Chapter 350 – #76_마녀의 관능소설(3)
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1.
Countess Lucy Yesod was considered to have achieved more than any other Yesod in history, both in terms of wealth and magic.
The countess had been troubled lately.
Her only concern, if one could call it that, was her beloved daughter, Diana Yesod’s chronic laziness.
Still, things had been pretty good recently.
Ever since she had tearfully kicked Diana out of the house.
Diana had not only been diligently out and about for over a week, but she had even shown signs of studying alone in her room.
However.
“Daughter….”
“I don’t want dinner tonight….”
“What’s wrong with you lately? Are you sick?”
“No…. I’m sorry. I’m going to bed first.”
Diana lay in bed with her back turned, not even looking at Lucy, and replied in a weak voice.
Lucy considered patting her shoulder, but in the end, she quietly left the room.
Diana, who had been more diligent than anyone in various activities for a while, had now relapsed into extreme reclusiveness.
This was the source of her recent worries.
Not only did she not leave the house, but she also skipped meals and didn’t even show her face at tea time.
It was as if she was going through a second puberty or a rebellious phase, clearly avoiding Lucy.
“Haa….”
Was it a side effect of pushing her too hard lately?
The countess sighed softly and blamed herself.
Of course, it was all for Diana’s own good.
A witch’s life is long.
Long and painful.
They must devote themselves to magic, which seems impossible to master even if they spend their entire lives on it.
A witch’s life is about fighting with the determination to overcome the thick walls that bring frustration and failure.
Therefore, it is not something that can be solved with just outstanding magical talent or intuition.
It is essential to gain experience in various fields and to have leisure activities to rest when tired and exhausted.
If they do not contemplate how enjoyable and beautiful this world is, and that even in that licentious pleasure, there are clues to profound mysteries, then no matter how great their talent, it is meaningless.
If Diana were to become a witch like this, it was clear that she would be looking for an apprentice witch within a few years at most….
“What am I going to do, really….”
Countess Lucy headed to her private library with a gloomy heart.
Suddenly, something came to mind.
“Come to think of it, Diana was unusually lively when she met that male witch, wasn’t she?”
At that time, Diana was like a different person.
According to the news she had heard, Diana had visited that man almost every day to compete on the position board.
She had been a little surprised to hear that their skills were quite evenly matched.
Anyway, after learning that fact, the countess had been keeping an eye on his movements.
It wasn’t likely that Diana would fall for a silly man, but just in case, she had been listening to various rumors.
“Could it be…?”
Come to think of it, that male witch had quit being a host.
When she thought about it, his retirement and the time when Diana became reclusive and lost her motivation coincided exactly.
She didn’t know the exact circumstances, but….
If it could revive Diana’s motivation, the countess was more than willing to wrap him in a gift box and present him as a gift.
“Well, I’ll postpone this issue for later….”
Today, after a busy day, she had some free time.
The countess manipulated a decoration in her private library to open a secret room.
The small writing room with the pleasant smell of ink was Countess Lucy’s playground for her secret hobby.
“Hehehe… how long has it been?”
The countess sat down in her chair and picked up her pen.
Her face, which was wide open, forgetting her worries and concerns, was proof of how much she was enjoying herself.
Writing erotic novels was a hobby that Lucy had been secretly enjoying for about ten years.
The series she was currently serializing, including the ‘Demon Delivery Man’ series, the ‘Butterfly Lady’ series, the ‘Dangerous Prank’ series, the ‘Paradise Lost’ series, and dozens of single volumes.
Since it contained the theme of ‘a witch succumbing to a man,’ it had received some negative attention among some witches, but when a new book came out, the first ones to get their hands on it were the witches who pretended to be refined on the outside.
It was also highly praised by the commoners in Gehenna, causing a great stir every time a new book was published.
Of course, since everything from writing to publishing was done in great secrecy, no one suspected that this book was the work of the Countess Yesod.
Yesod didn’t want that either.
The countess’s pen danced freely across the blank page, filling the space.
“Then today…. it’s this scene~”
So why was the countess so engrossed in such a vulgar hobby as writing erotic novels?
Lucy had a lover in the past.
A lover she could not forget even after decades had passed.
He melted Lucy’s cold heart with a love as hot as fire and gave her a precious love that could not be exchanged for anything.
And the hot passion that could be felt in bed.
“Ugh… here… if I do it like this… it seems like it would be a bit lewd….”
But time was cruel and heartless, and it took him away.
He had shown the countess a world she didn’t know and then left her, and the countess was left alone, shivering with loneliness.
But to be with any man would be a betrayal of him and a disgrace to a witch.
In the end, she filled the widow’s desire that she had to hide by writing such erotic novels.
The countess’s hand, which had been writing for a while, slowly slipped inside her clothes.
And today, she was engrossed in her writing to forget her hungry night.
2.
This morning.
After finishing his training with Elloah, Siwoo returned to his lab.
The Jemenae Count’s family had more than 20 magic labs, and Count Albireo had gladly lent one to Siwoo, who was a guest.
Thanks to that, he had completely revised his plan to stay in Gehenna for only a week and was now focusing on interpreting the Red Branch with abundant experimental equipment.
“Haa, it’s so damn hot.”
It was slowly becoming winter in Gehenna.
It was also the season that Siwoo had hated during his slave days.
But after having a physical conversation with his teacher, he was always drenched in sweat to the point where his top was soaked.
He was too lazy to take a shower, so he took off his top and roughly wiped himself down with a wet towel.
When the warm water touched his heated skin, steam rose as if he had opened the Eight Gates.
After gulping down water to replenish his fluids, he ambled over to the Red Branch, which was tied to a fixture.
The crimson spear was floating in the air, wrapped in black ribbons with suppression formulas inscribed on them.
If he didn’t do this, the indiscriminate distortion field that was emitted 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, would cause various problems.
If it were a spirit body, its composition would probably collapse, and if it were a magical item, it would break.
He had recently found out that the music box that Odile had given him as a gift had also broken.
Since the artifact itself was like a sophisticated electronic device, he was guessing that it might have been overloaded during the confrontation with the former Red Knight.
“Then shall I check the samples today?”
He took out a magic paper under the floating Red Branch to check the distortion field pattern that had accumulated over the day.
It wasn’t just a simple magic paper, but one that had been modified with double alchemical treatments so that even minute magical waveforms could be inscribed on it.
“Hmm….”
The traces of the distortion field, which spread like tree rings on the white magic paper.
He had compared it to the samples he had collected so far, but there was nothing particularly improved.
“I still don’t get it….”
It meant that he had no idea or clues.
In fact, no matter how magically talented one was, it was very difficult to independently research magic that was not their major.
Not to mention that it was the analysis of an ‘Emblem’ class artifact.
“Excuse me.”
While Siwoo was pondering with a towel around his neck and the magic paper in his hand.
Suddenly, an unfamiliar voice came from behind him.
Well, in fact, Elloah, the bored Sharon, the cheerful twins, and even Count Albireo Deneb, who happened to be passing by, often visited.
Even though it was called a lab, it was half a meeting place.
But the person Siwoo saw when he turned around was a witch he had never met before, and yet she had a very aristocratic aura.
Based on his experience as a host, he quickly deduced the other person’s identity.
Her overall impression was ‘white.’
A corset made of whalebone and a bobbin lace dress that slightly revealed her skin.
White stockings without a single stain and a garter belt visible through the thin fabric.
Even a fan made of swan feathers. She was dressed in pure white as if she was about to have a wedding.
“It is an honor to meet such a noble person.”
Even in Gehenna, which was full of rigid witches, the witches who maintained such attire were mostly orthodox witches.
Also, judging from the quality of the fabric and the state of her attire, she was definitely a noble of at least the rank of baron.
Her ash-toned hair, tied up and decorated with pure white orange blossoms, was shiny as if it was full of life, even at the tips.
It seemed familiar, and when he saw her topaz-like crimson eyes, he was able to identify her at once.
She was very similar to Diana Yesod, who had been challenging Siwoo to matches for a while.
“Countess Lucy Yesod, I presume.”
His heart was pounding for two reasons.
Was it possible that Countess Yesod had come to reprimand him for her apprentice witch frequenting a host bar?
Or was it possible that he could get help with his stalled magic research?
The Yesod family was the leader in the field of distortion magic, unmatched by anyone.
So he decided to test the waters.
“Do you know me?”
“Yes, I was deeply impressed by studying the Yesod Magic Field First Law, which you wrote, Countess. I am still referring to it in my research from time to time.”
This was the sweet talk he had honed through his host work.
The important thing was to speak with sincerity so that the person listening to the flattery wouldn’t feel like it was flattery!
Fortunately, Yesod responded with a satisfied voice to Siwoo’s flattery, which flowed like a clear stream.
“Oh? Nowadays, many witches are obsessed with applied magic and neglect pure magic…. You are a rare and solid witch. Even though you are a man.”
“You flatter me.”
Seeing that she had let it go so easily, it seemed that she hadn’t come to question him about his time at the host bar.
“By the way…. do you always do research in that attire?”
“Huh? Oh, I’m sorry. I just finished training.”
Siwoo realized that he was still shirtless when he glanced at her gaze.
After becoming a spirit body, his body had become like that of a gymnast.
Since he had started training with Elloah, he had even developed dense, fine muscles, and when he looked in the mirror, he had reached the point where he thought, ‘That guy is handsome and has a great body.’
Still, it was a bit much to be in this attire in front of someone he had just met, so he quickly put on the clothes he had roughly taken off nearby and fastened the buttons on his cuffs.
Countess Yesod, who had been subtly averting her gaze until he had put on his clothes, stood next to Siwoo with calm steps.
“Hmm….”
And then, without saying anything, she just loitered around and looked at the Red Branch.
“May I ask what brings you here?”
“……”
Countess Yesod, who had not answered Siwoo’s question properly, suddenly turned around and faced him.
She was quite tall for a woman.
If she took off her high heels, she would be about 168 cm, similar to Diana.
Siwoo stepped back, worried that he might inhale her scent.
And the countess firmly grabbed his collar.
Just as Siwoo was bewildered by her sudden action.
The countess spoke in a voice as sweet and sticky as chocolate.
She licked her lips, which were shining with bright red lipstick, in stark contrast to her pure white skin and attire.
“Your buttons are misaligned.”
And then, she began to unbutton Siwoo’s buttons one by one.
It wasn’t like a newlywed wife re-tying her husband’s tie before work, and Siwoo was flustered by the sudden turn of events.
Before he knew it, the countess’s white hand was placed on his chest through his wide-open shirt.
“Does this lab…. get many visitors?”
She then blatantly flirted with him, scratching his chest as if she was clawing at it with her well-groomed fingertips.
If it was a place where people didn’t often visit, let’s have some fun….
That seemed to be the general meaning.
He was used to sudden advances.
At the host bar, about 10 people a day had tried to lure Siwoo into bed.
He had always refused with the mindset of ‘Even if rice cakes are delicious, don’t just eat the rice cakes that others give you.’
But for a witch of the countess’s status to act so rashly.
It was a very familiar scene.
That’s right.
It was a very similar situation to what Count Albireo had proposed a while ago.
The circumstances were also similar.
Albireo had seduced Siwoo at that time to see how easily he would fall for another woman’s seduction, leaving the twins behind….
Perhaps Countess Yesod was testing Siwoo to see if he had done anything wrong to Diana.
“Count Jemenae often visits. And I haven’t received an answer as to why you came to see me, Countess.”
“Is that so? I’m sorry.”
As expected, Yesod stepped back coolly and straightened her posture as if she had never asked such a revealing question.
The atmosphere of a widow who was longing for a man and groaning all night had completely disappeared.
“Ahem.”
After a brief cough.
Countess Yesod told him the real reason she had come here.
“The reason I came here is because I have something to propose to you.”
