City of Witches - Chapter 1167
The Witch’s City – Episode 1161
EP.1167 #278_Melee
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1.
Witches are strange beings that are difficult to understand with human sensibilities.
That didn’t change much even after the administrator of Trinity Academy became the president of the Witch’s Society.
They can choose to live an infinite life, yet they give it up.
It’s not like they give up such a life to scribble something absurd on the wall in their later years and live a meager existence.
Despite possessing an eternally youthful beauty that would captivate anyone, the wealth that the majority of commoners would envy, and mysteries that cannot be achieved by human power, they humbly pass on their legacy to future generations the moment they acknowledge their limitations.
The strangest thing is that all members of the ‘Witching Society’ tacitly agree to this lonesome farewell.
There are many other things that I don’t understand.
Whether it’s a mother-in-law who spends billions of won on alcohol every month, no matter how rich she is, or the witches of the Red Roof Salon who fight over whether my necklace is prettier or my brooch is prettier, or the fanatics who proclaim that magic is the light of my life and diligently practice the art of Black Magic, alternating between human and witch….
Or Lynne, who ponders while lining up adult-sized baby supplies on the sofa.
“…….”
“…….”
“…….”
Most witches are full of personality.
Even if you just look at Siwoo’s lovers, each one of them had something peculiar about them.
Among them, Lynne’s peculiarity could be summed up in the word ‘papaplay’, and Siwoo embraced this with a ‘whatever’ attitude.
After all, love and affection are quite closely related to the word ‘whatever’.
However.
“This is a bit….”
Siwoo’s mind reflexively draws Lynne’s baby costume.
This naturally contrasted with the way she looked when they first met.
Lynne, who showed her the reason she was given the nickname ‘Sword Demon’ by wielding a two-handed sword along with the magic of ‘Black and White World’.
And the baby Lynne, who babbles while shaking the bell earrings in bed.
This is far from the realm of ‘whatever’ and is clearly abnormal, obviously abnormal….
“Ugh!”
Siwoo, who had barely managed to hold onto his sanity after glimpsing into the abyss.
His face was as white as a sheet.
This is even more so now that he has become a father.
“It’s a misunderstanding.”
Lynne is even whiter.
Lynne, who had been fidgeting, shook Sharon’s neck as if she was going to strangle her.
“Sharon. Quickly. Quickly. Quickly explain. Clear this up.”
“Yes? Yes? What, ah!”
“Wh-what? Ah!”
Linne realized that it was already impossible to explain herself and bit her lip while the light faded from her eyes, collapsing on the ground.
“So, so, well, ah!”
Linne realized that it was already impossible to explain herself and bit her lip while the light faded from her eyes, collapsing on the ground.
After the meeting between Shiwoo and Linne, Gehenna prepares for war, but Ellis of the temporary branch in Alaska and her lover live in peace. However, a sun halo suddenly appears in the sky, and Ellis realizes that it is a missile. A barrier that covers the entire Anchorage is spread out, and the raid begins.
“Th-this, so, Shiwoo… Linne-nim asked me to prepare it. She said she wanted to be your daughter, like Malika…”
“No! That’s not it!”
The result of the combination of Linne, who seemed to be the most urgent in her life, and Sharon, whose misunderstanding had not been resolved, could be summed up in three letters.
A disaster.
Sharon had completely misunderstood Linne’s request, and Linne had just realized Sharon’s misunderstanding, so there was no way a proper explanation could be made.
Sharon had unintentionally fired a dignity-destroying spell at Linne.
“Really, my lord! That’s not what I wanted!”
Even though a killing spell grazed her cheek, Linne did not blink an eye and stared at her enemy, but as anyone could tell just by watching Dorothy tease her every day, she had no resistance to this kind of attack.
“Ah! Now that I think about it, I have something urgent to do!”
“Don’t go! Explain yourself properly!”
Sharon, who had left the biggest stain on Linne’s half-millennium life, eventually couldn’t hold on and chose to run away.
It was because Sharon’s empathy and patience had hit rock bottom.
Linne, who was looking at Sharon’s back in vain, looked at Shiwoo with a fearful expression.
She was sure to be despised.
If it had been a completely unexpected situation, Linne would have been more confident, but hadn’t there been so many papa plays last night?
A plausible cause had been attached to this terrible misunderstanding.
If her lord looked at her like she was crazy, she would definitely cower without being able to make a proper argument.
“Linne-nim.”
However, surprisingly, Shiwoo had a benevolent smile like a Buddha.
Shiwoo, who had initially panicked, had calmed down.
Yes.
Everyone has a darkness they want to hide.
In fact, Shiwoo didn’t go around talking about it publicly, but he had slept with all of his sisters.
His beast play with Dorothy, his role-playing play with Amelia as a part-time professor, his outdoor punishment play with the clumsy maid Sharon, his ‘playing with this much water in a place with no water’ play with Rurye, and his ‘today I’m the teacher’ play with his teacher.
They were all things that were a little embarrassing to show others.
Shiwoo had unintentionally visited and opened Pandora’s box.
What was the right attitude to take in front of a bewildered lover?
“Ah, go ahead.”
“…….”
Shiwoo put the pacifier in Linne’s mouth.
Lynne, who had realized that the situation was hopeless, bit the pacifier and collapsed on the spot, the light fading from her eyes.
“Ms. Lynne, I understand everything. It’s not strange to be different from others. You’re just a little special.”
“…….”
“I’ll try my best too.”
Shiwoo quickly hugged Lynne and sat her on his lap.
It might seem funny and strange to others.
But if this was Lynne’s unspoken wish, he would do his best to support her.
Shiwoo suppressed the goosebumps and chills of disgust and strangeness as much as he could and began to rock Lynne back and forth like a baby, as if she were a Malika.
“Whuzzuwhuzzu! Our Lynne is so cute!”
“…….”
“Your eyes are so round, and your nose is so straight! How can you be so cute!”
“…….”
“Daddy’s gone! Daddy’s here! Daddy’s gone! Daddy’s here!”
“…….”
Lynne’s soul was slowly slipping away as Shiwoo continued his performance.
This wasn’t it.
What Lynne wanted wasn’t to suck on a pacifier and play peek-a-boo.
But as Lynne curled up on Shiwoo’s lap, she felt something, something calming her down.
“…….”
She could feel a strange sense of peace when she looked away from the shame of being treated like a baby even though she was hundreds of years old.
Shiwoo’s ultimate magic, ‘Playing with a Crying Malika,’ which he had learned from experience, clouded Lynne’s reason.
As she silently submitted and gave herself over to the unfamiliar sense of peace, she felt sleepy.
The languid breath brushing against her ear and the faint sound of her master’s heartbeat lulled Lynne to sleep.
“…Coo….”
Lynne, who was so sensitive that she rarely slept deeply, fell fast asleep.
On Shiwoo’s lap, which was much less comfortable than a blanket.
Shiwoo wiped away his sweat and carefully removed the pacifier from Lynne’s mouth.
If anyone were to see Lynne sleeping so defenselessly, it would surely leave a great scar.
Still, seeing Lynne sleeping soundly with her face relaxed and unaware of the world, he felt a sense of accomplishment for having responded to her wish so diligently.
Shiwoo gently brushed Lynne’s jet-black hair aside and smiled softly.
“Phew, another one down for the day.”
“Phew, another one solved today.”
“Nothing unusual, sis.”
Despite the slightly strange process, Lynne was also satisfied with the ending.
2.
Gehenna released a statement.
To be exact, it was a statement from the ‘Academic Allied Forces’ within Gehenna.
Summarizing the message of the statement, which was full of grand rhetoric, in three lines:
1) We are prepared for war.
2) Don’t go too far, or we won’t help.
3) Think carefully.
They not only released the statement, but also rebuilt the location point to confront the Hexennacht outpost expanding in three directions.
They dispatched a small force to prepare for the situation.
Although the Truth and Name School of Thought did not agree with the statement, Hexennacht completely stopped expanding for the time being.
Nominally, it was not because they were scared, but because they wanted to stabilize the internal affairs of their various puppet states, but the timing was too coincidental.
Then, did the witch world enter a relatively peaceful civil war period?
No.
Hexennacht is basically a public group.
They are already restless, and they are not the kind of people who wouldn’t fight just because they were told not to from above.
In search of spoils, in search of prey, and to establish their achievements, they form teams of three or five and wander around, sometimes raiding location points, and Hexennacht ignores and assists them.
Gehenna also does not use such a level of conflict as an excuse to expand the full-scale war.
That’s because it’s a burden in its own right.
Therefore, the war is actually taking place on a very small scale in many places at this very moment.
“Ha… Manya, Malicia… was it good?”
However, the Mercury witch dispatched to the Alaska branch office.
Alice Ebn Hiyan, who was staying in a hotel suite, made love to her two lovers, Manya Malicia, until the glaciers melted peacefully.
“Yes, it was good, sis….”
“Manya, get your thighs off my stomach.”
“Malicia, you get off!”
“Stop fighting and have some coffee, you two.”
The coffee time after making hot love, enjoying the ambiance of the white nights with the cityscape, and the relatively mild weather, where the temperature rises to 10 degrees, are far from the tension of war.
Contrary to the common belief that Alaska is a land of extreme cold, Anchorage, where the temporary branch office was established, is the most prosperous tourist and aviation city in Alaska, so there is not much inconvenience.
After all, they are a trio who waited for a homunculus in the desert while being hit by a sandstorm.
“This is the Eastern Front. Nothing unusual today.”
“Here’s the eastern front. Nothing unusual today, sis.”
“We’re 1,000km away from there. They’re not stupid enough to come all the way to Anchorage. It would start an all-out war if they did. They’ll bide their time for now.”
The place where Hexennacht’s eastern forces had set up their forward operating base was Kotzebue on the coast of the Bering Sea. That was at the opposite end of the spectrum from Anchorage.
Although she had volunteered to act as a scout along with a few other witches, because neither side wanted to provoke the other, they had only engaged in minor skirmishes up to that point. In fact, the risk to Anchorage was almost nonexistent.
That’s why she had been quick to volunteer for the cushy job of living it up while making the Coalition forces look bad.
“The Gehenna desk-bound types don’t know about this.”
“Of course not! You’re amazing, sis!”
“Sis, we’re Gehenna citizens now, too.”
“Who says we’re not? We’re different from them at our core.”
The fact that they were living off the fat of the land, eating Alaskan king crab while enjoying all sorts of conveniences provided by the US government without spending a dime, was all thanks to Alice’s wisdom.
And to top it off, once the war or the Cold War ended, Alice’s standing within Gehenna would rise.
“Should we head to a restaurant or something?”
“Sounds good!”
“I want to eat that again. Halibut? What kind of fish grows up to 3 meters long?”
“Champagne with that?”
“Of course!”
As she giggled and put on a dress, planning to indulge in luxury and vanity as usual, Manya glanced out the window and shouted,
“Sis! Sis! Sis!”
“What?”
“There’s a sun dog! There are multiple suns in the sky! Or maybe they’re stars?”
A sun dog, also known as a parhelion, is a very rare natural phenomenon that occurs when ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere at a low altitude act like a prism.
In other words, it was impossible for one to occur in the middle of a city on a day like this.
“What sun dog? Stop talking nonsense and get dressed.”
“No, really! I’m telling the truth, sis!”
Alice grumbled but looked out the window anyway. She froze in place.
There were sparkling halos of light scattered across the sky.
And white smoke trails followed them.
To someone who didn’t know any better, they might have seemed beautiful. But to Alice, who had long since lost her innocence,
They were missiles.
“Oh, shit.”
A large-scale boundary field soon enveloped all of Anchorage.
It was an attack.