Chapter 41: I’ll Feel Terrible If I Don’t Wash Them For Him

Chapter 41: I’ll Feel Terrible If I Don’t Wash Them For Him

‘Damn it, damn it, damn it!’ Standing next to the sofa, Ocris looked at the stinky kid sleeping soundly. She bit her lip, struggling with herself for a very long time. The towel in her hand was almost twisted dry by her.

In the end, Ocris couldn’t stand the turmoil inside her—how could he sleep without washing his feet!

How could he sleep well like this!

This damn kid!

Thinking of this, Ocris couldn’t help but want to wipe Louis with the towel. However, before that, to prevent Louis from suddenly waking up, this young witch blinked her eyes and cast a sleep spell on Louis.

Seeing Louis fall into a deep sleep, Ocris secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but she felt even worse. It was as if her conscience was being condemned.

‘What, what did I do? I knocked him out? Is this taking advantage of him?’

Looking at the ‘little boy’ lying unconscious, Ocris’s expression became strange.

She had deliberately knocked him out just to quietly wipe his feet. Thinking of this, Ocris felt she was going crazy. She covered her face in shame, wishing she could strangle herself.

She shouldn’t have used that magic spell on the agreement back then!

Now it was making her suffer so much.

Obviously, her skill level was too high.

She felt so proud.

No, tomorrow she must find a way to get rid of this magic spell!

But… it seemed she had burned that agreement…

Damn it…

No, no, I’m so smart, there must be a way to lift it!

Thinking this, Ocris became confident. She decided to go to the Library tomorrow and look it up properly.

She shook off these messy thoughts. She was starting to feel a bit overwhelmed.

With her face burning red, Ocris slowly crouched down. With trembling hands, she picked up the towel and began to wipe Louis’s feet.

Not far away, holding a bar of soap, Helen had been secretly peeking through the door crack for a long time. When she saw her sister do such a thing, her eyes widened.

Clearly, this girl had a much thicker skin than her sister. And the moment her sister started wiping Louis’s feet, Helen couldn’t help but cover her mouth and giggle—her sister right now looked just like a house-elf!

It would be best if from now on, sister always wiped Louis’s feet and washed his socks. As long as my skin is thick, I won’t have to do this job!

Helen suddenly felt completely relaxed all over. And after seeing someone wipe Louis’s feet, she felt all her worries and shame disappear instantly.

Ocris was the same. In that moment of relief, she even couldn’t help but hum a little tune softly.

Why are his feet so big!

And there’s so much hair on his legs… Do all boys have hair on their legs?

After finishing one foot, Ocris suddenly felt a little sense of accomplishment—Yes, this is how one should sleep properly!

Wait, what am I thinking?

Ocris covered her flushed face, wishing she could strangle herself all over again.

She angrily started wiping Louis’s other foot, venting the little anger in her heart.

Just then, from the sofa in the dimly lit hall, a drowsy voice suddenly sounded.

“What are you doing?”

Instantly, Ocris felt as if struck by lightning. Her face turned deathly pale as she knelt and sat back on the floor.

With a click, Helen’s door slammed shut in fright.

“(Yawn), It can’t be, can it? Is the big star of Sacred Icon Tree Academy, Your Highness Ocris, secretly getting up in the middle of the night to wipe my feet?” Louis yawned, rubbed his eyes, and looked at the pale-faced Ocris. “I must still be asleep, dreaming.”

Saying this, Louis sleepily scratched his head again, looking as if he wasn’t fully awake.

The word ‘dreaming’ sounded like heavenly music to Ocris. A spark of inspiration flashed, and she couldn’t help but nod quickly.

Then, she suddenly realized this wasn’t the time to nod. She quickly blinked her eyes again and used a hypnosis spell, to make Louis think this really was a dream and forget about this matter.

Of course, the most crucial thing was, this kid must not know he actually managed to perform Apparition! At least not before the two magic spells ‘Mental Disturbance’ and ‘Overwhelming Shame’ were lifted. Absolutely not!!

Otherwise, if this kid deliberately didn’t wash his feet every day…

Ahhhhh!

Ocris felt she was going crazy.

Unfortunately, this hypnosis spell probably wouldn’t work. After all, even Foxfire thrown at Louis would be nullified, let alone this kind of mental magic? Even Stuart coming over probably couldn’t hypnotize this learned Wizard, much less a novice like Ocris?

So Ocris discovered that her hypnosis spell had actually failed to take effect!

Maybe because she was too nervous?

She quickly leaned close to Louis’s ear and used that mana-infused voice to say: “Sleep, sleep, foolish Louis. Don’t… you are dreaming—just think, how could the noble Princess of the Kingdom of Sorrento possibly wipe your feet? You wish! Stop fantasizing… ahem, go ahead and fantasize, fantasize about me washing your feet, keep sleeping… When you wake up, you’ll find that you couldn’t use Apparition today, and you’ll forget what happened in the dream…”

It seemed to work. Louis looked at Ocris blankly and nodded—(I’m so confused! What are you doing? Please don’t do this anymore, okay? I can barely keep pretending!)

Seeing Louis nod blankly, Ocris heaved a huge sigh of relief. She patted her chest. Lowering her head, she started wiping Louis’s feet again.

As she wiped, Ocris suddenly felt something was off—Louis seemed quite cooperative.

She raised her head in confusion and saw Louis looking at her with a smile.

At that moment, Ocris felt another bolt from the blue.

Before she could think more, Louis’s large hand reached over and pinched her cheek: “Good girl, wiped so clean. Master is satisfied today, you don’t have to wash today’s socks. Go back to sleep now.”

Saying this, Louis also patted Ocris’s cheek, then left the dumbfounded Ocris behind, stretched lazily, and went back to his room to sleep—on the way, he glared at the crack of Helen’s door.

A cool breeze blew in from the window, brushed past the light gauze curtains, and stirred Ocris’s face.

She knelt there woodenly, not moving a muscle.

A moment later, her face turned green, then white, then red.

“I… I must be dreaming… Or, Louis must be sleepwalking… Yes! The hypnosis spell worked. He thinks he’s in a dream. Otherwise, how would he dare to be so bold!”

Ocris suddenly understood (deceived herself).

‘This stinky kid, how dare he be so disrespectful to me in a dream…’ Ocris gritted her teeth, her face so red it seemed about to drip.

—Just now, she was like a maid! Recalling the scene of her wiping his feet, and the things Louis said, the actions he did. Ocris was mortified to death.

Louis, this stinky kid! Ocris noted this matter down. After tomorrow, she would definitely make Louis pay!

But thinking of this, Ocris covered her face again, wanting to cry.

If this got out, she wouldn’t be able to show her face! If the academy professors knew about this bet and discovered that her apprentice Louis had the talent for Apparition. That would be interesting!

Everyone would surely say. Ocris had nothing better to do than secretly wash her student’s feet—although she would absolutely never admit it.

But who would believe her!

People would love gossiping about this!

That “The Chatterbox” always liked making up rumors about her for no reason. Now those reporters would have found great material!

Thinking of this, Ocris felt a bit desperate.

No, she must find a way to lift the spell. Even though my level is a bit too high, there must be a way!

And even though the spell couldn’t be lifted for now, as long as she kept hypnotizing Louis, he wouldn’t know she wiped his feet and washed his socks. On the flip side, as long as she made Louis believe he hadn’t learned Apparition within seven days, then this whole thing would be settled!

Thinking this, Ocris made up her mind. She breathed a sigh of relief and slowly stood up, realizing her legs had gone numb from crouching.

Then, she saw Helen’s sneaky figure, holding a bar of soap, slip out of her room and duck into the Washroom.

Ocris’s heart sank—Did that wretched girl Helen see her secretly wiping Louis’s feet?!

And, what was Helen doing?

Full of doubt, Ocris walked over nervously and cautiously on tiptoe. She crouched by the Washroom door and peeked inside. She saw Helen using her Wand as a light bulb, squatting there, washing socks while crying.

Hearing movement behind her, Helen carefully turned her head. Her face was covered in tears.

The two sisters stared at each other, wide-eyed, for a long moment.

“Waaah, sister, I, I, I didn’t really come out specially to wash Louis’s socks.” Helen wiped her tears, straightened her chest quite frankly, and said righteously: “But if I don’t wash them, I’ll feel terrible.”

At that moment, the two sisters felt a deep sense of shared experience. They hugged each other and almost cried together.

That night, the two mischievous girls went together to Ocris’s room. Thinking themselves very clever, they made some plans.

They planned to turn the tables tomorrow and get back at Louis for today’s events! As for the matter of washing Louis’s feet and socks in the future… Before the spell was lifted, they would just hypnotize him and then wash them.

This kid won’t think he’s in a dream and then do bad things, will he!

Also, who knows if this kid was successfully hypnotized or not. Tomorrow morning, he might not go buy a washbasin, right?

What should we do then?

Right, they could hypnotize Louis and wash for him while he’s asleep.

But so what?

Letting others know she sneaks to wash his feet every night?!

“Sister? Louis won’t go around spreading this, will he? And then, and then use this to blackmail us? He and the editor-in-chief of ‘The Chatterbox’ are quite close (The Goblin of the Barriff Family), he often goes there to eat melon seeds.”

“Helen, no. Don’t think of Louis as that bad… If he dares! I’ll give him a good lesson in dueling class!”

“Waaah, but, sister, what do we do? I kind of feel like you can’t beat him.” Helen cried, lying in Ocris’s arms: “You have to win, then we can sign another agreement and turn things around.”

Ocris rolled her eyes—”Just Louis? How could I possibly not be able to handle him?”

“Really, sister, he’s very powerful. Do you think maybe Sister Stia secretly taught him something?”

Hearing this, Ocris’s heart sank.

“Don’t worry, Helen. Just wait and see how I deal with him!”

Ocris comforted her, but for some reason, she also felt a bit apprehensive inside… How could she possibly not be able to teach Louis a lesson?!

But it seemed she hadn’t practiced magic combat for a few months. She’d need to brush up first, so she wouldn’t really mess up when the time came.

Filled with worry, the two sisters tossed and turned, hugged each other, and fell asleep.