Chapter 762 – [Parenting Expedition]

After making an appointment with her witch behind the familiar, Mary, who was in the middle of the virtual reality, closed her connection and opened her eyes at dawn.

The time multiplier on that side is up to 200 times, but it is also possible if the hardware that is suitable for it supports it. It was possible for the brains in the vat to process this or that, but it was natural that the brain would usually go crazy when it accelerated by about 200 times.

Of course, even if she turned it so quickly that it was not burdensome for her Mary, it was dozens of times hers. Since she was online for a few hours, it is said that she was in there for at least a few days of what she felt like.

“Huh? How long has it been?”

“It’s only been a few hours. You can stay there for days, but here it’s only a few hours.”

“Hell seems to have a different time than the earthly time… If you die, you’ll go there and suffer endlessly, right?”

“Did you get your revenge?”

“Right now”

It’s kind of like looking at a kid’s computer search history, but I roughly checked what Mary had done.

Eyeball plucking, body mutilation, burning, tongue plucking… I did a lot of different things.

These are acts that would be too cruel for a child to do, but such mercy was not needed for a man who almost annihilated an entire family for no reason. In the first place, there is no justice for either the one who wants revenge or the target to revenge.

“Anyway, someone like your aunt came.”

“Auntie? What do you mean by that?”

“It means your mother could have been a real witch.”

“What………?”

Mary put on a bewildered expression as if in shock.

To be honest, she wasn’t sure yet, but at least there was no lie in what the familiar witch said. That I guarantee

After all, she meant that she was the real Mary’s aunt, and Mary’s mother was most likely a witch. Originally, such things were born through blood.

“My mother is a witch?! It can’t be!!!!”

“Why are witches bad?”

“That’s it, at the church……Ah”

“Are you going to believe those who say that? Didn’t you hear this and that while torturing the bishop?”

“That………”

“Which one is right for you to see and judge for yourself. You have to make your choice afterwards.”

That’s why Shion and I met Mary here.

The place where we raised our children was to create a more neutral set of values ​​so that we could make the right choices for ourselves in the trials and adversities we would face in the future.

Mary is still a child. He is smart and quick-witted, but in the end, it was a different matter to endure it in front of a shocking fact. Getting angry in front of the target of revenge is a self-confidence consultation, so you may have to endure it, but this is a family affair.

“Let’s meet first. After meeting and talking, you decide. I’ll follow that decision.”

“……..Okay”

The owner of Familiar came to visit us the next day as promised.

To be honest, when I first saw her, she gave off an ordinary impression to the point where I didn’t even know she was a witch. However, she could see that the slight power flowing through her body was not for an ordinary person.

Hmmm…… It seems to be a different power than a blessing. Is it witch power? If so, it means that there are two types of this ability in this world.

“Nice to meet you, my name is Lorna.”

“Worst, this is Shion. And Mary already knows, right?”

“I saw it once when I was little.”

“…………”

She had a normal impression, but Mary kept her silence, convinced that she was her aunt after hearing her face and name.

There is a saying that blood cannot be deceived. By comparison, she resembled Mary too. At least that’s enough to know that they’re relatives.

“……Are you really my aunt?”

“Yes, you don’t remember, but at least your brothers did. Of course, they didn’t know either me or your mother were witches.”

“Why?”

“Because we are being chased by the church. And your mother wanted happiness as a human being, not a witch. That’s why she didn’t live as a witch.”

Quite a lot of stories.

I took out the high-quality tea leaves that we carry separately, not the tea served at the inn. It’s okay to take out coffee, but some people don’t like the bitter taste of coffee, so it’s better to take out a relatively sweet tea.

Ah, it’s honestly fun to see someone else unraveling things.

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Lorna’s story goes back quite a while.

She and her sister, Mary’s mother, Loa, were born witches.

“I want to ask you one thing. What do you mean by witch?

“First of all, it is the same as signing a contract.”

“Is the target different? The church is dismissing the target as the devil.”

“Yes, the targets we contract with are the spirits of this land. That’s why we can talk to animals and plants, and if we become stronger, we’ll have children who can handle them with limbs like my family.”

“Hmm”

Although she is said to be a witch, she seems to be a druid-type witch, not a witch who contracts with the devil.

But I guess I can figure it out with that. What Mary’s mother knew about her herbs must have been something like an instinct that comes from her powers as a witch. How did the Holy Church get caught?

Wasn’t it obvious that you killed the witch? By the way, even a stopped clock is right twice a day. There are too many things I’ve seen them commit and rot to praise for something caught by chance.

“The child was born a witch, but her strength as a witch was weak. Rather, mine was stronger. So Loa decided to live as a woman and mother, not as a witch, so she left the coven.”

“Mommy…Was she really a witch?”

“Yes, I didn’t go to see her often because there was a possibility that she would be found out, but I still saw her face often. But when I visited her this time…”

“If she was a witch, why didn’t she escape the hands of the church?!”

“She… She wouldn’t have done it even if she could. She’s convinced that if she had escaped, she really was a witch, and your whole family would have been captured and tortured to death.”

Mary’s mother was unlucky to be accused of a witch, she was not, she was a real witch, but she died so absurdly.

It wasn’t that she wasn’t a witch, and it was said that her younger brother, who had left to find her happiness as a human, died like that.

It was for the same reason as Mary that Bishop Gregory was watched in the Familiar language.

“I also wanted to ask you a question. I was looking for an opportunity to kill him more brutally than anyone else. Where is he now?”

“Well, since they’re going to come after us, there’ll be a way to find them, so I won’t be fooled… For now, I’m alive.”

“Are you going to put an end to your vengeance on that kid?”

“Have you already been there?”

“I don’t think it means that they are hidden…”

“Let’s talk about that after work. We have a lot of time anyway.”

For a few hours we’re talking here. No one was online, so he had to deal with 200 times the time alone.

Even if we talk for only one hour, it is 200 hours. For more than a week, I had to live in a place with nothing, doing nothing. The pain that comes from that boredom makes people impoverished.

Well, there must be some guys in the next room who have been there for 200 years, so to be honest, that would be a little overkill.

“But why didn’t you come get Mary when you knew that Mary’s mother was dead?”

“……… I also wanted to bring her, but this child is not a witch. She is an ordinary child with no aptitude. I couldn’t bring her because the witch coven has a condition that only witches can enter.”

“Then can I go in now?

“The question of whether or not you are a spirit or something equivalent remains, but honestly, I don’t think it makes any sense.”

Anyway, it was quite interesting that there was an organization called the Witch Coven that was against the church. Yes, if it is a powerful force, on the contrary, there must be an adversary.

Even if the power isn’t that great, it’s better to have it. In the case of a dystopia, there is no organization like that, so you just have to adapt to the reality and live.

……..Uh? Haven’t I set the hurdle high because I’ve seen so many of them? Is not it?

“I’ve heard that witches are bad in the church, but when I see what church people do, I can’t believe it anymore. So let me ask you one thing. Are witches bad?”

“We are just beings who can communicate with the spirits and use their powers. Long ago, we were called priestesses or shamans rather than witches. Our status has only changed because of the Holy Church.”

“Why?”

“Because the sky doesn’t have to have two suns”

“In the end…Everything says the church is bad.”

The fact that her own mother was a witch came as a shock to Mary, but she wasn’t bad at least because she was a witch. She herself was thinking of her own mother, and she was quite aware of that.

Even if it became true that the church killed witches, it still remains the same that it killed innocent people.

“Devil. I’ve decided. I want to destroy the church bastards.”

“That’s right. I love killing those things too.”

Mary’s mother died because she was accused of being a witch, and even if she said it was true, it doesn’t change that she died because of it.

In the end, the problem is that the church is conducting a witch hunt, and the root cause of the witch hunt is for the church to eradicate witches and get closer to the loser of this continent.

Traditionally, at the point where a religious man touches money and touches power, he must lose until he dies. In front of a religion that requires abandonment of greed, bringing the two most closely related to human desire is no different from using a dragon because you want to be corrupted.

In any case, it is no exaggeration to say that the church’s greed killed Mary’s mother in the end. In other words… It means that the entire Church has the potential to become the target of Mary’s revenge.

It’s up to me to finally understand that, but I thought of doing that a long time ago anyway. On the contrary, he just wasn’t ready for Mary.

“What shall we do? Shall we go right now and twist the necks of all the bastards in the church?”

“……As expected, you are a devil.”

“Looking at Mary saying that, she looks like her because she’s blood.”

I guess I know a little bit about this.

I am reminded of a similar story that Mr. Susanoo told me in the past. Originally, Japan was divided into Tianjin and Kukjin, that is, Amatsukami and Kunitsukami.

Cheonjinsin refers to a god introduced from abroad, and Gukjinsin refers to a native religion of that country. Susano-san was originally a Cheonjinshin in terms of classification, but it was said that it was a case that was integrated into a Kookjinshin.

Anyway, as a result, if you look at what they say, the church is the ones who came in later, and the witches on this continent would have been integrating their religious position as priestesses or shamans.

“Perhaps demons refer to races from other continents. They were persecuted there, flowed into this continent, propagated and expelled the position of witches, and may have reached the present day.”

“So you said black hair. You fucking racist bastards!!!!!”

“Uh…What are you talking about?”

“You’re a story that’s hard to understand. If you don’t know, that’s fine.”

After all, on the one hand, this means that this is tantamount to a religious war. Well, normally I wouldn’t use my hands on that, but I have no intention of doing that to those who use such dirty methods.

Personally, I don’t like people who say that they are the only God. I wonder if it was transmitted to Susanoo-san, but they say it’s more annoying because they don’t admit it when they know that there are other gods… Personally, I agree.

“Anyway, Shinto fire is good.”

“If you destroy the church, I think it’s fortunate that there is someone who can cover it.”

“Instead of that, I’ll have to prepare for this and that.”

Even if you can’t do after-care, it’s good to have a way to deal with it if something happens.

The collapse of religion leads to instability of public sentiment. I think it would be very uplifting to hear that they have self-destructed after all the work has been done.

“It’s not that difficult to kill Holy Church bastards. So, I think the first thing to do is to ask the Witch’s Coven to see if there is a way to deal with it.”

“……Do you want to meet with our chief?”

“Yeah, at least you have to do that to figure out if you can be trusted too.”

I don’t think I’m a good person just because I’m an underdog.

In that way, all people with power and money are bad people, and all people who are weak and have no money are good people.

Just because they are being persecuted now doesn’t mean that witches aren’t guilty, but witches’ covens aren’t innocent. It is right to meet them first and make a decision.

An objective view is just that. Well… I’m human too, so maybe one or two have a narrow view. Is it mainly Zion?

“First, I will send news to the assembly and ask for a doctor.”

“For now, I’m protecting Mary. Anyway, the safest place here is next to me.”

I wonder if the safest thing in this world is Zion, which Lord risks his life to protect, but if I protect him anyway, even a few transcendents can block it.

So I didn’t lie!!!!

“Mary, think about what you will do when you go there.”

“It’s a group of witches…”

Oh, come to think of it, if I go there, I wonder if I can get information about the Silver Witch?

I guess that would be fine. It’s because you can get more information from an ally’s point of view rather than from a hostile point of view.

“I will contact you again later. Please take good care of Mary until then.”

“Don’t worry”

Lorna left her inn. She then sends a call about her witch coven by blowing up her familiar.

Just in case, I track the little bird. My basic sense range now transcends planetary units, so it’s not too difficult to track movement within a planet.

It wouldn’t hurt to know where they are. Because you don’t know what will happen later.

“……If my mother is a witch, am I also a witch?”

“The children of criminals are not criminals. Even if they do, society usually makes them that way. Your mother is your mother and you are only you.”

“Devil-sama is a devil, but he sounds very nice”

“It’s just that I’m tired of society.”

Anyway, it was quite exciting to be able to meet a group of witches.

If witches weren’t absolute evil, this story would go in a pretty interesting direction.

“When I make a contract with a witch, all I can think of is Kyubey.”

“I can’t use it when I talk about innovation in magical girl movies!!!!”

Since that came out, all magical girl stuff except for Precure has been fucked up!!!!