Miss Witch, please don't leave your fragrance everywhere

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 ❖ Nоvеl𝚒ght ❖ (Exclusive on Nоvеl𝚒ght) 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."