Miss Witch, Please Don't Leave Your Fragrance Everywhere[TL]

The girl seemed a little reserved. Girls all love beauty by nature, not to mention that she was a model with good foundation. Her slender body matched the dress carefully selected for her by the female store manager, making her look like a noble lady. The girl really liked the dress, but she didn't dare to say even a word of praise. Even if there was no clear price tag, she knew that the dress must be very expensive.

　　The girl once had a good family background, but as her father squandered the family fortune, they fell into poverty. On the other hand...she is now living under someone else's roof. The girl stole a glance at the witch lady who was sitting on a lounge chair, drinking tea elegantly.

　　"Do you like it?"

　　"…It seems to be very expensive."

　　"I didn't ask you that, Abigail."

　　The girl's name is Abigail, Samuel's sister. After Samuel passed away, Angelica found Abigail alone in the forest outside the city and claimed to take her away from Leo Village.

　　——Are you my brother's friend?

　　——Of course not. He owes me money for divination, water, bread, and magic, and now he can't pay it back, so as his sister, you belong to me!

　　This was pretty much the process. Angelica kidnapped Abigail as a matter of course. Anyway, the two siblings had no other relatives in Leo Village. Abigail would at most be listed as a missing person, and no one in Leo Village would remember her in a few months.

　　Angelica couldn't stand Abigail's dirty appearance, so when she arrived in town, she took Abigail to clean herself and took her to buy new clothes.

　　"I just asked if you like it."

　　"like."

　　"Okay, buy it then."

　　Angelica paid the money briskly and pulled the still slightly reserved Abigail out of the clothing store.

　　Perhaps because she had a pretty good childhood, Abigail, who had been spoiled, looked like a pretty girl who would turn heads when she dressed up. However, Angelica was confident that she would turn heads even more, provided she took off her wizard hat.

　　"I really don't know how to thank you, Sister Angelica."

　　"It's not about thanking me. I did it for myself because you'll be living with me for a while. If you become my follower and stink, I'll be the one with a headache. Won't you feel sad to leave your hometown?"

　　"Besides my brother, I have no other memories."

　　Abigail said sadly that just as Samuel said, no one came to help them when they were abused by their father, so Abigail left Leo Village where she had lived for more than ten years without feeling any nostalgia at all.

　　"Where is Sister Angelica planning to go?"

　　"My tentative destination is the Kingdom of Radeboyle. Although I can get there immediately if I want, it's better to save enough money to spend in a big city."

　　"Sister Angelica has little savings?"

　　Abigail was slightly surprised. She hadn't even blinked when she paid for the expensive dress. She had thought Angelica was very rich.

　　"Rather than saying there is very little, it's better to say there is not a penny left now."

　　"Huh?"

　　"I just spent all of it when I bought you a skirt."

　　"But, Angelica-sister seemed to be handling the situation with ease just now…?"

　　"Abigail."

　　Angelica patted Abigail's shoulder earnestly, her eyes sparkling.

　　"Money is meaningless if you don't spend it when it's time to spend it."

　　"You don't make any plans at all—"

　　Abigail suddenly had a terrible thought. Could it be that she was following a very unreliable person?

　　"Since, in that case, I will return the skirt immediately!"

　　"What are you talking about? You look so cute in it. And you've already worn it out, how can you return it? And you won't have anything else to wear after you return the skirt."

　　"Sister Angelica, can I ask you a question? What would you do if you don't have enough money when you pay?"

　　Angelica gave a thumbs up. She had certainly considered this possibility.

　　"Hypnotize the store manager to pretend he had never been to this store and leave."

　　Magic, isn't it amazing?

　　Abigail felt desperate. She finally understood why Angelica was so confident.

　　"So what should we do tonight..."

　　"I'm going to take a commission from the Adventurer's Guild. There should be an Adventurer's Guild in a town. I hope it'll be a commission that can easily earn me a lot of money for travel expenses. It would be even better if it's a commission to dig for treasure...ah."

　　"ah?"

　　"Treasure! Yes! Treasure!"

　　Angelica suddenly became extremely excited.

　　"I remember now. When I was young, I had buried treasure somewhere! Really, I didn't even remember it when I got old. I just need to go to the place where I buried the treasure and retrieve it. I can stay in any hotel I want on the way!"

　　"When I was young..."

　　Abigail really didn't know how to comment. She had communicated with Angelica, and Angelica told Abigail directly that she was a witch and would not age or die. Although Abigail knew something, when she saw Angelica, who looked like a beautiful girl, saying that she was old, she still wanted to say that Angelica looked very young now.

　　The so-called youth of the witch must have happened a long time ago, Abigail speculated.

　　"But after so long, will the treasure really not be taken away by others?"

　　"Probably not. It's very hidden there. It wasn't my treasure hiding place at first. It was the place where I and my past adventure companions buried the time capsule."

　　"Time capsule?"

　　"Write down your wish and bury it in a specific place with other friends. When time passes, we will dig it out together to see if the original wish has been fulfilled. However, most people will feel sad that time has passed. We originally set the time to be 50 years."

　　"So long?"

　　"Yeah, it was a long time ago."

　　The witch lady recalled the long past when she went on adventures with someone who could be called a partner.

　　"When the appointed time came, I was the only one who went to dig the time capsule."

　　It's not that they have forgotten or feel that it is meaningless, but others can no longer witness the changes of the past fifty years with the witch.

　　Generally speaking, human life expectancy is around sixty to seventy years old. It is said that the average human life expectancy is determined by the overall living standards of the times, so a rare longevity like Merlin requires the inherent magic of a brave man to achieve.

　　To a witch, there is no substantial difference between fifty years and five years or five months, but to most humans it may be a lifetime. Even though most of the witch's former companions were powerful magicians, they could not resist the passage of time.

　　"Since I was the only one left, I took the liberty to open their time capsules and found out that they had all kinds of ambitions and ideas fifty years ago. By the way, the time capsule left by one of them was a love letter to me."

　　"Confession!"

　　Girls are always interested in the topic of love, and Abigail is no exception.

　　"It must contain some very touching content."

　　"No, the content inside is so silly that you can feel it through the paper. To be honest, I didn't feel it at all at the time. If he really wanted to confess, he should have said it earlier. He said that he hoped to use the time capsule to witness his unchanging feelings, and that he would still love me even when he became an old grandfather."

　　"It sounds very romantic..."

　　"But he died young before he could become an old grandfather."

　　Angelica spread out her palms. Strictly speaking, she wasn't even middle-aged yet.

　　Abigail was speechless for a moment. Although she wanted to know the details, she felt that she shouldn't ask any more questions. Abigail noticed that Angelica didn't look particularly sad when she told these things.

　　Did she not have a good relationship with her former adventure companions? Abigail didn't think so. When she recalled the adventures she had with some people, Angelica was beaming with joy. At least it should be a happy memory for Angelica.

　　So, has she experienced too much and no longer feels sad? Thinking of this, Abigail felt inexplicably sad, even though Angelica was not sad at all.

　　"Ah, that seems to be a little far-fetched. Anyway, I cleaned up the place where the time capsule was buried, and I found that it was very hidden. After fifty years, the time capsule was well preserved, so I simply moved all the treasures I collected before there. Without further ado, let's set off immediately!"

　　After saying that, Angelica immediately chanted magic in the town, causing the guards to shout at her. In many towns, using magic that could cause harm is illegal, but Angelica finished chanting before the guards could stop her and moved to the place in her memory with Abigail.

　　Abigail had not yet recovered from her shock. It was the first time she had been so close to magic. She was in the town one second ago, and in the next second she was in the unfamiliar suburbs. To Abigail, it was like a dream.

　　Angelica told Abigail that she would not always be with her, and that she might have to go to faraway places, such as the island country where elves live, or the extremely cold northern border. Even the witch herself did not know where the end of this train was, and she might get off the train halfway because she felt that there was no result, so Angelica planned to teach Abigail some basic magic so that she could be self-reliant.

　　What Abigail didn't know was that the witch was using Sequence 2 magic, which she would most likely never be able to master in her lifetime.

　　"Huh? Such a big change?"

　　Angelica was sure that with her smart brain, she couldn't have made a mistake in the coordinates. However, after arriving at the destination, she found that a road had been cleared out of the original dense forest. Although there were no pedestrians, there was a particularly eye-catching building.

　　"Why did someone build a villa here?!"

　　Angelica was stunned. The place where she originally buried the treasure was actually built by an unknown guy into a luxurious villa, which firmly occupied the witch's treasure hiding place.

　　"This is troublesome. I remember that I sealed the treasure. There is no way to move it in without finding the correct entrance. I can only ask the people living there to be flexible."

　　"Is it okay? We are strangers."

　　"Hehe."

　　Angelica raised the corner of her mouth confidently and took off her wizard hat on her own initiative.

　　"I said I would teach you some lessons, so now is the first lesson. This is a world where appearance matters. If you dress well, the other person's attitude won't be too bad even if it's the first time you meet them."

　　In fact, it was not entirely Angelica's intention to brag about her extraordinary appearance. In the other world, makeup is not something that everyone can afford. Many girls who grew up in towns only have the opportunity to put on makeup on their birthdays or when they get married. Girls who have the financial ability to dress themselves up beautifully every day are either from noble families or wealthy families. No matter which one, they must be treated with caution.

　　In order to prove it to Abigail, Angelica took the initiative to walk into the villa's estate. The strange thing was that the gate was not locked, there was no guard dog, and there was not even a gardener pruning the branches. This was really inconsistent with the behavior of a family that could afford to build a villa. People of status often pay attention to details in all aspects. If someone visited and found that the trees in the estate were not trimmed, it would undoubtedly be very rude.

　　"Sister Angelica, look over there."

　　Abigail pulled Angelica's clothes. It was bad enough that the manor was unkempt, but there was even a grave? Angelica couldn't help but wonder what happened to this family.

　　Abigail picked up the wild flowers on the grass and placed them next to the tombstone. Although she didn't know who the deceased was, there was no decoration around the grave, and it seemed that the burial was hastily done. Abigail felt that laying flowers in front of the grave might comfort the soul of the deceased.

　　Angelica straightened her collar and knocked on the door.

　　After a long time, a young man with disheveled hair and dark circles under his eyes opened the door, or to be exact, he opened a crack in the door.

　　"...who?"

　　"Hello. My name is Angelica, and I'm a traveler passing through here."

　　Angelica was not affected at all and introduced herself with a smile.

　　Then I was turned away.

　　"Never heard of it!"

　　After saying this, the young man slammed the door.

　　Angelica: "…"

　　Abigail: "…"

　　It seems that dressing neatly is not 100% feasible.

　　Abigail thought so in her heart, but she didn't dare to say it directly. She just hoped that Sister Angelica would not be angry.

　　Miss Witch sighed.

　　"Failed."

　　"No, it doesn't matter! Maybe they just don't like outsiders."

　　"That's true."

　　Angelica cleared her gloom and raised the wand in her hand.

　　"...Summon a meteorite to hit this place."

　　"Please, please, calm down! Sister Angelica!"