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Odile and Odette, who had run out in a hurry, just disappeared, as if they were playing hide and seek.

Well, they actually went to their hideout in Tarot Town.

“This is just too much! Way too much...”

Normally, just being near her Mr. Assistant was enough to make her smile, but now she didn’t even want to look at him.

It was all because Odile felt she had finally hit her breaking point. She wanted nothing more than letting all her pent-up frustrations explode.

“But still, Sis... Shouldn’t we have at least heard him out? Sharon unnie and Duchess Tiphereth were there too. Wasn’t it a bit rude?”

“Are you kidding me, Odette?! This matter is totally worth getting mad about!”

“But... Mr. Assistant had his own reasons, didn’t he...? Also, that research on brand succession really does sound like important stuff...”

Meanwhile Odette, who had stormed out with her sister, managed to calm down faster.

After pondering about her Mr. Assistant’s words a little more, she didn’t feel like there were any deep romantic feelings involved.

Besides, with rivals like Sharon and Eloa in the picture, even if Countess Yesod joined, there wouldn’t be any big changes occurring.

“Still, I’m mad at him!”

“Me too, but...”

“I liked Mr. Assistant better the way he was before!”

“...Yeah, me too.”

Odile’s words reminded Odette of the time when it was just the three of them in that carriage, spending passionate nights together.

Their feelings were fresh and innocent back then—hadn’t fully bloomed into love yet, but they were having fun.

They even brought him here to this hideout to play all kinds of naughty pranks on him...

Odette, swept up in Odile’s ongoing complaints, went downstairs and returned with a bottle of alcohol.

“We went out of our way to buy a board game just to make Mr. Assistant happy... Every time we wanted to see him, he’d be busy, with lessons, with work... We can’t even spend our time together! I just can’t...!”

“Sis... Don’t drink too much...”

“Shut up, Odette! I’ve decided to not give a damn today!”

Odile started cursing Siwoo as she chugged from the bottle.

At that moment...

-Whoosh!

A faint blue glow of mana slipped through the crack in the door, opening it.

Their Mr. Assistant had come.

The fact that he found them so quickly even though they hadn’t told him where they had gone was proof of how well he understood them.

But, of course, that alone wasn’t enough to make things right.

“You’re in here, aren’t you?”

Siwoo, who didn’t have the face to look at them, entered awkwardly.

As Siwoo stepped inside, Odette made eye contact with him and frantically shook her head, trying to signal him not to approach Odile.

She even mimed slicing her neck with her hand.

It was a warning for Siwoo to leave now, because trying to reason with Odile right now would be pointless.

But he just ignored the warning.

Instead, he stood there, head lowered, not sure what to say.

“What are you doing here?! You’ve got a lot of nerve coming here!”

“Ms. Odile...”

“This isn’t your place, Assistant! This is Odette and my hideout. I don’t remember ever giving you a key to just walk in here.”

Her voice dripped with venom, and she bared her teeth at him.

A scowl forming across her face at Siwoo.

“I’ve been patient, I’ve been doing my best to try to understand you, Mr. Assistant! You’re the one who saved our lives, after all!”

“...Ms. Odile...”

“I don’t mind that Sharon unnie likes you! I’m glad I can be friends with Sharon unnie! I heard about the Duchess’ situation from Sharon unnie. But, even after all that, I have to tolerate another person?! Don’t you think that’s a bit too much?!”

“Sis...”

Odile shook off Odette’s restraining arm with a cold glare and shouted with all her frustration.

“I wish I’d never met someone like you! I should’ve never asked you to teach me about love!”

Siwoo couldn’t find any words to respond.

While yes, his first affair with the countess was the result of the countess’ temptation, and they only continued for magic research’s purposes, he knew he’d been complacent.

If he’d had nothing to hide, he wouldn’t have kept it a secret from the twins, Sharon, and Eloa.

“I want to apologize.”

“Hah!”

Odile let out a mocking laugh and a bitter smile as she heard Siwoo’s words.

“Apologize? What kind of apology? You’re just going to keep doing your research with Countess Yesod anyway!”

“Sis, please... I’m sure Mr. Assistant had his reasons...”

“Odette, stay out of it. Do you have no self-respect?”

“I promise this will be the last time. I swear.”

Odile, with a deep scowl, strode up to Siwoo.

She jabbed her finger into his chest.

“Apologize. Get down on your knees and give me a real, sincere apology.”

In truth, Odile knew.

She and her sister didn’t have any right to ‘monopolize’ Siwoo.

Initially, the twins approached him because they thought he’d be an exciting tool for learning.

Their relationship started with an innocent curiosity, with little emotional attachment.

Yet, Siwoo had saved both of their lives twice, leveraging his knowledge of their secret.

And he had risked his own life to do it.

On the day she saw him lying unconscious in his sickbed, Odile had made a vow.

If he woke up safely, no matter what, she’d always be on his side.

Even if the world ended, she’d stay by him. No matter what.

“Do you know what makes me the angriest? It’s that later, I’ll probably regret saying all this, feeling like an idiot for being too harsh with you!”

What disappointed her most was realizing that, despite her big promises, she was here, throwing a tantrum over something so trivial.

Odile’s voice, which had been firing accusations at Siwoo like a machine gun, began to falter.

Tears were rolling down her doll-like, beautifully double-lidded eyes.

“I hate you, Mr. Assistant... But I hate myself even more...”

“Sis...don’t cry... Huaaah...”

Odette, seeing her sister break down, couldn’t hold back and began sobbing too.

As the main cause for the normally cheerful twins to cry like this, Siwoo felt a crushing guilt, as if the sky was falling on him.

“Ms. Odile–”

“Let go of me!”

“I’m really sorry, Ms. Odile.”

“I said, let go!”

Siwoo bent down and pulled Odile into a hug, but she struggled with all her might.

She slapped him, kicked him, and even scratched his arms in defiance.

But as he kept standing there, letting her take out her frustrations, her strength slowly began to fade.

“I hate... I really hate you, Mr. Assistant...”

“I promise I won’t disappoint you two again, Ms. Odile, Ms. Odette.”

“Enough, go play your love games with someone else... wWe’re done with this.”

Odette, who had been quietly crying, looked up in surprise.

“Wait... Sis? Me too?”

“We’re a pair, so yes, you too!”

“B-But... I don’t want that...”

Despite her words, Odile leaned into Siwoo’s arms.

Soon, she was completely nestled in his embrace.

“You really are a jerk, Mr. Assistant. Even both of us—apprentice witches from the great Gemini Family still aren’t enough for you...”

“I’m sorry. I really am an awful person.”

“Look here.”

Odile grabbed Siwoo’s arm and bit down hard.

It wasn’t just a playful bite; she actually sank her teeth in so hard it almost drew blood.

Tiny, even teeth marks remained on his arm.

“Does it hurt?”

“I can handle it... It’s fine.”

“Then I need to make it hurt more. After all, I went through a lot of pain too.”

Odile reached out and stretched Siwoo’s cheek.

She pinched him so hard that tears started to form in his eyes.

“Haha... hahaha....”

Seeing Siwoo’s pained, twisted face, Odile burst into laughter.

With tears welling up from laughing so hard, Odile finally grabbed Odette’s wrist and leaned against Siwoo.

Both of them then snuggled into his arms.

“I know Mr. Assistant wouldn’t just ignore something like this. If you were that kind of person, you wouldn’t have saved us.”

“Ms. Odile...”

“Mr. Assistant is an overly kind, selfless person. That’s why you can’t keep your relationship with women straight. At first, I was a little mad, but I know there’s nothing I can do about it. Just please be more mindful from now on. If anything like this happens again, please let us know.”

In the midst of what he never expected would be such a generous forgiveness, Odile suddenly leaned in and spoke.

Her beautiful purple eyes locked onto Siwoo’s without a single tremor.

“But today, you’ll have to properly apologize to both me and Odette.”

“Lucky for you, we’re the only ones here.”

Neither of them had any plans for the day, and even if there were, there was no way that either of them would proceed with them anyway.

Siwoo understood just how generous Odile and Odette’s proposal was, especially since he deserved a lot more punishment for what happened.

“Will a mere apology really be enough?”

He asked, still feeling a little guilty, and the answer came back quickly.

“What? Were you planning to give us some kind of consolation money, Mr. Assistant?”

“It’ll take more than just a little bit of money, you know?”

“Well, maybe, but...”

“If you don’t have money, you’ll have to pay with your body.”

Though they said it in a joking tone, it was still an incredibly generous offer.

Odile leaned in first, pursing her lips.

She tugged on his neck, pouting her lips as if asking for a kiss.

Odette, having let her sister go first, stared expectantly at Siwoo, waiting for her turn.

“If you don’t do it right, I’ll get mad again, you know?”

Siwoo couldn’t feel anything but guilt.

The least he could do was give his full attention to the twins at this moment as a form of apology.

Odile’s lips tangled with his, pressing in deeply.

The tip of her tongue, small and pointed, slid smoothly into his mouth.

The sweet scent of grape wine mingled with the stickiness of her saliva.

“Mmh...mmh...”

Odile held him tightly, pressing her lips to his repeatedly as if she wanted to become one with him.

When his hand brushed her shoulder, she pressed her chest against him. Her breathing turned a little heavier, as if inviting his touch.

With each button he undid, her small shoulders trembled, delicate like a startled bird.

“Mr. Assistant... You look so sexy when you’re undressing someone.”

“Me too, Mr. Assistant! Me too! Undress me and kiss me too!”

Seeing her sister’s anger fade, Odette eagerly joined in.

Siwoo carefully undressed each twin, one by one.

First, he slid off their capes, then their delicate silk shirts, and nude-toned bralettes.

He continued until the twins stood completely bare before him, just as they were at birth.

Even though they’d seen each other naked plenty of times, the twins still shyly covered themselves, a bit embarrassed.

“Now it’s Mr. Assistant’s turn to strip.”

“We’ll help you with that!”

Just as he was about to pull out his already throbbing manhood.

A cold breeze blew in.

The terrace windows were firmly shut, so it couldn’t have been coming from there—or so they thought.

“What the hell is going on here?”

At that moment, a chilling voice cut through the air.

Behind the terrace door that had swung open.

There stood a woman, standing behind the billowing curtains illuminated by moonlight.

She was one of the two pillars of the Gemini Family, and also the twins’ master.

The room was suddenly filled with a radiant purple glow of mana...

Deneb Gemini had arrived.