Not long after the prince returned to the office, the book followed.

"Your Highness, I'm sorry, Lily, that kid... it didn't mean to."

"I don't care," he laughed, "she's just a little girl."

"Only you are so tolerant of us," sighed the scroll, "she was not so in the beginning, but after being deceived, it is difficult for her to believe ordinary people now."

“Before joining the conference?”He asked, "I remember she joined you only a year ago."

"Indeed, I found her on the outskirts of the city of Redwater," said the scroll, "you know, I can feel the presence of magic, and the closer I am, the closer I am, the stronger I am, and though not the shape and color of the magic can be seen directly like the nightingue, but it can at least be used to discover new witches."So every time I pass a town, I pretend to be the noble lady who wants to adopt a child, go to a local shelter or an orphanage, and look for sisters who may have awakened.”She paused, "Lily was locked up in a remote township shelter, but when I named her to adopt her, I was rejected, and the owner of the shelter told me that they were only selling adult girls here."

“Why?”Roland was doubtful.Was the last time the witch's awakening was related to this before she became an adult?

“We thought it was strange at the time, so we asked the Nightingers to sneak into the shelter and find the books, records and relevant information.Fortunately, the shelter is far away from the town, so we can stay there for a longer period of time.”

“Why don’t you take Lily?”With the help of the nightingale, it should not be difficult?"

"It is not difficult," said the scroll, "except for a stone of divine punishment worn by the operator, no other stone or organ is placed in the shelter."But we cannot do that, and there is precedent for such a thing.”

“What precedent?”The prince brewed tea for the book.

"Thank you," she took the cup, "at first we found the witch, we will forcibly take her away, but in the sea wind when an accident occurred in the sea wind changed our practice, when a young witch who had just awakened thought that we were evil, was brought back to the concert after not listening to explanation and launched an attack on us, and finally two sisters were seriously injured, and she was killed by the death penalty snake in Hakala."So from then on, we would observe the witch carefully for some time, determining her situation and thoughts before taking action.If the church is pressing, we can only give up.”

"So it was not an accident that the Nightinginge and Wendy's encounter?"

"Certainly not," said the book, licking its tea, shaking her head with a smile, "from the discovery of the presence of the Nightingale to Wendy's contact with it, but more than a month apart, during which we have also recruited other sisters, such as red peppers and wind chasers..." she said that the expression was dimmed here, "but unfortunately they were all buried in the wild."How good it would be if you had chosen to settle down in the border town from the beginning.”

Roland also felt very sorry that if more than 40 witches had gathered in the town, I am afraid that it had entered a modern life.

"Don't say those," said the scroll, taking a deep breath, "or about Lily."After searching the shelter and following the whereabouts of the master, we discovered the startling fact that this small country building was neither a real shelter nor for the screening of witches.”

“That’s for what?”

“To satisfy the owner’s own desires.”Even if it is like a book, the look is a little gloomy when saying this, "operators go to the ghettos of Red Water City every week, abduct those stray girls, and deceive them to say that they are a kind-hearted noble, and set up a shelter in the countryside, where there are often big nobles who pretend to pick up their daughters, as long as they are selected, they will not have to worry about eating and wearing them for a lifetime."Not everyone will be fooled, but ... there have been hundreds of girls who have been going to the shelter for more than a decade.”

“So much?”Roland frowned, "But you say the shelter is not big."

“Hundreds of people are just records on the books, most of them . . . . dead,” she whispered, “and in a dozen years he found three witches, all sold to the church, and the other girls, if they looked better, he would dress up and sell them to those in need, and no one cared, they were killed by him in the shelter forest.”

“The prince didn’t know what to say.Suddenly, he felt a pair of hands gently on his shoulders from behind.

"The witch's chances of awakening are not high, so in addition to the cost of containment, the golden dragons he has earned over the years is about twenty, which is based on the data recorded in the ledger.But for the sake of the twenty golden dragons, nearly three hundred people died, and the earth pit in the forest was filled with corpses.When Hakkala interrogated him why he did this, he went so far as to say that earning a golden dragon was not his intention, but only to keep the shelter running, and that it was only for the reason that a witch could sell a much higher price than an ordinary woman.His purpose is to enjoy the pleasure of killing and taking away the power of death, and to deal with the lives of these wandering girls at will makes him feel like a king.Hakkar killed him in anger, and when we tried to disperse the girls, most of us looked at us as if we had taken away their chances of being adopted by the nobles.”

The same was true of Lily at first, until Hakalla took her to the woods behind the small building, where she saw her friend—the lucky girl who had been chosen by the nobles, the lucky girl who had left the shelter a month earlier, and the several stinking pits, and then Lily had a bad lump and fainted in Hakala’s arms.When he woke up, he could not see any beauty in his eyes, and he did not recover until later under Wendy's care.Since then, she has been full of vigilance and distrust of ordinary people, especially the nobility.”The book says, "But I am sure she will slowly correct this view, after all, you are also a member of the nobles."

"So it is," Roland felt in his heart, and after experiencing this, he could cheer up his spirit and be counted as tenacity.

The book lifted the kettle, filled the cup of the two men, and was silent for a long time before he said, "Your Highness, I have a question for you."

“What problem?”He shuddered and found the expression of the book a little serious.

“Nightale, are you there too?”

"Well," came the nightingue, "do you need me to leave?"

"No, you know it anyway," she said, shaking her head, "just to witness it with me."

With that, the book will look to His Highness Roland, "You have said that you are willing to marry a witch, but I do not know whether you know that a witch cannot bear children."She paused for a moment and asked word for word, “Your Highness, even then, will you not change your original intention?”(Unfinished.