Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina - Vol. 1 Ch. 2 - The Country of Flowers

[MangaDex]

 

[koikun]

why not help the brother, or he was just crazy and not enchanted.

 

[Aruvian]

this manga remind me of Mushishi series, sometimes it can get wholesome, sometimes it can have bittersweet ending, and sometimes it can have tragic twist ending like this. I love it!

 

[Brightamethyst]

That was a fairly drastic shift from the light and fluffy first chapter. It's pretty good though.

 

[Vasqueztion]

That's rough. It makes me wonder how exactly the victim goes out.
That husk of a body shows a bit of pain in its expression, though that could just be the flower's way of collecting water.

Spoiler

Kinda reminds me of Anthophobia.

 

[belenuzx]

damn i should have read the description

 

[shyevsa]

I just realize its has tabi-tabi in it name...
now all seems understandable why she just watch and did not try to help those sibling at first encounter.

 

[Hollow7F]

@shyevsa whats the tabi tabi supposed to mean? coz it looked like she didnt give a flying fuck about them, but in the 1st chapter she was cool with the chick that literally wanted to trap her, so im honestly confused about her personality now

 

[shyevsa]

@Hollow7F no deeper meaning, I was referencing to Kino no Tabi. the MC just want to wander around and let the country just do their thing (read: as long as it don't kill me just do as you wish).
Its kind of mindset where you just a passing someone and don't want to had any responsibility over someone else fate.

 

[nachtness]

wow that's fucked up

 

[Tradless]

Dark, as the description said

Compared to the colorful first chapter, this is a sudden turn lmfao I like it

 

[Bosaner]

What The Fuck am I Reading?

 

[77BLc9JwJGpLVARkamJx]

Welp, they should burn the field magically to dispose that shit.

 

[TheGoodFella]

so its one of those stories....ill pass, if she didnt run away from her or didnt wait a day she might still be alive

 

[ksen]

well that did 180 degrees turn quickly enough

 

[suzubelle]

Dark huh...
Now this is one hella dark
Didn't expect it to come around fast
But nice

 

[Tiorlan]

You guys are such a wuss to drop Elaina's journey just because this chapter. IIRC, this episode fall short to the oncoming ones or more like a warm ups; there are alot of her future journeys which will feature much darker and grim stories. Don't believe me? Just read the novel!

 

[izayamikaelis]

so... she was fine.... although her mind was already poisoned.... if Elana was smarter she should have come there and rescue the girl and burn the whole field down? or it was already too late

anyway....the MC is a stone cold bitch lol
she basically doomed 1 girl and 1 guy to their death because she think "its not my problem and the guy was being annoying" well its probably me being negative about it tho

 

[Serenata]

@izayamikaelis well first, yeah is NOT her problem, two, both of them were very very weird and hard to deal with... so more reasons to stay away and third, she didn't know about the curse and all the details surrounding it, gathering information is the first thing you would do in this cases right? lastly, the fact that the flower field kills her in one night was of course not the MC fault (she came back right? and she wanted to help but there wasn't time)... The only one at fault was the sick siscom brother who decided to kidnap his own sister.

 

[Nolonar]

@shyevsa
@Hollow7F
Tabi (旅) means travel, trip, or journey. Tabitabi is simply "tabi" repeated twice for poetic purposes. Think of it as "multiple trips/journeys". If you remember, the first chapter was a trip to the Country of Magicians, while this chapter is about a trip to the Country of Flowers. So this story isn't about a single journey towards a final goal, it's about many different journeys that she'll undertake.

It doesn't really explain anything about the character, other than that she likes travelling a lot.

As for why she chose not to help the brother: she had no emotional attachment to him, and thus literally no reason to help.
Her first impression of him was that he's an asshole, so she had no intention of helping him in the first place. She got a bad conscience when she realized what had happened, and when she saw the two finally reunited, she probably imagined it'd be pointless to help him now. His sister's dead, which would probably drive him insane even if she cured him.

The Eastern girl was a different case. At least she made it look like an accident, and she was probably the only person to treat her nicely. And since Elaina agreed to teach her, the distance between them gradually shortened, to the point where Elaina could forgive her for stealing her brooch.