Chapter 1123 – #267_A Rough Magic Academy Slice Of Life (2)
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Where girls gather, love and romance stories bloom.
With hearts as fresh as young girls, it’s only natural that witches would be interested in love stories, second only to magic.
The hottest romance topic in Gehenna’s social circles these days was set, so the love story topic that the basic studies researchers, who had a separate tea time break after meals, would discuss was obvious.
It was none other than Shin Siwoo and his lovers.
Generally, these kinds of conversations were abstract.
They relied on gossip magazines like Dandelion or added their imaginations to the rumors they heard.
That’s because the chairman’s lovers were all, at the very least, great witches.
On top of that, a current duchess, a descendant of an ancient witch, a trainee witch from a prestigious Gehenna family, and a reformed public enemy—a legendary lineup.
Rumors were rampant, but it was difficult to meet them individually, as they were members of the upper class even among witches.
However, the basic studies researchers were different.
Aside from Linne, they had accidentally encountered the chairman’s lovers over the past few days, either during meals or while they were visiting the chairman’s office.
Moreover, their respect and admiration for the chairman himself were deeply ingrained, so it didn’t end with simple criticisms like, “Oh my, tsk tsk, how can he have so many lovers so carelessly!”
They became avid fans of the chairman’s love story, empathizing with and fangirling over each lover, finding vicarious satisfaction.
…It might seem odd that these stunningly beautiful researchers were content with mere vicarious satisfaction, but this was entirely because the status of Count Shin, Chairman Siwoo, had reached an untouchable level.
“I think Linne is the best, after all.”
“Yeah, yeah, I thought she’d be super scary when I first heard the rumors, but she’s also a great cook…”
“Doesn’t she perfectly show what the elegance of an Eastern noble is? She wears traditional clothes that must be uncomfortable to walk in every day, and on top of that, her cooking skills are amazing!”
“She hasn’t been around much lately, but Linne is still the main wife.”
Linne, who had brought packed lunches to the basic studies department for the first time, was highly praised.
Her unique sharp eyes and bluntness melting like cotton candy in front of the chairman were also a point of interest.
“Should I say she’s like a slightly prickly cat?”
“I have black hair too, maybe I can appeal to him?”
A senior researcher, sipping black tea with a bit of brandy—a permitted drug in the Hessed Society—lowered her voice.
“Oh, right. Actually, I ran into Linne coming out of the chairman’s office a while ago.”
Allowing alcohol consumption during work breaks.
It was a glimpse into the benevolent chairman’s virtues.
“And you know… her face was as red as a wild strawberry, and her eyes were glazed over as she came out?”
Anyway, a little bit of alcohol was enough to add a touch of 19+ elements to the ticklish love story.
“What?!”
“Is that true?”
“Th-then, did they do that kind of thing together? In the chairman’s office?”
“The chairman’s office is practically the chairman’s residence… so it must be true?!”
And witches, generally a bit older than girls, liked romances with these 19+ elements even more.
Excited by the enthusiastic reaction, the senior researcher recounted her eyewitness account in detail.
“That’s right! Exactly that! A kitten drunk on catnip. Her legs were wobbly, and she made a slight nasal sound with every step.”
“Wow… well, the chairman is in good shape… his forearms are amazing.”
“Hey, just because someone is in good shape doesn’t mean they have good stamina, you know?”
“But how many wives does he have? Isn’t it amazing that he can satisfy all of them? He’s a spirit body, and he’s also very disciplined.”
The researchers imagined the chairman’s bare body.
And then they imagined Linne nestled in his arms.
The researchers swallowed hard, strangely enough.
They had all unknowingly imagined the hot rendezvous between Mrs. Linne and the chairman.
For some reason, they were all sitting with their thighs pressed together.
The next topic to break the unnecessarily suggestive atmosphere was L’Riel, who had served a course meal with fresh seafood delivered that day.
“Come to think of it, the deep-sea witch was really unexpected.”
“Yeah, there were rumors that Nukelavi was really scary.”
“Ah… I want to eat that sea cucumber again.”
“And that steamed abalone the size of my palm…”
She had followed the recipe to the letter, so her cooking skills weren’t exceptional, but she had perfectly ensured the freshness of the ingredients, which was 90% of the battle in seafood dishes, and received favorable reviews from the researchers.
As she was a veiled descendant of an ancient witch, the researchers were initially more wary of her than Linne.
Moreover, the rumors that she had submerged several Lehar Group members and the eyewitness accounts of her overwhelming power during the flood added to the psychological distance.
Even her way of speaking was high-handed, with phrases like “I,” “~doda,” and “~inira,” wasn’t it?
But when they actually saw L’Riel Nukelavi up close, she was quite cute and a very sensible queen.
“Her worldview is unique, so she’s cute. Even her arrogance is cute.”
“They say she plays well with the babies in the Young Ladies Club. She must be kind-hearted.”
“Still, isn’t the main wife Sharon, the head of the department?”
“Ah, the witch of uranium?”
Daphne, an assistant researcher, quickly changed the subject as if she had been waiting for it.
For the record, Daphne’s one-pick was Sharon Evergreen.
“She’s also very cheerful and lively, and I ran into her in the hallway before, and she remembered my name.”
“Yeah, you could say she doesn’t have the typical authoritative atmosphere of a great witch at all? It feels like it would be really comfortable to be with her.”
“I wish I had a lover like Sharon…”
“What? Lover? You need to have some conscience. You’re probably 50 years older than her, you know?”
“Really?”
Although she didn’t bring packed lunches, Sharon’s evaluation within the research building was quite high.
She often visited the research building as the chairman’s secretary, and she left a good impression each time.
“She’s also very efficient at her work, and if the chairman is like a strict father, Sharon is like a benevolent mother, wouldn’t you say?”
“Yeah, she’ll definitely be good at managing the academy’s finances.”
“And she has a great figure… ah, speaking of figures, we can’t leave out that person.”
“Yeah, Head of the Department Dorothy.”
The topic flowed smoothly to Dorothy.
The head of the department of the Hessed Society’s symbol.
The witch of salvation who recently took the position of the pitiful heroine in Count Shin Siwoo’s heroic tale.
Dorothy didn’t cook herself, but hired the best chefs in Gehenna to serve a full course meal, but that wasn’t the main topic.
Dorothy was a witch with many other things to focus on.
“She’s really mysterious.”
“Yeah, her cool silver eyes and her subtly gentle atmosphere are really…”
“I’ve never seen anything so… huge before. I thought I was a bit of a glamour girl, but I lost my confidence…”
“I want to be held by her just once. I want to be held and act spoiled.”
“Dorothy praised me as a cute child before.”
“What?! Kyaaa!!! Really?!”
Dorothy’s figure had been the subject of much gossip.
She was basically a spirit body that embodied an ideal physique, but her I-cup maternal love was a unique size even for witches who didn’t include breast size in their aesthetic beauty standards.
“But Dorothy… doesn’t she seem a little sadistic? I feel like she’d be a total femme fatale in bed.”
“Hush! You can’t say such things!”
“But… somehow, when I look at Mrs. Dorothy, I want to be tormented…”
“She seems like a huge my-pace, so she’d probably take the lead in a relationship.”
“I don’t think she’d ever lose her composure, even in front of the chairman. Her dignity, her grace.”
“Stop, stop!”
Everyone was saying, “Stop with the bad talk!” but they were all letting their imaginations run wild.
The chairman kneeling in front of Dorothy, who was naked with her legs crossed, kissing her instep.
Dorothy, the mama, scolding the chairman, who was making a painful expression, saying, “You’re such a bad boy? You’ve already grown this big?”
“Ah, nosebleed…”
Some of the witches hurriedly wiped their nosebleeds with handkerchiefs.
In this way, Dorothy had an unusually large following that went beyond vicarious satisfaction.
The conversation was spiraling in a truly impure direction, despite their efforts to restrain themselves.
But there was at least one lover they couldn’t speak carelessly about.
It wasn’t the twin sisters from a prestigious family who had put the researchers to the test with their terrible homemade course meals, nor was it the blonde perfumer who had led the social scene before disappearing like a mysterious artist.
She was a celebrity who was arguably the most famous witch, second only to the witch of creation.
Her trademark was her fancy pink hair and sparkling magenta eyes.
She was the very person who made public enemies have a fit at the sight of pink.
It was the pink duchess of Gehenna, Eloa Tiferet.
Despite her painful memories, she didn’t go down the wrong path, and her contributions to witches and humans, even spending her fortune, earned her the admiration and adoration of many witches.
To carelessly talk about Duchess Tiferet’s love story was akin to blasphemy, but…
“Ugh…”
“Hmm…”
However, humans are naturally drawn to the forbidden.
Someone took the lead and finally crossed the line.
They bravely overcame the invisible social pressure and opened the door to the topic everyone wanted.
“Duchess Tiferet is, surprisingly, very affectionate…! And she’s not that scary at all!”
The witches, whose mouths had been itching, tacitly agreed and began to spill the gossip they had been hiding during tea time.
“A teacher and! A student’s! Love… it’s not supposed to happen, but since the duchess is doing it… isn’t it romantic?”
“I’m going to become one with Duchess Tiferet from today! Duchess! You must become the main wife!”
“I saw the two of them cuddling in the garden! The duchess was snuggling up to him, rubbing her cheek against his chest… Kyaaa!!! It was so cute, I almost had a heart attack.”
“Me too, me too! She was tugging at his clothes with her fingers and begging for kisses, she’s just a bundle of loveliness!”
“I want to see it tooooo!!!”
The researchers shared their eyewitness accounts and discovered a shocking fact.
More than half of the 25 people had witnessed Eloa and Siwoo cuddling, they just hadn’t said it out loud.
According to these eyewitness accounts, Eloa was like a rabbit with separation anxiety that would die if it was lonely, clinging to Siwoo and acting cute all the time.
And that was none other than the pink duchess.
“Kyaaa!!! The duchess is so cute!!!!”
“Strong on the outside, soft on the inside, the duchess is crispy on the outside and moist on the inside!!!”
At that time, the research building’s dining hall was in a frenzy over a fact that would be ridiculed as trash if submitted to academia, but would elicit an enormous response.
Eloa, who had baked shell-shaped madeleines for the academy members enjoying their tea party, overheard the chatter and, unable to overcome her embarrassment at the stories about her, hurriedly ran away.
And she firmly questioned Siwoo, who was resting in the chairman’s office.
“Siwoo! Didn’t I tell you to refrain from public displays of affection!”
“Huh? Out of the blue?”
In fact, Eloa had just happened to find Siwoo in the garden and had run to him like a tamed rabbit, acting spoiled, but Eloa, who was already embarrassed, had no time to worry about such things.
That day, she had even thought, “Should we do it a little bit without taking everything off?” and even further rationalized, “That would be thrilling, so Siwoo would like it, wouldn’t he?” It was a chilling matter for Eloa.
Anyway, even though the schedule was looser than before, the project was progressing smoothly.
And finally.
The day of the Hessed Society’s research service and project presentations arrived.
The research service on the complete restoration of the gate.
And the homunculus hunting rights project.
