[Witch's House Doujin] Exchange spells

He bit his lips cautiously: "I understand, Dad. Andrea is missing, and Mrs. Anna must be going crazy. So, have you found her?"

"Yeah, I found it." Dad frowned and exhaled heavily, with dark clouds gathering on his face, "Mrs. Anna found her at the door of the house, she was dead... and Gray, lying on the bed On the steps of Mia's house."

"died?"

"Gerry seems to have passed away for a long time, and their death is really terrible... Anna seems to have been hit hard, I really hope she doesn't do something stupid."

"It was the witch who did it, Viola." Eileen worked hard for a long time before forcing herself to look into the man's brown eyes, which were hard and cold, "There was a piece of paper beside them, on which was written 'Witch My apologies'. The Witch is not dead, Viola. That damned fellow you thought was your friend managed to escape my gun and is alive. I will kill her again and we must get rid of her forever. Get rid of this scourge."

Let him kill Viola again?But as long as the black cat still regards Viola as its witch for a day, she will not die completely.Only the deepest despair can kill the witch.What should she do?

"But that's dangerous."

"But as long as she is still alive, people in this town can only live in fear forever. We have to do this." Dad showed a bitter smile, and he quickly restrained his smile, no longer showing any emotions on the face. "Now, then, I think we can calmly talk about what we didn't finish before."

"Viola, who killed that Mr. Magician?"

A burst of dizziness hit Ailian instantly, and she held on to the corner of the table vigorously to prevent herself from falling down.exposed?How can it be?He didn't have any reason to doubt himself, she did it so neatly, there were no witnesses, no blood-stained cloak.Cold sweat spread from the palm of his hand, and the skirt on his body seemed to stick to his body. "I, I don't know." Her voice trembled weakly.

"You don't know? You don't know?" The man repeated. As the volume increased, even the window panes began to move, and Eileen felt that her ears were filled with buzzing sounds. "So how do you explain this?"

The man pulled a crumpled object out of the back pocket of his trousers and threw it on the table.It was a blue rag with ragged edges as if hanging from thorns, with a few drops of blood on it.

"Then how do you explain that this cloth was hanging outside the room where the magician lived, on those vines on the wall?"

The faint singing voice, the sharpness and coldness of the knife attached to the waist, the smell of alcohol and smoke in the tavern, the reflection of the man in the tall hat printed on the curtain, the blood from the wound on the throat like a fountain The gasps and struggles of the dying person, the eyes that finally froze... The memories of that day flashed through my mind quickly, and finally stopped at one point.

that black cat.

"Meow." The black cat stood on the windowsill, its golden eyes staring at her playfully.

She finally remembered, when she was chasing the black cat and hurriedly climbed down the window sill, the "hissing" sound that flashed past her ears but was ignored by her.It was probably at that time that she left behind indefensible evidence.

The black cat is really, really an ominous symbol, whether it is the past or the future, it will always bring her only bad luck.Because of the black cat, she lost the last trace of love between her mother and her; because of the black cat, she became a witch, and filled the cellar with corpses, blood and death; because of the black cat, she will lose the present everything?

"That...that's not mine." When Ailian said this sentence, she had already desperately found that everything was in vain.

"Stop lying, Viola!" Pa struck the ground hard with the butt of his gun, his lips quivering violently with rage. "Do you think I don't know? That blue dress was a birthday present I gave you last year! Would I not recognize it? Originally, originally, we could have a grander birthday this year than last year...but This kind of thing happened..." The next moment the man curled up, and the pain that was almost condensed appeared on his face.He said weakly, covering his face with his hands. "God, look what I've done?"

"When I passed the tavern, I was listening to the inspectors talking about the death of the poor magician, and then I saw the piece of cloth hanging under his window sill. At that time, I was really, really close to Terrified to death, I hid this one piece of evidence without even thinking about it."

"You didn't do it. At that time, I was still lying to myself. Because my Viola couldn't bear to kill a rabbit, let alone a living person. That's how I convinced myself, I convinced myself not to think about it , finding the missing Andrea is the most important thing..."

"But I finally asked the Inspector. The shape of that poor fellow's wound was exactly the same shape as the knife you kept in the cupboard. I hope it's not true, but I'm a hunter and I know What kind of shape dagger can cause such a wound. Even if you wash the dagger, the bloody smell on it cannot be washed off."

Eileen was motionless as every word he uttered hit her heart, but he seemed in more pain than she did. "At that time, I had a terrible idea, and I couldn't get rid of it. Andrea's disappearance was also related to you. Anyone who disappeared in the forest will end up with There is no more news, the only possibility is that you were killed by the witch. But you are the only one who escaped from the witch's forest."

Ailian stared blankly into the man's eyes, trying to see a trace of pity from the pain in them: "So, Dad?"

"Stop calling me 'Daddy'." The man raised his shotgun, and the sound of loading it was crisp and clear.The black muzzle of the gun was facing Ailian's eyes, and the man's hand was surprisingly steady without any trembling. "Who are you? Where is my Viola?"

"No, Dad. I'm Viola..." She couldn't let the new life she had just begun ruin here.

"Don't lie to me again..."

"I didn't lie to you! I'm telling the truth! I'm Viola, and I still remember the straw hat you gave me that you made yourself, and the two nightingales we let fly together four years ago. And the In the winter of last year, you were almost broken by a trap. I found you, but in the end you scolded me and said that it was too dangerous to walk out of the house...I still remember those things, and what I said was true !"

Confusion appeared on the man's face, and his eyes slightly loosened, but he still held the gun with his finger on the trigger, and Ailian felt that her heart was about to jump to her throat.She's just a normal person now, without magic, she would literally die.She had thought of many ways to die, she would die of illness, or be eaten by a black cat, but she never thought of dying at the gun of the man who would become her father.

"...I am really Viola." Those memories of the past, which belonged to the real Ailian, should have died long ago.Something hot swirled in the socket of her eye, but she stubbornly pressed her lips together to keep it from falling. "...Please, please trust me..."

The two of them were deadlocked across a table, the sun was shining on Ailian's back, and Ailian could only feel the burning pain, and the sweat trickled down from both sides of her cheeks.

On the wall was a portrait of a fair-haired woman with green eyes identical to Viola's, gazing blankly and tenderly at everything in the room.The hunter gazed tremblingly at the portrait of his late wife, and tremblingly shifted his eyes to Eileen. "It's all my fault, Kathy," he murmured, and eventually he was overwhelmed.The shotgun was lowered slowly, and for the first time he looked like an old man with his hunched back.No matter what happened, he couldn't bring himself to shoot his daughter.

"Viola, are you really Viola?" He uttered an interrogative sentence, but he continued on without waiting for Eileen's answer, "Then, I have to hand you over to the Inspector .”

Ailian couldn't believe her ears for a moment, her eyes widened: "What, what?"

"Those who kill will be punished, no exceptions."

"But I'm your daughter! As long as no one finds out..."

"Do you think I would?" the man growled again, this time looking like he was just trying not to look weak. "I only have you, Kathy is dead, and you are the only one by my side. How I wish it wasn't you who did it! But do you want to live with such a sin all your life? Guilt will accompany you and me for the rest of your life , no one can stand this kind of torture, even people with conscience can't stand it..."

"I don't understand how you became like this, obviously you are such a kind child..."

No, it's not like this, it shouldn't be like this.

Ailian stared at the man, only feeling that the more he looked at his face, the more angry she was.Anger made blood fill her ears, and she couldn't care about anything else except staring at everything in front of her.

Everything she protected was eventually destroyed.What could have continued to be brilliant, what could have been living under the sun, all shattered in an instant and could never be restored.Either die under the hunter's gun, or waste her youth and life in prison.wherever