Fairy tale: Little Red Riding Hood's wolf mentor

【Ring-Shaped Regression: Little Red Riding Hood - The Wolf's Disguise】

【Unsealing Ritual Completed, Acquired Fairy Tale Authority!】

【Three guards praised you simultaneously?! Okay... maybe you really are a dog?】

【Fairy Tale Authority: Use clothing from others to disguise yourself as the owner of the clothing. The more detailed your knowledge of their appearance and the more complete the clothing you wear, the lower the chance of being exposed.】

【Description: But... Grandma, why do you have such a terrifying big mouth?】

In an instant, Polo knew the ability he had obtained!

Disguise? Like in the fairy tale?

He stared at the armor on the guards in front of him, lost in thought.

The guards didn't pay any more attention to Polo when they saw him suddenly squat down and stop moving. Since he was just a dog, there was nothing to worry about.

As for Lake, although her appearance was distorted by the cloak, the soldiers could still tell she was a little girl.

So... there was nothing wrong with her going to town.

"Well, what are you going to do in town?"

But the guard captain, after looking at the direction Lake had come from, casually asked.

However, this question couldn't stop Lake now. She took out a letter from the basket at hand and said.

"The old hunter from the forest asked me to take a letter to their daughter at the church!"

"I see, there do seem to be a few hunter families living over there."

The guard captain looked at the emblem on the letter and didn't suspect anything, so he made way and said, "Go in, little girl!"

"Thank you, Uncle!"

Lake politely gave a slight bow, her eyes catching Polo grinning foolishly.

After a little thought, she understood something.

"Wait a minute, Uncle!"

Lake suddenly spoke, stopping the captain who was about to leave.

"Is there anything else, little one?"

"It's like this, it's so hot today, thank you uncles for patrolling and protecting everyone!"

Lake looked up, took out a few fruits that the old hunter had given her from the basket under her arm, and handed them to the three guards, "These were picked from the forest, they're very sweet!"

The guards were stunned. They looked at the fruits and smiled kindly.

"Thank you, little sister!"

"What a lovely child."

They thanked her, took the fruits, and the guard captain at the head scratched his head, a little embarrassed, and said:

"Sorry, little sister, we didn't mean to stop you just now."

The guard captain took a bite of the fruit before explaining, "It's just that the town has been very dangerous recently. The Bishop said that the witch in the forest is always sneaking into town to kill people..."

"Witch? Killing people?"

Lake looked puzzled.

"Yes, the Bishop said that the witch is good at hiding, so there are no witnesses. Some townspeople do suspect it, but the Bishop is morally upright and wouldn't lie!"

"Who is the Bishop?"

Lake asked curiously.

Polo also pricked up his ears, because only this person and wolf knew.

The only "witch" in the forest, the forest witch who is Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother—hasn't left the forest recently!

"The Bishop... he's a very great man. Everything he does is for the good of the town.

Eight years ago, he came to this town for the first time. At that time, he wanted to develop the forest and expand the townspeople's farmland, but... he was stopped by the witch in the forest and was seriously injured!"

The guard captain said, sighing, but then, he showed a slightly fanatical admiration,

"But that witch won't be rampant for long!"

"It's the Bishop..."

Lake and Polo exchanged glances. They guessed what the captain was going to say next.

"Yes, our wise Bishop has found witch hunters to enter the forest and make that witch who killed a hundred people in the town—pay for her blood debt."

Hearing the guard captain's words, Lake's lips were bitten a little pale.

But she just nodded lightly, echoing the guard captain's words, without expressing any opinion.

"Oh, right—"

After expressing his praise for the so-called "Bishop," the guard captain suddenly slapped his head and said,

"Recently, a guy who slandered the Bishop and the witch hunters was caught at the town market. Well... he's going to be executed tomorrow, I think by hanging.

That kind of scene is too bloody. A naive child like you would have trouble sleeping after seeing it—

Remember to go home early and don't go to watch!"

Waving goodbye to the guard, Lake and Polo walked into the town.

Gabled houses lined the roads, and townspeople in various clothes hurried by.

Polo was okay. At least this otherworldy town was nothing special. Although it had some exotic flair, it was still quite different from those magical worlds in his imagination.

Looking at the scene here, he even breathed a sigh of relief.

At least... not everyone was as gloomy as that crazy hunter in the forest, the witch hunter!

At least... there were still normal people!

As for Little Red Riding Hood, Lake, since entering the town, her eyes under the hood had been fixed on the surrounding houses and pedestrians.

"Polo, look, that house at the entrance of the town seems a bit different from the others!"

Polo followed Lake's finger and looked at the tall stone house at the entrance of the town. High walls surrounded the house.

"The others are residences, and the one at the town entrance is a guardhouse.

The guardhouse is where the three guards at the town entrance just now... live. After all, this town is not small, and it can't rely on just three guards."

"Is that woman a guard too?"

Lake thought for a while, then pointed to a woman who had just walked out of the guardhouse.

The woman looked simply dressed, with thick limbs, and a wooden basin was tucked between her arms.

"She should be the laundress at the guardhouse."

Polo thought for a moment, then continued, "After all, there are so many armor, weapons, and things like that in the guardhouse, and the guards still have to patrol, so someone has to wash them."

The person and the wolf wandered aimlessly in the town. After all, without a map or anything, it was good to explore the terrain of the town first.

"Where is that house? It also looks different from the other houses?"

Lake pointed to the distance again, towards the center of the town, where there was a building that was obviously much more exquisite.

Polo looked up, and could see a golden cross in the center, surrounded by low-rise residences!

"That should be the town's church, where those guards said... the Bishop lives!"

"Bishop... and the witch hunter..."

Hearing this, Lake's somewhat excited expression suddenly became a little depressed.

"Polo, is that Bishop... really a good person? Why does he want to slander Grandma?"

Polo glanced at Little Red Riding Hood and said, "Your grandma hasn't left the forest, and she wouldn't kill people indiscriminately—we both know that, she's a good person, you understand that too.

Isn't that enough?"

"But... those townspeople seem to love and admire him very much?"

"So what? His goodness has a standpoint. No matter how good he is, for us who are on your grandma's side—he's not a good thing!"

Polo said, looking at the golden pages in his hand,

"Besides, you have to know that people can lie! Every one of the townspeople here may be deceived!"

"Polo, you mean..."

"Those so-called clerics are best at brainwashing and manipulation—"

Polo glanced at a white-robed priest who was walking by with his head held high, then continued, "What I mean is—hearing is false, seeing is believing!"

"Then how should we... see it for ourselves? Go directly to the church?"

"No, if something happens, we can't beat those guards!"

Arriving here, Polo had roughly grasped the terrain of the town. "Let's listen first, not only to those who agree with the Bishop, but also to those who oppose him."

"The Bishop's opponents? You mean..."

"Yes, remember what the guard captain said just now?

A... soon-to-be-executed defamer!"