City of Witches Chapter 54

Just as Odil had boasted.

Like most of the food that enters the Witches' mouths from Gehenna, the wine Odil had secretly hidden away was truly nectar itself.

They had finished all the orange juice on the carriage ride over and had left the cups behind, so the three of them, sitting in a circle, passed the bottle around and drank directly from it.

-Gulp gulp gulp

Odil swallowed the wine down splendidly, gulp after gulp.

As soon as she put the bottle down, her face flushed bright red and she exuded the scent of alcohol.

"Haaah...."

He could tell it had excellent aroma and flavor, but honestly, it was too sweet for Siwoo's taste.

In fact, when he took the first sip, he thought it was grape juice.

"Lady Odil, perhaps you should stop drinking now?"

"Whaat nonshense~, on a lovely day like thish, you gotta drink lots and lots!"

Siwoo looked at Odil, who was becoming completely plastered all by herself, with a gaze full of concern. How much had she even drunk?

"Lady Odette, shouldn't you stop your sister?"

"She gets like this sometimes, it's fine. She'll just fall asleep anyway. Sis! Don't hog it all, give me some too!"

While Odil swayed her body left and right from her seated position, intoxicated by the lingering effects of the alcohol, Odette snatched the bottle and took a few sips.

Picking up a sandwich and chewing on it, she then passed the bottle to Siwoo this time.

Even though they were twins and had clearly drunk a similar amount, the two's reactions were completely different.

Odil couldn't even hold her own body properly and was swaying, while Odette sat perfectly upright, perhaps with just a slight blush on her cheeks.

"The alcohol seems strong."

"Yes, I've actually never been drunk before. Here, Assistant, you have some too."

"Thank you."

At first, she had drunk directly from the bottle—should this also count as an indirect kiss? he wondered. But having experienced all sorts of things, it felt strange to be conscious of that now, so from the middle onward, he drank with an easy mind.

"Mmm... It's incredibly sweet."

"Honestly, the wine Master drinks is too bitter. Why does she drink something like that?"

Truly a kid.

She's lived her life too smoothly, that's why.

"Heeeuung....."

-Thud!

Just then, Odil tumbled off the sofa with a crash.

Even though her forehead hit the floor with a sound like splitting stone, she just squirmed on the ground with no intention of getting up.

Is she dead?

"Lady Odil!"

Startled, Siwoo rushed over.

He lifted Odil, who was having a heated reunion with the floor.

Though limp like water-soaked cotton, she was still light.

"Ugh... The floor is wobbling wobbling..."

"Goodness, you should have drunk in moderation."

Siwoo, who had tried to lift her up in the most straightforward way by slipping his hand under her arm, was startled.

Having fallen forward, the front of her cloak had opened, and he had roughly put his hand inside, only to touch Odil's smooth, bare armpit directly.

"Hah-hum...! Wha...what...! Don't tickle meee..."

Odil, feeling ticklish, suddenly clamped her armpit shut, making it difficult for him to pull his hand out.

No wonder she seemed to be dressed comfortably today.

It seemed she was wearing a sleeveless dress under her cloak.

It felt slightly warmer there than elsewhere, and her flesh clung a bit more to his hand.

Siwoo, trying hard not to consciously register the somehow bewitching sensation of her armpit, barely managed to lift Odil's limp body.

"Haaah...."

"Ugh, how much did you drink to get this drunk?"

"Don't like sofa... that sofa hard..."

When he tried to lay her on the sofa, Odil, like a koala, tightly gripped Siwoo's collar and wouldn't let go.

Her behavior seemed to have regressed by about five years.

"Lady Odette, is Lady Odil's drinking habit always like this?"

"Yes, it's similar. Shall I help you? Huh?!"

Odette, who was approaching to help Siwoo, stopped in her tracks and covered her mouth.

It was a situation similar to last time.

Odil, suddenly pulling Siwoo's neck towards her, had kissed him.

She came at him so forcefully that his lip, hitting her front teeth, split slightly, and he tasted blood.

"Hahm... Chup...Chuuung...."

After holding Siwoo's face and pouring a sticky kiss on him for quite a while, Odil, as if that was the last of her strength, plopped down onto the sofa.

"Kooo....."

And she began to sleep, snoring.

Well, she had returned home late last night and had to prepare for the picnic earlier than Siwoo today, so she must have been tired, of course.

Siwoo, wiping the ample saliva Odil had left on his lips with his sleeve, awkwardly glanced back at Odette.

Odette was staring at Odil, who had melted down on the sofa, and at Siwoo, with her eyes wide open.

"Um, Lady Odil's drinking habit is quite nasty."

Blink blink.

Odette was looking at Siwoo, her breath seemingly held.

Unable to tell what she was thinking, he felt awkward for no reason.

"Assistant."

After seeming to think for a while, Odette, hesitating in place, called Siwoo.

Her gaze seemed like she had made a big decision, making him prematurely worried.

"Yes, Lady Odette."

"Last night... did my sister visit your quarters?"

"Tha... well..."

"I know it was decided that you, Assistant, would accompany us, which wasn't originally planned. I also vaguely remember my sister disappearing briefly in the middle of the night."

It was unclear how much he should tell Odette, but if she knew that much, he couldn't evade the question.

"Yes, Lady Odil did visit."

Odette, who had been fidgeting with the hem of her cloak, carefully walked over to Siwoo on tiptoe.

"By any chance... did something happen between you and my sister yesterday?"

This time, it was an even more difficult question to answer.

If he told the truth, he didn't know how Odette would react, and Odil must have had her own reasons for not telling her younger sister.

For Odil's honor, it was probably better to keep it a secret.

"We just, talked about this and that."

"A lie."

"Huh?"

"It's a lie, isn't it?"

Although the twins were very favorable towards Siwoo, the status gap between the three in Gehenna was like heaven and earth.

Even if the possibility was slim, if Odette openly made a fuss or got offended, the situation could become complicated without room for excuse.

"......."

Perhaps because of that, Siwoo couldn't easily bring himself to tell a lie.

"I... I only know a very little about relationships with men... but I know my sister better than anyone."

"......."

"My sister's attitude towards you today was different from usual. Something definitely happened last night."

Only then did Siwoo realize how the innocent, gentle girl had sensed the incongruity.

No matter how nonchalantly Odil acted, after such an incident, she couldn't be exactly the same as usual.Siwoo realized Odette had sensed something amiss in her sister's change that he hadn't noticed.

"I haven't hidden anything from you, Assistant... but you're lying to me..."

Siwoo could only open and close his mouth repeatedly, unable to find a proper response.

"You and I are now a couple who've promised our future together, aren't we? I think lying is even more wrong between people like that."

"Huh? I must have misheard."

Promised our future?

We never did anything like that.

"Um, Lady Odette. I think you might be misunderstanding something."

"It's not a misunderstanding! I've been thinking about it alone for quite a while since that day."

Odette's voice was sincere, as if confessing a once-in-a-lifetime decision.

There wasn't a trace of laughter or playfulness, which made it all the more eerie.

It was a sign that something was going terribly wrong.

"I... showed you my naked body. And, and... our most embarrassing parts touched... And I always... touched myself while thinking only of you..."

Odette's face was flushed red-hot, incomparable to mere drunkenness.

To the point where it could be compared to Odil, who was now completely drunk and sprawled on the sofa.

"Lady Odette, you're very drunk."

"I'm not drunk! Even though you're a slave and I, who will inherit the name of the great Count Gemernai, am waaaaaay too good for you... Anyway... you're the one who saw me naked... There's no turning back now..."

Ah.

Only then could Siwoo somewhat follow Odette's train of thought.

It wasn't that complex or extreme.

Rather, it was so simple and straightforward that it was hard to comprehend.

Her reasoning was simple.

It was the childish thinking of an elementary school girl who kissed a boy and thought, 'I kissed ○○, so I'm going to marry him!'

The kind of trivial incident one would brush off with a 'I used to think that way back then' as they grew older and wiser.

Was that why she suddenly came out with it?

Because there should be no secrets between a couple who've promised their future?

He had wondered why she was going on about that, but now it was starting to make sense.

Rather than clarifying what specific lie he had told, Siwoo chose the path of correcting Odette's mistaken prejudice.

"Lady Odette, you're misunderstanding something. It's true that showing your naked body to an unrelated man is an embarrassing act, but that doesn't mean you absolutely have to marry him."

"Is this another lie? I won't fall for that!"

He expected that reaction.

Siwoo leisurely continued with the second lesson of sex education.

At least the topic was lighter than before, which was a relief.

"Then what about Lady Odil? Didn't Lady Odil also show me her naked body?"

"So my body alone wasn't enough, and you were aiming for my sister too...?"

But he didn't expect this reaction.

"No, that's not it..."

"Or are you saying I'm not enough?"

Odette began to whine in a thoroughly sulky voice.

"Everyone just lies to me, and even my sister went to you without telling me anything. At least be honest with me, Assistant. I already know everything anyway."

That's a bit difficult.

Should he say, 'We experimented to see if we could feel good through the back hole with your sister yesterday, and I just inserted it a little at the end'?

Odil's drive stemming from boundless curiosity was burdensome, but Odette's recklessness born of innocence was also extremely difficult to handle.

"Lady Odette, you don't need to think so hard about it..."

Before Siwoo could speak, Odette opened her mouth.

" ♫ ~♪ "

And a soft song began to flow.

It was exactly the same melody as 'Poem of Confession,' one of the innate magics Odil had used before.

Since it was a magic that had provided such a shocking experience, he remembered it clearly.

"Now, tell me. What happened with my sister yesterday?"

He had already experienced the danger of this magic firsthand.

Siwoo frantically tried to cover his mouth with his hand.

But regardless of his will, his mouth opened.

The moment his palm tried to completely cover his mouth, its direction twisted.

Siwoo's inner thoughts, drawn out by the magic, were conveyed intact to Odette.

"I inserted my finger into Lady Odil's back hole."

"Eek!"

Odette covered her mouth with both hands, startled.

"Really, really, really... doing that kind of thing with my sister again... Tell me everything! What else did you do?"

"K...kgh... I inserted my genitals too."

"Like that time...?"

"Yes, but I didn't ejaculate."

Even so, Odette wasn't so delicate as to faint merely from hearing such words, but she kept expressing shock repeatedly.

"Why? Why did you do that?"

Siwoo gave up trying to cover his mouth.

He felt a little sorry for Odil.

"Lady Odil... realized while masturbating that she couldn't feel anything by herself and came to find me. She said that even if she couldn't feel anything alone, maybe she could if it was with two people, and suggested we verify that."

Odette glared at Odil, her face bright red.

"Being sneaky again, doing it alone..."

"She was worried about you, Lady Odette."

"Enough! So, did my sister feel good?"

Odette huffed, whether from anger or simply from mounting confusion.

"Yes, she didn't show it outwardly, but... her drawers were soaked through with love juice."

"Soaked through... with love juice...?"

Odette, feeling dizzy, plopped down onto the sofa.

After glaring at Odil, who was sprawled on the sofa for a while, Odette looked at Siwoo with sparkling eyes.

"Do the same to me."

Author's Note (Afterword)

I have a lot to write, but no time... ㅜㅜ