City ​​of Witches 310

Chapter 310 – #69_Summer Days (3)

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1.
“Sharon, sis! We’re going to get some fresh air for a bit!”
“Huh? Oh?”

Odile grabbed Odette’s wrist, who was barely managing to lift her heavy eyelids, and quickly headed outside.
It wasn’t that they were following the assistant.
They needed a strategy meeting before the big event.

“Hey! Hey! Wake up, Odette.”
“Sis… I’m done for…. Put me on a sunny bed….”
“This isn’t the time for a skit!”
“Haaah…”

But Odette didn’t seem to have any energy.
She had been making potions late into the night, played all day, and was full, and with the alcohol on top of that, Odette, who was weaker to alcohol than Odile, had gone into a groggy state first.

“Hoo, yup!”
“Hick! That hurt!”

Odile sighed deeply and then pinched Odette’s buttock, which wasn’t covered by her swimsuit.
Odette’s eyes widened with tears welling up from the sharp pain.
Odile grabbed Odette’s soft cheeks and made eye contact.

“Odette! Wake up! This is a battlefield!”
“Oroso….”

Odette fully regained her senses at Odile’s stern command.
Odile let go of Odette’s cheeks only after she got an answer from the lips that were squished and protruding like a goldfish.

“You felt it too, didn’t you? What the assistant was trying to say to us.”
“Sis, but you know…”
“…He was going to say let’s end our secret relationship.”
“…I know.”

The assistant’s reaction when she asked him to apply sunscreen and made a suggestive joke as usual.
She could vividly feel what Siwoo’s hesitant eyes and half-opened lips were about to say.
He was someone who was originally unskilled at hiding his emotions.

The fight with Sharon was at its most critical moment.
If they didn’t do anything, they would be defeated as they were, at that moment.

But in that urgent moment, Odette couldn’t find even a shred of fighting spirit.
That point was deeply displeasing to Odile.

“What are you doing? You even made a potion. We need to talk about the plan.”
“Sis….”
“What’s with those slumped shoulders?”
“Sis, you know, listen to me.”

Odile calmed the heat rising in her head and sat down on a chair.
She would listen to her younger sister.

“What is it?”
“I’ve been thinking too. We’re still apprentice witches, and there’s a new person next to the assistant…”

Instantly, Odile’s mouth popped out.
She stood up abruptly and half-yelled at Odette.
She knew without being told.
She was just ignoring it and getting angry because she didn’t want to believe it.

“So what! Are we giving up like this? We still have the potion left, you know?”

A potion that, although there were individual differences after drinking it, would make one fall into a passionate love for about a week.
If they gave that potion to the assistant and showed off their sweet affection in front of Sharon?
That would be a reversal move that would turn the situation around.

“But, you know what the potion is like, sis.”
“……”
“It’s not a potion that shows true feelings…”

Odile realized why Odette had been hesitating.
In fact, it was something Odile already knew.

Receiving the assistant’s love through a forbidden potion, and showing it off in front of Sharon.
It was all a shortcut and a foul.
It was nothing more than a reckless tantrum that completely ignored the assistant’s will.

“Even if the assistant drinks the potion and likes us and loves us. Would that have any meaning?”
“Why are you talking about that now? Are you scared?”

Odile deliberately ignored that truth and instead asked Odette as if provoking her.
Odette met her sister’s eyes with a serious look.

“Yeah, I’m scared.”
“……”
“I’m scared of how disappointed the assistant will be in us when the potion’s effects wear off, what he’ll think, what kind of look he’ll give us.”
“Th, then… we can just keep giving it to him whenever the effects wear off!”
“Sis.”

It was Odile who was yelling, but somehow it was Odile who seemed cornered.
Odette hugged Odile, who was shouting wildly.

“Let’s do it fair and square. Even if we can’t beat Sharon right now, let’s fight with our real skills, with our charm.”
“……”
“You said it yourself. We’re Jemini who don’t know how to give up. Being scared, resigned, and giving up doesn’t suit Jemini.”
“……”
“We still have things that only we can do. So let’s stop using the potion.”
“What if the assistant… completely gives up on us?”

Odette’s eyes gleamed eerily.

“Then let’s go and pounce on him at night. Tie him up.”
“Odette….”

Odile’s shoulders, which had been tense, became limp and soft.
Odile took a deep breath and put her hands on her hips.

“Okay! I’ve decided!”

Every single word Odette said was right.
Apprentice witches were originally supposed to learn from failure.
The twins learned what was truly important the moment they acknowledged their initial defeat.

“We lost today! But as long as our fighting spirit doesn’t fade! The heart of Jemini doesn’t stop!”
“That’s right! That’s right!”
“Let’s engage in battle with fair and square means, without relying on cowardly tactics! Let’s throw away the potion right now!”
“Sis! You’re awesome!”

The twins shared a warm hug and then walked towards the drinking party.
Odette, who had run up to Odile, who was walking ahead with a cheerful stride, stuck to her side.

“Odette.”
“Yeah? Sis.”
“But aren’t you curious about what would happen if the assistant drank the potion?”
“Let’s win the assistant over later, and then give it to him.”
“Yeah, yeah.”

Today, Odile and Odette had grown a little more.

2.
“Ah, hot, shit!”

When he came to his senses, the cigarette he was holding in his hand was burning down to the filter.
Siwoo, who was about to burn his fingers, threw away the butt.

“What’s wrong?”

Had he been thinking too deeply?
To be so lost in thought that a long cigarette had burned down to this point.
He was a little dumbfounded and shrugged his shoulders.

“All sorts of things happen.”

He didn’t know how much time had passed, but it seemed like he had made them wait quite a bit.
When he returned to the villa, a boisterous drinking party welcomed Siwoo.
Perhaps it was because his time of contemplation had been deeper than he thought?

The twins were lying on the sofa, snuggled up against each other like small animals hibernating.
Well, it was time for the twins, who were still apprentice witches, to go to bed.
Sharon, who was sitting on the edge of the sofa, was also blinking sleepily and yawning.

“Haaam, why are you so late?”
“I was thinking for a bit. Are you very tired?”
“Haa… I guess I had too much fun today, I keep getting sleepy.”
“If you’re tired, go inside and sleep. I’ll clean up.”
“No, I should help too.”

He picked up the twins, who were fast asleep and snoring softly, and laid them on the bed.
He also half-forced Sharon, who was getting up to help with the cleaning, into the bedroom first.
Sharon, who was tired, was also pretty.
As he was laying her on the bed, he naturally tried to kiss her, but Sharon blocked him with her palm.

“Huh?”
“Oh, not today. The twins are here too.”
“It’s just a kiss, what’s the big deal.”
“If I kiss you, I won’t be able to stop…. And I’m tired…. I’m going to sleep today.”

He was a little surprised.
Sharon had never refused him before….
Maybe she was worried about the twins.
It wasn’t that he didn’t understand.

After a brief conversation, he was back in the living room.

“It’s so quiet.”

Now that the noisy commotion had subsided, the messy place seemed even dirtier.
Still, since he had fun as a guest, he should clean up neatly.
He cleaned up everything from the scattered empty bottles to the various crumbs on the floor.

While tidying up the picnic basket that had been spread out, Siwoo found the tea in the thermos.
The color of the tea in the transparent bottle was very pretty.

“I was thirsty, so this is perfect.”

His mouth felt dry, perhaps because he had drunk so much alcohol and smoked.

Without hesitation, Siwoo opened the lid and gulped down the tea.
He finished cleaning while enjoying the cool and fragrant flavor of the black tea.

3.
Eloa was walking along the sandy beach of the strait.
Her steps were as heavy as those of a shackled prisoner.

“Hoo…”

A sigh, which she couldn’t count how many times she had let out today, escaped her lips.
Eloa recalled her disgraceful behavior from yesterday.

Siwoo had dragged Sharon in and made sure Eloa heard their intercourse sounds.
Eloa had been determined to strictly reprimand him, but she couldn’t overcome her momentary impulse and had ended up moistening the edge of the table for almost three hours straight.

“I must have been out of my mind….”

Looking back, it was absurd.
A teacher masturbating alone while listening to her student’s intercourse sounds.
If anyone found out, Eloa was ready to end her life without hesitation.
Ashamed of her own fault, Eloa could only lower her head at the wind rustling through the leaves.

“Ah….”

Looking at the flickering lights in the distance, her destination wasn’t far away.
How on earth was she going to explain this to Siwoo….
Originally, she had planned to strictly reprimand him and then get his promise to prevent a recurrence of this incident.

But Eloa, who valued honesty and integrity, couldn’t possibly not confess her disgraceful behavior.
To only criticize others’ dirtiness while being unaware of the soot on her own clothes.
It was unacceptable.

Therefore, Eloa’s journey was not just to meet him.
It was a pilgrimage for confession.
That was why Eloa’s steps were heavy.

How should she say it?

“Siwoo, I know that your sexual proclivities are unique. But that is not the right thing to do. Love between a man and a woman should be secret and also chaste. The act of mingling bodies should not be for superficial pleasure, but a noble process of confirming each other’s hearts….”

Eloa read the note she had revised several times, walking slowly.
Actually, up to this point, although it was embarrassing, she could say it without difficulty.
It was the teacher’s duty to teach correct sexual knowledge.
The problem was the part after this….

“Furthermore, there is something I want to apologize to you for. I hope you will listen without misunderstanding. I too have committed a great sin against you.
I heard the sounds of you making love with Sharon Evergreen…. I could not overcome my momentary impulse and ended up masturbating.
But this was not because I was consciously aware of you as a man, but a physiological reaction….”

Even looking at it again, her head spun.
If her past self was in front of her, she would have wanted to beat her up.
What on earth was she thinking when she committed such an atrocity?

“Should I just… not mention it…?”

Would it be right to pretend not to know?
Or should she just pretend it never happened?

Eloa arrived at the villa with a half-crying face.
She carefully opened the door and entered, and saw Siwoo sitting on the sofa in the dim light, drinking alone.

“Siwoo.”

Eloa looked at Siwoo and called his name in a very subdued voice.

“Oh? Teacher! You’re here? You’re late.”

Siwoo also looked at Eloa.