Chapter 81 – #19_The Uninvited Guest (2)
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Like any other witch.
The uninvited guest standing before him was as beautiful as a painting.
Her dress, made from the essence of darkness, flowed around her body as if it were made only for her.
Her eyes, a shade of red that seemed impossible for a human, and her lips, which shimmered seductively.
Despite her sharp bob cut, the delicate lines of her body made her look like a fragile flower.
Yes.
A red spider lily.
A flower that blooms on the banks of the river that flows through the underworld.
Shiwoo felt the hairs on his body stand on end.
The look in her eyes, which seemed calm and gentlemanly, was not the respect one would show to another human.
She probably wasn’t even aware of it, but her gaze was as indifferent as if she were looking at a talking insect.
The gentle tone she used to mask it created a nauseating sense of unease.
None of the witches he had met before had ever looked at humans like this.
What he felt from her was an instinctive fear that could only be felt in the presence of an apex predator, something that didn’t need to be taught.
The feeling of dread overcame the alcohol, but the sense of crisis that made his balls shrink was an even greater stimulant.
Even without knowing why he was feeling this disgusting sensation, Shiwoo bowed as carefully as possible and asked.
“I am Shin Shiwoo, the exclusive slave of Baroness Amelia. May I ask if you had an appointment in advance, or what your relationship is?”
“Unfortunately, I don’t have an appointment. And as for our relationship… let’s just say we’re friends.”
The atmosphere that naturally pressed down on the surroundings and the answer to one question confirmed Shiwoo’s sense of crisis.
The personality-disordered Amelia only had Sophia as a friend.
Then, what was the purpose of this witch, who was pretending to be Amelia’s friend, in coming here?
Shiwoo smiled brightly and said.
“Lady Amelia is out for a while. Would you mind if I escorted you to the reception room first? She will be back soon.”
Buying time was the priority.
It was an intuition without certainty.
However, he didn’t want to ignore the chill that was creeping down his spine.
“Shall we?”
The witch, who responded to Shiwoo’s smile with a polite smile, followed behind Shiwoo, her high heels clicking.
Shiwoo glanced at her face reflected in the glass case.
If there was such a thing as a face that devoured men, it would look exactly like this.
The beauty mark under her left eye and her strangely seductive appearance made him think of her bare skin under her black dress, even in this situation.
The word “beautiful” would never be an extravagant modifier for her.
But why did he keep feeling so nauseous?
It was like a deep sense of distortion?
The heaviness of the air flowing next to this witch was different.
It clung to his lungs, making it hard to breathe… just like breathing on a humid summer day.
As a place to receive guests, the reception room was the most luxurious place in the mansion.
Shiwoo led her to the table covered with a white cloth and pulled out a chair for her to sit on.
“Please wait a moment. I’ll go prepare some tea and drinks.”
Now was the time to run.
If he went back to his room, there was a music box under the bed.
He would activate the music box to block his presence, drop out the window, and then escape.
His relationship with Amelia was already ruined.
There was no reason to wait for her return while facing Amelia’s guest, who was also an unknown danger.
“It’s too lonely to wait alone, isn’t it? Come sit here.”
The witch whispered in front of Shiwoo, who was wondering what to say and how to get away with it.
It was a sweet tone that seemed to be openly seducing him.
“Come on.”
“Excuse me.”
Shiwoo had no choice but to pull out a chair and sit next to her.
He tried his best to manage his expression and acted as naturally as possible.
“It’s an honor to be allowed to sit with you.”
“Do you know who I am?”
“I apologize, I am a lowly slave, and my knowledge is limited. May I ask your name now?”
“I’m Aea Sadalmelik.”
“A beautiful name befitting a noble person.”
Aea covered her mouth and laughed as if tickled by Shiwoo’s flattery.
“What’s your name?”
“My name is Shin Shiwoo.”
It wasn’t a bad vibe, so Shiwoo breathed a sigh of relief.
Honestly, he thought he was overreacting a bit.
But seeing that the conversation flowed naturally, it seemed like he had gotten away with it.
“It seems like it will take a while for the Baroness to return?”
“I suppose… it seems so.”
She probably wouldn’t be back anytime soon.
She had run off in such a hurry.
Actually, when he thought about it again, he didn’t really understand why Amelia had run away.
He had always thought that she would have executed him on the spot with a cold face.
Aea looked at Shiwoo’s face with an intriguing expression.
Then, she licked her lips and spoke to him.
“I don’t like being bored… shall we do something to pass the time?”
A thick, sensual scent wafted over him.
As if intentionally changing the direction of the wind, Shiwoo’s nose was filled with a rich feminine fragrance.
“What do you mean by passing the time?”
“I have a very bad quirk. It’s so wicked and shameful that I can’t openly talk about it in front of others.”
Oh, come on.
Shiwoo’s perfect poker face cracked a little.
Because her tone sounded like she was being coquettish.
Of course, it was a controlled flirtation that didn’t break her noble image.
He listened quietly, letting her words flow by with an ambiguous smile.
Aea, who had been resting her chin on her hand on the table, reached out her beautiful hand and grabbed Shiwoo’s hand.
“Uh…”
Shiwoo’s finger, led by her soft and slender hand, was brought near her mouth and then gently bitten.
“It’s so embarrassing that every time I indulge in my secret quirk, I have to expose my flaws to the other person.”
Shiwoo was troubled, wondering whether to pull his hand away or not.
He still wasn’t sure, but this woman’s atmosphere was so seductive that he couldn’t help but swallow.
“I don’t know how to put it? Do you have any idea what my bad habit is?”
“Not at all, I have no clue…”
“Is that so?”
This time, Aea’s tongue, with her mouth slightly open, softly licked Shiwoo’s fingertip.
Her tongue, incredibly flexible and fast, wrapped around his fingertip.
Shiwoo learned for the first time today that a human tongue could move so quickly.
“I… uh…!”
Just when he thought he understood and was about to stop this scary witch, she put Shiwoo’s hand in her mouth.
Was she not ashamed at all while doing this?
With a smile like a moonflower, she began to suck on two of Shiwoo’s fingers with her lips and tongue.
As if she were sucking a penis.
However, even with that strange and erotic sensation, his penis didn’t budge.
Honestly, it was just terrifying.
“It’s a bad habit of wanting to take what belongs to others. Oh my, how embarrassing…”
What the hell is this crazy woman saying?
Aea, covering her cheeks with her hands, had a blissful smile as if she was melting.
As Shiwoo’s statistics showed, witches were highly likely to be out of their minds.
Even if Shiwoo was just a male slave, what Aea was trying to do was taboo.
It was the same as trying to sleep with a favored concubine.
Amelia could come back at any moment, and the fact that she was suggesting such nonsense was proof that she was not in her right mind.
Or was she even a proper guest in the first place?
She lied about being a friend of the loner Amelia, and then she came and suddenly revealed that she had a thing for NTL…
And this suffocating atmosphere he had been feeling since earlier.
Even her sweet scent reminded him of the fragrance of a carnivorous plant.
“Am I not to your liking? Are you perhaps thinking about your master?”
“I am overwhelmed by your excessive attention.”
“No? Tell me. You were thinking about Marigold, weren’t you?”
Aea, unable to hide her excitement for some reason.
She was almost halfway off her chair, her face close to Shiwoo’s.
Shiwoo’s pupils, shaking from side to side, were reflected in Aea’s dark red eyes.
“I won’t blame you if you tell me honestly.”
Was this even a situation where this woman could blame him?
Shiwoo was a little confused, but he nodded obediently.
Honestly, he didn’t have the confidence to lie while looking into her eyes at this distance without getting caught.
“That’s right.”
“What were you thinking about? Her voice? Her face? Or her naked body?”
Shiwoo was flustered by Aea’s voice, which began to speak quickly as if she was excited.
He couldn’t easily predict what she was getting excited about.
But he couldn’t say that he was thinking about Amelia’s awfulness.
“I didn’t explain it to you beforehand, but… Lady Marigold and I are just in a relationship of exclusive slave and assistant professor.”
“Oh, is that so?”
Aea, who had been staring into Shiwoo’s eyes for a long time, leaned back on the chair as if her excitement had faded.
She didn’t seem to have any intention of hiding the fact that she was a little bored and disappointed.
“That’s a shame. I would have liked it better if you and her had a sticky relationship.”
“I apologize for not meeting your expectations.”
Anyway, he wanted to get away from her now.
He felt like he would get caught in the crossfire if he stayed next to her, and honestly, he really didn’t want to be next to her.
All his senses were telling him.
This woman was a very dangerous witch.
“Uh…”
Then, Shiwoo happened to see it.
The river lace that ran over her black dress, the pattern that the lace, made by twisting the fabric, had created on her clothes.
At first, he thought it was just a flower or a vine.
But the shape that the lace was drawing was a water bottle.
He hadn’t noticed it because the water pouring from the bottle was naturally depicted with high-level weaving techniques.
The three words that came to his mind at that moment.
The exile.
Actually, he had suspected it from the first time he met her because of her unique atmosphere.
However, it was hard to imagine that an exile would come to Amelia’s house so brazenly, so he had buried it…
Shiwoo remembered what Sophia had told him the night Amelia was almost kidnapped.
Sophia had called the mastermind of this incident the ‘witch of Aquarius’.
And the witch in front of him, exuding an ominous atmosphere, was wearing a dress with lace decorations in the shape of a water bottle.
There was no way this was a coincidence.
Shiwoo, who had been planning to run away from her from the beginning, was able to be certain.
He had to run now.
No matter how much he had been prepared to risk his life and act tough in front of Amelia, he was not the type to stay still in the face of death.
Besides, even if he was going to die, he had a mission to curse Amelia out when she returned.
Shiwoo got up from his seat calmly, without changing his expression.
“It seems like it will take a little while, so I will bring out a good whiskey. It would be shameful for me not to properly serve such a precious guest.”
The witch of Aquarius, who was smiling and resting her chin on her clasped hands, didn’t say anything.
Shiwoo glanced at her and tried to leave the reception room with a calm gait.
-Wooong!
And the heavy vibration he felt from behind.
Shiwoo, who had experienced that sensation for a long time, knew what it was.
It was the unique sign that was created when magic moved.
“You noticed?”
The magic reflection that flowed from her eyes, which had become vertically slit like a cat’s, was overflowing.
Behind her back, there were several layers of black ribbons that were fluttering.
He could feel an overwhelming concentration of magic that could cut down a mountain with just a light swing.
Shiwoo could deduce.
If a witch had come to face a witch of the 22nd rank, she would have a power comparable to it.
And the ribbons that the exile had shown in front of Shiwoo were clearly not brought out with good intentions.
“Shit.”
RUN.
It was time to run away.
