How Can You Pay Back The Kindness I Raised With Obsession?

But there was no one outside. There was nothing but drying peppers sparkling under the sun.

 

“Oh, I have to take that in and go.”

 

It might rain before then. I picked up the peppers, brought them inside, and took the money bag and Lulu.

 

“Wouldn’t it be better to try it out and choose the one that suits you?”

 

So she went out to buy a ribbon.

 

“Surely you knew I was coming?”

 

A witch hidden behind a bush muttered as she watched the cabin beyond the stream.

 

‘No way.’

 

Lorraine, who had followed the witch, leaned against the tree and spoke only in her heart. The pepper was the only reason for the witch to suspect that the woman had already known she was coming. When war breaks out, the lord of the castle lays down a lot of sharp, sharp spears in front of the castle to block the enemy’s attack. Likewise, she believes that the woman laid out peppers in the front yard of her cabin to prevent witches from coming in.

 

“A poisonous thing.”

 

As soon as the witch muttered, the door to the hut opened and a woman came out. Lorraine, who was watching across the stream, quietly babbled to her witch again.

 

‘If I had noticed you coming, I wouldn’t have removed the defense wall with my own hands right in front of you.’

 

The woman raked up the peppers she had sprinkled on her sack, put them in a basket, and took them inside with her.

 

“That thing, that thing, it’s like a monster…”

 

The witch was so shocked to see the woman casually touching her pepper with her bare hand that she even stuttered.

 

“I never thought she would bring a fearsome and powerful enemy into my hands.”

 

The fearsome enemy came out again and there was a brown rabbit doll in his hand. The woman came out of the fence, perhaps on her way to the village, and she began to walk alone along the forest path.

 

“Good. She no longer needs to be lured.”

 

Once the woman was out of sight, the witch ordered her body to stand.

 

“Follow me.”

 

Who dare give this order? But Lorraine had no choice but to follow her witch and follow the woman. There was a frog neatly in her basket.

 

‘If you think about it, all this trouble is because of you.’

 

Lorraine glanced at her son, who was blinking like an idiot. The Empress and the Crown Prince are staying at a villa near the Archduchy on their way back to the archipelago from the Vatican. Then today, the mother and son went out on a stealth ride alone. Of course, that’s an official excuse. Since there were no eyes to see, she had to come out with her bare body without any maids, knights, or servants. Plus, you had to ride a horse, not a carriage. It was fortunate that it was only half a day’s drive from there to the Black Forest, but it was tiring and unpleasant for Lorraine, who was used to a comfortable life.

 

“Ugh, that’s terrible.”

 

After she became empress, Lorraine doesn’t have much memory of her ever walking on her own feet. She stumbled and freaked out every time her feet sank into the moss and soft dirt. She was actually trying to stop the witch from coming here. However, every time she used her tricks, she was caught again and again, and she had no choice but to confess why she was trying to stop it.

 

“I’m not sure you’ll keep your promise.”

 

The witch snorted loudly when she heard that even if she regained her original body, she would not return the bodies of Lorraine and her son.

 

“You have a bad head.”

 

Should I call a paladin right away and purify that rude witch? Lorraine was furious, but the words that followed made her lose her temper.

 

“If I go to the cabin alone and retrieve my body, what will be left?”

 

“Yes?”

 

“Your dead body will remain in the cabin.”

 

“Ah…”

 

“The Empress disappears while looking around the vicinity of her witch’s hut, and her body is found in the same forest. Who do you think is the likely assassin?”

 

“Then the most likely culprit is Hazel, the witch who harmed the Empress not long ago.”

 

“Of course. As soon as I find a new, clean body with no criminal record, I will be falsely accused of murdering the Empress. Why would I do something like that?”

 

It’s not a false accusation. If that happens, you will kill her. Lorraine, however, asked something else.

 

“Then shouldn’t we just burn the body, bury it, or hide it?”

 

These were strange words that told me how to dispose of my body, but in reality, they were digging into the strangeness of the witch’s words.

 

“You don’t know what. There are limits to how we can dispose of corpses. No matter what I do, I will be found out someday. It’s very annoying.”

 

How do you know that? The witch even shook her head in disgust. It gave her chills because it sounded like she had done it many times. Anyway, she thought it sounded pretty good, so she went along. In fact, she did not follow along obediently from the beginning. She bribed a retired paladin with money and brought him in pretending to be her coachman, but before she could attempt to purify her, the witch discovered that she had holy powers. She knew that and went on a rampage. She really almost turned into a frog. It’s true that he was trying to kill that witch, but he was tired of explaining that he wasn’t. In the end, she did as he was told to appease her.

 

‘What a terrible old man.’

 

Lorraine staggered in her unfamiliar steps and glared at the witch ahead of her, no, she was actually glaring at the back of her head.

 

‘Today is the last time this precious body will be taken away and manipulated by witches and the like.’

 

She gritted her teeth and was following her witch when she heard a woman’s cry coming from the forest path.

 

“Wow, what’s going on!”

 

It meant that the woman was caught in a trap.

 

“How did you get hurt? She was attacked by a wild beast?”

 

The woman ran to her horse, which was sitting on the dirt ground, and asked. Her horse was purring and struggling to stand.

 

“Fortunately, there are no visible injuries.”

 

The woman walked over and got down on her knees, calming her excited horse.

 

“Is her leg broken?”

 

Soon the woman’s hand touched her horse’s leg. She uses healing magic. In other words, it meant that the woman’s mana decreased and her magic power weakened. The witch, who had tried and failed rashly last time, planned her plan quite carefully this time. She even takes advantage of the character of a woman who is unnecessarily kind and cannot ignore injured animals or people.

 

“Hide here.”

 

The witch commanded Lorraine, tightening the cloth under her eyes. Immediately after that, the witch’s back, which had been upright just a moment ago, bent.

 

“Huh? What? Run away?”

 

“That guy is my horse.”

 

As the witch staggered into the forest path, leaning on her staff, the woman turned around.

 

“It happened because we were attacked a little while ago.”

 

“Wow, grandma, are you okay?”

 

How dare you call me a grandmother? Lorraine hid behind a tree, her closed fists shaking.

 

“Do you know how to heal?”

 

“Yes, of course.”

 

“Then please take a look at my wounds.”

 

‘You shut up.’

 

The witch cast a silencing spell on her horse, which kept telling her to run away, and she sat down on a tree stump by the side of the road. The innocently deceived woman came running towards her without any suspicion.

 

‘The excuse was false.’

 

The witch studied the energy coming from her woman and smiled her conversion beneath her thick cloth. She really wondered what would happen if the spicy energy of the peppers emanated from her body. She didn’t feel anything. In other words, she meant that there was nothing standing in her way.

 

“Where did you get hurt?”

 

‘Look into my eyes.’

 

The witch pointed to her eyes and began reciting her soul replacement spell in her head. The woman obediently raised her head and met her eyes.

 

“Omg!”

 

At that moment, an old rabbit doll fell to the floor.

 

Hee hee hee!

 

The sound of a horse neighing, resembling a scream, shook the quiet forest. Soon, the sound of the hooves of the horses fleeing from this spot echoed through the forest like thunder, and a flock of birds, sensing an ominous omen, also flew up into the sky and ran away.

 

“Oh my god…”

 

Lorraine closed her eyes and opened them in admiration. She must have been hiding behind a tree just a moment ago, but now she was sitting on a tree stump in the forest path. The two hands she could see were also mine, not her son’s. The witch kept her promise.

 

“I’m back! at las!”

 

Her son also cheered as he came running out of the forest. Everyone has regained their original bodies. Lorraine, looking around with her eyes filled with emotion, was shocked. The witch stood before her eyes. With a twisted smile that didn’t suit her kind face at all.

 

‘I have to leave quickly before he changes his mind and does harm.’

 

It was just as Lorraine stood up from her stump.

 

“Thank you so much for everything. then…”

 

The witch said her goodbyes first and then pointed her index finger at her.

 

“Goodbye!”

 

Before she had time to dodge, green flames shot out from her fingertips. Immediately, the Empress and the Crown Prince turned into two frogs and flopped to the ground. The frogs trembled, but belatedly came to their senses and jumped up and ran away. The witch clicked her tongue, glaring at the two frogs taking refuge in the forest.

 

“Stupid things.”

 

As the Emperor’s entourage disappears, it becomes easier to take over this empire. Did she think she would just leave her alone? When they disappeared, the witch reflected her face in the stream. One day, the face that suddenly changed and made me desire eternal life again was staring at me.

 

“Beautiful.”

 

Her plump lips curved up sharply.

 

“It’s my body. I’m back in my body again!”

 

Soon, the witch’s evil laughter echoed through the forest path.

 

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