Fairy tale: Little Red Riding Hood's wolf mentor

"Did this witch… die?"

Could she suddenly turn into a vine and run away like before?"

Leike looked at the old woman's corpse on the ground. From what she said earlier and what happened at the Duke's mansion, she probably wasn't a good person.

"She should be dead."

Poro released his bite. Without drugs, his biting power is often inferior to weapons, plus he saw the Green-Red Witch's severed shoulder…

So, he disguised himself as the dead Prince Boren, wanting to take advantage of the Green-Red Witch's carelessness and kill her with a sword.

Judging from the result, nothing unexpected happened.

The Green-Red Witch is dead.

Poro opened his palm, and a golden page materialized in the air:

The picture on it was a figure wearing a pointed round hat and a mage robe, with his hands open upwards. Below it was a vortex-shaped representation of grass and leaves, shimmering with a hazy green light under the "mage's" actions.

[Spiral Beacon: Witch]

[Sublimation Tier: 1]

[Fairy Tale Authority: Considered to possess some of the magic experience of the killed witch]

[Description: Magic, miracles, and the halo of transcendence can only be glimpsed by the luckiest and most talented—and now, you have just begun to see it]

"Magic?"

Leike widened her eyes, "So Poro got this… and can use magic!?"

"Just… a small part of the experience, still far from enough."

Poro waved his claws, put away the golden page, and looked into the distance at the crystal coffins surrounded by the four motionless vine monsters.

"Should we release the princess?"

Leike and Poro walked to the crystal coffin, lifted the transparent coffin lid, and Snow White stood up with disheveled hair, panting softly, her forehead looking a little red and swollen.

Poro blinked.

He thought of when the Green-Red Witch suddenly cast her spell…

The four vine monsters simultaneously moved their shoulders away, dropping the crystal coffin on the ground. He vaguely remembered… that the crystal coffin seemed to have made a "clang" sound at the time?

Hiss, it looks painful.

"Ah, there shouldn't be anything happening for a short time now. Before the Queen reacts, we're probably the only ones alive in the forest."

Poro looked around at the lush green jungle. Among the dense forest, Boren's elite soldiers, Syno soldiers, dwarves, Prince Boren, and the Green-Red Witch…

So many humans died here silently.

Swallowed by the dense forest.

Poro's mind once again thought of the rotten bones he saw when he first entered the forest.

After the beasts have devoured most of the flesh and blood, plants… will probably grow more luxuriantly on these corpses, right?

"They, so many people, have died… is it because of… me again?"

Snow White looked at the Green-Red Witch's corpse not far away. Poro was sniffing and searching through the witch's corpse, taking out some messy things and placing them on the ground.

"You? It's okay, appearance is determined by nature, not your own choice, you don't have to… feel guilty for something you can't decide."

Snow White's eyes brightened when she heard this, but she still couldn't suppress the sorrow in her heart.

As a… girl who had been living a life of luxury since childhood and had not experienced the outside world, she experienced such earth-shattering changes in her eighteenth year.

This pushed her spirit to the brink of collapse again and again.

When Snow White first met the seven dwarves, she thought she had finally met kind people who were not affected by her appearance, and thought… she could continue to spend the rest of her life in the forest.

But until now, she directly faced this abyss-like—darkness!

When she saw Poro take out the half-green and half-red apple from the Green-Red Witch's arms, a tear slowly fell from the corner of her eye.

"That… can you give me that apple?"

Snow White murmured.

"Apple?"

Poro was stunned for a moment, looking at the apple in his hand, saying, "You don't need to eat it, the witch is already dead…"

"No, I just… don't want this body anymore, just like… the witch said just now…"

Snow White finally couldn't help it, and tears flowed down in large drops, "I can't do it, not to hurt others because of this body, I don't want… to see those people who originally got along harmoniously, fighting in front of me…

I think, I may really not be worthy of using this body, I…

If eating the apple can give this beautiful body to someone else, I really—am willing! Even if I live in an animal's body in the future!"

After Snow White finished speaking, she sobbed.

She covered her chest, her weak body as if she was about to faint.

At this moment, Leike stepped forward, supported Snow White's body, and said softly:

"Sorry, Snow White, I always thought… giving up your body might not be a good thing, but we don't really understand what you've experienced."

Leike took off her hood and patted Snow White's shoulder, "Can you tell us about it?"

In the past few days of getting along, Leike could resist most of the mental distortion caused by Snow White's appearance with the help of the cloak and dagger.

Looking at Leike's pure eyes, Snow White lowered her eyes and slowly began to speak:

"Before I was eighteen, everything… was still very normal. Although my mother died, my father married a new queen, but she never had much interaction with me.

Until… the morning of my eighteenth birthday.

I opened my eyes and saw the maid who grew up with me, holding a knife and stabbing me!

I dodged, the guard heard the sound, walked in, and killed the maid, but after seeing me… the guard's eyes changed, he walked towards me step by step, wanting to grab me.

But then, another guard walked in, and after seeing me, they began to fight each other.

Everyone seemed… to want to possess me!"

Snow White recalled, the color of fear becoming more and more obvious in her eyes, "I took advantage of the chaos to escape, but everyone I saw along the way changed their expressions and fell into endless fighting…

Women will have uncontrollable jealousy when they see me, each of them—wants to kill me!

And men will want to possess me, they will kill… anyone who prevents them from doing so at all costs!

I saw such a scene for the first time, the clean palace, a river of blood!

I escaped from the palace, covering my face with a cloth, but… that didn't help much.

People who saw me would be very interested in my appearance!

They tried their best to uncover the cloth covering my face.

A man succeeded.

So… the fighting spread to the civilians in the capital!

I escaped to the forest, such a desolate place, but the army chasing me behind me intercepted me in the forest.

They saw my appearance.

They also died, died from infighting, no one survived.

After that… I met the seven dwarves, they didn't have the slightest influence on my appearance, and their attitude towards me was like… gentle elders…

At that time, I really didn't know, didn't know those dwarves were…"

Snow White said, paused, and put her eyes on the apple in Poro's hand, "I have also thought many times before, to scratch my face with a knife…

But I found that when I picked up the knife and thought of my appearance, for some reason, I…

Can't do it!"

Snow White's tears gradually dried up, she recovered her emotions, and after saying these words, her expression became a lot calmer.

She raised her perfect face and looked at Poro:

"So… can you give me that apple? If… it really has such a function, of course, even if it's poisonous, it… doesn't matter!"

Poro looked at Snow White, opened his mouth, but found that he couldn't give the girl in front of him more guarantees.

After using [Spiral Beacon: Witch], he had some of the Green-Red Witch's magic experience.

He understood… the witch wasn't lying about the Green-Red Apple.

It can indeed… swap people's bodies!

"Are you really… sure?"

Poro asked.

"Yes, I'm very sure."

Snow White said calmly.

Looking at those beautiful eyes that seemed a little empty, Poro could only sigh and put the Green-Red Apple into Snow White's hand.