The capital of the Falutia Kingdom was called Ruth.
In Tina, not far from Ruth, there was a beautiful sea. On the shore, a woman lay unconscious on the beach.
King Rudolf of Falutia was chatting on the beach with the court swordsman Durselieu. Suddenly, King Rudolf spotted the woman and said to Durselieu in surprise, "There's someone over there! Shall we go save her?"
Durselieu nodded. "All right." He walked over and rescued the woman.
The woman was breathtakingly beautiful. The moment King Rudolf saw her, he stood there frozen. "She... How could there possibly be someone so beautiful in this world?!"
Not long afterward, King Rudolf married the woman. He proclaimed to the entire kingdom, "From this day onward, she is the queen of our Falutia Kingdom. From now on, you shall address her as Queen Isabel."
When Isabel introduced herself, she softly told everyone, "I am Isabel, a witch from another world. I came here on a pilgrimage, and also... to find a way to live for myself. I truly like this place. Being able to become its queen is a blessing bestowed upon me by King Rudolf..."
By then, there were already many tales of witches making pilgrimages throughout Tirasweel, and people had long since grown accustomed to them. Everyone praised Queen Isabel's pilgrimage. She made many prophecies for the world, and many of them came true. She helped countless people avoid danger and foretold beautiful, happy futures for many others. People called Queen Isabel the "Witch Queen" of Falutia.
However, elsewhere in Falutia, there was another woman. She was just as stunningly beautiful and made equally accurate prophecies, but because most of her predictions concerned calamities, many people disliked her.
Moreover, because she possessed a head of snow-white hair, many called her the "White-Haired