Sacrifice: Little Red Riding Hood

Synopsis

【STORY】

When a woman gains magical power and becomes a witch, she stops aging from that point forward.

The witch living in the forest near the protagonist Lilia’s village became a witch at an old age, and now desires a youth restoration potion.

The ingredient needed is a girl at the prime age of youth. The potion’s effects fade with time, returning to normal after approximately ten years.

Once every decade, the protagonist’s village offers a maiden to the witch in exchange for magic that protects them from forest beasts. However, the villagers despise escorting the sacrificial maiden to the witch’s home, and the witch with her bad legs refuses to fetch her.

So they deceived the girl, dressed her in conspicuous red clothing for the nearly-blind witch to easily spot, and sent her alone into the forest. “An elderly woman living alone in the forest is ill. Please visit her.”

To obscure the truth, they didn’t call her a sacrifice—instead, they named her after her clothing: “Little Red Riding Hood.”

Selected as this year’s Little Red Riding Hood through her stepmother’s schemes, the protagonist awaited her fate. But instead of an elderly witch, two wolves who devoured the witch and claimed her magic were waiting for her…