17. The Flu

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Certainly, Lady Kihased….

No, someday I’ll have to tell her apart from her apprentice.

Hearing Lady Rin’s words reminded me of something.

A few days ago, on the day I experienced Team Leader’s magic for the first time.

It was amazing and pleasant to warp straight to the entrance, but hadn’t I also wondered whether it was really all right to use magic so recklessly, leaving oneself without any defenses?

Even I had thought all witches lived together in the Otherworld until I started this job.

That belief was so widespread it was practically common sense, and in all my time actually living here, I’d never once seen a witch in person.

Why was I so certain? If I’d ever encountered a witch even once, that face would have stayed with me for life and become my ideal type.

Besides, the department that helped and supported witches wasn’t easy to find either; it was hidden away like a secret base on Seoul City Hall’s fourteenth floor...