Otaku Witch

Chapter 725 - 725 498

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Accelerate and Showdown 725: 498.

Accelerate and Showdown PS: If you’re looking to save data, you might want to skip this chapter.

It’s dedicated to deepening character development, and I don’t want you to suffer through it, nor do I want the grief from being criticized.

Anyway, there’s really no plot in this book; everything is just to flesh out the characters, haphazardly put together.

So, please stop insisting on a plot; I’m just not good at that, and I’ve admitted as much in the synopsis.

Hope no one accuses me of dragging this out, sigh, that’s just the way it is.

(Add this part after, it’s not included in the word count, so it won’t waste any starting points.)
If possible, Dorothy really wanted to help hide Sophia’s background, considering her roommate’s heritage was truly inconvenient to reveal.

Unfortunately, this time during Witch’s Night, the Lord of Glory directly abducted her, and now her own roommate had become the leader of the enemy forces.

It was simply impossible to hide anymore.

The homebody witch even suspected that the King of Angels did this on purpose, just to expose the fact that Sophia was her daughter, thereby causing her to be denounced and ostracized by the witches, effectively losing her place in the Witch World so that she would obediently return to heaven with her.

Indeed, a clever way to sever earthly ties.

Now, since hiding it was no longer an option, the homebody witch gave it some thought and decided to do the opposite, to help the Lord of Glory a bit, to help Sophia sever these earthly ties even more cleanly.

Dorothy knew her roommate well, despite her daily haughty claims that she didn’t care about anyone’s opinion except for her teachers and the misses, treating everyone else as mere tools to be used.

But this was a lie; that cold-heartedness was nothing more than a disguise, a thorny armor she wore to protect herself.

Long ago, the homebody witch had said that Sophia was just someone with great strength but a very fragile heart, who always felt inferior because of her background and feared that if her secret—that she carried the bloodline of the Lord of Glory—were exposed, she would lose everything.

So, since she would eventually lose everything, it was better not to start at all.

Embracing the simple idea that not having anything meant not losing anything, she became the “cold-hearted” person she is today.

Well, just treat everything as a tool to be used, don’t invest too much emotion, so even if her secrets were exposed later, and others despised and rejected her because of it, she wouldn’t be too hurt.

That’s what Sophia thought.

But Dorothy knew that this was just self-deception.

The “cold-heartedness” was just a poor imitation of her fate’s incarnation, Ruthfiel, not her true nature.

Fallen Angel Ruthfiel was a truly bad woman, especially in that particular side story of fate, she was the one who truly lost everything.

From birth, her witch’s blood was abandoned, then she was cast out of the Witch World into heaven, barely surviving on her own, and this motherless girl had to face the threat of other angels coveting the powerful bloodline of the King of Angels within her.

This truly hellish start meant that if Ruthfiel were not ruthless and tough, she wouldn’t have survived.

But Sophia was different; she was lucky from the start, saved by Euphilia and raised under the protection and guidance of the Dragon Queen.

Though she grew up under surveillance, lacking much freedom, she also truly experienced the warmth of a home, something Ruthfiel never felt.

Thus, having known warmth, Sophia’s heart was soft; she couldn’t embody Ruthfiel’s absolute rationality, acting without emotion, solely based on benefit.

The Pure White Witch’s heart wasn’t nearly hard enough.

Even if she forcibly mimicked Ruthfiel’s personality, using this incarnation of fate to armor her fragile heart, it was never complete.

Her heart, at best, was covered by a layer of sturdy armor.

It might appear and feel hard on the outside, but inside the armor, it remained fragile.

This was evident from the things she did.

She thought it was enough just not to invest emotions, but emotions are something that cannot be controlled just because one wishes to control them.

She might claim that running for Student Council President was just to polish her resume and build connections for her future, but really?

Ha, considering how she got up early and stayed up late, never missed any council business, meticulously handled every affair in the academy and wouldn’t be at peace unless she checked everything personally, are you going to tell me this was all just for show?

No matter how much Sophia argued, saying it was all a façade, just to win hearts, from Dorothy’s perspective, this was the epitome of a perfect, responsible Student Council President.

Nobody could do it better or more earnestly than she did.

Although witches and humans think alike, in theory, there exists the potential for deception, the strange talents and specialties of the witches made them exceptionally sensitive.

Even without much social experience, their strong Perception helped them easily see through even the most skilled of human deceivers.

Not to mention that some witches, with especially high Inspiration Attributes, had almost bug-like sixth senses; even if there were perfect acting involved, these highly sensitive witches could faintly sense someone was lying, not a good person.