Chapter 33
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 33
Chapter Title: Team Leader? (3)
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"The idea for the Apprentice Witch Rehabilitation Support Department was something Eve proposed first. She said it was a project to help apprentice witches living in Korea, so it would probably end up benefiting Korea in the end. And that's how she's getting paid with tax money now."
"Ah..."
"Honestly, if it were me, I'd have shot it down right away, but I guess she had a silver tongue? Or maybe Korea desperately needed a witch's help back then?"
"......"
"Well, thanks to that, I was able to leave Neria in your hands. I don't know if it helped Korea, but it sure helped me."
Among the three of us here, only Neria—who had no particular connection to the team leader—chewed and swallowed her fried rice with a munching sound.
After listening to a bit more of Erzel's story, I quietly reflected on the conversations I'd had with the team leader so far.
What was it like when we first met?
It had been almost two weeks now, so the memory wasn't crystal clear, but I remembered it being a relaxed atmosphere.
Teasing me about staring at her chest too much.
Asking if I thought this was a department that hands out apprentice witches on a platter.
She'd said things like that right in front of me on my first day, when I was nervous.
I must have concluded that she just had a playful personality and moved on.
It was the same the next time I saw her.
The team leader never hesitated to make sexual jokes.
Telling me to turn Neria into a woman who couldn't live without cock, or that it'd be great if she got addicted to it—acting like a woman with tons of experience.
I'd never gotten the impression from her that she was 'even more of a coward than Neria,' as Erzel put it.
...But then, Erzel had no reason to lie about it.
"Dowon?"
"...Ah, yes. Lady Erzel."
"What are you thinking about so deeply?"
"Well..."
After some hesitation, I answered half-honestly.
"If what you say is true, Lady Erzel, then our team leader is surprisingly..."
"She's never done it. At least not as far as I know."
"But the team leader always..., she talked like she was so experienced at... that sort of thing."
"Really? She was pretending to be skilled? Pfft..."
At that, Erzel covered her mouth with one hand and laughed.
Her picture-perfect appearance naturally drew my gaze, but luckily it was Erzel and not someone else, so I snapped out of it quickly.
"What is this, a virgin bitch messing around with a kid half her age... Ah, that's hilarious..."
If she were truly a frail young wife on the verge of death, she wouldn't have said something like that.
"What did Eve say to you, Dowon? Did she tell you about positions women like? Or how to be good at sex?"
"She hasn't said anything like that yet..., but I remember her saying a lot of things that sounded experienced, and doing lewd actions too."
"Hmm. What kind of things? How did she say them? What sort of lewd actions?"
"Recently, at the barbecue place, she deliberately sat right next to me and..."
"Like this?"
Neria was freaking out from across the table, but Erzel wouldn't have dragged her chair over and sat next to me like that.
"What happened next? Did Eve stroke your thigh or something?"
"Lady Erzel, wait... You're a bit too close."
"I think this much is fine between us now..."
"I'm truly grateful that you think well of me, but I'm ultimately Neria's..., um..."
"Living dildo?"
"...Yes."
"Well, can't be helped then."
"......"
Fortunately, Erzel backed off coolly instead of continuing her weird antics.
...Though in reality, she'd probably scoot right back up next time we met, so 'coolly' might not be the right word. Anyway.
She didn't come closer again, but she kept sending me curious glances, asking what happened with Eve, what the most suspicious behavior was.
I met her eyes—same pale purple as Neria's—cleared my throat briefly, and explained in detail.
And in the process, when I even showed her the message history between me and the team leader, I learned one unexpected fact.
"She really uses a lot of dirty talk, huh? For Eve, of all people?"
This was about the message from the team leader that Erzel was holding.
"...When talking to you witches, she only praised me."
That was the revelation.
The team leader only sent pure praise about me to Lady Erzel—nothing lewd at all.
"Right? Dowon's super handsome. He listens so well. He's the best ever. Stuff like that?"
"......Um."
"But to you, Dowon..., she says stuff like hurry up and make Neria addicted to cock..., or after stuffing her full of cock, fill her pussy with cum..."
"I don't think the messages are quite that explicit..."
"Nope. Can't let my innocent disciple hear that; she'd be too shocked to sleep."
"...I see."
"What? What is it?"
So a little later, as I handed her smartphone back, I asked.
"Lady Erzel."
"Yes."
"About what we just learned—is it better if I pretend I don't know?"
I politely omitted the part about how she'd been acting like a total slut with thousands of partners, and getting exposed as a virgin now might make her die of embarrassment.
"Hmm. I think it's a bit different."
"How so?"
"Well, for me..."
Unlike me, who was her subordinate, Erzel was also a close friend.
And she wasn't one to hold back on manners usually.
The future she envisioned was this.
"Turning the tables and getting addicted yourself to conquer her sounds delicious too~"
"......"
Not to mention how Dowon's semen quality was top-notch, she poked at reasons that made me question if 'just in time' was really appropriate.
Truth be told, I did have my own plans for today.
I'd thought about gradually teaching Neria, who'd had her first experience, some of my own tastes.
To sum it up short and sweet, that's probably how it would've gone.
But as the saying goes, pull out the iron horns while they're hot.
Before I knew it, my body had been dragged out of Neria's house.
All because of Erzel.
Erzel, who seemed eager to resolve her disciple's virginity and now her friend's too.
Or maybe she just found the whole situation amusing.
Without asking my opinion, she forced me to clock out early, then drove me in her supercar all the way to City Hall.
...Fortunately, Neria had messaged that her muscles from the waist down were sore today, so we'd do the remaining 'mana recharge' another time.
Still, jumping straight into sex with the team leader? Come on.
"Hoo..."
It was absurd, but at least Erzel had dropped me off and left to handle her own schedule.
So I could just head home like this if I wanted.
And if the team leader grilled me about what happened today, I could just say 'it didn't work out' and be done.
But if I messed around in front of a witch and got caught...,
I'd be in deep trouble.
So I came up with a plan similar to usual and headed to the 14th-floor office.
"Team Leader."
But today, the team leader wasn't at her desk.
Of course, I'd come much earlier than usual, but where was she?
I took a couple steps back to check the hallway, tilting my head as I set my bag down.
At first I thought she hadn't come in yet, but her desk had a laptop plugged into the charger.
An open laptop, at that.
Considering the time, she must've just stepped out for lunch.
I'd just had lunch with the two witches myself before getting dragged here.
I checked the clock to confirm: 1:30 p.m.
A slightly late lunch wasn't unusual.
"She'll come back if I wait..."
When the team leader arrived, I'd report that Neria was out today due to muscle pain.
And if she brought up anything I'd supposedly heard from Lady Erzel, I'd improvise based on the situation.
"......"
...As I sighed and slumped comfortably into my chair, something caught my eye.
On the desk that bent in an L-shape from my spot.
It was the team leader's laptop.
"Hmm..."
I shouldn't touch someone else's stuff.
Having grown up in a Korean household with proper upbringing, I knew that much.
But today, something was nagging at me, and my eyes kept drifting over there.
Lady Erzel's testimony that the team leader surprisingly had no experience.
Yet she always threw lewd jokes my way.
And how she always looked so tired whenever she saw me.
If I just peeked at her laptop a little, I might confirm at least one of those...
"......"
After agonizing over it for a moment.
I glanced toward the office entrance, then stood up.
"......What the hell is this?"
And the laptop screen that resulted made me more flustered than I'd expected.
A certain term for this immediately came to mind,
but to avoid misunderstanding, I took a moment to think about what it really was.
When suddenly, I sensed someone right beside me.
"...? Huh?"
"...Team Leader."
Her swaying black hair and pretty golden eyes.
The office look that always drew my gaze.
...Though the eyepatch she usually wore was gone.
Teleportation and all.
Definitely our team leader.
"Is this... what I think it is...? ...Whoa."
The moment our eyes met, she vanished again without delay,
proving she really was our 'Spatial Witch' team leader.
"......"
As I stood there dazed, the laptop that had been on the desk disappeared.
She could probably move it from afar if she knew the exact coordinates.
The first thing that came to mind was the delivery business.
If she got into that, she'd be rolling in money within months.
Yet the team leader was still working as a civil servant—maybe that teleportation drained a ton of mana.
As I speculated on my own, the team leader reappeared next to me.
"D-Dowon. You're here early today!"
"Neria chased me out because of muscle pain. Thanks to that, I have nothing to do, so I came to the office."
"Wh-when? When did you get here?"
"Just now. About five minutes ago."
"Five minutes...? Not just arriving, but five minutes...?"
"......Yes."
"......"
"......"
And then Team Leader Eve froze solid in place.
Her usual sly demeanor was gone; she just rolled her golden eyes silently.
In the end, I spoke first.
"Team Leader. There's something I'm not too sure about, so I wanted to ask."
"...Could you not?"
"Aren't civil servants prohibited from side jobs?"
"......"
Team Leader Eve's eyebrows twitched awkwardly.
Her posture felt unusually polite compared to normal.
I tapped the desk where the laptop had been, so she could see,
then lowered my voice, as if promising to keep her secret.
"......Is writing erotic fiction okay at least...?"
"Kyaaaaah――!"