Escape of Salmhofer the Witch

**Escape of Salmhofer the Witch** is the fourth song of the "Tale of Original Virtue". It follows the life of the "Witch of Merrigod", Meta Salmhofer.

## Plot

A woman named Meta Salmhofer grows up without knowing her mother or father. When she turned twenty, she falls in love with a murderer. Because of her attraction to him, his evil stains her and people begin to call her a witch.

One day, Meta sees a wailing woman covered in blood, and suddenly finds herself bound in chains. On the day of her execution, a man who resembles her lover offers to free her if she consents to being a test subject. She agrees and becomes involved in Project 'MA'. Inoculated with the "Seed of God", she gives birth to twins, Hänsel and Gretel. Meta suddenly remembers that she was just like them, artificially created without parents.

Meta refuses to let her children grow up like she did, and steals them from the laboratory. Fleeing, she takes Hänsel and Gretel to Held's Forest and begins living a hidden life there. While taking a walk through the forest one night, she leaves her babies alone for a moment. When she comes back, she sees a man standing over them.

## Lyrics

I ran through a forest path

Where flowers scatter

A pair of red fruits held to my breast

I run through the night, a runaway

Not knowing my father or my mother,

I had grown up all alone

When I was 20, the one I loved

Was a culprit of murder

If you are attracted to evil

You will find yourself tainted too

And so, the people called me

"Witch"

I ran through an evil path

Where flowers bloom

A criminal who was splattered with blood

And fled to a corrupted love

"My children aren't anywhere"

Cried a bloodstained, wailing woman

Looking down on her,

I was suddenly wrapped in chains

My sins will be judged one day

The prison is inhuman and dark

A scientist who resembles him

Stood in front of my execution chair

I who wants to leave from here

The scientist who wants a subject

Now, our two interests

Overlapped

I ran through a cold stone path

Taking off my white prisoner clothes

The destination I faced

Is a research lab

The embedded divine seed

Pulsated inside of me

The two adorable twins I birthed,

Experimental subjects without a father

I remember, I remember

That I was also a ghoul child

Once manufactured inside a beaker

In this same way

My own children

Connected by this beaker

I know it's selfish, but

I won't let these children become their toys!

It was a life of only running away

The love I was not granted

I want to give my children

Even a fragment of that

I ran through a forest path

Where flowers scatter

Two babies that I love held to my breast

I run through the night, a runaway

We live hidden in a neighboring country

Staying out of the public eye

On moonlit nights, we go out

The children and I

In the forest of Held,

It should have been a fun walk, but

In the moment I took my eyes off them,

*"Get away from my children, you fiend!"*

## Related Songs

### Project 'MA'

Project 'MA' recounts the events that would lead to Seth Twiright seeking out Meta, as well as describing Eve Moonlit's past involvement in the project and the subsequent deaths of her unborn children.

### Tale of Abandonment on a Moonlit Night

Tale of Abandonment on a Moonlit Night shows the later life of Meta and her children, describing how the twins were abandoned by their parents, only to return and kill them later.

## Appearances

* Adam Moonlit
* Gretel
* Hänsel
* Held (indirectly mentioned only)
* Meta Salmhofer
* Pale Noël
* Seth Twiright