Chapter 466 (1/2)

Chapter 466: Reappearance

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“Summer, right? Don’t worry.” Wendy walked up to the young woman and held her hand. “The Witch Union isn’t what your family thinks, nor do you have to stay in the castle all the time.”

“Really?” Summer asked softly.

“Of course.” Wendy smiled. “We stay in the castle because we have nowhere else to go… before His Highness took us in, we lived vagrant lives. Our families were either broken or perceived us as strangers. You’re considered fortunate to have a family.” She paused briefly. “Let’s go inside, the wind is strong here.”

“… OK.” The young woman lowered her head and followed Wendy into the castle.

“This’s the new awakened witch?” Scroll was already waiting at the door. “What’s her name?”

“Summer,” Wendy replied, and then look towards the guard. “Can you help me inform Lady Agatha to return to the castle? Tell her that there’s a new witch. She should be in the riverside chemical lab right now.”

“My pleasure to serve you, Lady Wendy.” The guard bowed before he turned and exited.

“Indeed, when Nightingale and Sylvie aren’t around, only Agatha is able to distinguish magic power by type and capacity.” Scroll nodded in agreement. “What’s her ability?”

“We don’t know yet.” Wendy then caressed the young girl’s head and asked, “How old are you?”

“18.” Summer became nervous again in front of so many strangers.

“18?” Spear seemed surprised. “Isn’t that the age of adulthood?”

“When did you realize that you were awakened as a witch?” Scroll asked. “Tell us your story in detail.”

“Just… three days ago, when I turned 18,” Summer replied meekly. “That day, my elder brother caught a fish for me as a gift, but it was taken away by my second sister, and only half of the tail was left for me in the end. At night, I hugged my quilt and cried. I then dreamt that the fish returned to my bowl. When I woke up, I discovered that the fish was indeed there, and I also had a new elder sister.”

“A new elder sister… what does that mean?” Wendy asked in astonishment.

“One was sitting at the table and eating fish, while the other one was paralyzed with fear on the floor. However, the former soon disappeared together with the fish…” Summer recalled what happened. “At that time, I could feel that… those things that appeared had something to do with me. However, when I told my family about it, I was beaten up by my father and told not to scare my second sister. I really didn’t scare her on purpose. Who would think that a dream could become real?”

“That wasn’t a dream.” Wendy confirmed what the girl said. “It was an awakening call.”

Magic power would gather inside a witch’s body on the aforementioned Day of Awakening. During this process, a witch would not only be able to feel the weird changes inside her body, but also, for a majority of witches, they would be unable to restrain the strange magic power, causing them to use their newly-gained ability involuntarily. Hence, apart from the extremely unbearable Day of Adulthood, the second highest cause of loss of witches was the Day of Awakening—the consequence of performing magical effects in front of normal people was obvious.

However, Wendy had never heard of a case whereby the Day of Adulthood and Day of Awakening fell on the same day. Albeit this was no doubt possible—the Day of Adulthood was just a more special Day of Awakening.