The warden who guards the witches

Aiden sat in the mist, his mind was blank.

What... is going on?

The air around him became cool and moist, and he vaguely heard the cry of an owl that could only be heard in the suburbs at midnight.

The pitch-black fog gradually became thinner. Although the vision was still hazy, he could see a little bit of the surrounding situation.

His office disappeared, replaced by a space shrouded in gray fog. In the middle was a large solid wood table with stacked ghost face pumpkin lanterns on the table, and he sat on a high-backed chair next to the long table, attending the meeting.

In addition to him, there were other people sitting at the long table. There were six people including him, all of whom were wrapped in gray fog. Only the woman at the end of the long table, who seemed to be the owner of the place, could see the outline clearly.

Aiden couldn't see her face clearly, but he could vaguely see that she seemed to be wearing a witch robe similar to the dress that Daly usually wore, but she didn't wear a witch's wide-brimmed hat like Daly.

In fact, she couldn't wear it unless she drilled two holes in the brim of the hat. Aiden was surprised to find that the woman actually had a pair of large horns on her head.

Demon? Or... possessed by a demon? Aiden guessed in his mind.

He had calmed down a little and began to quickly analyze the current situation.

It was the gray mist in the pendant that sent him to this strange and inexplicable space, and Miru Jinu told her that this pendant was a certificate issued by Abigail to those witches she recognized. With this certificate, she could see Abigail herself...

Then, the woman sitting at the end of the long table now is most likely Abigail, the "top witch".

So that's it, this is the way to see Abigail with the "voucher of the witch".

It's not that you can find her in the Demon Banquet Forest through the fog with the pendant, but that you can be summoned to this space by Abigail with the pendant.

In this space, Abigail is the host and the other witches are guests. From what happened just now, this summoning seems to be semi-mandatory and is completed with the help of the pendant as a "voucher". As long as you carry the "voucher", it is equivalent to agreeing to Abigail's summoning.

In other words, as long as Aiden throws away the "voucher" in his hand and keeps it far away, he should be able to disconnect the summoning and leave this weird place.

Leave?

No, since you can leave at any time, there is no need to rush.

Aiden decided to wait and see. He was a little interested in this magical gathering.

There are a total of six people here-if Daly, who lost her freedom in prison, is counted, there should be seven people.

There are seven seats for witches, and Aiden occupies Precia's seat.

Except for Abigail, everyone else is shrouded in fog. Aiden estimates that he is probably the same in the eyes of others now.

Thanks to this fog, he can hide his figure. Otherwise, he will be seen through immediately even if he can't see his face when he sits here.

"Lamia, let me make sure first, you are not eating, right?" A person at the opposite seat made an unclear voice, "If you swallow the corpse of the monster again like last time when the fog disperses, I will vomit it out."

"Don't talk like I eat everything, I'm on a diet recently." A cloud of fog beside Aiden laughed hoarsely, with a hissing sound like a snake spitting out its tongue, "But if you stand in front of me, Qiqimora, I don't mind tasting you."

"Potion Queen" Lamia was also at the table, saying exactly the same thing as Mirujinu...

As for Qiqimora, he had never heard of this witch's name.

This is not surprising. In fact, quite a few witches choose to live a secluded life completely cut off from worldly ties, and at most only interact with other witches to avoid being wanted and hunted by state agencies. Among them, there may also be great witches who can rival Daly and Precia.

As they talked, Aiden noticed that their voices gradually became clearer, and the fog around them seemed to fade a little, with a vague outline.

He realized that something was wrong. The fog that enveloped them was probably just a mechanism of this spell. It seemed that they were summoned to this space in a process that needed to be gradually "loaded". After the loading was completed, the fog would fade and their silhouettes would gradually appear.

Without much time to think, he immediately used the physical transformation to transform his body into a female, and tried to adjust it to a height and body shape similar to that of Precia in his impression.

Soon, everyone's figure emerged from the fog. Fortunately, Aiden found that the participants seemed to be able to see only a little outline of each other, but not the details of the face, fabric, and pattern of the clothes.

I don't know if this was intentional by Abigail, the caster, for some reason, or if this spell can only do this. But in any case, thanks to this situation and the ability of physical transformation, Aiden seems to be able to hold on a little longer.

However, activating this ability so suddenly and urgently was much more painful than transforming the body step by step. Aiden managed to hold back from screaming.

After recovering, he quietly scanned the people present.

There were two people sitting opposite her, and one person sat on her left and one on her right.

When he saw Lamia sitting on his left, he couldn't help but be stunned.

Lamia's figure was obviously larger than that of an ordinary person, and... she seemed to be wearing no clothes, but because of the blurring effect of the darkness and thin fog, Aiden could not see any details.

But Aiden did not think it was a pity, after all, Lamia did not even have legs - she had a long snake tail, coiled around the chair, not sitting, but perched on the chair.

Aiden could vaguely see the slender forked tongue spitting out of Lamia's mouth.

As Mirukinu mentioned before, Lamia had transformed herself into a monster.

In connection with the appearance of Precia after taking the potion, Aiden was a little afraid to imagine what kind of curious appearance Lamia's true body had.

"What?" Lamia noticed his gaze and glanced over.

Aiden shook his head and turned his face back.

He knew that he could not speak casually. The ability of physical transformation could change the voice, but if he wanted to imitate a specific person's voice, it would require very precise adjustments, and Aiden could not do it now.

To disguise well, she could only be a quiet beautiful girl here.

But at this moment, the witch sitting on his right suddenly spoke to him: "Precia, what the hell is this dress of yours? Even if you can't buy good clothes, at least get one that fits you."