Continuing the last chapter - Madison, Daiko and Cristy successfully entered the Capital City of Staron without validating their ID's due to the condition that Madison gave after teaching the guards that tried to hit on her a lesson.
Before going to the palace, they need to find an inn first for a place to stay and rest, it's been a long journey from the Forest of Dreams heading to Southeast, to the Capital City of Staron. Daiko told Madison and Cristy to look for an inn while he will go to the market to buy some things and daily necessities.
Meanwhile in the shadows, someone has been tailing Madison and Cristy. Madison noticed the stalker not long ago, so she decided to play along in order to catch it.
Madison told Cristy about it and said, "You go in the right while I will take the left, no matter what you do, don't screw up. This is your first lesson from me."
Cristy nods and replied, "Yes, master!"
Meanwhile at the market, Daiko brought some daily necessities and stuff. After buying stuffs in the market, he went to the Staron Knight's HQ to report about the mission. Although the casualty is high, they still completed the mission, the only problem is the unnecessary death count on the campaign in the Forest of Dreams.
The Knights knew the campaign's risks and difficulties, yet they did not expected that in Daiko's report, Madison, the last Witch Hunter was on the hunt in the forest, but it was not stated what is it that Madison is hunting. They also did not anticipate the losses they got, the huge casualties they took, the knights are thinking on how to report this to the king properly.
The news has reached to the royal palace about a girl taking down a few guards on her own at the city gate making them beg for mercy, even if it's a noble's son or not. This caught the interest of someone from the royal family as she heard the news about this, she immediately took her bodyguard and set out from the palace to search for this rumored girl in the Capital City.
The girl and her bodyguard searched through the Capital City until she accidentally bumped into Madison, whose the same girl who was in the rumors. The bodyguard suddenly attacked Madison, but was overpowered by Madison's raw strength and got her sword snapped in two.
Madison abruptly asked, "What is the meaning of this?"
The girl was astonished by Madison's strength and can't help but be impressed by it as she formally introduced herself, "I'm sorry for the sudden attack from my bodyguard. My name is Rose and this is my bodyguard, Adelina Crux. Once again, I apologize for the rudeness my bodyguard has cause, I have a bit of a history here, see..."
Madison replied, "That's okay, as long as you keep her in check so that she may not accidentally kill someone." As she introduced herself and Cristy. "My name is Madison and this is Cristy, as you can see, we are looking for a place here to stay for the night."
Rose looks at Madison and wondered where did she heard that name as she asked, "Is that your real name? I meant nothing about that but your name is the same as the stories says."
Madison was surprised about this and answered, "I'm not sure about those stories." As she asked, "What do you mean by those?"
Rose answered, "This was told to us several months ago, about the Witch Hunters who fought the Witch Queen in order to stop the spreading of evil in the world."
Madison suddenly remembered the day they fought Antoniette and it's still clear as day on what happened next, she again asked, "What happened next?"
"Yes..." Rose answered. "They said that the Witch Hunters who happened to be twin siblings emerged victorious as they killed the Witch Queen with their weapons imbued by blessings from the heaven. As for their whereabouts, they say that the twin brother went somewhere far to live a normal life while his twin sister is out on adventuring, exploring the world to satisfy her adventuring spirit."
Madison suddenly clenched her fist when she heard that the whole story was fabricated and was about to ask who fabricated the story, but the stalkers they've been eyeing got them cornered. She looks at Cristy and said, "Do your best. This is your first test as my disciple."
Cristy unleashed her illusion technique and cast it to the stalkers, creating black smokes that surrounds every stalker in the vicinity, she told Madison and the others to stay within her range as she explained, "The illusion I casted on them will show them their greatest fear they had in life, unless you overcame that fear, nothing will stop this technique."
As the black smoke thickens, the stalkers starting screaming and shouting for help, some even ended their own life just to escape the illusion and some of them collapsed. Rose and Adelina were impressed by this as they suddenly remembered this technique when they were hiring adventurers in the guild.
Rose immediately asked Cristy, "A-are you the rumored Cris the Illusionist?"
"Eh!? What!? Do you mean that infamous Illusionist that every kingdom seeks at!?" Adelina surprisingly asked.
Cristy replied, "I'll explain later. Is there any place you know that we could hide ourselves?"
Rose answered, "I know a place, Adelina lead the way."
Adelina nods and replied, "Yes, milady!."
After Madison and the others left, someone went to the scene where Cristy and the other where earlier. The moment he got there, he dispelled the illusion spell as he saw the stalkers screaming and crying for help.
The stalkers woke up from reality and immediately kneeled down as they saw him standing before them, and said, "M-my apologies! We let them escape despite cornering them..."
The man replied, "That's okay. Normal people can't handle those type of people. But I will relay you the next order."
One of the leaders asked, "What is it that you command to us, Lord Daiko?"
Daiko smiled and answered, "Please look for an informant and report to me if you found one, I'm afraid I will have to do this one myself."
"As your command!" They replied as they left..
Meanwhile, Madison, Cristy, Rose and Adelina made it to the place they went. Madison noticed that this is not your normal house the moment she saw it and asked, "Rose, I know that you are a daughter of a noble of sorts, but I did not anticipated this. So tell me, who are you?"
Rose smiled as she honestly introduced herself, "My deepest apologies, once again, my name is Roselle Staron, the first princess of Staron. I have known about you, Madison, the last Witch Hunter."
Madison holds her sword and asked, "How do you know my name?"
Roselle answered, "I have come here on behalf of my father, the king of Staron. I humbly requested your presence in the palace as he wants to have a word with you."
Madison cautiously asked, "How can I know I could trust you?"
"You don't. You only have my word." Roselle rhetorically replied.
Madison sighs and has no choice but to follow them in the palace along with Cristy.
What sort of situation are waiting for them inside the palace?
To be continued...