City Of Witches 134

Chapter 134 – #29_Cleanup(4)

#132

One.
“I want you to go back to this world.”

Siu is alone with Albireo.
As soon as Deneb was out, she floated her rhyme in a determined voice.

“To be more specific, please consider that there is no option of ‘remaining in Count Zemanai as a vassal’ suggested by Deneb.”

Is it purely because of my mood that I feel that the goodwill towards Siwoo has cooled down a bit?
Siwoo looked at her face while the newly received information had not yet been sorted out one by one.

“Why?

After only thirty minutes, she looked very tired on his face.
Albireo opens his mouth.
At the same time, Siwoo’s left eye caught the swirling magic around him.

“What did you and Odile do out there tonight?”

Momentary focus.
His concentration, which spread from his left eye, accepted all the phenomena around him as if they were in slow motion.
The moment Albireo opened his mouth, the magic around him shook as if in response.
Her voice was embodied like a magic formula by breathing, tone, pronunciation, and pitch.
The air from the lungs vibrating through the vocal cords blended with the surrounding mana to form very fine black feathers.

When dozens of feathers created like that fly towards Siwoo.
His left eye shone.
Siu reflexively raised his hand and brushed them away.
Siwoo’s hand, which was surrounded by magic invisible to the naked eye, disturbed his feathers and destroyed them as they were.
The reason why he dared to use the dispel was because he intuitively sensed the true nature of the magic Albireo used.

At this timing, if you use magnetism magic, there is only one use case.
Possibly a confession poem.
I wanted to avoid anything with the twins, even drinking.

“No?”

It was Albireo’s embarrassment that Shiu was hearing for the first time.
Albireo watched as the poem of confession was scattered with round eyes.
He couldn’t believe it even when he saw it with his own eyes.

The confession poetry Albireo uses is of a high level that cannot be compared to that of the twins.
It is as intimate, as natural, and as difficult to deal with.
It is not something that can be defended by simply covering one’s ears and blocking out sounds.
However, Siwoo immediately sensed it, and also scattered the composition of the ceremony neatly without any superfluity.

“How did you do it?”
“Uh, I don’t know how to stop…”
“I asked how you did it.”

To dispel magnetic magic on the spot, not any other magic.
As a person who walks the path of magic, how can such a thing be possible without wondering?

“I just removed the visible magic formula.”
“…..Siwoo-kun surprises me every time. Did you see my magnetic magic?”
“That’s right. Since my body has been restored… I can see the flow of magic power naturally.”

Albireo was lost in thought for a moment.
Can you see the flow of magical power?
If you can simply observe the flow of magical power, you can destroy magnetic magic?
It can’t be.

He had misunderstood his mysterious left eye.
Sooner or later he will understand.
Albireo wriggled and felt a love for magic that surged like an impulse.

For witches, learning is a very natural and intense desire, just as humans feel appetite, sexual desire, and sleep.
But I hold back the urge.
Now, this position is not for her magic research.

“Sorry for suddenly using magic. It seems that there is something hidden without being honest.”
“……..”

That’s why he uses the terrible magic of confession poetry.
Once for Odile and once for Odette.
It’s a magic that Siwoo, who has already been through twice, doesn’t want to experience again.

“Siwoo-kun had a physical relationship with our twin, right?”

After all, the spirit of a witch who has lived for over a hundred years, and of her mother, was not something that Siu could easily fool around.
Seeing the use of magic right away, it means that enough suspicious circumstances have already been captured.
Siu, who was already full of heart, decided that there was no need to go against her screening by telling lies, and soon nodded her head.

“That’s right. But I can explain them all.”

I was caught in the end, but the first thing I thought was how it was.
The cruel truth he learned a while ago brought great disappointment to Siwoo.
To tell my honest feelings, I don’t think he would have any thoughts about dying on the spot.
The dream of 5 years, the goal that I looked at and relied on, was shattered in an instant.

Albireo looked at Siu, who spoke calmly, and gently closed her eyes.
Wasn’t that what she already knew?

The fact that the twins visited him in hospital every week after Siwoo’s collapse, and the fact that they looked at him with so much sympathy in their eyes, did not think that they were simply going to the benefactor who saved his life.
He expected that there would be some kind of relationship that Albireo didn’t know about.

“Whoa…”

Nevertheless, the momenthehears the definite answer, he calms down his anger for a moment and cools his head.
When Albireo opened his eyes again, her eyes were cleanly washed, leaving no trace of anger behind.

“I already know that Siwoo is a diligent and righteous person. There’s no way someone like that would have approached her apprentice witch indiscriminately. Was it because of the twins’ curiosity that they started the relationship in the first place?”
“That’s right.”

Albireo’s point was so accurate that Siu was slightly surprised.

“I don’t mean to be overprotective of twins to the point of criticizing the natural feelings that arise between a man and a woman. Both Odil and Odette are at an age when they will open their eyes to love. If I dare to judge, Siwoo-kun is a person who deserves that love.”
“I am grateful for your understanding.”
“But.”

Albireo conveyed her intentions in a stern voice.

“I have no intention of not respecting the feeling of love itself. It cannot be denied that Siwoo is the benefactor of our family. But before I am Jemani Albireo, I am a mother and teacher of two children. I can’t help but feel that it’s too dangerous and too premature to keep you by your twin’s side.”

Even if he is forced away from Siu, if he is inside Gehenna, the twins will somehow go to meet him.
It was impossible for the hectic count to cling only to the twins.

Right now, it seems that they are preventing the bowl from being contaminated by pseudo-sexual acts or other methods (I guess, but I didn’t want to think about it in detail), but a momentary mistake could go wrong forever.
Therefore, it was thought that the best course of action was to return him to the present world and separate him from the twins, as he originally wished.

“If Odile and Odette officially inherit the stigma, there is no need or way for me to interfere like this. It won’t be long. For the next five years, can you understand the heart of an immoral mother?”

Siwoo didn’t have any big complaints either.
Even if the twins quit the start at first, it was a situation where they refused to refuse after that.
Didn’t he lose to desire in the end?
Rather, he thought that Albireo’s reaction was very gentle, and was going to humbly accept the disposition.

“Siwoo-kun might feel like he is selfish. It’s like being caught on your own and now telling you to leave on your own. Sorry.”
“No, I can fully understand. If he hadn’t been captured by Gehenna anyway, he would have died.”

Silence for a while.

“Before that, I hope my request doesn’t go against Siwoo’s wishes too much. Do you still have thoughts of wanting to return to this world?”
“Yes, I have work to do. There are things I want to do.”
“Should I say I’m lucky?”
“Yes.”

Siu hesitated for a moment, then nodded his head.
The danger she mentioned is something that can be sufficiently prevented if Siwoo pays attention.
Albireo said with an apologetic look inside.

“Finally, it will take about a week for Siwoo to go out and prepare a place to live and to go through the procedures at Gehenna City Hall. I want you to organize your life here within that period.”
“I will.”
“Until then, you can stay at this villa. I will try to come back as soon as possible.”
“Yes.”

Albireo went up to the second floor and returned to the mansion with the sleeping twins by his side, and Siu, who was left alone in the house, took out a drink and sipped alone until the sun rose.

2.
I feel the futility of life.
The woman he thought he was a good person and liked for the first time in his life was actually a woman he hated terribly, and returning to the present world after praying hard for five years may be the beginning of a new hardship.

“M-Byeong, did I sell out my country in my previous life?”

Because it was built in a shady alley, the living room is twilight even in broad daylight.
Siu sighed on the sofa and blew on a bottle.

Beside it was a mountain of bottles of liquor.
I went down to the cellar to drink the beer Odile bought me, but I’m comparing the taste of all the expensive-looking drinks.

Drinks that are filthy tasteless and poisonous.
But I don’t know why it’s so sloppy.
Is it because my heart is empty?

Siu staggered to his feet.
Here, he seems to have a lot of mold in his heart if he only drinks.
He thought that he should meet someone first, so he went straight to the academy using the portal.
Anyway, he had a lot of gold coins that could only be used here, and he promised a lot of support even if he went out to the world right away, so it wasn’t really a waste of money.

Asheheads east through the corridors of Trinity Academy, which he has not seen in a long time, he sees a familiar face.
It was Takasho who was slurring like an NPC.

“Dress…! Oh clothes..! Oh oh oh clothes!!!”
“Don’t be noisy dude.”

As soon as he found Shiu, Takasho threw down his broom and ran screaming and hugged him tightly.
As expected, Siwoo almost vomited because of his tremendous strength.

“You bastard! It’s alive You’re fine!”
“Hey, hey, get off a bit gross.”

After that, Takasho welcomed Siwoo with tears in his eyes for a long time.
He couldn’t do his mending in the hallway, so he moved and sat down next to him on a nearby bench.

“You suddenly woke up and disappeared somewhere, so you did something, this friend.”
“I heard that you often visit the hospital. Thank you.”
“Jjasik, my friend said he was wandering between death and death, so of course I have to go. But if I go too often, I’ll let you fall asleep because you don’t want to see me. What’s wrong anyway? Are you Kakashi?”
“There is a reason for that.”
“By the way, the witch who healed you was really pretty. Do you keep in touch often?”
“No, I don’t even know who it is. I still have to say thank you.”

Takasho, who had greeted Shiu warmly at first, seemed to sense the subtle atmosphere of Shiu.
Now that his body has been cured, there is nothing strange about putting on shoes, but it is very gloomy.
Besides, he smelled like alcohol.

“What’s going on?”
“Yes. So let’s do this.”

Siwoo confided everything as if he were vomiting.
What happened with Amelia, and the complicated feelings caused by it.
The first thing that will happen when you return to the present world.
For almost an hour, he stretched out his pitchfork.
The funny thing is that not even a handful of water came out of her eyes, let alone tears.

“Ugh… Oh, I don’t know what to say. You will be very upset too. Friend.”

Takasho patted Shiu on the back.

“So is there a reason you have to go back even though it’s come to this point? I didn’t want to say it because I didn’t want it to look like I was holding on to it because of my greed. Can’t we just stay here together?”
“I still have to look at my parents’ faces. How worried you must have been.”

Takasho, who tried to dissuade Siu, was speechless.

“So what are you going to do? That, Associate Professor Amelia’s job.”
“I just have to forget about it. Still, they ran all over the place to save me. Should I say thank you for that? Oh, damn I don’t know.”
“Is that kind of greeting okay? According to what you said, we won’t see each other from now on.”
“I don’t know either. Honestly, I…”

I want to meet and talk.
I want to ask why he did that and what he was thinking.
The image of Amelia still sitting and crying was not washed out of her mind.

And at the same time, I don’t even want to see her face.
I recall her cold face, the exact opposite of her warm memories.
The feeling of betrayal that all those smiles were nothing more than a deception crept in.

It wasn’t just a matter of five years.
Everything in Gehenna only makes Siu more confused and in pain.
Shiu lowered her head and let out a thick puff of cigarette smoke from Takasho.
Tears still didn’t flow.