Chapter 1098 – #261_His Return(3) – DeepL

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1.
“Sharon, you look great!”
“Ahem!”

“Witch of Uranium!”
“Whoohoo!”

Sharon puffed out her chest and shrugged at the twins’ medley of hoots.
Beside her, Odile and Odette, respectively, wielded their hairbrushes like pom-poms and chanted.

“Witches with tinnitus like this don’t come along often!”
“Of course not!”

“How cool is it to be a witch of uranium!”
“Then, then!”

Xiu watched the farce of the three lovers from a little distance.

“…….”

He had been forced to watch the skit since 15 minutes ago, and he had predicted the ending like a dodo table.

As spectacular as Xiu’s accomplishments were, what Sharon had done with him hadn’t been easy.

If this were a hunter’s story, it would be The Rare Magic Sutra, The One Who Infiltrated and Closed the Gate of EX-level Difficulty.

“I thought he was an A-ranked Hunter, but he was actually an S-ranked Hunter?” would have been the stares of disbelief, with the United States pleading with South Korea, China freaking out, and Japan scrambling to make an SOS declaration….

Anyway, it was an event of that magnitude.

But.

“…No, this isn’t it!”

The skit came to a close.
Sharon’s voice, which had been twitching at the corners of her mouth as the twins giggled, suddenly became moist.

Her deer-in-the-headlights eyes ripple with tears, and she collapses into a heap.

“Why the witch of uranium…. There are much cooler things…. There are witches of punishment, witches of wrath, things like that…. Why uranium?”…. If you’re going to call me that, at least call me the Witch of the Five Elements again…. Why, why, why only me….”

Sharon immediately turns into an insignificant shadowy figure, pounding the ground and sobbing like a severely manic depressive.

“Quick, repeat after me! Uranium is awesome! Uranium is great! Uranium is great!”

The twins flailed about as if they were trying to keep the tower from collapsing.

“No, no, no! I didn’t fight for this ending! I just… I just…. I just wanted a normal tinnitus….”

Sharon sobbed and sobbed and sobbed like a man learning the truth that the holy grail he’d sacrificed everything for and staked his last hope on was actually the source of all evil.

“Sharon, calm down.”

Xiu patted Sharon on the back.
With a kinetic motion, the sobbing Sharon rose to her feet with an even more kinetic momentum and pointed a finger at Xiu.

“Don’t pity me! You will never understand me! Demon!”
“Oh, please.”

Xiu’s delicate heart was wounded by Sharon’s wave of frustration.

Demon King Xin Xiu.

That was the new title Xiu had been given by the Gehenna masters.

It wasn’t a witch’s tinnitus, but more like a real tinnitus, like Master’s ‘godless’ and Second Master’s ‘sword ears’.
Anyway, it’s a unique tinnitus.

I would have been very happy if I was given a name like this in my second year of junior high school, and even Takasho raved about it, but it’s a name that doesn’t feel right….

Sadly, Xiu is a Korean military graduate.

He has a tinnitus that sounds too strong, like a demon.

I’ll give him something a little more normal….
In Xiu’s opinion, he’d rather be the witch of uranium.

What’s wrong with uranium?

“It’s so heinous to pretend you don’t like it!”
“That’s a bad ass assistant. With the cool tinnitus all to himself.”
“Assistant! Can’t you see that Sharon is upset? How could you do that? Ugh… oh, how we comforted her!”
“No….”

I felt a little unfair.

Apparently, there is a difference between the ‘demon’ that modern Koreans think of and the ‘demon’ that Gehenna witches think of.

“I’d rather be an acorn witch…. That’s kind of cute, right?”
“Whoa, sis, we’re going to have to start over on this one.”
“Yeah, Odette…. Sharon, look at this. Now, are we going to do it again slowly? Uranium is cool.”
“Uranium is black…. It’s cool….”

While the twins worked on rebuilding Sharon’s shattered fortune, Xiu caught up on what had happened while she was out in the world.

2.
Xiu was in the middle of his first night with Dorothy.
The moment Lydia Magnus’s death was confirmed and it was determined that it was Cynthius who killed her.

In Gehenna, another kind of rumor began to circulate.

This time, the rumors originated from the Young Ladies Club.
The source was the Witch of the Deep, who had made a revolutionary major with the Witch of Uranium.

Unlike other rumors, this one had a high degree of credibility, as it had been solved by one of the parties themselves.

The witches, who now prided themselves on not being surprised by anything involving Xin Xiu, were in for a shocker of a different kind.

“That Casanova had another lover? Two?”
“The Great Witch again…. Ha, I tried to interview for the girlfriend spot, but the cutoffs are tight.”

It had already been publicized by Dandelion that Cinciuda had had countless witches as lovers.

The scope of his tastes far exceeded his shallow imagination and included apprentice witches, the Duke of Tifferet, and even an old witch.

Afterward, he stuck to his “love is not sinful” stance without explanation, covering up the scandal with the unconventional issue of founding the Hessian Society and its own charm.

“But is that the same as the Witch of the Sword… and the Witch of Composition…?”
“Aren’t they both achievements?!”

But this time, they’re lovers.

One of them was even a sword demon, a sword witch who was treated like a natural disaster in this world.

They were engaged in a forbidden love affair in a completely different sense than master and pupil, father and daughter.

The shocking scandal left most of the Gehenna witches breathless and dizzy, and some feeling threatened for their security.

“This is not right!”
“Doesn’t this mean that Xin Xiu has been having an affair with a duke all this time?”

“I don’t think so, I’ve heard that the two have already stolen key information from Hexenacht and provided it to us, and they were particularly active during the last siege.”

“They’ve been in voluntary detention for quite some time, and…. On top of that, the targets of the Witchpoint raid were two men who were labeled traitors, so I’m guessing you really did turn.”
“And if the Duke of Tifferet, who is notoriously unforgiving of public figures, is looking the other way, isn’t there a good reason?”

Various opinions were expressed, including “it’s a little different from the usual case of a public figure” and “a public figure is a public figure,” but in the end, public opinion converged on “it’s a bit much to have a public figure as a lover.

In fact, this public opinion was diluted by Xin Xiu’s achievements.
In the past, I wouldn’t be surprised if the “deport the horny bastard” theory was brought up immediately.

“Wait, something’s wrong?”

At this point, a few observant people felt a strange connection and discomfort.

“Didn’t you say that the Witch of the Old City was killed in the last raid, and now she’s alive and well? My friend saw the three of them on a date together.”
“Huh? Then you can’t possibly…. That’s why Xinxiu came forward? It makes perfect sense.”

Leto Salon was the place that quickly answered their questions.

Named after Leto, the goddess of motherhood, it is a community of witches with apprentice witches, a Gehenna-style mom cafe (offline).

“My daughter told me she heard about it from a witch of the deep… I mean, I was surprised at first, too. Do you really have to keep this to yourself?”
“I know I’m not supposed to talk about it, but…. I swear, I’ve never been so surprised in my life…. Okay, okay, I’ll tell you, but I need you to keep it to yourself.”

Obedient to their daughters’ stern embargo, the parents eventually cautiously confided their shocking “secret” to close friends.

To summarize.

Xinxiu was in a relationship with a witch from Gudou.
When he was once captured by Hexenacht, he was rescued with the help of an old witch, and a passionate forbidden love sprouted in the process.

However, the love between the public Dorothy and the Pink Duke’s apprentice Xin Xiu was not to last, and in the end, Dorothy remained alone in the mortal realm to continue her long penance.

“Tsk, tsk, if it’s a forbidden love, you must never let others see it.”
“Yeah, well, it’s a public affair, no matter how you wrap it up, and I was trying to save face.”

Then one day, as we all know, the Witch of the Gold Coin manipulated the Lehar group to hit Witch Point in order to consolidate her power base, and Dorothy died in the process.

“I, I saw Cynthia come out of the Witch Point morgue to identify Dorothy’s remains, and she had this look on her face and this vibe….”
“If I wasn’t a spirit being, I’d have to excuse myself.”

According to many witnesses, after losing his beloved, Xinxiu went on a vengeful rampage.

To punish those who sentenced his lover to death, he embarked on a seemingly reckless war to win back Dorothy with the Lotus Flower.

A mad war called Xin Xiu and 2 others versus the Lehar Group & Solidus Top.

“That’s really what it was about?!”
“You puckering romantic!”

He came close to death several times, suffered injuries large and small, and refused to give up.

Using all of his wits and abilities, he managed to baffle both factions and, with a stroke of genius, defeat Herya and Lydia.

At last, when all was said and done, he kissed his beloved on the lips.
As a tear rolled down Dorothy’s cheek, the lotus performed a miracle and brought her back to life.

“No, well, I overheard it from someone I’m close to…. Actually, if you want to know what happened to this….”
“Huh? I heard about that from a friend too.”
“Well, actually, me too….”

Around the time this ‘never tell anyone’ story became a secret known by the majority of Gehenna witches.

“…Hey, are you crying?”
“…Don’t be ridiculous. Do you think I can cry this much?”
“Sob.”

The Gehenna witches had changed their minds a bit.

As for Dorothy.
No matter what the circumstances, merit is merit….

“That’s good. It is a merit, but…. If you attacked from Hexenacht, you’re really a traitor.”
“It is, and besides, since you’ve been at Witchpoint, you’ve made a revolutionary major in blocking the gates, haven’t you?”

Poor victim, the heroine of an epic romance who won her love at the end of a long journey.

In Xinxiu’s case.
From a bastard who just got horny no matter what….

“Xin Xiu. He’s just a horny bastard no matter what.”

A crazy businessman who risked his life and destroyed everything to save his lover.
He’s got a harem, but he deserves it.
Just a plain crazy asshole who would turn the world against his people to protect them.

“But an honorable witch who deserves respect.”

A Count of Gehenna who will rewrite history.