Chapter 114: Misunderstanding
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 114: Misunderstanding
The witch's name was Adelheid.
Yohan and the witch introduced themselves and continued their conversation.
“Heh, so this is a bodysuit.”
“Y-yeah…”
“Isn’t it uncomfortable to wear?”
“It is. But if I don’t wear it, the curse…”
“Ah, I guess you have no choice. But is it okay to leave your face exposed?”
“The air has a high density of magic power, so its conductivity is low.”
The clothes she wore were a kind of undergarment. Though, given the latex-like material that clung tightly to her entire body, it resembled a full-body suit more than underwear.
Yohan glanced at her lower abdomen. He had thought it was strange for her to be covering her legs with something like stockings at the beach, but he never imagined this was the reason.
“This… how do you go to the bathroom?”
“…Th-there’s a zipper here.”
“A zipper?”
At the word “zipper,” Yohan looked at her with a hint of excitement. A zipper on a one-piece garment that was hard to put on and take off? He was incredibly curious about where it could possibly be.
Unfortunately for Yohan, however, the zipper wasn't on her crotch. Adelheid lifted her shirt slightly to show him the zipper at her waist.
“If I open this, I can take off the pants separately.”
“Aha…”
“…You look a little disappointed.”
“No, I’m not.”
Yohan let out a small laugh and changed the subject, all the while thinking that when he had a new one made, he’d have the zipper put on the crotch instead of there.
Perhaps because it had been so long since she’d had someone to talk to freely, Adelheid simply laughed lightly and let it slide, even when Yohan said strange things.
Just as they were sharing a pleasant laugh, someone approached from a distance with heavy footsteps.
Turning his head, Yohan realized the footsteps belonged to his teacher and shot to his feet.
“Teacher!”
“—Yohan.”
A one-piece swimsuit as white and brilliant as freshly fallen snow. Her appearance, revealing the fair skin she didn’t want to show to others, was as artistic as a piece of porcelain.
Yohan’s jaw dropped as if he were in a trance, and he let out a gasp of admiration.
“Wow… you’re so beautiful.”
“Really? Thank you.”
“…Teacher? Why are you suddenly—.”
“Who is that woman?”
In an instant, the temperature in the area dropped by about three degrees. For a moment, Yohan wondered if his teacher had become the Witch of Absolute Congelation.
But since that wasn't the case—Yohan casually pointed to Adelheid and spoke.
“This is Adelheid. She’s a witch, as you know… She was just here by herself, so I struck up a conversation.”
“Heeh, I see. Uh-huh. So my Yohan is the type of guy who hits on any woman he sees alone on the beach.”
“No, that’s not why I talked to her…”
Yohan scratched his cheek and glanced at Adelheid. It was a bit awkward to say this in front of her, but he had no choice.
It was better than his teacher getting angry. Yohan explained why he had approached Adelheid.
“Well, she was wearing such a sexy outfit… I was hoping you’d wear it for me next time…”
“H-huh?”
“S-sexy?”
Hearing Evangeline and Adelheid gasp in unison, Yohan nodded nonchalantly.
Evangeline finally glanced over at Adelheid, then crossed her arms under her chest and sighed as if she couldn’t help it.
“Hmph, I suppose it can’t be helped. If my Yohan asks me to wear it, isn’t it my duty as his teacher to do so?”
“I don’t think that kind of duty exists anywhere in the world.”
“Anyway, if that was your reason, I’ll let it go. …You’re the one who hit on me first, so don’t come asking for points or anything later, okay?”
Yohan chuckled at his teacher, who was after free semen even in a moment like this, and nodded in agreement.
As he and his teacher shared a friendly moment, Adelheid, who had been talking with him until now, spoke up cautiously.
“…E-excuse me.”
“What is it? Don’t talk to me.”
“…Are you two in a romantic relationship?”
“A relationship? No. We have a master-disciple relationship.”
Not some fleeting romantic relationship that would cool after a few years, but a master-disciple relationship that would last a lifetime. An eternity.
Evangeline emphasized that fact. Hearing this, Adelheid nodded as if to say, Then it’s fine, and looked at Yohan.
“Then, there’s no problem if I date this man, right?”
“…What?”
“You said it’s a master-disciple relationship, not a romantic one. Doesn’t that mean the spot for a lover is open?”
Adelheid said, then made her offer to Yohan.
“You… your name is Yohan, right? If it’s okay with you, would you be my lover?”
A fated encounter she hadn’t experienced in her hundreds of years as a witch. Faced with that destiny, Adelheid blushed and confessed her love to Yohan.
However, Yohan just scratched his cheek and opened his mouth.
“I’m sorry. I’m not really interested right now…”
“Wh-what?”
Never expecting to be rejected, Adelheid stared at Yohan with a shocked expression.
“Hahaha! Serves you right! How dare you try to steal someone else’s disciple!?”
Yohan grabbed the hand of Evangeline, who was pointing at Adelheid and bursting into laughter, and quickly started to leave.
He felt like a fight would break out if they stayed any longer.
He glanced back briefly. The shock of being rejected must have been immense, as Adelheid still had her head hung low.
With her head hung low, Adelheid slowly lifted her gaze.
In the distance, she could see the back of Yohan, who had left her and was disappearing from sight. This was not good. Not good at all.
‘Is this what heartbreak feels like?’
Her chest ached. It hadn’t hurt this much even when a monster had ambushed her and torn off a third of her chest.
It felt like her heart was on fire. Overwhelmed, Adelheid ripped open the tights that were suppressing her curse, tearing them right at the chest.
She wasn’t wearing any underwear, so her bare breasts were exposed to the world, but she paid it no mind.
No one would come to the beach being used by the commander of the witch battalion. There was no one to even cast a glance this way.
“It hurts.”
Her exposed chest was still burning hot. Cooling it with the air wouldn’t work. Adelheid began to walk slowly toward the sea.
Unlike the air, which was so full of magic power that the curse didn’t spread far, the seawater began to freeze in an instant.
With every step she took, pillars of ice began to form in the ocean.
She froze her surroundings, again and again.
But every time she froze something, the heat in her chest only grew hotter.
“Hah, hah…”
Even now, submerged in seawater that was close to freezing, the heat showed no signs of subsiding. It only grew more intense.
A vicious cycle of the curse. Just as entropy does not decrease, the heat planted within her would not cool down.
Only after she had plunged her entire head under the water could Adelheid finally calm down. The sea, where she couldn’t even breathe, and the torrent of waves crashing in from all sides brought her comfort.
‘I’ll just forget it like this. Just like this…’
She just had to pretend it never happened. She had never met a man named Yohan, and such a man didn’t exist in this world.
If she thought that way, everything would end happily.
Just as she had given up on everything, Adelheid realized something was pulling her with a powerful tug.
Thinking it was a sea monster, she turned her head, and only then did she realize what was pulling her.
“Are you crazy!?”
“Wh-what… why are you here…”
“Why else! I came to save the crazy bitch who’s trying to drown herself after getting rejected!”
It was Yohan.
As his hands pulled her out of the sea, she felt her heart begin to pound again.
No, I just managed to cool down…
“Hey, could you let me go…?”
“What are you talking about? You were just trying to kill yourself—.”
“I-I wasn’t trying to kill myself, I was just swimming…”
“…Excuse me?”
At her words, Yohan’s mouth opened and closed. Ah, how cute.
“Besides, there’s no way a witch would drown. And I’m not crazy enough to kill myself just because some human rejected me…”
Wasn’t he being a little too full of himself? When she pointed this out, Yohan’s face turned red as he looked at her.
“…You really weren’t trying to kill yourself?”
“No. So could you let go of this first.”
“Ah, yes…”
A moment ago, it was Adelheid whose face was red, but now it was Yohan’s.
Looking at Yohan, who was blushing like a beet, Adelheid let out a chuckle. He had an expression that made it seem like he might just kill himself if left alone.
Then again, if she had rescued a girl she thought was committing suicide only to find out she was just swimming, she’d probably want to bite her own tongue off, too.
‘He’s cute…’
Though she had given up once, her feelings began to burn anew.
This person, this love. She couldn’t let it go.