Chapter 864 – #180_Common Drama (2)
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One.
A magic that is no different from a comprehensive study.
It is not only the ability to think and arithmetic that is important to witches.
Those who were born with the blood of a witch are born with an aesthetic eye and sense that are superior to that of most artists, and refine their skills so that they do not rust.
Deneb did too.
The distinction between beautiful and ugly is the basic of the basics of artistic knowledge.
From the first time I saw Siwoo, I thought he had a very handsome appearance.
However, a beautiful appearance may not be a necessary condition for love.
It wasn’t that Deneb had feelings for him from the beginning.
Although she admired it aesthetically, as in all moments of her life, Deneb did not feel any affection for the ‘man’ named Shin Si-woo.
It was a lifetime of grinding and polishing only to shine the name of magic and family.
The love between a man and a woman was worth less than the office supplies lying on the table.
If so, since when did Deneb come to love him?
When and where did the forbidden love that should not come true take root?
When did he first check back with him?
And then when he finally got pleasure and looked ugly?
When he played with his hands alone, not forgetting the joy of that time?
When he leaked insinuating words to Siwoo under the pretext of additional verification late at night?
If not then when
When they were caught together in a fishbowl?
When the bastard who touched the twins because he couldn’t overcome his desire tried to protect Deneb even at the risk of his life?
When you have bee sex to recharge your mana?
When he eventually crossed the ‘line’ by hugging his waist with his legs?
I can not know.
I’ve repeated it countless times, but to Deneb, first love was like this raindrop.
He thought he hadn’t hit her for a while, but at some point he drenched her whole body.
A sweet trap from which you can never get out again.
The difference is that, unlike rainwater, there is no magic that can cleanse the mind.
“Cover this for now.”
“It’s okay, it’s not that cold.”
“Why are you getting all rained on?”
“I just wanted to try it at least once.”
Deneb snapped his fingers and let the bite fly.
Siu and Deneb stand side by side in a gazebo ready to enjoy a garden view or a tea party on a warm day.
Siu took off his coat and wrapped it around Deneb’s shoulder.
Shiu was one head taller than Deneb, so Deneb was buried in his clothes.
“… Thank you. Oh, it’s okay if you keep smoking.”
“No. I just finished smoking.”
Deneb quietly buried his nose in the wide cloth.
The faint smell of cigarettes and body mingles with the smell of the cold winter rain.
“…”
“…”
For some reason, there was a moment of silence.
Deneb and Siu looked at the rose vine that never withered.
What is he thinking?
It was a very short silence, but Deneb heard the sound of his heart beating in his ears.
After that day, he was alone with him for the first time.
The repeated delusion and the more heartless and hard wall of reality.
The boundary is clearly felt.
In reality, he kindly covered Deneb with his clothes, but he didn’t look greedily at Deneb, who was wet in the rain, and he didn’t lead her to a secret place to have a picnic by the fireplace.
Deneb opened his heavy mouth.
“I heard about the thesis. Incredible.”
“No big deal. Compared to Deneb-sama, you’re still a long way off.”
“Congratulations though. Twins now…”
Deneb hastily cut him off.
Originally, it would have been something like, “I will become a pair that would not be ashamed of even for twins.”
But the moment he said those words, the wall between Siu and Deneb
I was afraid of the materialization of the wall that was much higher and firmer than the wall between delusion and reality.
“Siwoo-kun is also a full-fledged witch now.”
“No. It was too late. I feel like I’ve finally played the role of a human after I’ve been rotting away for some reason. No, should I call it a witch’s pretext in this case?”
At the pointless joke, Deneb laughed even though he wasn’t in the mood.
Perhaps the words were forced out because the atmosphere was too intense for Siwoo.
“By the way…”
Siwoo hesitated once while clearing his throat.
Deneb stiffened his shoulders without even looking at his face.
“Isn’t there really something going on?”
Contrary to Deneb’s expectations, he took a little more time.
Are you sure you want to?
Or did he just want to be sure Deneb had changed his mind?
Well, playing with fire wasn’t just hot for Deneb.
So, it must be waiting, leaving a clue that only the two of them can understand.
Until the strange current flowing between the two hardens into a certainty, not just a mirage-like illusion.
“This may sound presumptuous, but… Please let me know if anything happens. Maybe I can help.”
“That, it is not… Presumptuous. Thank you for your concern.”
Deneb’s heart beats a little bit faster at his words behind him.
There is no way he doesn’t know what Deneb’s latest ‘concern’ might be.
It was clear that he did not hesitate, but naturally tried to take over the topic.
What followed was as expected.
“Oh right. The sample that Deneb-sama asked for… I didn’t know how to send it, so I kept it for now.”
“Is that so?”
Deneb’s heart was burning with an optimistic scarlet color.
Like the setting sun that will eventually fall through a deep cliff.
It was a scarlet that burned brightly even though it knew that it would lead to catastrophe.
“Can I give it to you now? It’s hard to keep it, so to speak.”
“…”
“Where… Did you leave it?”
“I left it in my room for now.”
Deneb’s heart was no longer pounding.
It feels like it’s about to jump out of my throat every time my heart beats.
If it had not been controlled by magic, it would have been passed on to his ears.
“Siwoo-kun, is there anyone else in the room?”
“… Yes? Aha. There is no one. Do not worry. The packaging was well done.”
Judging from the context of the conversation, ‘I left it in my room’ means that I want to bring Deneb into my room.
To the question that there was no one in the room, he readily replied, “There is no one.” This meant that the two of us could be alone with no one to disturb us.
As expected, Deneb was right.
He was waiting for Deneb to come first.
It wasn’t disappointing.
It wouldn’t have been an easy decision for him either.
The rare experience of feeling lighter than a feather in an instant, a feeling that could not be felt unless it was love.
“Let’s go.”
If you had known it was going to be like this, would you have dressed up a little more?
Is it really okay to follow him like this?
I drank so much that I smelled like alcohol, but maybe I thought it was an impulse because I was drunk rather than sober?
Could it be that I am doing something really irreparable to the twins?
A sense of ambivalence that shifts crookedly in an instant.
My head shouts NO, but my heart rejoices saying YES.
“… Siwoo.”
“Yes?”
Seeing Shiu open his umbrella, what Deneb thought of was a weak possibility that he had been ruling out until now.
“I want to hear it honestly. No more lies.”
I really, really, really raise questions that I didn’t want to say out of my mouth.
It was a longing for the last word that would cut off Deneb’s hesitation.
“Did you know everything?”
Speak quickly
“Even knowing that the self-defense device was linked to me by Dorothy’s magic. Did you use it every day? Because me…”
With her head bowed down, Deneb experienced a dizzying feeling of falling under his feet.
It was because Siwoo, holding an umbrella, was making a look that could have been seen right before being hit by a dump truck that suddenly accelerated.
Siu hadn’t given an answer yet.
Deneb hadn’t even spoken his words yet.
But the moment I saw his expression.
Deneb realizes that everything was his illusion.
It was a woman’s intuition that was shown only at times like this.
“Ah.”
The tangled thoughts begin to rewind one by one.
I get it now
Shin Si-woo, who hadn’t noticed Deneb’s leeway so far.
That his dullness was not due to disposition or temperament, but to his trust in Deneb.
He wasn’t sending some kind of sign to Deneb through Muna Hall.
Even when he realized the identity of Munahol, he did not pretend not to know.
I just really didn’t know.
Deneb didn’t know that, and he spread his own delusion, and he had only hardened his confirmation bias in the direction he wanted.
“…”
Siu was still in the same posture as when he was holding an open umbrella.
It is as if a large boulder-like impact development got stuck in the gears of an accident.
“Haha…”
Deneb realized he was laughing.
Rather good
You can just pretend it’s a joke.
Hearing Deneb’s laugh, Siwoo’s hardened expression also brightened a little.
He, who had thought until now, “Oh, my little mother-in-law couldn’t be like that,” Would take Deneb’s shocking remark as an over-exaggerated joke.
Then you can do nothing.
It was better
With this, the forbidden love ended in unexploded unrequited love, and you can become a more proud teacher in front of the twins.
Deneb obviously sincerely thought so.
“Siwoo-kun, I always think of you.”
But the hope of a word is gone like a bubble.
The moment you realize that everything was an illusion.
Deneb felt an irresistible urge.
“Ah… How nice it would be if there was an emergency lever to stop it when I realized that it was not the right feeling.”
Siwoo’s eyes widen.
At some point, Deneb was holding Siwoo’s waist warmly and holding his lips together.
A soft, soft tongue pressed against his lips half-forcibly.
After the sad kiss, Deneb felt a shock as if cold water had been poured on his head.
“Odile… Odette…”
Her cheeks, which had been kissing him hotly a while ago, harden.
It was not much different from that of her mother, who witnessed her immorality by her children.
It wasn’t really that different.
Even if blood is not mixed, the teacher and the apprentice witch have a mother and daughter relationship.
“Little Master… I’m so disappointed…”
Odette’s tears mix into the raindrops.
Unable to catch them, the twins who turned their backs and disappeared, and Deneb, who was left in the rain.
Beneath his feet, a gift box containing a fountain pen tumbled across the rain-soaked floor.
