"Let's start with the situation. The Gold Princess really did die, didn't she? But she was brought back to life afterward."
After all, Aozaki Touko had once run an agency. At this point, she had sorted out her thoughts as well.
"If she died from the very beginning, then the one who appeared before was... the maid? I see. With surgery and 'Cinderella,' plus the help of some kind of cursed object contaminated with the blood of a Phantasmal Species, it could indeed be done. More importantly—I would definitely find doing something like this very interesting."
Though Aozaki Touko had lost her memories, she could still piece together the general circumstances at this moment.
"Using Cinderella's magecraft to turn the maid into the Gold Princess and have her appear at the debut banquet... I don't know why I forgot, but without a doubt, this is the sort of thing I would do."
That was what had happened before.
"So after seeing 'Cinderella,' you couldn't accept it, so you thought of 'The Goose Girl,' which was also collected in Grimm's Fairy Tales..."
Cinderella had several versions, but the most famous was undoubtedly the one included in Grimm's Fairy Tales.
So this Ashen Witch must have had some strange competitive streak.
The pumpkin carriage itself was part of it as well.
"To think you'd do something like this... You really are interesting."
Of course, the matter itself was still quite interesting.
"I'm a witch traveling the world. I wouldn't get involved that deeply. I was only commissioned by someone, that's all." As Irena spoke, she glanced to the side and muttered quietly, "Besides, I'm just a magecraft formula myself. The conditions were so strict—who knew it would actually work..."
"But it has already succeeded. For the Iselma Family, being able to pass