Chapter 1250 – #290_Proposal(11)

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1.
The only twins among the witches to share a mark, the young ladies of the Geminai County.
Odile Geminai and Odette Geminai, the mascots of Siwoo’s lover squad.

Their drive is like a tank.
Once a target is locked on their radar, they charge headfirst, ready to smash their heads against it.

They’re also bursting with energy. Despite having a schedule more packed than a student in Gangnam’s top 8 school district, their hobbies include hunting, shooting, and horseback riding. Normally, as soon as the ‘proposal’ trend hit, they would have rushed to their assistant.

However….

-Shatter!

“This isn’t it!”
“Aaaah!”

Odile and Odette, with the heart of a craftsman breaking a flawed ceramic, tore up yet another proposal plan.
The ‘Proposal Project’ documents, which they had worked on all night, were shredded like they had gone through a paper shredder.

Around them, their exclusive maids, Pecha, Lena, Masha, and Vera, who had been chattering with advice, were sprawled out alongside the deceased plans.

“Pecha! Lena! Wake up!”
“Hmm… Odile… it’s too much now….”
“Zzzzz….”
“Ugh, you useless lot!”

It had been several nights of all-nighters, so the four maids, despite their cute mistresses’ scolding, were already scratching their bellies and drifting off to dreamland.
Even maids trained in chores couldn’t keep up with the stamina of the tomboyish Odile and Odette.

They had been racking their brains for the best proposal for their assistant.

‘How about singing a song like in those musicals we saw in the old world?’

Odile and Odette’s singing skills were top-notch.
They thought it was a pretty good idea, so they even worked hard on writing lyrics, composing music, and rehearsing.

But as they went on, it didn’t feel like a movie, and it felt too playful, so they scrapped it.

‘Then how about a letter reading at a rented theater?’

A proposal with a love letter decorated with poetic rhetoric… at least it scored high on the romantic scale.
They worked hard on writing a 10-page letter and even rented a theater.

But as they went on, it felt too boring, so they scrapped it.

‘How about whispering in his ear after a hot night with the assistant?’

It’s common sense that love pheromones are released during intimacy in a relationship.
And since everyone feels good together, it seemed like a perfect proposal.

But it seemed like they wouldn’t be able to say anything properly and it would just end with them cumming, so they scrapped it.

There were many other ideas, but they were all scrapped, scrapped, scrapped.

As they fell behind like this, an unprecedented emergency occurred: everyone except Odile and Odette had successfully proposed!

“This is a disaster, sis. We’re the last ones.”
“We’re last! This is absurd!”

“Sis! Let’s think positively. Being last might be good because it has an impact, right? The world only remembers the first and the last, anyway.”
“Odette! Think about it the other way! To impress the assistant who has received all sorts of proposals, we need an even more fantastic proposal!”
“Oh no!”

Odette’s happy circuit was also burned out by Odile’s cold, hard reality check, and the twins, already struggling with the pressure, were only faced with circumstances that demanded they be even more perfect.

If Luelie had been a bit slower, the pressure would have been less, but Luelie, who received an aircraft carrier fleet as a dowry for the assistant, has been grinning every time they see her these days.

They wondered if the assistant had become that rich, but they found out that he was given the honorary fleet commander position of the fleet that would be deployed as a maritime base for future location points.

“Odette.”
“Yeah, sis.”
“I think we’re screwed, aren’t we?”
“Yeah….”

Odile and Odette’s curly hair drooped like sad puppies.

2.
The long-standing feud between Siwoo and Erelim was appropriately patched up.
However, it was only a patch-up based on Siwoo’s generosity, and some resentment remained.

“Wow, the weather is nice.”

Using that as an excuse, he was taking a walk in the garden after dumping his work on Erelim when he suddenly saw a carriage.

The door of the carriage, painted in a heavy black color, had white and black bird patterns engraved on it.

It was a special carriage from the Geminai County, more like a mobile villa with space expansion magic, perfect for a mobile villa.

“Hmph.”

A carriage parked alone in the garden….

It was a scene that felt very familiar.

Back when he was the caretaker of Trinity Academy, Professor Amelia suddenly asked him to accompany her to Border Town, and he had stood up the twins who were waiting at the outpost.

Back then, a carriage had come like this, and when he opened the door, Odile and Odette, who were very angry, were waiting with their legs crossed.
And as a price, he had his virginity taken through a love potion.

Those were the days.
Feeling a nostalgic longing, he opened the door and….

“Welcome, assistant.”
“Hello, assistant.”

Odile and Odette from those days were there.

The only difference was that their expressions were very haggard instead of being stiff to show the apprentice witch’s intimidation to the caretaker who had broken his promise.
He was startled.

“Is something wrong?”
“No, not really.”
“Your faces are half the size?”
“No, assistant. We’re just tired.”

Moreover, their tension was sluggish and dragging on the floor.
He could see Odette yawning widely out of the corner of his eye.

Siwoo was puzzled and closed the carriage door.

“Okay. Assistant. Shall we go?”
“You’re going to cancel all of today’s schedule, right?”
“Wow…. Your tension is so low.”

It wasn’t just on the surface, but their voices were weak, as if . was used instead of !.
They seemed very tired.

“I can clear my schedule… but where are we going?”

To Siwoo’s question, Odile and Odette answered at the same time.

““Latifundium.””

Even that was a way of speaking that felt nostalgic.

3.
Inside the carriage heading to Latifundium with unwavering comfort, Odile and Odette leaned on Siwoo’s chest and dozed off.

“Ugh, I slept well.”
“We used your shoulder well, assistant.”

Perhaps thanks to that, they had recovered their condition a bit?

By the time they arrived, both of them had some color back in their faces, and they took the lead with their picnic baskets.

It was the first time they had visited again since there was no particular reason to come, but it was still the same surreal fairy forest.

“It’s nice and quiet, right? We asked them to clear it all out so we could have a date with you, assistant.”
“It’s still beautiful even after a long time. No, it’s even more amazing than before?”

The artificially created magic water river flowing gently, the colorful magic sap shining like light bulbs hanging between the giant trees, the magic reflection light that naturally occurs like will-o’-the-wisps, and the crops growing lushly everywhere.

“Back then, it was a dormant period, so we only left the minimum amount of crops.”
“Now we’re in the middle of cultivation.”
“Wow…. It’s like a botanical garden now.”

It was true that the scale of cultivation was different from when they had come last time, and it seemed that was the reason.

Unlike his days as a fake witch researching dimensional travel, Siwoo now knew the names and uses of the flowers, mushrooms, and moss that bloomed everywhere.
It was a new feeling.

“Here, orange juice. It’s for you, assistant.”
“We also brought three bottles of Mendel Hill wine!”

With their picnic baskets dangling on their sides, Odile and Odette entered the treehouse at the top of a large tree.
For reference, Geminai’s special orange juice tastes amazing.

“And… this is the club sandwich we made!”
“Oh, um.”

His spine tingled.
He knew about Odile and Odette’s terrifying cooking skills.

“Don’t be so nervous. We really followed the recipe.”
“That’s right, we didn’t just throw things in like we used to.”
“Oh, you really made it well?”

It certainly tasted good.
There was nothing special about it, but it was a stable taste that could only come from using such good ingredients.

And with the orange juice with its plump fruit and the fragrant Mendel Hill wine, it was like paradise on earth.

This treehouse was a management building that overlooked Latifundium, so it was also a prime spot where you could view the fantastic scenery as if you were on an observation deck.

“So many things happened here.”
“You caught the homunculus, assistant. It was really scary back then, but I fell for you.”
“Yeah, yeah. Even though you never properly learned magic.”
“You always talk about that time.”
“How can we forget it?”

Odile and Odette often brought up old stories like this.

Even though Siwoo now could take down thousands of homunculi at the level of shadow cats, they always said that the assistant from back then was cool.

That was probably because that was the point when the three of their stories began in earnest, when their feelings shifted from simple curiosity to affection.

The first page of a story is always deeply remembered by everyone.

If he hadn’t gotten involved with Odile and Odette, he probably would have quietly researched dimensional magic and then gone back to the modern world.
He wouldn’t have defeated the homunculus and learned the law of shadows through the Gnosis egg.
He wouldn’t have become a witch, and he wouldn’t have been with these grateful lovers.

What was so cute about a slave who had nothing that they treated him so kindly….
It was no exaggeration to say that the beginning of all these stories was Odile and Odette’s kindness.

Odile gulped down the wine from the bottle and sighed before opening her mouth.

“Assistant, actually, we’re going to propose today.”
“Eek! Sis! Why would you say that!”
“What’s the big deal? Do you think the assistant is still the same innocent assistant from back then? He probably already figured it out.”

“Is that true?”
“Well…. I guessed that you were preparing something.”
“See.”
“Ugh….”

Odile shrugged her shoulders, and Odette looked glum.

“But I think it’s all ruined. The more I try to do something amazing, the less I know what to do.”
“Ugh, we tried our best! We even wrote a proposal….”
“Does it have to be special? I’m happy just having a picnic with you two.”
“Liar.”
“It’s not a lie, it’s true. It’s also a bit nostalgic and nice. If you have time, shall we go to the outpost together? A night walk in Tarot Town would be nice too.”

Siwoo had similar worries, but there was no reason why a proposal had to be special.

“The most important thing is that sincerity is conveyed, and with what heart you convey that sincerity to each other. I’m so happy just being with you two.”
“Assistant….”
“Geez…. You’re making me emotional. Well, then, assistant. Can you look out the window for a moment?”
“Out the window?”
“Yes, yes.”

Puzzled, Siwoo looked out the window as the two instructed.

The beautiful and dreamy scenery suddenly sparkled.

At the same time, the colorful magic reflection light that had been rippling on the ground of Latifundium all rose up like a swarm of fireflies.

Floating like soap bubbles, the lights that had risen to the bird’s-eye view of the treehouse presented a magnificent scene as if they were traveling the sea of stars in a small spaceship.

“Wow….”

He had had many experiences so far, but it was not easy to see such a spectacle.
Siwoo, watching the sparks that flew up like fairies and scattered like fireworks, involuntarily exclaimed.

“Operation successful! How is it?”
“We planted the catalysts in advance all night yesterday.”
“It was a lot of hard work, but seeing your reaction, assistant, it was a huge success.”
“Hehe, how is it? You didn’t expect it at all, did you?”

It wouldn’t have been easy for the two apprentice witches to plant catalysts throughout this vast Latifundium and create such a spectacle.

They seemed tired for some reason, and it turned out they were preparing this event.
Even their glumness about not being able to prepare anything was an act.

“Because this is where our story with you, assistant, began.”
“We thought it would be meaningful to propose here.”

His eyes started to sting for no reason.

“So, assistant. Now, be our husband instead of our assistant.”
“How is it? This is the first time you’ve had such a romantic proposal, right?”

“It feels a bit awkward. It felt like you would be our assistant forever.”
“I know. When sis first captured you, I never thought it would turn out like this.”

The proposal passed quickly, like a casual conversation.

Odile and Odette also spoke as if they were calm, but the sound of their hearts pounding told him how much weight this confession carried.

And Siwoo’s answer to that?

“Odile, Odette.”

Of course, wasn’t it decided from the beginning?