City of Witches-Chapter 405: Neglect (4)

1.

After sleeping with Gehenna’s one and only male witch, Countess Yesod came to know one thing. When that man ejaculated, he’d release a unique wave of magic power that came out with the mana he injected into his partner’s brand.

The male witch, Siwoo, wanted to know why this happened.

While the countess wanted to satisfy her curiosity as a witch towards this phenomenon, and do her research on the matter.

This was why the two of them agreed to have sex again, and recorded the phenomenon on a crystal ball that could record and measure both magical properties and mana waves.

She was analyzing said record when she discovered a surprising fact.

“This...”

The phenomenon was divided into five major stages.

Ejaculation -> Magic Power Injection -> Mana Absorption -> Mana Amplification -> Injection of the Amplified Mana.

The whole process was done unconsciously, as it didn’t require Siwoo’s input—almost similar to how a witch’s autonomous defense worked.

This in itself was already fascinating, thought provoking, and ‘useful’—although it was a little cold to put it in that way.

Normally, a witch must go through a long process of assimilating the mana with their brand to store it there.

With high-purity and high-quality mana water, it would take less time to do it, but it would still take time.

But, it wasn’t the case with this phenomenon—it overturned the common sense that all witches had.

The mana that he injected after the amplification was so pure that it didn’t need to be assimilated first before being stored.

At this level of purity, even if he were to inject those mana into an apprentice witch’s bowl, it wouldn’t do them any harm.

The implication of this was huge.

This meant that as long as he didn’t mind overloading his magic circuits, and dealing with the inevitable exhaustion that came from calculating magic, he could recharge his own brand to its full capacity as many times as he wanted.

“Amazing...”

But, the records that she read from the crystal implied that he could achieve something even bigger.

During the injection, he also absorbed some of the self-essence mana inside the brand.

This finding made the countess shiver.

Is this a unique property of his self-essence magic?

Or is it just something that naturally happens because he is a ‘male witch?’. I don’t know, there’s no other sample to compare it to...

But, whichever it is...

This phenomenon might give birth to a new way of ‘succession’, a new way that is completely different from the current one!

As she could feel her heart pounding loudly from that amazing discovery...

Her communication orb buzzed.

Since she had just made a grand discovery, and the buzz completely interrupted her joyous occasion, it wouldn’t be strange if she’d at least click her tongue in annoyance, but that didn’t happen right now.

“Really? Shin Siwoo woke up?”

Because Shin Siwoo, her partner whom she had mixed her body with, who was lying unconscious after his fight with the Witch of Desire to save his friend, had woken up from his coma.

2.

Albireo, who ran into Countess Yesod by chance, was left dumbstruck.

It was because the latter was walking down the hallway so quickly that it seemed like she was almost running, even though she was wearing heels.

Her presence here—in the Gemini Mansion—wasn’t strange. After all, it was Albireo who had sent the news of Siwoo’s waking up over the communication orb to her.

Besides, she had visited Siwoo two or three times while he was still unconscious.

Of course it went without saying that Albireo felt a little suspicious over her actions, as at the end of the day, she was just Siwoo’s temporary tutor, and the mother of Siwoo’s temporary student.

She wasn’t that suspicious though.

At best she only had the ‘Could it be?’ kind of thoughts in her head.

But right now, when she saw Countess Yesod carrying a bouquet of roses—there were probably a hundred of them there—she could feel the alarm bell ringing.

A bouquet...?

Of roses...?

There should be a hundred roses there, no...?

That was when everything clicked in Albireo’s head.

Nevertheless, she still dismissed it with a ‘I’m probably overthinking it...’ and carried on. Of course, she still kept that possibility close in her mind.

“Hello, Countess Gemini. It’s been a while.”

“Yes.”

“May I know where Mr. Siwoo is right now? I went to the sick room, but he wasn’t there.”

“I think he’s in one of the three guest rooms over at the east wing.”

“Thank you. I’m sorry, I’m in a bit of a hurry, so please excuse me.”

Normally, even if they met by chance out in the street, they’d have a light chat for a bit.

It was even more so in this situation—where Countess Yesod was clearly a guest in Albireo’s mansion.

However, this time, she just greeted her and passed by her without even putting down the bouquet of flowers in her hands.

There was only one time Albireo had seen such a sloppy display from this supposedly extremely conservative witch.

Whenever she was talking about matters related to Diana.

But, what does Siwoo have to do with her?

“Yesod, is that bouquet a gift from Miss Diana?”

Albireo knew that this was none of her business, but she couldn’t help but ask anyway.

“I’m sorry?”

“Ah, I was just wondering if you bought those roses on behalf of Miss Diana, or she passed them to you so you could give them to Siwoo on her behalf.”

Seeing Albireo tilting her head, showing her genuine curiosity, Countess Yesod immediately understood what she was implying.

For a moment there, she wondered if she should tell him the truth or not, but at this point it wasn’t like she could just lie.

Besides, there was no reason for her to hide it.

“Haa... I wanted to hide it because it’s a little embarrassing... But, as expected, I can’t hide from your keen eye, Albireo.”

“Huh?”

Seeing Countess Yesod’s expression turning into one that resembled a girl who had fallen in love for the first time, the alarm bell rang even louder in Albireo’s head.

“Recently, my life has been so happy~ I’m glad he came back safely~”

“...”

Albireo couldn’t say any words for a moment there.

“...Happy...?”

“Yes. A lot of things happened, and I somehow got in a deeper relationship with him. I can’t believe that I could still have this kind of happiness even though I’m so close to the end of my life~”

Before she realized it, their conversation had turned into a conversation between Siwoo’s prospective mother-in-law and one of Siwoo’s mistresses.

This realization left her so dumbstruck that she forgot what she was about to say.

Our twins... Sharon... And now Countess Yesod too...?

Just how far will you go next?!

“Um, can you...elaborate...?”

Albireo asked with a dreaded look.

But, it seemed like Countess Yesod didn’t notice that look, as she immediately revealed the nature of her relationship with Siwoo, as if bragging.

“When it comes to the relationship between a man and a woman, what else there is to elaborate?”

“Ah...”

Countess Yesod started to blush shyly as she said so.

Though she had never been in such a relationship, even Albireo could tell that.

Oh, my head...

Still trying to digest this new information, she asked another question.

“Who started this relationship, if I may ask?”

“Is that important?”

Since that kind of question came out, even Countess Yesod started to be suspicious of her motive.

So, she wore a sly smile—just like a perverted old man’s smile—and started teasing Albireo.

“Oh, could it be? Are you also interested in him, Albireo? Hehe, don’t worry too much, I don’t intend to keep him to myself or anything like that. I just want to have fun with him~”

“Yesod, just answer me already.”

But, Albireo had zero intention of playing along with her antics, so she could just give up and let out a sigh.

“I was the one who seduced him first. Then things happened, and our interests aligned, so we continued on.”

Not only did he take both of her twins—he could just pick one if he wanted to instead of both—he also opened his legs to Sharon, and now to Countess Yesod too.

Throughout history, she had never heard of such a womanizer who had seduced so many witches at once.

Though Countess Yesod said that it was her who seduced him first, at this point, that detail was too trivial to mention in Albireo’s eyes.

“Anyway, it’s rare for you to be curious about such a thing. Aren’t you—”

“Let’s stop talking about this.”

Not knowing what else she should say to Countess Yesod, Albireo gave up and decided to just bring her to Siwoo.

While she was at it, she figured that she should at least give that womanizer son-in-law of hers a nasty look.

As Albireo took a turn on the hallway with Countess Yesod—who was acting all giddy, throwing all her dignity to the ground—she suddenly stopped walking.

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Through the window of one of the guest rooms...

In the gap between the curtains, she could see Siwoo.

But he wasn’t alone.

Duchess Tiphereth was also there, as they were sitting together, exchanging passionate kisses.

“Huh?”

Albireo had to open her eyes wide to make sure that she wasn’t just seeing things. Before she realized it, she had let out a strange voice.

But, she really wasn’t just seeing things.

Who else in the world had such distinct pink hair other than Duchess Tiphereth herself?

He’s adding the duchess to this whole mess?!

Albireo’s whole body froze, completely dumbfounded.

Up until now, she had been trying to push the twins through, to make them look more attractive to him.

But Duchess Tiphereth was simply too formidable of a foe.

Though her wealth was insignificant, her fame and status as a respected witch were so exceptional to the point that ordinary witches could never dream of.

Not only that, she also had such a uniquely attractive appearance that could be described as peerless.

“Oh, my head...”

Where do I even start...?

No, should I even try to involve myself in this...?

“Is something the matter?”

Seeing Albireo suddenly stopping and letting out that undignified cry, Countess Yesod tilted her head in confusion. Then, her eyes laid upon the same scene that the other countess saw.

“H-Huh?!”

Her face immediately turned pale as she let out that cry.

Siwoo had told her that he had a lover, that was for sure.

But, never in her wildest dream could she have guessed that his lover was none other than Duchess Tiphereth herself.

For the countess who loved seeing things from a weird perspective, this was the equivalent of her facing the wife of his lover.

In terms of wealth and influence within Gehenna, Countess Yesod was far ahead of the penniless Duchess Tiphereth, but...

She had no guts to confront an angry Duchess Tiphereth.

“...”

“...”

And so, the two countess stood side by side, watching Siwoo and the duchess exchanging their passionate kisses for a while.

Though both of them were thinking about different things, their complicated thoughts were all the same.