It was definitely not the case.

Angelica did not leave the country of Laerber immediately. She and Abigail went to a tomb outside the main city of Laerber. This tomb belonged to a certain person and was guarded by a large number of fully armed gravekeepers. No one was allowed to desecrate it.

Richard Kaufman's name was engraved on the tombstone. Miss Witch came to the grave, placed unknown wild flowers in front of the grave, and clasped her hands together.

—You are too idealistic, Richard.

——Angelica, you are always pessimistic about everything. Justice should be decided by the citizens. Only when the gavel is handed over to the citizens, justice will not be missed or wrong. The eyes of the citizens are sharp.

It's not like that, Richard.

People always make mistakes, one person, a group of people, or even a country. Maybe there really is a perfect law in the world, but it is always people who enforce it.

Angelica would not laugh at those who pursued justice, but she had to admit that there was no perfect justice and that was a reality. All she could do was to get as close to it as possible. A city written by an overly idealistic and paranoid person would naturally be like this.

Angelica will continue to visit the country of Leer in the future, not for the justice here, but simply because her old friend is buried here.

【Witch TIPS】

The witch's travel companions in the past were all kinds of strange, and there were also people who parted ways with the witch unhappily and broke up with her.

48 [The Witch and the Kingdom of Radboil]

"…It seems we picked the wrong time to come here."

Angelica complained in annoyance as she passed who knows how many checkpoints.

After bidding farewell to the Kingdom of Laer, Angelica set off again, heading for her destination, the Kingdom of Radeboyle. However, the closer she got to the capital of the Kingdom of Radeboyle, the more numerous and strict the checkpoints on the road became.

"Why don't the officers on the road reveal what they are doing... Sister Angelica, has the Kingdom of Radeboyle always been like this?"

"No. I can guess the specific reason. After all, I have been here before."

Angelica and Abigail were walking to the capital, and the place they just passed should be the last checkpoint before reaching the capital. Since there was nothing else to do on the way, Angelica simply talked about the history of the Kingdom of Radeboyle.

"Abigail, bring out the celestial sphere."

The so-called celestial sphere is a magic item that Angelica bought for Abigail on the way. It was invented by the flower magician Merlin and combines the magic formula of the compass (Pyxis) sequence five star map overlooking. The principle is similar to the satellite positioning of the world Angelica lived in in the past. Angelica herself can use this magic, so she bought it for Abigail to use. Sequence five magic is not an easy field to reach.

However, compared to satellite positioning, the star map does not include geographic annotations and needs to be recorded manually. In addition, the magic spells integrated into the celestial sphere are degraded versions and cannot be infinitely magnified, but it is completely sufficient to avoid getting lost in the wilderness.

Abigail took out a magic item with the appearance of a shell from her pocket and opened the shell. A pearl-like orb was embedded in the center of the shell. Abigail injected magic power into the orb, which emitted a dazzling light and projected a large map from a bird's-eye view.

"Zoom out the map to its limit."

Abigail followed Angelica's instructions and zoomed out the large map projected by the celestial sphere to the limit. She soon noticed that in the upper left corner of the map, there was a very conspicuous defense line made of artificial walls.

"On the other side of the wall is a kingdom called Grossenhain. A long, long time ago, the territories of the Kingdom of Radeboyle and the Kingdom of Grossenhain belonged to a huge and unified empire. At that time, the Kingdom of Radeboyle was inhabited by the Radeboyle people, and the Grossenhain people were a nomadic people who often wandered in the north of the kingdom."

"Nomads?"

"They are a group of people who mainly engage in grazing and hunting and have no permanent settlements. There was no such people where Abigail used to live. The early Radeboyle Kingdom was unified and complete, but later the royal family failed to rule effectively. After the incompetent rule of several incompetent monarchs, the Radeboyle Kingdom broke out into a fragmented civil war. At this time, the nomadic Grossenhain people took advantage of the chaos and moved south. The Radeboyle Kingdom, which was in a state of civil strife, was simply unable to deal with it. The Grossenhain people have since occupied part of the land and settled here. When I came here three hundred years ago, this place was in a chaotic era of division among warlords."

"Won't Sister Angelica feel dangerous?"

"It's okay. No one can defeat me. Not long after I left, a Radeboyle hero named Manuel ended the chaotic era and unified the Radeboyle people again. He recovered three-fifths of the land and formed the current Radeboyle Kingdom. However, the Grossenhain people also developed their civilization and occupied the remaining two-fifths of the land to form the Grossenhain Kingdom. Although they are neighbors, the relationship between the two families has always been bad."

During the Great Troubles, the invading Grossenhain people committed all kinds of evil, including burning, killing, looting, and committing all kinds of atrocities. It is said that the children of Radebeul at that time did not even dare to cry when they heard the sound of the Grossenhain people's horse hooves. Although the Grossenhain people later chose to settle down and accepted the civilization of the feudal order, they were still hostile to the Radebeul people.

"In the eyes of the people of Radebeul, the Grossenhain people are foreign barbarians and invaders who have divided their territory. Therefore, it is everyone's wish to drive out the Grossenhain people, regain lost territory, and unify the Kingdom of Radebeul again. But the Grossenhain people don't think so. They have lived on this land for more than 400 years and have a strong sense of identity. Children born in the Kingdom of Grossenhain now no longer have the habits of nomads. If there is no Kingdom of Grossenhain, they have nowhere to go."

At this point, Abigail finally understood why the road was so heavily guarded and there were so few travelers.

They smelled the beginnings of war. This was not the first time the two kingdoms had clashed over territorial disputes.

"After Manuel's death, the two kingdoms had different opinions on the territorial issue. The people of Radbeul insisted that they had the legal right to the land occupied by the people of Grossenhain. The people of Grossenhain objected, saying that four hundred years had passed and that even if there was a legal right, it should belong to them. The two countries fought four conflicts and wars in the past three hundred years, each of which ended in failure. The last one was sixty years ago, and it should be about to start again now."

Angelica didn't want to take sides, so she could only say that the timing of this visit to the Kingdom of Radboyle was not very good, but she should be able to handle what needed to be done before the war broke out.

The two arrived at the main gate of the royal capital, and a guard who looked like a captain noticed Angelica's wizard hat and magic robe.

"Excuse me...are you a magician?"

"Ah."

The captain of the guard nodded thoughtfully, then left in a hurry. Angelica sighed. Based on her experience, he was probably in trouble again.

The captain of the guard seemed to have gone to contact someone, and when he came back, his tone became much more respectful.

"Master Magician, Lady Rosalin, the chief magician of the palace, wishes to summon you."

Rosalin... was not someone Angelica knew. She had been in seclusion for a long time before she came out this time. The current king of the Kingdom of Radboyle and the chief magician of the court were no longer the old friends Angelica had known before.

"If I refuse, will you use force?"

"No. Lady Rosalin said that you are an honored guest. In addition, Lady Rosalin promised that if you agree, she will cover all the expenses of the magician during his stay in the Kingdom of Radeboyle..."

Humph, you want to bribe me with money? This is an insult to the witch!

Angelica wanted to say that, but then she thought, if she could cover all the expenses, wouldn't that mean she could do anything? It was rare for us to come to the capital of a big kingdom instead of a small town or village, so it would be a pity not to enjoy a hot spring bath or a massage.

"Then I will agree to it with reluctance."

Angelica said with a serious face.

As for the worry about getting into trouble before? How could someone who was so generous be a bad person?

49 If you don't fight, you can't survive

At the summons of Rosalin, the chief court magician of the Kingdom of Radboyle, Angelica and Abigail were directly treated as guests of honor and went to the palace.

It was the first time for Abigail to meet a big shot of the king's level. In the carriage, Angelica touched Abigail's head and told her that she didn't need to speak if she was nervous, because Rosaline wanted to see her anyway.

The royal palace of the Kingdom of Radebeul has never been affected by war, and the gardens in the palace are extremely luxurious. Due to its geographical location, when there is no war with the Kingdom of Grossenhain, the Kingdom of Radebeul does not need to guard against other countries and can concentrate on developing its economy. Therefore, the Kingdom of Radebeul is always prosperous in peacetime.

It is worth mentioning that the original capital of the Kingdom of Radeboyle is now located in the Kingdom of Grosenhain. Retaking the old capital has always been the wish of every Radeboyle citizen.

Angelica came to the palace and paid a formal visit to the current King Peter. Abigail followed behind and imitated Angelica's etiquette movements. Although her unskillfulness was visibly evident, King Peter was magnanimous and did not care.

"So this lady dressed as a magician is the famous "black" witch Angelica, right?"

"……no."

"Oh?"

King Peter showed a surprised expression. Witches are not well-known in every place on the continent. The other party is obviously coming for the name of the "black" witch. Angelica feels that she needs to act with caution...

Another white-haired old woman in the palace suddenly spoke.

"Please don't be shy. I know you are the beautiful witch who possesses both wisdom and beauty, the "Black" Witch Angelica."

"Yes, it's me...ah."

Angelica admitted it with her chest puffed out with pride, but she immediately realized something was wrong.

"You plotted against me."

"Please forgive me, witch lady."