The Witch's Brutal Laws:
First: All witches, including inferior witches and lowly witches, enjoyed civil rights, but were treated as stateless and required the Witch Agency to process their naturalization.
—Miss Liang Cuoyu had originally been discovered as an illegal witch, but because she had been kept at home by a citizen witch, it was treated as [identity processing].
Second: Civil rights were treated as guarantees of personal safety during non-civil-war periods. Any crime in which a witch killed another witch would, at minimum, be handled by an Archwitch-level enforcement team and the entire Witch Agency police department. If necessary, an enforcement team of ten Great Witches could be dispatched.
—Historically, the only one to ever receive an enforcement team composed of ten Great Witches was the foremost Great Witch before Olivia's era, [Mary Nofiler]. Her crime had been the murder of her younger sister.
Third: Witches did not mount defenses of innocence, only prosecutions of guilt. Simply put, in the witch world, if one wished to accuse a witch, one needed to find evidence of her crime. Without evidence, she was considered innocent.
—Witches were utterly cold-blooded when drafting their manuals. Even though Angelite held the highest status among all witches, the book still stated: [Angelite was considered to have murdered her cousin's mother and her own mother's sister, but in the end, a guilty prosecution could not be secured due to lack of evidence.]
The existence of these three laws simply told every witch where the bottom line lay.
It was not, 'Do not kill witches,' but rather, 'Even if you kill a witch, make sure you are not discovered.'
Unfortunately, witches were terrifyingly capable of finding evidence. With a time reversal, coupled with a stroll along the river of time, almost anyone who had killed a witch