Chapter 65: The Bird in the Cage and the Hero

On the crowded club square, Dorothy and Audrey were walking through the dense flow of people. There were many people around, but no one could notice these two little witches. Almost everyone treated them as transparent people who didn't exist.

This feeling of not being noticed was actually quite good, but it wasn't all advantages. Sometimes there were some small troubles, just like...

"Be careful, don't get bumped into."

Dorothy reached out and pulled the fox junior sister beside her, who had been completely attracted by the club scenery that had everything, and looked like a village girl entering the city and finding everything fresh.

Because the two of them had too little presence now, others didn't notice them, so naturally, no one would specifically avoid them. Therefore, it was quite easy to get bumped into if one wasn't careful.

Just now, Audrey had almost been bumped into by an exceptionally tall giant witch.

"Mm, thank you, senior sister."

The little fox, realizing her own confusion, thanked her in shame. She still couldn't suppress the excitement of coming to such a lively place for the first time in her life.

Although social anxiety fears social interaction, it doesn't mean that they really enjoy loneliness. Witches evolved from humans, and the nature of humans as gregarious animals still remained to a certain extent in witches.

Audrey didn't really not want social interaction; she just didn't dare to socialize because she was afraid of others' desires toward her. If possible, she also hoped that she could be like those ordinary witches, able to know some good friends, be able to happily eat, drink, and play with friends, go shopping and travel together, and spend every day leisurely.

It's just a pity that this simple wish became difficult to realize because of her overly outstanding beauty.

Sigh, she treated others as friends, but it was difficult for others to think so too. Most people didn't want to just be friends with her after seeing her face.

Being as beautiful as her basically meant saying goodbye to pure friendship.

Therefore, this experience of going out with peers and shopping together was the first time Audrey had experienced it since she grew up.

In the past, when she was at home, her family's protection of her was too excessive. Her mothers and sister loved her very much, but because they loved her too much and were afraid she would be hurt, they would never bring her to such a crowded place. They weren't willing to let her take such a risk.

"Are you okay? If you can't stand it, you can go back first. I can go by myself next."

Dorothy looked at this junior sister whose little face was flushed with excitement and asked with some worry.

Judging from her own experience with social anxiety, children who have been lonely for a long time are always like birds in a cage, always curious and yearning for the scenery outside. It's just that because of various reasons, they find it difficult to break free from the birdcage that binds and imprisons them. Therefore, they need a little external force at this time, a hero to lead them to take that first step.

The birdcage that bound Dorothy herself was named "laziness." She was really too lazy to go out, lazy to socialize, felt that those things were meaningless, and were troublesome.

Therefore, it wasn't difficult to want to lead her out of the birdcage; just have someone pull her out. The "hero" who played this role in the past was her younger sister Alice. This lively little witch would pull her reluctant sister out for a stroll every once in a while.

And now, she had rarely transformed from a bird in a cage into a hero. This junior sister's social anxiety was far more serious than her own.

Dorothy herself hated the trouble of social interaction but wasn't afraid of people, but this junior sister seemed to be really quite afraid of people.

Therefore, she didn't know whether it was right or wrong to bring this junior sister to this crowded club square now. She felt that bringing this junior sister out more to see people was good for her and could effectively alleviate her symptoms.

But now, looking at Audrey's flushed, exquisite little face, Dorothy was worried that she had used too strong a medicine. This was simply like taking someone timid to challenge the highest-difficulty haunted house. Instead of honing her courage, she might be scared into a lifetime of illness.

Perhaps she should take it slow, and the steps could be smaller.

"Ah, no, senior sister, I feel quite good. It's just a little excited, really nothing."

Having such a rare opportunity to go shopping with peers, Audrey naturally wasn't willing to give up like this.

The birdcage that imprisoned her was the fear of human desires, but now others couldn't notice her, so naturally, they wouldn't generate any desires toward her. Therefore, she really felt quite good at this moment and didn't feel how scared she was. Instead, there was more of the rare, free happiness and excitement.

Hmm, meeting a peer who had no desires toward her for the first time in her life, and shopping with a peer for the first time, the two beautiful things combined must breed more happiness. How could she give up like this?

Besides, the secret of the puppet hadn't been asked yet. She had to find a way to pull closer the relationship with this senior sister.

"Fine, then I'll lower the spell effect a little, from no presence to weak presence."

Looking carefully at the junior sister in front of her, after confirming that this junior sister really didn't have any major problems, Dorothy nodded and snapped her fingers, and the spell effect on the two began to weaken.

Hmm, it was about the degree of changing from an invisible person to a passerby. Others could notice them, but because this presence was too weak, they would directly ignore them.

In this way, they wouldn't be too eye-catching, nor would they be bumped into because their presence was too low to be treated as non-existent.

It's just that the little fox beside her widened her eyes again when she saw this effect.

As a die-hard fan of the Forest Witch, Audrey naturally had purchased and learned this "Witch's Akari Technique." When she bought it, she had fantasized that she could also rely on this spell to slip out and go shopping in the city as an invisible person.

It's just that the ideal was plump, but the reality was skinny.

Currently, the level of the Forest Witch's series of magic spells was only 0-9 rings, and there were no forbidden-level magic spells above 9 rings.

And this magic spell belonged to the type with higher difficulty among the witch series. The difficulty coefficient was 8 rings, ranking as a high-level magic spell. The official recommended learning threshold was a Grand Witch or an elite witch with a higher precision talent.

As an auxiliary magic spell, this magic spell actually didn't consume much mana, and could even be said to be very little. Even a little witch with only a few thousand Mana could afford to use it. Its main difficulty was entirely in mana control. The more precise one's mana control, the better the spell effect. Theoretically speaking, only the mana manipulation precision of a Grand Witch level was sufficient to exert the full power of this magic spell.

Audrey had always been quite confident in her mana manipulation. The evaluation of her precision talent on her talent panel was A. After all, whether it was the succubus's dream entry or the nine-tailed fox's illusion, they were all delicate jobs and couldn't be done without precision.

But even so, Audrey, as an elite witch, was still very strained when learning this magic spell. She eventually learned it, but it was quite difficult to manipulate.

She could completely offset her own presence to achieve the purpose of invisibility, but it was very difficult to finely regulate the strength of her own presence to reach the degree of being able to be perceived but not eye-catching.

There was no help for it; it was still because of her annoying beauty. If the presence was weak, others wouldn't notice her, but if the presence was strong, others would find it difficult to ignore her charm after seeing her, which directly led to the spell failing. Therefore, wanting to accurately find a degree between existence and being inconspicuous was something she found very difficult to do at the moment. She could probably only do it after becoming a Grand Witch.

But now, watching this cheap senior sister settle the thing she had been dreaming of with a light snap of her fingers directly shocked the little fox.

Wow, how high must this senior sister's precision talent be to be able to do this kind of thing? And it wasn't just precision, but the proficiency in the magic spell was also something I couldn't compare to.

Senior sister! You still say you aren't a fan of the Forest Witch? If you didn't love her, how could your magic spell proficiency still be far above mine?

Never expected that she would lose to this senior sister even in the worship of her idol. Audrey felt complicated.

Hmm, only this cannot be endured. Audrey, Audrey, go back and practice more. If this continues, how can you sit firmly in the position of the president of the Witch Support Association?

The little fox clenched her little fists and encouraged herself.

"Let's go, get things done early and go home early."

In front, Dorothy turned around and shouted at the junior sister who didn't know why she was burning up.

"Oh, oh, coming, coming."

The little fox hurriedly followed.

... The two witches are shopping... ===== CHAPTER 66 =====