Chapter 168: The Witch and The Contract of Magic (10)
After the incident ended, Dorothea had to face suspicious glances from the Donnengarten side.
The wife who was unable to speak through her tears, the overflowing spirits, being with Rapunzel who had escaped—or so it was made to appear—from the tower.
To those unaware of the full context, she seemed the most suspicious at this point.
Dorothea wasn’t unaware that she would be suspected if she deliberately displayed her abilities.
That was why she had summoned spirits to her room to make it look like someone was there, or had Sophia pretend to investigate elsewhere to draw attention, in preparation for this.
However, plans often went awry when put into practice.
From the moment the dwarf noticed their tailing, the possibility of “quietly resolving things without others knowing” had gone out the window, and after that, it was just momentum.
The part where action preceded thought in urgent situations truly made the knight a perfect match for his master—though she would vehemently deny it.
Fortunately, Dorothea wasn’t thrown in jail with burly men interrogating her.
If an ordinary adventurer or traveler had been suspected of necromancy and threatening the lord’s wife simultaneously, they would have been thrown in jail regardless of the truth, but Dorothea was neither a simple adventurer nor a traveler.
To express it in a noble’s verbose style, she was a companion of “Lady Adelaide von Lennart, heir candidate of Friedel domain, member of the Lion Duke’s bloodline, individual event winner of the Thracus martial arts tournament—as the champion was disqualified—representative instructor of the Lennart dojo Tik-Tok branch, and guest of the lord of Donnengarten”.
This was why the soldiers’ attitude had to be cautious, no matter how suspicious she seemed.