Chapter 601 – #122_Back To Normal Life
#601
1.
Following the twins and her teacher, Sharon and Amelia came to see Siwoo.
The four of them, without any prompting, warmly embraced Siwoo, sharing a touching reunion.
Of course, she was scolded again as soon as she mentioned her plans to obtain citizenship in R’lyeh, but she thought she got through it very, very smoothly.
There was a hidden contributor to this.
It was R’lyeh, the very person who had caused all this chaos.
In the short time she had taken her eyes off him, he had managed to draw so much aggro that he had taken the brunt of the anger that would have been directed at Siwoo.
Anyway, after the commotion had subsided.
The five lovers, including Siwoo, gathered in one room.
“Are you really a witch from the deep sea?”
“I do not lie.”
Amelia looked at R’lyeh, who was sitting on the sofa with a pout and answering curtly, with suspicion.
A witch of Amelia’s caliber could tell just by looking that R’lyeh had suffered some kind of injury and that her power was limited, but that she had the potential to be a 23rd-level being.
The point is that even if you see it, the cognitive dissonance doesn’t just go away.
Amelia wasn’t the only one expressing such doubts.
Everyone who had heard the whole story had the same reaction.
One of the old witches hidden behind a veil of secrecy.
No one had expected her successor to have such a personality.
To Sharon and Amelia, she was an impolite witch who had burst into tears and ran away after being slightly intimidated.
To Eloa, she was a clueless, scatterbrained witch…
“Hey, you. Are you lying?”
“Yeah, yeah. If you tell the truth, we’ll forgive you. You’re just a pervert.”
“How dare you! Don’t pull my cheeks!”
To the twins, she was just a peer who spouted boastful lines.
She was also a friend who was quite fun to tease.
R’lyeh huffed and swatted away the twins’ hands.
R’lyeh, with her lips firmly pursed, was not in a good mood.
Everything was different from what she had planned.
It wasn’t that she was sulking because Siwoo wasn’t taking her side.
R’lyeh already perceived love battles as ‘wars’.
It was not like R’lyeh to gain power with his help and receive affection.
Whether it was charm or power, she was going to win it with her own strength and proudly establish herself as his main wife.
However, R’lyeh’s plan went awry from the very beginning.
She was supposed to completely subdue the bitches of Gehenna and take Siwoo’s side…
What a mess?
She was being treated like a complete pushover, spouting only lame lines like ‘We’ll see’ or ‘I’ll get you’.
She had to admit it.
His lovers were all formidable opponents.
Moreover, two of them were not opponents she could overcome even if she regained her strength through trials.
This war was going to be much more difficult than she had thought.
“But your clothes are so old-fashioned.”
“Yeah, when did you even get that dress?”
“Can’t you just go away!”
R’lyeh, who was already busy pondering, ended up losing her temper at the twins chattering on either side of her.
“What! We were just about to point out your pathetic fashion sense!”
“Do you know who we are? We’re the Odile Odette sisters, the flowers of the ball!”
Odile frowned and Odette chimed in from the side.
“Who cares about that! I’m already about to explode! Why are you making such a fuss about some clothes!”
“Some clothes?”
“Sis, you haven’t been dressing up at all, have you?”
“She might not have. Look at the way she talks.”
R’lyeh also had eyes.
She was clearly aware that her attire was somewhat inferior to that of Gehenna.
Her teacher, Shalit, hadn’t just given R’lyeh any old dress to wear.
However, fashion is a very delicate and trend-sensitive field.
Even a dress made with good materials and carefully crafted will become old-fashioned over time.
Not wanting to admit that, R’lyeh was putting on a show of bravado.
“You’re the ones who can’t pull off such luxurious clothes, aren’t you?”
“We’re pretty, cute, and adorable.”
“Right, Assistant?”
“Y-yes, you are.”
Odile and Odette exchanged glances for a moment.
The twins were quite cunning and quick to react to changes.
Therefore, unlike the three witches who were still not keeping up with the situation, they immediately started calculating.
They had already enjoyed their reunion with the Assistant enough.
Judging by the way things were going, the witch from the deep sea would become one of their rivals, and her level was a whopping 23rd.
Although the twins could physically overwhelm her now, it would be impossible for apprentice witches to handle R’lyeh, who had regained her strength through some kind of trial.
Rather than continuing to be at odds, it would be more beneficial in the long run to do her a favor while she was still not used to the atmosphere.
““Hmm….””
In fact, more than half of it was out of curiosity.
There was no reason not to play with such a fun-looking friend.
“Hmph, if I were to wear the same dress as you, I would look much prettier. It’s like putting a pearl necklace on a pig.”
“Then, we’ll take you to the dressing room, so prove it.”
“Yeah, yeah, Show and Prove.”
“What? What is it!”
The twins, as if escorting a prisoner, linked arms with R’lyeh on both sides.
Even though there was quite a height difference, R’lyeh was dragged away by the twins’ coltish strength.
“Assistant, we’ll borrow her for a bit!”
“We’ll be back by dinner!”
The twins disappeared, dragging R’lyeh with them.
“Siwoo, aren’t you leading that innocent child astray too much?”
After the three of them left, Eloa jokingly chided Siwoo.
Even if she was on Siwoo’s side and had decided not to object to his growing number of lovers, this was different.
“That’s not true. She may seem like that, but she’s quite deep and kind.”
“If my concern is excessive, I apologize in advance… but to my eyes, she looks like a young witch who needs attention and care rather than love.”
There was no more hostility in her gaze as she glanced at the door through which R’lyeh had been dragged.
Sharon and Amelia felt the same way.
Until R’lyeh’s audacious declaration of war arrived, they had vowed to use force on her as soon as they met.
Even if that wasn’t the case, how much had they suffered during the two months when they hadn’t been able to confirm her safety because she had kidnapped and monopolized Siwoo?
She was someone who deserved to be hit on the head until she had a mountain of bumps.
“…….”
Amelia was fidgeting for no reason.
Even though Amelia had an authoritarian personality, her targets were quite limited.
When the twins played pranks or chatted during class, she would just sigh and let it go, wouldn’t she?
R’lyeh, who seemed immature even though she had inherited the mark.
She felt sorry for having intimidated her to the point of tears.
“I should apologize when she comes back….”
Amelia sighed softly.
2.
“You’re being annoying. Let go! I’ll walk on my own.”
R’lyeh followed the twins listlessly.
“Why are you so prickly?”
“You don’t have any friends, do you?”
The twins poured out their complaints at R’lyeh.
“I don’t understand why you’re making such a fuss to show off.”
But that was the end of her grumbling.
The moment she stepped into the twins’ dressing room, R’lyeh’s eyes widened like saucers.
“Wh-what… what is all this?”
“It’s our dressing room.”
Odile and Odette, who had been staring intently at R’lyeh’s face, giggled when they saw her reaction, which was exactly as they had expected.
It was no wonder R’lyeh was surprised.
The sight before her was not enough to be described with the simple expression of a dressing room.
To exaggerate a bit, it seemed like it should be called a dress apartment.
As soon as she opened the door, she saw the antique green wallpaper and a chandelier that was so bright it was dazzling.
There were hundreds of pairs of shoes in glass display cases on the left and right.
If she walked a little further inside, there were several long wardrobes that seemed like they could not be filled even if she combined all of the clothes R’lyeh owned.
“This is the hunting clothes corner, this is the party dress corner, and this side is for fall and winter, so you don’t have to look at it.”
“Sis, but will the clothes fit?”
“If we put her in clothes that are loose on us, they’ll fit perfectly, right?”
“What is all this…”
R’lyeh, blinking her eyes, moved her feet as if she were possessed, looking at this dress and that dress.
She had been wearing the same clothes her entire life.
When she was alone in the submarine, fashion didn’t really mean anything.
There was no one to show it to, and even if she wore the same clothes repeatedly, she didn’t have the insight to point it out herself.
However, as she watched movies with the new inventions that Siwoo had restored, and decisively as she walked around Gehenna, R’lyeh opened her eyes to a new horizon.
R’lyeh was also a proper woman.
And fashion, like a sweet dessert, instinctively captivates a woman’s heart.
In other words, R’lyeh’s current feelings were like those of a person who had only eaten dry bread all their life and was now at a hotel buffet for the first time.
“Hehe, do you feel it now?”
“This is the wealth of the Jemenae family.”
Therefore, even when the twins mimicked R’lyeh’s way of speaking and snickered, she couldn’t get properly angry.
“Okay, do you want to try this on first?”
“Sis! That’s my favorite dress!”
“So what? It’s not like it’ll wear out.”
The dress that Odile took off the hanger was a deep navy blue dress.
It was a free size that would look great with R’lyeh’s personal color and was loose enough for Sharon to wear as well.
“Then let’s go with these shoes. Your feet are small, so they’ll be fine.”
“Odette! Those are my favorite shoes!”
“So what? It’s not like they’ll wear out.”
The d’Orsay shoes that Odette ran to the display case to get.
They were pump heels that R’lyeh, who had only worn low-heeled shoes her entire life, was seeing for the first time in real life.
“I-is it really okay…?”
As expected of the twins, who had worn many different clothes, it was an excellent choice.
R’lyeh walked like a zombie who had found a survivor.
At that moment, the dress and shoes that were almost within her reach were quickly whisked away.
The twins had quickly hidden them behind their backs.
“Before that.”
“There’s a condition.”
R’lyeh came to her senses.
At the same time, the saliva that was about to flow from her mouth went back into her mouth.
She realized that there was no way they would give her such a favor for free.
“We’ll let you pick out whatever you want from here in the future….”
“Break up with the Assistant.”
As expected, the twins, with very wicked devilish smiles, were looking at R’lyeh.
