Otaku Witch

"Dorothy, does your family have some time recently? I think we should set a time as soon as possible to settle the apprenticeship."

After learning that her precious apprentice also possessed the Space-Time Talent, Noelle Rose was considering whether to skip the opening ceremony and meet her apprentice's parents sooner to firm up the apprenticeship.

She was afraid that if she delayed for too long, some accident might occur, causing the apprentice that she had almost secured to sprout wings and fly away.

Of course, if anyone dared to snatch the apprentice from her now, she was ready to risk her life against them, and even if the apprentice's family didn't agree, she was prepared to take the apprentice by force.

In any case, in one word, she had definitely made up her mind to take this apprentice, and not even the Witch King's opposition would work.

Ahem... well, maybe not the Witch King, and not the Sages either, at most the Peak, anything more would indeed be a bit too much to withstand.

As for the teacher's urgency, Dorothy, who had already recovered from the after-effects of teleportation, could only shrug helplessly.

"Teacher, I can't decide this matter myself; my family situation is a bit special. My father usually won't object to my decisions, but my mother is a bit busy, and I don't even know when I will see her again."

If it were just a typical student-teacher relationship characteristic of schools, it wouldn't be a big issue, but the Witch World takes a more formal master-apprentice relationship very seriously. Generally, it's best if the parents are also present to witness the apprenticeship ceremony.

Dorothy didn't think there would be a problem on her father's side. Although Adam had originally smuggled her out and been on the run for so long because he was afraid she'd follow in her mother's footsteps and become a war fanatic, in fact, for many years, he'd only nagged her about how meaningless slaughter wasn't good and the importance of truth, goodness, and beauty.

However, that nagging didn't even last a week; since she was so young at the time, she spent most of her days sleeping and was only awake for a few hours each day, during which she'd get so annoyed by the nagging that she considered talking back to her father.

Before she could open her mouth, she saw Adam suddenly slap himself hard on the face. The little witch was completely shocked, thinking that her foster father had finally lost his mind. Thankfully, everything returned to normal afterward, but from that point on, Adam never mentioned those nonsensical words again.

Even after Dorothy finally got over her days of constant slumber and slowly showed her unusual intelligence, Adam let her grow wildly, allowing her to make her own decisions.

He seemed to be consciously fostering Dorothy's sense of independence. Therefore, only in matters where Dorothy was uncertain, would he offer some advice as someone with experience. And during their travels, if anything happened, Adam would discuss it with Dorothy, treating her more like a partner.

The reason Dorothy, a transmigrator, acknowledged Adam, who was just a few years older than her in her previous life, as her father was that he truly fulfilled most of the fantasies she had about the role of a father as an orphan in her previous life.

Powerful (the little witch hadn't seen much), wise, righteous, brave, compassionate, and he doted on his daughter, and the key point was the man was also handsome; except for sometimes being too kind, which made his ideas a bit too naive, he was nearly flawless.

The days of fleeing and wandering in the Human Realm with her father, although hard, were now something she looked back on with nostalgia.

Well, if it hadn't been for Adam seeing a group of bandits surrounding a pitiful blonde-haired, red-eyed "Loli" with ill intentions during their travels, and his chronic hero syndrome acting up, leading him to roar in protest and play out a hero saves the beauty story, Dorothy might now be an adventurer instead of a homebody.

Unfortunately, reality doesn't entertain "what ifs," and Dorothy had to shoulder the blame herself.

After all, the pitiful "girl" she rescued later claimed to be homeless and just latched onto the father-daughter duo.

At first, Adam was resolutely against it, but as soon as Dorothy saw the classic tale of a rescued damsel repaying the hero with gratitude, she instantly became a Merry Maker, rushing over to hug the "girl's" legs and started sobbing about the difficulties of a father raising a daughter. Continue reading on empireNôv(el)B\\jnn

In a nutshell, it all implied one thing, she needed a female nanny or a stepmother.

There was no helping it, Dorothy truly believed the nonsense Adam fed her, thinking that her poor, handsome dad had been abandoned by her worthless witch of a mother. To help her emotionally wounded father recover from his past traumas, Dorothy took on worries that a daughter shouldn't have had to.

Well, it was definitely not because she wanted to be a Merry Maker, definitely not.

And afterwards, with the god-level assistance of Dorothy, Adam's very own clinging black woolen coat, his relationship with the girl named Annie naturally heated up quickly. Especially after Adam found out that Annie, too, was a daughter who had gone through a failed marriage, currently struggling to raise a daughter who was studying in another place.

Sharing the plight of raising a child alone, the two quickly sparked a romance.

The only problem was that on the night after the two officially confirmed their relationship, Dorothy, who had listened to the noises from the next room all night, kicked open her dear dad's door, ready to enjoy the drama, only to be stunned to find that the Annie girl in her father's embrace had shrunk into Annie Loli.

At that moment, the little witch was completely dumbfounded and wondered if all you mages who practiced Magic played such twisted games.

And then... well, there was no "then" after that.

Annie's identity as a witch was exposed and she had to come clean; and upon realizing that he had, for once, truly fallen for someone only to hit another witch in disguise, Adam completely broke down.

Fortunately, a woman chasing a man is like a veil separating them, and besides, they had truly felt something for each other before, so in the end, Adam couldn't withstand the ferocious onslaught of Annie transformed into an aggressive Witch, who deployed all sorts of threats and temptations.

And then the situation became what it was.

Therefore, her father Adam would certainly not interfere with her choice of a mentor, and her stepmother Annie, owing to the assistance she had provided in the past, had always been good to her stepdaughter and would not oppose anything.

The only problem was her domineering biological mother.

Tsk... forget it, if Euphilia found out that she was about to take as a mentor an Armed Witch masquerading as a Research Witch, Mother Dragon would probably die laughing. It would be strange if she didn't oppose it.

Really, if it weren't for the fact that this specialty was something Dorothy had chosen herself long ago, she would have suspected that Spider Teacher was some sort of plant sent by Mother Dragon to deceive her.

Damn, so it turns out everyone is happy with this mentorship except me, the only one who got hurt in this scenario?

.....The little witch is feeling weary.....