Chapter 155 – #33_Cohabitation (3)

#153
One.
After watching the movie, Sharon’s eyes were swollen.
Because she used almost a pack of tissues, wiping away her tears and snot and watching a movie.
Is it because her eyes are so swollen that they don’t look ugly at all because the original is so good?
Siwoo spread the blanket on the sofa and asked Sharon, who was still wet with emotion.

“So, I’m going to close my eyes for a bit. How are you?”
“Sleep? Good for a long time.”
“Do you usually sleep?”
“I usually don’t have time to sleep… But I like sleeping. I’m in a good mood today, so I think it would be nice to take a nap.”

Sleep is strictly a preference for witches, but the percentage of witches who do not sleep is much rarer.
Even witches are human after all.
This is because sleep is a time when you can take a break without thinking about anything and leave a gap in your thoughts.
In particular, it is said that young witches who have just become witches tend to prefer sleep.
Siwoo also always slept for three to four hours a day.

It was already dawn outside the blackout curtains, so Siwoo wrapped the door tightly.
In fact, the sofa is wider and softer than most beds, so you can get a good night’s sleep with just a blanket and a pillow.

“Today I will sleep in the living room. You sleep in my room.”
“Yes? Nope! I’ll sleep in the living room.”
“Still, you’re a guest, how can you sleep on the sofa?”
“I’m in a position where I live on top of myself.”

I would have ordered the bed frame and mattress anyway.
She only had to sleep in the living room for a day or two, but Sharon never showed signs of backing down.
Sharon rushed after her, slipped into the blanket Siu had laid out, and declared her territory while hugging her pillow tightly.

“I will sleep here.”
“Then I won’t sleep today. You sleep in the bed.”
“Nope! Don’t you want to sleep because of me? Then I won’t sleep either.”
“Am I really okay? Anyway, the sofa is as soft and comfortable as the bed.”
“Then will I really be all right? They say the sofa is as soft as a bed.”

I don’t know why he’s so stubborn when he says it’s inconvenient to have a long-awaited guest, especially a woman, sleep on the sofa.
If this continues, I think both of them will go over without sleeping.
Then she said as if Sharon had a good idea for her.

“Then do you want to sleep in bed? The bed is wide anyway.”

Siu said firmly.

“No.”
“Why?”

However, Sharon’s question, which had been answered immediately, was in short supply.

“Anyway, it’s a bit like that in the same bed.”
“So why? They sleep together in the movie.”

In the romance movies I saw today, there were many scenes where a man and a woman sleep in the same bed and wake up.
In addition, there were sex scenes that were not explicit but subtly described.
Because of that, I was a little embarrassed to see them together.

“Uh… Um… They’re a couple. Love each other.”
“If you’re not in love, shouldn’t you sleep together in the same bed?
Of course, in the movie, they sleep in the same bed and even have intercourse, but I don’t think you would do that either, and I don’t think I would either? Aren’t there any problems?”

It is absolutely not that Siwoo proposed living together with Sharon for a sinister purpose.
It wasn’t that she didn’t find any attraction in her.
I didn’t want awkward episodes to occur while lying in the same bed.

“No way.”
“Then I won’t sleep.”
“I’m not sleeping either.”
“……..”
“……..”

Sharon looked like she couldn’t understand his way of thinking, and Siwoo kept his mouth shut with a puzzled look.
And at the same time, as if they had made a promise, they looked at each other and burst out laughing.
It was just that the situation itself tickled something.
Sharon smiled and apologized first.

“Sorry, I was too stubborn. But today I will sleep on the sofa. It’s embarrassing yes The bed will come in a few days anyway, right?”
“Okay. I’ve been resting since I want you to rest more comfortably.”
“Don’t worry, it’s really comfortable. I set an alarm, so see you in an hour or three.”
“Okay.”

In the end, it ended with Siwoo sleeping on the bed and Sharon sleeping on the sofa.

2.
“It’s time for me to pay for my meal too! Sharon Evergreen’s Magic Classroom, let’s begin.”

Sharon, who had a rough breakfast of waffles and pancakes, entered Siu’s room bravely.
After finishing her tidying up, Siwoo follows her into the room.
Sharon looked around his room, snooping around.

“Well, come to think of it, this is my first time entering a men’s room.”
“Okay? Isn’t it the first time you enter a man’s house? You didn’t say anything.”
“I didn’t think much of it until a while ago, but since the movie gives so much meaning to it, I’m worried about it.”

Certainly, if you see Sharon smiling a little awkwardly, she might have felt something while watching a movie.
But I can assure you that he wouldn’t be paying attention to even half of the ambiguous feelings Siwoo felt.
If it had been so, I wouldn’t have brought up the story of sleeping in the same bed, and I would have gone to change my embarrassing clothes right away.

“You are studying hard.”
“It’s easier to see if you put it like this.”
“Still, something…Something looks professional.”

On a cork board that fills one wall, the organic relationship between each clue and knowledge is expressed with strings as if detectives reasoned.
Similarly, on the whiteboard, the rough shape of the magic circle was expressed in mathematical formulas and transcribed.
Although Siwoo guessed that he could only interpret about 50% of Ain’s magic.

“Is it okay if I take a look?”
“What I want to ask you.”
“I’m going to ask you something you don’t understand, so I’ll ask you to explain.”

Sharon carefully examined the magic circle arranged by Siu and compared it to the magic formula pasted on the cork board.
It was because I had to check what level of magic he had in which field before I could teach him exactly anything.
Sharon, who had been checking Siwoo’s auxiliary explanation and her magic formula for a while, nodded her head.

“I guess I know a little bit. What kind of situation.”
“Okay?”

Seeu was delighted.
Recently, Siwoo’s magic research was facing a wall.
As there is no reference material or advisor, it is a wall that I can’t see any way to get over.

“Okay, would you like to sit here first?”

Sharon sat Siu next to her.
Then, by organizing them on paper, he calmly begins to explain.

“You know that there are 4 major systems of magic, right?”
“Uh, yes.”

Elements, alchemy, spirits, barriers.
Since there are at least as many magnetic spells as there are witches, it is impossible to put all of them in this category, but witches over 90% can be subclassed into these four lines.

Let’s take a look at each one first…
Element.
It is a system that uses a variety of magic based on the harmony of the elements of water, fire, earth, and wind, which are mainly handled regardless of Eastern and Western cultures.
As they have a long tradition accumulated since BC, most orthodox witches with a long history use this line, and the number is the highest.

The society where elemental witches gather in Gehenna is the ‘Academy of Truth and Truth’.
Amelia Marigold, who uses ‘particle magic’ that fuses the elements of wind and water, was also of this type.

Then pension.
If elemental magic makes the caster directly the subject of causing mystery through mana, this side actively utilizes tools and catalysts a little more.
As the field of drug manufacturing, which makes elixirs, reagents, and potions, and the field of magic engineering, which makes artifacts and magic tools, all belong to this side, it is as versatile as elemental magic, and of course there are many alchemy witches.

In Gehenna, a society called ‘Emerald Tablet’ was created by witches of alchemy, and there is a statistic that 90% of witches who use elemental and alchemy magnetism combined make up over 90% of all witches.

And the next one.
From here, the number of users is reduced to the point where it is ambiguous to even call it a system.
It is because the phenomenon of manifesting one’s image as the word ‘word spirit’ is itself a subcategory of ‘chanting’ that is used in most magic.

As much as ‘words’ are the subject of magic, there are many opinions that standardization and systematization of magic are outdated, and because of that, most of the language users have moved to the elemental system through generations.
Therefore, as of now, the only famous witch who uses the spirit of speech is Count Jemonai.

Finally, the barrier.
Even though there are few users of Eonryeongdo, there were many saying that the barrier system was practically the same as being in actual combat.
It’s because the argument that it should be called the 3rd line now comes out when it’s bored.

Many witches know how to handle the ‘backside barrier’ belonging to the barrier system, but that is because Duke Keter reorganized and spread it so that any witch can use it, and there were virtually no witches who delved deeply into it.

Therefore, in Gehenna, only Duke Keter and Count Yesod, who uses ‘force field magic’, remain as witches with magnetic magic of the barrier system.

“First of all, please know that I am really surprised. You really have great talent.”
“Is that the tidy?”
“Oh, I think it’s a brilliant talent that makes me tear up and envy you.”

As Sharon looked closely, Siu’s achievements were remarkable.
She was so sophisticated and novel that it was impossible to believe that she had accomplished it alone in a few years.
In a way no one had ever thought of, she built up her own achievements at a dazzling speed.

However, his magnetism magic was not perfect.
He created an optimal result based on limited materials, but it was clearly felt that he lacked basic skills.
To the point where you can immediately understand why Siwoo, who has this level of talent, was blocked by a wall.

“Your magnetic magic is largely a state of harmony of two systems.
I don’t know for sure, but I said coordinate movement, right? This one I can’t help at all. Unfortunately, it seems that more independent research is needed on the barrier system.
But the Law of Shadows is elemental, so I think I can help.”

Sharon shakes her hand and her body glows.
It was a magical girl transformation scene.
Sharon, who had at some point changed into her witch’s uniform, waved her wand with one hand, she says.

“My magnetic magic is an element system that applies the 5 elements of Tarva. Are you ignorant of the elements?”
“That’s right, after all, the only thing I’ve researched is dimension shifting, and that’s what I got from the Gnosis egg.”
“Starting today, I will teach you the knowledge I know.”

Sharon held out her hand to Siu.
Siwoo looks at the hand awkwardly.

“What are you doing? Catch.”
“Hand?”
“Yes, from now on I will show you the world I see. It is the sharing of images through physical contact.”

Siwoo held Sharon’s hand.
It was an awkward grip, like shaking hands in an awkward situation.

“Don’t do that, you have to hold it properly like this.”

As if this wasn’t the case, Sharon’s long, slender fingers pierced the gap between Shiu’s hands and interlocked them tightly.

“Uh….”
“Oh….”

And the two of them let out a sigh of admiration at the same time.
It was because of Sharon’s soft and dainty knuckles, and Sharon’s because of his palms that were thicker and harder than expected.
Sharon breaks the awkward silence with a bashful laugh.

“I was just trying to teach you magic. It’s a strange feeling. I must have watched a romance movie for no reason.”
“Okay, let’s see a war movie next time.”
“But don’t stay so far, could you come a little closer?”
“Like this?”
“Yeah, fine now.”

Two people facing each other, as if dancing a waltz, with one hand clasped and holding each other.
Sharon smiles slightly at Siwoo, who is shy, and closes her eyes.

“Now, close your eyes and feel only the touch of my hand.”
“I did it.”
“You don’t have to answer. Just slowly, in the most comfortable state… Think that you have become one with me.”

Sharon smiles and grabs Siwoo’s hand.
I could feel the magical energy radiating from her hand and entangling it starting from the skin it touched.
It was a strange sensation that could not be felt just by holding her hand.

A very mysterious sense of oneness where you can hear each other’s heartbeat, feel Sharon’s breath as if it were her own, and share her senses.

Sharon suddenly let her hand go.
At the same time, her concentration breaks as if she has been suddenly pulled out of the water.
Sharon said with a puzzled expression.

“Ah… I’m sorry, I was surprised that your heart was beating so fast. Where are you uncomfortable?”

Siu inadvertently placed his hand on his chest.
Then I saw my heart was beating.
Doesn’t she mean that Sharon felt this too, just as Siwoo felt Sharon’s sensation?
I was somehow ashamed.

“No, just um…”

Seeing Siwoo bewildered, Sharon smiles like it tickles.
It was a laugh that I understood.

“Are you very nervous? It can be. But it’s not that scary. Come on, take a deep breath.”
“Whoa… Ha… Whoa…”
“Right, let’s try again.”

It took almost 30 minutes for Siwoo to see the world filled with all kinds of elements as Sharon wanted.
And on this day, until Sharon went to her part-time job at a convenience store, she continued to take lessons in elemental magic.