Chapter 116 – Chapter 111 – Temptation (5)

Habits are scary.

It is also obvious that the woman who will be here is Karine, and she and she are not good at each other even if they met now.

A relationship that has already been ruined enough to break each other.
The twin brother and sister born between the two is just a barely remaining link.

Even so, the woman was pregnant unilaterally, and the man was not very comfortable.

That’s why there was no need for Hernán to approach her just because Carine was sobbing and drawing.

“L… No, Hernan?”

However, Hernán came to the place where Carine was drawing, as if possessed by something.
And he brought out a question that was familiar yet old like an antique.

“What are you drawing?”

Karine draws a picture of her while crying, then approaches her and asks if she wants to draw a picture of her.

It is a behavior that is naturally created by memories and habits that have been accumulated layer by layer.

“A family picture?”

Hernan looked at the picture and asked a question, but Karine was silent.
She just stared blankly at Hernan with surprised eyes.

As usual, here we have to explain what kind of painting Carine is.
Not so stupid

He probably didn’t expect the man in front of him to approach him at all.

When Karine couldn’t react properly and the series of streams that her head and body had memorized were cut off, it was difficult for Hernan to continue talking.

In the first place, it was a car that suddenly appeared in front of my eyes and choked my breath in the past.
The fact that he had said this far was almost unexpected.

So he tried to get out of here, suppressing the confusion in his head.
In order to make a child’s food, which is a newly accumulated habit and memory.

“Wait for a sec!”

Again, an unexpected element caught him.
Carine grabbed Hernán’s arm with an expression that she didn’t know what she was doing herself.

She is perplexed and desperate.
And with her face stained with the tears she had just shed, she hurriedly averted her eyes.

“Family… I am drawing a family picture.”

Carine pointed to the painting on the canvas.
There was a picture with a composition similar to the one Ernan saw when he was young and the moment he first met Carine.

Karine with her gloomy face and the people around her.

If there was anything else, it was difficult to recognize the people in the paintings I saw then because of the poor descriptions, but now I could recognize them all thanks to Karine’s excellent skills.

The characters are the women here and Karine.
They were in the form of surrounding Karine.
All of them have cold or mocking expressions and cold attitudes.

Surrounded by them, Karine held her head down and shed tears.

Seeing that, Hernán felt that he was at a loss for words.

Is this an expression of your resentment?
Or did you paint resignedly accepting criticism?

Feeling unsure of how to react, he said whatever came to mind.

“Is this a family picture? I don’t have one?”

Karine looked at the painting with a puzzled expression.
She quickly pointed to something in the form of a faint human figure beyond the other women.

“I’m still drawing.”

As the hero said that, he seemed to realize at that moment what kind of picture he was showing him.

“Hey, isn’t this a bit ugly? Sorry, this is a real family picture!”

Her hands trembled and she hastily removed the picture from the canvas stand.

When the gloomy picture disappeared, Hernán rather felt a strange regret.
Even though he could never forget, the forgotten past suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, and now it feels like it has disappeared again in vain.

“Here. This is a family picture with everything here.”

Karine managed to calm her hand and pulled out her large piece of paper.
What was drawn on it was only a rough sketch.

However, compared to the picture shown earlier, the atmosphere was definitely a bit brighter.

“Is the upstairs garden the setting?”

Looking at the picture, the confusion I felt a moment ago seems to have subsided a little.
Is it because it is set in the present rather than the past?

Karine also glanced at her canvas and nodded her head.

“Huh. Sooner or later, I will draw all the children.”

In the picture, all the women here were surrounding Hernán.
There seemed to be no shade in their expressions as they maintained almost the same distance.

Even Carine has a happy expression on her face, so if anyone sees it, she will look satisfied with the situation.

And that’s why it was hard to think that she was drawn by Karine.
The family picture that reveals her true feelings must have been removed earlier.

Then why is Karine drawing this picture?
A sight like this that I don’t even like.

“Did you draw this picture because you wanted it?”

“Huh?”

Carine’s blue eyes trembled slightly at Hernan’s careless words.
Seeing that, Hernán looked at her painting once again.

All the women’s expressions are the same, so it’s strangely careless.
The flowers painted in the garden were all roses, not the flowers actually planted there.

He probably didn’t care what flowers were planted on it.

In the old capital, when a character I didn’t like sometimes asked me to draw a picture as if provoking it, it seems like Karine made a rough drawing on purpose.

Hernán opened her mouth as she searched for the old memories of her newly emerged.

“You tend to draw meticulously. But I think it was roughly drawn.”

Carine’s expression darkened at Hernan’s words.
She contrasts so much with the expression painted in the picture in front of her.

“Yet… It’s because it’s not a finished product.”

She muttered as she looked at the picture.

“When this is done, it will be time to leave here.”

“You mean it’s complete when all the children are drawn?”

“Huh.”

Carine said that and put the picture down as well.
She smiled bitterly at the empty canvas pedestal.

“Sorry. Hernán only showed me pictures that I didn’t find very pleasant to look at. It seems like the fun pictures aren’t working as well as in the past.”

The appearance of regretting and apologizing for wasting time holding on to Hernán.

It is very similar to the emotional image Karine showed in the past.
No, it would be more appropriate to say that she is recovering her appearance before becoming a hero.

But does she change anything just because she looks like that?

The relationship between the two has already been ruined, and if there is no child at all, there will be no conversation at all.
So instead of immersing yourself in this gloomy feeling here, it would be better to go downstairs and prepare a meal.

“After… Carine.”

But Hernán couldn’t leave easily.
The expression he was looking at now contained so many memories.

When I recall the past before entering this place, Karine is always with me.

Even moments when she was sad and painful.
Even happy and enjoyable moments.

Every day was filled with her.

So before she becomes a warrior.
If you show your expression before you hide your emotions, the memories you had with that expression will spring up.

Have you been forced to press down all this time?
Those memories tried to come out as if protesting against the suppression so far.

“Hernan… ?”

Perhaps reading the heavy atmosphere, Karine’s blue eyes trembled a little.
Hernán said, still feeling conflicted.

“Aren’t you going to apologize to the other women?”

“Apologize?”

As she repeated Hernán’s words, he made eye contact with her.

“Okay, sorry. You’ve never properly apologized to women before.”

Will Carine accept this offer?
If she says Karine accepts, will she forgive other women?

Such questions filled her head, but Hernán did not stop her.

“I will help you. If the saintess tells her to kneel at least, I’ll kneel with her, and if Silnia says she’ll beat her with her fist, I’ll hit her too. If the other two want an apology, I’ll be with them.”

Two women who are furious at the loss of a big goal in their lives.
Their lives turned completely out of whack when she had sex with Hernán and became pregnant.

So, although Hernán apologized several times, the apology was not always complete.

“We both have to apologize. Simply apologizing to me or suffering from you will not improve this condition.”

“I am…”

Carine couldn’t speak properly with only her eyes wide open.
Hernán held the hand of her old lover, whom she had loved and whose memories of that love were still indelible.

By holding hands, the moments they spent holding hands flash before your eyes.

The fragrant scent of her beautiful past flows non-stop from Karine now.
Hernán gritted his teeth, thinking that she really couldn’t stand it.

“After apologizing to everyone, let’s talk among ourselves. Let’s fight, scream, and shed tears while talking about what happened.”

She honestly doesn’t feel confident that she can forgive her even now.
Maybe Karine will too.

However, Hernán spoke again, hoping that her fresh memories of the past would become her present life.

“Don’t just dwell on the past like you are now, try admitting the reality a bit more!”

He squeezed Carine’s hand, which was stained with her charcoal.
Just as I often held her hand when she was drawing with charcoal on a wooden wall when she was little.

Carine barely opened her mouth, her tears welling up.

“Can I? Then even if I love you again…”

Her answer was incomplete.

“Ella!”

In an instant, my heart sank.

Hernán and Karine looked at the place where the sound came from with expressions as if they had been struck by water.

“Come out if you are! If you keep doing this, Mum will circle her with her tail!”

Sharpie’s voice.
Hearing that voice, Hernan suddenly felt as if he had been dragged out of a dream.

Karine also lost the expression she had made earlier, and changed to her face full of anxiety and hostility.

“If you don’t brush your teeth, you will suffer later! Mom is tired of playing hide and seek, so stop… Huh?”

The demon king reached the position where he could see Hernan and Karine in an instant.
She looked a little surprised, then smiled.

“A tryst in the late night art room? It’s romantic!”

Sharpie came to Hernán with her second child in her arms.
She spoke with her red heart eyes shining.

“Did you draw a picture like the dragon?”

“Why are you here?”

Hernan looked at Sharpie and answered awkwardly.
She made an awkward tone even as she smiled.

She said, “My daughter didn’t want to brush her teeth, so she ran away. She got hit because she was on her second diaper change.”

“So are you looking for a child?”

Hernán gradually began to focus on the Sharpie in front of her eyes rather than her memories of being with Karine.
The Demon King nodded his head with a pitiful expression.

“It wasn’t in the living room. That is why this body has only come this far.”

She looked at Hernán with her affection in her heart’s eyes.

“Can you help me, Ella’s dad?”

Hernán only turned her eyes and looked to her side.
There, Karine was staring at her sharpie, hiding her emotions as best she could.

But soon she hastily laid her eyes on her.
Hernan looked away from her just in case, but Sharpie was still smiling at Hernan.

“I’ll go in and sleep.”

Meanwhile, the warrior stood up with her head bowed.

“Wait, Karine!”

Hernan reflexively tried to grab Karine.
But she was already far enough away that she couldn’t reach her.

Taking care of the twins he had left in an inconspicuous place, the hero left the special room as if he were being chased by something.

“Good night, warrior.”

Sharpie came to Hernán’s side wagging her tail instead of her hand.

“Were the two of you looking at this picture?”

The demon king smiled when he saw the second picture Karine showed him, namely the picture of a family gathered in her garden.

“It looks like it came out of a dream.”

She wrapped her tail around Hernán’s arm, unable to take her eyes off the painting easily.

“Seeing as I met Elle here, I’m lucky tonight. Shall we go find our daughter?”

The demon king whispered in a captivating voice.
Instead of her answer, Hernán looked at the picture Carine was drawing when he met her.

I can’t see it now because Karine has turned it upside down, but it’s so intense that it’s good for the eyes.

Sharpie followed his gaze and saw the overturned canvas.

“Is there another picture of the warrior? You must be busy, but to draw one more picture. After all, the hero has a talent for art, right?”

“Let’s go. We have to find the baby.”

When Hernán’s sharpie took an interest in the painting, he hurriedly took her out of the confines of her studio.

And she felt that the image of Carine walking out forlornly could not be erased from her mind.