Chapter 719 – #154_My Kid Has Changed (6)
#719
1.
The moment Lydia left her room.
Shiwoo, having tossed the thong she’d gifted him carelessly onto the bed, was wandering around the bedroom.
“Wow, this is pretty. Oh, this looks expensive.”
Let me reiterate, it’s not wise to just go along with the situation and try to escape Hexennacht.
It’s problematic that Shiwoo would be the only one escaping, and that Lydia’s trading partner is the unfamiliar Duke Errelim.
Fundamentally, it’s questionable whether Lydia will even keep her promise.
Therefore, Shiwoo’s muttering nonsense while looking around the bedroom is to search her room, but also to avoid suspicion that he’s planning an escape, even if there are surveillance devices.
“This is… what is this again?”
And so, Shiwoo, moving like a snake, reached the desk.
He pretended to admire the dreamcatcher hanging from the lamp, while glancing at the documents covered in elegant handwriting.
The piles of documents scattered everywhere seemed to be papers that needed to be approved by the head of Solidus Trading Company.
They contained things like ship numbers and the locations of ports where cargo would be collected.
Shiwoo realized that Lydia had a very disorganized way of handling her work.
Unfortunately, there didn’t seem to be any useful documents.
If he were an industrial spy, he might have been able to take a few things, but that wasn’t Shiwoo’s purpose.
“……”
By the way, who did she go to meet?
He didn’t want to cause suspicion by rummaging through the drawers, so he was about to head back to the bed when the question popped into his head.
2.
Linne shared the crucial information she had discovered with Lydia.
She told her that Shin Shiwoo was likely the one who killed Rosie and fled.
She also emphasized that the situation was urgent and requested the immediate and discreet cooperation of the Solidus Trading Company.
This was an act that gave Lydia a weakness, and at the same time, it was a sign that Linne was in a desperate situation.
Lydia, who perfectly understood Linne’s principles, put aside her shock for a moment.
“If things are that complicated, it’s hard for me to just agree, you understand? I could be treated as a traitor for trying to smuggle a criminal out of Hexennacht.”
“I understand.”
Instead, she used Linne’s desperate situation to gain the upper hand in the negotiation.
Lydia demanded two conditions.
Absolute secrecy.
And a contract that stated that as soon as Shin Shiwoo was secured, he would be sold to Lydia.
Demanding these conditions was just a ‘show’, but it was Lydia’s usual style to squeeze out every possible advantage, so she had to do this to avoid any sense of incongruity.
As expected, Linne, cornered, nodded obediently, but heavily.
“I will ask for a search under those conditions.”
“Are you serious? If possible, please sign this contract as well.”
“…It’s better than dying. Either way, he broke the rules.”
It was a structure where Linne was losing out, but it was also true that she had no other choice.
“Don’t worry too much. We’ll make sure to secure him first.”
“Thank you. I will also start the search immediately.”
Lydia, having lightly comforted Linne, clicked her tongue as she watched her leave.
“I feel bad.”
Who would have thought that she would hear the word ‘thank you’ from the stoic Linne?
This is why witches shouldn’t fall in love.
They become so stupid right away, don’t they?
Anyway, she succeeded in getting rid of the annoying obstacle.
Linne, with her narrowed vision, would be searching all over Hexennacht for Shin Shiwoo without considering other possibilities.
From now on, it would be enough to have four subordinates search to show that she was looking.
“Linne’s husband, I’ll enjoy him.”
Lydia, returning to the bedroom with a cheerful step, naturally scanned the room.
She was comparing it to her memory to see if he had touched anything.
Even though it was messy, it was easy for Lydia, who remembered the location of her collectibles down to the millimeter.
But Shin Shiwoo was just lying on the bed, and there was no sign that he had rummaged through anything.
“Did you wait long?”
“Did someone come to see you?”
“Just, an important guest.”
Situationally, it wasn’t much different from before, but Lydia felt her heart was more excited than before she left the room.
She still had to go through various verification procedures, but she had primarily confirmed Linne’s blind love for Shin Shiwoo.
This meant that if she could tame him well, she could not only use the Sword Witch as a one-time alibi, but also control her as she pleased.
Since she had gained so much, she couldn’t help but hum, but for now, her mind was leaning towards sexual excitement.
It wasn’t just men who felt a perverse thrill in stealing someone else’s lover.
NTL has been a beloved genre for a long time, regardless of East or West, hasn’t it?
The fact that she could take a man who was so precious that Linne, who was the only one in the world, would kneel and beg for him, as she pleased in bed, was enough to add to her mental pleasure.
Lydia, having loosened her belt and taken off her dress in one go.
“Come here.”
“Yes?”
“Chuuup…!”
Lydia almost ran to Shiwoo and immediately pressed her lips against his.
Their tongues began to intertwine with obscene sounds.
“W-what is it?”
“Haa, haa…. You’re so wet…. Let’s kiss more, quickly. Chuuup, chuuup….”
Lydia, continuing the kiss deeply, rubbed her smooth thigh against his dick, succeeding in making him erect.
Her hand grabbed his hot shaft and inserted it directly from a woman-on-top position.
“Haaang…! Aahng…!”
“Did you drink some strange potion or something?”
“No, I just… suddenly got excited….”
To describe Lydia’s excitement in a way that the man could easily understand….
It was like being able to freely violate the wife, Shisoon, of a coworker (Lindol) that she didn’t like.
Moreover, Lydia held both the carrot and the stick firmly, so Shisoon had no right to refuse.
“Why?”
Lydia, riding Shiwoo while making a squishing sound, opened her mouth with a heavy sigh.
“Haa, aahng…. Linne came. She was desperately looking for you.”
“Me? Well, I guess she would.”
“You’re quite something, making that Linne fall head over heels for you. Hehe, by the way, calling you ‘husband’…. I thought I was going to die laughing.”
“……?”
Due to excessive excitement and the object that was tingling her unfamiliar erogenous zones, Lydia carelessly revealed information that would leave Shiwoo with doubts.
“Can I call you ‘husband’ too? Or ‘my dear’?”
“Do as you please.”
“Haa, my dear…. Then let’s kiss a little more….”
It was understandable that Linne came looking for Shiwoo.
It was natural that she would ask around since her disciple had suddenly disappeared.
However, around the time she was questioning the term ‘husband’.
Linne, having left the Almak Club, was heading to a mansion in Arcana Town.
“……”
There was no need to try to find Shin Shiwoo’s whereabouts.
Linne’s reasoning, born from blind faith, had already given her enough evidence.
She was certain of where he was.
Back when she had a fierce confrontation with Lydia.
Linne’s extraordinary sense of smell had detected a very faint but clear scent.
It was the faint, diluted scent of her husband.
Lydia, who claimed that she had no idea that Shin Shiwoo had gone missing, had his scent on her?
It didn’t matter what kind of conversation they had after that.
As soon as Linne had a clear picture, she bowed her head to Lydia.
She also revealed that he was the man who would become Linne’s husband, and even some of the weaknesses that suggested he might have killed Rosie.
In other words, she had acted out the desperation of someone who knew nothing, and the resulting gaps in her words.
To Lydia, Linne might have looked like a fool who had been deceived by a lie and wasted her time.
But this was an act intended to lower Lydia’s guard against Linne.
If the Solidus Trading Company, especially the greedy Lydia, had Shin Shiwoo in her hands, she wouldn’t let him go easily.
The fact that she had told Linne an obvious lie was proof of that.
“Just wait a little longer.”
Of course, Linne had no intention of giving up on Shiwoo either.
3.
“I really don’t want to do this…. Work is no fun…. I want to go on vacation….”
Randa Silphid, who had a conflict with Shiwoo at the tavern before.
Randa, who had brought Dorothy with her to teach him a lesson, had instead been humiliated and ran out of the tavern.
However, Randa hadn’t forgotten that day’s memory, and while she was suppressing her anger, she wasn’t exactly sharpening the blade of revenge.
The reason why she, who was of a low rank and not even a Great Witch, could have a high share in public society was because Randa was capable and worked hard.
She didn’t have the time to waste on a petty squabble.
Randa, gulping down alcohol and working hard on accounting fraud to launder the funds invested in the present world, ruffled her hair and sighed deeply.
It had already been three days since she had properly bathed, and she was still working.
Strong whiskey was essential to maintain her already gone mind.
“More, more alcohol….”
In a hazy state, she reached for the glass.
Even so, Randa’s ears, which hadn’t left the documents, heard a strange sound.
-Thud
At the same time, she felt a sense of incongruity.
It felt like her hand wasn’t moving properly.
Puzzled, Randa turned her gaze forward and couldn’t help but admire it.
A beautiful blade, splitting the moonlight flowing in from the window, stood vertically on the table.
More precisely.
“Uh…”
It had pierced through Randa’s hand, ignoring the autonomous defense, and was nailed to the table.
The blood that was spreading belatedly over the white paper under her palm.
The pain that was spreading even more slowly.
“Ugh, ugh… Kya….”
Randa, about to scream at the shocking sight, had a hazy blade placed under her chin.
And then, the person who appeared, lifting the curtain of darkness, was Linne.
Linne, holding a short sword in reverse and a long sword extended, said silently with a cold gaze.
If she tried to scream, she would kill her before she could.
“…Kkeuek… Keuek…!”
Randa, clenching her teeth and swallowing the pain, widened her eyes at the unbelievable reality.
Until now, there had been no cases of violence in Hexennacht.
That was because it was a city that existed under strict, thorough, and absolute rules.
“W-what the hell are you doing….”
However, the red blood that was gradually rising on her hand was awakening her to reality.
“Report on the schedules of the Solidus Trading Company and Lydia.”
Linne had made a decision.
“If you lie, you will die.”
