Chapter 462 – #98_Perfume(3)
#461
One.
The newly acquired perfume shop is narrow.
Furthermore, there was a bell at the front door on the first floor that made a cheerful sound every time the door was opened and closed, so it was more difficult not to notice guests coming in and out.
It means that the two of them were focused on each other.
“I knocked several times on the first floor, but there was no answer, so excuse me.”
The person who entered with Knock was a completely unexpected person.
Countess Yvonne Cohab.
Her intelligent features and ivory eyes, like a caffe latte with more milk than coffee, are her characteristics, but one of her biggest characteristics is that she has short bobbed hair.
In general, orthodox witches have a lot of long hair.
The reason is not complicated.
Now, everyone grows their hair, but even back in 200 years, long hair was a symbol of abundance and leisure for bourgeois daughters and nobles. This is because long hair takes a lot of time and effort.
Over time, the meaning of leisure that long hair itself has faded, but it is still a preferred style for witches with long lifespans and old-fashioned traditions.
In that sense, Kohab’s dyed black hair is quite unique.
As soon as Kohab entered her room, she sensed a subtle atmosphere.
Amelia Marigold, whom she interrogated the other day, and Shin Si-woo, who transplanted her prosthetic arm.
It is because the two of them were throwing their eyes at ‘Why are you here?’ With a hesitant attitude.
A man and a woman alone in the middle of the night, and this kind of atmosphere….
In addition, the male witch Shin Si-woo walked into the mess to get her Amelia back.
Normally, he would have thought of the possibility that he might have interrupted the time between lovers, but there was no such option in Count Kohab’s head.
In the first place, Baron Marigold had a lover named Baron Abene.
The relationship between the two is probably a master-servant relationship that has continued since Shin Si-woo was still a slave.
All he had to do was hand it over as a truly loyal slave.
In fact, it didn’t matter what the relationship between the two was, so I quickly gave up my thoughts.
“What is it?”
To Amelia, who showed her strangely wary expression, Koharv answered by opening the bag.
Inside, there are various devices for adjusting the prosthetic hand.
“Because the transplant process is not over. I came because Avene had been told by her Baron that he would be here.”
“Ah….”
Once the prosthetic arm is implanted, it is supposed to be checked and additionally tuned every other day, but Amelia and Siu miss it as a result of an impromptu planned trip.
Siwoo also hadn’t heard about him beforehand.
“It doesn’t take long. Please sit down.”
At those words, Amelia released her guard and showed relief and complex emotions, and Shin Siu obediently walked on her arm.
Amelia said that she would prepare her tea for a while and then went downstairs, leaving Kohab and Siu alone in her room.
“I’d like to say thank you, albeit belatedly. I heard you healed her arm.”
“It is a transplant, not a cure. And the price was paid by Jemonai. I work for what I get paid for.”
Count Kohab responded in a businesslike tone to Siwoo’s greeting, taking out an electrode-like pad and a long needle.
I thought that this kind of personality would be the original way of talking coldly but not feeling any malice.
Siwoo almost screamed while he was slightly careless.
“I will check. It stings.”
After saying that, Kohab immediately inserted a large, sharp but thin needle into Siu’s hand.
The long needle, which was almost 30 cm long, pierced the left hand completely.
“How sick are you?”
After all, it doesn’t hurt at all.
Not only that, but not a single drop of blood was shed.
Is it natural that it’s a prosthetic arm?
I answer by sweeping away the cold talk at the radical prosecutor who wants to do this.
“It doesn’t hurt. How amazing.”
“Aren’t you sick?”
“Yes.”
“Anyway?”
“That’s right.”
“…….”
Count Kohab stared at the spittle and pulled it out.
Then he raised his fingers and lightly rubbed his palms.
“Is it itchy?”
“No, you haven’t felt anything since you woke up?”
At those words, Kohab furrowed his eyebrows.
“It’s when the sensory interlocking ends. Have you ever used violent magic after that?”
She went on a short trip with Amelia and worked in a factory for a day, but of course she never used intense magic.
When I told the truth, Kohab’s face was not good.
“Are there any problems?”
“Wait.”
Kohab, who unfolded the parchment with the magic circle on the desk and placed Siu’s hand on it, tilted his head.
Siwoo slowly became anxious.
I want you to consider how much of a burden the doctor’s gesture is to the patient.
“There is no connection at all. Why….”
“Please tell me what happened.”
On the contrary, Kohab, who showed a sign of surprise at Siwoo’s questioning more calmly than himself, explained the abnormal phenomenon calmly.
Count Kohab’s magnetism magic is magic that uses ‘dolls’.
Just as humans are made of clay in various myths, Kohab’s dolls are made by baking clay.
Compared to the human body, there is nothing lacking, and to Kohab, who can produce a ‘prosthetic body’ with more functions than that, making a prosthetic hand rather than a complicated organ would have been something that could be done even while lying down.
“If 48 hours have elapsed since the transplant, you should have already been assimilated into a part of your spiritual body. It’s because I’ve reconstructed everything from the skeleton to the main blood vessels, muscles, and magic circuits.”
Even if men and women’s bodies are different, even arms and hands will not be different.
It must have been successfully transplanted as usual, and there were no abnormalities in the test results.
Only one.
Except that there was no sensory interlocking.
“I don’t think it’s my problem that I did the same procedure under the same conditions and still haven’t recovered my senses. Have you noticed any abnormal symptoms in your body lately?”
“Sometimes you use magic and get a headache?”
After fighting for his life with Bianca.
Siwoo’s magic has greatly improved.
But since then, whenever he tried to use high-level magic, he would feel a throbbing headache.
At that time, he thought that his brain couldn’t keep up because he was just chasing his excessively high skills….
“First, let’s watch. At least there are no inspection problems. Next time you come to my mansion in person. In five days.”
“All right.”
After arranging the items that had been laid out on the table, Kohab asked one thing that came to his mind while preparing to leave.
“Are you acquainted with Duke Erelim?”
It was an absurd question that had nothing to do with treatment.
“There is not. Because this trial was the first time I had ever met him face-to-face.”
“… All right.”
By the time Amelia came to make her tea, Koharv had already finished her business.
Amelia and Siu become alone again because of Kohab who declined the car and left.
“Siw….”
A look on the dog’s face.
Unlike usual, Amelia called Siu’s name in a voice that made her feel infinitely young.
Even when she was sitting on the sofa, her knees were tightly pressed together, and her hands were intertwined between them.
It’s caring
The reason Kohab came here is because Amelia hurt Siu’s arm, and it made her immediately look back on her mistakes.
“It doesn’t matter. She said to come back in five days.”
As much as he understood Amelia’s feelings, Siwoo struck the ball before she brooded over the bad thoughts alone.
“The treatment is going well, and the horse is a prosthetic limb that is virtually no different from a new arm.”
“…….”
But even at that, Amelia didn’t feel relieved, saying, ‘I’m glad’.
She didn’t even smile.
She doesn’t answer, just nods her head sadly with her scarred expression on her face.
Then a loud bell rang from the first floor.
It was followed shortly after by the sound of rapid steps climbing the stairs.
The door burst open with the familiar sound of footsteps.
“Chew!”
The footsteps sounded familiar.
As soon as the door opened, the pink hair and familiar shadow that rushed in were none other than Eloa.
Eloa, who listened to Sua’s words and left to investigate the Gobi Desert.
She discovered her suspicious activities and when she contacted Teacher Sua, she was told of her horrors in Gehenna.
It also meant that Siu was caught up in it.
Eloa’s choice was obvious.
As soon as he returned to Gehenna, he came looking for Siu without changing his clothes.
Neither Albireo’s mantra that he was fine now, nor the etiquette that he should not break into other people’s houses were in Eloa’s mind.
The only duty is to make sure that her disciple and lover Siwoo is okay.
“You again! How can you be so annoyed that you can’t do dangerous things if you look away for a moment!”
“S-Master… !”
Eloah holding Siwoo tightly.
And immediately, like machine-gun fire, reprimands and affectionate nagging began.
Is it because it happened twice in a row in a short period of time?
Today, her tone was harsh.
‘If I just jump in recklessly just because something happened, even my country won’t have any life left!’
‘I’d rather live as a coward if I’m going to act recklessly, trusting only my little talent!’
Her scolding, which had been carried on to a level that she would never normally put her mouth on, came to a halt.
Then came a voice mingled with tears, squeezed out of her body.
“If anything happens to you…. What am I saying….”
Eloah, unable to overcome her intensified emotions and trying to kiss Siu for her reunion, was startled.
It was because she finally saw a person who had not entered her eyes due to her extremely narrowed field of vision.
Thick, thin, bright blonde hair that would quickly become brittle with a little carelessness.
Pale blue eyes swaying under the orphaned, slender eyebrows.
When she heard the news that Ea had been subjugated, she was Amelia who forced Deneb to face her.
At the same time, she was also the one who caused a large-scale incident in Taro Town this time and got Siu involved.
“… Baron Marigold.”
Amelia’s shoulders twitched at Elroa’s words in her bewildered voice.
He didn’t even have time to correct himself that he was no longer a baron.
Amelia is no fool.
It can be seen that Duke Tiphareth, who had been out in the present world, came back in a hurry becauseheheard the news that Siu was in danger.
As the person who put Siu in danger, he couldn’t correct the title of Eloa.
Even if there was no malice as Elroa, her existence, the reason for her return, and her discordant title became a sharp awl of self-reproach and pierced Amelia’s heart.
Amelia bit her lip.
Should I go out for a while?
Should I get out of the way for the reunion of the two?
Or should he apologize to his ‘lover’ Duke Tiphareth for putting Siu in danger?
Or should we sit together and talk to each other?
Perhaps the last one makes the most sense.
Among Siwoo’s complex love relationships, he had heard beforehand that Duke Tiphareth and Siwoo are lovers.
But just because you know it in your head doesn’t mean you’ll feel the same way as seeing it in person.
She couldn’t stand still.
More than anything, it was because the two seemed so close compared to Amelia and Siu, who were just starting to get to know each other.
Even though this lodging is Amelia’s, she seems to have become an uninvited guest.
Is this jealousy of Duke Tiphareth, monopoly desire for Siwoo, a sense of defeat for being left behind, or is it simply the inertia of a bad habit that just wants to avoid an embarrassing situation.
“Tea… I will come.”
Amelia repeatedly said, ‘I’ll serve tea’ at Siwoo’s call from behind.
In the end, she chose to run away with such obvious excuses because she was so pathetic.
Amelia just wanted to cry.
