City of Witches

1.

Instead of getting breakfast, Siwoo took a quick ‘meal’ with the countess.

He realized that compared to gobbling some freshly baked scones with unsalted butter and some milk tea…

Devouring the countess’ ripe body was much more nutritious for his body.

After the eventful meal…

Countess Yesod gave him permission to return to his duty as Diana’s tutor.

Considering how much she doted on Diana, he thought that she’d try to keep him away from her after he had shown him such wild behavior during their deeds, but…

Surprisingly, she didn’t.

Which meant, she had come to trust him that much.

“This could be considered a good thing, I guess…”

Also, he didn’t tell her about Diana peeping on them. He had the chance to, but he didn’t.

There was no way he could bring himself to tell the countess something like, ‘So, last night, your daughter was peeping on us. And no, I wasn’t seeing things, our eyes met for a moment there,’ out of nowhere.

Besides, he figured that it’d be better to discuss it with the girl first before doing anything else.

A certain German Proverb(?) came to his mind.

“Things left unsaid are as good as nothing…”

After taking a shower with the countess and donning his butler outfit, Siwoo went to Diana’s room and knocked on her door.

“Ms. Diana, it’s Shin Siwoo.”

He didn’t know how Diana got there last night, or since when did she start peeping on them. What he knew was the fact that he was out of his mind last night, and he did some intense stuff.

For Diana who’d get all flustered after seeing a kiss, it went without saying that the sight must’ve shocked her.

Hence, he was a little worried about her.

But, compared to back when they first met, they had a considerably more amiable relationship. It was even more so after he managed to save her the other day.

He believed that everything would go well as long as they could communicate clearly.

Holding that kind of optimism in his heart, he fixed his gaze forward.

Not long after his knock…

He could hear her voice, coming from behind the door.

“…Come in…”

2.

The first thing he noticed were the dark circles under Diana’s eyes.

Which meant, after all the bustle last night, she probably didn’t get a wink of sleep.

Then again, no children in this world would be able to after seeing her mother in that kind of situation.

Although she might have treated the countess in a rather lukewarm manner, it was obvious that she loved her mother as much as her mother loved her.

Now that she was meeting the man who drove her mother into that…disheveled…state…

No one could predict what exactly would happen next.

We are both seated now, but… Now, what?

A cold silence enveloped both of them as they sat opposite of each other on the sofa.

“…”

“…”

Just like a normal apprentice witch, Diana was ignorant when it came to sexual knowledge.

But unlike the twins whose curiosity would grow the more ignorant they were, in Diana’s case, it was her aversion that would grow more, or at least that was what Siwoo thought.

That was why he had expected her to lash out at him, screaming, ‘What did you do to my mother?!’ with a red face.

But that didn’t happen at all.

Instead, she timidly curled her body, like a small animal.

She hunched her body, bringing her knees closer to her chest. With her shoulders drooping and her head bowing, she looked like a sinner who was about to confess her sins.

It was as if his presence intimidated her, she fidgeted around while avoiding his gaze.

“Um… May I speak first?”

The moment he said that, her shoulders trembled, as if a bug had entered her dress.

Then, she nodded her head, her movements stiff like a marionette.

“Um… Last night—no, this morning… Did you see…?”

“Hic!”

That’s a reaction straight up from a cartoon…

Before Siwoo could even finish his words, Diana started to hiccup, as her shoulders jolted upwards.

She covered her mouth, trying to prevent herself from letting out another hiccup but to no avail.

So, Siwoo got up, grabbed some water for her, and waited for her to calm down.

“My… Please drink this first, we can talk afterwards…”

“Hic! Y-Yes… Hic!”

Why is she so surprised, though…?

I swear we stared at each other’s faces for a good ten seconds last night… Did she think that I’d mistake it as a hallucination or what…?

“I-I-I’m…! I-I’m sorry…! P-Please… Please don’t tell mom about this…”

Then he heard her speak in such a sad, trembling voice, and it finally clicked.

She felt guilty about the whole situation.

In other words, she thought that he came here to scold her.

But why…?

Siwoo tilted his head in confusion, but he didn’t say anything and instead, just lent her an ear.

And it didn’t take long for him to find out why.

At first glance, Diana seemed like an aloof girl.

In truth, it wasn’t the case at all. She only seemed like that because of her overall indifferent and lethargic attitude towards most things.

Now that she was put in this situation, her true nature as an immature, clumsy apprentice witch could be clearly shown.

“I-I didn’t do it on purpose…”

I see.

So that was on purpose.

“I-I was just passing by… A-And happened to see…”

So she had been watching for a long time.

“I-I didn’t do anything suspicious back then… R-Really…”

So she did something suspicious.

Siwoo kept his mouth shut as Diana kept on trying to explain herself.

I feel like I’m having a deja vu…

The whole situation felt comical to him.

It was as if he had gotten hold of her weakness or something, and now he was using it to threaten her to confess.

He could dangle bell peppers or something she hated to eat here and go, ‘Hahaha! If you want me to stay quiet, you know what to do!’ to add to the atmosphere.

If she refused and said something like, ‘No, I don’t want to!’…

He could threaten her by saying, ‘Then, I’m going to tell your mother!’.

Siwoo scratched his head before letting out a sigh.

Well, because he was putting it that way, the situation seemed a little comical, but in reality…

If he just had the slightest bit of malice towards her, this situation was a dangerous one for her. After all, this situation essentially meant that he could threaten the apprentice witch of Countess Yesod to do his biddings, and there was nothing she could do about it.

Of course, he didn’t have any intention of doing that.

In the first place, he didn’t come here to scold her or anything like that.

He just wanted to talk to her privately.

“I-I’m still an apprentice witch, s-so I…can’t…

“…Huh?”

“A-Although, I-I can h-hold your hand…! O-Or k-kiss you…! S-So, can you please…”

“Sorry? What?”

Then, she suddenly dropped such a bombshell.

The girls’ thought process left Siwoo dumbstruck.

“Um, Miss?”

“I-I can’t do anything more than that… I-I…can’t…?”

Apprentice witches couldn’t have sex.

This was due to the phenomenon that happened whenever a man ejaculated. A man would spurt out impure mana when he did so and corrupt an apprentice’s immature bowl, leaving them unable to continue their brand inheritance.

However…

Something else came to Diana’s mind.

There was another hole in a woman’s body.

She also knew that they could use that hole as an alternative, thanks to the novel that her mother wrote, the Devil’s Delivery Service.

In addition, she remembered Siwoo telling her mother to ‘keep her butthole spread open’.

That implied one could use that hole without any problems.

Her face quickly turned red, as if it was about to explode.

She hugged her body tightly, as if trying to cover up all of her exposed skin.

“D-Doing it t-through the b-back…! T-There’s no way…! T-There’s no way I can do something that indecent…!”

“Miss, what are you talking about…?”

“Y-You’re going to coerce me, aren’t you…?! I-I’m weaker than you, b-but that’s probably why you found me cute…! S-Since you’ve got ahold of my weakness, y-you can do whatever you want to me…!”

Diana let out the loudest voice Siwoo had heard yet.

She spouted out her words quickly, as if rapping, and each time she paused to take a breath, her face would turn white then red again.

In any case, it seemed like she had already been expecting Siwoo to exploit her sexually now that he knew of her ‘weakness’.

Judging from one of her earlier statements, ‘I didn’t do anything suspicious,’ Siwoo guessed that it was probably related to that, whatever it was.

Even so, it was still a considerable stretch for her to arrive at. Normally, unless one was a porn addict, one wouldn’t even think of such a thing…

“Ms. Diana?”

In any case, he knew that she was kinda out of it right now.

Her emotions were overflowing, and it was hard for her to control them. If this was a cartoon, there would probably be thick steam coming out of her face.

In that kind of state, it wasn’t a wonder that she’d be making up such a scenario that would come out of a Toptoon¹ series.

“A-A kiss…is fine…! Y-You’ve saved me once, after all… B-But, anything more than that is not allowed…!”

Since it was rare for him to see her like this, he had this strong urge to tease her, but he refrained himself.

He didn’t want to go too far, as such teasing could easily turn into sexual harassment if he wasn’t careful.

Besides, considering the thing in Border Town happened not too long ago, such jokes would be in bad taste.

“Mr. Diana, I think there’s a misunderstanding. I won’t be doing what you’re thinking at all.”

“Lies—!”

“I’m not lying.”

“You are!”

“Am I really that untrustworthy in your eyes?”

Seeing Siwoo’s bitter smile, Diana’s body, which had been leaning forward due to her high-pitched rap, suddenly leaned back.

Her eyes widened, and it seemed like she was pondering his words seriously.

“N-No, that’s not it…! A-Also, you have my weakness now…! A-Are you telling me that even with that in your hand, you don’t want to use it to at least get a kiss from me, THE Diana Yesod herself?!”

“…First, it isn’t really that big of a weakness. Second, if anything, I came here to ask you to keep the fact that you peeped on us a secret from the countess, Ms. Diana…”

“Of course I won’t tell mom about it! Do you know what she’s going to do to me if she—! N-No, forget about that…! In any case, I won’t tell!”

Man, she’s a mess…

She looks like an aloof beauty, but she acts like she’s a girl in late puberty.

Like a girl that doesn’t even know her drinking capacity, drank too much by accident and got dead drunk…

“…”

“Ms. Diana, I’m going to say it once again. I didn’t come here with that kind of intention.”

“…Um…”

Siwoo lowered his voice, trying to explain calmly.

“It seems like both of us share the same goal. If Countess Yesod found out about this, it would be a problem for both of us, right?”

-Nod, nod.

Diana nodded her head, considerably calmed down now.

“Since that’s the case, why don’t we agree to keep this a secret? Let’s treat it as if nothing’s happened. We didn’t see each other last night. Is that okay with you?”

“B-But…”

Diana squirmed around, as if she had some dissatisfaction, but eventually nodded her head.

At the very least, it’s easy to convince her…

Siwoo let out a smile and held out his hand.

“To conclude an agreement, normally you’d need to do a handshake, up and down. You know that, right?”

Diana gulped as she stared at Siwoo’s hand.

It was a big hand, filled with calluses and thick muscles, a complete opposite of her own.

Then, she carefully reached out and took his hand.

“O-O-Okay…”

“Thank you. Glad we came to an agreement quickly.”

With that, the secret agreement between the two was concluded. Although, because the way she was acting earlier, it was clear that she was trying so hard to hide her embarrassment.

She asked Siwoo to leave the room in a quiet voice, so he did exactly that without making any fuss.

Alright, now that this matter is done, I should probably continue my research…

Siwoo was about to leave, whistling over the matter that was easily concluded.

But suddenly, the door behind him swung open.

“Mr. Shin Siwoo!”

“Huh? Yes??”

“This isn’t it! I need to have your weakness too so it would be fair!”

Diana, who stormed out of her room with her face flushed red, grabbed Siwoo by the collar and pulled him towards her.

As if she was about to choke slam him.

Although, seeing how fragile her hands looked, she’d probably just fall down with him on top of her if she were to actually do that.

At that moment, something soft touched his lips.

It felt soft and plump, reminiscent of the countess’ lips.

The feeling only lasted for a moment.

Just for about three seconds.

“Haaa…haaa…haaa…”

After that, her shoulders heaved up and down, as if she had just drank hot sauce.

Her face turned red and her fingertips trembled.

“I-I-If you break our agreement, I-I’m going to tell mom about this! Do you understand?!”

She declared in a powerful tone before running back to her room.

“Kyaa!’

And somehow sprained her ankle as she did.

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