Chapter 36: Is it funny to get caught by Mom at lightspeed?

The woman Alice affectionately called Master was none other than Charlotte’s mother in the other world—Rhynes Chartier.

A year ago, upon discovering that her sweet six-year-old daughter, Charlotte, had developed a particularly strong interest in learning magic, and feeling that it wasn’t the right time for it, Rhynes had spent a high price to summon her disciple, Chloe Luna, to crush Charlotte’s desire to learn.

However, the disciple not only took the money and failed to follow instructions but also became Charlotte’s Master, personally teaching her magic.

After Rhynes discovered this, she severely punished the rebellious Chloe and the not-so-obedient little Charlotte.

But unexpectedly, after that, Chloe had secretly abducted her sweet daughter, little Charlotte, and had been completely incommunicado for a whole year.

Chloe was her most excellent disciple, and her methods for concealing her whereabouts were indeed very clever. It was difficult for Rhynes to apprehend this rogue person alone.

She couldn’t just allow Chloe to run wild with her own daughter. To rescue little Charlotte from Chloe’s clutches as soon as possible, she had no choice but to seek help from the woman she had sworn never to associate with again.

That woman was Gracia Maine, the former Mist Witch, and her own senior disciple from the same Master.

Of course, she had now retired from her witch duties and had transformed into the supreme Queen of the Kingdom of York, Gracia York.

In terms of both combat power and status, Gracia was superior to her, and honestly, Rhynes truly did not want to ask her for help.

Things unfolded just as she expected: upon hearing that her daughter had been abducted by her own disciple, Gracia laughed uncontrollably.

She had initially claimed to be a professional who wouldn’t laugh no matter how funny it was, but she ended up laughing for most of the day.

If Rhynes hadn’t desperately needed her help, she would have punched her across the room.

Gracia finally agreed to Rhynes’s request, offering to use the Kingdom of York’s resources to help Rhynes search for Chloe and little Charlotte.

In exchange, Rhynes also had to accept Gracia’s eldest daughter, Alice, as a disciple.

Hearing this request, Rhynes was utterly confused.

There was an unwritten rule in the witch world that a titled witch could only take two disciples in her lifetime.

Gracia, having once been a witch, shouldn’t have been unaware of this rule.

After all, their Master had never taken any other disciples after teaching the two of them.

Rhynes herself had abided by this rule. After training Chloe and Mashiro, she had resigned from her witch duties and married an honest merchant to start a family.

Now, Gracia was asking Rhynes to take Alice as a disciple. Wasn’t she intentionally trying to make her break this rule?

When Rhynes expressed her confusion, Gracia explained.

She wasn’t asking Rhynes to teach Alice magic.

Alice had been born with a severe lack of magical power, making her very unsuitable for learning magic.

However, her physical abilities were exceptionally outstanding. Before the age of five, she could already pluck an apple hanging from a five-meter-tall tree.

It was clear that with proper guidance from a swordsmanship master, she would undoubtedly become a Sword Sect expert even more powerful than her father.

And Rhynes was the perfect person to be this swordsmanship master.

Rhynes was stunned into silence. She hadn’t expected that her secret proficiency in swordsmanship, in addition to magic, had finally been discovered.

And so, after making this devil’s bargain with Gracia, Rhynes became Alice’s swordsmanship Master. Gracia, in turn, promised to use all her resources to search for the whereabouts of Chloe and little Charlotte.

However, a year passed, and there was still no news of the two of them. In contrast, Alice had been trained so well by Rhynes that she could slay an evil dragon with just a sword.

Rhynes felt that she had been completely played by Gracia, but she had no proof.

She seriously suspected that Gracia hadn’t even bothered to help her search for Chloe and little Charlotte but was merely using her as a royal nanny.

For example, right now, a serious conflict had erupted between the Kingdom of the Red Rose and the Kingdom of the White Rose. Originally, Gracia alone was needed for the mediation, but Alice and Elsa had come along with her.

And she, as Alice’s swordsmanship Master, was naturally forced to tag along.

She had a daughter who needed her care at home, but she was once again forced to entrust her to the maids.

How heartbreaking this must be for young Shaula.

She couldn’t let Gracia lead her by the nose anymore. After this trip to Snow Lotus City, she absolutely had to have a serious talk with Gracia!

With this firm resolve, Rhynes accompanied Gracia’s family to Snow Lotus City, which lay on the border between the Kingdom of the Red Rose and the Kingdom of the White Rose.

A thousand years ago, this continent was ruled by a unified Rose Empire. However, centuries later, the imperial power declined, and the empire split into three: the Kingdom of York, which occupied the northern half of the territory but bordered the Boundary Mountain Range and had to constantly guard against demon invasion; and the Kingdom of the Red Rose and the Kingdom of the White Rose, which shared the southern territory and, while outwardly allies, often clashed over territory issues.

This three-way standoff had lasted for centuries, and it seemed it would continue indefinitely.

Using the reasoning that “we are all one loving family, there’s no need to cause trouble for both kingdoms over trivial matters,” Gracia quickly settled the conflict between the kingdoms.

Rhynes, who had accompanied Gracia, quickly returned to their temporary palace.

Upon entering, she happened to overhear her disciple Alice saying something interesting.

After a few questions, Alice described in detail the silver-haired little witch named Shaula she had met, and Elsa accurately described the appearance of the black-haired witch she had encountered.

Hearing this information, the heart that had been filled with despair was reignited with a blazing fire.

Undoubtedly, the two people Alice and Elsa had met bore a striking resemblance to Chloe and little Charlotte in both their appearance and clothing.

Furthermore, that fake name, “Shaula”—Charlotte must really miss her little sister.

‘Charlotte, don’t worry. Your mother will definitely rescue you from that woman Chloe’s clutches this time!’

Knowing that Chloe and little Charlotte were in Snow Lotus City, Rhynes wasted no time. She immediately used a large-scale detection spell that covered the entire city.

She quickly found two magical signatures hiding together in a nearby inn.

Although there were other magical signatures in the city, there was only one location where two signatures were clustered together.

Without a doubt, that was where Chloe and little Charlotte were hiding.

Rhynes didn’t say a word. She immediately sped out of the palace like a cannonball, tracing a graceful arc across the night sky, before finally smashing through the window and bursting into Chloe and little Charlotte’s room.

Rhynes’s intrusion undoubtedly caught them completely off guard.

Chloe, who had been planning to take little Charlotte out for a meal, was about to pull out her magic wand to strike first, but Rhynes had already cast a Binding spell, completely sealing her mouth.

If she couldn’t open her mouth to make a sound, she naturally couldn’t use magic through incantation.

Only little Charlotte was left to fight.

However, before little Charlotte could dispel the Binding spell on Chloe, Rhynes grabbed her, instantly wiped her memory of the past year, and rendered her unconscious.

After dealing with everything, Rhynes, holding the gently unconscious little Charlotte, coldly stared at the terrified Chloe.

“It must have been tiring for you, traveling all over the place with my daughter! Chloe, you can rest well now. You won’t have to wake up again!”