Mystery: The Fool's Witch Angel

On the dark green sea, there are many thick clouds in the sky, and the black shadows cast by the sun are obvious. A small fishing boat with folded canvas drifted on it with the flow of the water.

A young man with a messy beard rushed out of the water with a net bag on his back. His long years of seaside life made him look very vicissitudes of life, and his appearance was not commensurate with his actual age.

He held the side of the boat with one hand and poured the black sea urchins and other seafood in the net bag into the compartment.

When he was about to dive again, an old man on the boat who was observing the trawl situation pulled him back. The old man's hair was a little gray, and his beard covered the lower half of his face. He had many and deep wrinkles, and his skin was as dull as the young people in the sea. Sun-burned black and red.

"Lev, no need to touch anymore, get ready to go back!"

"Grandpa Matvey, are there many big rocks below? I also saw a blue lobster. This time I want to go down and catch it."

"Lev, don't be lost in the richness of the water. The danger is approaching you. Come up! Let's collect the trawl net and go back. The weather will change at any time."

The sail with many holes and patches slipped off. With the help of the wind, the drifting ship gained sailing power and was heading towards a black spot ahead.

Lev and Matvey pulled the trawl back and pulled hard on the ship's winch.

"This is really heavy! Grandpa Matvey, it seems that we have gained a lot today."

"I hope so! We have to go back with or without it, the darkness and storm are brewing in the distance."

After speaking, the two of them turned the rusty winch on the ship hard. The thick rope was tightened and retracted to the winch frame. The old wood bearing the weight creaked and looked like it was about to fall apart at any time.

The trawl net that gradually returned to the side of the boat caught a large group of things, which looked like kelp and seaweed. There were some fish, shrimps and other invisible things entangled in it.

"Would you like to get on the boat and take a look? There are a lot of seaweeds and kelp. It's really strange. The sea here is not too shallow! Where did there come from so many?"

"It's better to just open the knot and throw it back into the sea! It's all seaweed and kelp."

"Grandpa Matvey, look, there's a blue lobster inside, it's such a big one."

Lev saw the familiar pliers trying desperately to squeeze out. So the two men pulled up a large mass of the trawl net and put it back into the boat. The old wooden supports finally freed themselves.

After untying the trawl net, some unknown fish scattered out, and seaweed and kelp were pushed together. Lev caught the blue lobster, which was slightly smaller than his arm, and put it in another compartment.

Matvey, who was pulling off kelp and seaweed, shouted. Lev quickly turned around and found that the kelp and seaweed were tightly wrapped in a white cocoon, like a pupa.

The silk thread at one end is relatively sparse, and you can vaguely see the pale and painful face inside. The eyes are tightly closed and the hair is scattered. It is the part where Matvey pulled away the seaweed.

After the two of them cleaned up the debris, they also saw the original appearance of the thing clearly. It was about one meter and seventy meters long, and the layer of sticky white silk threads arched into a pupa shape.

From the slightly transparent top, you can see a black-haired woman who looks about eighteen years old wrapped inside. Her appearance is hard to see clearly, but she feels very beautiful.

"Grandpa Matvey, have you ever encountered such a situation? Could it be a noble and wealthy lady whose body was dumped by pirates?" Lev looked away, and found that the more he looked at the people inside, the more he was attracted to him, and he couldn't help but stepped forward.

"It doesn't seem like pirates would just kill such a beautiful woman and throw her into the sea. And this layer of things can even isolate the sea water. I haven't seen it before."

"Then how to deal with this, throw it back into the sea?" Lev asked, and suddenly found that the painful expression of the person inside the white pupa had disappeared, and the whole face turned into a peaceful and sleeping look.

"Grandpa Matvey, I see her expression has changed. Is she still alive? How about taking her back for treatment."

"This" Matvey frowned. He also noticed that something was wrong with the people inside, but he was very embarrassed. He had to worry about the person whose origin was unknown and who could survive in the sea.

"Grandpa Matvey, if the other party is really in trouble and misses the noble lady, wouldn't we be able to get a rescue fund? You know that I am not young anymore and I need money to start a family and start a business."

Lev was persuading Matvey, and Matvey looked at Levi. He was his brother's grandson, and he was indeed quite old. The fishing villages on the small island are isolated, and no one is willing to follow you without some savings.

"Do you really want to take her back? Maybe she will leave when she wakes up and get nothing in the end. Or maybe she will disappear on her own one day like those legends in the village."

"It doesn't matter, just think of it as saving people."

Matvey went back to control the sail. He didn't know whether he should be cruel and throw it into the sea. He didn't know whether this was good or bad.

"Sister, have you decided to be promoted to Iron-Blooded Knight? In that case, will you be my sister, or will you become a brother?"

"This is the fate of our family. Don't you think dad is still our dad? You will also experience this in the future."

"No, I don't want it, and neither do you, sister. You have a choice. You can choose the witch."

"Do we have a choice?"

"Mom has changed, do you want to change too?"

"Since the death of our ancestors, our family has become more and more difficult, and I haven't seen my father for a long time. We are just people who can't help ourselves in the torrent of time."

The girl in the dream cried to a heroic woman with red hair, hugging her tightly while talking, and the red-haired woman stroked the girl's same red hair.

The images in the dream are constantly changing. There are images of a child being punished for being naughty at school, and images of a man with red hair riding a horse. The figures in them keep overlapping and freezing.

"Sister, I didn't expect you to come."

In front of him was a handsome red-haired man holding a rapier, pointing at the girl who fell to the ground. Her hair had turned black, and she looked at the man in front of her with a little weakness.

"Go quickly! The law enforcers are coming." The handsome man urged the girl on the ground expressionlessly.

"Sister, can I still come to you in the future?"

"No, since you have made your own choice, you have to bear the corresponding price. Leave quickly, or you won't be able to leave."

At this time, Hermione's memories were all mixed together, and she was experiencing her life over and over in her dreams. Sometimes peaceful, sometimes happy, sometimes sad, sometimes crazy.

The village of Maggiore where Lev and Matvi are located is on a small island, with cliffs on one side and steep slopes on the other. The main part of the village is built on one side surrounded by a beach.

Affiliated to the small semi-autonomous Kingdom of Faroe, which separates the coastlines of Loen and Feneport. After the southern countries split off, the small countries, autonomous territories, and free cities here militarily unified and joined the common defense led by Ma Xi, and politically maintained Independent and autonomous.

The fishermen who returned from fishing carried fishing nets and fish home to dry in twos and threes, or carried fish to large ships docked in exchange for supplies and common currency. Loen currency and Fenebaud's metal currency also circulated to some extent.

"I heard that that boy Lev picked up a beautiful woman."

"Which Lev? There are so many Levs in the village, just like your Lev. And you say every woman you see is beautiful, how should I believe you?"

"Lev of the Dori family, this is true. I peeped and saw it. He was lying on the bed in the house, wrapped in layers of white things."

"You said it was wrapped, so how do you know whether it floats beautifully or not? If you have this time, go catch a few more fish and earn some money so that your children can go to the church in the town."

"So that's why I already have a child and you don't have a wife yet."

"You deserve a beating, right?"

Two men wearing original-color linen tops and loose brown pants started fighting, and people around them cheered.

Above the village near the steep slope, there is a yard surrounded by several trees and wooden sticks. Except for the wooden house next to the road, the other sides are full of trees and fruit trees. The view here is wide and the terrain is high. You can see almost half of the village.

In front of several connected wooden single-story buildings, an old woman with gray hair was mending fishing nets. There were many cut and flattened fish drying in the yard.

Lev shouldered the sack and carried it in a mesh bag, which contained some cheese, cabbage, beets and other vegetables exchanged. Matvey carried things back to the yard in the lower left corner.

"Mom, I'm back. I've brought back a bag of rye flour."

Lev talked about today's events with his mother in the yard. Lev's father and grandfather both died in the violent storm at sea. Only he and his mother are left in this family. With Matvey's help, life is not bad.

"Lev, are you sure the woman you picked up is still alive? She hasn't eaten in the past few days. Is she really a human?"

"Mom, she is really a person. Now that I have picked her up, there is nothing I can do. I can't just throw her back into the sea."

"We still have to be careful. If it's a sea monster, our village will be doomed. And this woman is so coquettish that she is not suitable for our family. Let's send her to the church in the town! The one in the village cannot be trusted. Vasily can't be trusted at all. Not a servant of God.”

Mrs. Dori was worried that disaster would come. The charm of the man lying inside made those who saw it deeply fascinated and fell into it unconsciously.

"Mom, stop talking, these things won't happen. Village Chief Vasily is a guy who cares about money rather than God. You should talk less, lest he come to put on our shoes." Lev went in and put things away.

In the next room, the white pupa lay there quietly, and the silk thread became more crystal clear, making the people inside more clear.

The shirt and coat on the chest seemed to have been violently torn open, and the two buttons under the collar were missing. The remaining threads proved that they once existed. The chest occasionally shone with a trace of blue light, and was covered with black and white lines.

Lev came here and pulled the white silk thread, but it didn't loosen at all. He tried to cut it with a knife, but the blade was erased instead. Looking at the sleeping beauty inside, he was helpless and didn't know how to wake her up.

"Lev, didn't you notice? She suffered atrocities and was abandoned at sea. Let's put her back into the sea! What if her enemies find her here?"

Mrs. Dori also saw the changes and could see a little more clearly inside. She was devout in her faith and was obviously not able to accept foreign objects.

"Stop talking about how we can be the same as pirates."