Chapter 211 – Chapter 204 – Family Planning Is Made With the Future in Mind (5)

She thought maybe she wouldn’t hear Marina talk until she died.

During her adventures, she could find herself in a combat situation, and even the most respectful person would use her short language, but even in that situation, Marina was as polite as possible.

It was the same here as well, so she kept her respectful words to Hernán, the other women, and the new children.

“Can’t I?”

That’s why Marina’s short words that suddenly came out were embarrassing.
Of course, not only the surface of her words, but also the contents of her words were embarrassing.

“Can’t I ask for more love and a higher position like other women?”

There is nothing wrong.
This is Marina’s argument, because it was something that women had asked Hernán countless times.

There is no rule against making a claim regardless of whether Hernán accepted the claim.

“But Marina.”

But this is the first time Marina has made such a request.

“Suddenly? At the point where women are blushing like today?”

Hernán shook his aching head.

The atmosphere was messed up by Sharpie’s mess just a little while ago.
It was an inappropriate story considering their feelings for each other, and it was also inappropriate in terms of content as Shapi brought up a story about women competing for Hernán.

It was an urgency that did not suit Marina, who maintained a prudent attitude.

“…”

The woman in front of Hernán lowered her head even deeper.

Marina’s face, which can only be seen through the surface of her pot on the floor.
She was biting her lip.

“Strange? What am I doing?”

Examining Marina’s expression reflected in her water, Hernán closed her mouth.
Marina also kept her head down as if she didn’t want Hernán’s answer.

“Or are you worse than the other girls?”

Her hands, which were politely gathered together, caught her skirt.
Clutching her skirt, she let out her words.

“I’m not a long-time lover like Karine, and her face isn’t astonishingly beautiful like Silnia. Isn’t it cute or actively craving affection like Potty? Comparing it to a dream horse only makes you laugh at yourself.”

A self-deprecating smile was painted on Marina’s face, which floated to her surface.
The raw emotion, which he showed very rarely, was spreading in the water.

“I don’t even have divine power… I have no strength to go out. Unlike other girls, when I go out, I’m really just a normal girl.”

Resentment?
Or anxiety?

Marina’s emotions in the water in her still pot were more direct and blurry than usual.

“Now it’s just you and her daughters, Ernan. That’s all she has left for me.”

It’s a familiar word.
Marina said it only once, but Hernán will never forget it for the rest of his life.

On the day that Hernán semi-forcedly entered into a relationship with Marina due to Karine’s coercion in her, Marina said that Ernan was the only thing left for her.

“After the divine power disappeared from me, Ernan you did that. She said that what is important to a saintess is not only her divine power, but she also has a heart to serve others.”

Hernan felt that she was embarrassing.
At the time, she was the consolation she needed.
It was the best he could do.

But now that I think about it, it was just a misguided excuse.
Marina wasn’t just a human who acted in the spirit of the Mercy Church.

“At first, I tried to hold on, thinking as you said. But I wasn’t such a noble person. In the first place, I only applied for the gamble of subjugating the demon king because I wanted to gain the power of being an archbishop?”

Marina’s hand, which was holding her skirt, suddenly began to move.
The drooping skirt was slowly pulled up.

“It is the same with treatment. I like the praise of the healed people more than the act of healing people with divine power. I was that kind of person from the start.”

Her bare skin was now exposed just below her thighs.
Hernan too, realizing what she meant, hurriedly opened her mouth.

“Marina. If we’re going to do this, we’d rather go to our room…”

“As time passed, I couldn’t stand it any longer. I’m not happy when her daughter is born, and I gave her the name of someone she doesn’t even like.”

The name of the person you hate?

Hernán, who stopped talking, hurriedly recalled if there was another person named Lenny in his memory.
Then, a very faint memory came to mind.

“Could it be that the red-haired apprentice priest who joined you in the church?”

“… Huh. Obstacles on my way to Archbishop. Someone who gets in the way of what I’ve longed for all my life.”

Marina bowed her head deeper.
Rather, it was reflected more clearly in her sleep, and she had her eyes tightly closed.

“I hated you and your daughter that much. The demons, the goddesses, and all the other women.”

One of her hands as she lifted her dress landed on Marina’s face.
But before she could reach her hand, her drops of water fell from her, and ripples rippled over her water surface.

“But in the end, all I had left was you and your daughter.”

A cracked voice repeated what had been said before.

“Unexpectedly, the only people who will never forget me, who will love and remember me are you and my daughters…”

When her undulating sleep calmed down, her wet face, which she hadn’t been able to wipe with her hands, came to mind.

“You will love me… Someone I will love.”

Her hand, which had been wiping away her tears, grabbed her skirt again.
Her skirt began to rise again, reaching her hips in no time.

“Since I made up my mind belatedly, I now realize my position. My position, which has no advantages if I leave.”

Hernán noticed why Marina was comparing herself to her other women.

“Here, I gave you advice with the advantage of being a priest. But what if you go out? I’m just an ordinary woman without divine power. There is no help from the outside where you don’t know what danger may lurk.”

“No, Marina. No need to be so demeaning…”

“In battle, Silnia and Carine are of course helpful. Even Potty and Sharpie are powerful wizards.”

“Too confined to combat, devalues ​​you…”

Hernan’s words were cut off once more.

“But what about housework and parenting? Do you know how popular carine dishes are with kids? Do you know how popular Shafina Carine is with the kids?”

As Marina said, Shafina Carine was very popular with her children.
Sharpie’s popularity is needless to say, but it was difficult for Hernan to understand why Carine was so popular.

“I am afraid to go out. I am afraid that if I go out like this, I will be forgotten.”

Marina’s lower body was now naked except for one of her underwear.

“I tried to forget it, but I heard what the demon king said today and knew it. That we shouldn’t delay any longer.”

Her trembling hands were now ripping off her top.
Each time a button was loosened, the clothes fluttered to the sides with a loud noise.

In the meantime, her deep breastbone was exposed, and the smell of fishy milk wafted out.
And it smelled of nervousness and anxiety.

“Then get me pregnant. So that you can look after me after giving birth to children you love.”

* * *

Karine did not hide her discomfort.

“Why are you here? You can talk in your room or in my special room.”

Forty, too, seemed not to like the gathering in his lab, wagging his short tail.

“Oh… Why are you here?”

Even the sharpie she had brought with her had a surprised look on her face when she saw her lab.

“The lab desk… Did someone break it?”

Sharpie glanced to her side as she watched the shattered desk.

Unsurprisingly, Karine struggled to keep her expression plain.
If you crumple your face in front of that fast-paced dreamer, you’ll notice right away.

But she didn’t have to make an effort for Carine.

“Um…”

Sharpie grinned as Potty groaned and looked at her carine.
She had eyes that knew a lot.

“Wouldn’t this desk be a bit bad for an artist?”

Would you rather answer shamelessly?

Karine kicked the fragments of her desk that had fallen to her floor.

“… It was bad. I didn’t like it from the first time I saw it.”

“Don’t touch me!”

Hearing Potty’s shrill voice lifted her spirits a little.
However, the situation where the woman next to her was glaring at her was not entirely comfortable, so she calmly put her feet back in place.

“I’m sorry, but it will be difficult to sit in the chair. Can I still make tea?”

The sharpie stroked Potty’s head with her tail and bowed her back.
In her hands were rose petals that had dried up and turned black.

Potty, the owner of this lab, muttered with a look of resentment towards Carine.

“I’m sorry, but the heater was broken along with the desk.”

“It seems so.”

Sharpie nodded her head and she poured water into a kettle that had been rolling around on the lab floor.

While Karine and Potty were watching what they were doing, she returned with a crumbling rose in the kettle.

“It must be difficult to brew tea in the air, right? Would you all sit down?”

“Does sitting on the floor make a fire? Don’t waste your time and say what you have to say.”

Karine stood next to her already seated sharpie and her potty who was hesitant to sit down after her.

“Marina has gone to the kitchen, so she will make a stew. As long as you prepare and boil the ingredients, you don’t have to worry about it, so Hernan can come up. Then she’ll be wondering what you were talking about?”

“Well? It will take aaaaa to finish cooking?

With a funny smile, the demon king put the kettle on the stone floor.

Seeing her confident attitude, Karine asked curiously.

“On what basis? Did you use magic?”

“No. I won’t use magic today.”

Carine felt annoyed at the vague answers.
However, her irritation was quickly forgotten by the words that followed.

“On duty this evening. Originally, it was not Marina, but Silnia and Hernán. Don’t you remember?”

“Well, come to think of it, really?”

Potty perked up his ears and opened his eyes wide.
Surprisingly, Karine was the same, so she looked at the sharpie with her mouth open.

“Everyone doesn’t care much because it’s their business, right?”

The giggly dreamy appearance was nasty, but there was a side to it that made it a little closer.

“Why did Marina do that… ?”

“Would you like to sit down? It’s hard to keep your head up!”

A gentle gesture invited Karine to sit down.
Karine sighed and sat down.
Sitting between two very uncomfortable women made me feel as if I had returned to the political world of the capital.

“Our warrior really can’t manage his expression.”

Forcing her uncomfortable expression on her face, Karine threw a scolding at Sharpie.

“Sit down. Whether it’s making tea or saying something, do it quickly. Don’t let it sit on a hard stone floor.”

“Of course! I need to brew some tea! Potty will make a fire.”

“Me, me?”

Potty looked at the sharpie with bewildered eyes.

“Hey, Sharpie over there? No fire here? Seriously, there’s no way the trees here are rubbing against each other…”

“No way.”

Sharpie’s eyes narrowed.

“Forties. Light a fire with magic.”

Potty’s expression froze.

“Yes?”

“I told you to light a fire. Isn’t it very simple? It doesn’t even take much magic.”

“But I, I’m not a demon, so my natural magic power… No, the devil said it was a demon, but I still don’t have magic in my body…”

Potty started talking gibberish.
There were magic theories that Karine didn’t know about, and there were also stories about demons.

He was talking quite long and verbose for Potty, who was not good at talking.
On the other hand, the demon king’s words were short.
“So you won’t?”

“Oh, it’s not that I can’t, I can’t!”

Sharpie’s words, which did not change a single expression on her face, grew more and more emotionless.
In contrast, Potty’s words became more and more violent.

“Are you going to bring me the magic stone? If you really want to see my magic, I’ll ask El to bring me the mana stone! Otherwise, like the wolf attack last time, even the demon’s help…”

“You have the magic stone, right?”

This time, instead of freezing, he jerked violently.
Even from Karine’s point of view, Potty was clearly agitated.

“I-I am a magic stone? But the magic stone is handled thoroughly by El, so I can’t touch it.”

Watching her stutter more than usual, Carine was convinced Potty was lying.

She’s a bad girl cornered, so you could even say she’s jovial.
The problem was that this situation was not very pleasant for Karine either.

“Huh… Potty lied to me. It is so heartbreaking.”

“Lie? It’s ridiculous to say that it’s a lie!”

“But why do you feel magical energy in your body? Did someone swallow the spilled magic stone?”

She almost fell asleep.
No, I wanted to pass out.

Even before the meeting, she felt strangled even when Sharpie quietly interrogated her with her necklace, but now she feels like she is being hanged.

“Hey… !”

As if sharing the same feelings as Karine for the first time in a very long time, 4tie let out a fainting moan.
In a way, she was more than Karine, and it seemed like she would bite her tongue if I said it now.

But Potty managed to speak up for her.

“Um, I don’t know what you mean. There’s no way you’d be able to tell even if there’s something like a magic stone inside your body, isn’t it?”

“Forties. Don’t you remember the first time we met?”

“First?”

“You did that when Silnia asked me to kill this body and take out the magic stone.”

The Demon King took a pitiful posture like Potty at the beginning of this place and raised his voice thinly.

“Eh, the magic stone inside the demon king feels weak. Taking it out won’t mean much… Called!”

“Well, that’s because I’m a magician with no mana stone in my body, so you can tell! Rather, the demons are too used to the mana stone, so they can’t feel it.”

It was difficult for Karine, who had no talent in magic, to understand.

Roughly, the demons seem to say that they don’t know if the mana stone is inside, but since Potty won’t lie to the demon king with magic theories, it seemed to be true.

The demon king also affirmed that and raised his tail.
The tail rested lightly over the sharpie’s lips and covered her mouth.

“Yes? I know this body too. Then I have a question for you, Potty.”

Maybe because it was blocked by her tail, the sharpie’s words became a bit muffled.
Unlike Carine, who noticed her change in tone, Potty didn’t notice it because she was nervous and answered right away.

“Shah, if I can solve Shafi’s doubts, I’ll answer as much as I can!”

Shafikara’s red eyes shone eerily.
Even though it was her heart eyes that only made her feel funny or benign no matter what she did, Karine felt that way.

“Then, how many magic stones do I have right now?”

“Sharpie… Inside?”

“Huh. If it’s hard to distinguish even the number, how strong is the magical power of this body right now? Compared to when we first met.”

It is a place where there are no sharp blades and no hideous magic.
Rather, it was a place filled with the fragrant smell of flowers and herbs, but Karine even received the impression of being in the middle of a battle.

“Uh, what the hell is that…”

“Potty can know my magic power, right? I boasted in front of Hernán many times that I was very sensitive to magic itself. Ah, it would be disappointing if you made excuses like saying you don’t know because you’re a demon now… If you were going to make that excuse, you should have done it from the beginning.”

Potty’s golden eyes trembled violently.
But she narrowed her brow and bit her lip.

“Great! Just a moment.”

The demon king was silent and only slightly tilted his head.
His mouth was always covered with his tail, so it was difficult to make out the exact expression.

On the other hand, Potty’s efforts were conveyed to Karine next to her.

“Eww… It’s been a while, so time…”

Her dry tongue licks parched lips and her ears quiver up and down.
Her eyes ran desperately over the dreamer’s body.

“Sha, the magic of a Sharpie.”

When I first met Sharpie, she was a potty who was immediately reporting her magical powers.
Now she was breaking out in a cold sweat and barely answering.

“As usual… Not much different! It’s not much different from when I first came in. One magic stone! Certainly, the energy obtained from Hernan is rice, the variable value of the converted degree…”

“Wrong.”

The demon king’s eyes widened.
The rabbit turned round.

“T-Wrong? But no matter how you feel…”

Before Potty could finish her sentence, the Sharpie’s tail slipped out of her mouth.

“How did you swallow this tasteless thing?”

The tongue crawled out of the demon king’s exposed mouth.
A red jewel shone brightly above it.

As the sharpie wriggled her tongue, blue magic light rose from her red jewel, dyeing her everywhere in purple.

“Magic Stone!”

Potty grabbed her hair.

“Is this strange? Definitely different from usual…”

“Are you not feeling well? It’s because her senses are disturbed because she carries a magic stone inside her body. That’s why the time to find out the answer has increased considerably.”

The sharpie rolled her tongue and placed her magic stone into her mouth.

“So, would you like a fire now? It’s cold to sit on the stone floor.”

“Hey, this is a lie! It’s a mana stone that has been used up, and it’s just to scoop me up…”

“Are you going to finish?”

The Demon King got up.
She slowly leaned her body toward the rabbit.

“Really? What if I ask Hernan to know more about this body?”

“Eh, could El do such a favor…”

“Potty, are you close to Hernán these days? He was also the lowest in the ranks.”

A cruel smile descended on Forty’s frightened face.
The rabbit swallowed her fear, unable to leave the woman who was her beloved friend and family.

Karine could see that the relationship between the two was still one-sided.

“If you think so, you can get up here. Instead, the two of us, Carine and I, will drink tea.”

Potty, at a loss of what to do, is like a child standing in front of an angry parent.
Could it be that he was like that in front of Ernan?

“Forty was pretty angry with this body before, right? I’m sorry I was angry at that time too. He should have just given me a chance to leave.”

“I-I…”

“Would you like to talk about Ernan over tea? It’s the three of us’ favorite subject.”

Karine felt goosebumps as the Sharpie’s eyes scanned her.

Fear?
That’s how it usually feels when you get goosebumps.
The mana stone that Potty took must belong to the necklace he lost.

If the demon lord asks, this side has nothing to say either.
But now I have a slightly different feeling.

“Since we have to invite Hernan here later, should we prepare a tea party in advance?”

Anticipation.

Karine had a hunch.
That dreamer won’t even rebuke you.
Rather, being with that woman will definitely bring you closer to Hernán!

It was the dreamer who became distant from Hernán, but it was from that dreamer that they became closer again.

“Now, Potty? Do you want to show off your splendid magic skills? It’s Jerry… No, with your magic.”

For a moment, the demon king’s eyes grazed this side.

Karine involuntarily nodded her head.
The demon king raised his eyebrows as if unexpectedly and smiled.

And a spark rose from the floor between the three women.
The shadow created by the flames was cast over the demon king’s face.

“It’s always nice, Potty’s magic.”

Potty wept and made the fire under the kettle bigger.

“Then shall we start with tea? You’ll be drinking something hot down there too.”

The hero nodded to the demon king.
The Demon King nodded his head in line with it and followed the tea.

In the desolate laboratory, a strong scent unique to roses rose for the first time in a long time.