City of Witches Chapter 75

I don't think I've ever been this confused since becoming a Witch.

Even when that audacious slave refused to serve me at night, I was extremely embarrassed and ashamed, but my head wasn't this tangled.

It felt like drifting alone on a small sailboat in a stormy, boundless sea.

Among too many problems, I didn't even know which one to think about first.

"Ugh... Ugh..."

Back in the room I'd fled to.

Amelia couldn't sit or lie down in one spot and paced restlessly.

That her childish mistake had brought great hardship upon him.

That Siwoo was independently researching Magic.

That the Magic was for escaping Gehenna.

All were important matters, but the one thing that left the strongest impression in Amelia's mind right now was singular.

It was what the Twins and Siwoo had done in the carriage.

"How could they do such a filthy thing..."

Even though she saw it clearly using her tentacle, she couldn't believe it.

Unlike Witches or Apprentice Witches, Siwoo is not a Spirit Body.

Meaning, the place Odil had sucked on so eagerly with her mouth was a dirty body part where urine comes out.

Oral sex.

To think such an absurd act actually existed.

Moreover, Odil didn't stop there; she knelt below him, the slave, and let the gushing cum hit her face.

Amelia gulped down the water on the desk.

As the shock subsided slightly, the jumbled puzzle pieces finally clicked into place.

Amelia had thought Siwoo disliked Witches.

Considering what Amelia had done to him, his attitude towards her was hardly friendly, of course.

Not only that, he never conversed with any Witch other than Amelia.

As if separated by a wall, he maintained his chastity while other administrators, his colleagues, engaged in promiscuous relations with some Witches.

The reason he had recently grown so close to the Twins.

Amelia had always pondered that reason.

And the sight she witnessed today revealed the cause.

The physical relationship said to forge bonds between men and women.

The Twins and Shin Siwoo were engaged in that.

To the extent of performing filthy, disgusting acts without hesitation.

To the extent of being naked together so casually...

Amelia sat at the desk, chewing her lips like an emotionally unstable child.

Documents piled densely, almost obscuring the surface.

Sitting with a quill pen in hand, Amelia dipped the pen in ink to research Magic.

"........"

Let's research.

Let's try to unravel the blocked parts.

Nothing strange about it.

Whenever her head got tangled, whenever emotions became hard to accept, she would sit like this and ponder Magic.

Though stagnant for years, sometimes these intense emotions even helped her immerse herself in research.

-Thud!

Less than ten seconds after that resolution, Amelia roughly put down the quill pen.

"Then, the picnic they went on together..."

A sudden realization.

Siwoo, who had refused Amelia's proposal and gone on a picnic to Yeongsan with the Twins.

What must they have done there?

It was obvious without seeing.

Stripping completely naked, looking at each other's naked bodies, groping, licking and sucking genitals with their mouths, and also...

Amelia's delicate fingers curled in, forming a fist.

Why.

Why am I so angry?

Startled by her own realization, Amelia was confused again.

It felt like sinking into a muddy swamp of emotions, only getting more complicated with nothing resolved.

"Ah...?"

A fact she hadn't recalled until now, unable to gather her thoughts.

Apprentice Witches cannot have sexual intercourse with men.

If magic power penetrates the Vessel where the Brand is to be engraved, the delicate composition of the Vessel becomes tangled, making it impossible to bear the Brand.

An utterly obvious fact, but she had completely forgotten due to the shocking sight she'd glimpsed.

"Then..."

They probably didn't have actual intercourse.

No matter how immature the Twins are, they wouldn't be so obsessed with having sex with Siwoo that they'd give up becoming Witches.

Recalling that fact eased the anxiety in her heart a little.

Amelia, now somewhat calmer, took out a cigarette and lit it.

As the acrid smoke seeped into her lungs, she felt a bit more settled.

The Twins had shown particular interest in classes where Siwoo was present as an assistant.

Amelia had vaguely sensed that their interest wasn't in exploring Magic, but curiosity about the male body.

Could it be that Siwoo is reluctantly cooperating with the Twins?

"No."

Amelia realized her train of thought was flowing too optimistically.

At the moment of ejaculation, he clearly looked pleased.

Moreover, judging from the conversation between Odil and Siwoo, it was hard to see it as a purely one-sided coercive relationship.

Summary thus far.

Siwoo is in a physical relationship with the Twins.

However, it's not intercourse but something akin to sexual acts.

Siwoo's recently close relationship with the Twins stems from these secret meetings.

By the time she organized her thoughts this far, the cigarette, from which she hadn't taken a single puff, had burned down to the filter, stinging her fingertips.

-Clatter!

Then, the sound of the main gate opening was heard.

It seemed opened very cautiously, but to Amelia, whose senses were on high alert, it sounded as loud as thunder.

Siwoo had returned.

Amelia stiffened completely, like a herbivore playing dead, and monitored the presence outside.

The presence, moving away through the central staircase and down the hallway, finally ended completely with the sound of Siwoo's door closing.

"Hoo..."

Amelia exhaled the breath she'd been holding.

It really shouldn't happen, but if he had opened the door and come in here, Amelia would have fled.

In this state of mind, she had no idea how to face him.

Amelia looked out the window.

She couldn't stay like this.

She needed advice.

Having run here with the morning star risen behind her, Amelia arrived at Sophia's quarters.

Located inside Trinity Academy, next to the deer forest, her mansion was cozy enough to remind one of the hut Amelia used to live in.

-Knock knock knock

After knocking on the wooden door's handle, the door opened a moment later.

"Who is it? At this hour..."Sophia appeared in cat-printed pajamas that looked fluffy, her voice drowsy.

She yawned lazily while opening the door, then startled upon realizing the identity of her uninvited guest.

It was a rare occasion that could be counted on one hand for Amelia to seek out Sophia first.

“Oh my, Amelia? What’s going on?”

And she was even more surprised upon seeing Amelia’s disheveled state.

Amelia’s clothes and hair, which always carried an air of elegance even while walking down the hallway, were thoroughly tousled.

Judging by the circumstances, it seemed she had rushed over in a frantic hurry.

Moreover, just looking at her stiff, hardened expression made it clear this was no ordinary matter.

“You know I’m a Witch with a regular sleep pattern... but I guess now’s not the time to say that, come in.”

“........”

Without a word, Amelia slipped through the door Sophia had opened.

Throughout the cozy cottage where a fireplace was burning, several cats were sleeping.

Even with a guest arriving, they didn’t wake up, each deep in dreamland—on the beam above the battlefield, on top of the wardrobe, under the table.

The fact that dozens of cats weren’t clinging to her was a small blessing for Amelia, but she wasn’t in the right state of mind to appreciate such a modest boon.

“Coffee? Black tea? Cocoa? What would you like?”

Sophia, having seated Amelia on the sofa by the fireplace, rummaged through the cupboard as she asked.

“It’s urgent, Avene.”

“You woke someone who was sleeping soundly, and now you’re being curt.”

Sophia smiled and, instead of preparing tea, sat facing Amelia and covered herself with a knee blanket.

Truth be told, Sophia was also curious about what on earth had made Amelia so frantic.

“.........”

But despite saying it was urgent, Amelia remained silent.

She seemed to be pondering how to phrase it.

“Shall I guess? It’s about Assistant Shin Si-woo, isn’t it?”

Amelia’s eyes widened as if asking how she knew.

Then, with a very slight motion, she nodded.

For Amelia, who would usually evade and deny things while covering her eyes, to admit it so readily...

Even the ever-composed Sophia was a little surprised.

“Don’t tell me... did he...? Did Assistant attack you? Or did you...?”

“Don’t say such vulgar things. It’s nothing like that.”

Amelia glared with a sharp, displeased look, hesitated several times, and then spilled everything she had seen today to Sophia.

“So, Assistant created Magnetic Magic to escape and is in a state where he could run away at any time, and he also had a physical relationship with an Apprentice Witch?”

“Yes.”

Amelia belatedly added something.

“Since she’s an Apprentice Witch, it seems they engaged in pseudo-sexual acts without penetration.”

Sophia made no response to Amelia’s speculation.

After all, the hole that can connect to a man isn’t limited to the genitals, so it couldn’t be definitively concluded.

Though she didn’t bother to say it out loud.

“Did I say something strange?”

“No, no. So then...”

Thinking it was still too early to tell Amelia that fact, Sophia quickly changed the subject.

“What do you want to do?”

“What do you mean, what do I want to do?”

“You must have had a reason to come find me at this late hour. Rushing over in a panic.”

“I didn’t rush over in a panic.”

“Anyway.”

She waited for quite a while, but Amelia said nothing.

No, more accurately, it would be correct to say she couldn’t.

“...I don’t know.”

What to do, what she wanted to do.

Since she couldn’t grasp anything, she had come to find Sophia.

Her bothersome, nitpicky advice often turned out to be unexpectedly helpful.

“After seeing what happened today, were you angry?”

Amelia hesitated, then nodded.

In that moment, her brilliant golden hair swayed slightly.

“Why were you angry?”

“Because Shin Si-woo is my exclusive assistant.”

Unlike a moment ago, a clear, unwavering answer came, as if it were beyond doubt.

Sophia intended to patiently guide the awkward Amelia.

After all, she wasn’t the type to be very honest.

“So you’re saying you didn’t like that your property, Shin Si-woo, was fooling around with another woman and trying to escape from under you?”

“Yes.”

“But Assistant hasn’t been your exclusive for very long. If the same thing had happened before he became your exclusive, wouldn’t you have been angry?”

“Of course...”

No.

Even if she had witnessed such a thing before Shin Si-woo became her exclusive, she would have felt confused, her mind in turmoil, and an inexplicable rage would have surged.

Amelia’s pupils shook greatly.

She had discovered a contradiction in her own reasoning.

Seeing that, Sophia smiled faintly.

“Isn’t it strange? The human heart.”

“........”

“By your logic, there’s no reason to be angry, yet you would have been angry anyway.”

“...I would have been angry even before he became my exclusive. Because he was a slave I had my eye on to make my exclusive.”

Under Sophia’s warm gaze, Amelia hastily found a reason.

Why did her own words feel like a feeble excuse?

“Why did you have your eye on him?”

“Why are you curious about that?”

Sophia looked at Amelia with gentle eyes.

Those eyes somewhat resembled the Master’s, causing Amelia to unconsciously avert her gaze.

“Because it’s important. Even animals can feel emotions. Our cats like me very much, too.

But being able to objectify and analyze why those emotions arise is a human privilege.”

“I am Amelia Marigold, a Witch.”

“I know, but before that, you’re a human being.”

“..........”

Seeing Amelia lost in thought, Sophia got up from her seat.

“I’ll bring some tea. It seems like this might take a while.”

A word from the author (author’s note)

Amelia is studying!