## Chapter 1166 – #277_Division(5)
#1160
1.
Sharon is quite rich in sensitivity, emotional palette, and empathy.
That’s why she often cries while watching romance movies and gets teased by Siwoo, but Sharon thought it was her strength.
Life isn’t meant to be lived alone, so what’s wrong with empathizing with others’ sadness and joy?
There’s even an old saying that joy shared is doubled, and sorrow shared is halved.
Perhaps it’s because of this personality that she gets along well with other lovers.
However, this personality doesn’t only have good points.
There are also clear disadvantages.
As much as her emotional palette is wide, she tends to get deeply immersed in one emotion?
For example, when it rains, she gets sentimental for no reason, and when autumn comes, she feels empty for no reason, being greatly influenced by her surroundings.
Also, when she gets caught up in particularly embarrassing situations (represented by “Naebomat and Sharony are so cute”), she can’t forget them forever.
Even now, she sometimes wakes up in the middle of the night, remembering those moments and kicking the blanket.
Wait a minute…
Come to think of it, why is it always her who gets into these difficult and embarrassing situations?
Sharon suddenly felt the will of the world pushing her into the abyss of shame from a fatalistic point of view.
This time is the same.
“…I want to feel fatherly love at least once.”
Linne, seemingly calm but actually blushing slightly, speaks, unaware of Sharon’s complicated feelings.
Sharon knows Linne’s past and life.
It was a truly tearful and heartbreaking story.
She had also predicted that Linne was thirsty for maternal or paternal love, or more broadly, family love.
But who would have thought she would suddenly say, “I want to be an ‘Eungae Linne’ and receive Papa’s love like Malika. Please help me!” with a zero-to-100 acceleration in one second!
And who would have thought that she would carelessly stick her head out and say, “Shall I help you?” and get caught up in it!
If she were a cold person, she would have said, “That’s a mental illness, go to the hospital first.”
But Sharon couldn’t bring herself to say harsh words, even while feeling empathetic shame that reached the level of torture.
Because she couldn’t denigrate the sincerity that the taciturn, doll-like Linne had revealed with a slightly flushed face (actually, it’s amazing that she’s only this embarrassed, even with her poker face)!
“Y-yes, I think… I might feel the same way.”
Sharon picked up a glass of water with trembling hands and moistened her parched throat.
Linne’s face, still close to expressionless, brightens slightly as if a bright light is shining on it.
“Thank you. I understand that it’s an embarrassing concern.”
“No, no… Embarrassing concern? Everyone has their own worries, right? Hahaha…”
“Can you help me?”
Even if it’s Linne, she probably didn’t make that statement with a sexual meaning.
She purely wants to be loved ‘like Malika.’
But even that is too much.
How is she supposed to help with something so deep?
Sharon decided to calmly persuade Linne.
“But… would Siwoo like it?”
“…Is that so?”
As soon as she heard those words, Linne became gloomy at an incredible speed, like a flower left in the desert.
“No, no! That’s not what I meant! No, it’s a bit burdensome… no, that’s not it either… It’s just that people have different preferences, so it’s a bit too maniac… no! It’s not maniac! It’s just a little outside the normal range… ah…”
Sharon keeps making mistakes while rambling.
“…You are right.”
It seems that Linne only heard the mistakes like ‘burdensome,’ ‘maniac,’ and ‘outside the normal range,’ and her eyes, which always seemed sharp, droop sadly.
She looks so pitiful that anyone would want to put her in an empty box and share warmth with her.
Sharon closed her eyes tightly.
Let’s just close my eyes once.
Let’s drive out the empathetic shame with a spirit of philanthropy and help Linne achieve her bizarre wish.
That’s what she decided.
“I’ll help you!”
“……!”
Linne, who had been withering sadly, bloomed again, but Sharon couldn’t be happy with a light heart.
2.
A modern nation is like a community connected by countless invisible strings.
There are differences in length, thickness, and quantity, but due to the huge trend of ‘globalization,’ the economic situation of one country is no longer limited to that country.
For example, what would happen if China, with various ropes wrapped around its waist, fell off a cliff?
Other countries would fall like sausages tied together with China, and a domino effect of falling into the abyss would unfold.
Moreover, if that situation is an ‘apocalypse by a transcendent being,’ there’s no need to say more.
Therefore, if Hexennacht aimed for the ‘extinction of human society,’ they wouldn’t have needed to put in much effort.
They could just thoroughly destroy a reasonably large country, paralyze all trade and financial activities, and carry out mass human slaughter, and everyone else would collapse on their own.
But Hexennacht didn’t do that.
They only replaced the leadership and are surprisingly trying to continue normal national operations.
“In other words, the ‘conquest’ in the slogan of conquering humans for the sake of witches doesn’t mean irreversible complete destruction.”
“They’re going to dominate while keeping us alive and suck the sweet juice.”
“That’s right. In addition, it also means they’re going to seize the power they’ve been operating only under the surface.”
“They’re going to use propaganda as propaganda and suck up the convenience and goods that humans provide. In other words, it seems like they intend to colonize the entire world. Of course, there’s always a variable in terms of where they’ll bounce, since they’re an unpredictable public group.”
“To sum it up, the possibility of an all-out war is very low at the moment. But sporadic and localized conflicts will gradually increase… that’s about it.”
It’s been a while since the conversation with the two mothers-in-law.
Although they’ve slightly stepped back from major positions for the sake of succession, the twin mothers-in-law are counts of Gehenna.
Therefore, they contributed to controlling the current situation, and these conversations with Siwoo were also feedback sessions as seniors who had gone through many years of political life.
“By the way, Siwoo, you can sit more comfortably. You’ve looked so uncomfortable since a while ago.”
“No! I’m comfortable like this!”
The younger mother-in-law tilted her head, finding Siwoo’s posture, like a newly assigned private, quite strange.
“Did you do something wrong?”
The older mother-in-law looked at Siwoo with suspicion, who was treating them with a more rigid posture than the first time they met.
“Yes, I have committed a really big sin.”
“What?! Again?! You didn’t add another girlfriend, did you?! Tell me properly!”
“Sister, calm down. Let’s ask first.”
Albiereo’s trauma switch was triggered by Siwoo’s confession, and Deneb tried to stop her.
In fact, these days, Siwoo was deeply impressed by the generosity of the two mothers-in-law every time he faced them.
He even came to have respect for them.
The reason is simple.
It’s because of Malika.
Siwoo became a father.
Honestly, since becoming a witch, he had never reflected on having a child in his life plan, so he had many worries.
How heavy is the role of a father?
Will he be able to fulfill that role well?
In short, it’s a concern that can be summarized as, ‘Can I be a good dad?’
After Saessak became Malika, Siwoo felt overwhelming emotion and responsibility.
A small and precious life.
A family that Siwoo, and no one else, had bloomed half of.
It’s hard to put into words how lovely and cute the little one, who can’t even speak yet, is.
That’s right.
For the two mothers-in-law, Odile and Odette would have been Malika.
That generosity of not beheading a son-in-law who had simultaneously played with the two twin sisters and was dragging around a bunch of lovers, and only occasionally kicking his shins.
And that generosity of not burning him with magic, even though he had mocked and ridiculed the purity of the two mothers-in-law, which they had protected for hundreds of years.
If that kind of scoundrel appeared to take Malika away?
He couldn’t stand it.
He would kill him.
He would definitely kill him and get rid of him.
Is there a saint anywhere else?
These two here are saints.
He had truly admired the benevolence of the two mothers-in-law, which he had only vaguely understood.
“You know it.”
“Do you finally understand our difficulties?”
Perhaps that’s why a holy aura seemed to flow behind the two mothers-in-law, who were identical in every way except for their hair color.
Oh, praise them.
“It’s no use reflecting now. What Siwoo has to do is take responsibility for Odile and Odette and make them happy.”
“Yes! Leave it to me! I’ll dedicate my life!”
“So, I was wondering. Shall we start setting a date?”
“Yes?”
“For the wedding.”
“Ah.”
There is no culture of marriage in witch society.
Witches are only women, and as witches who like old-fashioned culture, they have a firm belief that marriage is between a man and a woman. Moreover, there is an insurmountable wall between witches and humans, ‘lifespan.’
But Siwoo was an existence that had overcome that lifespan wall, so Albiereo and Deneb naturally thought of marriage and the event of a wedding.
It wasn’t for a grand reason.
“It seems like the twins have a strange romance. I also wanted to see my daughter in a wedding dress at least once.”
“Ah.”
“It would be nice to have the ceremony as soon as this situation is roughly settled.”
“I will do so.”
Siwoo, who had decided to absolutely obey his mothers-in-law’s orders from now on, nodded with a firm will.
3.
Linne was really grateful for Sharon’s help.
She had seriously listened to a concern that she couldn’t tell anyone else and had willingly offered to help.
She even vowed that if she survived this war, she would treat Sharon better.
But Sharon’s help was a bit strange.
“Okay, this is a pacifier. This is a rattle. This is a bib, and this is a headband…”
Sharon, who had no idea where she had gotten them, laid out a series of adult-sized baby products and continued to explain without making eye contact once.
“……?”
Why is she suddenly showing me this?
Linne pondered for a while and remembered Sharon asking for Linne’s body measurements, and also realized that the baby clothes were the exact same size as Linne.
So, these are for Linne to wear, or things prepared for Linne, right?
“A-actually, they look quite good on you.”
Sharon, who had barely completed her ‘help,’ wiped away her cold sweat and offered a compliment.
“What is she trying to do?”
Linne was serious.
-Thud
At that moment, Linne’s causality, who often faced shameful situations due to the unfairness of fate, moved.
“What are you talking about without me?”
Of all times, Siwoo appeared at this moment.
