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lse’s voice.
It was a raspy voice which made the atmosphere more creepy.
Luana scratched her forearm without realizing it.

The Duke looked at her with contempt. ‘But why is your face like that?’ Luana, who was scratching her forearm, quickly shouted at the fact that she remembered belatedly.

“No!”

She tried to explain it in a hurry, but it didn’t seem to make much sense.

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“I’m telling you… Really… I want to… wash myself”

“Shut up!”

The knight who followed made Luana’s mouth shut instead of the Duke.
It was a knight named Lugard who first brought Luana.
At least she was a little reassured that she had knew him a little.

“You misunderstood! This is not my place!”

“You are at the right place.”

“No, that’s not true!”

“Yes, it is.”

“No!”

“Yes, it is!”

When Lugard and Luana were fighting over whether they were right or not, the Duke got annoyed and intervened.

“What are you doing now?”

“Hmph!”

Lugard, who came to his senses, shut his mouth, and Luana was the only one who was babbling.

“You’re not right at all.
Why do I have to be locked up here?”

“It’s because you are a witch.”

The answer was given by the Duke instead of Lugard.

“Huh?”

Luana looked at the Duke with a sympathetic look.
No, there were no witches in the world anymore.
Aren’t their kinds already gone?

“You look displeased.”

The Duke expressed his displeasure.

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“No, well, are there still witches these days?”

“There is.
Here you are.”

“No I am not.
I don’t have a broom, and I can’t fly.”

“Why does a witch fly in the sky?”

“Oh, don’t they fly?”

“No matter how much power they get from a contract with the devil, their essence is still human.
They can’t fly.”

‘How do you know about witches in such detail?’ Luana swallowed her words that she wanted to shout.

“I have been searching for a witch for a while, but this is the first time I have found one.
There are so many things I want to ask you.”

While saying that, he raised the corners of his mouth, but it wasn’t usually scary. ‘This is it.
That is a look that’s trying to torment me!’ Luana took a step back from the bars that she had been clinging to.

“I am not a witch!”

“Can a witch call herself a witch?”

“Why do you think I am a witch?!”

“You know the curses that are passed down from generation to generation?”

‘I know I know! Because I read the novel!’ But she wanted to pretend she didn’t know.
She decided to go with the setting that she is an abandoned princess who doesn’t know about the outside world.

“The curse dulled my senses, and I almost lost my sense of taste.
As a result, I can hardly eat any food.
I didn’t want to eat it, because I couldn’t taste it.
But the beef jerky tastes good.
It’s a curse that could not be resolved no matter what.
Without a witch, that wouldn’t be possible.”

The duke beckoned, and Lugard took a bag and opened it.
It contained several tools that she didn’t know.
After a closer look, ‘I know that!’ Luana was drenched in cold sweat. ‘It’s torture tools! This crazy bastard!’.

“B-But I’m really not a witch!”

“It’s up to me to judge.”

‘I’m not even a witch, so why are you judging me?’ The dungeon door opened and the Duke entered.
Luana ran quickly and stood opposite of the Duke.

“No.
Absolutely not!”

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“Then how do you explain the beef jerky? I can’t really taste the food.
But,”

The Duke’s expression changed for a moment in ecstasy.
He seems to be thinking of the taste of the beef jerky.

“The jerky you gave me was delicious.
Is there any more convincing evidence than this?”

Luana waved her arms.

“T-that’s just because I make good jerky!”

“Even the Imperial Chef couldn’t satisfy my tongue.”

“I guess I’m better off!”

“An abandoned princess of a little kingdom?”

“I’m prejudiced! I could do better!”

“It’s okay, come here quietly.”

The Duke stepped forward.
As he approached, Luana ran away.
But since the entrance was blocked, there wasn’t much they could do.

“Come here.”

The duke called for Luana. ‘Would you like to go?’ Luana shook her head.

“If you behave, I’ll go easy on you.”

‘I’m not saying I will!’ she shook her head again. ‘How long has it been?’ Her legs were trembling because she was so nervous.
Still, she moved with the will of not wanting to get tortured, but in the end she was caught by the Duke.

“Ugh… Aaahh!”

Luana wept and held onto the Duke’s feet.

“I-I’ll tell you the truth!”

The Duke, who had just taken out a strange-looking tongs from his bag, stopped what he was doing and looked at Luana.
There was only one way to get out of this.

“Yes, I am actually a witch! But I’m like an… apprentice witch, so there’s almost nothing I can do! I can’t cast a curse, I can’t break any curse!”

It is to admit to being a witch.