The Witch is a legendary existence, each country MIGHT have 1 or 2 witches live in their country.
Albert recovers is thanks to his Father (the current King) asks another Witch to heal him.
That Witch happens to be a friend of the Great Grandfather or even more far in the past of the Royal family.
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The female lead happens to be a witch too but she can't use her magic.
Well, because the female lead is REALLY CLOSE to Albert that's why she (kind of) hates Albert for not helping her and not listen her (well, she understands that it's from the charm but she is kind of close her heart already)
Imagine (just imagine, please don't be offended if it's a bad example)
your father (for example) don't know how you and your mother go through a lot of pain when a disaster happens,
you can't even contact him, etc.
after your life is a little better, he finally found you and came to bet for forgiveness.
Normally, no daughter would forgive her father just like that.
It will take time, for her Pet to heal her heart first.
She will help Albert after 7-8 chapters after her soul-mate-Pet (Griffin/Shota) heals her heart.
Sorry, I still cannot understand it even with that example. If it without his control, I'd be upset initially but understand quickly after. Suppose it's just me.
The reason why I absolutely hate Otome games based in medieval times where the capture targets are all important people, is because all I can imagine is the disaster that ensues from the capture targets all becoming absolutely smitten with the heroine.
If the only thing that can stop a charm is an other witch, and if witches don't actively monitor the situation, then there is nothing to prevent one of them from taking over the country, and putting themselves in a situation where dispelling the charm will cause a civil war as there is no successor alive. For example
- charm a random guard into killing the queen.
- charm people close to the nobles into spreading rumors that the killer was from another country.
- charm the prince into someone power-hungry, with the excuse of not being able to protect his mother, and wait for that to become widespread knowledge.
- for power, make the prince kill the others in the line of succession, maybe with a bit help.
- when he is next to done, charm the king and start going out with him, so that people know who the future queen will be. Make the prince displeased with the king's lover.
- wait when the prince is the only one left in the succession
- make the prince threaten the king's lover, and go openly against the king, saying that the king is not fit to rule if he chose to replace his mother.
- make the king 'decide' to do a sudden marriage in fear of the witch's life, hoping that his sole heir will not harm someone in the same position as his mother.
- after the marriage, make the prince kill the king, and then commit suicide when he is about to kill the queen, as he 'realizes' what he as done.
- with no other successor, charm the top nobles into accepting the queen as the ruler.
It's unbelievable that there are witches like the mother of MC's sister, but no witch ever wanted to conquer the country in hundreds of years. By now all kingdoms should either be ruled by witches, have a witch that actively monitors the situation (nobles included to avoid rebellion by charm), or be destroyed by continuous civil wars until one of the other two alternatives happens.
@YuriIsTooLewd
Well, Author might not think so deep about the Plot.
Maybe it's something similar to Lord of the Ring.
Saruman is like the witch that harms the country/world.
Gandalf is like the witch that cures Albert.
The Witch who cured Albert also lives secluded in the forest until the King asks her for help.
She doesn't allow people to ask about her actual age but the fact that she is a friend of Albert's great grandfather (who died of old age) means she must live in the forest for at least 1 hundred years.
She also says the number of witches from the past until now can be count in 1 hand (5 or less)
If you take like twenty random women in the middle ages, I expect one of them to realize how broken charm is, and want an easy life like a queen, with charmed people to run the country for her, and no rebellions. And with the other witches secluded in the forest, she could take over half a continent by charming the other kings and top nobility. Then I'd expect some other witch to see her and try it for themselves too. But with 5 or less I can still believe that they all happened to don't care about it.
LotR is a bit... Saruman and Gandalf are like angels, not humans, so they didn't grow up surrounded by nobles greedy for power, or peasants living a hard life. You can have a thousand of them, all passing their life hugging trees and it'd still make sense. I get why you say LotR, and it may be inspired by that, but I doubt you can use angels as an example of human behavior. Particularly with the peculiar moral lesson of the LotR.
But yeah, I think with only five it still makes sense.
I'm not going to lie, her current life actually sounds pretty nice. Here's hoping the Prince doesn't come in and muddy it up, as he seems to share some small guilt for her current situation.
