Miss Witch, please don't leave your fragrance everywhere

A babbling child.

No one survived.

Everyone in the village was attacked unilaterally by Balin. For a knight with outstanding magical talent, it is indeed possible to launch a surprise attack on an unsuspecting village at night with premeditation.

That being said, there were still survivors in the village. One of the men went to a neighboring village to stay overnight on the day when Bahrain attacked the village and luckily escaped. However, the nightmare did not end. One day, the man found that his fellow villagers who had also escaped were also attacked and killed. He then realized that Bahrain had not stopped.

Barin will never stop unless everyone in that village is killed.

The man fled to Medemblik and became a horseman under an assumed name, but Balin still managed to find him. Not long ago, Balin had a conflict with the guards of Medemblik, which ended with the knight Balin's retreat and the security of Medemblik was almost paralyzed.

The gatekeeper that Angelica and Victoria met when they entered Medemblik was indeed a temporary helper who was a beggar. It was hard to say that they had fallen to the point where they needed beggars to help guard the city gate, but there was really no other way. There were only a handful of guards left in Medemblik. If they were not patrolling in the city, pickpockets would be ready to strike, so where could they get the help?

This is not the worst. The troublesome thing is that the man that Balin is chasing is not dead. Once Balin recovers from his injuries, he will definitely come back again. By then, Medemblik will have no ability to resist.

"If possible, I implore you two to go to the castle to meet with the Lord. Medenblik needs any force that can help."

"It is obligatory."

After Victoria accepted the promise, the guard breathed a sigh of relief, but almost fell down. He had been working intensively for too long, and his whole spirit was tense.

Victoria asked the guard to rest for a while, and then she discussed with Angelica, who looked unhappy.

"I think we should help Medemblik out."

"We are here to take a hot spring bath..."

"But I cannot tolerate the evil deeds of that knight. He is a disgrace to chivalry."

"Your vision of a knight is too far-fetched."

It’s not that Angelica deliberately attacked Victoria. Most of the knights were just thugs under the nobles. They basically didn’t have much chivalry. The so-called chivalry was probably the result of the church’s promotion of the Knights Templar.

Angelica's current mood is like accepting a mission that she is not interested in while playing a game and then leaving it alone. When she accepts a mission that she is interested in, she suddenly finds that the two are in the same place and triggers the cutscene CG of the former.

Although Angelica knew that assisting Lord Medenblik would definitely bring her a lot of income, she had not yet spent all the gold in her pocket, so of course she had no interest in making money. In a sense, Angelica was happy to make money, and there was also a reason why she could go to a big city to look for beautiful girls openly.

"Okay. Since it's Miss Victoria's request, I'll agree this time. But I have to make other requests to Miss Victoria when we're in the hot spring."

"no problem."

At this time, Victoria had not yet realized what was hidden behind Angelica's satisfied smile.

Angelica and Victoria came to Medemblik Castle and saw angry nobles and a commoner who was kneeling and trembling in front of the noble lord in the castle hall.

The noble lord seemed to be very angry, but he had not lost his mind yet. When he saw the clothes worn by Angelica and Victoria, he took a few deep breaths to calm himself down.

"You are?"

"Greetings, my lord. I have come to subjugate the knights that are troubling Medenblik."

"Oh...I have to say, you guys came at a bad time. The problem is almost solved."

"Do not!!!"

The man cried and kowtowed to the lord.

"God, please have mercy on me! I will definitely die! I am willing to work like a slave for the rest of my life to repay your kindness!"

"How dare you say that! Look at what you have done! I should have chased you away and left you to fend for yourself!"

The lord was so furious that he pointed at the man's nose and cursed him, not even caring about the noble demeanor at all. He must have really pissed him off.

Victoria gritted her teeth and asked, "My Lord, we have heard about the plight of Medenblik. Is this the man that Knight Balin is hunting?"

"That's right. As long as this guy goes away, Medemblik's problems will be solved."

The man was trembling with fear. He knew that if he lost his protection, he would be killed by the knight Balin without any magical talent. The solution the lord said was simple, which was to kick the man out of Medenblik.

"How can this be possible? I..."

"Miss Victoria."

Angelica had little interest in what happened in Medemblik, but she still gave Victoria a proper heads-up.

"There's something very strange. The knight named Balin only injured Medenblik's guards but didn't kill anyone."

"Eh? But..."

Victoria then realized that there were indeed no reports of the death of guards and civilians in Medenblik. Balin had come here to cause a big fuss, but he didn't kill anyone. This was contrary to Balin's crime: a devastating blow to a village. Victoria thought that the knight Balin was a completely degenerate. How could an ordinary person do such a bad thing as hurting a child?

However, judging from the casualty reports, it seems that Knight Balin only targeted the residents of that village, and there may be another hidden story.

After pondering for a while, Victoria asked the lord and the men who survived.

"I want to know what happened and why Knight Balin is chasing this man."

"Humph."

The lord groaned, picked up the wine glass and drank the wine in it. Then he walked to the window with his hands behind his back and slowly spoke out the truth.

113 Peasants, Lords, and Knights

Knight Balin was originally a young knight with excellent magical talent, but natural talent is a very cruel criterion for judgment, just like some people are born in Rome, while others are born as mules and horses.

Balin has a brother with the same father and mother, but his magical talent is completely different from Balin's. He is a pure ordinary person who finds it difficult to master even Sequence Nine magic. On the other hand, Balin was selected by the Knight Academy for his outstanding magical talent and became a special recruit of the civilian class.

One has a bright future, while the other is destined to be a hard-working life.

Despite this, the relationship between the two brothers who depend on each other is still very harmonious. The younger brother often sighs, "It would be great if I could be like you, big brother."

Balin was a frugal person, he would send the bonus he saved back home, for his younger brother who also had no extravagant habits, it was actually a considerable fortune. But the younger brother himself did not think so, although his magic talent was poor, he had healthy hands and feet, how could he rely on his elder brother to support him?

So the younger brother found a job as a delivery driver. His job was nothing more than transporting merchants' goods from one town to another, which was boring and tedious.

The days passed by in such a boring way. The elder brother Balin graduated from the Knight Academy, and the younger brother found a job that could make a living. The two brothers, with very different magical talents, each had a bright future.

Until one day an accident happened.

The younger brother's carriage accidentally overturned when passing near a village. In order to avoid the children playing on the road, the entire carriage turned over in the field next to it. The villagers who found the overturned carriage did not choose to rescue the younger brother.

The cargo on the carriage happened to be fertilizer and feed, which were very precious materials in the village where farming was the main industry. Eventually, the situation naturally turned into looting, and all the fertilizer and feed spilled on the ground were looted.

At the same time, it also led to the death of Bahrain's younger brother.

Balin's brother was very unfortunate. The carriage was moving at high speed, and coupled with the sudden loss of control, the brother hit his head on a rock, causing a bleeding head.

But he did not die immediately.

According to the doctor's autopsy report, Balin's brother was still alive at the time.

No one cared about his life or death... Everyone was desperately trying to grab fertilizer and feed, and even fought. By the time they noticed the driver, Balin's brother had already died.

Balin, who learned about this, was furious and asked the court for help, hoping to punish this group of unruly people. However, Balin's youth was also his weakness. At this time, Balin had not made any achievements and had no strong background, so it was difficult for him to convince the court to enforce justice. Looting has always been a difficult problem to solve, and the manpower consumed often cannot make up for the losses.

The first question is who should be held accountable for the looting. Everyone in the village participated in it, so should everyone be arrested? This would be a greater loss for the lord, because it would result in no one cultivating the fields. However, it was difficult to find out who was the clear planner and instigator, and in the end, the looting often ended with the merchants who lost their goods taking their anger out on the driver.

If valuables were stolen, there might be a possibility of intervention, but it is really difficult for the court to allocate manpower to deal with fertilizers and feed. Even though someone was killed this time, they still want to close the case hastily.

This was an unacceptable result for Knight Balin.

He was originally a knight who believed in justice. In his opinion, the villagers who looted were responsible. Even his brother's car overturned because he was trying to avoid the children from their village who were playing on the road.

But what the court said… If we continue to pursue the responsibility, the energy spent will not be enough to make up for the cost.

Prepare to stop here.

Unable to bear it any longer, Knight Balin chose a horrifying path.

Since the court's gavel could not punish these people, he would not hesitate to let his armor be stained with blood.

"That's just the way it is."

The lord glared at the man fiercely.

"These ignorant and unruly people have caused trouble themselves, let them clean up the mess themselves!"

Victoria was speechless. She had always thought that Knight Balin was a fallen man, but she didn't expect the whole story to be like this. No wonder Balin chose to be so cruel and kill everyone. He hated everyone in the village and insisted that they were the murderers who killed his brother.

It was true that Barin's attack on Medemblik did not result in the death of the guards, but should we pin our hopes on the enemy not completely losing their humanity? The lord decided to abandon this man.

"But...but..."

The man burst into tears. Perhaps he felt there was no hope and that he was about to die. He burst into amazing courage and roared at the top of his lungs.

"But sir! We do this because after handing over the grain every year, it is only enough to fill our own stomachs! Sir, you eat beef and drink wine in the castle, how can you understand how hard life is for us common people..."

The annual harvest in the man's village is enough to keep them from starving to death, but it is very difficult to save money. If they can't save any money, their ancestors have been farmers for generations. If someone in the family becomes seriously ill, the already poor family will immediately be hit even harder.

The lord became furious after hearing this and kicked the man to the ground. If Victoria hadn't stopped the lord quickly, he would have kicked him twice more.

"Lord, please calm down. Maybe they have their own reasons..."

"What a bullshit!"

The lord finally cursed without caring about his image.

"Do you think I'm a tyrant who oppresses them? Let me tell you how greedy these people are! They said that the weather was not good this year and the harvest was very poor, so they couldn't pay the original amount of 30 bushels. I thought to myself that I couldn't let them starve to death, so I simply reduced the grain tax in their village to 20 bushels. Guess how they repaid me?"

"They failed to turn it in...?"

"No. We handed it in - half of the wheat we handed in was moldy! It was all hidden underneath! Are you planning to poison us to death or treat us like animals? Can't you be nice to the unruly people? Will they thank you if you give them some face? They will think you are easy to bully and take advantage of!"

"Patience sequence nine: central nervous system inhibition."

Angelica used magic to calm the lord down for now.

Victoria was completely confused and couldn't figure out who should be held responsible.

The farmer cried out that the taxes were too harsh, the lord scolded the farmer for finding ways to evade taxes, and the knight, after failing to seek justice, insisted on his own way and placed his faith only on his sword.

Angelica looked at Victoria's bewildered look and sighed sadly.

I told you not to care... The world is never black and white, and most of the time, the messy accounts that cannot be settled are the majority...

114 Miss Witch and the Trash Game

Lord Medemblik had made up his mind, and the man was eventually expelled from Medemblik.

Angelica and Victoria brought the zombie-like man to the suburbs and built a hasty camp. Considering that the knight Balin was still chasing him, Victoria felt that she could not go to other towns as the risk was too great.

Victoria intervened in Medemblik's predicament out of enthusiasm, but the development of things seemed to be different from what Victoria had imagined.

After much thought, Victoria decided to seek Angelica's advice.

"Angelica, who would you support if it were you?"

"Eh? You want to consult me?"

Victoria nodded awkwardly. To be honest, she felt embarrassed. She was the one who dragged Angelica in by force, and in the end she found herself not knowing what to do.

Angelica wasn't angry. She didn't even need to think about it.

"I won't take care of it."

"what?"

"We are neither lords nor tenants, and none of our relatives have become victims in this incident. Besides, it is impossible for the lord of Medenbury to pay us."

Victoria opened her mouth. Indeed, as Angelica said, they did not belong to either side from the beginning.

Victoria hung her head in frustration, like a child being scolded for making a mistake.

"I... just want to do what I can."

Victoria also has no ill intentions. She upholds the spirit of chivalry and wants to help those in need, but the problem now is that Victoria can't tell who she should help. Victoria is tall and looks very intimidating at first glance, but after all, she is a young girl who just graduated from the Knight Academy.

She chose to follow Angelica because she wanted to see the outside world.

Angelica did not laugh at Victoria. She put her hands on Victoria's shoulders and stared at Victoria's face very seriously.

“I suggest learning to give up appropriately.”

"Appropriately, give up...?"

"Let's put it this way. I'm much better than Miss Victoria."

"Of course, you have reached the level of a witch."

"I'm talking about beauty."