Chapter 221 The Last Female Witch (26)
After intimidating Cardinal Gerry in the church, Shisui rushed back to Santa Cruz Manor without stopping.
She estimated that at this point in time, Zimina should have completed the task of poisoning the prince.
Sure enough, the manor was in chaos.
Everyone gathered together again in the banquet hall where a big party had just ended.
But this time...it's not a good thing.
Zimina used the ingenious mechanism in the hairpin to let the prince come into contact with the hallucinogenic juice of the datura flower specially made by Shisui.
The drug took effect quickly, and he kept shouting "It's so hot!", and then unconsciously took off his clothes one by one. At the same time, he was extremely excited and ran around the castle nakedly, his limbs twitching as he ran, which was very scary.
When his personal attendant tried to persuade him, he was slapped several times, leaving his mouth swollen and nose bruised.
In the end, the prince had to be temporarily locked up in the room to avoid being an eyesore and damaging the royal family's reputation if the news got out.
The nobles had traveled all day and had fun all night, and their physical strength was almost exhausted. Now they had to drag their tired bodies to interrogate the "prisoners".
Zimina was arrested as a matter of course.
Her hands were tied behind her back and a knife was held to her neck, but her face was very calm.
She has 100% trust in Shisui.
Shihui said she would keep her life safe, and she definitely would!
In contrast, the one who was panicking was Viscount Santa Cruz.
The guards did not notice any trace of Shihui returning. At the time of the incident, only Zimina and the prince were in the room, and no suspicious "murder weapon" was found on Zimina.
Doesn't that prove... that Zimina also knows witchcraft?!
Viscount Santa Cruz could not accept this assumption.
One Tokiho is enough to give him a headache, if a few more witches come, he will really go crazy!!!
He walked back and forth with sweat on his forehead and tortured her repeatedly, just to make Zimina confess and admit that she had used some explainable special means to make the prince unconscious.
But Zimina had only one answer from beginning to end: "There is no explanation, it's all my witchcraft."
Qi Mina looked calm and composed, and responded appropriately, which made Shi Sui secretly give her a thumbs up in her heart.
You know, a month ago, Zimina was still reckless and had no sense of the overall situation.
During the time she was dormant in the manor, she not only consciously cultivated her character, but also took the initiative to ask Shi Sui how to read - she originally could not understand the local people's writing, and the communication between the Gypsies mostly relied on language, with few written records.
Qi Mina's foundation is not good, but with her tenacity, Shisui believes that she has a promising future...
The Viscount of Santa Cruz decided on torture.
He asked his servants to bring up an iron chair full of sharp iron nails and asked Zimina to sit on it. He put pressure on her so that the nails would dig deep into her flesh, forcing her to tell him the answer he wanted.
Things have developed to this point, and Shisui is ready to come to the rescue.
But halfway through, an unexpected event appeared—Princess Elisa...
She shooed away the soldiers who were escorting Zimina to tie her to the torture chair, and looked carefully at her slightly dark but fearless face.
"Putting aside whether it's witchcraft or not, I just want to ask, why did you want to murder the prince?"
Qi Mina, a true disciple of Shi Sui, spoke confidently, "If it weren't for you powerful people collaborating with the church, issuing indiscriminate witch hunts and killing any woman, would we be so miserable? We've all suffered so much, and we can't even get revenge?!"
As soon as she said this, the nobles present immediately burst into curses.
They were filled with emotion: "How dare you speak so arrogantly? You won't cry until you see the coffin, right?! Very well, before you die, I will allow you to experience every kind of torture instrument! I will let you know the feeling of a life worse than death!"
Viscount Santa Cruz echoed loudly, "No problem! My estate has everything. I'll have it moved in right away. Let's all come and enjoy it together!"
He strongly advocated silencing Zimina in the manor.
He absolutely could not hand her over and let the church know that he had once kept a witch.
At this critical moment, Princess Elisa spoke again: "Wait, don't touch this gypsy woman yet."
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