The Most Powerful Witch: Elsa Whitlock

The witch was five and a half feet tall, just like Caitrin, but she was shorter. She looked like she was in her late twenties and was wearing a black coat of the kind witches wore, and black little shoes, a shirt with a purple ribbon, and a purple skirt. She also had long white hair, purple eyes, and had a sneaky grin that never disappeared from her face. 

After she put the bottle in her pocket, she looked at Orano confused and said,

"Who are you two?"

Caitrin said sarcastically,

"How could she realize us that late?"

Orano said,

"Are you the witch that everyone is talking about?"

The witch said,

"I asked you a question first but anyway."

She then added,

"It's true that I'm decidedly spoken among people, but I don't know what you've heard about me or why did you come here."

Orano looked at her with a serious expression,

"I have to talk to you about something important. If you can listen, I'll tell you why we came here from the very start."

At first, she looked at him with an unsure expression and said,

"I've never seen you two in my life and just because I'm known as crazy doesn't mean I'm just gonna invite you in."

As she said that, Orano took out the necklace that he took, and said while showing it to her,

"Is this enough evidence for you?"

After seeing the necklace she grinned again and said,

"Actually, it's not something that I like that strangers to come here, but I'm intrigued that you can take the crystal from "that person" and come here with it. So I'd like to hear what you have to say for me."

She then turned her back to them and said,

"But we can't talk a thing like here. So follow me."

The witch's sneaky smile and vague manner made them a little suspicious. But because she was the only person there and was a person just like the people described, they followed her without waiting.

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The inside of the castle was quite stylish and glistened as if it were being cleaned every day. And every time they went through a corridor, the witch used her power to open a door. 

It was armed with such amazing spells that Caitrin even saw a broom moving by itself as she walked down a corridor. But before she could express her confusion and amazement, they had already arrived in the Witch's study room.

The Witch said,

"Here is my room. It is not that big but still, it is enough to place for me to work. And still, be careful where you step."

Compared to other parts of the Castle, The Witch's study room was a rather messy place. And since the books on the shelves were on the table in the middle of the room, the bottles prepared with potions in them were reserved in the corner and we're ready to be used, and since the boiler was still boiling, it made it harder for them to move.

But even if they barely moved inside, they eventually moved to the middle of the room and started talking again,

"Alright then, now that we've found a place to talk, you can tell me who you are and why did you come here, right?"

Orano crossed his arms and started to talk,

"I'm Orano Tatsumi, and this is my friend Caitrin Nakahara." 

"Nice to meet you two, I'm Elsa Whitlock. So why did you two came here?"

"We came here because the protector of the Black Forest gave us the necklace and said that you were his friend. I don't know how true is that, but since the necklace worked as he said, there has to be something you have to say to us right?"

She grinned and said,

"So Ken sent you here, huh? You are smarter than you look."

Caitrin asked,

"Ken? Do you know his name?"

"Yes. His name is "Ken Adachi". We were friends before when Luroun's war was still going on. Frankly, even then, he was someone who liked to hang out on his own and was aggressive all the time. He would usually only care about his duty and would hang out with us when Sigfried only came. They were very close friends and he became very sad after his death."

She then added, 

"But even I didn't think the "Black Swordsman" would decapitate his loneliness and talk to even one person. I think he'd remember the old days again."

Caitrin said to herself as she listened to Elsa,

*So he was the Black Swordsman after all.*

Then Elsa said,

"But that is not our topic right now, right?"

She then leaned on the table close to her and added,

"So why did you two come here?"

Orano crossed his arms and said,

"As you probably know, there's a spell called "The Rift", that shows people different places and chooses where they go. And since that was a rare spell, it took me a lot of time to find it. Of course, I'm not saying you have any definite information about this, but as you can see, it brought us here. And you should know there's a reason for that."

She grinned and said,

"I knew it would work sooner or later."

She then added,

"Yeah, actually, I know something about that spell. Because I'm the one who made that."

They both looked at the witch surprised and shocked,

Then Orano slowly said,

"What?"

"Wait, Really!?" Said Caitrin while she added her astonishment like Orano.

"Yeah. It was a spell that I created almost five years ago. I didn't know it was going to work, since it was one of my weak spells."

"Weak spells? You have other spells too?"

"Absolutely. What did you thought that I have done all these years living here?"

She then walked slowly towards the corner of the room, pulled a key out of her pocket, and slowly unlocked a drawer of a table. After that, she picked up a thick purple spellbook and put it on the table. 

The book that she took was quite thick, dusty, and had silver embroideries on it.

And after she put it on the table, she quickly opened it and looked at them again,

Then she said with a more serious expression,

"Everything started when we defeated Luroun."