19 Screw Anna, you are Eva now

[This chapter is the continuation of chapter 17. Read this below knowing that this continues after Hitler found Anna's soul reminds him of Eva.]

"Ehh." Barov tiled his head in confusion. He had no idea, what the prince meant by his words. 'Was? Prince is acting strange lately. Did this witch do something yesterday?' he thought.

Hitler immediately understood that he said something that shouldn't have said. So cleared his throat and said. "Doesn't matter whether you are a witch or a bitch, you will be my subject and following my will is your goal."

He needs to get her out of the prison. But, he cannot do it just like that even if he is the prince. So he needs to know more about how she became the so-called 'witch.'

"Can you clearly describe what happened when the mine collapsed?" Hitler asked.

Anna nodded and began talking.

It wasn't a complicated story. Anna's father was a miner and was working when the mine collapsed. Immediately after they heard about the accident, Anna and the other miners' families went to rescue their loved ones.

Her father's leg was crushed under a cart filled with ore, rendering him motionless, but at his side was another miner patting him down for money. When the looter saw them, he rushed at Ana's neighbor with a pick and knocked him to the ground, but as he was about to strike her, Anna killed him first.

Anna's neighbors vowed to keep her secret and helped Anna rescue her father. However, early next morning, Anna's father went out on his crutches and reported to the patrolling guards that his daughter was a witch.

"Fucking fathers. All of them are scum?" Hitler grunted in anger.

Barov got scared whispered to Hitler, "Prince, quietly. Please don't speak like that in many situations. I know you are not happy with your Lord Father's decision to send you here, but never speak ill of The Highness."

Hitler stood in a daze. He had repeatedly blurted words out of control now. He hated 'his' father, but the father he thought of and the father of his that others who hear what he said to connect to are different. He was in Prince Roland's body and his father was the King Wimbledon some number.

Barov sighed and then answered, "Probably he could receive a reward. Discovering and reporting a witch can get you 25 gold royals. For a man with a crippled leg, 25 gold royals would take care of him for the rest of his life."

"Barov. Isn't this enough to show she is innocent? Investigate the incident well. We shouldn't let an innocent girl rot in jail."

Barov wanted to say. 'She isn't an innocent girl. She is a witch, a WITCH who killed someone. And she is supposed to get executed not kept in prison.'

After a moment of silence, Hitler asked, "Your opponent was a strong adult man, so how were you able to kill him?"

Anna laughed, and the flames of the torches began shaking like waves on a lake surface.

"Just as you think, I used the power of the devil," Anna said.

"Shut up! Vile sorceress!" shouted the prison warden, but everyone could hear his voice trembling.

"Really? I want to see it," Hitler's smile widened.

"Your Highness, this is no laughing matter!" The Chief Knight interjected as he furrowed his brows.

Hitler walked towards the cell. "If anyone is afraid of her, they can just get the fu*k out of here."

'How can you idiots who surround me and work under this 'Devil' himself fear a mere girl who claims to use the power of the Devil? How laughable?' Hitler mused.

"Don't panic, she has a 'God's Locket of Retribution' around her neck!" shouted Barov to comfort everyone, but probably mostly himself. "No matter how powerful the devil is, he cannot overcome God's protection."

Hitler stood in front of the cell bars, an arm's length away from her, and could clearly see her dusty and bruised face. Her soft facial features showed that she still was a minor, but her expression contained no trace of childlike innocence. She looked similar to Eva just that her body appeared to have suffered from poverty and hunger, but it was also not exactly the same.

Up until now, she had tried to stand straight with her vision raised and calmly looked into the prince's eyes. "She does not fear death," Hitler realized, "and she is waiting for death."

"Is this the first time you have seen a witch, my lord? Your curiosity might get you killed," Anna said.

'I haven't seen a witch before. I am indeed curious to meet one as the amount of money I spent on occult research is not small.' Hitler thought with a smile that kept widening. 'And it's not even the first time I saw you, my bitch. And even seen more than enough, just that you don't seem to remember me.'

"Maybe, but I have known and seen death more than the current you can imagine. " Hitler replied.

"Was the thing around her neck God's Locket of Retribution?" Hitler thought. It was a red iron chain with a sparkling and translucent pendant, which seemed easy to destroy if the witch hadn't been handcuffed.

Hitler glanced at the crowd behind him, who were still mouthing prayers in panic. He quickly reached into the cell, grabbed the pendant, and tugged on the locket, snapping the chain—the move startled even Anna.

Hitler saw a blazing flame rise from beneath Anna, and the ground she was standing on was set on fire. The torches behind them exploded at once, giving off a blinding light. At that moment, the whole cell was as bright as day, causing the onlookers' terrified screams.

As the witch moved forward, the flames surrounding her moved with her. When she came to the edge of her cell, the iron bars that made up the wall became pillars of fire.

"She really does not fear fire," Hitler thought.

Soon, the iron bars turned from crimson to a light yellow and began to melt. Like the others, he backed away from the cell, holding himself firmly against the furthest wall.

After what seemed like an eternity, the flames disappeared.

All that was left were a couple of torches quietly burning on the wall as if nothing had happened, but Anna's burned clothes, the hot air, and the twisted prison bars all proved that this wasn't an illusion.

Besides Hitler and the Chief Knight, the other men had all collapsed to the ground, and the prison warden was so scared that he soiled his pants. Anna now stood naked outside the cell, and her arm shackles were gone. She did not hide her naked body, her hands hanging naturally at her side and her blue eyes appearing as peaceful as before.

"Now that I have satisfied your curiosity, my Lord," she said, "can you kill me now?"

"No. you idiot. You deserve to be punished." Hitler stepped forward, wrapped his coat around her, and said angrily. "You are only supposed to satisfy me, not the other idiots around me. Why did you go naked like that?"

Then with a gentle tone, he continued. "Eva, I want to hire you as my maid."

He can't directly make her his wife. so this was the best method he thought of. And who knows, since this is a new world and he is a prince with better looks, he could even get some other beauties if he waited.

Anna was startled, staring at the prince. "Lord. My name is Anna...not Ev..."

Hitler didn't let her complete her sentence as he yelled.

"Screw Anna. You are Eva from now on."