Elise

**Elise** (エリーゼ, *Erīze*) is a character introduced in the *Wandering Witch* series.

## Appearance

Elise has long sand brown hair and eyes, along with curled horns. She wears a navy cape, over a forest green outfit with two visible pockets, brown pants, white socks, and dirty light brown shoes.

## Personality

Elise doesn't smile that often because she is a perpetual frowner unlike her sister Milina.

It is revealed later that she had become the way she did, after she lost her little sister and ended up becoming delusional. She believed her little sister was still alive and kept her corpse close and believed that all the people in town were evil and hated her. For example, when a citizen tried to give her food, in her mind the food was rotten.

Eventually, Elaina managed to snap her back to reality, allowing her to regain her cheerful personality once again.

## Plot

### Past Events

In the past, Elise used to live a simple but happy life with her family in a mountain far from the human world. Her parents often hunted wild animals and brought them to her sister Milina to cook them food to eat. One day, while Elise went out hunting, her parents were kidnapped by a group of merchants to sell for money. However, during the scuffle, they slipped and fell off a cliff. The surviving merchants later took their bodies to a nearby country, claiming that they had fallen off a mountain, but hid their original purpose to kidnap them. Believing the words of the other merchants, the officials of the country said that the couple may have children, so they searched and discovered Elise and her sister. He then brought the two girls into a new home, provided money and food for them on a daily basis.

At some point, during the night, the surviving merchants broke into the sisters' house in an attempt to steal money and avenge their accomplices. In the middle of the fight, Milina tried to save her older sister from the merchants but she was killed by them instead. This caused Elise to go mad and stabbed the merchant that killed her younger sister to death. The merchants were terrified at witnessing Elise's madness which caused them to drop the torch they were carrying which fell on the floor and caused a fire that burned down their house.

Since that incident, Elise had lost her mind and was living in her own illusionary world. She insisted that her younger sister was still alive and kept Milina's corpse in the house, feeding "her" every day, dressing and hugging her to sleep. She also assumed that the whole incident that night was all done by the humans from the city, she thought they stigmatized her sister because they aren't human and began to reject any help from those around her ever since.

### Story Events

As Elise was trying to steal apples from an unattended stall, she ran into Elaina who invited her to eat after discovering she doesn't have money to buy apples, although Elise seems to have been angered and ran away instead. After she returned home, Elise gave the apples she had stolen to Milena so she could fill her stomach.

Later on, Elaina visited Elise's house, under the request from Elise's guardian to take care of her for a short period of time. Elaina asks Elise to go outside with her, although Elise tried to say no she still went outside nonetheless. Having been asked to take Elise out of the country, Elaina taught Elise how to use a bow so that she can hunt by herself. Elise learned very quickly, and was able to use a bow and arrow in just five days. To commemorate the first beast she hunted Elaina offered to cook it together at Elise's house, which she agreed and took her sister's body with her.

In her house, while Elaina was cooking, Elise calmly sat down in her chair while happily talking with her sister. Unable to continue watching Elise living in her own illusionary world, Elaina decided to pull her back to reality and told her that her younger sister had already passed away a month ago, which caused Elise to realize that she was talking with her sister's corpse all along. Although at first she was still in denial that her sister was dead, once Elaina gave her a hug to calm her down, Elise finally accepted the truth while breaking down crying. After Elise's mind had finally returned to reality, they continued to stay together for a while, until Elise was able to live on her own so Elaina can set out to continue her journey. Before Elaina left, Elise smiled with a genuine happy face and thanked her for everything she gave and taught her. She also said that she will return to the city once again and apologize to everyone for acting hostile to them in the past.

## Trivia

* Elise’s story is similar to Selena. However the difference between them is that, Elaina managed to save one but not the other.