--Beshach

Rose stopped her feet after a shock on her back.

Rose went to town to buy the missing ingredients in pharmaceuticals. I finished shopping safely and had just boarded a small boat in the forest.

Looking back at the forest with surprise.

Rose, wondering if a bird had hit him, was frightened.

"Hey, witch! We're not afraid of you at all!"

There were several boys and girls.

The still young voices are raising their hands. In his hand was a mud dumpling stuffed with straw and sawdust.

"Eat it!"

"Hey ... cho, do it."

Suddenly, children are throwing thuds one after another.

Cold sludge hit Rosé's face and hair. It was this that hit Rose's back earlier.

The watery mud gives you the pain of being hit with a flat hand.

The small gravel mixed in the sludge hits the skin and hurts.

Bo-chan Bo-chan and the sludge thrown with a strong momentum make a sound returning to the lake.

Rose had become a good target because he prioritized the items he bought. The dress is already muddy.

The raid ceased when the boat on it was overturned.

"Is it afraid!

It seems that he has thrown all the sludge he brought.

Looking up, fearing the witch's retaliation, the children fled, sprinkling spiders.

Rose was unable to respond to a sudden event.

Look over your feet.

Fortunately, the mud did not seem to have accumulated much in the boat. Most of them probably fell into the lake.

With the hand of the person who does not have the goods, shed her hair stuck to her face with her ring finger. The mud stuck to the hair, .

Wipe the rough mud from the cheeks with the palm of your finger.

"Witches? Why is it like this. Now the children have rushed ..."

When I heard my voice and looked up, there was Harrige with my baggage as usual.

What a timing. Rose, stunned, did not move anything and stared at Harrige.

However, after seeing Rose, Harige apparently saw the children's work in an instant. He instantly frowned unpleasantly.

"That's them."

"Hey?

Harryge, walking in a stride to the sullen rose, grabbed Rose.

When you think about it, lift the rose on the boat and land it on the ground.

Things that I can't keep up are happening too quickly. Rose also mass produced Hatena Mark.

When he pushed his handkerchief out of his pocket, Harrige silently ran away into the forest.

It was a form that only said that if you opened your mouth more than that, you would spit out dirty words.

***

"Hiee ..."

It is Rose who screamed so.

Before wiping the mud, Harrige returned, capturing the children.

"Ya-da! Take it down!"

"I'm sorry!"

"Let's release! Let's release!"

"Oh, this isn't it!"

The two children are held aside, and they are clinging to regain them. Harrige has returned with a total of four children.

"Is this all?"

"I was surprised, so up to the number of people ..."

I want you to take it down.

The children's screams and cry were so loud that the forest beasts could not approach.

"Hey suspicious person! Cowardly! Get down!"

"If you have repented of your sins, I'll take them down."

"I can't do it!

It's probably a boss. He has been kicking Harrige with a dossos from a while ago while clinging to retrieve the child held by Harrige.

Rose also screamed, "Hiee." Harrige looks painful and the child is too gunless.

"Here! Here! Here, come early!"

A different voice was heard from the depths of the forest, apart from the children Harrige had caught. It seems that the child Harriage failed to catch calls the adults in the village.

"Hey, over there! Everyone was caught! Help me!"

There were about three adults. At first the adults, who seemed embarrassed, seemed puzzled by the situation.

A muddy woman and children with muddy hands.

Also, the man holding the children hides himself in the costume of a traveler, but is not a suspicious person.

I heard something and asked Harriage.

"I heard that there was a suspicious person who took the children away ..."

"The children threw mud at this woman, probably unilaterally. I persuaded me to go for my sins, but there was no remorse. "

Somehow it became important. Rose was mad at his head.

Listening to Harrige's explanation, the adult caught a sword.

"What did you guys do? Throw mud at a woman!"

"Dah-chan! This is a witch!"

One of the children points to Rose.

The expressions of the adults were visibly frozen.

"We saw! Witch coming out of the house! I'm out of town and I'm sure I'm doing evil! It looks like my children haven't been taken yet, but I need to defeat the witch before being taken away !? "

"You guys ...! Please, shut up!"

An adult woman who came with her covered her child's mouth

Rose also knew that the rebuke was more for fear of witch retaliation than for anger.

Witches are still witches, as they have been in the city four years ago.

"Please forgive me, 'Witch of the Great Lake.' These kids are still young and you didn't know you were a great witch."

A large adult lowers his head while shaking.

What the whole witch wants to do.

Do you think you'll use the magic of eternal sleep, or the magic that transforms a frog into an instant?

"... It's not great."

The voice was roared. Rose is not used to talking to non-guests. That's because you're proud to withdraw.

I don't know what to say, I get sick.

"Don't lift her and try to disrespect things."

Harriage says lowly whether he could see such a rose.

"It doesn't matter if you're a great or a witch. It's a bad thing to hit people with mud."

"Because it's a witch! Everyone is annoying! I hope I get out of the forest soon!"

"This is what!"

An adult hit the child's head with Gotsun. Its face is as blue as a lake.

And I had my face almost as pale.

You can't even grip your fingertips. Adults are embarrassed to see Rose in shock.

"Why. What a witch did you do?"

Harryge was the only calm voice among them.

"... I haven't done that yet."

"Well, what annoyance are you saying?"

When asked by Harriage, the child closed his mouth after thinking for a moment. That momentum had been lost.

"People are weak. They are afraid of what they don't know."

Harrige turned his body here.

Rose was surprised. For some reason, he desperately matched his eyes.

"So, can I say that?"

"What?"

Suddenly, without knowing what the story was, Rose screamed insanely.

"The medicine that the Witchen is making. Will it bother you?"

"……No"

Rose returned in a small, but firm voice.

The witch does not lie. So even if you teach me about medicine, Rose doesn't really bother me.

Harij, who knew it, did not hesitate to ask the villagers.

"Are crops made in the village?"

"Well, wheat and vegetables."

Adults respond to Harrige's question while fooling around.

"So you sometimes use drugs to kill insects?"

"Yes, that's of course. I'll set fire and follow it with smoke."

"Do you put a compress on those who hurt your back?"

"Yes. Thanks to these things, medicine has become easier to get and we can buy something like us."

"Witches also make that kind of medicine."

The villagers turned their wonders at Rose.

"I don't say that the Witch made it all, but some of you may have taken care of it."

The adults looked at each other with uncomfortable faces and silently silenced.

"What you don't know may be scary, but hitting that fear against innocent people is the worst thing to do. Now apologize."

Harrige says, glaring at the children.

Most children wept for forgiveness, but the only rebellious boy remained sideways.

"I can't help but reflect on the lake."

Harrige lifts the boy and tries to throw it into the lake.

"Wow! Sorry, sorry, sorry !!"

Rose rushed to Harrige, hoping that he would really throw it.

"I understand the customer, because I'm fine ..."

"No, not yet."

"sorry--!!"

In the thirty-sixth sorry, the boy was finally released.

Now he is clinging to one of the adults while wetting his face with tears.

Harige said the child and the adults in a harsh voice.

"Even if you're not a witch, you can punish people because you're a discerning adult. If you find out, help yourself to see things a bit."

The adults lowered their heads with ugly faces and took the children away.

Rose, staring at her back, shook himself.

I forgot about it, but it was still muddy. The mud dumpling, which had been rolled up with water, was slowly taking the body temperature of Rose's body.

"I'm sorry, just like that. It was cold."

Harrige took off her coat and went to Rose without any hesitation. It is Rose that has panicked. Even Harrige's clothes get dirty with mud.

"Customers ..."

"Let's put on."

As I thought before, Harriage is too used to saying things from above.

It seemed to me that my heart wasn't catching up with it because it was so funny and so many things happened.

"Thank you for borrowing, and thank you earlier."

Rose alone couldn't have changed anything.

He couldn't be angry or sad, he could only take mud back to the hermitage.

My grandmother ... I must have been able to snow the stigma of all the "Witches of the Lake" who have lived so far.

"Oh, but I was hit hard."

Harrigues began to drop the still rose mud by hand.

It seemed that she was only supposed to clean the livestock, and Rose liked it.

The wet mud dries and becomes crisp all the time.

Each time Harrige stroked his cheek, the mud stuck to his skin came off.

"Do you have a bath in that house?"

"There must be no such thing."

"If there is no problem, I will lend at my house."

"There is a problem"

"Let's help boil the water."

"Keep that joke that much."

Rosé said in silence, silence came back. If you look closely at Harriage, you'll see his face seemingly wrong.

"What's wrong?"

"... I would like to tell you if your life is disturbed or if the witch's peace is disturbed.

If the witch is making the medicine they used on a daily basis, they may be worried about not being accepted.

"No"

Rose flatly refused.

"I'm grateful for your help, but in the future ...

"What do you do alone?"

"Yes, because I've been alone."

If you can't do your best, you'll get it.

If you can't rely on it forever, don't lean too much.

Harrige frowned. You may be outraged by Rose, who did not receive his kindness.

Still, Rose did not intend to get any more from Harrige anymore.

"It doesn't matter if you're a great or a witch. Don't hit people with mud. "

Everyone treats witches as humans, even though they do not treat roses but themselves as humans.

Four years ago.

My heart gradually warmed up.

Rose truly thought that with these words, she could live alone forever.

"Thank you very much today"

Let's complete the medicine. Hurry as much as possible.

Rose decides so and bows down.

***

Then about a week. Rose didn't sleep at night and finished the last adjustment.

Then the medicine was completed.

The love potion that Harige wanted.