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Noel

Noel widened his eyes for a bit from shock as he smiled.

"…I see."

He reminisced about the ending of the book. The cat was actually blind because at that time, black cats were said to have connection with witches and is said to bring bad luck to people, so some townspeople threw stones to the cat until it got blind.

One day, the cat felt like it was taken care by someone, and after she heals, she embarked into a journey to find the personwho healed her.

At the end of the story, Noel never thought that the one who saved the cat was the daughter of a noble who first accused that black cats bring bad luck to people. And because the nobility was the most powerful group in the country at that time, the lower class people blindly followed the belief.

In the end, that girl was sentenced to death for the crime of saving a witch's property. While her head had locked to the wooden plane of the guillotine, before it went down, she said to al