Ever since Sine could rember, she loved witches. There was sothing so fantastic about imagining cute witches brewing potions or casting spells. Sine rembered the reason she got detention on that fateful day. She’d been doodling witches in her notebook instead of paying attention to the teacher.
Even in detention, the small girl didn’t learn her lesson though. Sine spent most of the ti there reading about witches—a manga she had gotten from the school’s library. Sumire had tried talking to her, but Sine was too engrossed in the book.
It wasn’t like Sine had a vendetta against the popular girl. On the contrary, Sine respected her, but Sumire could never understand Sine. The small witch-obsessed girl mostly stayed quiet and kept to herself.
That had all changed when Goddess Kreah summoned them to her domain. Sine was awestruck by the beautiful woman but was more awed by the circumstances.
“All of you heroes will have your desires granted,” Kreah said. “You only need to defeat the Demon King…”
Sine had stopped listening after that. She only cared about the part where Kreah would grant her desires. And the only thing she ever wanted was a cute witch to pamper her. Sine wished for such childish things as the heroes were transported to Candlewax Kingdom’s capital.
The first day in the castle was hectic. Sine and the other seven heroes were introduced to their maids, dressed in extravagant clothing, and displayed like trophies before the city people. They had all beco like runway princesses—even though four were boys.
After that, the heroes were taken to the church’s temple to gain an understanding of their blessings.
Sine obtained the Blessing of the Caller. According to the church, her gift would enable her to summon or ta strong creatures. Still, the weakness would be her relatively low magical capacity compared to the other sorcerers in the party. Her growth would be the slowest but would end with a pinnacle much higher than Sumire.
Sumire gained the Blessing of All-Magic. Her magic capacity would start huge, and she could easily cast most spells. Her only weakness would be becoming a master of none. Her spells would be strong, but none would reach the peak of this world’s specialized magicians.
Riri, the last girl of the heroes’ party, got the Blessing of the Saintess, coming as no surprise to the rest of the heroes. She’d always been kind at school. The fact that she had landed herself in detention was odd.
After the last heroes got their blessings, things continued to be hectic. During the following two weeks, the heroes trained most of the ti. The country's best mage trained Sumire, yet Sine had two trainers.
One of Sine’s teachers was an S ranker of the tar’s guild, and the other had been a professor of summoning at the magic academy.
Even with the fantastical nature of magic and summoning, Sine felt bored. She could only summon a small demonic-looking bat with a strange crest. It hadn’t been useful for much except giving it pats, which Sine passed her ti in boredom by doing so. Either that, or she spent her free ti in the grand library of the castle.
She found intrigue in many tales, but there had been one problem. There were no witches!
However, one day, that all changed! In this enormous city, she’d found a single witch on a regular outing to collect magic potions. Sine couldn’t believe it. It took everything she had not to jump on her at the first chance.
With sparkling eyes, Sine planned her escape from the castle that afternoon.
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