"Brainwashing..." Blaze murmured. He had encountered a human who was brainwashed by a forest fairy before. He was just a young wolf then and thought the fairy was playing around with the human, so he didn’t interfere.
The fairy would make the human dance maniacally, graze like a cow, and then walk back to his village naked.
The fairy was just laughing all the time, but Blaze found that to be horrifying because he could see that the male human couldn’t do anything against it.
If the fairy was a bit more malicious, it could’ve just told the male human to jump off of a cliff and die.
However, what happened this time wasn’t the work of a fairy, because both fairies and beastmen were creatures under the protection of the Moon Goddess. The beastmen were naturally immune to any of the fairies’ tricks, and the beastmen never tried to harm the fairies as well.
’So, who brainwashed those beastmen?’ Blaze pondered. ’Could it be a human’s work? A witch? But what kind of witch has so much power to brainwash an entire tribe of beastmen?’ Blaze had a lot of questions in his mind, but he had no time to think, as another general soon entered the throne room and reported in panic;
"B-Blaze, the people in the city—! They all have been brainwashed!"
Blaze’s eyes widened. He got up from his chair and rushed to check the town square through the highest tower in the castle.
There, he could see everyone—literally everyone, including children—standing still on their spot, waiting for an order. He looked up and saw a female human floating in the sky, wearing a cloak that seemed to hide her legs.
She was wearing a hoodie that made it impossible for Blaze to identify her, but he had a gist of who that was, simply because he had seen her once during the banquet celebration, and the dark aura around her made it a bit too obvious that she was not a simple person. Though, he didn’t know if she was a dark witch, or was just a person with a dark heart.
But now he knew.
"Aria of Holy Achate..." Blaze murmured. That woman was the exact opposite of Queen Swan. Before she showed her true nature as the Saintess, Blaze could already feel her pure heart, but Aria’s heart was so dark that even Blaze was repulsed. ’Since Queen Swan is the Saintess, it is only natural for her sister to be the dark witch.’
He gritted his teeth as he rushed to the beastmen archers at the top of the tower, "WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? ATTACK THE WITCH! SHOOT HER!"
"YES, SIR!"
The beastmen archers quickly lined up at the top of the tower and aimed their arrows towards the witch.
"SHOOT!"
All the beastmen archers released their arrows, and Aria turned her head at them instantly. She opened her palm and deflected those arrows with an invisible barrier.
She glared at Blaze Silverfang and identified him easily because of his dark green hair that looked like moss. She also remembered the way that man looked at her when she came to the Beast’s castle during the banquet celebration.
That wolf beastman was looking at her like she was a repulsive witch.
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