City ​​of Witches 714

Chapter 714 – #143_My Kid Has Changed

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The first event of the secret auction, the fight, ended, and a brief auction began.
Much more expensive items were being traded than during the auction Siwoo had seen before.

Siwoo and Lydia moved to the dressing room right next to the bedroom.

Lydia had suddenly brought up the scary idea of whether he had ever wanted to be a woman.

Sex reassignment is happening frequently in the modern world with the help of modern medicine, and with the power of magic, the possibility of it happening increases even more.

Lydia gave Siwoo, who was imagining the worst-case scenario of his dick falling off, a necklace.

“Wear this.”
“What is this?”
“Brisingamen, a necklace I got from hunting a homunculus a long time ago.”

The necklace, with several large jewels embedded in it as if it belonged to a queen, was quite heavy.
If a queen wore this all day, her neck muscles and trapezius muscles would be quite developed.

Anyway, it looked like it was for women.
When Siwoo, feeling uneasy, made a suspicious expression, Lydia said.

“The bet was half a joke. If you were to stay as you are, you’d attract too much attention.
This is an artifact that, as its name suggests, makes the wearer exude endless charm and femininity. Even if a man wears it, he will appear to be a beauty of national importance.”

Siwoo cautiously asked the most important question.

“…Is my dick okay?”
“Yeah, you’ll be the same. It’s just that what you look like on the outside is different.”

In other words, it was a disguise artifact.
It was a more moderate solution than cutting off his dick and getting hormone injections, so Siwoo obediently put the necklace around his neck.

“How is it?”

In front of the fancy full-length mirror.
Lydia, peeking out from next to the mirror, asked, suppressing her laughter with her lips pursed.
She looked like she would burst out laughing if you poked her in the side.

“It’s strangely unpleasant.”

Siwoo, looking in the mirror, frowned.
Si-soon, with her black hair flowing, also had a cold expression.

A sharp nose and luscious lips.
A fairly full chest and a slender figure.
Except for her height, her appearance itself was as beautiful as a natural beauty.

But when you look at the body with your eyes instead of the mirror, it’s the same.

When he checked, his dick was still there, and his bulging muscles like a gymnast were still there.
So, Brisingamen seems to be a kind of VR avatar that overwrites reality.

It was an artifact that net-kamas all over the world and uncles who wanted to legally enter women’s bathhouses would be willing to sell their entire fortunes for.

“Your voice is pretty too.”
“Does my voice change too?”
“To me, it sounds like a very low and calm woman. But with this, you’d be the tallest witch in history, wouldn’t you?”

Lydia couldn’t help but laugh.
Lydia, who had been crouching and laughing until tears came out in front of Siwoo, who looked displeased, handed him some clothes.

White pants, a black shirt and a red vest, and hunting boots that came above the ankles.
He had seen it when Odile and Odette wore it.
It was the hunting attire of a noble who went fox hunting.

It was a relief that it was an outfit that could be seen as a man’s outfit rather than a fluttering dress.

While Siwoo was changing, Lydia explained the power structure of Hexennacht.

Lydia’s briefing was excellent.

The conflict between the moderates and the hardliners.
The position and importance that Siwoo had taken in between.
Even the reason why Lydia was hiding him.

She explained the key points so well that he could perfectly understand his situation without any questions.

“In short, you’ve become the Golden Snitch. You’ve seen Harry Potter, right?”

Siwoo was surprised in two ways.

He was already annoyed that he had been caught by Hexennacht as a male witch, but he was also surprised that he had become an important political figure against his will.
And again, that there was a faction in Hexennacht that did not want war.

“So, my and Magnus’s….”
“Lydia, call me big sister, no, call me older sister.”
“…interests are aligned.”
“Yeah. I felt more comfortable with you under my wing than under Linne, who has some ulterior motive.”

It’s good to be wary of favors without reason.
Especially the favor of an enemy you’ve never met before.
After listening to Lydia’s explanation, he got a rough picture and felt a little relieved.

“What are you going to do from now on?”
“The best thing to do is to send you back to Gehenna before you get caught by the hardliners and become a rag. I’ve had a conversation with Duke Erelim. I’m going to push for a peace treaty in exchange for handing you over.”
“Duke Erelim?”

It was the name of a random person who suddenly appeared.
She was someone who had no connection with Siwoo.

“Not Duke Tiferet?”
“Duke Tiferet negotiating with us? She’s your disciple, but you don’t know her well? I’m scared of her too. Seriously.”

It was strange that Gehenna was proposing a peace treaty, but the price was to take custody of Siwoo.
The most likely possibility was that Yesod, Count Geminai, and his teacher had made some kind of deal.
Unfortunately, there was nothing he could confirm in his captured state.

“Anyway, if things go well, it’s a huge benefit for me. Want to count them?”

Assuming that she was really trying to stop the war, the benefits that could be seen were as follows.

“You can stop the war, and as the leader of the moderates, your political influence in Hexennacht will increase. Indirectly checking the hardliners is a bonus.”
“Mmm, Miss Si-soon is smart.”

Lydia nodded with a satisfied face.
Anyway, the reason why she was telling him all this was clear.

This was persuasion.
She had told him that their interests were aligned, so it was persuasion to tell him to stay quiet and not think of anything else.

“Good. I don’t dislike kids who learn quickly.”

At first glance, everything seemed to be going well, but it wasn’t.

If he had stayed under Linne, he would have received the query magic formula from Dorothy and substituted it as a variable to complete the dimensional transfer formula.
Even after completion, it would have been quite difficult, but he would have been able to escape on his own.

However, it was unknown whether Lydia would really keep her promise.
Also, the fact that Siwoo’s recipient was Duke Erelim was somehow bothering him.

Even if she kept her promise, he would have to give up Yebin, Alice, and Manya Malisha, so the fact that things went wrong by killing Rosie was still the same.
He didn’t regret that decision, but he was in a situation where he had to look for variables at an appropriate level.

“How and when will I go to Duke Erelim?”
“The method is a secret. The timing will be in about three or four days?”

Only three or four days.
It was sooner than he thought.

Even Siwoo wasn’t naive enough to ask Lydia to help Yebin and others escape.
If things went wrong in the future, that itself could be used as a weakness.

Come to think of it, what about Linne?
Siwoo, who was about to ask directly, immediately swallowed the question.

A realization that suddenly came to mind from the question.
Lydia seemed to have told Siwoo everything, but she hadn’t.

She hadn’t mentioned a word about the ‘risk’ that Lydia herself was taking in this deal.

Was this really the plan of the Solidus Merchant Guild, or the entire moderate faction?
He didn’t know.
He couldn’t know.

However, what made him think this was Lydia’s attitude of focusing the risk only on Siwoo.

The benefits that Lydia had explained earlier that could be obtained through this deal.
Let’s assume that it was only possible if ‘the deal with Duke Erelim was a secret’.

Siwoo killed Rosie.
From Hexennacht’s point of view, he was a major criminal who had to be caught and punished in order to solidify the ideology of the ‘neutral zone’, which was the foundation of the city’s existence.

The fact that so many enemies and exiles were together without any problems was due to the belief that the city guaranteed their safety.

However, while extradition treaties between countries are facing political and international law issues, Hexennacht and Gehenna are making a political deal?
And that was about a criminal who should be executed for violating the rules?
And that was done unilaterally by the leader of the moderate faction, which was sharply divided into two factions?

From here, rational reasoning is possible.

It was not difficult to imagine that Lydia’s plan would face opposition even within the moderate faction.

Historically, the policies of the dove faction have always been criticized by the hawk faction as acts of treason or policies of cowards.
Lydia’s actions left no room for rebuttal even if she was accused of being an informant.

Lydia could only reap the sweet fruit without getting her tongue pricked by thorns if she secretly handed Siwoo over to Duke Erelim.
On the other hand, the moment her plan or scheme was made public, Lydia would have to swallow both the fruit and the thorns.

In other words, hiding Siwoo’s existence and the contract with Duke Erelim was also important to her.

Let’s speculate a little deeper.
Then, who would be responsible for the suddenly missing criminal, Shin Siwoo?

That was Linne.
She was nominally Siwoo’s teacher and owner, so she would be the most likely suspect regardless of her intentions.
As far as Siwoo knew, Linne had very few human relationships, so there would be no one to speak for her.

Siwoo was once again aware of Lydia’s thoroughness.

She was passing all the difficult risks to Linne and taking only the fruit for herself.
He didn’t know when or where Lydia’s plan had started, but it was extremely calculated.

Anyway, this reasoning was perhaps Lydia’s weakness that could be used as a ‘variable’.
If she had intentionally hidden it, it would be good for Siwoo to act as if he had been caught off guard.

“Okay, now you can take off the necklace for a while. There won’t be any witches coming to the bedroom for a while anyway.”

Siwoo didn’t particularly want to remain the most beautiful girl in the city, so he obediently took off the necklace and put it back in its original place.
But Lydia’s expression was unusual.

“Come closer?”

She was sitting gently on the bed where Siwoo had been lying down just a moment ago.
And she kept giving Siwoo meaningful smiles.

Was it a foreshadowing that she had put Siwoo on her bed instead of bringing a separate bed or bedding?

“I’m a virginity-before-marriage advocate.”

For the same reason as with Linne, it was not beneficial for the magic amplification through sex to be discovered.
Siwoo told a blatant lie without blinking an eye, but….

“While you’re here, you’re mine. Isn’t it up to me what I do? Normally, I wouldn’t even let a man into my bedroom, but… I can’t just pass up the chance to taste a male witch.”

He didn’t think that she, who seemed to have made up her mind, would give up with just these words.
Siwoo took off his vest, unbuttoned his shirt, and walked towards Lydia.

“Well, okay.”

It wasn’t the first time he had hidden his magic amplification, so this time he decided to actively use the experience he had gained from Linne.
He had learned that a strong frontal breakthrough was a way to hide the truth rather than an ambiguous evasion.

As he sat down on the side of the bed, Lydia pulled on Siwoo’s ear and whispered sweetly in his ear.

“If you listen to your big sister, I’ll send you home.”

While ignoring her seductive temptation, Siwoo made a vow.
He would beat Lydia with his dick until she became a bitch who didn’t even know where she had cummed.