Chapter 976 – #210_Cupid Eros Amor(2)
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1.
Once a goal is set, move immediately.
That was Odile and Odette’s motto.
Any sleep they missed today, they’d make up for with a nap tomorrow!
While L’Huer headed to the perfume shop, Odile and Odette each slipped out of their room, wearing only thin shawls.
“Odette, but how do we get the target?”
“I’m thinking about that now, sis.”
Here, the ‘target’ refers to an item imbued with their little master’s scent, which is the core of this operation.
Extracting the scent from that item and mixing it into the perfume is the most crucial step.
“Asking Master is obviously out of the question…”
“Absolutely. He’d notice in an hour, wouldn’t he?”
Before they became the well-behaved ladies they are now, Odile and Odette were arguably the biggest pranksters and troublemakers in Gehenna.
Their little master, who had suffered through countless pranks, would immediately notice anything suspicious.
If he were to find any connection to the assistant, the entire project would be ruined.
“How about sneaking in?”
“I don’t want to do that anymore…”
“Me neither…”
The second method was to sneak into his room with the music box and steal a piece of clothing or a pillowcase.
However, Odile and Odette had once been caught sneaking into Amelia’s shop and stealing underwear.
They didn’t want to experience that fear again.
“The laundry room is probably the safest bet.”
“Let’s go right away. There should be time now.”
“But Maid Galina might be around…”
“If we get caught, she’ll definitely interrogate us…”
There was a reason they hadn’t gone straight to the laundry room.
It was because of Maid Galina, who had recently recovered from her illness.
It was wonderful that Galina, who had taken care of Odile and Odette since they were babies, had regained her health.
The twins had made her a flower trumpet as a gift, and Galina had hugged them tightly with tears in her eyes.
However, she often wandered around the mansion with a lamp, even in the middle of the night.
Having watched Odile and Odette’s pranks since the old days, she was skilled at catching them in the act.
So much so that, despite being a human with no magical talent, she could discern the music box’s concealment effect as a ‘subtle sense of unease.’
She was truly the twins’ nemesis.
“But we gave her a bouquet of flowers before, so maybe she’ll let it slide?”
“She’d never let it slide.”
Even as they spoke, they moved with agile stealth, darting between corridors and pillars.
The twins felt their hearts pounding as they arrived at the annex where the laundry room was located.
-Creak!
Using the spare key hidden under a flowerpot, they opened the laundry room door and entered.
All the laundry generated in the mansion was collected by the maids and processed here.
Therefore, the space, which seemed quite large for a semi-basement, was filled with piles of laundry in wooden baskets.
“When are we going to search through all of this…?”
“Oh, there’s a lot…”
In fact, it would be very difficult for the maids to handle this much laundry by hand.
Bed sheets and blankets were one thing, but all of the Geminai Count’s laundry was high-end clothing that required delicate washing.
For example, even the shawls that Odile and Odette were wearing would be ruined if washed incorrectly.
But there was no problem.
Next to it was a washing machine that removed stains from the fabric using the vibrations of magical water, and the dried laundry was instantly made fluffy by a dryer that used the principle of telekinesis.
Anyway, Odile and Odette’s goal was not the washed clothes, but the clothes waiting to be washed.
“This seems to be the laundry from the main building.”
“Where? That one?”
“Let’s find something suitable.”
While rummaging through the mountain of bedding, the twins finally found a basket containing unwashed clothes.
“Huh?”
Odette found a basket wrapped tightly in white cloth.
“Sis, come here!”
“Why?”
The basket she proudly presented to Odile contained underwear.
It seemed that underwear was covered like this for privacy.
In the past, the assistant and Duke Tiferet had lived in the main building, but now it was only Odile, Odette, the elder master, and the little master.
That meant that underwear of this size had to belong to their master.
“Wouldn’t it be better if it had a strong scent?”
“Definitely. You’re a genius, Odette.”
“Hehehe!”
Odile and Odette stared into the basket.
Inside were three pairs of pure white panties and one white bra.
Since laundry was collected every day, it wasn’t strange that there were so few items.
Many Gehenna clothes didn’t require wearing a bra, so it wasn’t strange that the number of tops and bottoms were different.
“…As expected of Master.”
Among them, Odile and Odette’s gaze was drawn to the bra.
Of course, they had seen his naked body many times as family, but seeing his underwear like this was amazing.
Odile and Odette could put two fists into one cup and use it as a glove.
Odette, idly touching her chest, lamented.
“If we were Master’s real daughters, would we be like this?”
“Don’t talk nonsense. But is this really Little Master’s? What if we get confused?”
“That’s true…”
They couldn’t distinguish by smell, and they were in trouble, but the clear answer was nearby.
In a basket wrapped in cloth nearby, there were black panties and a bra.
The symbol of Geminai was the black swan and the white swan.
As you can see from their costumes and hair color, black was the elder master, and white was the little master.
Therefore, it was inevitable that the white underwear they had found first belonged to the little master.
“Okay, let’s get out of here quietly before Galina catches us.”
“Okay, sis.”
The panty thieves, Odile and Odette, carefully wrapped the panties in a spare white towel and quietly headed back to the rally point, just as they had come.
2.
A room that immediately brings to mind the image of a witch’s workshop often seen in creative works.
Here, colorful bottles resembling strange herbs were lined up, and various types of distillation flasks and books were arranged in rows.
The laboratory where Odile and Odette took alchemy lessons was the rally point.
L’Huer had successfully obtained perfume and a fixative from Amelia.
The perfume was a gift for Siwoo, so she had easily obtained it by asking for something suitable.
The only problem was the fixative to preserve the scent of Deneb she had collected, but Amelia had given her sandalwood oil without questioning L’Huer’s request.
-Bubbling, bubbling, bubbling
A mixture of yellow sandalwood oil and magical water was bubbling in a conical flask.
And a white pair of panties was being thoroughly cooked inside.
It was a rather mad scene, but the distilled scent would travel through a long tube and become the essential oil of ‘Deneb’s scent.’
It was the 13th note of love that would connect the assistant and the little master.
“The blonde witch turned out to be a good fellow. I was planning to make her pay for her impudence when she dared to act disrespectfully towards me when I lost my power.”
L’Huer skillfully manipulated the complex distillation apparatus like a jungle gym and nodded contentedly.
In fact, this was a simple task that didn’t even qualify as alchemy.
Odile and Odette, who had received elite lessons, could easily imitate it.
However, even if they made essential oil, it would take a lot of trial and error to adjust it to the intended use. In that regard, Amelia’s advice was a great assist.
She had given them sandalwood oil and kindly explained the mixing ratio with the original perfume and the dilution ratio of alcohol.
She probably thought it was for a special event.
“You? To the associate professor?”
“Make her pay?”
The twins, who remembered Amelia’s terror when she was an associate professor, were dumbfounded.
“Why not? I am L’Huer Nukelavini. The witch of perfume and the witch of the deep sea, the difference in our titles alone decides who is more terrifying, doesn’t it?”
“You don’t know. The associate professor is very scary.”
“But she’s become a little softer these days.”
Objectively, L’Huer was also a great witch, but the twins couldn’t imagine Amelia losing to L’Huer.
Rather, considering their personalities, wasn’t Amelia the perfect counter to L’Huer?
While they were chatting, the essential oil of Deneb’s scent, which had been successfully distilled, was ready.
It was a concentrate of only Deneb’s scent, excluding the scent of the fabric itself and other miscellaneous scents.
You might think that concentrating a scent would result in a very foul smell, but that wasn’t the case.
Rather, it had a strangely lily-like fragrance, and it wouldn’t be out of place as a perfume on its own.
L’Huer put the oil into high-purity alcohol and mixed it to finish the work.
“Now, all that’s left is to dilute it appropriately and mix it.”
“We should make it weaker than the ratio the associate professor told us, right?”
“That’s obvious.”
In the first place, the mixing ratio that Amelia had told them was a concentration for ‘immediate effect.’
In other words, it was a ratio that would make Siwoo go crazy right away.
But what the triplets were aiming for was naturalness.
They wanted a scene where Siwoo would unconsciously fall for their little master.
“Then, how much should we dilute it?”
They also had information about this.
In the process of healing Dorothy, they had established Siwoo’s scent mechanism to some extent.
“One-tenth. It’s a concentration where, if Shin Siwoo inhales the scent and it gradually accumulates, we can see results in about three days.”
Thus, the result of the project was completed.
The most powerful love potion, limited to the assistant, was completed.
In addition, they bribed Pecha, who prepared Siwoo’s clothes every morning.
After the shirts were ironed, they sprayed the perfume to induce the assistant to continuously smell the fragrance.
Now, all that was left was to wait.
