Chapter 197 The Last Witch (2)
A witch "resurrected from the dead" in a fire and violently blinded the village priest.
Such explosive news quickly became a hot topic of discussion in the village.
Villager A: "Witches who sold their souls to the devil are truly terrifying! No wonder they're being hunted everywhere lately... I hope the Lord will protect us!"
Villager B: "It's not just here. I heard witches have appeared in the neighboring villages too. I wonder if they've been caught..."
Villager C: "How can she be so easy to catch? Didn't the witch from our village escape last night? Who knows when she'll come back to hurt people again? That's the most terrifying thing!"
Villager D: "Oh, I talked to that widow before, and she seemed perfectly normal. Who would have thought she was secretly practicing witchcraft? We should also pay more attention to our neighbors. We can't always trust our familiar friends!"
After Villager D finished speaking, he suddenly felt something was wrong.
Aren’t A, B, C, and D familiar friends?!
This is embarrassing.
Everyone shut up tacitly and went home.
Everyone in the village is in danger and the atmosphere of mutual suspicion is very serious.
No one knows who the next witch will be in the village...
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At this time, Tokiho was on her way to another larger village.
Last night, she only blinded the priest's eyes and did not kill him directly, in order to give him time to inform his superiors.
The village priest is considered to be a very low-level figure in the church.
Above the priests are bishops, above the bishops are archbishops, above the archbishops are cardinals, and at the very top of the pyramid is the Pope.
Power is passed down layer by layer.
The "witch hunt order" that caused extreme panic among women everywhere was issued by the Pope himself.
Tokiho wants the village priest to convey the message and tell those people that the real "witch" is coming...!
After he reports the news and endures a few days of painful torture, he will die from wound infection, lie in the coffin, and be the protagonist of the funeral.
...The widow that Tokiho possessed had a rather ordinary and simple past.
I grew up on a farm with a lot of brothers and sisters.
When she reached marriageable age, she married her husband, a carpenter, at the arrangement of her parents.
There is no passionate love, but the couple each does their own job and their life is quite harmonious.
After her husband died unexpectedly, her family was arranging for her to remarry.
But from the moment the village priest declared the widow an evil witch, all her relatives were afraid of being implicated and immediately distanced themselves from her.
In this way, the widow lost even her family ties.
Tokiho used her body, which was about to turn into ashes, to do something big.
It is time to stop this horrific punishment of arbitrarily labeling women as witches and then conducting "trials" on them.
"Just another hour or so and we'll be there."
Tokiho was now heading to a large village called Santa Cruz.
It was the territory of a nobleman, with a larger population, a denser clergy, and a bishop who lived there permanently.
The sun is slowly setting.
She shuttled through the groves in the countryside, neither hurried nor slow, neither anxious nor impatient.
On the way, she didn't meet anyone except a few herdsmen or hunters.
It was quiet all around.
But Shisui never let down her guard.
Suddenly, a strange commotion came from far away and gradually reached her ears.
Shisui tied her wide skirt into a knot, and quickly climbed up a tall oak tree nearby to see what was going on.
Two miles away, I saw a barefoot gypsy woman fleeing in front. Behind her, a uniformed clergyman and several burly men were chasing her desperately.
There is no need to guess, they must be catching "witches" again.
Shisui casually broke off a few oak branches, took aim casually, and threw the branches in his hand like a dart.
Swish—the clergyman running in front was stabbed in the thigh.
Swish, swish, swish—the several strong men behind were not spared from the attack.
They covered their wounds and screamed, watching the gypsy woman run further and further away...
"Hey~ Aren't you going to say thank you to me~?"
Tokiho jumped down from the tree and landed precisely in front of the gypsy woman.
Taking a closer look, I saw that this woman was so beautiful...!
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