I Picked Up a Witch With Amnesia

3. Before the start begins – 03

Imagine it in your mind. It is not an exaggeration to say that the aspect of the witch as a transcendent person and her magic reached its peak, and her magic was so powerful. A devastating scene in which the whole world was turned upside down by the witch’s single finger.

Bianca, who belonged to the ‘Winter Expedition’, was also one of the top five wizards in the empire and a skilled person who could easily turn the Duchy of Estelle into powder, but compared to the witches, she was inferior. To that extent, witches were powerful wizards and, as far as I knew, the most powerful human beings. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with calling it outside the standard, given that it brought an endless winter to the entire continent in the first place.

So killing is too wasteful. Even so, the Duchy of Estel was in dire need of high-quality manpower like wizards. In this situation where the weather is cold and the land available for farming is extremely limited, even if there is only one proper wizard, the territory will be able to achieve a lot of progress.

Unfortunately, however, I couldn’t find a wizard who wanted to come to the cold and low-money countryside like the Duchy of Estel. In other words, there is only one old man over 70 in the territory now.

So, the witch who is blinking in front of me, losing all her memories, can only be seen as a gold coin lying on the street. Isn’t it really a surplus business to have a chance to play the evil witch who is scheduled to destroy mankind in the future?

“There is no place to go back to, no family, nothing. Then it’s okay to stay here. Our territory is a bit narrow and poor, but it’s not to the extent that we can’t take one of you.”

By the way, the witch said that using honorifics for herself was uncomfortable and asked for permission to speak, so she was using short words. Of course, the human being I was able to grant such a request.

“…really?”

“okay. Do you know who I am?”

dory dory.

Yeah, I guess it’s weirder knowing me when I’ve lost all my memory.

“I’m not the owner of this castle… but I’m the one who will be the owner in the future. The second tallest person in this castle. So, there is no need to feel burdened. I can’t say I’m rich, but it’s not even a job to pick up a little girl.”

Because I’m going to eat it to the bone in the future. To the extent that the sound of music comes out of that face.

As I persuaded the witch with a kind face, her face began to change little by little. It starts to change from an expression of not knowing why to an expression of contemplating something.

“…really.”

She bows her head. He wiggles his fingers as if he has something on his mind. And after hesitating for a while, he asked me a question in a crawling voice.

“Really, can I…?”

“yes?”

“I already told you, but I don’t remember anything. I don’t even know what I’m good at, what I’m not good at, what I like and what I don’t like. I am like an empty person.”

The eyes of the witch who said that were empty. It was as if he was shouting that not only himself, but the world itself had no meaning.

“So I am nothing. It has no value. I will be of no use to anyone. Because I don’t know anything. So…”

After talking to that point, the witch hung her head and was unable to speak.

“…..”

I look at the witch The witch’s face is not visible. With her head down, all she could see was the back of her head, which was covered with snow-white hair.

“ha.”

I let out a big sigh. At the sound of my sigh, the witch can be seen flinching. But I don’t even care about any of that.

bean.

“Aww.”

Gently squeeze the back of the witch’s head.

“What does that matter? What does your lack of memory have to do with your uselessness?”

“That, that… I don’t know anything… What everyone else knows, I don’t know…”

“I don’t know much either. There are so many things I don’t know. The only things I can say I know a little better than others are how to count while rolling a pen and how to do paperwork. Then am I useless?”

In fact, before returning, he learned how to cut to death while rolling to death under the princess, but let’s leave that out of the question. Because it was a painful memory that only felt so bitter. If possible, all I want is to never hold a sword in my life.

“That, that and this are different!”

“What is different?”

“That, so…”

The witch hesitated for a moment without answering, and then began to mumble.

“…I can’t do things that others take for granted.”

“What do you know how to take for granted?”

“…uh, I mean… routine things like cleaning and laundry…”

“I, what?”

I answer the witch’s words indifferently.

“In the Duchy of Estel, there are a lot of kids who claim to be maids despite not being good at cleaning or washing. According to what you said, we should kick out all the kids who work here right now?”

By the way, the reason they are hiring maids who can’t clean or wash well is because the Duchy of Estel is terribly poor. As the Duchy of Estelle is a poor village with poor farming, livestock farming, and commerce, the means by which the villagers can earn money are very limited. That’s why the Duke of Estelle was hiring anyone who wanted to as a servant in the castle to give jobs to the residents of the territory. Thanks to that, terrifying handmaidens who could not wash or clean even though they were handmaids were born.

The general who manages the finances of the duchy would sigh every time he looked at the ladies-in-waiting, but unfortunately, their washing and cleaning skills did not seem to improve easily. Even after 10 years, the commander-in-chief did not stop sighing while looking at the ladies-in-waiting.

“If you don’t know something, you can learn it. don’t worry. I am willing to teach you anything you want.”

Of course, if you’re interested in magic, there’s nothing better than that. Concealing such a sly feeling while placating the witch, she muttered to me in a melancholy voice.

“…But I am an empty person. I don’t even know where I was born or what my name is. Will I be able to do well…?”

“it’s okay. You will be able to do well.”

I say that with strong trust towards her. Ten years from now, if you don’t trust a witch with powerful abilities that will bring winter to the entire continent, then who do you trust?

“And I don’t care where you were born or what your name was. If you care that much, I’ll give you a name.”

“…my name…?”

When I said I would name it, the witch raised her head and looked at me. Those eyes that were looking at me had a distinctly different energy from before.

The eyes looking at me were so bright that it was a bit of a burden, but I thought about what name would suit the white-haired woman in front of me, and came up with a name that was just right. In fact, there was one name that came to mind when I first met her face. A name that suits her so well that I wonder if there is a name that suits her more than this.

“Aria, how are you?”

Arya is the name of the goddess of winter in northern legends. Ten years later, I think it’s the perfect name for a witch who brought an unending winter to the continent.

“…aria.”

Witch, no, Arya mumbles the name countless times to see if she likes the name I gave her. Then he looks at me and smiles brightly.

“I love it. Thank you. Um, so…”

I quickly noticed why she was mumbling at the end and told me.

“Call me Cain. Everyone else calls it that.”

“Yes, Cain.”

“…Put the nim at the end.”

It seemed that she had to teach them step by step, starting with the basic etiquette that even the poor maids of the Duchy of Estel were familiar with.

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So, she opened her eyes.

When she opened her own eyes, she instinctively realized. The fact that he is an extremely imperfect person.

Inside her, nothing existed. I ended up thinking that I might be an empty person. As an analogy, there was a hollow hole pierced somewhere in his body, and it was only a terrible feeling that the contents were leaking out.

I couldn’t remember anything. What your name is, where you are from, who your family is, and who you are. Everything.

She would have lost everything that other normal people had casually had from birth.

…I got goosebumps. The more I talked to other people, the more my mind was filled with the idea that I couldn’t figure out who I was. It occurred to him that he might have to enjoy his life while being surrounded by such disparate sensations for the rest of his life.

I didn’t like it. And, it was scary. As for what scared me, I had no choice but to say that everything was scary.

he lost everything From the basic knowledge that enables a person to lead a human life, to the specialized knowledge that could be useful to someone, she did not remember anything.

In other words, she has become a useless human being.

‘…Ahh.’

I was discouraged. I was just afraid. For eternity in the future, the fear that she might end her life in such a broken form forever gripped her. On the one hand, he admitted that this was the natural ending he would face. It just felt like someone unknown to me was laughing at me, saying that there was no place on this earth where I could lie down.

But, it wasn’t. The man who had been by her side since the time she woke up had said this to her.

[Do you have any intention of being hired by the Duke of Estelle to work?]

[If you have nowhere else to go, the Duke of Estelle would be willing to officially hire you.]

So he reached out his hand to himself.

[What does that matter? What does your lack of memory have to do with your uselessness.]

As if to relieve her anxiety, she said that she was ‘useful’ to someone like herself.

Even though she lost her memory, she still had a basic sense of humor. There was no doubt that the man in front of her was a person of a high social status, perhaps incomparable to someone like herself, whose origin was not clear.

And, such a man said these words with firm trust toward himself, who was insignificant. you are never useless If there’s something you don’t know, it’s a very simple thing to learn.

…my heart was pounding. And, it was good. I liked the clumsy consolation of that person who said that something like me was useful, and the trust he had when he assured me that he would be able to do something with trust towards something like me was just too good.

Crucially, that person gave her an unforgettable gift in her life.

[If you care that much, I’ll give you a name.]

[Aria, how is it?]

That’s what gave her a name.

‘aria.’

It was amazing. The moment she was given the name Arya by him, she felt a mysterious sensation as if an empty hole somewhere in her body was being filled.

I really liked the name Aria. I don’t know if it’s because it’s the name he gave himself, but I liked it to the point where I had the illusion that it wasn’t his original name.

happy. And, I was excited. The thought that she might be of help to someone made her heart thump.

However, I have already made up my mind. Who will this body be of help to? And, it means that he has made up his mind whether to use up his new life for someone else.

‘Cain.’

She gently touched her heart, which was beating like crazy. It was an unfamiliar sensation she had never felt before, but she felt happy after realizing that this feeling she had had stemmed from her feelings for the man.

One day, I will definitely be of help to that person. And at the end, he will repay the trust he has shown himself.

yes definitely And sure.