Chapter 545 – Witch Knight

Chapter 545 – Witch Knight

The little girl strained to pass the boxed cupcake and bear-shaped cookies toward her, leaning more than half her body out over the windowsill. Mo Lan’s heart jumped at the sight, and she hurried to steer her broom closer, taking the items from her.

“I’ll deliver these for you, but please don’t lean out the window like that anymore — it’s dangerous!”

“Thank you, Miss Witch Knight!” The little girl was overjoyed. “Bear cookies taste best with sweet milk! Oh, and my name is Sophie!”

“Got it!” Mo Lan couldn’t help but be infected by her smile. She waved goodbye and flew off on her broom toward Champagne Avenue.

It was a good thing she’d studied the map of Moon Harbor and knew where Champagne Avenue was, or she would have let this adorable little girl down today.

This was truly the first time she’d seen ordinary humans treat witches this way.

Even in Lance City, which had always been kind to witches, commoners treated them with more than enough respect but not nearly enough warmth.

This gave Mo Lan a growing fondness for Moon Harbor.

Champagne Avenue was a road lined with champagne flower trees on both sides, located on the mountainside at the other end of town. Walking there would mean weaving through countless streets and alleys, but flying took only ten minutes.

And that was with her taking her time, enjoying the scenery and keeping her broom at a leisurely pace. Otherwise, she could have been even faster.

Along the way, she passed quite a few people.

The adults barely batted an eye at the sight of her, but children would often point at the sky and shout: “Look! A Witch Knight!”

It gave Mo Lan a vivid sense of déjà vu — like seeing herself as a child in her previous life.

Where she’d lived as a kid, planes would often fly overhead.

“Look! An airplane!”

That was exactly how she used to shout back then.

But “witch” was one thing — what exactly was a “Witch Knight”?

Mo Lan knocked on the window of the small attic at 29 Champagne Avenue. A little boy wearing a sailor’s cap and holding a model ship opened the window.

“Are you Jack? Sophie asked me to deliver a cupcake to you.” Mo Lan set the cake box on the windowsill.

Jack picked up the cake box and turned it around, examining it from every angle. When he spotted the colorful star-shaped stamp on the side, his smile finally vanished. “Miss Witch Knight, could I ask you to return this cake to its original owner?”

The little boy wasn’t cute enough, and Mo Lan didn’t feel like making another trip. She shook her head.

Jack noticed the bag of cookies hanging from her broomstick. “That’s cookies made by Auntie Sharp, right? Can I trade this cake for those?”

It wasn’t right to give away a gift someone had given her, so Mo Lan shook her head again.

Jack looked as though the sky had fallen. “If I’d known, I should’ve hidden at Grandma’s house these past few days. Sophie’s cake — just kill me now!”

Hearing this, Mo Lan silently turned her broom around.

“Miss Witch Knight, how about I just give this cake to you… Huh? Where’d she go?” Jack stared at the empty windowsill, thinking to himself that it was all over — Sophie’s evil cake was stuck with him now.

After leaving Champagne Avenue, Mo Lan flew back toward the seaside boulevard.

Suddenly, in the distance, she spotted a brown-haired witch in peculiar attire, rising on a broomstick from the courtyard of a residential house up ahead.

Her broom was laden with packages of all sizes.

After a moment, the witch flew to another street and placed one of the packages on a house’s windowsill.

Mo Lan couldn’t resist steering her broom closer and greeting her.

“Oh? A new witch?” The brown-haired witch spotted her and without hesitation pulled out her Communication Card. “Hello there! Welcome to Moon Harbor — let’s add each other as friends! I’m Rose!”

“Hello, I’m Moira.” Mo Lan also took out her Communication Card and added Rose as a friend.

They were both speaking 《Valen Common Language》. Combined with the fact that Mo Lan had taken a transformation potion, Rose didn’t immediately catch on, but she got the sense that Mo Lan was around the same age as her.

Witches of this age had only graduated recently and were still in the phase of saving money to build their Witch’s home. So Rose enthusiastically introduced her to the work:

“Moira, do you want to join our Witch Knight Society? The work is easy and flexible, the pay’s pretty good, and all you need is to know how to ride a broomstick.”

She patted the bright purple vest she wore over her witch’s robe, which featured a silhouette of a witch riding a broomstick.

“This is our uniform. Just fly a loop over the city wearing this, and you’ll start getting delivery orders.

If you don’t get any, you can also head to 77 Seaside Boulevard — that’s our headquarters, where we usually take on bigger orders.

Right now we have more orders than we can handle, and we’ve been worrying about recruitment!”

Now Mo Lan understood why the children all called broomstick-riding witches “Witch Knights.”

So Moon Harbor really did have Witch Knights.

How fun!

If she’d truly come here for leisure, she would have joined. But unfortunately she hadn’t. Once she finished digesting the mage Magic stored in her memory palace, reviewed her Witch Magic, and took stock of the Dawn Society’s affairs, she would be moving on to the next destination to secretly learn more magic.

“I’m sorry, I don’t have plans to earn money through deliveries at the moment.” Mo Lan declined.

Rose assumed she had some other way of making money.

After all, not every witch was like her and her companions — lacking any marketable skill that could thrive among humans.

She wasn’t disappointed. “No worries! Even if you’re not interested in full-time, you can always do it part-time once in a while!”

Rose pulled a rolled-up Parchment from her Spatial Card and tossed it to her. “Here, take this! You might find it useful someday!”

With that, Rose dashed off in a whirlwind to continue her deliveries.

Mo Lan unrolled the Parchment: “『Witch Knight Society Delivery Price List』: 1. Normal weather (no rain, snow, or strong wind), normal hours (not late night), short distance (within five minutes), small package (under 1kg) — fee: 1 silver coin…”

Watching Rose shuttle between streets laden with packages, it clicked for Mo Lan: “This is just witch express delivery!”

Rose hadn’t recognized her, but Mo Lan had recognized Rose.

At the welcome banquet during her fourth year, Mo Lan had seen her — Rose had just enrolled then.

Three years younger than herself, which meant she’d only graduated two years ago, yet she’d already established the Witch Knight Society in Moon Harbor and started a delivery service.

The cheapest order might only earn 1 silver coin, but this business was all profit and no loss, with zero competitors.

Quite the head for business!

Meanwhile, Rose finished her delivery and suddenly had a realization: “Moira in Common… Mo Lan in Witch language? Wait, no — Senior Moira doesn’t look like that!”

After returning to the Witch Knight Society, she mentioned this to her companion.

“Are you stupid? How could Senior Moira possibly walk around the Wilds showing her real face? She definitely took a transformation potion! Around our age and named Mo Lan — it has to be her! Quick, quick, quick — send me her Communication Card number. I’m inviting her to the tavern for drinks!”

Rose: “!!!”