Manga goes from torture to happy festival stuffs. I didn't even finish the chapter and I'll need to work myself up to do so. It's not quite at the drop point yet but it's pretty damn close
I'm not understanding the phoentic basis for the spelling "cande". It should theoretically either be "cand" or "canday", if it's a mispronouncation of candy. There shouldn't be any meaningful distinction between the pronouncation of "cand" and "cande", and "cand" would be the more intuitive spelling. Alternatively, "canned", but that'd have a confusion of its own.
Just a speculation, but I have a feeling that that witchy woman is either going to be a trainer/teacher type in order to train the MC to better use his powers as a way to repay him, or she is going to be an enemy later on that ends up sparring him just before he is killed as a way of repaying him. Again just my speculation, I have no clue if this will happen.