What are the benefits of capturing a supremely talented, rare witch? Many benefits.
"Oh my, a unique descendant of a great witch like Big Sister Alice is truly invaluable to a declining Magus family like ours! Big Sister, aren't you curious about my magic power characteristics? They're not recorded in any ancient texts. Of course, that's because my family has been in decline for too long and has been forgotten by the world in the river of time."
"Now, only my brother and I are left as orphans in our family. Unfortunately, that scoundrel brother of mine is idle all day, lazy and gluttonous, and a good-for-nothing without Magic Circuits. So, it's up to me, his sister, to inherit the family magic, sigh~"
She said all this nonsense with the knife against Alice, looking utterly serious.
Alice now only felt a bone-chilling coldness surge from every inch of her skin into her heart, her whole body stiff and unable to move. Alice would rather accept the Church's heretic trial than face such a future!
Gritting her teeth, Alice Kuonji resolutely offered her delicate, snow-white neck to the sharp blade. Just as the peerless beauty was about to perish, Rin, who had anticipated this, naturally wouldn't let that scene happen. In an instant, magical light flickered, and the magically formed odachi dissipated back into magic.
Alice, who failed to collide with the blade, lost her balance and fell to the ground. Rin agilely rushed forward, pinning Alice's arms behind her back. Seeing that she was completely cornered, Alice bit her lip in grief, and her entire Magic Circuits glowed brightly. Alice was about to self-destruct her Magic Crest!
At this moment, a small hand pressed onto the skin of Alice's hand. A paralyzing electric current spread from her hand across her entire body. Even more terrifying, all the Magic Circuits touched by the current were forcibly shut down!
"Oh dear, why can't older sister cooperate a little? This is a magic restraint technique exclusively for executors of the Clock Tower's sealing designation, which my father exchanged from the Clock Tower's great library. Now it's done. The Magic Circuits, forcibly shut down, cannot be reopened due to trauma. However, while it's a pity for Alice older sister to lose her magical abilities like this, it's not important, as all we need is older sister's aptitude."
Watching Alice now lying on the ground motionless, not resisting at all, looking utterly heartbroken, she truly wished she could lie on the ground herself, laughing and rolling around.
Hahaha! How dare you try to kill me!
"Since Alice older sister is so uncooperative, then you should take a nap. When you wake up, you'll be 'home'."
But as the perfectly controlled hand chop struck the back of her neck, Alice thought of many things: her mother, whose face she couldn't quite recall; her loving father; the Western-style house left by her parents; Touko; Aoko; the fairytale familiars that had always accompanied her. Was all of this going to leave her forever?
What would she face when she woke up? A dark stone room, iron chains, herself naked and imprisoned in a dark room, then defiled by disgusting men, or perhaps already defiled while unconscious, then used as a tool... The future, like an endless abyss of darkness, filled Alice with the deepest despair. Two tears seeped from the eyes of the witch, who never showed emotion. A tender yet exquisitely beautiful face was deeply etched into her heart; those cute expressions and venomous words could never be forgotten!
She then fell into a deep slumber, awaiting an unknown future upon waking...
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