Chapter 388 – #83_Joint Secret (4)
#386
1.
“Haa….”
Diana, who had returned from Taro Town with a pile of books, lay face down on her bed, propping her chin on a pillow.
Her thoughts were tangled for various reasons, and she had been muttering to herself in a fixed position for about three hours.
“Come to think of it…. That was my first kiss….”
The first time holds a lot of meaning.
It’s why the world only remembers the first place.
It’s the same reason why words like ‘first’ and ‘original’ are treated as the best.
Diana knew very well the meaning of a first kiss.
She had seen it a lot in her mother’s novels.
Actually, she had thought about it before, but kissing was a very unclean act.
Why do you feel unpleasant when you’re next to someone who sneezes?
Why do you spit on the face or clothes of someone you want to insult?
It’s because saliva is dirty.
But to press lips together, which are like the opening of a saliva jar.
Furthermore, to mix tongues that are sticky with that saliva is a sign of love, which was one of the biggest mysteries in Diana’s life.
What’s so good about it?
Diana reached out and pinched her lips.
She remembered the moment she had kissed him.
Shiwoo, who had easily supported her even when she was hanging onto his neck.
His soft, smooth, and unusually warm, slightly rough lips.
Her heart, which was pounding like it was broken.
None of it was unclean.
Rather, it was like magic that naturally made her understand the questions she had never understood before.
“……”
The excuse of getting a weakness.
Yes, it was an excuse.
Shin Shiwoo had already proven his trustworthiness to Diana in many ways.
And Diana had believed in her promise with Shiwoo just by shaking hands.
The reason she had kissed him was because she wanted to.
“It’s all jumbled up….”
Then why did she ask him to seduce her mother?
Why did she give him a strategy guide and ask the tutor she didn’t want to lose to do such a thing?
Even now, as she savored the aftertaste of the kiss, Diana felt an unknown possessiveness as she watched him embrace her mother.
“I should just drink.”
These contradictory actions must be because her love for her mother came before her feelings for Shin Shiwoo.
That was the conclusion Diana could reach for now.
2.
Diana’s bold and bizarre proposal was put on hold with a reservation of an answer.
“…This is, well, how should I put it.”
A daughter offering her body in exchange for seducing her mother.
It was a heinous proposal.
Of course, considering Diana’s nature of doing all sorts of strange things when she gets impulsive.
He expected that her proposal came from a rather simplistic thought process.
For Diana, who was innocent about relationships between men and women.
Problem 1) She doesn’t want her mom to disappear.
Solution 1) If her mom gets a new boyfriend, she might not disappear.
Problem 2) She needs to offer good conditions to get someone to seduce her mom.
Solution 2) She’ll give her body.
It was probably because she was trying to solve these two problems at the same time that she came up with such a bizarre answer.
Like how the solutions presented by innocent children are sometimes a bit eerie.
“I wonder if I should tell her about this….”
The reason why Diana insists on her uncorrected laziness.
Should he tell Count Yesod for a fundamental solution, or should he remain silent to the end to keep his loyalty to Diana?
This was a real dilemma.
In the research lab that Count Yesod had personally prepared for him.
Shiwoo, who was sitting on a chair and smoking, noticed the pile of books on the table.
Official records and a dozen or so books that Diana had picked out.
Since it was an awkward time before his tutoring session anyway, should he just skim through these?
Shiwoo opened a book that he hadn’t even read the title of properly.
“Something sweeter than cocoa…. Is this a romance novel?”
This book, which looked like it was printed by a printing press rather than handwritten, didn’t have a leather cover or even a hard cover.
It was like a romance novel that commoners could easily read.
The Count has such girly hobbies.
You really can’t judge a book by its cover.
Shiwoo flipped through the pages without much thought.
The story at the beginning seemed to be about a witch who falls in love with a young man she had been close to since she was an apprentice witch.
It was his first time reading this kind of novel, but it was quite interesting.
The vocabulary was rich and the writing style was good.
There were expressions that created delicate emotional lines here and there, so it wasn’t boring.
“Huh?”
And then, a blatant sex scene that appeared just past the quarter mark of the book.
“Well, I guess that can happen.”
Since sexual desire is one of the basic human desires, elements that scratch that itch easily blend into popular culture.
Even in Korean pansori or folk songs, isn’t that the case?
What he had felt while embracing Count Yesod last night was that she was also a woman.
Now that the image of a strict, orthodox witch had somewhat faded, there was no reason to be surprised that the Count enjoyed reading this kind of novel.
However, the content of the novel gradually began to exceed Shiwoo’s understanding.
A witch who awakens to the pleasure of being a masochist after going through various incidents.
And a story about a male protagonist’s maid who is conquered by him.
“What is this?”
All sorts of play came out.
Being beaten on the buttocks with a modified riding crop, outdoor exposure play, and even using adult products brought from the modern world for various training plays.
Was it just a sweet romance, or were there a series of sticky and blatant sex scenes?
“…Is this a pornographic novel?”
Shiwoo quickly skimmed through the other books, just in case.
Now that he looked at them, the titles were all unusual.
The Devilish Delivery Man, The Bored Witch’s Dangerous Prank, The Debt-Ridden Witch’s Debt Relief Life, How the Butterfly Flower Falls….
They were all extremely high-level.
And if there was one thing all the works had in common, it was the dominating man and the dominated witch.
This structure was very clear.
From the writing style to the taste.
It was clear that the same author had written them.
“I’m getting dizzy.”
The Count has such a secret taste?
More than that, it was Diana who had picked out these books.
Then, contrary to Shiwoo’s expectations, it meant that Diana knew everything she needed to know….
However, when she saw him kissing the twins at the host bar, Diana’s reaction was hard to see as acting.
Did she find out about it in the meantime?
While Shiwoo was confused.
“Shiwoo? Are you there?”
The Count came in.
3.
Count Yesod’s day passed in an instant.
After meeting Shuriya in Border Town, she had lunch with Count Deneb Geminai.
After that, she met Duke Erelim to discuss the reorganization of the academic conference.
She met with an agent who coordinated the details of her modern business, received a report, and gave future work instructions.
Dinner with Diana.
It was only after all of that that the Count could finally take a breath.
Now, all that was left was her long-awaited private tutoring session with Shiwoo.
Actually, there was a slightly ‘different study’ scheduled for today.
“Magic power charging through intercourse….”
Last night and this morning.
The Count had observed that something different from common knowledge happened when Shiwoo ejaculated.
Pure and clean magic power that was absorbed and replicated several times.
According to him, it was something that happened when he ejaculated inside.
The amount of magic power that each witch can store is different.
Regardless of hierarchy, the amount of magic power that can be accepted is determined by the system of imprints and magnetic magic.
Even so, it generally takes a minimum of two weeks and a maximum of more than a month for a Great Witch to use up all of her magic power and absorb it to ‘make it her own.’
Even if she uses magic power, it is generally difficult to do it within a week.
However, the charging through Shiwoo’s ejaculation was lightly twisting that ‘common sense.’
Even if the Count’s magic power was completely empty, it would have been fully charged.
Lucy Yesod was a witch.
Until last night, she had been somewhat negligent because she was distracted by the pleasure he gave her, but such a strange phenomenon had begun to attract her attention.
Therefore, today, after his tutoring session, they had made a promise to explore the magic power charging action.
“Oh my….”
It was a study, but in any case, the essence was sex.
Tonight, she would be showing a very shy side as she was held in his firm arms again.
Even though she was using research as an excuse, she was worried that asking for sex so many times in a row would make her look like a woman who was too eager.
She wondered how it would look in his eyes if she went to him and acted cute even though it wasn’t tutoring time yet….
She was a little embarrassed.
“This is for research….”
But this was for research!
Count Yesod finished her self-justification and opened the door to the research lab.
“Shiwoo? Are you there?”
As soon as she opened the door, she saw Shiwoo suddenly becoming flustered.
With a rustling sound, the things that had been scattered on the desk disappeared, wrapped in a black ribbon.
“Oh, you’re here? It’s still early…. Did you finish your work early?”
Moreover, the way he was sitting in an awkward and stiff posture, giving the Count a forced smile….
It was suspicious.
“Oh my?”
His expression became even more awkward as he received the Count’s curious gaze.
He was so rough when he was on the bed, but when she saw him like this, he was just a softie.
That gap made the Count even more excited.
“You look like you’re hiding something…. Or is it just my imagination?”
“That’s… not possible.”
Smirk.
A playful smile appeared on the Count’s lips.
Was he perhaps thinking of the Count and pleasuring himself?
Maybe he had secretly brought some of the Count’s underwear.
“Were you doing something private by yourself?”
“That’s not possible. This is a research lab.”
“Then will you show me what you’re hiding?”
“Hiding…?”
“I saw it all? I saw you tidying up the desk with a ribbon as soon as I came in.”
The Count clicked her heels and sat on the desk where Shiwoo was sitting.
Books scattered right under the desk.
Just by looking at the quality of the paper and the covers that were so damaged that it was hard to see the titles, they were not magic books written for academic purposes.
“Books?”
“Count, it’s not that….”
The Count smiled as she watched Shiwoo, who was noticeably flustered and trying to change the subject as soon as her gaze reached the books.
How cute.
Was he reading some kind of erotic novel?
“What kind of book was our Shiwoo reading so enjoyably…?”
The Count grabbed a book with telekinesis.
“…Huh?”
As soon as she saw the title, the Count failed to manage her expression.
With trembling eyes, she scanned the titles of the remaining books.
“……”
She was speechless.
The books scattered under his desk were all erotic novels that Count Yesod had written herself.
“H-h-how did Shiwoo get these?”
“…Is this really your taste…?”
“N-no! Of course, I wrote them, but…! Creative activities and the author’s desires are separate! Shiwoo! How dare you! Are you trying to insult me, Lucy Yesod?!”
“I had no intention of insulting you….”
“Ah… ahh….”
The Count couldn’t bear the shame and covered her face.
She had no idea how those works had gotten into his hands, but her face felt like it was burning.
One line and one scene from the novels she had written before flashed through her mind like a panorama.
Shiwoo had seen all of her embarrassing hobby that she had written for her own self-satisfaction?
Her dignity as a Count.
Her prestige as an older woman.
She could feel the face she had barely managed to maintain shattering into pieces.
“……”
The books that Diana had gotten for him.
She never thought that they would be novels that the Count had written herself.
Shiwoo was a little dumbfounded.
“I don’t really care. Really.”
“…Just a moment… please leave me alone….”
Shiwoo patted the Count on the shoulder, and she had to swallow her embarrassment for a long time while squatting down.
