City Of Witches 346

Chapter 346 – #75_Pride and Prejudice (5)

#344

One.
“Are you feeling very unwell?”
“No, Mom. I’m really fine. I’ll just lay down and rest a little longer….”
“Mom, can I really go to work? Will you be with my daughter today?”
“No, I want to be alone….”
“Uhh yes…. I’ll buy something delicious for dinner tonight, so cheer up. I love you my daughter.”
“Yes, me too.”

-Talkak

As Countess Yesod went to work and the door closed, Diana buried her face between the pillows again.
For two days already, she had been grunting with her anguish and anguish.
Because she witnessed the unbelievable sight right in front of her eyes, and it shattered one of her beliefs that she had held so far.

“This is nonsense… How could you….”

Recalling the atrocities of her twins up to her ballad, Diana bit her lip in great confusion as well as her mental shock.
Clearly, her lips collided.
She kissed a man and an apprentice witch.
Even so, her twin’s bowl was intact.

“Eww… Wow….”

Recalling the scene again, Diana felt disgusted.
It is unclean.
Uncomfortable.
An inexplicable reluctance surged in her chest, as if she had seen a lion eat her gazelle.

“But it can’t stay like this….”

Diana raised her body.
She dressed up, brushing her tousled hair with a comb.

It’s already been two days full of the map that I’ve been living in seclusion.

Something is wrong with this world.
Diana felt it.

If so, you have two options.
Does she settle for the happy lies she already knew?
Even if it is terrible and cruel, do you face the truth?

Diana is an apprentice witch of the Yesod family.
She is proud of him.
Covering her up and pretending not to know is the criminal’s choice.
If she is a witch who explores magic and pioneers an unknown path, she must make a different choice than the criminal.

Gap between ideal and reality.
To explore the distortion, Diana strode outside.

2.
The first ones selected for the survey were employees residing in the family.
As an aside, there are no male employees in Count Yesod’s family.
This made it much easier for Diana to investigate such an embarrassing subject.

“Good afternoon.”

The two maids, who were chattering in the hallway of her mansion carrying her laundry, saw Diana as soon as she hurriedly lowered her head.

“D, Miss Diana.”
“Hello. Well, I was thinking of going to work soon….”

It was rarer than imagined for an ordinary employee to meet Diana.
First of all, Diana doesn’t venture out of her mansion beyond the threshold of her room, and spends most of her time in the lazy river that connects directly to her room.
Also, since her childhood, she spent most of her time with Count Yee Soud, so it can be said that it is even more difficult for her to have a conversation by chance.

Perhaps because of this, her maids stiffened at the sight of Diana suddenly speaking to her.

“There is something I want to ask you.”
“Yep!”
“Ask me anything!”

Diana asked the maid what she had been curious about since before.

“Please don’t listen to me strangely. And promise me she won’t tell anyone. It is purely academic curiosity.”

An apprentice witch who receives all kinds of advanced education asks the maid about her academic curiosity….
It’s a very strange word, but the maids nodded at first.

“Yep!”
“I will never reveal any secrets.”

Diana hesitated for a moment.
Actually, I know this is not a normal question.
It’s a pretty embarrassing and embarrassing question.

“Keum, do you know how babies are born?”
“…….”
“…….”

As soon as they heard Diana’s question, her maids’ faces hardened.
Looking at each other’s faces, cold sweat began to flow.

“Ah, um, that… We… I have to go to work right now….”
“Sorry, let’s go…” .”
“Ah….”

Then, using a very fast step, it disappeared with a shudder.
Diana’s eyes widened as she looked as if she had been asked about taboo magic.

It’s a long time since she asked after thinking about it.
Was that a question you couldn’t ask?

Well, it might have been an immodest question for the daughter of the count’s family to put into her mouth.
However, it’s strange to think that it’s just because of the reluctance to see that she left the seat in fear almost like a compatible mama.
It was because the maids’ reaction was ‘fear’.

“…….”

And that reaction rather aroused Diana’s curiosity.
It is a law to feel that you want to do more in the taboo that you should not do as a human being.
Diana, who overcame her laziness and held her will, continued her investigation.

But she is also a maid who washes the laundry in the laundry.
Even the cook who was making dinner in the kitchen.
There are also hired workers who make flower arrangements to decorate the mansion.
All reactions were consistent.

As if she heard something she couldn’t hear.
He hurried to avoid Diana’s seat with his face turned white after he had been silenced by her question.
At that point, Diana was sure.
This is not simply a phenomenon that occurs because Diana’s question is strange.

“Mom… ?”

A hunch crossed her mind that her count was directly involved.

I don’t know why.
Judging from the image of the employee who ran away, throwing away even the flower arrangement she was making, it was obvious that other people would get similar reactions if she asked.

“Then it’s a library.”

Originally, books contain all kinds of knowledge handed down from the past.
Diana gallantly made her way to the library inside her mansion.

3.
The size of the library in Count Yesod’s family was larger than that of most bookstores.
After all, each and every book on the bookshelf on the third floor was an academic book on magic.
Unless there is a magical indexing system like the ‘secretary’, finding the information Diana wants in this one can be said to be like finding a needle in the sand.

But the clues are already there.

‘And who said that a kiss on the lips would damage a bowl?’
‘If that’s the case, we should have sex. Have sex.’

The twins’ words.
The existing Diana ‘truth that was misunderstood’ was that if her lips met, i.E. A kiss, she might have a baby.
If so, it means that the twins’ refutation, which pointed out this, is naturally mixed with ‘real truth’.
That is, the keywords are determined.

“Sex… Sex… Sex…. Sex….”

Climbing up her ladder, Diana began searching for a book titled Sex on the top shelf of her bookshelf.
Diana, who usually picks out the books she likes from the list below.
Looking at the books in the library anew, admiration came out.
A collection of books written by successive Yesods on the force field theory as well as various undisclosed papers and book reviews.
There was even a rare hardcover copy of an ancient text written in a lost script.
However, no matter how much I searched, there was no book that seemed to have been written about the relationship between men and women.

“Weird….”

Also award winning
Of course, men cannot bear the stigma.
It is innately incapable of possessing magical powers.
It’s natural that you don’t have a uterus.

However, it is not an existence that can be completely separated from magic.
As it is a member that takes up half of the world, it is deserved that research data exist accordingly.
If it weren’t for that, the witches wouldn’t have taken men as test subjects.

However, not a single item related to men and magic existed on this bookshelf.
In other words, only very strictly censored books are included… It makes sense to think that

By whom?
Not to mention.
Diana is the mother she trusts and loves so much, and her teacher, Countess Yesod.

“Mom… Why….”

Diana frowned.
But even in the midst of it, she was smart and she was deciding what to do.
If the meticulous mother led the censorship and controlled information, she would not be able to find the book Diana wanted in this library.

But there is another way.
Right now her mother is away on mundane business.
There was a dedicated library in the mother’s room.

They couldn’t have been thrown away or sold, so if you search there, you’ll find something.
Diana descended from her ladder and headed for her mother’s library.

4.
If the library in the center of the mansion was the size of the city library, Count Lucy’s private library was quite small.
It would be comfortable to see it at the level of a small neighborhood bookstore.

Because the optimum humidity and temperature are always maintained by the maintenance magic, even books that are hundreds of years old are as crisp as books that have not dried their ink.
The pleasant sunlight and the smell of paper creeping through the window frame gave me peace of mind.

Books arranged in a ‘U’ shape and a table in the middle.
On the desk, papers with calculations for magic ideas were scattered.

In fact, this library itself was frequented by Diana as well.
Because Count Yesod would not refuse Diana’s visit.
However, as this was the first time she had sneaked in like this, her heart was pounding for nothing.

“Whoa….”

However, it takes about 30 minutes to search the bookshelves.
Diana was quickly discouraged.
Not even here
The only difference from the central library was that there were books on more advanced and peripheral magic information.

“Maybe I was wrong… ?”

In fact, aren’t there really so few books about men?
Could it be that she was simply misunderstanding her mother?
Some guilt.
Diana sighed softly and tried to return the books she had pulled out.

– Click!

It was a mistake.
I just put a thick book on the bookshelf and tried to leave the room.
However, a small statue was placed on one side of the bookshelf.
When he touched the crescent moon-shaped silver work that symbolizes Yesod, it made a sound like a spring turning.

“… ?”

Diana put her book down and looked again at the statue at her eye level.
Were these ornaments usually fixed on the bookshelf?

“This….”

Diana suddenly realized something and twisted the crescent moon artifact.
Then, with the sound of metal pieces engaging, the bookshelf began to fall backwards.
It was not just an ornament, but a kind of organ device.

When the bookshelf was completely pushed out, the empty space behind the wall opened like an entrance.
Normally, this bookshelf seemed to act as a door.

“Secret room….”

Diana held her breath and waited for all her doors to open before she cautiously stepped in.
The secret storage room had an out of the ordinary appearance.
Even the location of the bookshelves and the arrangement of the tables were not significantly different from those of her mother’s library.

But the book was different.
As you can tell just by looking at the titles, the books in the secret library are all novels.
Diana walked over to her rifle and began to scan her subject carefully.

“The bored witch’s dangerous prank…. The life of a debt-ridden witch…. How to make a butterfly flower…. Tailor at Malkuth Gallery…. Something sweeter than cocoa….”

She only says the title, and she feels a lot of stinging.
Would it feel similar to sinking your toe into a snake-infested pit?
A chill ran through her spine for no reason.
What title do you mean?

“What is all this….”

All books are titled like this.
Seeing how many colorful bookmarks were put in each book, it was difficult to think that they were simply for storage.

A novel is literally a small story.
The general opinion among witches is that being dignified is bad.
Among orthodox witches who value magic above all else, even Shakespeare’s works are classified as a lower culture.

Although Countess Yesod belonged to the far right among orthodox witches who valued authority and tradition, and it was surprising that her mother, a perfect aristocrat herself, was enjoying such a secret hobby.
Well, it wasn’t that I was particularly disappointed.
Even Diana, she was full of thoughts that she would play if she became a witch.

Everyone must be hiding a secret part.
Diana tried to get away quietly because she thought it would be rude to reveal her mother’s secret.
She had something catching her eye.

A bright red leather cover on the table.
The title was written in an old-fashioned handwriting.
‘The Devil’s Courier, Volume 3’.
Diana quietly reached her arm for the book on the table.

“This….”

Because the handwriting that adorned her cover belonged to her mother.
Diana couldn’t overcome her curiosity and she opened the book.

From the first chapter to the end.

The book, all written in the handwriting of Countess Lucy Yesod.