Chapter 1272 – ##05_God Mother Dorothy (6)
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1.
Let’s tell one last old story.
It’s about the Juliet rose Dana gave me.
Truthfully, I didn’t want to throw it away.
2.
-Bang!
The master bedroom door slammed shut with a loud noise.
“Dorothy, ma’am.”
Siwoo hurriedly grabbed the doorknob, but all he got was a clicking sound.
It was firmly locked.
“Oh, dear….”
If he wanted to open it, he could.
He could also just teleport in if he didn’t want to open it.
Of course, he shouldn’t do that.
“……”
Rinne stood there in a daze, like a child who had been scolded by their parents for the first time.
She could still feel the throbbing pain in the top of her head.
That was because it was the first time she had seen Dorothy express such intense emotions.
Dorothy was always the one who would counter Rinne’s expectations with a sly grin…
“My dear, I didn’t prepare dinner with that intention. I was just thinking we could all eat together….”
Rinne, half out of it, babbled and gestured strangely as if making excuses.
She wasn’t sobbing like Dorothy, but she looked utterly dejected.
“I know, I know. It’s okay. I’ll talk to her.”
Siwoo patted Rinne’s back to comfort her.
3.
“Sniff.”
Dorothy, alone in the bedroom, immediately wrapped herself in the blanket and sniffled.
What was all this?
She didn’t know how she had become such a pathetic person.
The old Dorothy would never have done this.
In her public life, weakness was the number one thing to eliminate.
Here, weakness meant being swayed by emotions.
Being led by trivial emotions was synonymous with a short life.
That’s why Dorothy had always acted according to the situation.
She put aside emotions that were merely a waste and chose rational actions.
“……”
But look at her now.
Okay, fine, she could be annoyed that the dinner she had ambitiously planned was canceled.
But was it something to get so angry and upset about?
Was it such a big deal that she had to give Rinne a super-powered head-bonk?
No.
If it was about preparing a meal with Siwoo, she could do it later, and she could have just slyly said, ‘Hmm~ You worked hard preparing dinner for me~ You’ll do the dishes too, right?’
Rinne herself probably didn’t have any malicious intent like, ‘I’m going to make a dish that Dorothy can’t even dream of making and crush her spirit!’
They had known each other for a long time, how could she not know that?
Knowing that made her even more depressed.
In the end, she had just gone off the rails in the middle of a good atmosphere and made a mess.
“What is this…. I’m such an idiot.”
Of course, there had been signs of this before.
Since meeting Siwoo, Dorothy had become weaker.
Wasn’t there also the time she lost a fierce catfight with Cybele and ran away crying?
She had accepted that as a change, that it was good in its own way, but the result was this hysterical mess.
“Dorothy, ma’am, I’m coming in.”
“Don’t come in.”
Even with Dorothy’s muffled voice, Siwoo opened the door and approached.
He gently embraced Dorothy, who was rolled up in her blanket like a grub.
Dorothy just curled up further into the blanket and didn’t show any other affection.
“Rinne was wrong. I did~n’t do anything wrong.”
Even as she said this so shamelessly, she felt a little anxious.
Dorothy, who had shown the composure of an older woman, and Dorothy, who was now acting like a teenage girl who was sulking over nothing.
The Dorothy when she first met Siwoo and the Dorothy now were completely different people.
The Dorothy that Siwoo liked back then must have been a mature and dependable older sister.
Maybe he was secretly thinking, ‘It’s tiring to take care of her,’ wasn’t he?
Siwoo wasn’t the type to be so two-faced, but even a little bit, even a fragment of his subconscious, might he find this side of her annoying?
If that was the case, she would die….
She would die because she was depressed and sad….
Negative mode Dorothy’s thought process was expanding only in a negative direction.
If Siwoo even sighed a little here.
Dorothy was determined to cry and beg for forgiveness, saying, ‘I’m sorry! I won’t do it again!’
“I’ve been feeling this for a while. Dorothy, ma’am, you don’t talk about the old days much.”
“Huh? Why all of a sudden?”
“You haven’t talked about it except for when we first met.”
That was true.
Siwoo’s lovers were usually a bit older than him.
So, old stories often came up in their daily conversations.
Siwoo found it quite interesting.
Stories about witches being involved in the hidden side of history were something you couldn’t hear anywhere else, even if you paid for it.
But Dorothy, in particular, hardly ever brought up her past.
It wasn’t like she was hiding anything, but if the topic shifted in that direction, she would just slip away like an eel?
So, all Siwoo knew was that she had been the head of a huge arms dealing company.
“That’s true, but… so what?”
“This is just my guess from here on…. Please pretend you don’t know if there’s anything different.”
Dorothy only poked her head out of the blanket at Siwoo’s cryptic words.
“Maybe the past isn’t a memory you want to recall, Dorothy, ma’am? That’s why you don’t talk about it. I think so too. It’s presumptuous for me, who has never lived a public life, to guess, but…. It doesn’t seem like a world that would suit you.”
As he said, it was a rookie’s guess.
Dorothy had adapted to that world better than anyone.
That’s why she had survived, and that’s why she had once led the largest smuggling organization.
“I know what you’re going to say…. But I think the way you are now is much better. It feels more natural, like you’re not trying to put on an act?”
Siwoo thought back to when he first met Dorothy.
Back then, Dorothy was a truly enigmatic older sister.
She was incredibly suspicious, never revealing her true intentions, yet she could see through all of his thoughts.
He was deeply impressed by the fact that he had been worried about whether she was a dangerous person or just a friend of R’lyeh.
So, for a long time, he had thought of that as Dorothy’s true self.
A strong person who was not hurt by external evaluations or circumstances.
A sly person who could laugh off any difficulty with a casual joke.
Even after they became lovers, it was like that for a while.
But it wasn’t.
“I realized it after spending time with you. How hard it must have been for you, Dorothy, ma’am.”
She was someone who was easily upset by small things, easily hurt, and had a lot of tears.
She was someone who would sometimes give meaning to small things and worry alone, who wanted to constantly have her love confirmed, and who would smile as if she had the whole world with just one word from Siwoo.
It was just that her world was one that didn’t allow it, so she had hidden it behind a thick mask.
That was probably Dorothy’s true self.
“I don’t think you’re annoying at all, Dorothy, ma’am. Honestly, I think this side of you is cute too.”
“…I’m not simple like Sharoni, okay? Don’t think you can just get away with saying I’m cute.”
“Hmm, should I try something different? They say men get bored easily if a woman is too predictable. The more I get to know you, Dorothy, ma’am… the more turned on I get.”
“That’s~ too corny, darling.”
“Hmm, then should I try something different again?”
Siwoo grabbed Dorothy’s cheeks and kissed her deeply.
Dorothy also opened her mouth in her blanket cocoon and stuck out her tongue.
After a slightly playful yet affectionate kiss ended.
“Haa~ To think you would use your three-inch tongue to toy with a married woman like this. What am I going to do, marrying such a~ bad man?”
Dorothy-chan, the middle schooler, had returned to Dorothy-mama.
“I’m worried about tonight too~ You’re definitely going to make me wear weird clothes and demand to sleep with me~ The innocent girl Dorothy will be helplessly played with, right?”
“You should hide your swollen eyes.”
Fortunately, she seemed to be in a great mood.
Rinne, who had been watching for the right moment, cautiously entered the room, and Dorothy’s expression hardened again.
Rinne, who flinched at the eye contact, hesitantly spoke.
“I’m sorry. It wasn’t my intention to provoke you.”
“……”
Dorothy got out of Siwoo’s arms and sat on the bed.
“You were wrong, right?”
“Yes.”
“Come here.”
Rinne nodded with a serious expression.
Dorothy, who had cautiously approached, hugged Rinne tightly and stroked the back of her head as she reflected.
“I’m sorry for being so narrow-minded too. You didn’t mean to do that.”
“No. I also didn’t keep my limits. Today was supposed to be your and my dear’s day. I apologize.”
“No, no~ I was too harsh on my friend.”
“No. I was thoughtless.”
“No, I’m telling you~ It’s all my fault for being so bad.”
“That’s not true. I should have acted more properly.”
A heartwarming scene of reconciliation.
Rinne, who had been startled by Dorothy’s anger for a moment, felt her heart melt.
Was this true friendship?
“Really? Then Rinne is a little~ more at fault than me, right?”
“Yes. I was more at fault.”
“Yap!”
And so, Rinne, who would normally have sensed the danger and avoided it, fell into the trap, and a choke was slipped onto her neck.
This was a restraint device made to seal magic during public trials and imprisonment.
For reference, it was created by Siwoo in collaboration with the Gemina family, and it thoroughly reduces not only magical power but also the activity of the spirit body.
Today, Dorothy had brought it to use as a kinky plaything.
“……?”
Rinne tilted her head at the sudden interference and put her finger on the choke to examine it, then noticed Dorothy’s expression.
Dorothy was smiling like a demon, both evil and saintly.
“If you were wrong~ you have to be punished, right?”
Rinne’s extraordinary senses warned her.
“My dear, my dear, my dear! S, stop Dorothy!”
“Darling~ Rinne also wants to be punished a little… can you help?”
“Is it that today?”
“Yeah~ that.”
But Siwoo was also completely in on it.
There was nowhere for Rinne to run or rely on.
She was about to be forced into a mother-daughter-son meal (?).
“A child who has done wrong~ must receive a painful punishment, right?”
“Rinne, ma’am, likes it too, so I guess there’s no problem.”
“Ah… ah….”
The shadows of the two spouses ominously fell over Rinne’s fearful face.
