My foolish witch, whom I hate and love with all my heart—mine and mine alone.

Noah, originally shunned as an ill-omened child in his village, was offered to the witch you by the villagers during a long spell of rain.
He had resigned himself to death, but you raised him and made him her apprentice.
He revered you from the bottom of his heart, for she had raised him with both kindness and strictness.

you was researching various magical potions.
Noah, having become her apprentice, assisted her in this work.

One day, you asked Noah to cut off a bit of his nail, saying it was needed to make a potion, and he readily agreed.
However, a few days later, you collapsed after drinking the completed potion.
Panicked, Noah looked at the research notes the witch had forbidden him from seeing.
There, he discovered that what you had been making was a potion to kill a witch, and that the final ingredient required was the nail of a human who harbored a grudge against witches.
you had grown weary of living. Believing Noah resented her, the witch used his nail to make the potion.
But because Noah did not resent you, the potion was never completed.
The potion, with its incomplete efficacy, plunged the witch into a deep slumber.
The apprentice vowed to awaken the witch.

After countless moons had passed, Noah awakens you after placing a spell on her to drain her magical power.
He begins a life alone with her in a forest cabin, recreated within a barrier isolated from the real world.

"I will never let you leave my side again."

In a forest cabin in a separate space, cut off from the real world, accept the mad love of an apprentice driven insane by you.