"If that was the case, it might really let her evade the curse and awaken."
"But that would only be evasion. Once she violated Chastity again, she would fall into eternal slumber once more." After considering it briefly, the witch acknowledged the Soldier's method, though it was not truly a solution.
Getting married first and making things proper afterward would push the matter back into a moral gray area.
And so the princess could awaken once more.
"But how do you intend to do it?" The witch looked at the Soldier with great interest, a strange light flickering in her eyes.
"Once, there was a married couple. Because they had no children, they came to me."
"They wanted me to use witchcraft to help them conceive a child."
"I agreed." The witch spoke with a trace of nostalgia. "I was lonely too, so I let that couple stay beside my home for a while."
"Then I led the wife into stealing some of my lettuce."
"The desire for gluttony combined with the power of theft, becoming my unique witchcraft—Object of Indulgence."
"My witchcraft could use another person's indulgence to grant whoever ate the lettuce what they needed."
"That couple wanted a child too badly, so I gathered that indulgence—their desire for a child—and infused it into the lettuce."
"As long as they ate the lettuce, they would have the child they wished for."
"But because my witchcraft had been involved, strictly speaking, that child was mine as well."
"So, from the very beginning, I named the price."
"That child would call me godmother and serve me."
"I... had no ill intentions. I only wanted a child so I would not be so lonely."
"Yet they went back on their word." The witch was not surprised by that.
To outsiders, no