The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

Chapter 3 Independence and Freedom

Although witches evolved from awakened human women, their ideas and beliefs are completely different from those of humans.

Human virtues such as dedication and sacrifice are completely unpopular among witches.

The witch believed in individual independence and freedom.

A witch's personal will is supreme as long as it does not jeopardize the interests of other witches.

This can be seen from the witches' concept of reproduction.

Each witch can only have one child in her lifetime, and the child will be a witch, regardless of which race the male she has with.

Not every witch has the chance to leave offspring.

Therefore, the number of witches has never experienced an explosive growth.

If it weren't for the continued emergence of human women who awaken in adversity and evolve into witches, the witch race would probably have gone extinct long ago.

In this situation, the witch clan would only issue various birth benefits to improve the survival rate of baby witches.

There has never been a requirement for witches to have offspring due to the issue of witch population.

Since the witch descended to earth and designated the wilderness as the land of the witches.

Only those alien races who have signed a wilderness pact, pledging their lives to never betray the witch and the wilderness, are allowed to enter the wilderness.

The Wilderness Pact is a death sentence if violated, so there are not many alien races willing to sign it.

Therefore, most pregnant witches choose to return to the wilderness and raise their children alone.

Little witches like Moran, who only have a mother and no father, are common in the wilderness.

Few little witches grow up under the joint care of their parents.

Even with only one mother and the birth subsidy from the witch clan association, baby witches almost never die young.

Even under these circumstances, the number of witches only remained at around 30,000.

The witch loves her daughter dearly, but she won't always see her daughter as her responsibility.

Witches are only responsible for themselves.

Generally, only young witches under the age of thirteen are always accompanied by their witch mothers.

The witch clan also regularly provides subsidies to each witch mother who cares for a young witch and offers childcare assistance.

The "Young Witch Series" in her home was a gift from the witch clan.

Entering the witch academy at the age of thirteen marked the beginning of the little witch's journey toward independence.

At this time, the witch mother will let the little witch leave home.

For the next five years, the little witch will study magic and survival skills at the witch academy.

The expenses for the young witches' studies at the academy were all covered by the witch clan association.

After the little witch starts school, her mother can go to the witch clan association to receive a parenting reward and continue her new life.

After graduating at eighteen, she will be an adult witch who has to stand on her own.

You have to find your own way to survive.

It can be said that, regardless of whether they have a foreign father willing to sign a wilderness pact, the little witches all have a common "father"—the clan council.

In witch families, the clan council is often more important than the father from another race.

The clan council covers all the expenses for a young witch's growth and education from birth until she turns eighteen.

After graduating from the witch academy at the age of eighteen, witches are responsible for their own lives.

She has no obligation to support her witch mother, no responsibility to repay her clan father, and no need to dedicate her life to her future daughter.

Always free and equal, unbound by any relationships.

Even if her tribe perishes, the witch will not allow anything to override her will.

This is the witch who awakened from adversity and suffering, and whose lifelong pursuit is freedom and independence!
All of this is explained in the first chapter of the first volume of the Little Witches series.

So Moran knew in her heart that Shana's mother wouldn't wait for her forever in the little cabin in Emerald Creek Plain.

She is not only a mother, but also herself.

Moreover, this house in Cuixi Plain was originally a temporary residence prepared by Shana's mother after she became pregnant, in order to raise her, and it was not a witch's house in the true sense.

The wooden house, abandoned for who knows how many years, was simply renovated with magic and then people moved in.

Every year, a witch has to be invited to reinforce it with magic so that it doesn't collapse.

Even the money to reinforce the wooden house was paid for with the witch clan's "Young Witch Care Allowance." Once she started school, this allowance would stop, and Shana's mother didn't know any building magic anyway, so the house wouldn't last much longer.

Shana's mother is still very young.

For witches with an average lifespan of over five hundred years, the thirteen years of childbirth and raising children are just a small episode in their lives.

After that, Shana's mother's life will return to normal.

The house is a bit old now, but many of the things in it were acquired little by little by Shana's mother during her travels in the past, in order to decorate the future witch's house.

It's been well maintained; after so many years, it's still in great condition.

Shana's mother was planning to take her away.

Keep using the ones you still like, and sell the ones you don't like much but are still worth some money on the secondhand market for gold coins.

Then she continued her journey, accumulating wealth, and when she wanted to settle down, she would find a place that suited her taste and build a witch's house that truly belonged to her...

The log cabins in Cuixi Plain will be abandoned again.

The house gradually became empty, with only some broken tables and chairs remaining, and the atmosphere of parting grew stronger.

Even though Moran knows that Shana's mother should also have her own life, she still feels bad about it.

After all, this was the first time in her two lifetimes that she had a home and a mother.

Perhaps this is the downside of traveling with memories; deep down, she is still human, lacking the freedom and carefree spirit of a witch.

Not wanting her emotions to affect Shana's mother, Moran simply went outside.

I lay on the grass under the shade of a tree, closing my eyes to rest.

Shana, who was inside the house, saw this and tapped her wand lightly.

Moran's breathing became even and long.

……

"Little Moran! Wake up!"

She didn't know when she had fallen asleep, but when Moran suddenly opened her eyes, the sun had already set.

"Oh no! Mom, what time is it?"

"Seven o'clock. The water is heated up for you, go take a bath! The ceremony is about to begin," Shana said unhurriedly.

Moran rushed to the bathroom.

The water temperature was just right, and her school robe was placed on the clothes rack in the bathroom.

I quickly washed myself and changed into my school uniform.

When they came out, their hair was still wet.

Looking at the time, it was almost eight o'clock.

"Watch me!" Shana used magic to dry her hair.

Then, from who knows where, he took out a black satin headband adorned with purple gemstones and placed it on her head:
"Hmm... hairstyle number two, please!"

The two ends of the headband unfolded like two small hands, combing Moran's long hair. In less than three minutes, a half-up hairstyle was braided for her, and the headband was tied in her hair.

"What is this...?" Moran curiously touched the tassels on the headband.

"The classic magic headband of the hair witch can be used to create eighteen classic hairstyles, which is simple and beautiful."

"Little Moran, congratulations on your enrollment!" Shana said with a smile.

Moran felt a pang of sadness: "Thank you, Mom!"

Shana's mother was not well-off and always lived frugally, as the witch's magical items were not cheap.

The only thing in the whole house that wasn't put away, the magic clock, rang.

"Clang clang clang!"

It's eight o'clock.

Moran immediately felt a slight burning sensation on her hand, and then she saw that the mark on the admission notice had begun to glow.

She only had time to remind Shana's mother to send her a letter before the mark disappeared with her.

Shana deliberately used magic to keep her daughter asleep until now, just so she wouldn't be immersed in the atmosphere of parting.

Her daughter has left; it's time for her to continue her journey.

(End of this chapter)