City ​​of Witches 1109

Chapter 1109 – #263_Holiday(6)

#1103

1.
After Albireo discovered the variety show-level holiday shenanigans that rivaled a ‘Kkotanju’ drinking game.

“From now on, no going outside after 10 PM! Do you understand?”
“Yes….”
“Yes, Master….”
“I’ll talk to you again tomorrow, so stay in your rooms!”

Odile and Odette were given a curfew and ordered to stay home.

The twins, having lost their justification, couldn’t argue with their great master’s words and trudged back home.

In a way, it was the best outcome.
They no longer had to witness what was about to unfold.

In truth, Albireo wasn’t planning to visit the cabin today.
To be more precise, she had planned to stop by briefly with Deneb, but it was canceled due to too much work.

Having received the notification that ‘it’s difficult to come,’ Siwoo and the others had continued their somewhat decadent board game.

“Hmm.”

Having finished her heavy workload, Albireo’s body felt stiff and she wanted nothing more than a bath.

Albireo pondered.

There had been many events between her and Siwoo.
It had been a series of days so intense that Albireo wondered if there had ever been such a deep relationship in her long life.

The benefactor who had saved the twins’ lives multiple times.
The damned son-in-law who kept adding to his lovers whenever she looked away for a moment.

The troublesome one who was always on the verge of death.
The lecher who had seduced even her little sister-in-law, Deneb, and committed various outrages against Albireo, who had her first experience in bed.

Especially the last part had caused Albireo a near-traumatic embarrassment, so the relationship between mother-in-law and son-in-law had been quite awkward recently.

Although he had provided a lot of help with the operation of the academy, it was done with an invisible thick wall between the two of them.

It wasn’t to the point of ‘I hate him to death’ or ‘I can never forgive him,’ but it had been quite a long period where they were wary of each other.

But conflicts that arise in everyday life are resolved after a dramatic event, as guaranteed by the Hollywood movie ending of a divorced family reuniting.

When she heard the news that Dorothy, one of his lovers, had died, Albireo was also sad.
The sorrow of losing a precious person is the same for everyone.

When he went to the mortal realm for revenge, she worried.
She prayed that he would return safely from the difficult path he had embarked on.

When Siwoo returned, having achieved feats worthy of a countship and successfully leading the establishment of the academy, she couldn’t have been prouder.

To Albireo, Shin Siwoo was a son-in-law who was painful to bite but had accumulated a lot of affection.

So, it was right for the elder with more life experience to understand first.
Since Siwoo and his lovers were spending the Chuseok holiday together, it was also a good time to make a gesture of reconciliation.

“…Still, should I at least bring some fruit?”

Albireo, who had packed a basket full of fruit to show her face and offer some words of blessing, was met with this at the cabin.

“Slurp! Hehehe! This songpyeon is amazing!”

Her son-in-law, having completely forgotten moderation and balance, was doing something disgusting inside Odile’s skirt.

-Thud

The fruit basket fell limply from Albireo’s hand.

2.
“Isn’t that too much… huh?”
“I’m sorry, I was wrong, so please calm down….”
“Do you think I can calm down right now?!”

Siwoo was witnessing a rare sight.
The great mother-in-law, who had maxed out her stats in both aristocratic dignity and pride, was drunk and making a scene.

Her face was flushed, her eyes were teary, and her lips were pouting.
She resembled a college girl in her early twenties, heartbroken and rambling while drunk.

That was because Albireo, having thoroughly beaten Siwoo, who didn’t resist out of conscience, was now drinking alcohol from the table and venting her anger.

“I allowed him to spend the holiday with his assistant’s hometown, and I thought it would be a family gathering…! Huh? Does this make any sense? You’re all bad too! You, you, you accomplices! Abettors!”

Dorothy, Eloa, and Sharon, who were the targets of her complaints, were all bowing their heads and fidgeting in front of Albireo.

“I believed everything would be fine since the Duke was also there! You should have stopped this! Shouldn’t you?”
“Count~ I understand how you feel~ but it’s a matter between lovers, right?”

“So, it’s okay to condone him going inside a skirt in front of all the lovers? Odile and Odette are still apprentice witches!”

In fact, Albireo was just Siwoo’s mother-in-law.
Even in terms of social distribution, there was no need for the three of them to be so flustered.

They could have simply said that the lovers’ affairs were for the lovers to handle.

“It’s not like I’m telling them not to do it! Just, a little, normally! Go on a cozy date! Kiss! If the mood is right, cuddle in bed! I wouldn’t say anything about that?!”

However, the keyword ‘apprentice witch’ was universal in the witch world, regardless of whether they were outcasts or from Gehenna.

Albireo’s appeal of ‘How can you play so promiscuously when there are apprentice witches here!’ had both legitimacy and justification.

In short, they were going to stay quiet because they had committed a sin.

However, there were also those who did not abide by such common sense.

“Great Master, you’ve been saying too much since earlier.”
“Huh?”

The one and only R’lyeh (+alcohol consumption) was one of them.

“I have generously overlooked your kicking Siwoo’s shin and causing a ruckus to understand the Master’s feelings. However, that strange board game was prepared by Odile and Odette.”

Sharon, Eloa, Dorothy, and Siwoo shook their heads behind Albireo’s back, but R’lyeh continued her argument with her chin held high.

“Odile and Odette are also Siwoo’s lovers, so I wanted to respect your position as a mother-in-law. But anything more than this is interference. I heard that the Jemanae family has already received many favors from Shin Siwoo, hasn’t it?”
“……”

A series of unheard sighs followed.

Linne, who was passed out on the sofa, felt the killing intent and briefly opened her eyes.
Siwoo, who was face down on the floor, squeezed his eyes shut.

“Interference?”

It sounded like something was breaking.
As R’lyeh said, this incident was a matter between lovers.

That was why Albireo, who had been trying to ignore her collapsing heart as a mother and was just complaining, had reached the end of her patience.

Until now, R’lyeh had enjoyed Albireo’s tolerance despite her unique arrogance.

Putting aside the business contract for oil drilling rights, Albireo, being a married woman, had allowed the reckless young witch a level of leniency that was hard to find.

“Come to think of it, you’re casually using informal speech?”
“I, I am a queen… no matter who the opponent is….”
“Am I your friend?”

Albireo smiled brightly.
It was only after seeing the artificial and awkward smile that R’lyeh realized something was wrong.

“So, do you think I’ll just stand by while my two precious daughters are playing like girls in a room salon? Is that what a mother is? A teacher?”
“Wh, what is it! Don’t come closer! Dorothy! Dorothy!”

Every time Albireo approached, using the Heavenly Demon’s Imperial Walk, the benevolent smile of a Buddha fell away, replaced by the murderous intent of a demon.
R’lyeh, turning pale, called out for Dorothy, but Dorothy didn’t move.

“Can you say the same thing if your apprentice witch was doing that?!”
“I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I think I misspoke! Uwaaaah!!! I was wrong! I was wrong!”

Albireo, with her fist clenched, squeezed R’lyeh’s temples and punished her.
R’lyeh, unable to even think of using magic, suffered in agony as she received her punishment.

3.
“Are you okay?”
“Ugh, I’m, I’m okay….”
“How about using magic….”
“Shut up, I just want to be drunk….”

After that, Albireo took turns complaining to Dorothy and Eloa while drinking heavily.

Putting aside the master, who had to go to sleep in the middle, even Dorothy, who was quite strong with alcohol, had been knocked out, so Siwoo took on the role of escorting Albireo back to her mansion out of a sense of duty.

Albireo’s tongue was completely twisted, and her steps were unsteady.
She leaned against Siwoo as they walked down the hallway, and a fragrant scent wafted from her.

As she was about to melt down like a cat, he put his hand around her waist, only to have his hand slapped.

“Ouch!”
“Where are you touching!”
“I have to support you….”

“After getting me this drunk… do you think I don’t know what you’re up to? If you try anything… I’ll bite you for sure….”
“……”

It seemed she was very drunk.
Her pronunciation and tone were erratic, and her usually dignified voice was all over the place.

It was refreshing to see her lose her composure and get this drunk for the first time.
She would probably have a significant memory loss by tomorrow.

And he also felt a little guilty.
After all, it was entirely Siwoo’s fault that she had drunk so much to get to this state.

“We’ve arrived.”
“Waaah, it’s home….”

Thanks to her trained spirit body, she arrived at Albireo’s bedroom without breaking a sweat.
He carefully laid her on the bed and took off her shoes.

Albireo, who had left her skirt rolled up and exposed her long legs, said grumbling.

“Pajamas, bring me my pajamas…. I don’t usually sleep in bed with the clothes I wear outside….”
“Yes, yes, please wait a moment.”

Without complaint, he brought her the clothes, and she immediately took off her clothes.
It seemed she was more concerned with taking off her uncomfortable clothes and changing into her favorite pajamas than Siwoo’s presence.

The way a drunk person thinks is unpredictable.

“Water….”
“Yes, yes.”

He raised her upper body slightly and put the water bottle to her mouth, and she drank it down well.
With a ‘Puhah’ sound, Albireo, who had taken a refreshing sigh, laid her head on the pillow without opening her eyes.

“Always causing trouble, you gangster son-in-law….”
“…I’m sorry.”
“You bad guy, you thief! I hate you so much….”
“I have no excuse.”

It was a mumbled utterance that was hard to tell if she was talking to Siwoo or to herself, but he apologized anyway.

“Then, I’ll be going now.”
“…Wait.”

Albireo, breathing heavily, grabbed Siwoo’s sleeve as he was about to turn away.
When he turned back, her half-opened purple eyes were staring at him hazily.

“Still, you did well this time…. Good job, Siwoo. But don’t overdo it like this…. You have many people to be responsible for, okay?”

Siwoo’s eyes widened.

Their relationship had been quite awkward recently, so even after saving Dorothy, he hadn’t heard anything from her.

Although it was due to the alcohol, it was the first time he had heard praise, encouragement, and concern.
He wasn’t so dense that he didn’t know that it contained a gesture of reconciliation.

She was truly a tearfully generous great mother-in-law.

“Thank you. Good night.”
“Siwoo, you sleep well too.”

Siwoo blew out the candle and left the bedroom.