At dawn, sunlight scattered the morning mist. Lucia had just arrived at the training ground and picked up a wooden sword when she saw Breel, another child from the village, walking over with a mysterious look on his face.
"Lucia, have you heard about it? About the witch?"
Lucia looked at him in confusion. "What witch? Do you mean what happened to Mars?"
A few days earlier, the news that Mars, Gill, and Ron had undergone drastic changes in personality had spread through the village like wildfire. Naturally, the children were no exception.
After learning of it, Lucia had even gone to see all three of them herself and truly felt just how drastically their personalities had changed.
However, unlike those conspiracy theorists who found it terrifying, she felt that even if they really had been possessed, then whatever had possessed them had done a good deed with bad intentions.
Weren't they far better than the original trio?
But she knew nothing about witches. She supposed it was probably connected to the incident involving Mars and the other two.
Breel shook his head. "No, it's like this. Yesterday, while Grandpa Village Chief was investigating the matter, he found out that Hans saw them the night before Mars and the others were possessed. They seemed to have brought a bunch of tools and planned to attack Miss Ivette."
"Attack?" Lucia froze for a moment, though she was not particularly surprised. It fit the trio's usual rotten behavior perfectly.
She hurriedly asked, "And then?"
"And then—they became like this!" Breel spread his hands. "So now, I heard the adults all suspect that it has something to do with Miss Ivette."
"Yeah, yeah, I heard my mom say the same thing!" At that moment, a sweaty boy nearby came over and joined in.