Miss Witch, please don't leave your fragrance everywhere

Chapter 101 Caged Bird
　　Area search magic is not applicable to highly intelligent creatures. Angelica deduced that Miss Undine's body was most likely buried underground in the Drais family mansion.
　　Although it was a bit unethical to say so, the remains of highly intelligent creatures after death could be detected by area search magic. Usually, in towns, the use of magic had to be strictly controlled, but the witch was inside the Drais mansion, so she could minimize the coverage of the area search magic and only detect whether there was anything unusual inside the Drais family.

　　"……it's over."
　　"How about it?"
　　Seeing Angelica's subtle expression, Victoria thought that Angelica must have gained something. She had already prepared herself mentally, and Miss Undine was probably in danger.

　　But Angelica shook her head.
　　"I didn't find the remains of the Drais family buried underground, but..."
　　"But?"

　　"There seems to be a cellar under the Drais family. I don't know how to describe it... The things inside make me feel a little uncomfortable."
　　"???"
　　Angelica's sudden appearance of the Riddler puzzled Victoria, and Angelica suggested that Victoria could leave if she felt unwell. Victoria refused, because saving the princess captured by the dragon has always been the mission of the knight, and even if she failed to do so, at least she had to complete the revenge.

　　"Virgo Sequence 5. Spring goes and winter comes."
　　After Angelica chanted the magic, she and Victoria were coated with a layer of optical camouflage, so that the two were invisible to the naked eye. Although it was a sequence 5 magic, it looked very powerful at first glance, but Angelica's evaluation was that it could only bully ordinary people. A slightly more powerful magician could easily detect the abnormal flow of magic power.
　　It was applicable at this time. Angelica used area search magic to memorize the three-dimensional layout of the Drais family mansion in her mind. Angelica's memory was not very good, but she thought her short-term memory was acceptable.

　　Angelica took Victoria and jumped out of the window into the courtyard, using the magic of invisibility to avoid the eyes and ears of the gardener.
　　The entrance to the Drais family's basement was located in a remote corner. Angelica and Victoria went around the back garden of the mansion and found the entrance to the basement at the edge of the garden maze. Victoria lifted the lid of the entrance and immediately covered her mouth and nose in disgust.
　　"What...what's this smell..."

　　A pungent stench wafted from the basement. The mission of the knight princess was to fight the enemy, but Victoria had never seen a corpse that was too rotten, so she couldn't be sure whether the stench was coming from a corpse. Angelica could vaguely tell that it was definitely not the smell of a corpse.
　　Angelica cast the Nighthawk Song magic on herself to allow her to see clearly in the dark, and was the first to enter the basement. Victoria was not willing to be left behind and followed closely behind by doing the same.
　　The basement was designed like a dungeon, and it was probably used to store miscellaneous items. However, there was a door directly opposite the basement corridor. The closer one got, the stronger the stench became. It was obvious that that was the source of the stench.
　　Angelica put her hand on the door, and with a little force, the door was easily pushed open. It seemed that someone came in and out of the room from time to time, so the door was not locked at all.

　　Then, Angelica and Victoria saw an unforgettable scene.
　　There was a human locked in the basement.
　　But...is that really a person? Judging from the body shape, it was undoubtedly an adult, but the locked person was so thin that only skin and bones were left. The shriveled skin was covered with mud and excrement, and it seemed that it had not been cleaned for a long time.

　　The floor was covered with filth, reptiles, and moldy food. The locked people were deprived of even the right to use the toilet normally. They had to eat and defecate in this small basement to complete their physiological cycle.
　　“Ouch… Ugh…”
　　Victoria's stomach churned, and she vomited. After all, she was born into an aristocratic family. Although she had been to places like slums before, the scene before her completely shattered the limit of Victoria's mental endurance.

　　However, what really shocked Victoria was what Angelica said.
　　"You are... Undine...?"
　　Undine?

　　The missing person they are looking for is the beautiful girl who was once regarded as the apple of Stavron's eye?
　　Her figure was so thin that she looked almost like a mummy, so Victoria couldn't tell whether the half-human, half-ghost being was a man or a woman. With the Nighthawk Song magic, Angelica saw the locked person's messy, long hair that had been indistinguishable for a long time and was covered with flies.
　　I could barely make out Undine's iconic long chestnut hair, and then look at Undine's eyes... This is a basement, and her eyes have been in darkness for so long that they have lost their azure glow.

　　She couldn't see who was coming, and just smiled weakly and foolishly twice in response. Was it because she hadn't spoken for too long? She seemed unable to even make a sound.
　　Who would have thought? Who could have thought? Undine was still alive. She had been locked in the basement of the Drais family garden. Angelica didn't know if Undine had tried to call for help at first, but there was a silent enchantment magic here, so it was impossible for Undine's call for help to be heard by /N_o_v_e_l_i_g_h_t/ anyone.
　　She was locked up for twelve years... During those twelve years, someone came to the door and threw food inside to keep Undine alive at a minimum. Undine was locked up and couldn't commit suicide. No one came to clean for her. She couldn't see the sun and was always in the darkness of despair...

　　All these factors drove Undine completely crazy. Her shrunken body was covered with her own excrement. This was the scope of her activities: rolling in her own excrement. This incomprehensible self-blasphemy was undoubtedly proof that Undine's mind had fallen into a state of disorder.
　　The dirty environment inevitably attracted insects. Some creatures, not sure if they were cockroaches or something else, were crawling around in the small basement. Some even danced on Undine's skinny body, but Undine had no intention of driving them away.
　　She just smiled foolishly with a dazed look in her eyes. Having said that, she didn't even have the energy to laugh. The food she was given every day was just enough to keep her alive, and it couldn't provide any nutrition at all. Angelica didn't know whether the bread at Undine's feet was something she had forgotten or the freshest food provided to her. The traces of mold on the bread were clearly visible, and these were exactly what Angelica detected with magic.

　　Angelica seemed to just feel the turbidity in the air at this moment and began to cough violently. She couldn't stand the choking smell for even a second.
　　Undine... lived in this environment for twelve years...