Chapter 166 – Chapter 160 – Until the New Queen Comes 2 (4)

Early moning.
About two hours later, it is time for the first meal to begin.

Usually, Hernan, Carine, and the saintess before the injury would get up early and cook for the children to eat.

But I usually woke up an hour ago, so there’s no need for someone to wake up two hours earlier like now.

So, it could be said that the appearance of Hernán walking around the facility is quite strange.
It would be even more awkward to go past the kitchen and head downstairs to the end of the hallway.

However, in a very natural manner, Hernán knocked on the door of the room at the end.

“Forties.”

Unlike a normal bedroom, this is a private room with poor soundproofing.
Even if you don’t have bright ears like Silnia, you’ll be able to wake up enough.

“Kyaaak!”

It seems that he has definitely woken up.
However, Potty’s reaction in the private room was a little different from Hernan’s.

“I’m sorry! I’ll get up now! Please… Please don’t take me to the experiment today!”

Hernán hastily pulled her keys out of her pocket.
If possible, she tried to go in after a little conversation, but the situation was not good.

“I-I’m weak, so I can’t keep accepting things like that…”

“Forties!”

When Hernan opened the door, he saw Potty trembling under the blanket.

“Uh, you were already sick with the medicine yesterday… ! Take someone other than me today!”

Did you have a nightmare from when you were in the Mage Tower?

After Potty was confined to this solitary confinement, he sometimes acted as if he had returned to the Mage Tower.
He asked me not to do the experiment like now, and he groaned and screamed while saying that he was sick.

Thanks to this, it was virtually impossible to use the downstairs, where there are quite a few facilities for children, such as a playroom or study room, for its original purpose.
‘Cause I can’t bring my kids to this place full of rabbit’s grim agony.

“Forties!”

Hernan hurriedly approached Potty.

As he carefully lifted the covers along the sides of his ears, he saw Potty shaking to the point that his body hurt.

“It’s me, Potty. It’s Hernan.”

“… L?”

“Okay. Did you have a bad dream?”

Potty slowly raised his head.
The face of a dark-haired man with golden eyes covered with tears and fear.

Then, a faint relief appeared on her face.

“Dream…”

“Okay. I had a dream long ago It is not the Magic Tower now.”

She raised her upper body, hanging her ears down.
As the tiny body of Potty climbed up, Hernán reached out to her.

The rabbit brought his drenched cheek to the warmth.

“Is it so… Because it is gone now.”

She rubbed her face hard against Hernán’s hand, as if her small animal were to show her friendliness to her master, and to smear the scent of her own.

“Because El is here…”

A hazy voice as if he was still asleep.
Hernan was confused by the feeling of happiness she felt passing through her hands.

“Can you calm down?”

“Oh, it’s safe… I’m happy…”

Potty now tilted her whole body toward Hernán, not just her face.
Then, when she was in danger of falling from where she lay, Hernan finally hugged her.

“Ah… I love you.”

The trembling itself had almost ceased.
Perhaps Potty is slowly coming out of sleep as well.

“Sorry. I woke you up at a bad moment.”

Hernan repeated that time is not given indefinitely, and spoke to Poti in Poom.

“Now, if it’s okay, would you like to sit away? Talk.”

Potty, who raised his head from his arms, had doubts in his eyes.
And he said with a face that he didn’t understand.

“Still a dream… ?”

Hernán held back a sigh.
I also don’t feel comfortable when I come here.

He forced Potty into a chair and opened his mouth.

“This is solitary confinement.”

Potty winced and bit his lip.

“It’s late in the morning now.”

After each Hernán’s words, she saw a glimmer of melancholy on her face.

“Uh, why at a time like this… ?”

She rubbed her face hard.

“If this is a dream, can I wake up soon?”

Potty shrugged his shoulders despondently.
On top of that, drooping rabbit ears were added, creating an overall heavy atmosphere.

Then she lowered her hand from rubbing her face and opened her mouth.

“Is there anything wrong with the child? Isn’t it your usual time to come?”

At her words, Hernan also tasted the bitter reality.

“I only saw Ouna at lunch yesterday. At that time, the child was fine.”

“Is that so?”

Since she was imprisoned here, whenever she had time, she would take her children to Forty as best she could.
But whenever that happened, she cared more about Hernán than about her children.

Despite Potty’s appearance, the kids wanted to see her mother often, but she honestly didn’t want to take Una and other children to Potty.

Is it because it reminds me of myself when I was young whenever I see disappointed children?

“I’m here at this hour because I have a question for you.”

So Hernán quickly changed her subject.
As soon as she met her at dawn, she seemed tired of asking to be taken out, but she politely nodded her head.

“What, what? Even if you say you don’t have time these days, the question you want to ask me at a time like this is…”

Hernán took a deep breath, and she organized the story she had heard yesterday in her head.

“You remember the libido suppression magic on my head?”

“Yes.”

“Didn’t you say that the reason it stopped was because of lack of magic power?”

As soon as her story of her magic came out, Forty noticed her noticeably quickened.

“Magic Stone… !”

“Okay. You know that the mana stone came in recently, right?”

In the first place, intense mana is being used by Sharpies every day.
There is no way Forty, who is sensitive to her magic power, could not notice the reaction.

“Perhaps there are magic stones around me.”

Hernán gently touched her magic stone pouch, which was always hanging from her waist.

“Or is there a possibility that the sexual desire suppression magic will work again when magic for a different purpose is applied to my body?”

Forty’s eyes lit up with firearms for the first time in a while.
In terms of color alone, the most sophisticated golden eyes quickly rolled and scanned Hernan’s body.

“A pile of mana stones. And huh, the healing magic that was used on the lower back.”

At once, she singled out potential candidates for trouble.

“Well, the exact thing can only be judged by knowing how the user uses magic and the structure of sexual desire suppression magic. Ha, but.”

Little by little, the sorcerer’s ears float above her head.
She wiggled her fingers and went on with her words.

“The causes El just mentioned. Everyone, there are possibilities. Especially since the sexual desire suppression magic attracts the surrounding magic.”

Potty’s hand inadvertently reached into Hernán’s waist pocket.
He twisted her body to keep her out of reach.

“Oh… !”

Forty groaned at the action, biting her lip.
She stares at her with her excessive eyes.

However, Hernan looked down at her with colder eyes than her.

“I’m sorry. I don’t know stop…”

As if tired of those bloody eyes, Potty apologized with his hands trembling.
Hernán did not completely take her chill, but nodded at her, signaling her to continue.

“The mana stone does not naturally shed mana, but with the help of the magic circle, mana is absorbed. This, the principle of general magic tools is similar to this.”

“Then, does that mean that the magic on my head might be absorbing the magic from the mana stone I carry?”

Potty kept looking at his waist and opened his mouth.

“I’m not sure… Usually, the magic formula to disenchant and attract is very carefully planned.”

“Tell me specifically.”

“If you recklessly suck mana, you can make the magic tools around you inoperable. That’s why I usually take measures to absorb only certain magical powers.”

According to my memory, there was no case of magic items being damaged during the adventure due to sexual desire suppression magic.

However, Shapi explained that it seems that the magic on the head is supplied with magic because this person is carrying the magic stone.

“So, what does Forty look like? Do you think the magic in my head is absorbing the mana of these mana stones?”

Potty was silent for a moment.
And he carefully opened his mouth.

“Shah, what did Shafi say?”

Ernan laughed bitterly inwardly.

Two magic experts present at the facility.
One is imprisoned for making a mistake, and the other is active.

If you have a question about magic, common sense makes it natural to ask a person who is still active first.

Even 4ties competing for 1st or 2nd place here without notice, can you understand this much?

Hernan, who had in mind that Potty noticed in the first place, answered briefly.

“I want to hear your opinion. Fourteeners, not other women.”

Forty smiled briefly at that, but then frowned.
She hesitated and hesitated in her speech.

Are you worried about the case where the sharpie and the description are different?

“I-over there, L…”

The wizard, as if not wanting to offend Hernán, took her words out with utmost care.

“Theoretically, in any case, there is a possibility. That’s why precise analysis is necessary.”

She put her hands together.

“If it’s a magic circle engraved inside a person’s body, magic is needed to analyze it…”

Certainly, when Forty didn’t have her magic, she couldn’t really analyze the magic circle on this side of her head.
Rather, that was possible because of the Sharpie, which draws mana from the person with whom he had sex.

Hernán put the conclusions that could be drawn from the facts into her mouth.

“Would you like a magic stone to analyze?”

“I-I’m never greedy for magic stones!”

Potty hastily shrugged her body.
However, her eyes themselves were fixed on the magic stone.

“I won’t do it if El wants it. Instead, she can ask for help from a sharpie who can use magic.”

Of course, but it’s not.
Isn’t the reason why I found Forty at such an early hour to listen to and cross-validate Sharpie and her other opinions?

But in order to do that, she has to get Potty to use her magic stone.

Hernan hid his expression as much as possible and slightly changed the flow of the conversation.

“But if the sexual desire suppression magic works, shouldn’t all of my sexual desire disappear?”

“Yeah, that’s right…”

“But there was no hint of it. Only dizziness or confusion of vision came.”

Potty thought about something, then calmly offered her opinion.

“Brainwashing magic… It may have changed as the thing that was originally combined with sexual desire suppression magic disappeared.”

“What changes?”

“Yes, for example, it has changed in a way that only stimulates the brain…”

Forty also seemed to have a hard time saying exactly.
Perhaps, as she said, we’ll have to do her careful analysis.

Hernán stroked her chin and once again changed the subject of her conversation slightly.

“Anyway, if it becomes clear that the mana stone or the recovery magic used on my body is affecting me, what should I do?”

“Immediately stop the recovery magic and keep the mana stone away from your body.”

Same judgment as Sharpie.

Stopping the recovery magic itself was no big deal since my back was almost healed.
But, keep the mana stone away from your body?

I can’t stop the management of the mana stone from being lax.

I don’t want to doubt it, but it’s hard to deny the possibility that one of the women will steal the mana stone and use it for themselves or pass it on to a magic user.

Or one of the kids here could get their hands on the magic stone.

Either way, Hernan is not very happy with the situation.
It’s an ideal situation for a Sharpie who can use magic.

And I doubt this whole situation wasn’t a big picture for Sharpie to use her magic stone at will.

Bring in magic stones for the purpose of treatment.
Whether it’s healing magic or possession of a mana stone, something stimulates the magic in Hernan’s head.
Hernan finally got something wrong with her body.
The reason for this is to drop her magic stone from him and secretly use it at her disposal.

Everything just seems to fit together.
But I have a question.

“L?”

Potty calls the silent Hernan.

Hernán looked at the woman in front of her and brought out the question that lingered in her mind.

“But if there is a problem, shouldn’t there be a problem normally?”

“Yes?”

“Actually, it was only recently that the symptoms I mentioned earlier appeared severely, but the bizarre sense of heterogeneity itself felt little by little every time I went up to the garden.”

“Uh… I, did you feel that in the garden?”

“Okay. Only in the garden.”

Her bunny ears are pricked up, and Potty’s blunt tail rustles at her ass.

Thinking hard, she finally opened her mouth.

“The garden is full of holy power, according to Marina, right?”

“Huh.”

“Si, divine power has an excellent effect in erasing mana.”

The garden is filled with divine power so strong that even the magic of the demons can hardly withstand it.

“Then it seems to make more sense!”

I felt like I was a little excited.

Forty poured out her words with enthusiasm, with her gleeful look on her face.

“Don’t use sexual desire suppression magic, you almost burned El’s brain when magic wasn’t enough, right? But now the mana is being supplied again and it is about to be activated.”

“If the hypotheses we shared so far are correct, that would be the case.”

“Yeah, that’s right. Anyway, since the magic power that was replenished disappears when you go to the garden, it might be that the actively running horse, magic stops, and the side effects appear stronger!”

Hernán grinned and raised an objection.

“Then why is my libido normal?”

“That…”

Potty stuttered his words hastily.

“Three, the brainwashing magic part floated, and some parts may have been removed as it fell off… Is not it? Could it be that the magic is in the middle of re-activating, so the effect has not yet appeared?”

In the end, it’s back to square one.
Nothing is clear, and the only solution suggested is to keep the mana stone away from the body.

While Hernán was considering using the right of wish that Sharpie had secretly suggested from the beginning instead of removing the mana stone, Potty called him.

“L! After all, I think you’ll know for sure only when you check it out!”

Hernan, who was wondering if Sharpie’s suggestion of using the right of wish had some intention, tried to answer in moderation.

“Using the Mana Stone…”

“Well, there are other ways! There’s no way to know if sexual desire suppression magic is really the problem, and, if it’s a problem, where the problem is!”

But when Forty spoke forcefully, he put his thoughts aside and looked at her.

“Other way?”

“Yes!”

Potty smiled as he blushed.

“This, we’re going to use the method we already know.”

As Hernán just looked at her bewildered face, she wiggled her ears and laughed.

“When El suffers from a headache as a side effect of magic… When I suffer from sudden heat…”

After hearing that, Hernán realized what Potty was trying to say.
Potty looked at Hernan’s face and opened her mouth.

“Have sex. In the garden with me.”