Otaku Witch

Chapter 1211: Chapter 692: Underlying Currents in the Plot

“Miss, is it worth going in such circles?”

Wenwen, surrounded by cameras, looked curiously at the nearby homebody witch and asked.

“With your strength, you could easily stop her before Miss Doctor takes her own life, right?”

In response, Dorothy rolled her eyes.

“How do I know if she truly has the courage to commit suicide, or if she only has the courage to threaten me with suicide?”

The homebody witch shrugged as she spoke.

Knowing someone’s face doesn’t mean knowing their heart. Though witches possess the Mind Reading Technique of magic, people’s hearts are too complex to be fully perceived by one single magic. Often, newcomers in the Spirit System get manipulated by those truly cunning individuals due to their blind faith in the power of the Mind Reading Technique, only to end up with nothing.

Dorothy also doesn’t have the habit of reading minds at random and peeping into others’ privacy, so when meeting someone for the first time, she couldn’t discern if Butterfly Shinobi’s act of suicide earlier was genuine or merely a desperate tactic to coerce her into taking the blame.

Well, some people truly lack the courage to commit suicide, yet they possess significant nerve to exploit sympathy under the guise of a suicide attempt for preferential treatment.

“Ah, this…”

Wenwen fell silent. Although she was well-versed in news as a journalist, she was still a witch student yet to graduate and truly step into society, making her quite naive in understanding human nature.

She had seen many news stories regarding similar situations in the past, but when truly faced with such matters herself, she still couldn’t relate the news to her personal experience.

“That’s why I didn’t stop her; I simply wanted to find out what kind of person she truly is, so just watching is enough.”

Dorothy looked at her senior sister, who seemed quite versed in the martial arts world but was indeed still a naive girl, and said with a smile.

“If she hadn’t had the courage to go through with it just now, then I would’ve helped her complete her suicide and, as she wished, taken her sister away, since the little girl is actually quite sweet and kind.”

“However, given that she truly possessed the courage to end her life, although I still dislike her act of moral coercion, I can understand her thoughts and motives. Because if I were in her position, I wouldn’t fare much better.”

The homebody witch sighed as she spoke.

Being a Family Knight who holds family as a top priority, Dorothy could understand Miss Doctor’s determination to save her sister even at the cost of her own life.

And imagining stepping into Miss Doctor’s shoes, facing impending unavoidable death, but before her lies an opportunity to save her family by sacrificing her life.

The choice is either everyone dies together, or she dies and her sister lives.

The answer to this problem is clear.

Probably, Dorothy would slit her throat even more smoothly and decisively than Miss Doctor.

As for grandiose notions like defying destiny, seeking survival in death, and creating miracles, let’s spare those words.

That’s a privilege of protagonists, but most people can’t become protagonists.

Why is a protagonist a protagonist? Why do they seem to have cheat-like fortune that always turns disasters into blessings? Because they are the ultimate victors, only victors’ pasts are worth recording and writing down, and eventually, it becomes known to you.

As for the failures who can’t always turn bad luck around and smile at the end, who would care?

Do you care why a dead person in a roadside grave ended up dying?

Real ordinary people have no choice in the face of fate’s jest; they who have nothing can only drift along.

One shouldn’t advise others to be good if they haven’t endured others’ hardships; if you knew my suffering, you might not possess my goodness.

Dorothy is fortunate; she has decent talent and a good family background and will scarcely ever experience such despair as Miss Doctor.

But she can’t very well sit in the car her parents prepared for her at birth, eating hotpot and singing songs, then mocking those outside struggling under burdens, arrogantly commenting that those people live poorly due to laziness and stupidity, can she?

Is that something a human could say?

The homebody witch recalled her days roaming the ground with Adam.

There was once, father and daughter witnessed a group of slaves carrying a chariot of their slave master passing by. The plump slave master on the chariot pointed at the wretched-looking slaves and spoke to his equally rotund son.

“You must work hard, gain power, and win the right to speak, or eventually, you might end up like these lazy, stupid, lower-class people.”

And Adam similarly pointed at the group of slaves, turning to Dorothy and said.

“You must work hard, gain power, win the right to speak so that one day there might be fewer unfortunate people like these in this world.”

Though at that time the father and daughter fleeing for their lives weren’t much more dignified than the slaves, this didn’t stop the homebody witch from thinking her dad was really quite charming at that moment.

Though she remains nameless in the Witch World, she has gained some reputation in Japan, so why not fulfill her father’s wish?

It’s just that she’s a bit lazy by nature and doesn’t possess Adam’s spirit of saving people through to the end.

If she saw someone drowning in a river, Adam would certainly dive right in to save them without hesitation, whereas Dorothy…