Chapter 194 Lily

Not long after the prince returned to the office, Scroll followed him in. ?

"Your Highness, I'm sorry, Lily's child... didn't do it on purpose."

"I don't care," he smiled. "She's just a little girl."

"Only you are so tolerant towards us," Shujuan sighed, "She wasn't like this from the beginning, but after being deceived, she can hardly trust ordinary people now."

"Before joining the Freedom?" he asked. "I think she's only been with you for a year."

"That's true, I found her on the outskirts of Chishui City," Shujuan said, "You know, I can feel the existence of magic power, the closer the distance, the stronger it is, although I can't directly see the shape of magic power like Nightingale and color, but at least it can be used to spot new witches. So every town I passed, I would pretend to be a noble lady who wanted to adopt a child, and visit the local asylum or orphanage, looking for sisters who might have awakened. She paused, "At that time Lily was locked up in a shelter in a remote town, but when I asked to adopt her, I was rejected. The owner of the shelter told me that they only sell adult children here. Girl."

"Why?" Roland asked puzzled. The latest awakening time of the witch is before adulthood, could it be related to this?

"At that time, we also thought it was very strange, so we let Nightingale sneak into the shelter to find the books, records and related information. Fortunately, the shelter is far away from the town, so we can stay here for a long time."

"Why didn't you just take Lily away? With Nightingale's help, it shouldn't be difficult, right?"

"It's really not difficult," Scroll nodded. "Except for the God's Stone of Retaliation worn by the operator, there are no other stones or mechanisms placed in the shelter. But we can't do this, there have been precedents for this kind of thing."

"What precedent?" The prince made tea for the scroll.

"Thank you," she took the teacup, "At first we would forcibly take away a witch as long as we found her, but an accident in Haifeng County changed our approach. At that time, a young witch who had just awakened thought that We are evil, and after being brought back to the Mutual Aid Association, we refused to listen to the explanation and attacked us. In the end, two sisters were seriously injured and died. She was also killed by Hakara's "death punishment" snake. So from then on, we will carefully observe the witch for a while, to determine her situation and thoughts before taking action. If the church is pressing, we... have no choice but to give up. "

"So, the encounter between Nightingale and Wendy was not a coincidence?"

"Of course not." Shujuan took a sip of his tea, shook his head with a smile, "It took more than a month from the time we discovered Nightingale's existence to Wendy's contact with her. During this period, we also recruited other sisters, such as Red Pepper and Chasing the wind..." When she said this, her expression darkened a lot, "It's a pity that they all died in the wilderness. It would be great if everyone chose to settle down in Border Town from the beginning."

Roland also felt quite regretful. If more than forty witches from the Mutual Aid Society gathered in the town, I am afraid that this place has already entered a modern life.

"Let's not talk about that," Shujuan took a deep breath, "Let's talk about Lily's matter. After searching the shelter and tracking the owner's whereabouts, we discovered an amazing fact—this small country house is both Not really an asylum, nor set up to screen witches."

"What is that for?"

"In order to satisfy the operator's selfish desire." Even if he is as well-mannered as a book, his expression was a bit gloomy when he said this, "The operator will go to the slums of Chishui City every week to abduct those homeless girls and deceive them. , I am a well-meaning aristocrat, and I opened a shelter in the suburbs, where there are often big nobles disguised to come to the door to choose adopted daughters, as long as they are selected, they don’t have to worry about food and clothing for the rest of their lives. Not everyone will be deceived, but ... Over the past ten years, there have been hundreds of 66 girls who went to the shelter one after another."

"So many?" Roland frowned, "But you said the shelter is not large."

"Hundreds of them are just records in the ledger. Most of them... died," she whispered. "In the past ten years, he discovered three witches and sold them all to the church. If the other girls are better-looking Yes, he will also dress up and sell to those who need it, and those who are not cared for are all killed by him in the woods of the asylum."

"..." The prince didn't know what to say for a while. Suddenly, he felt a pair of hands lightly resting on his shoulders from behind.

"The probability of a witch's awakening is not high, so excluding the storage costs, he has earned about 20 golden dragons over the years. This is based on the data recorded in the ledger. But for these 20 golden dragons, nearly Three hundred people, the pit in the woods was filled with corpses. When Hakara interrogated him why he did this, he even said that it was not his intention to earn gold dragons, it was just to keep the asylum running, and only sold adult dragons. Women are also for this reason - a witch can sell for a much higher price than ordinary women. His purpose is to enjoy the pleasure of life and death, and disposing of the lives of these wandering girls at will makes him feel like a king. Hakara Killed him in a fit of rage, and when we tried to scatter the girls, most of them glared at us, as if we had robbed them of their chance to be adopted by the nobility."

"Lily was also like this at the beginning, until Hakara took her to the woods behind the small building, where she saw her friend - "Lucky" who lied about being selected by the nobles and left the asylum a month ago The girl, and several stinky dirt pits, and then Lily vomited in a mess and passed out in Hakara's arms. After waking up, his expression was also numb, and there was no light in his eyes. It was not until later that he slowly recovered under Wendy's care. Since then, she has been wary and distrustful of ordinary people, especially nobles. "Shujuan said, "But I believe she will gradually correct this point of view, after all, you are also a member of the nobles. "

"So that's how it is," Roland secretly sighed in his heart. After going through this kind of thing, being able to pull himself together is considered a fortitude of will.

Scroll picked up the kettle and refilled the cups of the two of them. After a long silence, he said, "Your Highness, I have a question for you."

"What's the question?" He was taken aback, and found that Scroll's expression was a bit serious.

"Nightingale, are you here?"

"Well," Nightingale emerged, "do you need me to leave?"

"No...you know about this anyway," she shook her head, "just take it as witness with me."

After finishing speaking, Scroll looked at His Royal Highness Roland, "You once said that you are willing to marry a witch, but I don't know if you know that witches can't have children." She paused for a moment and asked word by word, "Your Highness , even so, won’t you change your original intention?” (To be continued.)