City ​​of Witches 806

Chapter 806 – #168_Overseas Travel (2)

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Perhaps due to the effects of the kiss, Amelia, who had been suffering from motion sickness, fell asleep in the bedroom.
Sharon, having finished her shower, sat side-by-side with Llyue on the massage chair, both wearing scalp massage devices, completely relaxed.

Thus, the one who greeted Siwoo as he stepped into the lounge was Dorothy, dressed in a rather bizarre outfit.

A white skirt, a light blue short-sleeved shirt, and a scarf tied around her neck like a ribbon.
She was wearing a flight attendant uniform, where she had gotten it from was anyone’s guess.

“Esteemed customer Shin Siwoo, it is an honor to have you aboard our Witch Airlines.”
“What is this?”
“We will provide the best service today to ensure you have a comfortable journey~”

Despite Siwoo’s bewildered expression at the sudden cosplay, Dorothy gave a gentle, eye-smiling bow.
It was truly perplexing.

While it’s easy to have fantasies about ‘flight attendants,’ their actual job is safety management and customer service, so their attire is far from being suggestive.

In the first place, Siwoo had never really had any fantasies about the profession of a flight attendant.

So, the problem was Dorothy.

A single shirt was far too inadequate to conceal her bursting volume.
It seemed like the buttons would pop off with a single deep breath.

Dorothy, as if she had intended even that, was grinning happily.

“By the way, did you know? According to a survey of British airline flight attendants, oh my~ a whopping 17% of the crew have had secret relations with passengers during flights?”
“Where did you get the uniform?”
“I’ll tell you where I got it, so how about we go somewhere quiet together?”

A sudden cosplay followed by role-playing.
It seemed that Dorothy liked this sort of thing.

“That’s enough, Dorothy.”

However, before he could even consider whether to succumb to the temptation, a cold voice cut off Dorothy’s flirtation.
It was Linne.
Turning his gaze in that direction, Siwoo couldn’t help but be even more taken aback.

“Linne?”

As if she had been waiting for it, Linne stood next to Dorothy, chest puffed out.
She, who had been wearing a kimono just 10 minutes ago, was also dressed as a flight attendant.

“My love, how do I look?”

It was clear that she had changed after seeing Dorothy wearing it, fueled by her competitive spirit.
Linne’s drive and direction were so straightforward that they were incomparable to anyone else.

“Y-you look beautiful.”
“That’s a relief.”

Two flight attendants suddenly appeared in the cabin, which had been flying without any other staff besides the pilot.

There may be many private jets in the world, but no matter how much you searched, you wouldn’t find one where such luxurious beauties were serving.

Surely, these two would willingly provide the highest level of in-flight service for any request.
For a brief moment, the image of sucking on Dorothy’s mammatong while receiving Linne’s virtuous wife fellatio flashed through his mind.

…Being too healthy is also a problem.

“Stop playing around and take your seats.”

Could it be even the teacher? He looked in that direction, but it wasn’t her.
She was still dressed in an outfit that was ready for the desert.

However, she was glaring at the two with a very displeased expression.

“Okay~ Don’t get angry, Duchess. You’re scary.”
“To call pleasing my love a joke. You lack the awareness of a concubine.”
“Who is a concubine? Siwoo, come here as well.”
“Yes.”

On the table where the three were sitting, there was some complex mechanical equipment.
Siwoo was once again impressed by the scene, which was reminiscent of a spy movie.

Since becoming a witch, it seemed like he was experiencing things that were hard to even experience once in a lifetime, every single day.

“Oh, what is this?”
“This is a rugged laptop, and this is an anti-tracking modem. More importantly~ I dressed up so nicely, and you like these machines more?”
“It’s not that, I’m just curious.”
“You should sit down too. This is information that would be good to know.”

The reason why Eloa, Linne, and Dorothy were huddled together was to exchange information.

Currently, Dorothy and Linne had joined Siwoo’s circle of lovers and turned their backs on Hexennacht.
Both of them were high-ranking executives of the old Qliphoth, so they possessed a wealth of information that even Eloa could not easily obtain.

In particular, Dorothy, who had led a massive arms trafficking organization, had focused on gathering information.

This was partly to gain profit, but also because her current business was a supply line that could be easily attacked at any time, so it was also important to hold the enemy’s lifeline.

As a result, she possessed terabytes of data on various public funding sources, Hexennacht’s security vulnerabilities, and the weaknesses and lobbying lists of political and business figures in various countries.

She had handed all of that over to Eloa, and Eloa had also shared the information she had received from the Witch Point.

Information that had no particular meaning or credibility when taken individually could produce meaningful results if compared and analyzed from two different perspectives.

“The United States is also independently conducting research to counter the homunculi. This seems to be a given.”
“That’s right~ On the surface, they’re talking about developing new weapons and replacing old equipment, but over the past five years, a top-secret budget of 2 trillion dollars has been invested in unidentified research support. It’s harder to believe it’s not happening.
The situation is similar in Western Europe. You can see that they’re squeezing their already strained military budgets, even if it’s unreasonable.”

“What about the Second World?”
“Russia and Eastern Europe are not much different from the Western camp. But the most important thing is that China has very little interaction with the witch society, so the information is very opaque. Linne, do you have any leads?”

“…I heard from the Golden Witch that Hexennacht is in contact with the Chinese Ministry of State Security. More than half of the death row inmates supplied to Hexennacht also come from there.”
“It’s not a typical subjugation request, is it?”
“It’s closer to technology transfer and research cooperation.”

The conversation went something like that.

Until now, he had only understood about half of the conversation, so he had been sitting there like a sack of potatoes, but this was a topic that had caught his interest.

“Teacher, does that mean that each country is trying to come up with its own measures against the homunculi?”
“That’s right.”

The homunculi created by the Creation Witch were originally guardians to protect the relics.

According to one theory, they were intentionally created with aggression towards witches in order to control the number of witches.

However, the number of individuals awakening from their dormant state each year was increasing, the number of witches to deal with them was decreasing, and the homunculi, as if some kind of malfunction had occurred, had even begun to prey on humans, making them an unmanageable disaster for human society.

Because they operate by deploying an otherworld barrier when hunting, it is difficult to deal with them using existing technology, and not only do they harm people, but they also devour ‘yeon’, making it impossible to even calculate the exact extent of the damage.

Until now, national governments had dealt with this by making agreements with witches.

Given these facts, the idea of ‘coming up with their own measures’ was natural.
Leaving the maintenance of international order entirely to capricious individuals was only a temporary solution.

So, what Siwoo questioned was this.

“Is that even possible?”
“There’s no reason why it wouldn’t be. Both science and magic are ultimately disciplines that mine and apply the ‘settings’ of the world.”

As a witch and a former mathematician, Siwoo understood Dorothy’s words immediately.

Academics.
Especially science, is not, to be precise, creating something from nothing.

It’s about the settings that existed from the beginning.
The setting that the force of gravity pulls objects.
The setting that no object can exist faster than light.
The setting that when multiple compound elements combine, a new element with specific properties appears.

Magic is not much different.
In the end, all magic has rules and causality.

If both magic and science are merely formalizing and utilizing the ‘settings’ that already exist in the world, then human intellect will one day reach magic.

“With the Hexennacht situation and the disappearance of Duke Keter, things are going to get very confusing…. If people find a way to deal with the homunculi, what will happen? It seems like a good thing, but…. It’s hard to say it’s just good.”

If a way to counter the homunculi is found, the people who are dying for no reason all over the world will disappear.
However, the fact that humans can counter the homunculi also means that they have found a way to counter witches.

And at least as far as Siwoo knew, human nature was about domination and conquest.
If there was no longer a need to tacitly condone the existence and power of witches.

What kind of chaos would occur then?

“There’s no need to worry about that yet.”

Eloa dismissed such concerns.

“It will take at least a few hundred more years for humans to build up the ability to counter the homunculi.”
“What if they gain that ability in a few hundred years?”
“It will be no different from now. We must do what is right.”

Her teacher’s clear answer that if she could do what was right, no matter how the world changed, helped Siwoo escape the unease that had been spreading.

It was something to think about when the time came anyway.
As her teacher said, who knew if they would even be alive by then?

While they were having these conversations, the private jet carrying Siwoo and his party was approaching Chinggis Khaan International Airport in Ulaanbaatar.