【Knights and Witches】

[May 15]

【Cultural Festival】

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"What is right and wrong?"

The witch of the forest asked the little girl in front of her.

"Good and evil, good and evil, trust and betrayal."

The girl replied in a childish voice.

"How can we judge these opposites?"

The girl who rushed to find the witch's sister to apprentice was stumped by the question.

"You'll always know that bad guys can't hide in the crowd."

The girl muttered quietly.

The witch agreed to teach her magic, but she also made a rule that she had to follow—the hut in the forest would be surrounded by dense and impermeable thorns, and only if the thorns had carved a way out of the forest.

The girl turned into a girl, and when she finished learning all the magic that the witch had taught her, she was about to catch up with the witch when she stood in front of the witch in the forest.

The girl became a little witch, but she still had no ability to cut through the thorns.

Even though she had been able to fly out with flying magic for a long time — the witch had come in this way every time she came to teach her magic, she still kept the rules.

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[Dead, all dead...... I'm going to die, too, if I don't run away...... ］

The battlefield is not a dueling arena, and defeat will only lose honor.

On the battlefield, if you lose, you lose your life.

The young knight ran incessantly after the rout of the army and hid in the forest.

Who would have thought that the other party had invited a magician from nowhere and almost overwhelmingly destroyed their defenses.

"Damn!"

The knight encountered a large area of thorns, and there was no end in sight.

Behind him came the urgent sound of horses' hooves, which rang and rang for him, coming towards him from far and near.

There is no way out.

It's over—the knight thought desperately.

He is not like those war-winning commanders, who have long contributed everything he has to the kingdom and guarded the kingdom's territory with his life.

He was only seventeen years old, had just graduated, and had become a knight by luck with his school grades, and had not yet seen much of the cruelty of war.

"Why! Just because I'm a knight, I have to chase several times more people than ordinary soldiers? ”

The young knight couldn't help but complain.

If only he were just an ordinary soldier, he would only be chased by soldiers in the enemy army, at least to save his life.

[I don't want to die.] ]

The sound of horses' hooves stopped.

The enemy mage surrounded him in the middle with a dozen cavalrymen.

"Surrender, die for us, and the king will give you the honor of knighthood again."

The Master said so.

[But I don't want to surrender either......]

The young knight gritted his teeth and bowed his head in some despair.

[I don't want to die.] ]

Human patience is limited, and the mage draws an hourglass in the air, watching as the grains of sand that seem to represent the life of the knight gradually fall.

[Who's going to save me?] ]

When the time came, the mage raised his staff and gathered the light and heat.

The knight stood up, raised his head, and clasped his hands on the hilt of his sword.

[I don't want to die!] ]

What kingdom, what honor, it's better to die.

He just wants to live.

Return home alive and never be a knight again.

It's spring now, and the big white bellflowers in my hometown must be blooming well, and I really want to go back and see it.

There is also a girl who often brings bread and fruit to him who practiced swords in the mountains, and she has not yet said thank you.

The tombstone of the village chief who adopted him, I don't know if anyone regularly goes to clean it. If he can go back, he will definitely open a can of good wine and slowly pour it on the tombstone, so that the village chief, who was a drunkard before his death, can have a good drink.

[If he can go back......]

With all his might, the knight slashed his sword into the bodies of the cavalrymen who surrounded him, blood splattered on his sword, and splattered on his own blood-stained armor.

[if......]

The iron sword of the cavalry slashed at his body, slashed at his arm, and blinded him in the right eye.

The vision was blurred.

The blood blocked the only remaining left eye, and finally he saw a huge fireball summoned by the mage smash down on him, and he passed out with a burning sensation all over his body.

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"Awake? How does it feel? ”

The silver-haired girl in the witch's hat crouched beside the knight, rubbing her index finger against his face.

When the knight opened his eyes, he saw the simple but sturdy roof of the wooden house, and the soft cushions laid on the floor underneath.

The young knight was saved by the young witch.

The little witch broke the rules with the witch and flew over the thorns, bringing the knight, who was about to be killed by the mage, back to the cabin inside the thorns.

The wounds on his body healed under the influence of magic, leaving no traces.

Losing her right eye, the little witch used magic to copy her right eye for him.

"Not bad...... If you really can't do it, why don't you replace your left eye as well? ”

"No need...... Thank you. ”

The knight temporarily stayed in the little witch's cabin.

He also tried to cut the thorns with his own sword, but instead the sword cut a gap first, and was ridiculed by the little witch next to him.

The little witch is very beautiful, her long silver hair is soft and light, and her blue eyes are clear and pure.

The cooked meals were also delicious.

But he wanted to go back.

I want to go back and see the bellflowers, and go back to see the tomb of the village chief.

I don't know what happened to the kingdom, whether it was held in the end, whether it repelled the armies of neighboring countries with mages.

If he went back now, would the king blame him......

"Can you send me out?"

"It's hard...... However, I can teach you the magic of flying, and once you learn it, you can fly out on your own. ”

The little witch told him about the agreement between herself and the witch, and in exchange, she wanted to listen to him tell the story of the world outside the forest.

The knight spoke of his hometown, of the chief of the village who adopted him, of the girl who brought him bread.

Talk about his kingdom, his classmates and teachers at school, the blacksmith master who forged iron swords for him for free, and the dueling arena where he competed for the title of knight after graduation.

"You're the last champion to become a knight! That's amazing! ”

The little witch listened to the story, her eyes shining, full of longing for the outside world.

"What's the use of a knight......"

He bowed his head in shame, feeling unworthy of the title of knight.

"So be it! I'll take you out, you take me into the kingdom! ”

"...... agreement?"

"Master Witch hasn't been here for more than a year, so it's okay for the time being! I'm just going to play for a while. After all, you can't learn flying magic, so you have to. ”

The boy and girl flew out of the thorns, flew out of the forest, and flew back to the kingdom where the boy was.

At the border, craftsmen are rebuilding watchtowers.

He went up to inquire and learned that the enemy had voluntarily returned - the kingdom had been forced to cede the land and give them a large amount of supplies.

"Will come back for sure! This bunch of bandits! "The seeds of hatred brought about by war took root in the hearts of the people of the kingdom.

The knight came to his hometown with the little witch.

Only a few of the bellflowers are still blooming, and the forests on the hill are lush and green, casting shade on the cemetery in the middle of the forest.

The little witch uses magic to sweep the branches and old leaves of the cemetery, and the knight pours the sake he bought on the tombstone of the village chief.

After doing all this, fly in the direction of the royal city.