Miss Witch, please don't leave your fragrance everywhere

"Really? This sea is always so unromantic."

Angelica was full of complaints. She had known that the waters of R'lyeh were not peaceful, but the frequency of interrupting her and Anna's lovey-dovey time was a bit too much.

Anna did not choose to sit there and wait for death. She decisively opened the door. A sailor was standing outside the door. He lowered his head and his mental state was obviously not right.

He was holding a wooden stick in his hand. After Anna opened the door, he actually raised the stick to attack Anna.

Before the sailors could launch an attack, someone came up from behind and knocked the dazed sailors unconscious.

The visitor was the captain of the Black Rose.

"Did I disturb you two from being intimate?"

Seeing Angelica's "what do you think" expression, the captain whistled innocently and explained helplessly.

"There's another problem on the ship, I think you can hear it."

"Um……"

The moment the door was opened, a beautiful song floated in.

It seemed that there was a woman singing on the sea.

165 The Confident Witch Lady Suspected of Falling

Angelica and Anna followed the captain to the deck. The captain threw the unconscious sailor to the side where there were unconscious crew members. Angelica then realized that many sailors on the ship were knocked unconscious.

The first mate came forward to report the number of people, about half of the crew were lost and the ship was at anchor.

The beautiful singing continued to drift in, but due to the fog in the R'lyeh Sea, it was impossible to even tell the direction of the singing's source.

"Siren..."

"That's right, and I'm afraid it's not just any Siren."

Angelica guessed the answer immediately. The Black Rose encountered a siren during the voyage. The so-called siren is a sea monster that masters the magic of enchantment and will use magic to confuse ships and cause them to run aground and sink.

At first, Angelica thought that the sirens might be cute girls wearing ship suits, but after actually meeting them, Angelica was greatly disappointed. The real bodies of the sirens were ugly sea monsters, not cute at all.

"Ordinary Sirens would only cause the crew to be temporarily dazed, causing them to run aground and sink. For Sirens of that level, you can just plug their ears and they'll be fine. But the Sirens this time are different. They..."

"Mother!"

Suddenly, a sailor shouted and jumped off the side of the ship.

The direction he was facing was completely foggy and there was nothing there.

Anna pulled out the chain and wrapped it around the sailor's body, pulling him back onto the boat, but the sailor showed no sign of waking up and was still shouting frantically into the empty fog.

The magic guard shook his head, he came behind the out-of-control sailor and knocked him out.

"His mother passed away five years ago."

The captain remembers the life stories of every crew member on board.

"The sirens we encountered were the most vicious Parthenopus. Their songs can evoke memories of those who hear them, extracting the softest weaknesses in their hearts and attracting their prey to drown. This guy must have seen his deceased mother, so he rushed to the sea madly. The boy who just came to you was often bullied, and he survived by becoming a sailor with the magic he learned. The siren's song awakened his memories of being bullied, so he picked up a weapon and attacked indiscriminately."

"We have set up a silencing spell. But it doesn't work very well."

The magic guard officer had a bitter look on his face. Due to the existence of Sirens, if merchant ships on the sea were equipped with magicians, one of them must have learned the Silence of the Fox (Vulpecula) Sequence Seven to block out the Sirens' song.

It is effective against ordinary Sirens, but magic is not omnipotent and it is useless against Parthenope.

The captain gathered those who had not been affected on the ship to the same place, minimizing the range of the silent magic and thus bringing the magic to its full potential.

"We're just going to stay here and do nothing?"

"Although it's passive, it's the best way to fight the Sirens."

In response to the witch's doubts, the captain, who had more experience at sea, gave an explanation.

"Whether it's an ordinary Siren or a Parthenope, their bodies are not strong, so they need to use their singing to confuse ships and kill prey with the sea to absorb magic power. The Sirens' singing is not uninterrupted. There will be a time when their magic power is exhausted. At that time, we will set sail again and get out of the Sirens' hunting range as quickly as possible."

The Black Rose is equipped with a magical device to accelerate its departure, so that it can escape danger quickly when encountering danger. The captain plans to wait until the Sirens are tired, and then summon the crew to escape danger. As for the unconscious crew, they will be safe after waking up, and there will be no sequelae from hearing the Sirens' song.

"Um...this is so troublesome."

Angelica was unfazed by the sirens' song.

"Can't we just kill the Sirens? They're not that strong anyway."

"In that case, we must find the Sirens and stop them from singing. If we leave the range of the silent magic barrier, it will easily backfire."

If you want to go, I won't stop you.

The captain didn't say it explicitly, after all, Angelica was a witch and was definitely capable of killing the Siren. But Angelica was uploaded as a tourist, and the captain would not ask Angelica for help unless he encountered a crisis where he had to rely on the witch.

The captain's plan may seem negative, but considering the cost, it is undoubtedly the safest decision.

"I think it's better to let them stay in peace. I'll take care of it."

"Good luck."

Angelica never ran away when she encountered monsters. If she could take action against the evil dragon Fafnir, she would not even mind defeating the dragon when she was in the Kingdom of Brielle.

The Siren used fog to conceal her figure, but this level of disguise seemed meaningless to Angelica.

In that direction.

After determining the Siren's location, Angelica left the safe zone on the Black Rose and flew towards the originator of the Siren's song.

My mother has killed me

My father is eating me

My brothers and sisters sit under the table

Picking up my bones

And they bury them

Under the cold marble stones

If you listen carefully to the lyrics of the Siren Song, you will find that the content is very curious... Although the lyrics are very creepy, combined with the Siren's sad singing, it is enough to create an intoxicating cradle dream.

But whether it was the weird lyrics or the pleasant singing, Angelica didn't think she would be affected.

After all, it is a fantasy for Siren to find the weakness of the witch.

"...?"

A figure appeared in the fog.

Is it a Siren?

No, it was absolutely impossible. Sirens had no ability to fly. Angelica was flying in the air, and the figure was keeping the same horizontal line as Angelica.

Another thing is that the figure has a color that no other siren has.

Long orange hair, particularly eye-catching in the black fog.

"Eh?"

The blurry silhouette gradually took shape, revealing a girl with human appearance.

The girl was wearing a formal and conservative student uniform, but it was very familiar to Angelica, as it was the uniform of the Santa Barbara Girls' Academy a long time ago.

It happened to be the outfit that Angelica was given by the Santa Barbara Girls' Academy when she was serving as the elder sister.

At that time, Angelica met a junior in the academy.

Like her, he possesses a genius in magic.

They remained inseparable until they left the academy.

I still remember her name, Angelica.

"Viola...?"

This is a nickname similar to how Coppelia calls Angelica "Angie".

The girl's full name was Violet, better known in later generations by another title.

The Orange Witch.

166 The Witch Lady and Her Lover

Viola blinked her mercury eyes. Her figure was as illusory as a ghost ship, but at the same time it was also tinged with a hazy beauty.

"Nice to meet you again... Onee-sama."

"No. Viola, she's already..."

"Well, I died a long time ago."

Viola admitted frankly.

"But... after all, I was taken care of by Onee-sama and became a witch. I am different from other souls that will gradually dissipate after death."

"...I see. Viola, you used the siren's song as a medium and used my memory to simulate Viola in soul form. But even the soul of a witch will eventually dissipate. Your appearance is wearing away your own soul."

"As expected of onee-sama, you are as smart as ever."

Viola seemed quite happy. Seeing Angelica again was more important than wearing out her soul.

The next time you hear the siren's song, you probably won't be able to see Viola's soul again. This will be their only reunion.

A long time ago, Angelica studied at the Santa Barbara Girls' Academy. Although her initial motivation was to have evil thoughts about the beautiful girls in the academy, perhaps because of her good luck or the pull of fate, there was a schoolmate who particularly admired Angelica.

After Angelica became the elder sister of Santa Barbara Girls' Academy, she became sisters with that junior schoolmate, and the junior schoolmate who admired Angelica was Viola.

Like Angelica, she was a famous beauty in the academy with excellent magical talent. They had not graduated yet, and there were countless noble families planning to propose to them every day, but they did not choose to marry any nobles until they graduated and left the academy. Later, with Viola's graduation, the two disappeared together, and no one knew their whereabouts.

As for the reason, the students of the Santa Barbara Girls' Academy at that time all had vague guesses. After all, their relationship at that time was more like that of...

"sister."

"Eh?"

"I like onee-sama."

Viola's abrupt words caught Angelica off guard. Seeing Angelica's flustered and embarrassed look, Viola laughed like a child who had succeeded in a prank.

More like lovers than sisters.

This is what the students of Santa Barbara Girls' Academy say.

It could be that Angelica and Viola were not good at hiding things, or it could be that women’s intuition was naturally sharp, and in fact their guess was not wrong.

"Although I'm dead, the only person I love will always be you, onee-sama."

"Now that I'm talking about this... well, I also..."

"You don't have to express your feelings, onee-sama. I am here through the sirens' songs, but if it weren't for onee-sama's yearning for me, I can't do anything else."

In other words, the fact that Viola was able to take advantage of this opportunity is worth a thousand words.

Angelica and Viola were once lovers, and they confessed their feelings to each other when they were in Santa Barbara Girls' Academy. However, their ending was not very happy.

Angelica let out a breath.

What is before your eyes is not an illusory dream, to be precise, it is Viola's soul that takes this opportunity to briefly appear. In a world with magic, souls are real, but only magicians can perceive and even influence souls.

Since the other person was the real Viola, and every second of existence was wearing away her soul, Angelica knew there was only one thing she should really do.

"Viola, I'm sorry."

"Why do you want to apologize, onee-sama?"

"I thought Viola would hate me... At that time, I ended Viola's life."

"I won't hate Onee-sama for such a small matter."

Viola responded seriously that being killed by Angelica was just a trivial matter for her.

Angelica and Viola once established a city-state together... which was the origin of the magic crystal mine in later generations: the Kingdom of Amauroti. However, due to various reasons, Angelica and Viola fought each other, and the Kingdom of Amauroti was destroyed, and the entire kingdom was permanently transformed into an uninhabitable magic land.

At the same time, Viola's death also occurred.

"I want my sister to give up her unrealistic fantasies. Since my sister is a fool, I can only use this method."