Mystery: Mr. Witch and Ms. Hunter

Chapter 157 The Night Before
"So, those sailors don't know what they are facing?"

After listening to Adele's description, Vinata said with some amusement, "If they knew that the price of having a dirty thought about a witch was to become a woman, I wonder if they would still be so eager to do it."

"Perhaps you can learn a lesson from them so that you can keep a proper distance from me in the next few days."

Adele suggested tactfully, "Although Wendy is careless and may not notice these things, considering that what we are about to do is of great importance, you'd better integrate into your role and think carefully about what a bodyguard should do instead of staring at your employer all day long..."

"I do not."

Venata snorted and turned away. "You have ignored me these past few days."

"Sophie is watching over me these days..."

Adele smiled awkwardly, "When we get to Indor Harbor... well."

She was halfway through her words when she felt something sticking to her. The tip of her tongue tasted sweet like snow in a dense forest in winter, and the sound of hair scratching against her ears was like the wind in a pine forest.

"Sophie is not watching now, so you are not allowed to pretend." Vinata said to Adele. Although Adele could not see, she could guess that her eyes must be curved like a crescent moon at this moment.

"There's really nothing I can do to you..."

Adele shook her head helplessly. "Let's get down to business. Do you think there are any incomplete parts in this plan?"

“That’s all, right? Although I heard from Sister Vespe that my Sequence 6 is called ‘Conspirator’, that doesn’t mean I have to think of conspiracies against everyone.”

Vinata's tone sounded familiar to Adele. She would complain in this tone when doing some very simple but boring repetitive work.

"Hunters only use tricks when hunting large beasts. For solitary small herbivores, all they need to do is pick up their guns and light fire. There's no need for so much effort..."

Vinata shrugged. "Conspiracy is not the goal, it's just a means. I heard from Sister Vesper that she has heard of some conspirators even beating people half to death and then forcing them to admit that they were part of a conspiracy."

"Did she say where the conspirator was from?" Adele asked curiously.

"I heard he was from Nass County."

"Okay, no need to say more, I know."

Yes, this is very Feysac...

Adele shook her head helplessly, feeling deeply how unsuccessful she was in consulting Vinata.

Feysac is more of a warrior, Intis is more of a hunter. I feel like people who choose these two paths don't even need to act specially. The potion will probably melt in their mouths...

Adele began to wonder whether it was the arrival of the church that subtly changed people's living habits through its doctrines, or whether it was people's living habits and personality traits that attracted the arrival or emergence of relevant churches.

"In short, to deal with a group of ordinary sailors, I don't even need to seduce them. Once we get to the sea, I will beat them all up and throw those who don't obey into the sea. I guarantee that they will all obey..."

Vinata grumbled somewhat dissatisfiedly.

"Okay, okay, I know you're awesome..."

Adele sighed helplessly, "It's my fault. I shouldn't have talked to you about this kind of thing..."

"I feel like I've suddenly been looked down upon..."

Vinata groaned, but didn't say anything else. The two stood quietly for a while, and Adele looked at the red moon in the sky and said softly:
"We are about to return to Feysac. Do you have any ideas?"

"...Ah." Vinata seemed to be awakened by this sentence and rarely gave an immediate answer.

"Although I am a Loenese and my legal area of ​​activity is limited to Indo Port, as a former Feysac soldier, you should be able to leave at will, right?" Adele did not look at Vinata, but continued while looking at the red moon in the sky.

"How about it? Do you want to go back and take a look? Loen has been in a strategic defensive state and has not attacked Feysac's homeland. Your tribe's living area should not have been destroyed. I will take care of Sophie during this period."

Adele folded his hands behind his head and waited for the other party's reply. This was a posture he liked when he was still an assassin, but after Sequence 7, he never did it in public because it was indecent.

"Where did you put my package? The one wrapped in the animal-skin rug."

Vinata hesitated for a while, then suddenly asked a question out of the blue.

"It's inside the closet above your bed." Adele didn't care whether the other party answered her question or not, but answered casually, "There's a towel underneath, I'm worried it will get damp."

"That's good." Venata didn't reply, but straightened her back slightly, "It's a bit cold, let's go back."

Adele nodded, then turned and walked down the steps, walking in front.

Just as she was walking down the stairs, she heard someone whisper in her ear: "My hometown is that primeval forest, not Feysac... and that forest has long been cut down."

The person next to me paused, as if hesitating whether to say the next words.

Fortunately, the hesitation of the Feysac people was usually not long.

“…Now, I only have one hometown.”

The air was quiet for a while, and then Adele uttered a word half-emotionally.

"……Yeah."

Afterwards, the two stopped talking and tiptoed towards their rooms.

……

At the same time, inside the room.

The porthole had opened at some point, and Sophie squatted on the bed, looking at the bright red moon, her ruby-like eyes seemed to be sparkling. Her braids had unraveled at some point, floating against gravity like wandering green snakes.

It was unknown when the hypnosis that Adele had cast on her was lifted, but she did not have any strange emotions. She just stared at the strangely red moon in the sky, sitting there in a daze, as if thinking about something.

Wendy was lying on the bed with her back to Sophie, seemingly asleep, but if you looked closely, you could see that she was shivering, whether from fear or cold, or both.

Sophie looked at the moon for a while, and then a dark cloud floated over and covered the red moon. The room suddenly became dark, and Sophie fell back into bed like a puppet with its strings cut, and fell into sleep again.

(I'm going to practice driving, so I'll post one chapter this morning, but there will still be four chapters today)

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