Chapter 115 – Chapter 110 – Temptation (4)

Short empty time after dinner.

Coincidentally, the women are also scattered and are not around.
Thanks to this, Hernán had time to spend alone for a while.

He saw the demon god’s altar guarding a corner of the living room with an unchanging appearance.

Recently, Silnia made one in her special room, so the amount of offerings on her altar was reduced.

However, the atmosphere that bothered people that had been emitted from before was even stronger.

No, because Hernán’s feelings for demons had deteriorated, he might have felt that way.

Even though it was his job to finally pray to the demon god and receive a miracle each time, Hernán didn’t feel religious at all.

Well, considering how much everyone suffered because the Demon God imprisoned them here, it was strange to feel good about it.

However, the miracle itself provided by the demon god was real, and since there are people who secretly welcome this situation, the worship of the demon god continues.

For example, Silnia, who is jumping out of the room right now, could be said to be the representative.

“Uh, sorry mom!”

“Huh!”

Ernan completely forgot the thoughts he had just had and looked at the crying child in Silnia’s arms.

And got up quickly.

“What? Why is your forehead bleeding?”

When Silnia finally met Hernán, she put on a happy expression.

“The kid fell! Aren’t there any medicines in Poti’s lab? Bring it!”

“Fall down?”

Hernán felt doubtful for a moment.
At least the child has to stand up to fall, but Silnia’s son Ethan hasn’t fixed his leg yet.

No, even if the leg is fixed, the child will not suddenly be able to walk, which is even more strange.

“It hurts!”

But when his son burst into tears, Hernán shoved the question into the corner of his head and hurriedly stood up.

He carves Silnia, whose belly is full, into her eyes, and quickly enters Potty’s lab.

“Eh, El?”

Potty, who was sitting at the desk in the lab, was preparing a pill that Hernando was familiar with.

“Do you have any medicine?”

“Medicine? Hey, this is the hero’s sleeping pills…”

Hernan was impatient and thought the explanation was a bit lacking.

“Styptic. It is better if it has a wound healing effect.”

When Forti saw Hernán in a hurry, he opened the desk drawer and started taking out things.

Soon, the wizard pulled out a handful of grass that Ernan had seen before.

“This is the pool I used during my last childbirth. Shall I grind it?”

“Huh. ASAP.”

Potty quickly ground up the grass and served it in a small bowl.

“Who is hurt?”

“Sylnia must have fallen.”

“Ethan? But Ethan…”

“I’ll tell you the details later.”

Hernán hurriedly ran out of the lab, leaving only a final word of thanks.

* * *

“Aaaaagh!”

As the medicine was sprayed on his forehead, Ethan screamed more.
He resembled his own mother and had a very strong voice.

Hernan felt his ears tingle and poured more powder from his bowl onto his forehead.

Seeing that, Silnia nervously tugged at her hair.

“That, is that the right medicine?”

“It’s a drug Potty himself used. And you know Poti’s alchemy skills, right?”

“But isn’t the healer a saint? Wouldn’t it be better to leave it to the experts?”

Hernan thought that no matter what he said now, he could not soothe Silnia’s anxiety.
So I just silently sprinkled the powder on the child’s wound more carefully.

The wounds confirmed while spraying the powder were not that serious.
It looked like it had just been hit by something.

“Now, Dad treated you, so you won’t be sick anymore.”

“Huh… It hurts.”

Hernán smiled at the child and comforted him for a few more minutes.
Then Silnia’s child nodded her head with her slightly calmer face.

Hernan, who stroked her son’s hair, looked at Silnia, thinking that she should know the truth about her now.

“My son fell, what do you mean?”

A child who can’t even stand, let alone walk.
He doesn’t know if he falls, but it’s nonsense that he falls.

Silnia seemed to be stung by Hernan’s slightly menacing gaze, but she kept looking away from her.

“You’re not lying, are you?”

When Hernan added that word, she flinched and opened her mouth hastily.

“No! I just…”

“Just what?”

“I’m trying to teach him to walk…”

Upon hearing that, I saw crutches strewn about in the corner of her room.
Seeing that the items that were originally stored under the bed were displayed here, I got a rough idea of ​​what was going on.

“Could you give a two-year-old a pair of crutches and tell him to walk?”

“He even held my hand! Everything, I just missed it because her back was less bent when she fell because she was fuller than I thought.”

Silnia muttered with a completely depressed face.
She continued her talking as Hernán unanswered, putting a clean cloth on her child’s forehead.

“My baby is due in about two months. Then, will the wish ticket come out? If only one person uses the wishing ticket, my child can be cured right away.”

In fact, since her saintess already wrote her own wish scroll, she doesn’t need to write another one of her own like Silnia said.

However, she is only keeping quiet because her saintly right to wish was used in a sensitive area.

“But even if you treat your legs right away, a child who has never walked before won’t be able to walk right away.”

When Silnia spoke up to that point, Hernán fully understood her story.
Asked, wrapping a knot around the back of her son’s head to completely cover her wound.

“So you practiced walking with him?”

“Huh. I didn’t know it would be like this…”

Sylnia’s pointy ears drooped completely down.
When she saw that, it was hard for her to be angry.

Instead, Hernan wiped the eyes of her son, her half-elf, and held him in her arms.

“Her crutches haven’t been used yet. It may be light, but it may be heavy for a child to carry.”

As if she had nothing to say even though her mouth was there, Silnia remained silent.
Hernán opened her mouth, feeling that her eyes were getting a little moist.

“I know you’re in a hurry, but you acted too hastily.”

Tears welled up in the elf’s eyes.
Before she came here, she didn’t know that she was a woman with so many tears, she continued, realizing again.

“So, when you do something like this from now on, do it with me.”

“… Huh?”

Silnia hurriedly wiped her eyes at Hernan’s words.

“Are you doing it together?”

“Okay. You’re already close to full term, so of course you should do this with me.”

Perhaps Hernan’s reaction was different from what he thought, the elf put on a slightly dumbfounded expression.

“Didn’t you just say you were in too much of a hurry?”

“It means that you are hasty to use crutches first.”

Hernán slowly grabbed her child by the armpit and lowered her to the floor.
She naturally got into a position similar to a child standing with her legs down.

Of course, Ethan, whose legs were already uncomfortable, and who had just smacked his forehead on the floor, showed a strong rejection.

“Nah! Serve this!”

Silnia’s son struggled to keep his right leg off the floor.

Silnia, who saw that, bit her lip tightly and made a melancholic expression.
But she soon lost her temper in a tone similar to that of a child.

“Hey! You have to walk soon! Today, I wanted to catch up with the kids running around, so I went with my mom and was like this?”

“Sherer!”

When she said she didn’t like the child, Silnia’s face turned red.
If we keep going like this, she will scream loudly, and Ethan will cry even louder.

That was something Hernan didn’t like too much.

“Young car.”

With her mouth making a noise, Hernán held her child by the arm and lifted it up.

“Let’s play catching mom and dad.”

She puts her son’s feet on top of her own.
Put as much weight on the painless left leg as possible, and lift her arm higher to make it less heavy.

Then she didn’t say no to her child, although she frowned a little.

“Sylnia.”

“Uh?”

Hernan gave instructions to Silnia in a whisper.

“Come on, catch me, do something like that.”

Silnia looked at Hernan with her blank face.
But she finally opened her mouth in her embarrassed face when he invited her back by pointing her chin at her child.

“Can you catch me?”

As soon as Silnia finished speaking, Hernán walked toward Silnia with her waddling steps.

“Catch Mom!”

The child immediately burst into laughter.
Silnia soon adapted to the situation and smiled broadly.

“Hey, are you going to catch the elf? Come sooner!”

Silnia, who said that, also ran away slowly, probably because her stomach was heavy.

Hernan and his son went after the elf who embraced his brother.

* * *

“After…”

Both Hernan and Silnia sat on the bed with tired faces.
The child had already fallen asleep for a long time, so only her parents exchanged strange glances in her room.

Silnia was the first to break the silence.

“Do you want to do it tomorrow too?”

“This time?”

Silnia the elf looked sideways at the man next to her and asked a question.

“Busy? Do you have an appointment with another woman?”

“Well. But even if I don’t have an appointment with a woman, it’s because I don’t have one or two children.”

Although she has several mothers, there is only one person who will take on the role of her father.
Gradually, as the frequency of children looking for their fathers increases, you don’t know when and where to spend time with your children.

So it’s hard to make promises with certainty.

Silnia puckered her lips, as if she knew that much.

“Anyway, I hope it’s popular.”

Instead of answering, she smiled and pulled Silnia closer.
As soon as she was embraced by Hernan’s arms, she whispered.

“Can’t you just stay with me for a while after the second child is born?”

The elf took Hernan’s hand.
And she had him touch her stomach.

“I have other children, but my child needs more care than others. Especially you.”

Silnia flicked her ear once before continuing.

“Ernan, your care is especially…”

Saying that, Silnia rubbed her head against Hernan’s chest.

Her blue hair smelled of fragrant wood.
Hernán resisted her desire to bury her nose in that head of hers, and she continued to listen to her.

“And… And if you ever get out of here.”

Silnia’s words went as expected.
The same thing she said the other day when we had sex after taking fertility pills.

“Can’t you go out and stay with me?”

“In your native forest?”

It will be very difficult for her to stay on her own in her home forest.
Not to mention the stinging eyes of the elves, there is no one that stands out like the humans in the elven forest.

Besides, Hernán had many children to take care of.
She has more women who are looking for his love.

“No… ?”

When Silnia didn’t answer from Hernan, she rubbed her head in his arms once more.
However, Hernán was still silent and waited for her to run out.

The elf finally freed himself from his chest.

“Is it because of the other kids and the girl?”

“Sorry.”

“Then I’d rather…”

“Rather?”

Looking down at the hesitant Silnia, I saw her nibbling at her hair.

“I’d rather be apart… Oh no!”

She was about to say something, but quickly muttered her words.
And he quickly fell from Hernan’s arms.

“Isn’t it time to go make the kids food?”

“It is.”

Making light and soft food for children to eat every day.
It was usually what Hernan and the saintess did.

Originally Karine often did it, but at some point she started not doing it.
Hernando didn’t want to force it on her, so she just cooked with her own and a volunteer saint.

“Then just go. I’m going to bed early.”

Hernán stood up, but he hesitated for a moment.

“Sylnia. Will you be with me tonight?”

He had made a rather ambiguous appointment with her saintess in advance.
However, since the work had just happened, Silnia kept stepping on her eyes.

I was also the only pregnant woman here.

“That would be nice, but that’s enough for today.”

Silnia had a face that showed her inner conflict, but she mysteriously took her words out in a refusal.

Hernan repeatedly asked if it was true, but she answered yes, scratching her head.

“Today, I’m thinking alone, and I’m just going to sleep. Because I can’t sleep on time every day when I’m with you.”

“You think you are alone?”

“Are you dissatisfied? Do I have to look so awkward thinking about myself?”

Hernán shook her hand and stepped back from her.

“No. Then see you tomorrow morning.”

“Huh.”

Silnia waved her hand and looked at Hernan.
Hernan, too, kept his eyes on her and took hold of her doorknob.

“Hey!”

That’s when she, Silnia, called him.
She quickly turned her head behind her, and she grinned.

“Put meat in my kid’s food.”

Hernan also smiled and opened his mouth.

“You say vegetarianism is essential for elves to grow up?”

“I’m half human!”

Ernan laughed and went outside.

* * *

Walking down her hallway, Hernan remembered what Silnia had said to her.

Let her go to the woods with herself.
And let’s live with his children.

Originally, she said she would go back to the forest alone, but it was a pretty unconventional proposal for her.
This is a proposition that is just as enchanting as its unconventional nature.

If only she had sex with Silnia and had children only with Silnia, she would have followed suit.

However, Hernan had many relationships with women, and many children were born between them.
All of those children are their own children, whose superiority and inferiority cannot be distinguished.

Hernan reached the end of the hallway while thinking about that.
In order to go to the kitchen, you must enter Karine’s special room.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that the Demon God’s design ability was monstrous, and he opened the door.

Hernan, who was about to go down through the quiet special room, suddenly felt a presence in the studio.

Squeak.
And a very weak, but dripping sound.

Clearly someone is here.
And if you think rationally, there’s only one person in this room full of art tools.

I already saw you here during the day.
We only met eyes as if we were passing by for a very short time.

After guessing, Hernan tried to move again for the saintess who was waiting in his kitchen.

“Huh…”

However, a sound he heard soon put him back on his feet.

“Hey, heh…”

A light cry.
It’s louder than the sound I’ve heard before.

Hernán unconsciously moved his steps towards the sound.
It was like a habit built up over many years.

The cries continued to grow louder as he approached, killing his footsteps to the extreme.

“Huh, El…”

Hernán circled around the huge pile of stones, feeling a sense of dread for no reason.
Then, I was able to see the back of the large canvas.

The canvas covered the figure of the woman wearing it.
However, he couldn’t hide his long silver hair, revealing who the woman there was.

Seeing that she is still crying, it seems that she hasn’t noticed that someone has entered here yet.
Are you highly focused on drawing?

Hernán stood still for a moment, deliberately analyzing the situation calmly.
But when more cries were heard, he inadvertently moved his feet again.

He was soon able to see beyond the canvas.

“Carine?”

“… ?”

Hernán suddenly felt sucked into decades ago.

There, a scene very similar to when he first met Karine was unfolding.

A silver-haired girl who used her tears to make charcoal to describe her family and her self who were tormenting her.
The child had the same face as back then.

Only the body got bigger.

And just like that time, I was drawing a picture of my family with tears in my paint.
Hernán let out a light moan and couldn’t take his eyes off the figure.