Mystery: Mr. Witch and Ms. Hunter

Chapter 238 New Witch
"I left in a hurry this time, and I didn't bring many clothes with me. Here are only some men's sailor suits for replacement. You guys should make do with what you have for now, and I'll go to the street to buy you some tomorrow."

A few minutes later, Adele walked into the captain's room with a few cotton sailor suits. Several wet witches were sitting in a circle on the carpet, wiping each other's hair with the white towels Adele found.

Natalie, who has the highest Sequence among the four and has reached Sequence 6, is an elegant lady who is actually over years old. She is the mother of the youngest, Leila. However, due to the special nature of the witch potion, she looks not much older than Adele. She and Leila both have iconic long white hair and dark red eyes, reminiscent of rabbits.

Sequence 7 Aphra was originally from the southern continent, with the local light brown skin. She was originally a plantation slave, but she could not stand the abuse, so she ran away secretly and fled to the Kingdom of Loen. She was absorbed into the sect by Gagran and became a witch.

Lisette was born and raised in the East District of Backlund. Like Adele, she accidentally acquired the extraordinary characteristics of an assassin during the war, so she and Adele have a good relationship. However, she is shy and doesn't like to talk. She is a rare species among witches, so she is regarded by Gagran as a type that is difficult to continue to advance.

"The collar is covered in oil, so disgusting..."

Leila was a little disgusted, but still took the clothes from Adele that originally belonged to the sailors who died on the "Honeysuckle Queen".

In this era, many sailors had long hair. In order to prevent their hair from getting messy, they would apply diluted tung oil on their hair, and the wide detachable sailor collar could prevent the oil from sticking to their clothes.

"That can't be helped."

Natalie, who was like a big sister among witches, comforted Leila and said to Adele, "Don't take it to heart. By the way, can I borrow your bathroom?"

"No problem at all."

Adele nodded. "But the bathroom in my room is not big, so you still have to queue up. How about this, Natalie, you use my bathroom first. I'll take Aphra and the others to find a cabin to stay in. I'll let them use the bathroom over there, and you can come over here in stealth after they're done."

"That would be best." Natalie nodded slightly. "I'll trouble you to take care of them."

Afterwards, Adele brought several witches to Wendy's room, briefly explained the situation to Wendy, and asked her to keep it a secret.

The Honeysuckle Queen had previously been equipped with whaling facilities, and many cabins had been converted into rooms for processing and storing whale meat and blubber. During the few days it stayed in the port, there was no time to convert these cabins back, so the three witches could only live with Wendy in the room where Adele had lived.

Although the sailors' rooms were much emptier after a bombardment, Adele didn't dare to throw the four witches into the midst of the sailors who had been wandering on the sea all year round - of course, she was worried about the sailors.

"This is Miss Wendy Pelomoncia, the chief engineer on my ship. You two should get along well, okay?"

Adele instructed the youngest, Leila.

"I know, I know. Sister Altaïr, why are you still so talkative even after becoming a witch?"

Leila complained impatiently. But according to Adele's understanding of her, she was not really angry at this moment. Instead, she was somewhat happy that someone cared about her.

“I don’t need to tell you about hiding your whereabouts. There is one more very important thing, especially for the two of you who want to continue to advance to Sequence 6.” Adele smiled and touched the unruly strand of white hair on Leila’s head, and then her expression became serious.

"Natalie doesn't plan to continue to advance, so she doesn't need to play much. Leila is still young, so it's not a problem."

Adele continued, "But if you two want to act out the joyous scene in advance, you must be careful and erase those people's memories. I still need them to drive the boat for me, so don't let anyone get killed."

"...I know, don't worry." Lisette said softly with a blushing face.

"Afra, know how to be moderate. The sailor, Adele's, cannot be killed."

Aphra, who was still not used to the Loen Common Language, answered awkwardly using a unique expression between the Colonial Dutan Language and the Loen Common Language.

"That's good."

Adele nodded. "I'll go check on Natalie. If you have any questions, go find Wendy. Try not to run around. Wait until tonight while I deal with the sailors' cognition in my dream, and then you can come out and move freely."

After saying that, Adele left Wendy's cabin and returned to her own captain's room.

Natalie was in the bathroom at the moment, and as soon as Adele opened the door she heard the sound of water.

"Won't you come in and take a shower together?"

Natalie heard Adele come in and couldn't help but tease her.

"Don't joke like that." Adele smiled bitterly, "Let me tell you how you got here. I left Backlund in a hurry, and I only heard that Gaglan went to rescue you. How is she now?"

"Then it's a long story."

Natalie sighed. "To make a long story short, there was a riot in the bar area, and two demons appeared at Leila's school. Although the Mandated Punisher arrived in time, the demon targeted Leila's friend, and Leila's identity as a Beyonder was exposed."

"As you know, Gagran killed a bishop of the Church of the Storm a while ago. Although it was later confirmed that the bishop had been corrupted, the people of the Church of the Storm still felt very embarrassed and had a bad attitude towards the Witch Cult, so they captured Leila as well. I wanted to rescue Leila, but I happened to meet a Sequence 5 from the Church of the Storm who came to support me."

"However, since the place where we were captured was under the jurisdiction of the Church of Darkness, the Substitute Punisher had no choice but to hand us over to the Church of Darkness. During the handover, Gagran raided St. Samuel's Church and rescued us."

"What about Gagran? She didn't come with you?"

Adele asked eagerly.

"I don't know. She activated the spirit world transmission and asked us to leave Backlund and go to Feysac to find you. She stayed there to entangle the pursuers of the Church of Evernight. She is not the kind of person who likes traditional sacrifices. Since she said that, she must have a way to escape."

Natalie affirmed.

"We arrived at Constance City, but the only fleet was hijacked by you. We had no choice but to settle down here and wait for the fleet to return from Feysac. We read in the newspapers these days that you have taken control of the fleet, and now we saw your ironclad ship docking in the middle of the night, so we hurried over here."

(End of this chapter)