Otaku Witch

726: 498.

Speed up and showdown_2 726: 498.

Speed up and showdown_2 Therefore, deceiving a witch was a rather difficult task: it might not be hard to fool one for a moment, but fooling one for several years or even over a decade was practically impossible.

Let alone the fact that it wasn’t just one person being fooled, but the entire academy of five hundred million witches.

Even the real Ruthfiel herself couldn’t achieve such an outrageous feat, yet Sophia had done it.

She was the Student Council President with the highest support rate and popularity since the foundation of Witch Academy.

With a support rate of ninety-nine percent, almost maxed out, that was simply outrageous.

Keep in mind that even the Witch King, who had served as Student Council President, and both the Dragon King and the Devil King, had support rates around ninety percent.

Of course, this wasn’t because the Dragon King or the Devil King were less capable than Sophia; it was simply that their attitude towards the position of Student Council President wasn’t as proper as that of the Pure White Witch.

Those two Witch Kings wouldn’t pay as much attention to detail as Sophia, who would even care about minor incidents such as two students quarreling—the moment she found out, she would specifically check if they had reconciled afterward.

No wonder the Pure White Witch often worked overtime.

She took such a personal interest in every trivial matter—her micromanagement skills were truly unparalleled, and the workload she took on was unimaginable.

Dorothy had casually asked Sophia during a meal why she bothered with such meticulousness, saying that paying attention to such minute details was exhausting.

The Pure White Witch replied that it was the details that touched people’s hearts; these small things often garnered more goodwill than grand events and helped maintain her popularity, drawing more people to her side.

At that time, the Homebody Witch thought it was all nonsense.

Although she agreed that details indeed could touch people’s hearts, who would care about those small things if they didn’t truly care?

To Dorothy, her roommate’s ability to always catch details was as ridiculous as her capacity to remember the faces, names, and other basic information of all five hundred million students in the school.

With her photographic memory, the Homebody Witch could do the same, without spending too much time, thanks to the assistance of Reading Magic—one or two hours would suffice.

However, she was too lazy to bother with it.

She’d rather spend her energy perusing a couple of Magic Books in the Magic Web Library, which felt more worthwhile.

Probably, the Dragon King and the Devil King had a similar mindset: capable, but too lazy to act, unwilling to waste even an hour or two of their lives on such petty matters.

And this might be the reason why Sophia’s support rate surpassed the record once held by the two Witch Kings.

The Pure White Witch was genuinely attentive to details, too much so.

But when one is so attentive, can that still be considered “pretense” or “utilization”?

Only sincerity could reciprocate sincerity.

Could a Student Council President, who viewed everyone as tools to be used, truly win such an honor that not even the Witch King’s leadership achieved?

The answer was clear.

Sophia was not cut out to be the villain.

This, Dorothy was more than certain of.

Previously, she had given several Advanced Magic Potions to the Centaur Lady in Ruthfiel’s bar to treat her inherently weak sister, but the next day, Sophia returned the potions to her.

“These Magic Potions are too high-level for a weak Centaur to use; it would be a waste.

I’ll return them to you.

I’ll take care of Nina’s situation.”
That’s what Sophia said at the time.

Later, out of curiosity, the Homebody Witch looked into the matter and found out that her well-intentioned act was nearly a bad deed.

The potions she provided were indeed High-Level and capable of curing Nina’s sister’s congenital condition, but in reality, the information provided by Nina was incorrect; her sister’s weakness was not due to an innate illness, but rather a weakness caused by an excellent Talent that her body could not support.

If Nina had given her sister Dorothy’s Magic Potions, her sister might have become a healthy Centaur, but only just a healthy, ordinary one.

Her strong Talent would have been overridden by the Advanced Magic Potion.

Fortunately, Sophia stopped everything and provided a more suitable Magic Potion for Nina to take back and use for her sister’s treatment.

This incident made Dorothy reflect deeply, and she reluctantly realized that she was the actual hypocrite.

She truly wanted to help Miss Nina, but her help was merely a gesture of goodwill.

She hadn’t even considered checking on Nina’s sister personally and then offering targeted treatment; instead, she had nonchalantly handed over several vials of high-level Magic Potion.

Was her approach wrong?

Of course not, anyone would praise her as a good person.

Even if her Magic Potion had ended up wiping out Nina’s sister’s Talent, the Centaur Lady wouldn’t have blamed her benefactor but would have felt guilty for not knowing her sister’s condition well enough.

But despite no one assigning blame, the Homebody Witch still recognized the difference between her and Sophia in this matter.

She lost for one reason only: she had not taken Nina’s situation to heart.

After all, it was about an acquaintance she had known for merely a few days, not even a particularly close friend, just someone she enjoyed talking to, and she had never even met Nina’s sister.