Chapter 696 – #140_Anguish and Choice (2)

#696

One.
In Japan, there is a fishing method that has a long tradition and history.

It is a “Ukai” (鵜飼) in which a torch is attached to the superstructure of a ferry boat and a rope is tied around the neck of a cormorant to see the light and catch the flocking sweetfish.

The sweetfish caught in this way were more unscathed than those caught with net material, and were treated as good products and presented to the lord of the castle.
Now, after a long time has passed, I can’t recall the taste at all, but it used to be Rinne’s favorite side dish on meals.

At first glance, it is easy to regard it as a complicated and cumbersome, and just as antique, but compared to Rinne’s situation, it was a fishing method that even gave off a sense of gossip.

Cormorants cannot swallow large sweetfish because they have a line hanging around their necks.
A large fish caught in the throat is forcibly vomited and put into the hands of the owner who handles the cormorant.

Cormorants, who are allowed only sweetfish that can be swallowed between the lines, desperately dig through the cold black water several times to satisfy their hunger with tiny fish.

For many years Linne was a cormorant.

The abundance and peace to be enjoyed were caught on a string around his neck and he had to spit it out, and he had to push himself to the limit in order to enjoy the level of joy at the level of a baby sweetfish.

But she had no complaints about him.

There is a conventional wisdom that behavior patterns are usually by-products of values, but the relationship schema does not always work in the right direction.
Actions and habits that have been repeated for a long time, on the contrary, affect values.

Just as a cormorant exploited by her fisherman’s hand eventually dives into the water to devour her young sweetfish, so Linnaeus also accepted her own life.

Cormorants and humans are animals of adaptation after all.

“…….”

Linnaeus was sitting in her guest room, passing the whole day aimlessly.

Normally, she would do sword dance alone, meditate, or engage in sparring with students.
But now only her complicated anguish fills her head like a fog.

Being an adaptable animal does not always mean adaptability to adverse conditions.

Once you experience the rewards of a higher level, the rewards of the lower levels become stale.
Trying to maintain the status quo while experiencing this sense of reverse can be seen as a type of adaptation.

Let’s take an easy example.

One day.
What if the cormorant, which preyed on a chubby sweetfish with the leash untied, was put on the leash again?

Can I be satisfied with the small feeling of fullness I feel when I swallow a small sweetfish like before?

The feelings Rinne felt after waking up from an ecstatic night’s dream were similar.
The experience of just one night made the days of lack familiar for hundreds of years unfamiliar and uncomfortable.

At first, she tried to deal with the discomfort by developing her animosity towards her pupil, who had humiliated her Linne with her shallow tricks.
As usual, she tried to calm her agitated mind in her meditation.

But gradually it becomes restless.

“…….”

Pleasure wasn’t the only thing that agitated Rinne.

If it was just pleasure, I would have had the patience to cut her tongue off.
What Lee Je-wa and Rin-ne think of is other emotions she felt while being held in his arms.

She has been living in loneliness that no one can understand.
The solitude that seemed to float alone in an empty universe would never be resolved.

However, the pulse of the two soared together and a sense of unity that became one body.
When I woke up, the warmth of my flesh, which seemed to cover my loneliness, filled the void.

It was warm and cozy like the sunlight that whispered in my ear when I took a nap as a child.
To the extent that I inadvertently want to be held defenselessly in his arms once more.

“Shin Siwoo.”

As long as she continues to have him around, Rinne can be happy.
She can keep feeling these same emotions.
You can settle down without pushing yourself and struggling to be strong.

As these elements were added, the values ​​that were the basis of life began to shake.

But there was a big problem here.

Shin Si-woo is nominally Rinne’s disciple.

As you can see from the fact that she slept with him to dig up her magical power amplification until her day, Rinne doesn’t care too much about the taboo that she is a priest.
Isn’t it really the relationship between an apprentice witch and a witch in the first place?

It’s not like they’re willing to spread disrespectful rumors outside.

But whimpering like a horned bitch, let alone the master’s dignity in front of his pupil, was a completely different matter.
When she experiences the same pleasure, Linnaeus will show him her broken, uncontrollable side again.
No matter how much I want the honey water he gives me, I don’t like it.

“Ah.”

Thus, a ray of light flashes in Rinne’s mind as she repeatedly ponders her troubles.

Yes.
I haven’t been aware of it until now, but if you look closely, this issue is a male and female issue.
Naturally, it is correct to approach it from the perspective of dealing with the relationship between men and women.

She has a good way to solve it once and for all if Rinne’s prestige being trampled on in the process of entering into a relationship with him is a problem.

“Marriage….”

She excommunicates him and holds a formal wedding ceremony.

She is Linnaeus, born as the daughter of a once powerful castle lord and educated by her.
Considering that the period was at the end of her Edo Shogunate, Rinne’s housekeeping ritual was really outdated.

Isn’t the virtue of a married woman that she always walks two steps behind her husband, takes care of her manners, and devotes herself to her husband?

It is embarrassing to talk about it one by one, but it is not mentioned otherwise, but her obedience to her husband will not be limited only when the silky day is bright.
Even if her husband’s obscene taste is forced on her in her bed, it would be the right attitude and mindset for her to respond willingly with a smile.

In other words, she will not have to struggle to show her master’s prestige and dignity if she marries him.

Even if she gives out female-like gasps and indecisive moans, there is no need to be ashamed because it is her husband’s request.
Because that’s the ideal wife.

It wasn’t difficult to think about it for a bit that this thought flow was dotted with logical leaps.

In the first place, why would people hear that human relationships are difficult if everything is comfortable with a change in the relationship setting from “Priest” To “Couple”?

She just turns her eyes away and ignores her, even though Linnaeus notices her inwardly.
Because she had a more desperate goal than that.

“Then….”

You can propose to call Shin Siu right away and hold her wedding ceremony.
She will not accept any rejection.

But that is to press down her god Siu with the authority of her teacher, not with her wife’s devotion.

Since she has only shown him a strict side, she must show another side as well.
How she puts on the first button will determine the future of her married life.

Linnaeus got up from her seat after more than half a day of her hard work.

2.
As a bride-to-be, what are the additional points that can be seen by the groom?

The talent of singing and dancing?
Mastery of learning?
Of course, the above two are also important, but he is fluent in all lyrics.
Among them, it can be said that serving good dishes is the best.

So, before Rinne gave Katabuta all her words, she decided to serve her food to Shin Siu.

But there is a problem here.
Since Linnaeus was born, she has never cooked.

Before the apprentice witches, she took care of family servants from the moment they woke up to the moment they fell asleep.
Under the instructions of her master that after she became an apprentice witch, she did not need to eat, she stopped eating, and after becoming a witch, she did not feel the need to cook because she could not taste.

Therefore, the chosen person is the medicine shop in Dignity Town that I stopped by to buy Siwoo’s aphrodisiac.
Its owner is the Witch of Freedom.

She said that since she already noticed her relationship with Siu, she would have no reason for unnecessary noise to leak outside, and she would have a lot of food ingredients beneficial to her spiritual body.

Most of all, I remember hearing from Rosie Alou, who had wide feet, that she had excellent food.

“Freedom Witch. I have business.”
“Sorry, business just ended.”

On the other hand, Rinne’s appearance rivaled a small-scale apocalypse to the free witch who enjoyed a leisurely drink with hemp and cocaine as snacks.
A witch of freedom who openly shows dislike and tries to lock the door.

“I will pay the price generously.”

Rinne put her heavy pocket down on her.

“Can’t we just go? I really hate dogs….”

The liberty witch opened her pockets, checking for bombs, and her expression brightened.
It was because the 24K gold bars with the serial number erased were piled up and shining brilliantly.

If you add up the total weight, it seems to be a good 1kg.
If converted into US dollars, it is equivalent to about 60,000 dollars.

In general, it might not be a very large amount for a wealthy witch, but it was an amount that anyone with a small amount of money would be happy with.

Her opponent is a sword witch who is notorious even among her exploits.
The free witch opened her mouth with the feeling of earning pocket money since she couldn’t force her out anyway.

“Okay, what is your request?”

Depending on the answer, the Freedom Witch, who did not put the gold in the safe to return it, became stunned when she heard the details of the ‘Request’.

It’s easy to express it here and there, but it’s simple to summarize.

“So, do you want the man to have some good food?”
“I heard you are good at cooking.”
“It is, but….”
“Of course you die if you don’t keep the secret.”

While the threats were not properly heard, the Freedom Witch looked at Linnaeus.

Even if it wasn’t Rinne’s clothes, she was a woman like a Japanese sword.
Nor have I ever heard of rumors of her fornicating with a handsome lover.

That visual, that personality, and just having that kind of taste is enough to get me into trouble.

But the other day, she and a male witch bought a lot of stimulant ingredients, and this time, she asks the man to set the table well?
It seems that she has fallen for that smooth male witch to the very core.

It was hard to believe even when I saw it myself.
It was harder to ask Rinne with her eyes wide open.

“How long will it take?”
“Since I received something, I should use my strength too…. 4 hours to buy ingredients, 8 hours to cook?”
“Ingredient?”
“This is a drugstore. You have to buy ingredients for which freshness is important, such as eel, separately.”

Will the small tenants of Hexsenacht have any power?
All you have to do is cook in silence, keep secrets, and earn pocket money.

Leaving Rinne at her shop, the Freedom Witch walked lightly toward the reception desk.