Chapter 210 – Chapter 203 – Family Planning Is Made With the Future in Mind (4)

When a conversation or meeting breaks down, the woman who can best seal the situation is the Sharpie.
Conversely, Sharpie was also the most skilled woman when it comes to disrupting conversations or meetings.

“Devil! Don’t keep twisting other people’s intentions!”

“Saintess, you are very hot today. Did you get stabbed at least?”

Voices rise rapidly between the saintess and the demon king.
The children who were playing each other also intuited the unusual atmosphere and watched the adults one by one with bated breath.

“You really are the demon lord… !”

After a few more workshops, Marina could not stand it and raised her voice.
It made some of the children flinch.

Carine thought that Hernán would end the conversation soon.

“Stop! Do this today.”

Unsurprisingly, Hernán cut off the sharp conversation between Sharpie and Marina.
And Hernan, as if trying to divert the children’s nerves, deliberately got up busily.

“It’s almost time to feed the kids anyway, so let’s break up and talk later.”

As he quickly cleared her table, he looked at Shafikara with cold eyes.

The Sharpie, who had made each woman furious every time she opened her mouth, looked at those eyes without any shame.
Her smile seemed to provoke even Hernan.

Carine thought it wouldn’t be strange if Hernán immediately dragged Sharpie away and talked to her separately.

“Who is on duty tonight?”

But Hernán took her eyes off her sharpie and acted like she was ignoring her.

Since when?
The fact that the two of them had less serious conversations separately.

Originally, Shafikara was the woman that Hernan and Marina met most often when there was an important event.

Of course, when she first came here, she herself was that role, but now it was so long ago that her memories of such a time were vague.

Excluding Sylnia, who had no idea whatsoever and rather won the power of the queen, those two women are the closest to power in this prison.

But from some point on, Hernán began to spend less time alone with Shafi unless it was unavoidable, such as taking regular supplements.

“Today is you and me, Hernan.”

Hernan nodded at Marina’s words.

“Then Marina, no, the saintess, go down with me. Everyone else is looking after the kids and tidying up the living room.”

Walking side by side with Marina, Hernán touched her blackboard.

“Leave this because you can use it here later.”

“Huh!”

Sharpie answered loudly, and Hernán disappeared with Marina with a hard expression.

It’s a good opportunity to be alone.
Those two might be having a secret conversation under the guise of cooking.

Carine, now diluted and watery, still felt uncomfortable watching her lover disappear with another woman.

“Shall we have a little chat?”

Startled, she turned her head away.
There was a Sharpie blinking at her, watching with her loving eyes.

Of course, that woman sees anyone with that kind of eye.

“Didn’t we talk about it earlier?”

Karine recalled that she was in Sharpie’s room until Hernán dragged her blackboard into the living room.

There, the subject of conversation between Sharpie, Potty, and herself was the whereabouts of Karine’s original magic stone necklace.
It was a topic that made me want to pass out because I was really suffocating.

It was a story she somehow didn’t want to share anymore, so Karine tried to leave as much as possible.

“I’m going to clean up the mess my kids have made. So you’re forty…”

“Queen!”

Suddenly, the Sharpie turned her toward the wall of her living room, wagging her tail.
There was Silnia muttering something at the demon’s altar.

“Wasn’t this order me?”

The demon king smiled after calling the elf one more time.

“Can you babysit the kids?”

“Why me?”

The elf, who seemed offended, turned his head with a tic.

“And don’t just say ‘queen’ in words, treat me well, right? It’s like biting and sucking at 44.”

“What, are you biting and sucking?”

The Sharpie patted the bewildered Potty on the head and set her Ella down.
And she winked one eye at Ella.

“Um… Okay.”

No words were spoken between the two, but Ella turned to her as if she understood.
Hernan’s daughter, whom Karine also quite likes, took a deep breath in her and then raised her hand and tail.

“Fist!”

Adults as well as children turned their attention to Ella.
Ella waited for everyone’s eyes to be on her, then put her strength into her legs.

“Treason!”

“Uh?”

Ella shouted and rushed at Silnia, and soon Silnia’s children also charged her mother with her cotton axe.

“Where did you guys learn this… Evil!”

Other children who could walk and run on their own soon joined the crowd, and Silnia collapsed to the floor in one fell swoop.

To be precise, it was Silnia’s reluctance to lie down, fearing that the children would get hurt.

“Mother and daughter as a pair… Oops!”

While the queen was embarrassed by the cotton ax in her mouth, the demon king held the wizard’s hand.

“Let’s go!”

“Now, wait!”

“Carine too!”

The demon king, wearing potty and pods, reached out to the hero as well.

“Let’s go and talk.”

Can we finish talking about necklaces?

Carine tried to show her stubborn denial.

However, she hesitated when her eyes met hers once again.

Those eyes weren’t as sharp as they were when talking about the necklace.

“Hurry! Our elven queen will come to her senses soon?”

I couldn’t pinpoint exactly, but…
Ho’s similar feelings were abundantly contained.

In fact, the Demon King would show kindness more and more often that he couldn’t understand in this way.

The only person who showed goodwill in his life was Hernan.
That is why the attitude of this woman, who is of a different race and has many reasons to hate each other, was unfamiliar every time.

Maybe she’s trying to be political as well?
Just as she ate with Forty, she might use this too.

“Hmm…”

Sharpie, seeing the hesitant Karine, gently turned her eyes to her corner of the living room.
Following that line of sight, Karine turned her eyes and her eyes landed on the blackboard.

There were traces of the conversations we had had so far, that is, pictures of how to go out and live.

“Ah.”

The conversation that Sharpie said he wanted to finish wasn’t about the necklace.

Carine recalled her words to her as the Sharpie broke her mood.

‘Time to go up again.’

How do you seduce me so sweetly every time?

“Let’s go.”

It seemed that the word ‘ola’ was omitted before the word ‘go’ of the demon king.
The dreamer knew.

Karine, a hero and lover, still wants to be the ‘only’ loving woman in Hernan’s heart, or, if not the only, ‘most’ loving woman.

That’s why she
Is Carine.
The warrior.

“Did you catch it, hero?”

I took the demon king’s hand.

“Shall we go then?”

The hand can be put back later.
Now…

“Let’s go.”

The hero disappeared across the corridor with the demons.

* * *

Entering the kitchen, Hernán dipped the pie and the drink tableware into the water.

Even if you didn’t clean these, there were many tableware to use for cooking or eating.
However, instead of handling the knife or the fire, Hernán wanted the cold water to touch his heated skin.

“Are you going to start washing the dishes?”

Marina, who had come down with Ernan, approached him.

“There’s still a little bit left until dinnertime, so I have some time.”

She rolled up her sleeves and grabbed her plate.
Soon, the two men and women with familiar hand movements continued washing the dishes without a word.

In fact, the woman seemed to want to talk, but the man refused to talk.

“Hernan. At the meeting earlier…”

“How about finishing washing the dishes now?”

Marina is also a quick-witted woman like Sharpie.
Instead of continuing what she was about to say, she quietly dipped her hand in the water.

Hernán was grateful that the woman who came down with him this evening was her Marina, and she cooled her head that kept getting hotter.

“…”

At first, the atmosphere of the meeting was not too bad.
Of course, the atmosphere wasn’t bad, but there was a feeling of stuffiness in the bleak situation.

Still, there are kids around, and Hernan himself made various preparations to make the process a little smoother.
Thanks to that, we had several constructive conversations.

If everything had gone smoothly, he would have spent the rest of his time reviewing various suggestions worth considering, such as planting a sacred tree or going to the land of demons.

But the Demon King broke all of that at once.

“Hernan?”

“Now I’m doing everything from washing the dishes…”

“The dishes are finished.”

Shafikara caused a riot among the women because she couldn’t break the mood.
Hernán, who was thinking about her, turned her attention to her Marina.

To the woman who rebelled most against the demon king today.

“If you put only what is in Hernán’s hand, the dishes are finished.”

The other dishes on the next shelf were all wiped dry.
Hernán sighed and put her last plate on her shelf.

“Next we will make food.”

“Wait, Hernan!”

As if she wanted to say something, the saintess tried to catch Hernán, who was approaching her ingredients.

“Since we’re together, can’t we talk?”

“A conversation?”

Hernan asked hard.

“Yes. And talk a little more comfortably. Weren’t you comfortable with me when you were alone?”

The saintess created a smile on her face.
Although it was a bit awkward for Hernán to see.

“And she calls me Marina, not a saint. There is no need to formalize the title in a tired state from today’s meeting, right?”

I can feel the slight tension.
It certainly won’t be a light topic.

“Come to think of it…”

And Hernán suddenly noticed that he and Marina were not on duty this evening.

“Aren’t Silnia and I on duty today?”

Her head was full of the sharpie and the escape, so she couldn’t recall.
I think she accepted it without question because she couldn’t even lie.

“I’m better at cooking than Silnia, so shouldn’t it be a problem? You can think of it as changing the order on duty.”

The more I listened to the saintess in front of me, the less I wanted to talk.
Perhaps she is going to continue the topic of the meeting that just ensued.

There was no particular reason for the saintess to lie and create time for just the two of them, other than that right now.

“Okay. Then, while the shift has changed, let’s start cooking.”

“Yes? Now, hold on!”

“Conversation can happen anytime. There is a lot of time we can spend together.”

After Hernan finished speaking, he opened the bag of vegetables.
Seeing that only old vegetables were left, I thought I would have to make stewed food today.

Coincidentally, the saintess specializes in stew, so it was just right.

“I’ll raise the water, so could you chop some vegetables?”

She put vegetables around the cutting board and moved the large pot toward the drinking fountain.
Hernán turned on the faucet and watched the water gradually fill up.

And while she waited for the water to rise, troubles began to bubble in her head.

What the hell is a sharpie for?
It seems that there is important information shared only with demons that those from the warrior party do not know about, but there is no way to find out.

Knowing that, she would be able to know what the dreamer was thinking to do such a difficult thing to catch.

And even after going out, do you really want to be above others like you are now?
Of course, that’s human nature…

-Kikkik

The water cut off with a loud sound.

“Hernan.”

“Why did you turn off the water, saintess?”

“Speak comfortably. You are too nervous.”

Hernán turned the water back on when he saw the half-full pot.

“Even the saintess never uttered honorifics to me.”

The saintess opened her mouth in a daze, but she closed it with a groan.

Today, the woman who reacted most violently to Sharpie’s profanity was a saint.
She seemed like someone who forgot her children were around.

“Does the saintess want to do the same as Sharpie said? Do you want to go out and have an advantage over other girls?”

“Hernan… I just want to touch on the third topic that we missed as the meeting broke up. A plan for how we will spend the rest of our days here.”

Hernan, who had filled her water before he knew it, faced her saintess while holding her pot.
The amount of water close to 20 people was very heavy.

“Really? Is that what you want to talk about?”

“Yes. We share a lot of information that no one else knows, so here…”

“Then why is it necessary to lie and change your shift?”

The saintess’ mouth closed again.

“Is there any reason to change the duty like this to create time for just the two of us and to ask to talk even while blocking the road?”

Even as she spoke, she signaled to the saintess to leave in front of her crater to raise the water.
However, the saintess rather moved to further block the path to her crater.

Hernan stopped her steps and roughly put her pot on the floor between them.

A harsh metallic sound and a violently shaking water surface.

With it in her middle, Hernán tried to suppress her feelings.
It was only that she had a sharp headache in her head, probably from the sound she had just put down the pot.

With the pain that hadn’t come in a long time, Hernán harshly brought her words out.

“Good! A saint, no Marina. I will listen, so tell me.”

Marina had her head down, so I couldn’t see her expression.
She was watching the water in her pot as she calmed down.

“Can you tell me about your plans to stay here? He said he wanted to talk about it.”

Marina was still silent, her head bowed.

She sighed because of her doubts and headaches about her saint.

“Isn’t that what you meant to say? Then, did she really come to make an offer to stand above the other women?”

Hernan hoped that Marina would open her mouth.

“Huh.”

But when Marina opened her mouth, Hernán froze.
He looked at Marina, who clearly said ‘yes’, and held her breath.

And suddenly, following her gaze, his own gaze also fell.

“I’m hoping to get the upper hand.”

At the end of that line of sight was a quiet sleep.

From Hernan’s side, Marina’s face is reflected.

“Then no?”

On the Marina side, the water surface where Hernán’s face is reflected.