黒の十字架～per aspera～

”Succeeding in commerce, the protagonist (Wolf) who returns home since a long time. However, it’s not the peaceful village that he used to know. The reality of the witch hunts, he had already known about thanks to the letter from his friend Franz, was more cruel than he imagined. It was clear that the people executed are innocent.

Acting as if blind to the gruesome circumstances, finally reaching home, he reunites with his mother and younger and lives peacefully…

At least for a short while, until one day when returning home after running an errand in a different town he is confronted with the fact that his own family is the next target that are to be hunted down as ‘witches’. And the fact that his mother and brother have already been captured.