Chapter 379 – #81_Countess(6)
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1.
Three days had passed since then.
“I’m screwed.”
Siwoo had a gut feeling that things had gone terribly wrong.
At first, after the Count left, he was just dumbfounded.
Who was the one who seduced first, only to run away halfway?
He had inhaled her scent to his heart’s content, but it was so unsatisfying that all he got was a handjob.
As he stood blankly in the Count’s private library, putting on his clothes, his lust subsided a bit, and his cold reasoning returned.
“Why did I do that?”
It was true that Countess Yesod had first brought up ‘repaying a favor’ and seduced him.
Being naked and rubbing against each other, okay.
Receiving oral service, okay.
Sex, well, if it went that far, it was okay for a man and a woman to have a go.
But to tie up the Count and make her say things like ‘I’m gonna cum!’ and actually watch her unsightly figure as her fluids splattered everywhere?
And that was after the Count had said she didn’t like it several times?
From that point on, it was a series of NGs.
“Haa….”
He lit a cigarette.
Actually, this wasn’t just because of excessive excitement.
The women he had been with so far had willingly followed along even if he played a bit forcefully in the middle of sex.
Just like no one interprets ‘Yamete!’ from Japanese porn as a stop sign.
From experience, he had thought of ‘Stop! It’s too much!’ during sex as a good interjection.
Looking at the results, everyone had been happy.
But Countess Lucy Yesod was different, and his expectations were wrong.
She seemed to think she could no longer tolerate the behavior he had shown and had left.
After that, she didn’t directly pour out her anger or criticize Siwoo, but that didn’t mean it was a positive sign.
The next day, when he visited the mansion for Diana’s play education, he was politely asked to leave.
On the surface, the message was that ‘Countess Yesod has gone to the mortal realm for business,’ but the fact that there was no news even after three days meant that he could consider himself fired from his tutor position.
If he had just done as he was told, there wouldn’t have been any problems.
He had messed up by acting out in front of the Count, deeply stabbing at her weaknesses.
His interpretation of the Red Branch was estimated to be about 25%, and he needed more help from the Count.
In that situation, the worst possible breakup had occurred, and he couldn’t help but lament his own patheticness.
“I want to apologize, at least….”
It didn’t seem like the Count was holding a grudge.
If she had seriously wanted to take issue with Siwoo’s actions, she would have taken some action or formally called him in to protest.
Even if he was excited, it was Siwoo who had ruined things by repeatedly doing things she didn’t want.
He wanted to apologize properly, face to face.
2.
Countess Yesod, who was nominally on a business trip to the mortal realm, was having dinner with Diana.
She didn’t look at her plate properly, as if her mind was elsewhere, but she kept her table manners impeccably, because etiquette was as natural to her as breathing, having lived as a noble.
Other people might think she was just eating, but she couldn’t fool her daughter, Diana.
She was clearly different from her usual self.
“Mom.”
The Count’s dazed eyes turned to her lovely daughter.
“What is it, my dear?”
Diana hesitated for a moment before asking carefully.
“Did Mr. Shin Siwoo…. quit?”
For Diana, it was a question she had finally brought up after several days of deliberation.
Shin Siwoo hadn’t come to class for three days.
Diana had dressed up nicely and waited, but when she didn’t hear the knock, she had asked her mother about his whereabouts that evening.
Her mother’s answer at the time was.
‘Well, I don’t know? He said he was busy today.’
She had answered with a noticeably flustered look.
At the time, Diana had just accepted it.
But the fact that Siwoo hadn’t shown his face even after three days was a bit strange.
“Well? I don’t know either…. Is his work taking longer?”
“Really?”
“Yes, it is. Is the food good?”
“Yes….”
Moreover, every single one of her mother’s actions was very different from usual.
Her mother, who always handled everything so decisively, didn’t know the whereabouts of the tutor?
The way she subtly changed the subject, as if trying to avoid Diana’s probing.
Finally, the fact that she was often spacing out and lost in thought these days added up to something seriously wrong.
“I have a lot of work to do, so I’ll get up first. Eat well, my dear, and sleep well.”
“Yes, Mom.”
Diana’s gaze, following the Count’s retreating figure, was full of suspicion.
As far as Diana knew, Siwoo and her mother were in a secret affair.
The reason why Shin Siwoo was made Diana’s tutor was to give him an excuse to come and go from the mansion.
Her mother’s real purpose was the secret rendezvous they had alone at 10 o’clock.
Diana didn’t like that.
Wasn’t the reason she had been annoyed with Siwoo in Border Town because she couldn’t express her dissatisfaction to her mother?
Anyway, from what she had observed so far, Shin Siwoo was a very sincere person.
He naturally had a way of speaking that was considerate of others, and he was definitely not the type of person to abandon his tutor position without a word.
And her mother didn’t know his whereabouts?
“That can’t be….”
It absolutely couldn’t be.
It was too unnatural to be true.
After much deliberation in bed, Diana came up with the following possibility.
Her mother was even lying to keep Siwoo away from Diana.
Why?
“There’s no need to ask….”
It was to monopolize him.
But after Diana had an accident and became close to Siwoo.
Just when she thought their relationship was getting better, the lessons suddenly disappeared….
There must be a reason for that.
Didn’t it appear in her mother’s novels?
Women who try to monopolize men.
Diana didn’t know love.
She didn’t realize what form love took, how hot its temperature was.
She had no idea what kind of sweet taste it had, or what its texture was.
But the fact that she couldn’t meet him because of her mother’s machinations gave her a vague sense of annoyance and hostility.
It was impossible to think about emotions that originated from something inexplicable.
Therefore, Diana replaced her current displeasure and hostility with the range of emotions she knew.
That was the emotion of possessiveness.
“He’s my tutor…. Why is Mom….”
Diana’s lips twisted.
3.
“Haa….”
Lucy Yesod, who had returned to her private library, sighed deeply.
The question that Diana had suddenly asked during dinner had startled her, and the problem that had been troubling her recently had resurfaced.
The big incident that had caused the sofa in this very room to be replaced three days ago, the hot flirtation with tutor Shin Siwoo.
“What should I do….”
The Count had seduced Siwoo and had sex with him.
At first, it was just good.
As expected, he skillfully led the atmosphere, and she was able to see his flustered appearance.
But after he took the lead, the situation reversed.
He, who she had thought was just a timid young man, was a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
In the face of his skillful way of handling a woman’s body, Lucy Yesod was just a weak rabbit.
When his fingers sharply stirred her flesh.
Yesod had chanted vulgar words like ‘I’m going to cum!’ like a spell and had splattered her fluids everywhere.
Until the sofa she had liked so much and one of his arms were soaked with her fluids.
When she regained her reason, the Count felt fear.
Fear of the pleasure she didn’t know, of the depravity she didn’t know.
In other words, fear of the unknown.
To put it more simply, she was scared.
In the end, she had quickly left during the act and hadn’t even met him.
She was making obvious excuses to both Diana and Siwoo, and she was still avoiding them at this very moment.
“How can I see him again….”
She had shown such a broken and crumpled figure, like the heroines in the novels she had written, and now she had to meet the person who had created that scene?
She would rather die than do something so embarrassing.
Moreover, the sight of her, who had been exuding a femme fatale aura as if she could devour him at any time, crying like a child getting an injection with just two fingers, would probably remain a trigger for an eternal case of ‘blanket kicking’ until the day Countess Yesod died.
“But I can’t just stay like this….”
Recently, Diana had been getting a little more diligent.
She was studying on her own and diligently spending time on leisure activities, following Siwoo around.
It was proof that he was doing his job properly.
Also, Siwoo had once saved Diana from danger.
Of course, the accident had happened in Border Town, and even if he hadn’t been there, it would have been resolved smoothly, but it was his achievement that he had handled the situation cleanly.
Therefore, cutting off ties with Siwoo without meeting him was no different from treating all of his achievements as meaningless due to her personal shame.
Lucy Yesod’s management philosophy did not tolerate unfair dismissal.
She had to see him again.
“…….”
The Count, who had been tossing and turning, took out a piece of stationery and picked up a pen.
“But I have to see him again.”
Of course, she wasn’t writing the letter with the intention of having another hot night with him.
There were dangerous areas in the world that should not be touched lightly.
For example, drugs, which may seem to offer happiness and pleasure easily, but generally have a bad ending….
And she was feeling a sense of crisis that continuing to have sex with him would cross the line.
Therefore, this letter was only a measure to maintain courtesy as a person to another person.
There was absolutely no other intention.
The Count neatly folded the perfumed stationery and stamped it with a seal on the melted candle wax.
