Chapter 133 – Chapter 127 – Confinement (6)

A bright light always comes out of the glass bottle containing Karine’s new blood.
The shining object that reflected the brilliance was worthy of Hernan’s attention.

Meanwhile, Karine, who saw his hand approaching, made a strange noise.

“What?”

And when he saw the vial in his hand, he made a sound of bewilderment.

“Ah…”

“Is it a sleeping pill? Only one pill left?”

Hernán continued his words, frowning.

“Are you still eating? Well, I saw Potty make it last time…”

“I still have severe insomnia…”

Carine looked at the medicine bottle Hernán held and gently bit her lip.
Hernan looked at that face and opened his mouth.

“Is this all the sleeping pills you have?”

“… Huh.”

“It was only about two months ago that Potty made sleeping pills last time. But in the meantime, this vial was emptied?”

If I guess correctly, this little vial will hold over 50 small pills.

“Well, that’s because Potty doesn’t give it full, but gives it a little empty.”

It was close to an excuse that didn’t work.
That’s especially true for anyone who’s seen how Potty fills a vial a few times.

“Do you eat every day?”

Hernán glanced at the crib where Carine’s children slept.
Karine looked there as well and turned her eyes away from Hernan.

“Huh.”

“For some reason, the kids are less active and quieter than the other kids… Aren’t you breastfeeding less these days?”

It has been about a year since Karine’s children were born.
In the meantime, Carine’s twins have been quite quiet, especially sleeping, than her other children seemed before they were older.

However, Marina’s daughter, Lenny, was also sleepy and calm before she started walking, so she didn’t notice much.

But now it seemed to me that I could see why these kids were so much less conspicuous than the others.

Karine too, realizing that Hernán had noticed, she hastily brought out her words of sorry.

“Sorry… But I tried to feed baby food instead of milk as much as possible! And I’m having a hard time sleeping without it…”

It is clear that the sleeping pills Karine has been taking have an indirect effect on her babies.
That’s why the kids are almost only around the mother, and it’s only recently that the number of breastfeeding is decreasing.

Carine was at a loss and apologized to Hernán.

“I am so sorry! I wanted to tell you too, but I was afraid that if I did, I wouldn’t be able to sleep at all. I’m really sorry!”

Hernán looked back and forth between Karine and her twin sister, biting her molars lightly.

“Why can’t I sleep… Is it because I’m still not by your side?”

“Oh no! It’s just habit.”

Karine shook her head in surprise.

“From now on, I will not breastfeed my children as much as possible, or I will get help from other women. Therefore…”

“Karine! Tell me clearly Are you unable to sleep because I’m not by your side? Sometimes, on the day I said I would come to you, you didn’t show me eating something like this.”

Hernán spoke in a firm tone while suppressing his voice as much as possible.
Karine quivered wildly in her blue eyes, but she eventually admitted.

“That’s right… I fall asleep easily when you are by my side. If not, vice versa.”

She squeezed her body tightly as if she wanted to hide somewhere.

“But that is practically impossible. Because you have a lot of kids to take care of…”

Of course, Karine wouldn’t think that was the only cause.
Everyone here, including her, knows about Carine and Hernan’s ruined relationship.

Still, I still wanted to take care of the children, so I deliberately tried to take care of Karine’s children even during the day.

However, since the kids often sleep during the day, there were many times when I naturally took care of the other kids.

“Sorry…”

Karine seemed to have nothing more to say, but continued to say sorry as she cowered on the bed.

“Sorry… What?”

And she was startled by Hernán, who suddenly grabbed her hand.

“Eh, Hernan?”

Hernán whispered while placing her finger on her lips to warn the children to be careful.

“I am sorry.”

Although many things had happened and the other children were distracted, she felt that the current situation was her child’s father’s fault.

Karine’s voice here is extremely weak, so she should have taken care of herself and checked on her and her child.

“Sorry. Because I couldn’t care more.”

“I, I…”

Karine just opened her mouth and couldn’t properly carry on her words.

“My child is sleeping here too, but he didn’t come because he had an uncomfortable relationship with you.”

Hernán felt that she did not quite understand her behavior.
If you think about the cases of sleeping with other women during that time, she often visits her even for the sake of her child.

However, in the case of her poisonous Karine, even if she thinks that she needs to see her child, she will naturally disappear when she thinks of her.

Of course, it is true that Karine and I have a very rough relationship.
But for her twin, she risked being criticized in front of everyone, and she is herself.

In order to make the birth of the children normal, I even had sex with Karine, who was reluctant to do so.

“Sorry. From now on, I will come to your room as much as I can with the other women.”

“Uh… ?”

Karine’s mouth slowly opened.
Her pupils rapidly constricted in her opposition, representing what she was feeling.

“On the days I can’t come, don’t breastfeed the children as much as possible and ask another woman. Or plan ahead the day before.”

“Ji, are you really going to sleep in my room often?”

“For the time being, if I come, the saintess and the Silnia kids will come too. Then, I can breastfeed them too, is that okay?”

Karine didn’t seem to be able to easily accept this sudden change in circumstances.

“Are you really coming to my room?”

“Huh. Are you okay?”

She nodded her head as her hands trembled.

“Joe, okay…”

Hernán spoke again, holding her trembling hand.

“The girls won’t say anything out loud because you’ve been quiet lately. Especially for the kids.”

Carine barely began to regain her composure when the other women were mentioned.
But she still opened her mouth in a trembling voice.

“Could you have sex with me too…”

She abruptly cut off what she was saying and changed her expression to normal.

“Thank you! I will try to cut down on my medications as much as possible!”

Carine smiled with the most cheery sound she had heard recently.

“Thank you, El.”

As soon as her nickname was put into her mouth, an awkward air lingered for a moment.
Carine must have felt that too, so she hurriedly changed her words.

“Oh no, Hernan.”

“Huh…”

Then there was a whining noise from the crib where Carine’s babies were.

“You must have been too noisy. I’ll come and appease you, ugh!”

Karine went to her child and banged her head on the headboard of her bed.

“Ugh…”

Hernan followed her moaning and pulled her up.

“Karine. Show me her face.”

He grabbed Carine’s face and examined her bump.

“The place where I was injured earlier is more torn. It will need treatment.”

Hernán clicked her tongue and hurriedly pressed the nearby towel to her forehead.

“I am bleeding. I’ll get the medicine from Potty’s lab.”

“Huh!”

Karine was still confused, but answered with her lively eyes.

* * *

Hernan, who was dragging his aching back to the lab, looked at Potty’s room for a while.

Potty must have known Carine kept taking sleeping pills.
She’s also well versed in medicine, so she probably knows that lactating women shouldn’t take as much medication as possible.

Even if she didn’t know, she must have remembered since the saint told her what to do during each woman’s first pregnancy.

She couldn’t blame her, but she felt sorry for her anyway.

She hates her, but she would have trusted Potty more if she had known that Carine was taking sleeping pills and that the kids suckling her suckle.

It’s even more bitter because she knows how much this side cares for her child.

The lab where Hernán arrived was silent as Potty pondered whether Sharpie would have acted the way she did now if she had been in the same situation as Carine.

Passing a rose bush that grew to be more than plentiful and irritating, I saw a charred table that Potty often uses.
Hernán saw the messy stacks of vials there.

Though she didn’t know anything else, she thought of Potty, who always had her medicines neatly arranged, so Hernán went out looking for her medicines, a little embarrassed.

“The ointment applied to the wound…”

Hernán searched for her memory and picked out a bottle of medicine he was looking for.

[Ointment – for hemostasis and wounds]

It was full of ointment that Fortina Marina used often.

Hernan, who put the medicine in his pocket and turned around, suddenly found something in the pile of medicine bottles.

[Sleeping Pill – For Carine]

It seemed to be a sleeping pill she gives to Karine.
Did she know that it was time for the medicine to run out?
Or maybe she told Karine ahead of time.

Anyway, it’s really the first time I’ve let Forty distract me like this.
Even drugs that are not used well are left unnoticed by others.

Recently, Potty has been busy with childcare and has not been able to organize the items, so is this being revealed like this?

Karine will take it anyway, so Hernan, who thought that he would rather bring it directly to her, had his sights go as far as the medicine bottle next to him.

[Sleeping pills – general use]

“… ?”

I picked up a vial of sleeping pills with a piece of paper that said “For general use.”

On the outside, there is no difference from what is written for Carine.

Did you simply decide who would use it?
But if so, is there a need to use expressions that seem to distinguish usage?

If she was only intended to be sent to Karine, there would be no need to classify it as general use.

No, you could just make the same sleeping pills and put them in a random bottle and give them to Karine.
Besides, is there anyone other than Carine taking sleeping pills here?

Another strange thing is, the medicine bottle I saw in Karine’s room didn’t have this kind of paper attached to it.
So, is this the first time Potty has pasted this paper?

Hernan muttered as he stroked his chin.

“Perhaps I separate them like this every time and take them off later…”

The more I thought about it, the more I didn’t have to write it down as Karine’s.

Hernan frowned and put the two vials into his pocket at the same time.

First of all, there are no strange signs that stand out to Karine.
If so, the idea that Potty is deliberately making her sleeping pills different is most likely her own delusion.

However, Hernán remembered an incident that occurred almost a year ago.

Carine gave Potty a cookie containing ingredients that he should not eat.

Obviously, Potty does not know that the culprit of the incident is Karine.
However, apart from not knowing that, I can think of thoughts similar to Carine’s.

By slowly injecting the poison without even knowing it was poisoned.

As the wizard Poti is proficient in alchemy, he will be able to attempt sophisticated attacks that are incomparable to Karine’s crude methods.

The Demon God probably wouldn’t have put anything that would be poisonous here, but most of the herbs could be poisonous anyway.

Depending on how Potty refines it, he could be poisonous.

Hernán moved his feet, thinking that he would be getting busier and busier.