Chapter 305
Chapter 305
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 305
Chapter Title: The Brown Teddy Bear with a Band-Aid
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‘What’s the difference between an ordinary person and a terrorist.’
A white chess piece advances, filling the black square.
‘What defines the line of a criminal.’
A white pawn kicks away the knight and reaches the end.
This mere foot soldier of a chess piece can transform into any form except the king, as long as it reaches the opposite side.
‘When does a human’s ego get completely overturned upon encountering something.’
In other words, even a pawn can never become a king.
Heavenly luck and astonishing coincidences.
There’s no such thing as a predetermined lineage for kings, queens, bishops, or knights, but if you look closely, you’ll find them one by one.
A person led by fate itself.
-Thud!
The black king falls to the floor.
It rolls dozens of times, crashing into the dusty corner against the wall.
A snow-white child’s hand picks up the king.
“Tree King.”
Sephiroth gripped the king tightly, then accidentally dropped it.
The king rolled across the floor, seeking freedom.
“Lady Sephiroth, honestly.”
The Sage scooped Sephiroth into her arms and stared straight ahead.
The figure of one man reflected in their eyes.
The way he tortured the tree was ridiculous. But she could recognize his talent.
Human thinking inevitably shifts bit by bit according to circumstances and environment.
Minds that have already hardened once don’t change easily, but they are creatures that adapt to stimuli.
“Wood Spirit King.”
In her eyes.
“I thought you were chosen without any reason. Guess that’s not the case.”
Lee Siheon was more than worthy of being chosen.
Even if it was just an avatar, he had clearly distinguished friend from foe against a child.
‘If he were a good person, he might have shown an opening in that situation.’
Jeong Siwoo.
If it were him, the seed of a hero, he wouldn’t have been able to strike Sistus in this scenario.
He might have even fallen to her counterattacks.
‘He wasn’t like this when I first saw Lee Siheon.’
Well, the Lee Siheon back then was ambiguous to call purely good, too.
Binding his own mind with a lewd demon and as a sub-commander—perhaps it was the natural result.
‘Considering that an F-rank lewd demon has the temperament of the worst kind of sex offender.’
She could see him changing more and more.
‘Just like the previous Wood Spirit King.’
Wise doesn’t mean judging everything perfectly.
It means doubting everything, allowing one to create slightly safer outcomes than others.
She had tested Lee Siheon a bit so far.
To predict his actions, she needed to know his personality.
He was the most unpredictable being in this world right now.
“Mama!”
Sephiroth tugged at the Sage’s skirt hem.
The dress she wore stretched out from Sephiroth’s pull.
-Twang!
The strap of her white panties popped up over her shoulder.
“Yes? What is it, Lady Sephiroth?”
“Teddy bear!”
Sephiroth dove into the skirt to check inside, her eyes sparkling.
The Sage forced a stiff smile, her lips tightening.
“Yes, it’s a teddy bear.”
“Cute!”
The contract with Sephiroth forbade her from interfering in world events without permission.
There were many loopholes in the contract, and if the Sage intended to change the world, she could attempt it.
“Sage. Like teddy bears?”
“I love them. The most in the world. My mother made me my first teddy bear.”
Someone who knows must save her.
It wasn’t a feeling she’d harbored from the start.
-Gulp.
The Sage’s eyes twitched slightly as she stroked Sephiroth’s head.
‘……Observer of knowledge.’
It had been 300 years since she inherited the mantle from the previous generation’s Sage.
In that long time, she had watched countless disasters from afar.
‘Nations rise and fall. People die. Wars break out. Death, death, and more death.’
She made friends who shared her heart, but at the end of the century, only she remained.
The unfamiliar emptiness and bitter loneliness destroy people.
Even the Sage couldn’t escape those emotions.
Countless years had passed guarding Eden and witnessing children’s deaths.
Even during the calamity of the Wood Spirit King and the Heavenly Demon, she had been cold as a machine, but she changed her mind.
It was less than 20 years ago.
‘How did Mother endure this?’
Becoming detached from death.
Growing weary of an unusually long lifespan.
The unchanging pocket watch sometimes seemed stopped.
Her mother, who fulfilled her duty to the end, now seemed incredibly admirable.
Especially since she herself was thinking of breaking that contract.
-Flap!
Sephiroth flung the Sage’s skirt wide open.
Transparent thighs and white panties. The slit between them exposed to the room.
“Sage knothole!”
“……Lady Sephiroth! No! I told you not to say that!”
Scolding Sephiroth, the Sage wiped her sweaty forehead.
A sigh escaped her lips.
“Lady Sephiroth, honestly.”
Either way, her task now was clear.
Assign each of these three their roles.
They were the three keys to changing the future.
-Click.
At that moment, the door opened.
“Ah.”
The Sage’s voice trailed off weakly.
Lee Siheon, finishing his morning routine late, caught the Sage’s appearance fully.
“…….”
“…….”
The brown teddy bear with a band-aid.
This was another rare sight.
“You seem to be in a good mood today?”
“Shut… up.”
Her next action was already decided.
◇◇◇◆◇◇◇ “Why’s your cheek like that?”
Marronier blinked as she picked up the evening bread.
“Yeah.”
Is this what an inevitable disaster feels like?
I thought someone had spread out a lace-trimmed parasol in the room.
Seeing the teddy bear ornament in the center, I figured it was the Sage.
Poke poke.
Sansu-yu’s fingers prodded my cheek.
“Siheon’s cheek, puffy.”
“Didn’t I tell you not to say that?”
“Ugh… sorry.”
“Where’d you pick up that weird way of talking? Tree Inside? Again?”
I pinched her cheek and pulled, drawing a nasal whine from Sansu-yu.
The soft, warm texture filled my hand.
“So what exactly happened?”
“……Something like that.”
The enraged Sage had shown an emotion I’d never seen before.
I thought one slap would end it.
But she couldn’t bring herself to slap, so she just yanked my cheeks with her hands.
And she’s pretty strong. My cheeks swelled up taut.
Now, I’m confident I could win in a cheek-pulling contest against Sansu-yu.
‘Can’t use Healing Authority because of Sansu-yu.’
-Forget it.
-Pardon?
-I said forget it.
She let go of my cheeks late and apologized.
Magic still works fine, so it was no big deal. I was ready to let it slide.
Common sense says, who makes a fuss over seeing a teddy bear?
-Crunch.
Marronier cut a piece of her homemade steak and put it in her mouth.
My cheeks throbbed.
‘She gave me a potion, but it’s so effective they said to take it after eating.’
A red potion in a snake-liquor-like vial by the table.
I’d heard from Goroshi that high-grade potions aren’t made from just any liquid.
The Sage apologized and gave it to me, but I’m seriously debating whether to drink it.
“……Siheon.”
As I chewed the meat expressionlessly, Marronier across from me asked cautiously.
“The steak…. How is it?”
“Delicious.”
Her hair perked up.
“R-Really…?”
It had that heartfelt taste of a friend buying expensive meat and grilling it herself.
My palate’s been spoiled by fancy food lately, so this isn’t bad at all.
“I thought it might not suit Koreans since it’s how Mom grills a lot…. G-Good. If you want more, just say….”
“How different can grilling methods be? Meat’s meat. I go crazy for it. Right?”
Sansu-yu, who’d been chewing plainly, looked at Marronier when I glanced her way.
A brief silence, then she nodded.
“Yeah.”
“…….”
Awkward atmosphere.
This pointless cold war had been going on for days.
Even at meals. And we have to stick together for at least a week more.
‘Yet at night, they cling together in my bed.’
Time to ask about it.
I popped in a tender piece of meat, and Sansu-yu tapped my shoulder. Tap tap.
“Sian.”
“Yeah?”
She called me, gave a lingering look, then fidgeted with her hands.
She swayed side to side, her breasts jiggling. Especially full today—definitely time.
Time to milk her.
“……At night. It hurts.”
“At night?”
Marronier reacted like a wildcat.
Knowing what happened before, she glared at me intently.
“Got it.”
What can I do? No choice.
I have to do as asked.
“……See you later then.”
Sansu-yu stood first, cleared the dishes, and soaked them in water.
Dish duty’s mine today.
Sansu-yu had more books to read, so she left first. Soon, only two of us remained in the kitchen.
-Gulp.
I heard a swallow.
“Lee Siheon.”
“Yeah.”
Marronier set down her knife, her blue eyes darting. Tap tap. Her long nails drummed the table.
It took about a minute of glancing at me before she cautiously asked.
“……That. I have it too, you know.”
“Yeah.”
She flushed, couldn’t continue, and whipped her head away.
“N-Never mind. Don’t you have dishes?”
“Something you wanna say?”
“…….”
Sweat beaded up.
Blanche hid her face by pulling her twin tails forward.
When will this enslavement end?
Such doubts aside, I propped my elbow on the table and rested my chin.
“Come to think of it, you and Sansu-yu seem off lately.”
“Eek.”
Sansu-yu hadn’t said a word.
No admission of fault.
Acted like I didn’t need to know, consistently.
Marronier shared some traits with Sansu-yu and usually wouldn’t speak up, but.
She’s kinder than most and can’t lie well.
“Uh, w-well.”
“Blanche.”
“Don’t call me that….”
Push a bit, and she might spill the truth.
As intended, Marronier couldn’t lie.
“……Sorry…. Got caught….”
“Caught what?”
I asked back, and she swallowed hard.
Hands between her thighs, lips pursed tight.
“Kissing.”
Ridiculous words made me tilt my head.
“What?”
“I-I mean, kissing. Got caught.”
“Have we ever kissed in front of Sansu-yu?”
Only in the bathroom.
And that was after she begged, with the door locked tight.
Sansu-yu was asleep then. No way she could know.
Yet Marronier confessed honestly in a crawling voice.
“Morning, in the morning! Did it.”
My face hardened.
“……Behind her back.”
Whoosh. Her face burned red. Hands covered it.
“You mean the night we slept together?”
-Nod.
“What were you thinking?”
“……You brainwashed me. Couldn’t hold back.”
“And she caught that, so she’s sulking? But she slept in my bed with you last night?”
“We fought over blankets and pillows… Got tired and stopped….”
Oh, my head.
“Do you two think you own me or something?”
“……No.”
I got the picture.
Sansu-yu always stirs up unexpected trouble.
Was there reason for Sansu-yu to be jealous of me and Marronier?
We’re close, sure, but just friends, and she seems clueless about affection.
Lately, with the breast stuff and getting physical, we’re too close, but….
Enough to cold-shoulder over enslavement?
I don’t think so.
“But I—”
“You know. You can do that. It’s my fault.”
“Your fault?”
“Yeah, yeah.”
I stacked the empty dishes in agreement, and Marronier peeked out her flushed face again.
Staring at me intently.
“……So, tonight too. You have to do it, right?”
Now she’s asserting it.
My hand froze mid-move with a plate.
“If I keep doing what you want, won’t my ability wear off?”
I calmly persuaded Marronier.
“J-Just not the last part….”
“You don’t know the details.”
“Then…. No…?”
As if that’d work.
She made that abandoned kitten face again.
I clamped my mouth shut.
“Sansu-yu’s gone. Tonight… you’ll do it with her.”
“Not the stuff you’re imagining.”
“You touch her boobs.”
Marronier crawled under the table.
Her hand gripped my thigh.
As I shuddered and nearly toppled, she used magic to hold me steady.
A cat glared between my legs.
Today’s cat climbed onto the roof faster than yesterday.
The rough tongue rasped against my lower abdomen.