Chapter 170 – Chapter 164 – Until the New Queen Comes 2 (8)

A large oven located in the kitchen.
As I looked inside, where the red heat overflowed, I saw a fairly large loaf of bread getting cooked.

“I will open the oven soon. “

As I watched it quietly, Karine came to her side.

“I have to take out the bread and decorate it so I can go up in time.”

Hernán nodded his head and stepped away from the oven for a bit.
When Carine saw that, she smiled and crouched next to Hernán.

“Are you not going to get out of the way?”

“Sit next to me for a minute. You don’t have to take it out right away.”

He continued her talking, looking back at her carine and at the table behind her.

“The other things are already prepared, so let’s catch our breath.”

On the table, there were various sweets that children would like, divided into several plates.
Karine also glanced at it for a moment, then she leaned her body against Hernán.

The red-hot lights in the oven flow out with warm warmth.
The couple sitting side by side in front of him had an atmosphere as if they were in front of a campfire.

“Also… Are you going to get Sylnia out of her room today? They make food as if to celebrate something.”

Is that why?

Karine brought up another woman she didn’t usually get along with.
Hernando, instead of changing the subject, nodded her head and opened his mouth.

“Huh. I will reconcile with Lenny.”

Karine let out her languid voice and rested her head on the shoulder of the man next to her.

“And?”

It was a fact that Karine also knew that Hernan had been visiting Silnia and Marina’s room often lately.

Besides, even in the middle of a busy day, anyone can see that Hernán is trying to make a reconciliation place, seeing that she dares to make food to liven up the atmosphere with Karine’s help.

“And what are you going to do after that?”

That’s why Karine wasn’t asking what she knew, she was asking after that.
Hernán slowly opened his mouth after looking at the bread in the oven for a while.

“If Lenny and Silnia reconcile, Silnia won’t have to be confined to a room anymore. Ethan’s sore leg can be fixed right away.”

A wish that has been postponed due to overlapping events and reasons.
It’s time for Silnia to achieve what she was trying to achieve.

And the release of Silnia’s confinement does not simply have that meaning.

“Elf… Silnia, will she roam here freely now?”

Carine in front of the oven said, dyeing her silver hair red.

“Marina actually decided to go over Silnia’s fault, and the only reason Silnia couldn’t come out was Lenny.”

Pulling her body together with her knees, she laid her face on it.

“Will there be another adult to work with? The saintess will recover soon, and she will be able to shake off her body and get up.”

It deliberately omits the words that Silnia will be her queen and her imprisoned Potty.
Hernan didn’t even mention it, running his fingers through her hair.

“Life will be a little easier. I can take turns doing housework, so I’ll have more time to rest like before.”

“Good night…”

A bitter smile appeared on Karine’s face.
Contrary to what he said, he wasn’t very happy.

As the bread for the cake turned golden brown, Hernán just stared at it for a while without answering.
Then, as she passed by, she asked.

“Do you like now, Karine?”

“No. It’s hard because I’m so busy right now.”

With her head still on her lap, Karine shook her head.

“So no…”

The more you shake your head, the more your face faces downward.
She rocked her head from side to side a few more times before her face was buried between her knees.

“I don’t like excessive lyrics like now. Only then does it feel like my adoptive father’s house where I used to live. It will definitely be better later when there are more women.”

Hernán lowered her hand a little further and placed her hand on her Carine’s waist.
He pulled her gently and whispered softly.

“I will try my best to spend time with you often.”

Even though Hernán, Shafi, and Carine now take on all the work, every day is a continuation of overwork.

But at the same time, these three are spending more time together than ever before.
In particular, the cooking time like now is like a tryst between Hernan and Karine.

If Silnia, Marina, and Poti, who will be released someday, come back again, this time will evaporate quickly.

As if right after the brainwashing magic in Hernan’s head was erased, the two would often be apart.

“L.”

After a while, Karine gave a melancholy voice.
She turned her head slightly, letting her own blue eyes meet Hernán’s black ones.

“Actually, I am satisfied now. Now is the time to live with you every day. Now I spend a lot of time with you every day.”

Blue eyes shimmered and shone.

“And the truth is, I still don’t understand with my heart that you mix and spend time with another woman.”

There was no reply from Hernan.
I just silently listen with my dark eyes shining.

“But… Aren’t other women similar?”

Carine also stared at those black eyes and her mouth trembled.

“Other girls… Will the girls who ventured with me accept me? That you and I have become this close again?”

Sharpie, the only woman other than Karine to be active, has not shown any particular hostility towards Karine.
She was rather friendly and was just trying to placate her hero.

However, the rest of the women are hostile towards Karine.

“Maybe they won’t accept it easily.”

The pure white dough is irreversibly cooked by the heat.
Looking at the scene, Hernán calmly spoke the reality as it was instead of consolation or encouragement.

“Because things have changed a lot.”

“How?”

Carine also asked a question as she watched the bread change every moment.

“How have things changed?”

“In the past, all party members except Forty just had a grudge against you.”

In fact, it can be said that Silnia and Marina had a grudge against Hernán to some extent.

“But there won’t be only such grudges anymore.”

However, after a long time of mixing and raising a child together, the relationship between the two women and Hernan began to get closer.

Silnia and Marina have already opened or are opening their hearts to him, just as Hernán goes beyond caring for her simply as her family, and he loves them as a woman.

Then.
If the two of them fell in love with Hernán, would they be happy to see the man they love and the woman they hate reunited?

“They’re not going to be exactly the same as Potty. But the closer I get to them, the less they will see you and me getting closer.”

“Now you see it as a yearly relationship.”

Carine answered calmly like Hernan.
So Hernan felt the bitter taste in her mouth all the more.

I have no regrets about continuing to repair my relationship with Silnia and Marina, and growing my love for them.

And the fact that he restored his relationship with Karine.

Even if you go back, you will make that choice.

However, it seemed that the changes that this choice would bring were not entirely sweet.

“Oh, it’s all baked.”

Their conversation ended abruptly as the bread was baked in the oven.

Hernán carefully opened the oven and took out the hot cake bread.

When I put it on the table, Karine pointed to the center of the bread.

“You rode a lot.”

The inside of the oven is not all the same temperature, so sometimes there are places where it burns like this.
It’s a pity, but this must be one of the processes of bread ripening.

“It’s a little ugly, but I’ll have to cut it.”

Hernán raised his sword and cut off the burnt part.
Of course, the burned part wasn’t all that pretty, so the cross section was ugly.

“Can I bake it again? If I do it, I will be able to do it again soon.”

Saying so, Karine glanced at the bag of flour.

Certainly, if Karine is superior in baking and pastry skills to Hernan, she will bake bread more easily and quickly.

But Hernán shook her head.

“Are you okay. You don’t have to do it twice.”

As he said that, he cut out a large cut out of the center of the cake.
Then he poured the honey-soaked fruit set aside into the cut-out.

“Isn’t this the part where the problem occurred?”

“… Okay.”

Karine turned her head away with her eyes closed.
And she muttered very little.

“Because you are such a man, you must have accepted me again.”

Hernán held up the tray of food as if he hadn’t heard.

“Let’s go. To the dinner table where everyone will gather.”

* * *

“Are you ready?”

“Ugh… ! Joe, can’t we wait a little longer and go?”

Silnia stomped her foot impatiently.

“As expected, can’t we give Leni a bit more gifting and reconcile later?”

“… The gift we gave you is already making holes in the garden flowers.”

Ernan said while tidying up Silnia’s clothes.

“Don’t be too nervous, just act normally. Surely Lenny will accept you.”

“After…”

When Silnia let out a big sigh, Hernan smiled and lifted the half-elf brother and sister from the crib.

“Mom!”

When Ethan quickly called her mother, Ernan placed her child in her arms.

“Sylnia. Ethan’s leg needs to be fixed today. Are you going to waste time again?”

After hearing that, Silnia closed her eyes tightly before opening them.

“Go! Let’s go.”

She went to the door with slightly firm steps.
But, perhaps because he was so trembling, he just stood still, shaking his hands.

Eventually Hernán went over to her and grabbed her doorknob.

“Let’s go. To the living room where everyone is.”

“Ha, yes. Let’s get out!”

Simultaneously with Silnia’s answer, the door opened.

At the same time, a loud noise came from the living room.

“Sylnia mother! Little brother Ethan!”

Breaking through the noisy children, Shafi’s daughter, Ella, sprinted.

“Long time no see, Ella.”

Silnia raised the corners of her mouth a little as she was greeted by the sociable kid.
Then the child cried out in her excited voice.

“Everyone is here today! Not a single one left!”

Hernan and Silnia followed Ella’s words and turned their heads toward the table.

There were children who were full of excitement and adults who were silent.

“Forties…”

Silnia glanced at Karine and saw Potty perched on a chair at her table.

Potty tried not to see anyone, just taking care of her excited children.

“I called because it was necessary.”

A voice so small that only elves could hear it.
Hernán said that and headed to her table with Silnia.

Sharpie and Karine greet the two of them.
Karine sat to the right of Sharpie, while she paid no attention to Potty, who sat to her left.

The place where Hernan and Silnia, who passed by the two, arrived at Marina’s seat.

“It’s been a while since I met you in a place other than my room.”

“I know. How do you feel?”

“It’s all right. And with this, I can walk on my own.”

Pointing to her crutches, which were parked beside her chair, Marina exchanged a light greeting with Silnia.
She then called out in her soft voice her baby, her daughter, who was buried in her bosom.

“Lenny? Listen up.”

Lenny lifted her head slowly, holding her elf doll, as if her own mother had hugged her.

“Do you like that doll? Do you enjoy playing together?”

“Yes.”

“Do you know who made that doll?”

“…”

When Lenny didn’t look at Silnia, Silnia twitched her ears, revealing her anxiety.

Seeing that, Hernán went over to Marina’s chair and knelt down on her knees.

“Lenny. Can you see him?”

He showed Silnia’s little daughter in her arms.

“I’m Lenny’s younger brother. The youngest brother.”

Silnia’s daughter, who is now the youngest here.
Lenny looked at the child and opened her mouth.

“Younger sister? Her ears are long.”

“Isn’t it similar to a doll?”

At Ernan’s words, Lenny nodded her head.

“It’s like a doll.”

Seeing Lenny repeatedly touching her doll’s ear, Hernán reached out her hand at a speed that would not surprise her child.

She gently grabs Lenny’s hand and brings it to her half-elf girl’s ear.

When her hand touched her, her ears fluttered and moved with vigor.

“Oh!”

Lenny was surprised by that, but a smile appeared on her lips.

“Ear! Move!”

As if she wanted to touch her one more time, she looked at Hernan with an intense gaze unlike the always calm Leni.

“I want to touch you!”

Hernan nodded her head to Lenny, but rose from her seat again.

Then he switched between Silnia and her child behind her.

“Don’t get excited. Don’t apologize suddenly.”

Warning the impatient elf, Hernan soothed the whining Ethan.
While he said he only had a little time left for Ethan.

Silnia, holding her daughter, bent over her very slowly.
Even racing her tortoise was coming down at a good pace, but Lenny, frowning on her face, tried to burrow back into her own mother’s breast.

But Silnia, who had arrived beside her, stopped her movement at her words.

“Would you like to touch it? The child I gave birth to… Lenny’s brother.”

Is it because of the gift?
Fortunately, the child was not frightened or had a seizure.
But her discomfort was also very evident.

“Lenny? Or would you like to touch my ear? It’s really soft and it feels good.”

Seeing Lenny like that, Silnia trembled her voice a bit.

All sorts of thoughts were probably running through her head right now.

In the meantime, Lenny was expressionless and only touched her doll.

“Lenny.”

Marina opened her mouth to Lenny, who turned her gaze away from Silnia.

“Look at this.”

Her saintly hand touched Silnia’s ear.

“Evil!”

When her ears were pulled, Silnia struggled in fright.
Hernan, of course, was frightened, and snatched her daughter from Silnia’s staggering arms.

Meanwhile, Marina’s hand was getting more and more grip.

“It feels really good. Come and touch Lenny too!”

“Hey! What is this…”

“Sylnia!”

Hernán quietly paid attention to Silnia when Lenny showed interest in her.
Thanks to this, Silnia had to sit still with her ears dyed red.

“Eww… !”

The elf suppressed his voice so as not to frighten the child, and tears welled up in his eyes.
In comparison, Marina wiggled her Silnia ear around and smiled benignly.

“Come on, Lenny. Sylnia wants to touch me too.”

“Ear…”

When Marina, her mother, touches Silnia, she certainly notices her child letting her guard down too.

“Yeah, yes! Touch it until it’s full!”

Silnia forced a smile as Lenny slowly turned her eyes this way.
And she glanced at Marina with difficulty.

Of course, Marina didn’t care.
Hernan also just passed.

Wouldn’t it be okay for her to lie down after being beaten so much by her sylnia?

“Huh!”

And then Lenny grabbed Silnia’s ears with both of her hands.

Although her eyes were full of fear, as if she couldn’t overcome her childish curiosity, Leni slowly pricked Silnia’s ears.

“How are you feeling, Lenny?”

“Great…”

Marina smiled and removed her hand from Silnia’s ear.
Instead, she handed something over to Hernán.

Hernan also quickly retrieved it, and tucked it into her upper wrist to keep her from being seen.

“Sigh!”

In the meantime, Silnia let out a strange moan and her body trembled.

The reason was that Lenny had started to touch in earnest, especially sucking with her mouth.

“How are you feeling, Sylnia?”

Hernan approached Silnia and asked a question.
Silnia looked up at him with her teary eyes, and she struggled to open her mouth.

“Good mood…”

Lenny shows off her passionate ear sucking as if he was afraid of Silnia.
And Silnia, who is delighted with this clear evidence of reconciliation.

Both Hernan and Marina, the parents of the child, were deeply moved by the sight.

“As expected, the restoration of the relationship is touching.”

“It is a very satisfying sight for me as both a parent and a priest.”

Perhaps her party, Silnia, felt greater joy and reward.

Hernan thought so and put Silnia’s children down on her chair.
He took out in her free hand what she had received from Marina earlier.

All the girls, except for Sylnia, who was still reconciling with Lenny, were nervous when they saw it.

“At las.”

Hernán held up the wish ticket so that everyone could easily see it.

“It’s time to make the long-awaited wish.”

Inside the wish ticket was written a simple and clear wish, along with a signature indicating Marina’s permission.

[Please completely restore Ethan’s leg, the son of Hernan and Silnia.]