## Chapter 1352 – ##13_The Count’S Descent (2)
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1.
Quite some time had passed while the twins underwent their irregular succession.
Enough time had passed for Sharon’s acorn to become a squirming baby, who was given the name ‘Shin Seo-yeon.’
“Oh, so pretty. Smooch, smooch.”
Unlike her Korean name, Seo-yeon, the cute little bundle with Western features was wrapped in a swaddle, making little faces.
“Hoo… sleep well.”
I truly respect Amelia.
I never knew childcare could be this soul-draining.
She demands food all the time.
She sleeps for half the day, but it’s like she sleeps and wakes up about 24 times every 30 minutes.
Plus, her hearing is incredibly sensitive, so she would toss and turn and wake up at the slightest noise.
But seeing her finally asleep like this, a wave of love washes over me, making me wonder, ‘Is this what a mother’s heart is like?’
Now I can finally rest a bit and do some research…
Just as Sharon was quietly tiptoeing towards the table,
-BANG!
“Sharon, sis!”
“Are you there?!”
The Count of Gemini made an explosive entrance, detonating Sharon’s efforts.
“Waaaaah!!!”
“Waaaaah!!! How did I even get her to sleep…!!!”
Sharon and Seo-yeon burst into tears at the same time.
“Seo-yeon! Seo-yeon, it’s okay, don’t cry! There, there, there. You guys! How can you barge in like that! Especially in the middle of the night!”
“Oops.”
“Sorry. We’ll help you.”
Odile and Odette joined forces with Sharon, diligently trying to soothe Seo-yeon.
Perhaps their experience playing with Malika was effective, as the twins managed to get Seo-yeon back to sleep faster than expected.
Only after setting up a sound barrier with a music box to prevent her from waking up again could they finally have a conversation.
“What’s going on?”
Although she asked, Sharon already knew.
Just by looking at the twins’ smug smiles, she could tell.
“Oh, it’s nothing much, really.”
“We just wanted to show you what we look like as ‘Counts’ again.”
“I was at the salon earlier too. You saw me.”
“But we couldn’t be alone together. We couldn’t talk for long either.”
“What do you think? Do you want to see our magic?”
“Ugh, you guys, I’m tired… Can’t you let me rest a bit?”
They wanted to show off that they had become true Counts of Gemini, no longer just apprentice witches.
This wasn’t an uncommon phenomenon.
Witches who had just received their succession would get a so-called ‘high.’
It was because they gained immense magical power, easily dozens of times more than before, overnight.
A sense of omnipotence that was incomparable to their apprentice days.
The pride of becoming a full-fledged witch added fuel to that high.
Moreover, the twins had become 22nd-tier Archmages, no less.
And since the succession was carried out with their teacher in good health, even the minimal brakes were gone.
“Please understand, sis.”
“Odette, now that I think about it, we should change how we address you. We’re proper Counts now, right?”
“Is that so? Right, Sharon?”
“Sharon must have had times like this too, right?”
“A rebellious phase, I guess.”
Odile and Odette, who were usually bubbly and lively, now spoke with a refined nasal tone, imitating their teacher’s manner of speaking.
They still had a long way to go.
“I didn’t.”
“Huh?”
“No way.”
For the record, Sharon had never experienced that succession high.
“It was an incomplete succession.”
“Ah.”
“Oops.”
The atmosphere suddenly became somber.
Sharon, who had received an incomplete succession, had no time to get high.
She was too busy feeling sorry for her teacher every day, trying to do something, which ended up with her racking up a huge debt.
“…Oh dear.”
“…Cheer up.”
“It’s in the past, you know.”
Odile and Odette patted Sharon’s shoulder as if they felt sorry for her.
“In that case, it’ll be hard to show off to Sharon.”
“We’ll be generous and let it slide.”
“Hey, you guys, I’m getting angry?”
Leaving Sharon, who was suddenly being treated as pitiful, Odile and Odette quickly moved on to their next show-off.
2.
The mansion where the goddaughters stayed had its lights on late into the night.
It was because many witches, who worked in harsh conditions, didn’t have regular sleep habits, as Werphanus was one such place.
But today, they had gathered in the living room for a different reason than usual.
Their expressions were like kids who had snuck alcohol on a school trip, filled with a bit of curiosity and the thrill of doing something naughty.
It was because they had a lot to talk about after watching Odile and Odette’s debutante ball today.
“So, um… Odile and Odette got into bed with former Count Albireo Deneb, right?”
“Right, with the teacher. That’s the condition for the irregular succession.”
“Wow, Godfather is something else…”
Las Werphanus was Siwoo’s closest aide, a special agency that was fundamentally involved in counterintelligence, assassination, sabotage, and intelligence gathering.
Therefore, they had also learned about the ‘irregular succession,’ which was still under a news blackout.
It wasn’t that they had dug into it, but rather, it was a natural conclusion drawn from various circumstantial evidence and the goddaughters’ testimonies.
The first goddaughter to meet Siwoo, Nairi, stated her opinion with a serious expression.
“Even if we found out individually, it doesn’t seem right to gather and gossip about something that could be disrespectful to Godfather.”
The gazes of the other 31, who were having an exciting conversation after carefully drawing the blackout curtains and casting various security spells, turned to Nairi.
In fact, Nairi’s opinion was the right one, something that would have been unimaginable when she was under Lydia.
However, the loosened discipline was an inevitable trend for New Werphanus.
“Are you not reading the room?”
“Hey, hey, someone drag that stick-in-the-mud out.”
“Ugh! Ugh…! I’m going to tell…! Godfather…!”
“Frau! Let’s bury this one!”
Nairi was quickly kidnapped by the goddaughters and dragged in front of the eldest daughter, Frau.
Frau, who had been planning to participate in the conversation with her legs crossed and arms folded, more excited than anyone else, cast a dry gaze at Nairi, who was forcibly kneeling.
“Nairi, what did you say? Can you say it again clearly in front of me?”
“I said that it’s not right for us to gossip among ourselves about something that Godfather didn’t want to reveal, especially when he’s not here.”
Nairi didn’t avoid her cold gaze and stared back.
Frau got up and stroked Nairi’s head.
It was a gentle touch, but a cold one that suggested she would punish her mercilessly at any time.
“I thought Nairi had the same mindset as us, but I guess not.”
“Of course not! This isn’t loyalty!”
“Really? Then is this what you call loyalty? Nairi, I found this in your drawer?”
“Wh, where did you get that…! No! Give it back…!”
“Hey, everyone! Look at this!”
What Frau pulled out was a collection that Nairi had painstakingly gathered and kept secret.
An album containing photos of Godfather training shirtless, and a profile shot of Godfather enjoying a leisurely tea time, showing off his sharp jawline.
For the record, all of them were taken without permission.
“If Godfather finds out that Nairi, who we thought was diligent and sincere, is actually a stalker… how would he react?”
“That’s, that’s not why I collected them…! I just, I just wanted to keep looking at Godfather’s face…”
“Hmm~ I don’t know if Godfather would think the same.”
Nairi, whose face had turned ashen, hung her head low.
It was the moment when the last bit of conscience (?) remaining in Werphanus was crushed.
But if they only knew how to use the whip, Werphanus wouldn’t have been able to become a formidable intelligence agency again.
Since ancient times, to manage people, a proper carrot was also necessary.
“Oh, by the way, I heard about Godfather’s preferences from the box kids? Aren’t you curious, Nairi?”
“……!!!!”
Nairi’s eyes widened.
Did the ‘Find out what Godfather is like in bed’ operation, which had been secretly underway in Werphanus recently, bear fruit?
They got information from those extremely introverted box kids?
“I’ll tell you if you promise to join us.”
“……”
“If you don’t want to, go tell Godfather.”
“……”
Nairi jumped up and then quietly sat down on a chair.
“You won’t tell, right?”
“…Yes.”
Light laughter was heard from around them, and then all eyes turned back to Frau.
“Godfather is really something else, you know? I was so surprised when I found out.”
“Hey, eldest daughter, stop bragging and tell us already.”
“Is there something even more than a mother-daughter rice bowl?”
The words that flowed from Frau’s mouth after a moment of silence.
The goddaughters, huddled together, nodded in agreement, exclaiming in admiration.
“Well, they say he’s really good at saying dirty things and enjoys making people feel ashamed.”
“Wh, what kind of dirty things? To what extent?”
“Well? Like the Nile’s penis? An ice-free port penis? He even says things like, ‘It’s so sticky and good there’…”
“Oh my, oh my. But that’s pretty mild, isn’t it?”
“No, that’s not the problem, his stamina is just…”
“Wow…”
Frau gave a thumbs up, and a low exclamation spread.
“How much is it?”
“As for stamina, they say he knocked out all 56 people in one bed. And Godfather’s holy rod is just huge, like this!”
“Eeeeh?!”
This time, Frau showed her clenched fist and forearm, and the exclamation was a bit louder.
“Hey! You guys! Nairi is drooling!”
“Ah, no! I, I, when did I ever drool!!!”
“Listen, everyone, it’s not over yet. They say his technique is so ghostly that you don’t even feel like you’re going until you’re already gone.”
“Oh my goodness!”
“They even say he doesn’t discriminate between front and back…?”
“Ughhhhh…!!”
Just as the living room was becoming more humid and noisy than usual,
-THWACK!!!
Like a drill instructor patrolling the dorms of kids on a school trip.
The door suddenly burst open, and Odile and Odette entered.
“……!!!!”
The Werphanus, who had been intoxicated by the dirty talk, felt a chill that made their hairs stand on end.
They were so engrossed in the conversation that they had neglected their external surveillance.
‘Who was on watch!!!’
‘They’re Archmages now! We should have been more careful!!!’
The fact that the two ladies had come all the way here, and with such a fierce aura, meant that they had definitely caught on to something.
In other words, they must have sensed that the goddaughters were daring to covet their husband.
‘You told me to do it!’
‘I, I don’t know anything!’
‘Frau! Frau! You should commit seppuku as the representative! You’re the eldest daughter!’
‘Nairi made me do it! Nairi is the mastermind!’
The goddaughters all lay flat on the floor, trembling and waiting for their punishment.
“We greet Lady Odile and Lady Odette.”
“We greet the Ladies!!!!”
Meanwhile, the whole story was like this.
Odile and Odette, who were wandering around trying to release their ‘high,’ had found a good place.
It was the Werphanus mansion where the goddaughters stayed.
Odile and Odette’s position was that of Godfather’s wife, that is, Lady or Godmother.
If they were to be fawned over by the Werphanus, who had been observing strict etiquette since their apprentice days, it would feel amazing.
In addition, there were goddaughters who couldn’t come to the Red Roof Salon debutante ball due to their affiliation, so it would be good to show them their faces in person.
“Huh?”
“Hmm?”
But as soon as Odile and Odette arrived at the mansion with happy steps, the Werphanus were all kneeling and worshipping them?
“Oh, these are some perceptive friends.”
“Everyone, please relax. Although we’re no longer apprentice witches but ‘Gemini’ Counts.”
“There’s no need to be so overly polite.”
“Yes, yes.”
“……?”
While the other Werphanus were bewildered, Frau was the one who quickly grasped the situation.
“No! We watched your debut today, and we were truly, truly impressed!”
It must not be forgotten that they were all elite intelligence agents who could carry out difficult missions such as being spies, assassins, or double agents without any problems.
As soon as Frau jumped up and started fawning over them, the goddaughters followed suit almost without any time lag.
“What are you doing! Everyone, clap!!!”
“Clap!!!”
“Count Odile! Count Odette!”
“Hooray!!! Hooray!!! Hooray!!!”
“Hehe!”
“Hehehe!”
The goddaughters tossed the twins, whose noses were now high in the air, and it was said that tonight’s incident was well settled.
