After finishing the dwarf cookie, the witch licked her dry lips with satisfaction.
But just then,
"Knock knock knock,"
there was a knock at the door.
"Hello, owner of the candy house. I got lost in the forest by accident. Could you please give me something to eat?"
The voice outside the door was meek and weak, sounding so pitiful. But at this moment, all the cookies on the cabinet seemed to be startled, with an inexplicable amount of oil seeping out on their surfaces.
"Oh no, another lost one."
"Who could it be? A rabbit, a bear, or a beaver...?"
The cookies' voices were full of anxiety, followed by complaints.
"It's all that damned dwarf cookie's fault!" "Exactly! It changed the witch's rule of eating cookies! So this lost one outside the door will surely take the place of one of us!"
"The visitor outside will become the new collection, and one of us will be eaten..."
"Evil dwarf cookie!"
"It should be torn apart by tentacles!"
Elena smiled coldly, somewhat sickly and distorted.
"Be quiet, little delicacies. Now our chances of being eaten are equal. No one can stay out of it, so we should unite and find a way to escape from here, right?"
"We've always done that!"
the cookies retorted. "
Before you came, we were always united and never gave up on escaping."
"But you made our crisis more urgent! After all, our expiration dates were still several hundred years away!"
The cookies shouted loudly.
Elena noticed that the bear cookie remained silent, like an idiot.
"Creak—"
At this moment, the witch opened the chocolate door.
As the sound of the door opening rang out, all the cookies tacitly closed their mouths and stared straight at the visitor outside the door.
They were eager to know who it was outside the door.
Would it be one of them that would be eaten this time?
Finally, the door was fully opened, and at the same time, all the cookies heaved a sigh of relief, even feeling a bit schadenfreude.
Only Elena was o(▼皿▼メ;)o.
"Hello, lost dwarf."
The witch called out to the visitor outside the door with a pained voice:
"I think you might need a cup of hot cocoa."
Another dwarf! Elena felt that her luck was just too bad.
The dwarf, like Elena before, sat gratefully on the gingerbread chair, looking at the cup of hot cocoa the witch had brought him on the gingerbread table.
His dry, lidless eyes seemed to mist over.
"Woo woo woo... Don't drink..."
"It's no use. He can't hear us... Woo woo..."
"Drink quickly. We can't be the only ones suffering!"
"So pitiful... Just like us... Woo woo woo..."
The cookies shouted again, but the dwarf at the gingerbread table ignored them and eagerly picked up the hot cocoa in front of him, drinking it all in one gulp.
Then, oil began to seep out of his body, and his entire body became yellower, flatter, and more brittle... "hehehehe…"
A moment later, the witch, with a shrill cry, picked up the newly made dwarf cookie and walked towards the cabinet where Elena was.
"Look, this is all your own fault."
"You're about to be eaten by the witch! Because you're not as fresh as the newly made dwarf cookie. He's still warm."
"Poor thing, your malice only gave you an extra five minutes of life."
Elena's heart seemed to be in her throat, but she knew that in times of crisis, she had to stay calm.
So, at this moment, she vaguely caught a hint of something unusual.
"Delicacies, before I die, I want to know why you always say for sure that those who haven't been turned into cookies can't hear your voices?"
Elena's question was like a clown's nose, self-proclaimed funny but without any novelty.
This made the cookies snort in disdain.
"How could they hear our voices before their lives became like ours?"
"Just like how could a rabbit understand a tiger's language? If it could, the rabbit could avoid the tiger's pursuit in advance."
"True, although I know that no lost soul can hear my advice, I still hope for a miracle to happen, hoping that there will be a miracle that can save it and us. Yes, I am a Lawful Good, always have been."
The witch's steps were getting closer and closer to Elena.
Elena felt that the part of her cookie body near her heart was about to crack.
"But before I drank that cup of hot cocoa, I heard your voices! So, where exactly am I different from you?"
Elena asked the cookies, but also questioned herself! She knew that she had to figure out every doubt to have a chance to break the crisis.
However, at this moment, all the cookies scoffed at her words.
"Impossible!"
The never-before-speaking bear cookie finally spoke up.
"Except for the Candy Witch, no one can hear the voices of cookies. Unless..."
The bear cookie said, seemingly still expressionless, but his voice trembled noticeably.
"Unless... you are..."
"Hehehe!"
At this moment, the Candy Witch placed the newly made dwarf cookie beside Elena and then grabbed Elena tightly with her rough hands.
"As you wish, dwarf cookie. Now I think it's time for me to eat you first!"
The witch opened her crooked fangs and without hesitation, sent Elena towards her mouth...
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"No! You can't eat her!!"
Just when Elena thought she was doomed, the bear cookie screamed frantically!
"No! You can't! You absolutely can't eat her!!"
The witch's rough hands froze, looking at the bear cookie with confusion.
Clearly, she attached great importance to the bear cookie's words.
"Tell me why, bear cookie?"
the witch asked in puzzlement.
"No! I can't say! Because if she knows the truth, she will surely bring you to ruin!"
the bear cookie said anxiously,
"So, please listen to me, don't eat her!"
The witch stood there in a daze for a moment, then said,
"Alright, I respect your suggestion, bear cookie. This is a reward for my favorite cookie."
Finally, Elena was placed back on the cookie cabinet, escaping the crisis.
"Poor child, she actually escaped. But what about the new dwarf cookie? Waaaah..."
"No! Why? Why don't you eat that evil cookie!"
"How could you listen to a bear cookie? You are the Candy Witch, the master of all cookies!"
"Please eat her!"
The cookies around her started to shout again, expressing that there were few cookies who pitied Elena and many who hoped she would be eaten.
"Haha, hehe, ehehe..."
However, Elena suddenly burst into laughter.
Twisted!
Pathetic!
Crazy!
Because she finally understood the truth from the conversation between the bear cookie and the witch!