Chapter 688: Undercurrent Plot

"Big Sister, is it worth it to go around such a big circle?"

Wenwen, who was wrapped in cameras, looked at the Home Witch not far away with curiosity and asked.

"With your strength, you could have completely stopped her before that doctor young lady committed suicide."

Regarding this, Dorothy also rolled her eyes.

"Then how would I know if she really had the courage to commit suicide, or if she only had the courage to threaten me in the name of suicide?"

The Home Witch spread her hands and said thus.

Knowing people, knowing faces, not knowing hearts. Even if witches have mind-reading magic, the complexity of the human heart is not something that a magic spell can fully see through. Often, there are rookie witches in the mental system who are played in the palm of their hands by those truly cunning guys because they believe in the power of mind-reading, and in the end, they lose both people and money.

Dorothy also didn't have the bad habit of reading minds when seeing people or peeking at others' privacy at will. Therefore, in the situation of meeting for the first time, she didn't know whether Butterfly Shin's suicide just now was sincere, or if she just wanted to use the name of suicide to gain sympathy and enjoy privileges.

*Hmm*, some people don't have the courage to really commit suicide, but they have great courage to use the name of "I want to commit suicide" to gain sympathy from others so they can enjoy privileges.

"Ah, this..."

Wenwen fell silent. Although she, as a news person, could be called well-informed, she was still a witch student who hadn't truly graduated and entered society. She was still quite immature in her understanding of human nature.

She had seen many news reports of this kind of situation in the past, but when she truly encountered this kind of thing herself, she still couldn't compare those news reports with her personal experience.

"That's why I didn't stop her. If you want to know what kind of person she is, just do nothing and watch."

Dorothy looked at this Senior who "looks like an old hand, but is actually a tender girl" and said with a smile.

"If she didn't have the courage to cut down just now, then I would help her complete the suicide, and then leave with her sister as she wished. After all, that little guy is still quite cute and kind."

"However, since she truly had the courage to commit suicide, although I still don't like her moral kidnapping behavior, I can understand her thoughts and motives. Because if I were in her position, I might not be much better than her."

The Home Witch sighed and said thus.

As a fellow "family-first" enthusiast, Dorothy could understand the Doctor's thoughts and determination to save her sister, even at the cost of her own life.

And putting herself in her shoes, if she were in the doctor young lady's position, an unstoppable death threat was coming, but in front of her was an opportunity that as long as you abandon your own life, you could save your family.

Either the whole family dies together, or you die yourself and your sister lives.

The answer to this question was very obvious.

Dorothy would probably slit her throat more smoothly and painlessly than the doctor young lady.

Don't say those pretty words like "I won't choose any of them, I want to go against the heavens, seek life in death, create miracles," etc.

That is the protagonist's privilege, but most people can't become protagonists.

The reason protagonists are protagonists, and why they have that kind of luck that seems to be cheating and can always turn bad luck into good, is because they are the final winners, and the past of the winners is worth recording and writing down, and only then will you see it.

As for the ending of the losers who can't always turn bad luck into good and laugh until the end, who cares?

Do you care why a dead person in a lonely grave by the roadside died?

True ordinary people have no choice when facing the jokes of fate. They have nothing and can only drift with the tide.

Don't persuade others to be kind without experiencing others' suffering; if you know my suffering, you may not be as kind as me.

Dorothy is lucky. Her talent in this life is okay, and her family background is also good. Basically, she has no chance to experience the kind of despair of the doctor young lady.

But she can't sit in the car her parents prepared for her at birth, eating hot pot and singing songs, and then go mock those who are carrying heavy burdens outside, saying high and mighty things like "the reason these people live poorly is all because they are lazy and stupid"?

Is that something a human can say?

The Home Witch recalled the days when she and Adam were wandering on the ground.

Once, the father and daughter saw a group of slaves carrying a slave owner's carriage passing by. The fat slave owner on the carriage pointed at the embarrassed slaves and said to his son who was also round.

"You must work hard, master power, win the right to speak, otherwise one day you might end up like this group of lazy and stupid lower-class people."

And Adam also pointed at the group of slaves and said to Dorothy beside him.

"We must work hard, master power, win the right to speak, in order to have a day when there are fewer such suffering people in the world."

Although the father and daughter who were busy fleeing weren't much more decent than that group of slaves, this didn't prevent the Home Witch from feeling that her old father was truly a bit handsome at that moment.

And now, although she is still unknown in the witch world, on this Yingzhou Continent, she already has a bit of face. So, why not realize the old father's wish by the way?

It's just that she is a bit lazy and really doesn't have Adam's spirit of saving people to the end.

If she saw someone drowning in the river, Adam would definitely jump into the river without a word to save the person, but Dorothy...

The Home Witch would at most throw a rope to the person's hand, then tie the other end of the rope to a tree, and finally just pat her butt and leave.

She has done everything she can do. If they don't even know how to grab the rope at hand and have to wait for someone to pull them up, then Dorothy can't help it.

The Home Witch finally looked back at the collapsed Kameda mansion, then took out a map of the Yingzhou Continent she had just found from the ruins, and put an 'X' on the location of the Kameda family's territory on the map.

Afterward, she looked at the location of the neighboring territory, and then carried her sword and walked toward that side.

And at the same time, the Yae mansion.

Sophie Liya, who was handling official business, looked up. She looked out the window, and then a stream of light flashed in her golden eyes, and she revealed a smile of everything being under control.

"Moye."

She called out softly.

Thus, a breeze immediately blew from outside the window, and then the petite ninja appeared in the wind, half-kneeling in front of the pure white witch.

"I am here, Lord Great Tengu."

The Kamaitachi witch saluted respectfully.

Although the master of the Hundred Ghosts Night Parade is the Slippery Ghost, Lord Dorothy, the one who really manages things is the three demon kings beside Lord Dorothy, especially this Lord Great Tengu.

In the past month, the Hundred Ghosts had been convinced by this Lord Great Tengu, and even respected her three points more than the Slippery Ghost, who was the true ghost king.

And Sophie Liya looked at the ninja girl kneeling on the ground and furrowed her brows.

"I should have told you the content of "Genesis." This is the rule of our Witch's Home. Moye, is this how you remember it?"

She questioned in a flat tone, but the invisible majesty had already made the Kamaitachi witch stiffen, feeling as if she were a student being interviewed by the head teacher after failing an exam.

"Apologies, Lord Great Tengu, I know I was wrong."

Iga Moye hurriedly stood up, and then it was a ninety-degree bow, *Gomen nasai*.

"You don't need to apologize to me. No matter how you trample on yourself, it has nothing to do with me. As long as you are happy yourself, I don't care about how you are. Even if you don't want to be a good person and have to be a beast of burden for others, I don't care, as long as you are happy yourself."

Sophie Liya shrugged. She still spoke in a flat tone, with neither expectation nor anger in her eyes, as calm as if there were no such person as the ninja witch in her eyes at all.

And the more she was like this, the more the Kamaitachi witch bit her lip, not daring to stand up and raise her head.

She remembered not long ago, after demolishing the Tenshukaku, when Lord Dorothy happily said to the Hundred Ghosts, "This Yingzhou Continent is everyone's from now on. Everyone on this island is the master of this island. Everyone has stood up from now on, and there should never be anyone who can ride on your heads again," her expectation.

She also recalled the content of "Genesis" that Lord Great Tengu had been telling them these days. That was the vision in Lord Dorothy's heart. Everyone in the Hundred Ghosts sincerely hoped to add bricks and tiles to that beautiful future that was like a fantasy land, but what had she done now?

Servility remains unchanged. Is this worthy of Lord Dorothy's salvation, worthy of Lord Great Tengu's teaching?

The ninja girl couldn't help but clench her fists.

"Lord Great Tengu, I will absolutely never bow to anyone again. If I violate this oath, may I be struck by lightning."

Iga Moye swore thus very loudly.

However, the pure white witch opposite was still flat.

"Your life is your own to decide; you don't need to care about my opinion. I called you here just because there is a task that needs you to go, and this concerns Big Sister's ideal."

Sophie Liya said thus.

And hearing this, the petite ninja who had been maintaining a bowing posture just now immediately raised her head, looking at the demon king lord in front of her with burning eyes.

"Lord Great Tengu, please just give the order. For the establishment of the fantasy land, no matter what it is, I am willing to do it."

The Kamaitachi witch said decisively.

"Nothing, just want you to go to this village to collect a debt. It's just that the debt is a bit much, you might need to stay in that village for a few more days. Also, remember to bring a few more people, so as not to have the debt not collected and the people all gone."

The pure white witch picked up an envelope on the table and ordered thus.

And hearing that the important task concerning the establishment of the fantasy land was just collecting a debt, Iga Moye was stunned and couldn't understand it. However, the professional quality of a ninja also made her not ask more, just took the envelope with both hands, and turned into a breeze and dissipated.

"I guarantee to complete the mission."

The girl's promise remained in the wind.

And seeing that the person had left, Sophie Liya then rubbed her face.

*Sigh*, I hope Big Sister won't blame my script for being ruthless later. You can't raise beautiful flowers in a greenhouse. True happiness has never been a gift of fate, but needs to be fought for by oneself.

The pure white witch sighed lightly, and then continued to bury herself in the endless mountain of documents.

And on the other side, Yoshiwara pleasure district, Mirage Tower top floor.

This had become the second meeting place for the noble masters after the Tenshukaku disappeared.

"Lord Shogun, that Battousai is truly hateful. Pity the Kameda family; they were loyal subjects of our Yingzhou."

"Lord, before that Battousai dared to demolish the Tenshukaku, and today she dared to demolish the Kameda family. What about later?"

"Lord, we cannot raise a tiger and invite trouble."

"Those unruly commoners nearby who once helped that thief Battousai should also die; not one can be left."

"Isn't that Battousai standing up for the unruly commoners? Then let's show her that she can't protect anything."

When the news that the Kameda family had been removed from the name reached here, the nobles gathered again. Everyone expressed their opinions, and then looked up together at the majestic witch on the high main seat.

And on that main seat, the beautiful Shogun just lay sideways on the seat, her every move revealing ten thousand kinds of amorous feelings, making everyone below unable to move their eyes away. Some even secretly swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva, but no one dared to move randomly.

After all, this is the Shogun who resurrected from the dead.

Resurrection from the dead, for Yingzhou witches, there is no greater miracle than this. This is something that even the mother goddess Izanami in mythology cannot do.

Even if everyone could see that this resurrected Shogun's personality seemed to be different from before, everyone had already used various means to test it, and even Lord Minamoto no Hiromasa, as the imperial bloodline, had conducted bloodline certification. This was a genuine Shogun.

And at this juncture, they indeed needed a leader to gather the scattered nobles together.

Therefore, whether the Shogun was original or not actually didn't matter. What mattered was that there had to be a Shogun who could convince everyone.

The Shogun on the stage also indeed had means. The former Shogun was like a poisonous snake in the shadows, while the current Shogun was like a cunning fox. Although the two were somewhat different, they were equally dangerous.

And in the side room next door, Audrey was actually also very nervous. Her slender and long hands were trembling constantly, and the ten puppet ring magic staves on her ten fingers were emitting invisible mana threads, controlling the Shogun puppet next door.

She was currently using the Fate Thread borrowed from the President, using fate as a thread to manipulate the puppet's actions. This is the highest and most secret puppet technique. Therefore, although there were many experts among the nobles, no one saw the flaws.

And the reason the little fox was nervous wasn't because the puppet was about to be exposed, but because she suddenly realized that maybe, perhaps, her mothers really weren't good people.

These days, in order to maintain the villainous bad woman persona, she had been imitating her mothers' daily words and deeds, and even their thinking.

She knew her mothers very well. Even though her mothers had only shown the gentlest side to her, Audrey, who was also a top-level actor, could actually see through her mothers' daily cover-ups and directly grasp their most essential temperament.

Seeing through the reality hidden under the character's appearance is a professional quality that a good actor must have.

It's just that Audrey had never deeply thought about her mothers' reactions in various situations along their essence before, so she had always subconsciously felt that her mothers were good people.

But now, after completely entering the play and completely bringing in her mothers' way of thinking, she discovered another side of her mothers that had never been shown to her.

That side belonging to the underground queen of Venus.

Audrey suddenly realized that the hometown where she had lived for more than ten years didn't seem as beautiful and harmonious as she had thought in the past. The deep darkness hidden in the shadows under the lights of the art capital and the city of dreams seemed to hide a profound darkness she had never understood in the past.

Just like her mothers' other

However, that wasn't the point; after all, no matter what the mothers were like, they were still her favorite mothers. What truly frightened the little fox was her discovery that she seemed unexpectedly adept at being a bad woman.

Lately, her acting had become so convincing it barely felt like acting anymore.

This made Audrey feel a bit scared.

The little fox pondered for a moment, then pulled out her spellbook once again.

【Phantom of the Opera: Red Sister, can I ask you a question?】

The little fox is seeking advice.

Um, just asking, do you have any votes? Looking forward to it.

(End of chapter)