"I Became a Witch, but Now Everyone's in Love with Me!"

Chapter 86 – Camilla Entertainment Cup
 

"If Jiang Cha doesn't want to take it, I can help you turn it down."
"If possible, can I know the details of the commission first?"
Although Annie's tone hinted that she didn’t want to take the job, Jiang Cha had her own considerations.

—Money.
In Annie's maid shop, if a customer wanted to take a maid out for a day, five thousand yuan was just the starting price. Depending on the commission, the fee could increase further.
It was quite profitable, huh?

And Annie's commission really wasn’t high, so this kind of outing assignment in the shop was more like an introduction service for blind dates.
If the guest and the maid were already familiar to a certain extent, they could use this method to deepen their understanding of each other.
The money paid by the customer was essentially equivalent to the expenses of pursuing a girlfriend.
When a maid didn’t want to go out with a guest, Annie would help her turn down the assignment, making it a service that both guests and maids were satisfied with.

Of course, that didn’t mean all assignments were blind dates. There were also many serious commissions, such as temporarily accompanying someone to a banquet or something similar.
However, such assignments usually didn’t specify a maid directly, but were decided after the guest met with the maids.
Still, Jiang Cha felt that Mephisto shouldn’t harbor any romantic intentions toward her, so she was curious about this commission.

Before that, though, she had to appease the jealous red-haired witch who was puffing up her cheeks.
"If you turn down a commission without a reason, it’ll be bad for your reputation, right, Annie? And Mephisto-senpai is also my friend. Since she’s already given you the assignment, wouldn’t it be rude to refuse without even looking at it?"
"Okay, okay…"

Annie was somewhat happy that Jiang Cha considered her, even if it was only in words.
As a witch born with two super traits who could glimpse fragments of the future, Annie knew that Jiang Cha’s words were only meant to coax her, given her personality.
But she still felt secretly pleased.

What could she do? This was what a little girl in love looked like, wasn’t it?
"I really can’t do anything about you, you bad woman. Listen carefully, Senior Mephisto wants you to accompany her to a competition."
"What competition?"

"Camilla Entertainment Cup."
Seeing Jiang Cha’s confused expression, Annie knew she knew nothing about the competition. She sighed and explained in detail.
"This is an entertainment competition held by Sage Camilla in her own name. Jiang Cha, you should already know her achievements in the theory of magic development."

"But she is also a master of alchemy. So even though the Camilla Entertainment Cup takes the form of a witch battle, the prizes are what alchemists dream of, so it often attracts many alchemists of the right age."
"The age limit for participation is 18 years old or younger. It’s said that this is a rule set by Sage Camilla to select good seedlings. But no matter how I think about it, I feel like she just wants to watch a Baby Cup for fun."
Annie complained softly, and Jiang Cha could only pretend not to hear.

She still respected the sage. The book The Origin of Magic that Camilla had written had helped her greatly in developing Mind Overlap.
But now she didn’t dare offend Annie. Jiang Cha wasn’t so tactless as to debate with her over whether they should complain about a sage when the little girl was jealous.
"So, what’s the prize?"
The girl asked again—she was also an alchemist.

"The reward for the champion team is a week of guidance from Camilla herself, plus a level 7 space material. Compared to that, the monetary bonus is trivial. It’s not much anyway… Okay, okay, don’t look at me like that. I’ll help you make contact."
Annie puffed her cheeks and sighed again.
She knew Jiang Cha wouldn’t be able to resist such a temptation.

"But that Senior Sister Mephisto definitely has bad intentions!" Annie couldn’t help but emphasize.
"To participate in a competition with an age limit like the Camilla Cup, why wouldn’t she look for classmates in her own grade? Why look for you, Jiang Cha—a first-year student who only awakened a few months ago and isn’t even fifteen years old yet?"
The growth of witches wasn’t linear. Between fourteen and thirty was the first period of rapid growth. During this stage, their magic power, knowledge, and combat ability all grew explosively. The champion teams of the past three Camilla Cups had all been composed of three eighteen-year-old witches.

A fourteen-year-old witch trying to stage an upset—well, even setting aside °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° other factors, she’d suffer a major disadvantage in both the quantity and quality of her magic power.
An exceptional eighteen-year-old witch could already reach the level of a Great Witch. If she turned back to face her fourteen-year-old self, she would surely crush her.
The best example was Daisy’s team. Though considered top-tier even within Eslon Academy, their average age was still only over nineteen.

"I know, I know. That’s why I just plan to meet with Senior Mephisto first and ask her about her specific plans before making any decisions."
The girl smiled and rubbed her head, trying to comfort the little witch who was on the verge of exploding with anger.
"If there’s no possibility of winning the championship, then I won’t waste my time playing this game."

Compared to high-grade materials or money, the reward of a one-week private tutorship from a sage was far more valuable.
And surely it wouldn’t be limited to alchemy alone, right?
Although Mortel was also a master of magical development, it was still important to gather insights from different perspectives and absorb ideas of every kind.

However, the competition would take at least half a month. If Jiang Cha couldn’t win the championship, she had no interest in participating.
After all, it would be far too time-consuming.
So she really wasn’t lying to Annie—in front of a witch who could glimpse fragments of the future, lying was tantamount to courting death.

"Then I agree. You can contact her yourself. Here’s the official commission form. Just take it with you."
In fact, Jiang Cha already had a good idea of what Mephisto was thinking.
She was probably worried that if she invited Jiang Cha directly, it would be difficult for her to refuse without damaging their friendship, so she had turned to Annie as an intermediary.

That way, even if Jiang Cha declined, the two of them could simply pretend nothing had happened, avoiding any awkwardness later on.
Noble witches were always like that—considering everything too much. While they thought of it as being thoughtful, many others saw it as nothing more than pretentiousness.
Jiang Cha’s own master, Mortel, had run away simply because he couldn’t stand that kind of atmosphere.

"You really trust me, don’t you? Aren’t you afraid I’ll just let you take the order?"
The girl blinked, accepted the commission, and teased with a sly smile.
"Hmph, if you really did that, it would only mean there’s something wrong with my ability—which would actually be a good thing for me."

The little red-haired witch crossed her arms and snorted coldly.
Probably the only hard part of her body was her mouth.