Miss Witch, please don't leave your fragrance everywhere

Chapter 90 [Witch and Princess Knight]

 
There is such a group of races.
They live in groups and like to live underground, which gives them a natural advantage in mining and developing underground space.

They are hardworking and are content with food and shelter. They also like to contribute their strength to humans. However, their intelligence is not outstanding and they are often harmed by human profiteers.
Not only that, they are often stigmatized and wrongly accused among humans. They are——
"So what did we do wrong?"

"Who knows... Witch, do I really look like a bad guy?"
At the Dokum Mine, a group of short green-skinned people were complaining to the witch lady sitting on the stone about the injustice they had suffered.
They are a common race on the continent, creatures known for their numbers: Goblins.

Angelica accidentally entered the jurisdiction of the Dokum Mine during her travels. She was not surprised to find that the Dokum Mine was full of goblins. The goblins in this world have a strong ability to adapt to harsh environments and have a certain degree of vision in the dark, so many human mines will hire goblins as miners.
However, goblins are generally not very intelligent. You can fool them as long as you lie without blushing. For this reason, there are often goblins who work as miners their entire lives without realizing that they have been deceived.
Back to the point, the point is that when they noticed Angelica, they actually screamed.

"woman!"
"Oh my god! It's a human woman!"
"She's willing to get close to us!"

"Is there any hope?"
Angelica was immediately surrounded by excited goblins and was invited to the Dokum Mine as a VIP.
"...I roughly understand what you mean. You mean, recently, the women in the nearby towns have been looking at you strangely?"

"Yes, we went to {N•o•v•e•l•i•g•h•t} the town to find out what was going on, but the guards thought we were invaders who came to abduct women and chased us away."
"It's been about two or three months, right? In the past month, women have been avoiding our mine. I really don't understand."
"In the past few days, there has been a female knight who keeps saying that she wants to attack us. She has disturbed our sleep at night."
The goblins complained to Angelica one after another, saying that they were completely helpless and had no idea where to start.

It was rare for someone to be willing to approach the Dokum Mine, especially a woman. Although the goblins were stupid, they probably knew that this was the only way to find out what was going on.
"I see... So, you didn't try to communicate with that female knight?"
"Yes, but we don't understand what she said..."

“She’s coming!”
The goblin on guard duty reported back in due time that, in recent times, apart from Angelica who accidentally broke in today, this lady knight was basically the only one willing to approach.
Although the civilization of the human world is generally close to that of the Middle Ages, it is ultimately a world of swords and magic, and the status of women is still not high. People with magical qualifications are a different matter. Therefore, female knights, which were impossible to appear in the Middle Ages, may still exist.

Since women are naturally weak in power, female knights who are able to wear armor and fight in battle all serve as magicians. It can be said that the position of female knight is naturally strong.
"I'm here for revenge, you damned goblins! I'll pay you back a thousand-fold for the humiliation you inflicted on me!"
"Please spare me! I really don't know what I did wrong!"

"Hurry up and release the woman you captured in the mine!"
"I've already said that we haven't arrested any women—"
Outside the Dokum Mine, a blonde girl was chasing after a goblin sentry who was unable to retreat in time. She was wearing heavy armor that did not match her delicate body, but the design of the armor made people doubt whether it could really provide protection, because some parts of her skin were covered not with steel plates but with black stockings.

The girl knight held a slender silver sword in her hand, and her movement speed was no less than that of the goblin who only had a cloth wrapped around his waist. However, just as she was about to approach the goblin sentinel, a stream of water hit her face squarely.
“Uwaa ...
The girl knight who was hit by the water fell to the ground with a flushed face. Although there was no damage to her armor, she seemed to have suffered a serious blow. She struggled for several times but couldn't stand up.

"Gu... Kill me... I will never let you..."
"Ahem, Miss Princess Knight?"
The knight lady who was talking to herself suddenly realized that the people who appeared in front of her were not goblins with evil smiles, but a strange magician girl holding a broom.

"Just now I used a Sequence 8 Water Stream Impact, you know? At best, it was an attack like a child playing a water fight. It should have no effect on you at all."
"You, you were...captured by the goblins...?"
"As a beautiful and talented magician, I will never fall into the hands of a goblin."

Angelica squatted down and patted the princess knight's shoulder earnestly.
"Ms. Princess Knight, please listen carefully to the facts I am about to tell you."
"Hoohoo... so close... you smell so good..."

"How did you get chosen to become a princess knight? Listen to me! Goblins will not capture humans to reproduce."
Seeing Miss Princess Knight's attitude, Angelica immediately understood what was going on.
In a sense, goblins are victims of orcs like elves. Since when, there is a rumor among female knights: Don't be caught by goblins, otherwise there will be a more tragic end than death.

Rumor has it that there are no female goblins, and that the way they expand their race is to capture human women, because there is no separation between them and human women, and human women are not willing to marry goblins, so goblins will use despicable acts such as traps and clubs to attack human women, and then bring the captured human women to the village.
But for some unknown reason, some of the female knights not only did not take a detour when they saw goblins, but instead volunteered to attack the goblin camp. And they all chose to go it alone, which was very dangerous - just like the blonde female knight in front of Angelica.
"Eh...? No?"

"Of course not."
"But, but there are only male goblins, right? How do they reproduce?"
"It's complicated to explain, but your idea of capturing human women is completely wrong. Goblins have no interest in human women."

Even if Angelica told Lady Knight that goblins reproduced by consuming magic power and spitting out eggs like Lord Piccolo, Lady Knight wouldn't understand. Anyway, she should deny her wrong idea first.
 
Chapter 91 The Witch Lady and the Gu Hero

After a brief exchange, Angelica roughly understood the ins and outs of the matter.
The knight lady's name is Victoria. She does not live near the Dokum Mine. Similar to Angelica, Victoria is a knight lady who travels around the human world. In this age when knights are generally lackeys of the nobles, it is rare for Victoria to have a heart that promotes the spirit of chivalry.
"Miss Victoria must have only been in the industry for a short time, right?"

"I just started traveling a month ago...Huh? How do you know?"
"Because Miss Victoria doesn't look very smart, the reason she wasn't sold must be because she's new."
"Who isn't smart... I'm a top graduate of the Knight Academy!"

Victoria was very proud of it. Although Angelica had never attended the Knight Academy, the Knight Academy was essentially a place to train top fighters who could use magic. There were no requirements for command ability. In other words, magical aptitude was the most important factor, and IQ could be completely ignored. It was actually easier to trick people into working for them if they had a low IQ.
"Then Mr. Honor Student, why do you think that the goblins kidnapped the woman?"
"...I traveled around here and heard from the villagers that many women in the village had disappeared inexplicably recently. I also found out that there happened to be a mine where goblins settled in this area. Isn't the answer obvious? It must be the goblins who kidnapped the poor women. How can I tolerate such injustice as I bear the name of the Holy Light? So I broke into the goblin camp alone, but was defeated twice by them using despicable means! What a shame!"

Victoria became more and more excited as she spoke, but the goblins who had come to listen in on the discussion, noticing that Victoria and Angelica had already sat down to discuss the matter face to face, expressed different opinions.
"No way! It's clearly this human woman who is being weird!"
"That is, we didn't do anything... The first time she chased us, she sprained her ankle and fell to the ground crying. In the end, we took out the medical kit and bandaged her so that she could walk down the mountain by herself."

By the way, although Victoria was wearing armor, her boots were high heels. To be honest, Angelica wanted to know if this design would really not hinder her movements in battle. But on second thought, in the world of swords and magic, we shouldn't care so much. After all, even the stockings were of ridiculously high quality.
"A few days later, she came running over again, yelling for revenge. Then, as we were chasing each other, she suddenly said she had a stomachache... She lay on the ground, motionless..."
"She kept saying things like, 'Kill me... Even if you get my body, you can't get my heart.'"

"We didn't dare to intervene. A few hours later, she staggered up and walked away."
Angelica recalled what she had seen and heard on the way to the Dokum Mine. She did not use space warp to jump here directly, but flew slowly on a broom.
"You must have eaten the timid mushroom."

"Cowardly mushroom?"
"A rare poisonous mushroom that can be used as a material for alchemy and medical treatment. People who eat the timid mushroom will become weak in their limbs for a short period of time, but..."
Angelica looked at Victoria meaningfully.

"The cowardly mushroom can be easily removed with magic. As an outstanding graduate of the Knight Academy, you must have mastered purification magic. Why don't you use it?"
"That's because I accidentally forgot!"
"You actually hope to be picked up by a goblin, right?"

“No, no, no!!!”
Victoria was so incoherent that she almost bit her tongue. There was nothing she could do about it. The other female students in the Knight Academy all thought that goblins were creatures that liked to capture human women. It was better to say that novels about female knights captured by goblins had always been popular among female knights. As for spraining her ankle and eating the timid mushroom, it was really just an accident. It was definitely not Victoria's desire to lose the battle.
"Anyway, you should realize that goblins are not that kind of creatures. It's just that they have no way to speak out, so they are misunderstood."

"Oh... I understand. I will go to the town and explain to the villagers..."
Victoria dropped her shoulders in frustration. The nearby villagers' misunderstanding of the goblins started with Victoria's arrival. After all, their previous agreement to let the goblins work in the Dokum Mine was enough to prove that they had no prejudice against the goblins.
"But if it's not the Goblins, then who kidnapped the women from the nearby village?"

"How would I know... Well, I don't have anything else to do anyway, so it doesn't matter if I go with you."
Angelica's plan is to look for the descendants of other heroes, but there are no clues at the moment, so she might as well go with Victoria to solve the missing cases in the village. Besides—
"You are such a nice person."

...This kid doesn't seem very smart. I can probably figure it out in one night.
Angelica and Victoria said goodbye to the goblins of Dokum Mine. Victoria apologized to the goblins solemnly and promised to restore the innocence of the goblins of Dokum Mine.
Angelica had used magic to search the Dokum mines before Victoria arrived, and confirmed that there were no signs of human life or debris inside. There was no doubt that the disappearance of the women in the nearby village had nothing to do with the goblins.

There are many rural villages and a town near the Dokum Mine. Women have been missing in the village one after another recently. The governor has offered a large sum of money as a reward for clues, but so far there has been no clue.
"What? Not a goblin?"
"I'm so sorry! I was wrong. The goblins are innocent. The real murderer might be someone else."

"Who is it then?"
"This... I have no idea yet."
Victoria brought Angelica to meet the Archon. When the Archon heard that Victoria had found nothing after several days of investigation, he couldn't help but reveal a distressed expression.

Angelica spoke up: "Mr. Archon."
"Oh...you are? A friend of the knight?"
"I am her master."

“Hmm?! Master, are you going to put a collar on me and keep me like an animal…? I won’t give in!”
That being said, Victoria's wandering eyes were totally unconvincing, and Angelica actually just wanted to tease Victoria.
Ignoring the Archon's bewilderment, Angelica continued to ask.

"Miss Victoria is the only one in charge of investigating the disappearance?"
"Yes. We don't have many guards here to begin with, and we can't spare any extra personnel for patrols these days. We can only hire adventurers to investigate. But no matter how we strengthen patrols, disappearances are still happening, and there are no clues at all. It's really weird."