Egret

Chapter 17. Witch Hunting

I didn't run very far, so I was able to come home soon.

Lan, who was ahead, found the rest of the people still waiting in front of the house and began to slow down.

Judas, the contractor of the Natural System Spirit King, was able to put his mind to it, but the others were still scared.

Judas, who read Lan's frightened expression, slowed down his steps together.

“I'm relieved because I'm fine. No one's hurting you. ”

He picks up the stuff that was falling under his feet and gives it out.

“You seem to like sweet food. ”

It was chocolate dropped by a heavy runner.

Edan comes up with a sack that neatly organizes the rest of the ingredients as he receives them.

“The blasted flour has been sealed so that it does not flow as much as possible. ”

‘I know it's different from what it looks like..... ’

Lan smiles as the knight with the guitar picks up the flour and imagines the scene. And I was amazed at the sound of my laughter, and I stuck my hand in my mouth.

Fortunately, Edan didn't even care about what she said in her laughter.

“Now, say hello to each other. ”

“It's Lan.”

When I first met someone a little while ago, Lan, who recalled Judas' advice, said that it was in order to reveal his name.

Only then was Edan brief in regards to him.

“Edan.”

“Woman, are you that rumored witch? ”

In response to Baikal's straightforward question, Edan slammed his head with a sword.

“Ah! It hurts! ”

“How rude. When did you say hello?" ”

“I didn't mean to interrupt. Let's call witches witches... Ugh! ”

Baikal stops his mouth until he puts two lumps on his head.

Only after the other group greeted him one by one did he grasp the burning fixture and apologize.

“Look, I'm sorry if I offended you. I'm Baikal.”

Ran, staring at the hand he had asked to shake, turned his head.

“Hmph.”

“Ugh...? ”

Lan openly grabbed Judas' hand, who was standing next to him with a puzzled face, and walked out in front of him.

“Hey, what's this? ”

“Look, it's not" what, "is it? ”

Baikal is stabbed in the voice of Ran, who shoots like a bee and shut up. Then Lan turned to him and added a cheap word.

“You stupid piece of shit. ”

“ ……?! ”

Judas, holding her hand behind her, laughs as if he were an adult watching a children's quarrel.

When Lan reached under the tree where the house was built, she raised one hand and the tree stalk grew to her will.

The stalk, which had grown so entangled and so entangled, stopped only after it had been connected from the top of the tree to the ground.

What Ran created was a net ladder that would allow enough people to climb.

“Is this also the power of the Spirit? I can't believe plants grow in certain forms. ”

Ran touched the net ladder and replied to Sage's admiration.

“I'm a fairy pixie. You can do whatever you want with plants. ”

“Pixie?”

It was rare for anyone to recognize an ancient Pixie that had already been extinct a long time ago. The rest of the people, except Judas, took the name Pixie for granted.

“So it's my natural power to handle plants. to bear fruit or to grow in a form other than the information originally stored in the seed. ”

“That's an amazing ability. ”

“Or I could kill him. ”

It governs life as well as death.

Sage, who heard it, was terrified and shut up.

Nymph Pixie was absolute only for plants. It's like the Queen of the Forest.

“...... I am a witch. ”

Lan added with his eyes down.

“I was born eating the man who raised me. ”

The left side is covered in strange silence.

Ran climbed the ladder first so that he seemed familiar with the reaction.

“Anyway, I'll treat you to a cup of tea when I get here. Drink and go.”

“What?”

Judas came up with her and grabbed the net.

“The fact that you were born eating means that he died talking about what happened before you were born. ”

“Ah? Huh. He still died on my enemies ten times a day. ”

It was the corpse that was nourished by the eggs that were growing in the fruit.

The seedling incident killed the man who was taking care of the tree, and Ran ate the body.

“Then that's not what you wanted. Right?"

Lan stares at him with small, unchecked eyes.

“Actually, I've never seen him with my own eyes, and I don't even know his name. I was a small fruit with no power at the time. But since I raised and cared for the tree, he's like my father. ”

“You were not a witch, you were just a pretty girl who loved her father, Ran. ”

‘How could this man..... do this? ’

Wonderful. For fifty years I've been accepting that I'm a witch, and I've been hearing about it.

I felt tears in a word.

Judas faces Lan's ugly face, his monstrous inner self, without turning his back on either. Rather, he looks straight and says everything is fine.

Thanks to that, Lan stopped laughing because he was surprised.

“Thank you.”

As I climbed up the net ladder, the door opened as if I had waited.

Thanks to that, the group was able to enter Ran's house immediately.

The interior was quite spacious. The three escorts decided to stay outside and look at the net, and even though there were six people in, including Lan, they could not feel the cramped.

On the floor was a fluffy black carpet and a staircase leading to the second floor.

“Sit here and wait. I'll bring you some tea in a minute. ”

There were no chairs or couches, so Ran let them sit on the carpet and disappeared to boil the tea.

Judas's group, sitting in a circle, looked around the house and expressed their appreciation.

“Lots of decorations you don't know who you are. ”

“What a harsh atmosphere. ”

“…… Can't you speak a better language? ”

The high and low shelves were connected together along the wall.

On the shelves were decorations that would not know whether to squeeze bats or rats.

Large and small transparent jars were filled with unidentified purple and black liquids, creating honeycomb bubbles, and nearby they reproduced human hearts and brains.

Sage grabbed Judas' sleeve and whispered.

“Brother, I don't feel good. ”

“Are you still afraid of Lan? ”

“No, I'm not scared. There's a skeleton hanging there. ”

Skeletons were hanging instead of frames. No matter how real it looked, I looked in detail even to the back of my nose.

Judas smiles at his brother's back.

“Fake.”

“Really...? ”

“So, when did I ever lie? ”

Sage shakes his head without strength.

I was a little relieved to have a brother, but I couldn't help but feel the creepy atmosphere surrounding the whole house.

Contrary to the frightened Sage, Baikal picks up one of the skulls that had fallen on the floor and looks around and says.

“But he is. Don't you think I'm a bit of a hater? ”

“You don't want to be like me, because you've been rude to me by calling me a whore. ”

“No, Captain……. If this is the case, please put your empty words up. ”

Seeing Edan faithfully expressing what I meant by "why?", Baikal sighed.

“I didn't mean to make fun of you. I don't want to be hated by a little girl. ”

In fact, Lan was over 50 years old, but Judas did not necessarily mention it. Instead, he encouraged me to apologize again for my mistakes.

“I'd like to apologize once again for the tea he gave me. Maybe Lan didn't put it in his heart so deeply. ”

“Yuck! I'll do that. ”

However, Baikal's firm resolve also collapsed like a house of cards in front of the refreshments Ran brought.

“Here. It's a warm tea and a cookie I baked myself. ”

Ran brought out a full cup of tea and cookies.

In the cup, Challenger looks down at the red liquid and asks Sage in a trembling voice.

“This isn't blood, is it? ”

“Ah, Sage. Are you sure you want to bloom? It's usually made with red petals. ”

“Huh? It's blood. ”

“Phew! ”

Baikal, who was already drinking, bled out like a fountain.

“It's a Drakey flower. Vampires grow near the house. The blood collected from that flower is fragrant and tastes good. It also has a huge stamina boost when eaten. It's a precious herb that happens when you drink a falling cow. ”

“Ugh……. ”

Sage, who had never imagined drinking a tea made with boiled blood, singed with a cup of tea and only a complexion.

I felt like a sour stomach fluid would fall through my throat in no time.

Cristina, who had a tough appetite, had not touched a cup of tea since she heard the explanation.

Judas and Edan lifted the car with a fine face.

Ran raised his hands together and asked me to impress him.

“What do you think? Is it good? ”

“You look like an angry car. It's fragrant and unique. ”

“Really?”

“Yummy. I'll eat well, Ran. ”

“ ……! ”

The face of Lan, who was so proud that he didn't like it or like it, turned red.

She takes the cookie tray she brought with her drakey car and opens the lid that she kept quiet.

“Here! These are my most confident cookies. ”

Even the car made of blood hardened Edan's expression.

‘This is the mountain beyond the mountain. ’

Cookies that even caused Edan to groan frightened everyone.

If you didn't name them Cookies, you wouldn't even see them as eating them.

Sage murmured with a horny face.

“Burr, bugs……. ”

Lan's cookie faithfully reproduced the bug.

Chocolate was added, black spots were added, and cheese and sugar were meticulously hardened to make even a pile of eggs or a thin leg.

Starting with spiders, I had many legs, winged cockroaches, moths, and nothing else.

There were various kinds of sizes, such as cubs, adults, and large versions. The jelly that came with the cookie in the glass bottle was even eyeball shaped.

The white eyeballs filled with glass bottles even engraved the color of the pupils differently.

Bug cookies and snow algae were unbearable to their nobility.

It reduced the appetite of those who see a lively wriggle as if they were breathing.

“Hihi, there's this too! ”

Ran came with another tray because he was excited.

It contained candy made of molten sugar and embedded in a skeleton like a clump of thin hair or pink bread.

It was disgusting if it was more disgusting than a bug cookie. It was never less disgusting.

Now Sage thought she was like a really nasty witch in a complete fairy tale.

"Hey.What fairies like that?

"Don't be fooled, Greg! No matter how he looks, he's not a fairy.

Even the spirits put their tongue to Lan's peculiarities.

Ugh, Cookies and bread are the same, but Pixie will die of fever if she drinks blood. No matter how much blood you collect from plants, there's no way Pixie can drink blood.

Carney opens her eyes in a circle and doubts Lan's identity.

The blue wolf, who was still asleep, lifted his head and sympathized with Carney's opinion.

"Pixie is a queen of plants born solely of females. It has a special fragrance and subtlety that is enjoyed by all races from birth. So that's not a common fairy from the looks of it.

"Not common? Then what?

"Probably a mutant. As usual, Pixie is already extinct and cannot be born. For some reason, the fig tree that man raised bears fruit, and was born nourishing the human corpse that he raised.

Looney's egg-like eyes go to Lan, who picks up cookies.

"The last surviving fiction in the world is a new object, not a pure fiction. Maybe a new fairy clan was born by using it as a mother.

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Otherwise... I can't use external conduction;

I really don't know where to go these days. Did you enjoy the candy? Heh. I should have eaten some bacon candy for the anniversary... (?)

Now that it's over, it's nothing. Blah.

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