Chapter 285 – #63_Interlude(7)
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The kitchen, which the cooks had left spotless, was a complete mess as if a major earthquake had struck.
A large chunk of cheese, looking like it had been gnawed by a rat, rolled around, and crushed oyster shells littered the floor.
“Since the contents are more than the recipe… hmm… I think it’d be good to cook it for about twenty more minutes.”
Odile, who had adjusted the recipe as she pleased until the very end, glanced at the clock while using telekinesis to gather the scattered items into the trash can.
Odette, who had been squatting in front of the oven with red flames rising, also stood up, dusting off her skirt.
“Cooking is fun.”
“Yeah, it felt like an alchemy class.”
“Right, it’s much more fun than alchemy! Alchemy explodes if the measurements are off, but cooking doesn’t.”
The twins pulled up chairs in front of the oven, swinging their legs as they watched the guinea fowl turn golden brown.
They were bored just waiting, so they took out some wine.
The twins shared a glass, feeling like they were having an aperitif.
“Sister.”
“What is it, Odette?”
“You know, something’s been bothering me.”
“What is it?”
“About Sharon.”
“What about Sharon?”
Tonight, they had heard from Head Maid Galina that Sharon had regained consciousness.
Sharon Evergreen had been staying in the guest room of the mansion for some time now.
When they had met her in the mortal realm, she had been quite fond of the twins, and the twins had liked her too.
She seemed a bit spacey, which made her fun to tease, and aside from that, she was a very kind person, unlike a typical witch.
When the twins were bored, they would often visit her at the end of the day, half worried and half curious, wondering, ‘Has she woken up today?’
If she had woken up, they wanted to say hello and ask about their assistant’s well-being.
“What do you think about Sharon, Sister?”
“She’s a pretty and kind witch. She played well with our assistant, who must have been bored.”
“Right? And she’s got big boobs.”
“Totally huge. As big as our teacher’s.”
Odette, who had started with trivial talk, got to the point.
“I was wondering if the assistant and Sharon… might be lovers.”
“Huh? What are you talking about all of a sudden?”
Odile’s eyes, which had been relaxed as if it were just another trivial chat, widened like saucers.
“That can’t be. When we asked Sharon directly, she clearly said they were friends.”
“Right, she said she was getting room and board in exchange for teaching magic. But do you remember that time?”
“What time? How am I supposed to know? Explain in more detail.”
“When the assistant was hugging Sharon to comfort her, and I tried to interrupt, you stopped me.”
“…Ah!”
That was when Duke Tiferet had misunderstood something and attacked him.
Odile had quietly stepped aside when she saw them hugging.
Honestly, she had wanted to interrupt, but she also felt that ‘he needs her right now.’
She thought that she was the only person who could be his friend and a source of support.
However, after Sharon’s declaration of friendship, Odile had firmly believed that their relationship would remain platonic.
The twins were too ignorant about romance to fully understand the intricate and complex dynamics between men and women.
And it was Odette who first raised the question.
The cause was none other than Pecha, one of Odette’s two personal maids.
“Maybe… they slept together?”
“She says the most outrageous things! We saw that their rooms and beds were separate!”
They knew what it meant for a man and a woman to sleep together now, unlike before.
Odile jumped at Odette’s bold and shocking statement.
Odile, who had been poked in an unexpected place, shook her head as if to say it couldn’t be.
“No! Sister! Calm down and listen. I asked Pecha, and she said that a man and a woman living together is something that can’t happen between friends.”
“What? Why?”
Odile’s beautiful eyebrows furrowed deeply.
She looked so angry as she questioned her that Odette’s voice trailed off.
“Think about it. What would happen if you and the assistant lived in the same room every day?”
“That would be amazing?”
“No, not that. I mean, why would it be amazing?”
“Why?”
Misty, misty.
Odile’s imagination began to run wild.
Odile, enjoying a bath with a tub full of bath salts, and the assistant, who was only wearing a towel around his waist after taking off all his clothes.
For some reason, the starting point of her imagination was that they were both naked.
‘Lady Odile, I will assist you with your bath.’
‘Okay, if it’s you, assistant, you can scrub every nook and cranny of my body.’
Shiwoo, bowing politely as he assisted her, and Odile, giggling and joking around.
Shiwoo, who was covering her soft skin with smooth soap bubbles, suddenly threw off his towel.
‘…Assistant, what are you doing?’
‘I am preparing to fulfill the order to scrub every nook and cranny.’
Shiwoo, applying plenty of fragrant oil to something that looked huge even in her imagination.
And after that…
‘A-Assistant…! You don’t have to wash that far???’
‘That is not true! I am Lady Odile’s servant! I cannot take even the most trivial order lightly! Now, present that seductive bottom to me!’
‘Y-You really are… a master of making people uncomfortable… Haaang…!’
Their bodies overlapping.
Odile, who was becoming cleaner to the deepest parts, and…
Covered again with white fluid after the heated act….
“Sister?”
Odette tilted her head, seeing Odile’s face turn bright red.
It felt like if you put a teapot on her head, it would stay warm for a long time.
“Ah, anyway! So, you’re saying that the assistant might have washed even the deepest parts of you!”
“What are you talking about?”
Odile, who had blurted out nonsense after being dragged into a fragment of her fantasy, shook her head as if it were nothing.
Although she had wasted time on useless fantasies, she seemed to understand what Odette meant.
“…That makes sense.”
A man and a woman who always share living space could see each other’s naked bodies with just a moment of carelessness.
Moreover, when she thought of an officetel, the distance to the bed was only five steps.
It was a laboratory full of the danger of all sorts of youthful chemistry happening and even exploding!
“Right?”
Odette clapped her hands as if her guess was correct, but then her expression turned serious as she realized it wasn’t something to be happy about.
“This requires a serious discussion. Once the cooking club is over today, we need to go to our room and open the ‘Special Protection Headquarters for Assistant Shin Shiwoo.’”
“Really? Then I’ll be the head of this headquarters!”
“You were appointed as the president of the cooking club. It’s my turn to be the representative this time.”
“Why do you always get to be the representative of all the important meetings? I’m in charge of the equestrian club, the oyster research club, and the tea party management! You’re in charge of the magic potion lab, the ancient book management room, and now the head of the special protection headquarters for the assistant? Isn’t that too much? I was the one who first discovered this danger!”
In fact, the titles of ‘club’ and ‘head’ were just an extension of the role-playing the twins did, and they had no real power, but Odette was still unhappy.
She raised her eyebrows and questioned Odile.
But Odile was a step above Odette when it came to sophistry.
Just as she was about to persuade Odette as usual, Odile suddenly heard a strange sound.
-Pop!
“Huh?”
“Hmm?”
-Pop! Bubbles! Pop!
It sounded like fireworks exploding in water and forming bubbles.
The twins, who had never heard such a strange sound before, looked around and simultaneously lowered their waists to find the source of the sound.
The oven, which had been warming their shins, was the starting point.
The poor guinea fowl, which had been filled to its limit, was now releasing steam through the seams where it had been sewn shut, as the moisture from the oysters and other miscellaneous ingredients began to expand with the heat.
It almost sounded like the guinea fowl’s death rattle from the underworld.
“O-Oh no, what do we do?”
“Odette, how much time is left?”
“Thank goodness! It’s just the right time to take it out!”
Odette quickly turned off the oven and waited for the sound to subside.
The intermittent explosions died down, and she carefully opened the lid to check the results.
“……”
“……”
The guinea fowl dish, where the twins’ creativity had been fully displayed, had somehow managed to retain its shape, but it was in a rather miserable state, and it was hard to call it appetizing, even as a lie.
The sight of oysters popping out of the seams between its legs, where they had been carefully sewn, and sticking to the floor, made it seem like it deserved the name ‘Twisted Underworld Oyster-Stuffed Guinea Fowl.’
Moreover, the cheese and vegetable pieces mixed in between added to the grotesque appearance.
Perhaps the only consolation was that the smell wasn’t too bad?
“Then…”
“Then…”
The twins looked at each other at the same time, each trying to get the other to go first.
“I’ll let you try it first, Sister.”
“I’ll let you try it first, Sister.”
Of course, it wasn’t an act of affectionate sisterhood.
It was because neither of them wanted to be the first test subject for this thing disguised as a dish.
“No, Sister. You’ve worked so hard. You’ll have a hard time leading the special headquarters meeting later, so you need to get some good nutrition.”
“No, Odette. What hard work did I do? Besides, it’s only natural for the president of the cooking club to take on the most important first tasting.”
“No, no, Sister. I’ve decided to quit being the president of the cooking club today. I’ve realized the futility of empty honor. I’m going to hold a press conference in my room tonight.”
“No, no, Odette. Honor doesn’t come from substance and authority. It’s called honor because it’s worthy of respect in itself.”
They were exchanging blows, each one a fatal blow to the other if they were just slightly off.
The sound of the kitchen door opening was heard.
-Tap tap tap
Footsteps echoed in the kitchen.
The twins, who had been stiff and silent, stopped arguing and let out a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, the person who emerged from the shadows was Lena, who had helped them with everything.
“Lena!”
“You scared me! You should have knocked! I thought it was Head Maid Galina…”
Odile’s face turned ashen as she spoke.
Because the person she least wanted to encounter was there.
“You recognized me well, Miss Odile.”
Head Maid Galina, who boasted a plump figure and sharp eyes despite being over sixty, was there.
She skillfully used Lena to block the twins’ escape route.
“I-I’m sorry… I tried to hide it too…”
“I allowed you to use the mansion’s public facilities to make jam to take home… Lena, were you lying?”
“I’m sorry… Head Maid Galina…”
“I will hold you accountable for this tomorrow. Go upstairs first.”
“Yes…. I’m really sorry.”
Lena gave Odile and Odette an apologetic look and then scurried upstairs.
Galina, with her arms crossed, looked at the messy kitchen through her round glasses.
Although Odile had roughly cleaned up, it was still chaos.
The twins’ shoulders trembled like aspen leaves.
“Now, shall we explain everything, one by one?”
““Hiccup!””
In the midst of the viper-like murderous aura, the twins hiccuped in unison.
