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While Penny tried her best to get into the role, Emilia had to admit that the petite girl would probably do the industry a favor if she just stayed away from acting in the future.
After all, just looking at the sinister glare in her eyes as she cried 'pitifully' was enough to make the boy playing the king gulp in fear. Fortunately, the witch having some resentment for the king was something that could be passed off as 'in character', so no one found it too strange.
Of course, compared to the sobbing little witch, the 'king' who had to pretend to console her was even more miserable. "Okay, okay, don't cry, little girl. Can you tell this king where this 'mother' you speak of might be?"
From the audience, no one could be sure from his tone if the king genuinely wanted to 'consult' the girl's mother, or wanted to 'arrest' a more powerful witch by using her ignorance.
The little witch sniffled. "S-She ran away with some wild woman!"
