CHAPTER 1 STORY 16
And So Miss Sharon Is At It Again Today
Because Sharon frequently wore a self-satisfied look, and because she dressed herself up like a witch, it seemed that from a stranger’s perspective, she often looked like quite a capable person…
“At the last country I visited, see, they asked me, ‘Recently, a witch with a rotten disposition has been sitting on street corners pretending to be a fortune-teller and ripping off our citizens, so we’d like you to punish her.’ And I’m not a witch, right, so I couldn’t forgive someone who would put on an act to fool people, and I readily took the job.”
“…Uh-huh…”
A witch pretending to be a fortune-teller and ripping people off?
I’ve heard that description somewhere before…
“That witch sat on the corner and called out to passersby with stuff like ‘You there, young lady. Your fortune today is terrible. It’s likely that something very, very bad is going to happen today.’ Apparently, she was selling some kind of suspicious jars. A witch, of all people! Isn’t that just unbelievable?”
“You’re right. She sounds awful, that witch. I think she should face divine punishment.”
I nodded in agreement, and Sharon said, “I know, right? Isn’t she just the worst? Total trash, huh? No value in her living, right?”
Sharon continued, striking without mercy. I’m not really sure why, but my heart ached terribly.
Maybe you don’t have to go that far…?
After that, she eloquently told me of the events that had taken place in that country.
I heard that even when the passersby who had been sold jars and later realized they’d been tricked went back to the witch to complain, she had put her quick wit to use and talked her way out of trouble with nonsense like “You were sold a jar by some strange witch—without a doubt, this is a very, very bad thing, right? In other words, it turns out I wasn’t telling lies” and hadn’t refunded any of their money.
Sharon, who had been asked to punish this witch, was at her wit’s end.
Even though Sharon dressed as a witch, she was an ordinary young woman for her age. If she faced off against a witch, she would be in terrible danger. That meant she needed to stop the witch’s wicked deeds while at the same time not meeting the witch. She wondered whether such a feat was really possible.
Sharon was worried. After worrying over things—
“Hey, hello. You there, won’t you buy a jar? If you buy this jar, see, you’ll become happy like me!”
—she tried her hand at the same kind of rotten trade as the witch. With a face full of confidence.
“Wait, wait, wait,” I butted in and interrupted her reminiscence, “…why?”
“I just kind of felt like it.”
Somehow or other, she got swept away with the mood of the moment, and Sharon ultimately tried her hand at the same suspicious trade the witch had been plying. But because it was Sharon, things developed in an unexpected direction.
“That’s our Lady Sharon! Thanks to you, the witch has completely stopped her shady dealings!”
As a result of Sharon pretending to be a fortune-teller, the witch had abruptly stopped pretending to be a fortune-teller.
“Heh…that’s what I thought. Just what you’d expect from me…”
She cut through the crowd, wearing a triumphant expression. But she congratulated herself without knowing the reason why the witch had stopped pretending to be a fortune-teller.
“……”
Well, given the timing, I stopped because I’d been caught…
But let’s not tell her that.
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[Author Comments]
Both of them are total good-for-nothings, huh…?
Sharon is apparently very, very popular with a certain segment of readers, and my editor is always telling me, “Put her in, put her in!” But I mean, there are lots of characters I’d like to write into the story.
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