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Chapter 42: Best Witch’s Give Sines
Chapter 42: Best Witch’s Give Sines
I looked around the snow. Inside of it I saw all of the faces of the sad people who were waiting for a new chapter...No, that’s not right, I was yawning. Yes, I was yawning not because I was particularly tired.
It was because the fluffy snow looked like a giant pillow from inside the carriage. Though the fact that the people fell asleep around me was a bit of a problem. They were snoring away, likely sleepy from the snow castle games.
“I wonder if snow castle games would catch on?” I looked over at the only other awake person, Mary. “What do you think?”
“Hey! Do you think this is a time for games? They didn’t fall asleep because they wanted to. The only reason I am still awake right now is because of my authority.”
“Authority? Are you the manager at a company over here?”
“Stop joking around! Look around us! The people in this city are asleep. The people of our party are asleep. This snow...It’s what I mentioned before. The Languorous Winter. It forces people to forget reason and succumb to sleep.”
I set Sine down as I hopped out of the carriage. The blizzard had begun raging around the settlement. Most villager’s faces were planted in the snow with glazed over eyes.
My mana spread into the snow. “Yes, this is definitely not natural.”
“Eerie! This has to be the work of Sloth.”
Mary pointed towards the darkening skies. The blanket of the blizzard covered everything above. It seemed to extend towards the horizons. And at the center of the storm, it was like an eye.
Only at this spot did the sky part. When mine and Mary’s eyes gazed upon it, we knew it was the caster.
Four frost trolls stood at the corner of a golden-framed, red bed. Sleeping there was a kitten. No, not a real cat. It was only a woman with pale skin. White cat ears formed on her head, and a thin white tail curled behind her. The woman was covered in a thin white veil that left little of her underwear to the imagination.
From a distance, we could hear her purrs rumbling on the cold breeze. The trolls stopped at the edge of the city, and they lightly sat their master’s bed down on the snow. She flinched, but she never opened her eyes. In fact, her purring snore became louder and louder.
Sine slurped down the soup with glee. She relished in the broth and thin cuts of pork. The noodles were neither too squishy or hard. They were just right, and the taste was phenomenal.
It was then that the old man asked, “say, where are your parents little girl?”
Sine’s eyes widened as she gazed up at the old man. Parents? What are...
A new scene greeted her eyes. The cityscape had vanished. Around her, Sine felt the cool breeze of the ocean. A sandy beach supported rolling waves of blue. As they collided gently with the shore, white bubbles formed. She looked down, and her feet felt so soft in the sand.
Not so far away from her, there were little shovels and buckets. She rushed over and sat down in the sand. She held the yellow handle of a little blue shovel. She pushed it down.
She frowned. “Something is wrong...What is it?”
Her brain struggled to make sense of it. Logically there was no problem. This was how things were supposed to be, but when she kept building the castle higher and higher, she felt an even deeper feeling of wrongness.
What is it? What is it? What is it? Wrongness in all directions while everything was right. She only started to make sense of it when two castles formed below her in the sand.
On one castle, she planted a blue flag. On the other castle, she planted a red flag.
In that instant, things started to make sense. She’d seen these two castles before.
She remembered the old man. “Parents? No...But I have Eerie, The Witch!”
Everything in her surroundings fell away like bricks in a certain mining game. It was like she detonated TNT all around her.
The light was blinding, but when she opened her eyes, she felt the cold winds.