Chapter 189 – #41_트윈러쉬(3)
#187
1.
“Siwoo, come here for a second.”
After gathering a blanket and a pillow, and finishing preparations to sleep on the sofa, Sharon peeked her head out of the door and gestured.
As if he expected to be called, Siwoo followed her into her room.
Sharon, who had changed into her pajamas, looked confused.
Her hands, neatly gathered in front of her chest as if anxious, spoke volumes about her state of mind.
“What on earth is going on?”
“I know, it’s sudden for me too. I thought they were only coming to see me after five years.”
“Those people, I mean, the apprentice witches you were talking about, right? The ones you said you rescued so coolly before.”
“I’m not sure if I rescued them coolly… but yeah, that’s them.”
Sharon looked past the tightly closed door, towards the twins who were sleeping in Siwoo’s room.
The three of them seemed undeniably close.
In some ways, they seemed even closer than Sharon was to Siwoo.
The twins’ behavior of keeping Sharon in check (or so she thought) when she called Siwoo’s name.
The anxiety of not knowing exactly what happened between the three of them in the past.
And the twins’ attitude of openly showing affection for Siwoo, without even trying to hide it, all combined to create a sense of unease.
What kind of unease, she couldn’t explain.
If she had to put it into words, it was the absurd delusion that Siwoo might go somewhere.
She knew that she, who had always been on the receiving end, had no right to claim ownership of Siwoo, yet she felt a sense of disappointment.
So, without knowing what to say or why she had called him into the room, she had pulled him in.
“You must have been surprised all of a sudden. They’re only staying for about four days, so please bear with it even if it’s a little uncomfortable.”
“No, it’s not that… if you put it that way, I’m also living here as a freeloader.”
“I told you not to say that. Uh…”
In the middle of their conversation, at a completely unexpected moment, Sharon hugged Siwoo.
The feminine curves that could be felt just by touching.
Sharon’s soft body embraced Siwoo tightly.
Siwoo, who was briefly surprised, chuckled and stroked Sharon’s head.
He thought that the surprise caused by the sudden arrival of the creditor, Deneb, had caused this confusion.
“Why is she doing this?”
“Just… just…”
While their thoughts were slightly misaligned, Sharon felt something welling up in her throat.
Her eyes were getting hot.
She’d been acting strange lately.
She had never been such a crybaby before.
No matter how difficult things were, how tangled up things got, or how complicated things became, she had always lived strong and cheerful.
But since meeting him, she felt like she had become a fool.
She cried at the drop of a hat, hugged him at the drop of a hat, and longed for his kind comfort at the drop of a hat.
Was it because she had developed a bad habit of constantly trying to lean on him once she had found a place to rely on?
“What’s wrong? Are you crying? Did the twins say something weird?”
Siwoo, noticing that Sharon’s voice, who had suddenly hugged him, had a dampness to it, asked with a serious expression.
But Sharon wiped away her tears and shook her head.
Even so, she didn’t let go of her hands around Siwoo’s waist, holding on tightly.
“No, no… it’s just me being weird…”
He wanted to take her hands off him and ask her what was going on, but Sharon stubbornly refused to let go of Siwoo’s waist.
“What is it? It’s okay to be honest.”
“No, I really don’t know either… but they really didn’t say anything.”
At first, he thought that she might have been told something about the debt Sharon owed, but it was doubtful that the twins, who were just apprentice witches, would know about Sharon’s debt, and more than anything, the twins were not witches with such nasty personalities.
Sharon hadn’t even made a proper assessment of the situation to give any further explanation, so Siwoo was left clueless.
“Sorry.”
“There’s nothing to be sorry about. If you have any hard times you haven’t told me about, please tell me. Don’t hide it all by yourself like last time.”
“No, I really don’t. Really.”
“Well, that’s a relief then.”
Siwoo calmed Sharon down with a composed voice.
Sharon buried her face in his chest and listened to his heartbeat.
Strangely, that alone made her feel a little relieved.
“…Can you do me a favor?”
“What favor?”
“Could you… kiss me just once? Not a kiss like lovers do, but just a kiss to comfort a friend… it’s okay if you’re uncomfortable and don’t want to…”
Since a kiss itself is originally an act between lovers, there was no such thing as a kiss to comfort a friend.
Sharon knew that much.
Therefore, she wrapped her impulse to kiss him in such an ambiguous sophistry and conveyed it.
Siwoo, who was already walking a tightrope between being just friends, didn’t find the request too burdensome.
He didn’t know what was going on, but Sharon was asking him with tears in her eyes.
He should definitely do this much for her.
Sharon’s lips, which had approached first, collided with Siwoo’s lips.
It had been quite a while since their first kiss, as Sharon had never asked for a kiss first, and of course, neither had the opposite happened.
“Hmm… um…”
Her moist and soft tongue, which had been gently tapping on Siwoo’s teeth, wriggled its way into his mouth.
The scent of refreshing mouthwash and sticky saliva mixed, leaving a tingling sensation on the tip of his tongue.
It wasn’t long.
Just enough time for the temperature of their lips, which had been touching, to become similar.
The two quietly parted their lips.
“………”
“Are you going to sleep well?”
“Yeah, thank you, Siwoo.”
Sharon, who had looked as anxious as a dog that hadn’t seen its owner for a long time, showed a much calmer appearance.
It seemed that what she needed was time to think, so he decided not to ask her what the sudden kiss request was about.
2.
“Is Unnie asleep?”
“No, Odette, what about you?”
“I’m not sleeping, that’s why I’m talking.”
The twins, who had been isolated to their sleeping quarters due to Siwoo’s strong expression of his will, were lying side by side in bed.
At first, the twins were ecstatic with the scent of their assistant wafting from all directions.
But the sense of smell is the sense that becomes desensitized to stimuli the fastest.
Before they knew it, they could no longer feel Siwoo’s scent that had been enveloping their whole bodies, and instead, only the sadness of being separated as soon as they met remained.
“It feels like too much, Assistant.”
“But it’s true that it’ll be a problem if Master comes back. Just go to sleep quickly and think about playing with Assistant from tomorrow morning.”
“That’s true, but… still, shouldn’t we do the things we haven’t been able to do while Master is away?”
“Unnie, there will be opportunities anytime. If Little Master finds out, we might not be able to come to the mortal realm again until we become witches.”
Odile glanced at Odette, who was unusually saying something mature.
“Did you eat something wrong?”
“I’ve always been mature? It’s always Unnie who acts like a child.”
“Ugh, never mind.”
If they were in good condition, Odile would have been ready to start a fight with that, but not now.
She had to prepare to go to the mortal realm early in the morning, and she had spent a lot of mental energy looking at the eye-opening scenery of the mortal realm.
Perhaps that was why a peaceful drowsiness enveloped her body despite Odette’s preemptive attack.
“Tomorrow, let’s definitely… have fun with Assistant… haaam… good night, Odette.”
“Yeah, good night, Unnie.”
The twins closed their eyes and went to sleep peacefully.
3.
The heavy rain that fell all night covered even the lights of the night view like a curtain.
Thanks to that, the living room was enveloped in a twilight as if charcoal had been spread all over it.
“Hmm…”
Siwoo was lying on the back of the sofa, looking at a tablet.
Inside, there were notes of magic studies that Siwoo had written.
The world has become so much better.
He didn’t have to bother turning on a lamp or carrying around several pieces of paper to study like this.
Whenever he felt the advanced technology of daily life, he realized that the five years he spent in Gehenna were not short.
Like the styler in the entrance of the officetel where Siwoo was staying.
Just by hanging clothes, it would sterilize, dehumidify, and even smooth out wrinkles.
There was nothing like that in Gehenna.
Wasn’t this what the benefits of civilization were for?
-Click!
At that moment, he heard the sound of the door quietly opening.
Siwoo lifted his head for a moment, thinking that Sharon had come out.
But judging by the size and silhouette of the small shadow, it was probably one of the twins.
He turned off the tablet for a moment, put it down, and sat up.
“Assistant wasn’t sleeping.”
“Well, I can sleep now or not, it doesn’t really matter.”
“I guess Assistant is a witch now too.”
Her voice was slightly lower, perhaps because she had just woken up.
But since the twins’ voice tones were naturally high, even when they spoke in a whisper, it sounded like birds chirping.
Odile, who carefully closed the door so that no one else would wake up, quickly ran to Siwoo and hugged him.
“Aigoo, you have to sleep now to play to your heart’s content tomorrow.”
“But… I missed Assistant so much… How can I just lie down when Assistant is here as soon as I come out to the living room?”
“What about Odette-nim?”
“She’s sleeping. Snoring.”
Siwoo gently moved the blanket to make room for Odile, who was hugging him, and she snuggled inside as if burrowing into a nest.
As soon as she got inside the blanket, Odile took a deep sniff.
“Huum, this is it.”
“Don’t keep putting your hands under my armpits.”
Siwoo chuckled and stopped her because Odile’s hair was tickling his neck and she kept trying to tickle him.
Normally, Odile would have said something like, ‘You can’t do this, you can’t do that. You’re such a mother-in-law!’
But today, she was just quietly hugging Siwoo without saying anything.
Instead, after sharing body heat for a while, she asked in a very low voice.
“Assistant, can I ask you something?”
“Yes, please feel free to ask.”
“What do you think about Odette?”
“Odette-nim? She’s a good person. She’s also cute.”
“Is that all?”
“What else is there to say? Her magic is a little clumsy compared to Odile-nim, but I think she’s kind at heart. So, Odile-nim, please don’t fight too much and get along.”
Actually, the last part seemed like an unnecessary addition.
Even though they always bickered, they were always together and got along well.
“So, then what do you think about me?”
“Odile-nim?”
“Yeah, me.”
When he was just asked about Odette, she was in the room and he didn’t think much about it.
But now that he was about to list his evaluations in front of her, he felt burdened.
He was also unsure of the true intention behind her words.
“You’re cute too.”
He told her that being cute was a fact.
“And is that all? Isn’t there anything that makes me more special than Odette?”
“That’s a difficult question to answer. You both have been so good to me.”
Siwoo chuckled and stroked Odile’s head, who was still burying her face in his chest.
Satisfied snorts and breaths warmed his chest.
The way she was twitching and wriggling seemed to be quite pleasant.
He should send her back soon.
“Go and rest. I’ll tell you about some good restaurants nearby from tomorrow morning. We have plenty of time.”
“Uuunguuung…”
Odile shook her head.
Instead, she clung to Siwoo like a magnet, as if she didn’t want to be separated.
“Assistant, you like me more than Odette, right?”
“Huh?”
“Isn’t that why you went for a last night walk with me instead of Odette?”
“That’s…”
It wasn’t really like that.
He thought of Odette as cute as Odile.
The night walk was just because Odile had come out to comfort him last and they had gone together.
For Odile, who knew the reason better than anyone, to ask this question meant…
“Is Odette-nim very upset about that?”
“Yeah, very upset.”
Along with her mumbling voice, Odile’s hand, which had been groping Siwoo’s chest, began to slowly move downwards.
It was a touch that seemed to contain some kind of spite.
“Ack!”
“Shhh…! You’ll wake her up.”
“What are you doing? All of a sudden…!”
Then she quickly grabbed Siwoo’s thing like a snake.
She put her hand inside his underwear and started moving her hand around.
Her thin, small fingers gently wrapped around his penis.
His penis seemed to be greeting her with pleasure at the familiar touch and was showing signs of growing.
“If, if we’re going to spend time together… it feels like this is the last chance… huh? Assistant…”
“No, you have to be careful today. I told you, Deneb-nim might suddenly come.”
“Just once, just a little bit, it’ll be quick.”
Siwoo grabbed Odile’s wrist and tried to remove her hand that was wiggling his penis.
No matter how he thought about it, betraying Deneb’s trust in just one night felt a little… like a pang of conscience.
But Odile was not easily giving up.
She still didn’t let go of his thing and was about to burrow down and caress it with her mouth.
“Odile-nim!”
Siwoo, who had spoken sternly at Odile’s reckless behavior, pulled the blanket away and faced Odile’s face.
And he realized.
“Unnie is mean… Assistant was bad too…”
Because it was so dark and, decisively, because she had completely changed her way of speaking, he hadn’t noticed.
But when he saw the face with pearl-like tears welling up in her eyes, he immediately knew.
That the person who had burrowed into Siwoo’s arms pretending to be Odile was Odette.
“You always leave me out… it’s too much, really…”
