City ​​of Witches 296

Chapter 296 – #65_Return(4)

#294

1.
A surprise reunion with Periwinkle.
It wasn’t right to keep Elroa waiting any longer.

-Knock knock
“Come in.”

Shiwoo knocked and opened the door only after Elroa responded.
Even though Pink Clover was no longer there, it was a kind of habit.
Just a few days ago, opening the door at this time would have been met with a half-naked Elroa, her eyes wide like a startled rabbit.

“You’re a little late.”

This time, thankfully, nothing was amiss.
His master was sitting on the bed in front of the fireplace, dozing like a cat in the pleasant sunlight.
However, perhaps conscious of the earlier incident, she was wearing her uniform instead of pajamas.
Additionally, and very fortunately, the couple who had been making embarrassing noises seemed to have gone to bed, as it was quiet.

“Yes, I met a witch I know for a bit.”
“A witch?”
“Periwinkle, who helped us before.”

Elroa always greeted Shiwoo with a warm smile, even when he hadn’t done anything particularly cute.
However, as soon as she heard the name ‘Periwinkle’ from Shiwoo’s lips, her smile cracked.

“I went to say hello since I was indebted to her before.”
“In…indebted, I see.”

Periwinkle, who had forced Elroa to witness a sex education session.
As soon as she heard that name, all sorts of thoughts sprouted in Elroa’s mind like seedlings.

Not only the past scenes of intercourse, which were filled with lewdness and vulgarity, but also,
‘Then, could the reason for being so late be…?’ her thoughts shifted.
Elroa unconsciously scanned Shiwoo’s attire.

The time it took for Shiwoo to go out and come back was roughly 30 to 40 minutes.
It wasn’t an impossible amount of time to quickly get the deed done…

Then, could the sounds of smooching that she had faintly heard outside be…?

Elroa’s mind spun, filled with confusion, and her face gradually turned red.
It was a change in saturation that was visible to the naked eye.
And at the same time, a discomfort that felt like a prick in her chest arose.

“Master?”
“…Huh!”

Elroa couldn’t answer and lowered her head more and more.
Worried by her strange reaction, he gently placed a hand on her shoulder, and her head bounced up almost like a spring.

“Is something wrong?”
“Ah, it’s nothing. It’s nothing.”

Even the insensitive Shiwoo could tell that something was wrong, but he couldn’t possibly realize that the problem was that Elroa had secretly watched a sex scene with Periwinkle.

“Are you not feeling well?”

Therefore, his thoughts flowed to the reasonable conclusion that ‘Master’s condition is still not good,’ and he was just worried about that.

“No, it’s late, shouldn’t you go to sleep too?”
“I was planning to, are you going to sleep by the fireplace, Master?”
“Yes.”

The two of them lay comfortably in their respective beds.
Shiwoo, having put in a last spurt of research since this morning, was exhausted to the point where his head was burning, and Elroa was struggling due to the contract, as she had been recently.
With a moderate amount of alcohol in their systems, both of them were so tired that they would have fallen asleep as soon as their heads hit the pillow.

“Sleep well.”
“You too, sleep well.”

After turning off the lamp that glowed with decorative light, they closed their eyes, and soon after, Shiwoo’s soft breathing could be heard.
However, unlike Shiwoo, who fell asleep almost immediately, Elroa was having trouble falling into a deep sleep.

Her mind was replaying Shiwoo’s words about meeting Periwinkle earlier.

When she first heard those words, she only felt a secret shame and embarrassment.
It was intuitive, and easy to find the cause.
She had secretly watched the intimate relationship between Periwinkle and Shiwoo, and the memory of that had resurfaced.

But Elroa felt a discomfort like a splinter in her fingertip.

It was when she imagined Shiwoo kissing Periwinkle.
And when she thought that he might have come back after having intercourse.
For a moment, a dark and murky emotion cast a shadow over her heart.

The problem was that she didn’t know why.
Unlike the other, it wasn’t intuitive, and she couldn’t find the cause.

“……”

Elroa slowly opened her eyes.
The guest room was small, not befitting the name ‘special room,’ and the beds were close enough that a small desk could fit between them.
She could clearly see Shiwoo’s face as he lay with his eyes closed, facing her.

When she first saw Shiwoo having intercourse with Sharon.
She didn’t feel anything.
She was just embarrassed that she had unintentionally intruded on a secret rendezvous.

When she saw Shiwoo serving Periwinkle to repay his debt.
She felt embarrassed and ashamed.
She had felt a faint heat for the first time in her life, and she had absurdly recognized Shiwoo as a ‘man.’

But that was it.
She had never felt any particular discomfort or an inexplicable sense of rejection.

“……”

But today was different.
Just the thought that Periwinkle and Shiwoo might have been doing something untoward outside.
The negative emotion that had bloomed.
Elroa realized that the target of the negative emotion that had bloomed insidiously was ‘Periwinkle.’

When she combined various emotions and organized them from an objective perspective.
That unpleasantness, rejection, and indescribable negative emotion.

Elroa could summarize that emotion in two words only after taking a step back.

Jealousy.

Elroa Tifereth had immediately become jealous as soon as she thought that her disciple, Shin Shiwoo, might have had a secret rendezvous with a woman.
As if she were a woman in love who had her lover stolen.

“That can’t be…”

Elroa denied it.
Of course, she had to deny it.
A master feeling jealous of her disciple.
There was a limit to even going against the natural order.

So this is…
It’s a phenomenon that occurs because a master who loves her disciple evaluates the person who will become her lover with strict standards.
Like a father looking at his beloved daughter’s boyfriend with disapproval.

Elroa barely succeeded in compromising with herself.
It was a fairly successful compromise, so the stiff expression on her face relaxed a little.
At that moment.

‘Haaah…’

An ominous sound was heard.
To Elroa, it felt more ominous than hearing the sound of a fuse burning under the bed.

‘Do you like it? Should I be rougher?’
‘Uhh… be rougher…’

The moans started again from the room on the opposite side, not the room where the deed had just been done.
Elroa bit her lip and closed her eyes tightly, contemplating, ‘Should I go and say something?’

But it was unreasonable to do so when she hadn’t rented the entire inn, and she was too mentally exhausted right now.
Elroa pulled the blanket over her head and groaned for a long time before she could finally fall asleep.

2.
Today was also the twins’ class time.
Since there were no special schedules on the holiday, they moved the afternoon class to the morning.

-Thud!

Sharon opened the door roughly and stepped in.
Her steps no longer showed any hesitation or burden.
It was the resolve of a gladiator entering the arena.

“Submit your assignments.”

The twins, who were sitting in the classroom as usual, widened their eyes at Sharon’s appearance as she entered.
Sharon puffed out her chest as if to show off to the two pairs of purple eyes that were shaking.
It was clear that it was a huge culture shock for the twins, who were used to Gehenna’s modest attire.
They were even rubbing their eyes to see if they were seeing correctly, or if it was a hallucination.

Today, Sharon was wearing the clothes she wore in the mortal world.
To be precise, a crop top that revealed her cleavage and dolphin shorts.
In fact, it wasn’t suitable clothing for autumn, and even more so for a class.

“…Huh?”
“…Uh?”

Entering the classroom with a dress code that had been thrown to the dogs was not a thoughtless act.
Now that a full-scale war with the twins was confirmed, she had decided to show off the charm that a woman should possess.

No matter how much wealth or anything else, the most important thing in a love battle is charm.
It’s not for nothing that wealthy overseas celebrities get married while taking the risk of being ripped off for alimony in the event of a divorce.

No matter how much money you have, what ultimately captivates a man is his face and body!

Of course, the twins were cute, but Sharon had a monstrous weapon that couldn’t be matched with cuteness alone.
The twins looked at Sharon’s luscious chest with a dazed expression, then looked at each other’s chests.

It seemed like they would barely be able to compete with Sharon even if they combined their chests.
Having confirmed the twins’ reaction, Sharon raised one eyebrow in the shape of a soaring stock chart and gave a confident smile.

“Why aren’t you submitting them? What are you doing?”

The twins pouted and submitted their assignments.

There were a total of 10 questions that Sharon had given.
They were all questions that she had made herself, and they all required the use of the elemental magic they had learned the day before.
Sharon continued with her quick corrections using a red pen.

The answers from questions 1 to 9 were written quite diligently.
Sharon’s eyes looked at question 10 with great anticipation.
It was the question she had put the most effort into creating.

[Question 10]
[Figure 1]
[There is a precious research material in a witch’s laboratory that has the following structure. Let’s assume that there are two twin cats that are constantly eyeing the artifact. Under the following conditions, present a magic circle that will drive away the cats with efficient use of magic power.]

[Condition 1]
The black cats are twins, appear irregularly without a set time, and are not scared and do not run away.
[Condition 2]
The magic circle must use at least 3 or more elemental formulas, and rune characters cannot be used.
[Condition 3]
Assume that the magic resistance flowing inside the magic circle is 1.5%, and the uncertainty of the elemental waveform is non-existent.

It was obvious what the twin cats in the question that Sharon had made herself meant.
Sharon looked at the twins as she scanned the answers below the question, which was full of personal feelings.

“What’s this question 10?”

Both of the twins had only written one line of answer for question 10.
[Just let the cats steal it]

“This is totally about us! How can you do this!”
“It’s totally cowardly!”

The twins pounded the table with their palms, denouncing Sharon’s abuse of power.
But Sharon didn’t even blink an eye.
She couldn’t survive the war with the twins unless she was shameless.

“You have to be sincere in class and assignments!”
“Sharon, you shouldn’t put your personal feelings into the assignments!”
“A-and your clothes are too revealing! Please refrain from wearing such clothes in the future! It’s lewd!”

Sharon walked past the teacher’s desk and towards the twins.
Every time her chest, resting on her folded arms, swayed, showing off its excellent volume, it dealt dot damage to the twins’ fragile hearts.
Sharon, who had successfully scored two points in a row at the start of the battle, was elated.
She wasn’t the usual Sharon, she was a berserker Sharon.

“I just came in light clothing? Besides, everyone wears this in the mortal world. Why do you think it’s lewd?”

Sharon leaned over, resting her hands on the desk, and succeeded in emphasizing her cleavage.
The twins stared at the deep valley with their lips tightly closed.

“Ugh! It’s, it’s fake! It’s all fake!”
“That’s right! You grew it with magic, right?”

The twins desperately denied reality.
Even if they were twins, they knew that one of the charms of a woman was a full chest.
The thought of their assistant falling for that made them feel like their confidence was plummeting.
Sharon’s last move to achieve a hat trick here.

“Really? Then touch it.”

She even boldly presented her chest to the twins.
The twins exchanged glances for a moment, then reluctantly reached out their hands.

“If you think you can seduce our assistant with just this…”
“You’re making a huge mistake…”

-Squeeze!
-Squeeze!

The soft and squishy sensation that filled their palms.
A chest that was too big for the twins’ small hands to grasp.
The elasticity, volume, and softness that were clearly conveyed while being bouncy were enough to make the twins speechless.

It wasn’t fake or a trick.
The alluring sensation that made even other women want to touch it endlessly was the essence of natural motherhood itself.
The twins’ expressions turned dark.
It felt like they were facing a huge wall that they couldn’t overcome with effort.

“And by the way, Shiwoo loves it?”

Is it that when you fight with kids, you become like them?
Sharon, who had killed their fighting spirit with a childish tactic that the twins would have used, raised her nose and shrugged her shoulders.

Odile, looking at Sharon, spoke in a low voice.

“…Odette, lock the door.”
“Okay, sister.”

-Click!

Odette locked the classroom door with telekinesis.
The twins quietly got up from their seats.
Sharon looked at the twins with a puzzled expression.

“Huh?”

The twins snorted and jumped up like missiles.

“Even if it’s Sharon! We can’t take it anymore!”
“Let’s fight without ranks!”
“Y-you… What are you doing…!”

Odile, growling, grabbed Sharon’s hair.
Odette was hanging onto one of Sharon’s arms, hindering her movements.
A brawl broke out between the three of them, who were tangled together before they could even use magic.

“Eek! Ack! Won’t you let go?”
“How dare you humiliate us like this! We can’t stand it!”
“Don’t you know that something this big is inefficient! It must be a bag of tricks!”
“Are you crazy? You started it first!”
“You provoked us first, sister!”
“We’ll never let you take our assistant!”

Well.
That’s what happened.