City ​​of Witches 279

Chapter 279 – #62_막간

#277

1.
Elroa’s painstakingly prepared, special course meal filled the entire kitchen table in the studio apartment.
The two of them thoroughly enjoyed the party.
There was no need to fret over some scheming enemy, no need to worry about the suddenly vanished homunculus, and no need to feel anxious about ominous and unsettling fortunes—just peace.

Especially for Elroa, such peace of mind and body was a rare occurrence, so she was even more willing to down the glasses of alcohol Siwoo offered.

After the meal, they moved the drinking table to the living room to avoid the cluttered dining table, starting round two.
They had grabbed a bunch of snacks like cheese and salami from the corner of the grocery section, but nearly half of it was already gone.
There were already five empty whiskey bottles rolling around.

“Heeuuuuum….”

Elroa, having shed her mental burdens with the blessing of tingling alcohol, leaned back on the sofa with a satisfied smile.
Actually, if you were to ask whether her body was comfortable or not, it was more the latter.
Due to the price of the last contract, her body was creaking in various places.

Because the micro-vessels throughout her body had burst, she was covered in blue bruises all over, and even her usually sharp senses and eyesight were impaired.
Also… it was something she couldn’t tell anyone, but because her flower had been plucked quite violently, there was a dull ache in her lower abdomen, or so she would say?

“Are you tired?”
“Tired? What are you talking about? To enjoy such a joyous day, one must keep drinking until they collapse from exhaustion.”

Perhaps because she was quite drunk, Elroa’s voice was higher and more slurred than usual.
She was someone who wouldn’t show any signs of being drunk even after drinking a fair amount, but now her face was flushed red, as if she had put on makeup.
Her eyes also looked half-closed.

“Pour me another glass.”
“You’re still not feeling well, are you sure about having more?”
“No problem, no problem.”

Well, as a witch, she wouldn’t suddenly die from acute alcohol poisoning… but even while pouring the drink as she was told, Siwoo couldn’t help but wonder if this was okay.
However, since his teacher had never shown such a cheerful side before, Siwoo filled Elroa’s swaying glass with more alcohol.
Elroa, saying, ‘You should have a glass too,’ poured whiskey into Siwoo’s glass as well.
With the sound of glasses clinking, which was probably the nth time that night, they politely turned their heads and drank.

-Glug glug

While Siwoo took a small sip and put his glass down, Elroa once again emptied her nearly full glass of whiskey in one shot.
That was an on-the-rocks glass…
Was whiskey even meant to be drunk like that in the first place?
Just as he was marveling at the bizarre scene, which he found amazing no matter how many times he saw it,

Elroa wiped her lips with her pajama sleeve and tilted her head from side to side.
After keeping her eyes closed for a while, she opened them hazily and looked at Siwoo.

“Siwoo.”
“Yes, Teacher.”

Elroa suddenly called his name.
However, despite Siwoo’s response, Elroa didn’t say anything.
Instead, she just stared at Siwoo for a moment before turning her head away.

“Teacher? Didn’t you have something to say?”
“…It’s nothing. I just thought it was about time to go to bed.”
“Then I’ll clean up the drinking area.”

As if he had expected it, Siwoo got up and gathered the empty bottles that were rolling around.
He neatly cleaned up the mess and moved to the bedroom to prepare the bedding.

The two of them had been living with two beds in Siwoo’s room, slightly separated, for some time now.
Elroa, having heard of Siwoo’s ominous fortune, had stayed by his side in preparation for any possible situation.

That meant that now that the crisis had passed, there was no need to sleep in the same room.
However, there hadn’t been time to move the beds, and both of them had become accustomed to sleeping in the same room, so Elroa followed Siwoo into the room without saying anything.

“I’ve tidied everything up.”
“Thank you.”

Elroa staggered over and collapsed onto the bed.

“Teacher, that’s my bed?”
“……”

There was no reply.
It seemed she had completely crashed.
Even though she looked fine on the outside, she wasn’t in her right mind.
Well, Elroa had suffered more than Siwoo in the rain tunnel, and she had drunk whiskey like a fish, so it was only natural that she would pass out like this.

But he couldn’t just leave her like that.
It was one thing for her to sleep in someone else’s bed, but his teacher had thrown herself onto the bed as if diving, sprawled out in a starfish position.
It was hardly a position for a good night’s sleep.
Her dainty feet were sticking out diagonally from the side of the bed, and her face was buried in the blanket, so she looked very uncomfortable.

“Teacher, are you going to sleep like that? Let’s make you a bit more comfortable.”
“Huum… um….”

Even when he called out to her, she only mumbled, and no proper answer came back.

“I guess I have no choice.”

Siwoo had intended to just turn her over, give her a pillow, and cover her with a blanket, but he hesitated the moment he was about to touch Elroa’s body.

In fact, the memory of that time was still in Siwoo’s mind.
The master-disciple sex that had taken place in the rain tunnel under the guise of supplying magical power.

Elroa had lured Siwoo by letting him smell her witch’s scent, and Siwoo had pounced on Elroa.
And he had done so fiercely, like a beast.

Siwoo didn’t have the same clear awareness of the taboo between master and disciple as Elroa did, but it was also true that he couldn’t just treat her as usual.
The way she, who always looked at Siwoo with a benevolent face, had looked tearful, as if melting, with a longing expression.
The way her dignified voice had turned into a sweet cry.
Her fresh scent.
And above all, the sensation of her hot flesh, which felt like it was tightly gripping his hand, and her perfectly shaped peach-like buttocks.

Especially the last one had left such a deep impression that he almost got an erection just by looking at peaches in the fruit section this evening.

Even though it was an emergency and it was for the sake of the ritual, it was impossible for Siwoo to act as nonchalantly as an outgoing male-female friend who had a one-night stand after hitting it off at a drinking party.
Wasn’t that why he had been subtly keeping his distance throughout the drinking session today?

The fact that Elroa, who would usually naturally pat Siwoo’s head or give him a light hug, was subtly avoiding such actions was also one of the reasons why Siwoo was particularly conscious of it.

“Still, whatever. I’m just doing it to make her comfortable.”

Siwoo hesitated for a moment before gently grabbing Elroa’s shoulder.
He was startled by the feel of her firm skin, even through her pajamas.
And because she was full of alcohol, she felt much hotter than usual.
Just like when he had held her in his arms.

“……”

He swallowed hard, feeling like he was doing something wrong.
Her thin pajama bottoms, which revealed the line of her panties, and her bare skin, which was slightly visible due to her firm buttocks and the way her pajama top had ridden up, were also particularly noticeable.
He felt like his brain was constantly registering things in a strange way.

“Ugh….”

Siwoo, feeling self-loathing, lifted Elroa with a grunt.
After easily lifting her, he laid her down properly as he had originally intended and covered her with the blanket.

“I’ve lost my mind.”

It was because he was drunk.
It was because of the unusual things that had happened recently.
Siwoo, trying to rationalize it, flopped down on the bed that Elroa usually used and tried to fall asleep.

2.
As the sound of Siwoo’s snoring began to be heard, a rustling sound came from the opposite bed.

“Huu….”

Elroa, who had been pretending to be dead asleep, opened her eyes slightly, confirmed that Siwoo was sound asleep, and then finally let out a long sigh.
Feeling the alcoholic breath tickling her hand, she leaned against the headboard of the bed.

Since she had taken a long sleep with Siwoo for nearly half a day yesterday, she had already had enough sleep to pay for the contract.
Therefore, Elroa had been completely conscious from beginning to end, and she hadn’t fallen asleep.
Even until the moment Siwoo had lifted her up and laid her properly on the bed.

“Why did I do that…”

Elroa was puzzled.
It was a question she was asking herself, without addressing it to anyone in particular.
Why had she pretended to be asleep?

There was a cause for everything.
However, when various causes were intricately intertwined, it usually took a long time to find the real cause.
Her mind was complicated.
The feeling that she was constantly glossing over something important didn’t easily fade away.

“……”

Elroa looked at Siwoo, who was sound asleep, as if he could be carried away without noticing.
Her beloved and proud disciple, Shin Siwoo, who had supported Elroa when she was collapsing and had led her, who was trapped in guilt, to the light.

Suddenly, her chest stung.
She had committed a sin not long ago.
She had unilaterally seduced him without asking for his consent and had shared her body with him.
No, to say that they had shared their bodies was a very polite way of putting it.
To be more precise, they had had intercourse.

The fact that it was an unavoidable situation was no excuse.
In any case, she had ignored his will and forced him to have sex.
If it had been Elroa’s stubborn and rigid way of thinking, she would have apologized long ago… but.

“Ugh….”

She couldn’t bring herself to open her mouth.
Even if the situation had been what it was, even if she would have made the same choice if she went back, just thinking about her disgraceful behavior towards Siwoo at that time made her face flush so much that she couldn’t speak properly.

Meanwhile, Siwoo seemed to be thinking of burying this incident.
The fact that he hadn’t brought it up first, and the fact that he was treating Elroa as usual, were proof of that.

Or was he waiting for Elroa to apologize first?
Was she perhaps mistaken in thinking that he was just trying to gloss over it, not knowing that he was waiting for his incompetent teacher to gather her courage?
Anyway, such arrogant thoughts came to her mind.

“Ah…”

Elroa let out a soft sigh.
She finally felt like she understood a little why she had pretended to be asleep.

She had tried to create a situation where Siwoo would have no choice but to touch her body and see how he would react, since Siwoo wouldn’t approach Elroa first, and vice versa.
Of course, Siwoo had hesitated for a moment, but he had laid Elroa down comfortably without doing anything strange.
Just like when he had revealed her bare chest to him before.
It was truly shallow, and perhaps because of that, it was a futile act that yielded no results.

Anyway, to add to that.
Even if she tried to act like a teacher and move on with composure, the intense memory of that day would come crashing down on her.
But she couldn’t just let it go and go to sleep, as it wouldn’t be morally right, and she was afraid of disappointing Siwoo.

Elroa, who had been sighing as she sank into the bed, got up from her seat.
There was Siwoo, kicking off the blanket and sleeping soundly.
Elroa got up and sat down next to him for no particular reason.
Perhaps because it was a good mattress, Elroa sat down comfortably without any shaking.

“Hehe….”

Regardless of her complicated feelings, seeing his face as he slept like a child made her smile involuntarily.
It was like a conditioned reflex, like how your leg would go up if you tapped your knee.
Perhaps this feeling was the natural affection that a teacher had for her beloved disciple.

“Huum….”

Elroa slowly stroked Siwoo’s hair and then turned her gaze away.
Coincidentally, at the end of her gaze were his rough lips.
The rough lips that had overlapped with Elroa’s last time, and had roughly exchanged breaths with her.

Perhaps it was because of the alcohol, but Elroa’s heart began to pound.
If what she had felt just now while looking at Siwoo was a natural feeling that she had for her disciple…
What was this?

Her loosely spread thighs contracted sharply, and the alcohol made her body feel hot again.
She had really kissed Siwoo, hadn’t she? She had presented her buttocks like a mating female in front of him, and in the end, she had received his hot semen…
The revived memory wrapped around Elroa’s mind and body like a snake.

The heat that she couldn’t have known just by watching, the sense of unity as if they were becoming one, the ecstatic rapture of melting away while entrusting everything to his rough touch.

Elroa’s gaze flickered towards Siwoo’s crotch.
It was an instinctive gaze that followed the flow of her thoughts.
Of course, he was wearing clothes, but the outline of his magnificent member asserted its presence even through the clothes.

“That… inside my body…”

A hot breath escaped through Elroa’s slightly parted lips.
Even though it had been a long time ago, the intense sensation, as if it had been imprinted on her body, was slowly rising up.

-Slap!

Elroa raised both hands and slapped her cheeks hard.
What was she thinking?

“This is outrageous….”

These were thoughts she shouldn’t be having.
A teacher harboring lustful thoughts towards her disciple!
Just because she had crossed a line that she shouldn’t have crossed once didn’t mean that it had become a boundary that she could freely cross.

She must have lost her mind because she was drunk.
Elroa jumped up and headed to the bathroom.
That night, Elroa had to take a cold shower for a long time to calm the inexplicable heat.