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"That doesn't make sense, sir." Lilith remained skeptical.

"You said that she was a powerful witch who could spread the plague, right?" Lilith scribbled on the notebook while expressing her opinion. "During our adventure, we have heard many magical stories and have learned a little about witches. Although witches don't have great abilities like moving mountains and filling seas, if she is really an adult witch, how can ordinary people subdue her? Maybe she is just a witch who knows a little about herbology-"

"Because the townspeople caught her daughter first," Adams said.

Lilith's rambling got caught in her throat.

"The pastor also told the townspeople that the witch was very cunning, a fox in beautiful human skin, and could easily escape. So the father took his daughter away first, and she did not resist until she was executed." Adams spoke in a gentle voice, but the story he told was a creepy one for those present.

Lilith took a deep breath and managed to stop herself from breaking the charcoal pencil in her hand.

“But the evil witch was not willing to die. After her crimes were read out in the church, she cursed the new mayor at the time, my father, on top of the fire, cursing that his child would be born with the resentment of all the creatures in this forest. Then, before the fire was lit, she actually burned up... The priest said that this was a miracle and a punishment from the God of Light.

My father thought that everything would be fine after the witch died, but my mother gave birth to me like this after ten months of pregnancy. That’s why I said that I was the first person to bear the curse...” Adams was still calm when he talked about his own story, as if he had already accepted this fate.

"If the witch dies, will the disease disappear?" Lulu thought it was ridiculous.

Adams hesitated for a moment and nodded. "It has indeed disappeared. The Church of Light used its own method..."

"What method?" Catherine sneered and asked a question whose answer she had already guessed, causing others to look at her sideways.

"I mentioned that the fire station is a gathering place for the population of several villages. The church chose an abandoned village where no one lived and transferred nearly 200 sick people in the town there."

"Once they're all dead, the disease will naturally disappear, right?" Catherine said with sarcasm in her eyes. "Does this include your grandfather, Mr. Adams?"

"...Yes, miss, that is the church's decision and no one can interfere." Adams nodded.

"In other words, because of a sudden epidemic, the church allowed two hundred people to die in the abandoned village. And you blame a woman for everything, and the only thing that woman did was to make some potions for her family?" Lilith couldn't help it anymore and spoke aggressively.

"She was the one who brought the disease first... Never mind, history is no longer traceable, miss. But the curse on me has really come true." Adams' back was slightly hunched, like an irregular ball, very funny. Lilith looked at his inhuman appearance and thought that he was innocent in this matter. She bit her lip and swallowed back the more unpleasant words.

"If she really did it, then she has been executed by the church and all the grudges are over. Why do you still change color when you mention witches and always talk about witch's curse?" Catherine's face was cold.

"Because... her daughter ran away." Adams had nothing to do, so he took out a new bag of walnuts from the storage cabinet. He used his extremely strong forelimbs to squeeze the nuts open one by one and put the kernels into the jar next to him. The thick walnuts could not last more than two seconds in his hands and were easily shelled like peanuts.

"Her father secretly let her go, and the girl fled into the mountains and forests."

"Is she alone?" Catherine was filled with anger. A little girl was forced into the wilderness with no one to take care of her.

"Not only that... After I was born, many people were terrified by my appearance. People kept reporting me to the church, and several witches were found one after another. But most of them ran away like that girl..."

"...Let's go back, Lilith, it's too late." Catherine stood up. The information she had absorbed today was too shocking for her. She suddenly didn't want to listen any more. The fatigue seemed to spread from her bones. She felt tired and cold.

Lilith looked up in surprise. She had more questions to ask, but when she saw Catherine's tired face, she stood up obediently.

"Thank you for sharing, Mr. Adams." Lilith bowed solemnly to the giant armadillo. "I am very sorry for what happened before. We were too reckless. It's too late today. We will come to your house another day to formally apologize to you."

"No, no..." It was the first time that Adams was spoken to in such a normal tone without any joking or fear by anyone other than his family. He was so shaken that he didn't even need a formal apology. He kept waving his front paws to push the person away.

After a brief farewell, everyone walked out of the strange and gloomy house. After staying in it and getting to know its gentle and polite owner, they no longer found it so creepy.

"It's incredible..." Bobby couldn't help but exclaimed after walking a short distance.

"Yeah, I didn't expect the witch to encounter such an experience here..." Lulu nodded in agreement and sighed.

"No, no, that's not what I'm talking about!" Bobby winked, "He can actually find a wife! I really should let my mother come and see so that she won't worry about anything unnecessary."

"He has a big house, of course it's easy for him to find a wife..." This was all Lucas could see.

"What's there to be envious of? Maybe his wife just happens to match his appearance." Daniel couldn't help but add a sentence.

"You are so... boring! Superficial!" Lulu didn't expect that a group of boys would discuss other people's private affairs after they came out. She turned around and argued with them angrily, "Mr. Adams is gentle and polite. There will always be someone who can discover his inner qualities and like him!"

"Do you think what he said is true?" Lilith and Catherine were at the end of the team. They followed in the shadows of their predecessors and talked in low voices.

"She doesn't look like a treacherous person." Lilith nodded and said softly. Their characters were set up as wealthy nobles from other places who came here to get some travel materials. They had no conflict of interest with Mr. Adams, so there was no need for him to lie to them.

"A curse requires a sacrifice in exchange. The witch spontaneously combusted without fire after she cast the curse. It looked like she had sacrificed her own life..." Catherine felt a pain in her heart when she thought of this.

"So, witches and witches' curses are real." The materialistic warrior Lilith was quietly broken at this moment, but she had no time to be sad. The question she wanted to know more now was -

Are those witches who were lucky enough to escape into the woods really now taking indiscriminate revenge on this town built on their blood and tears?