Miss Witch, please don't leave your fragrance everywhere

vol. 1 chapter 24 - Chapter 24 Monkey's Paw



Chapter 24 Monkey's Paw
  When visiting Lord Honore's family again, Angelica waited patiently outside the door for a long time before they finally opened the door again. It was still the thin man with dark circles under his eyes from last time. When he saw Angelica, he immediately showed an impatient ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) expression and was ready to refuse Angelica entry.

  "Wait a minute! I'm here to fulfill my duties as a commoner!"
  "…Common people's duties?"
  "Common people have an obligation to help the respected nobles. I know you must be troubled by the drawing of the magic circle, right? And I happen to have the ability to help you solve your problems, so I came to your door."

  The man looked Angelica up and down, and then an arrogant look appeared on his malnourished face.
  "Yes. You have done your duty, and the untouchables of Colditz should have your consciousness."
  What a stinky guy...

  Angelica resisted the urge to beat the man up. Logically, the man had obviously recognized that Angelica was not a resident of Colditz, but he still let her in. Should we say that they were not on guard, or that the idea of being superior was ingrained in them?
  There were only two thin young men and a woman who, even with heavy makeup, could not hide her old age in the huge house. As Angelica expected, they were drawing a magic circle to revive the dead in the living room.
  Angelica almost fainted from anger after taking a look. She thought the magic circle drawn by Flora was bad enough, but she didn't expect there was someone worse than Flora. Compared with Lord Honore's family, Flora was simply a genius.

  To describe Angelica's feeling when she saw the magic circle they drew, it was probably similar to a programmer finding out on his first day at work that his task was to take over the code left behind by the previous programmer.
  Angelica had to redraw a large area of the magic circle again. The inherent magic of resurrection of the dead was not complicated. Lord Honore's family had studied it for a week but failed to activate it successfully. Angelica finished drawing the magic circle in less than ten minutes.
  "Okay, then wait until midnight and follow the steps in the magic book. Don't change the magic circle at will."

  Angelica was afraid that they would add unnecessary details, so just as she was about to slip away, the thin man stopped her.
  "Stop. Don't you think there's something else you haven't done?"
  "Anything else?"

  "Since you have a broom, clean the entire manor inside and out."
  The man gave the order arrogantly, and his brother and mother took it for granted. Not only did they not feel the slightest gratitude when Angelica came to their house to draw the magic circle, but they also blamed Angelica for not doing a good enough job.
  In fact, just by stepping into the room, Angelica had an urge to pinch her nose. After Lord Honoré's death, all the servants in their family left. On weekdays, their attitude towards servants was just like ordering animals around. Naturally, there was no master-servant relationship. After finding out that their family had no money, not taking advantage of the situation was their greatest duty.

  Therefore, Lord Honore's house had not been cleaned for a long time, garbage was everywhere, and it was filled with strange smells. In a sense, Angelica really admired them for insisting on not cleaning even to this extent.
     Angelica suppressed her anger. She finally understood why the residents of Colditz had such bad words for Lord Honore's family. The witch's broom was not a tool for cleaning. With a kind smile on her face, she cast a spell on their family.
  "Sloth, Sequence 7: Light Sleep of the Mind."
  …

  At night, close to midnight, the dimly lit oil lamps lit up the home of Lord Honoré.
  "Damn, that cleaner walked away and didn't clean at all."
  "I thought she was a lowly person who knew her own status, but she still didn't know how to appreciate it. Just being able to enter the noble's residence is already a supreme honor, not to mention the honor of serving the noble obediently. Many people want to be qualified but don't have the means."

  "But the ritual has been well preserved, so the pariah still has some value."
  The mother and her two sons were talking about what happened during the day. By the time they realized what was happening, it was already night. Although they could guess that the witch had cast a hypnotic spell on them, they did not suspect that the witch had any ill intentions.
  Angelica's instructions were actually unnecessary. In their opinion, even drawing the magic circle was the servants' job, so they would not change the magic circle that had already been drawn.

  "It's almost time? What does the book say is the next step?"
  "Let me see... stand in three different positions and drop blood on it?"
  "Huh? Are you kidding me? You want us to hurt the noble body?"

  "Children, it's time to act. Let's first bring the lord back, and then teach those common people who don't know the difference between high and low what is their duty."
  The woman interrupted the conversation between the two children who were about to quarrel. She could no longer tolerate the damage to her skin caused by inferior cosmetics. After Lord Honoré died, his wife did not save money on cosmetics at all. If she had not spent a lot of money to buy a magic book that recorded the resurrection of the dead, she would definitely have used the money to buy cosmetics.
  The two spoiled young men reluctantly followed their mother's instructions. The three of them stood at three different angles of the magic circle, cut their fingers with blades, and spilled their blood on the patterns of the magic circle.

  The final spell was written in the magic book, and the three of them chanted it in unison.
  "Great! Great! The great god of the underworld, Chernobog!"
  "We offer our bodies to the Supreme God! We offer our souls to the Supreme God!"

  "Come back! Come back! Bring back those who left us!"
  The moonlight shone through the window onto the wooden floor where the magic circle was drawn. The three of them stared at the magic circle but found no changes.
  "Were we being deceived?"

  "You ignorant, lowly people! How dare you deceive the nobles!"
  "Kids, check again, are there any steps missing?"
  If Angelica herself were present, she would patiently explain that the earth-shaking noise caused by the activation of a magic circle was a common misconception of magic. However, considering what would happen next, there was no need for the witch to stay in the manor any longer.

  Boom.
  The sound of knocking on the door was particularly loud in the quiet night.
  Boom, boom, boom.

  The woman could not hide the joy on her face.
  "Success! The Lord is back!"
  "Finally... we can live the life that nobles used to live!"

  "Hurry, hurry, don't keep the Lord waiting too long."
  The mother and her two children ran towards the entrance together to greet the resurrected dead person they had been waiting for.
  The door opened.

  【Witch TIPS】
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