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Tishua, the goddess who descends on the stage.

I would have laughed if it was normal, such as the coming of God, but now I can believe that it is real, having preceded the appearance of God.

The goddess turns this way.

"First of all, let me thank you."

"I can't believe I'm grateful..."

In the end, I couldn't protect Noel enough.

"Her death had been confirmed more than I had told her. Still, I was surrounded by friends who would grieve her death even in this situation where all the enemies were. Thank you for being my friend with this girl."

The look on the face of a goddess who said so was more like a mother than a god.

But when he turned to someone other than us, he was returning to a harrowing look.

"The reason I descended into this world is because I have something to tell you."

What I have to tell you.

About who will be the next "witch", such as what God has to tell you now that the previous "witch" is dead.

Yes, I can't blame anyone for thinking about it.

"Dear Tishua, I deserve the next 'witch'"

One witch raises her voice.

"No, I deserve better"

"I have trained since I was a young child and I have heard Lord Tishua several times"

"Well, if that's the case, I've heard it too."

An appeal that can continue afterwards.

But the witches hadn't noticed, but the more they heard the appeal, the more rugged the look of the goddess went.

- I understand what you're trying to say.

"Bye!"

One witch comes forward.

Her face looks familiar. It's Marsene, the cat-eared witch who was secretly talking to the Cardinal.

The goddess also moves forward in front of the witch who came forward.

Seeing that sight raised a similar voice from among the witches to giving up things like "I knew it" and so on. She was said to be closest to the next 'witch'. He was also aware of the matter.

That's why - I can tell you that I was buying God's wrath the most.

"That's how you think you deserve to be a witch."

"Yes!"

In fact, unlike Noel, who had been chosen as a 'witch' for no reason, I had been encouraging her to train as much as possible since I was mindful of her. Sometimes I resented Noel for being chosen as a 'witch' instead of myself.

But the girl who thought that Noel's death had given her a chance was smiling.

"Yes, her daughter is the one most deserving of the service of delivering Tishua-sama's voice to the people"

"What about you?

One man stood up to lift Marsene.

The person was also a man with cat ears and tails, but he had a fat body far from the image of a cat.

This is my daughter's father.

"Do you also consider her worthy of the next 'witch'?

"Naturally."

Marsene's father, who speaks out of clarity.

The goddess is watching Marsene and her father.

"Okay."

Gently a goddess with her hands on Marsene's cheek.

The goddess is touching me.

Marsene is so wrapped up in a feeling of happiness that there is no more for a witch.

But in the next moment it turns to despair.

"Lifedrain"

The hand of the goddess accompanying Marsene's cheek glows purple.

The light flowed to Marsene and returned to the goddess.

"Ahhh...!

Marsene, wrapped in light, starts cramping.

"Marsene!?

My father abhors his voice at my daughter's strangeness.

Her abnormality was not only spasmodic, but rough due to the sudden deterioration of her youthful skin, and her lustrous hair had become blurred and turned into gray hair.

Moreover, despite the obvious anomalies, he was unable to move from the spot.

I can't exactly leave with the goddess grasping me.

"Let me forgive you for this."

The goddess releases her hand.

Finally, Marsene's anomaly also stops.

But when the anomaly is over, I get on my knees without being able to stand because of the debilitation.

"This is me...?

Look into your own hands in a flash.

The hand, completely unlike until a few seconds ago, had no youthful appearance, with bones floating up and only skin.

I can also predict that it is in the same condition as for anything other than hands.

Exactly what I could call an old woman.

"What do you mean?!?

Marsene's father rushes over to his own daughter, who has become an old woman.

The cause of this state of affairs is obvious.

"Taking Life (Lifedrain) - A skill that takes life away from a subject you touch. Vitality is the energy that a person needs to live. By taking it to the limit where she could live, she couldn't stay young."

To be precise, the appearance of being able to live with the life force left behind.

The old woman's body can only be allowed to move at a minimum, nor can it produce a new one. I am forced to live with only a small amount of vitality.

"Why does my daughter look like this..."

"This is a divine punishment."

"Divine punishment?"

"I chose Noel to be a 'witch' as an agent on earth. But you guys tried to deprive Noel of her position that she didn't deserve a 'witch' just because she was born poor. Resisting the Witch on earth means being hostile to me."

…… That is a misunderstanding! We are meant to be hostile to the goddess... "

"Even though you said the Noel I chose for 'The Witch' didn't deserve it"

Being the biggest ally for Noel.

It was none other than Tishua, the goddess.

Only the goddess was on Noel's side from start to finish.

To such a goddess, those hostile to Noel only seemed hostile to themselves.

"This is punishment for those who have the foolish idea that 'my selection was wrong' etc."

Originally, the selection of 'witches' is only allowed by the goddess.

Nonetheless, the Marcenes witches said they deserved it.

Your choice is wrong - you weren't calm enough to stay calm when people kept telling you that.

"But you don't have to let this happen..."

"The fact that you guys were interfering with Noel made me less sane than I should have been given. After all, it was powerful to take vitality away from living humans and it was my food. It's not enough yet, but I'll forgive you around here because if you just take any more away from me, you'll be dead...... hmm?

Potatoes and falling Shizukuishi wet old Marsene's hands.

The identity of the Shizukuishi is the tears shed by Marsene.

"Are you crying? Noel has served me as a 'witch', enduring your obstructions while shrinking my mind so far. Good luck to you, too."

That's what I left out. I stopped looking at Marsene, goddess.

It was sufficient for the goddess to make up for the lack of energy by depriving her of it.

But the divine punishment is not over.

"Now, you have someone who should be guilty of the same crime as her."

Saying so and seeing are the witches who said earlier that they were the ones who deserved 'witches'.

They saw and constricted Marsene, who had grown old in seconds.

……

"Will you answer me nothing - then I dare you to divine punishment!

"Oh......!

The purple light - overflowing with vitality - flows from the witches who were watching the goddess to the goddess. That way the witches will have to get old.

I'm not touching you like I did in Marsene.

"This is the true divine punishment. Only the first time needs to be done directly at the hands of God, but a similar punishment is inflicted on those who have the awareness that they have committed the same sin among those who were watching the sight of God punishing them. I mean, you can't get away with it when you're guilty and watching the punishment"

More than ten old women who can do that.

There were only witches of the same age on stage because it was in the name of assisting young Noel, but by now more than half of the women had become old women.

In the meantime, only a few girls had escaped punishment.

They were the girls who were genuinely struggling to support Noel and were not interested in the next 'witch' either.

Such girls allow us to hope for the future.

"- So, next."

The punishment for the witches is over.

But the wrath of the goddess Tishua has not subsided.