Chapter 31 – Chapter 31 – Pregnant Women and Lovers (5)

The air in Karine’s room was very calm.

“Why did you ignore me and go to her room?”

Hernán silently listened to the warrior’s words while sitting on a chair in Carine’s room.

“Are you saying that the Demon King is even bothered by the fact that you have a child?”

In a cold voice, Karine bombarded Hernán with questions that embarrass him.
Hernan barely opened his mouth to answer.

“You can’t be careless. Still my child…”

“What are you talking about!”

Carine sighed and wiped her face with her hand.
It was an uncharacteristic behavior for her, who rarely expresses emotions through gestures.

“Do you think the world will stand still if you go outside and say you saw a child with a demon? All the denominations will rise up and the nobles will be anxious because they can’t eat you.”

She exclaimed that she thought everyone would go silent like the women here.

“Then you will break up with me forever!”

It was not wrong.
The doctrine of not mixing blood with demons, even though it has no meaning and has been practiced since ancient times, applies to all denominations even if it is something to learn.

When Hernán returns to the capital and engages in political activities, it will act as a fatal problem, and in the worst case, he will be burned at the stake and separated from the world, as Karine said.

Perhaps with the unclean beings that were the problem, i.E. Their own children.

“You decided to go through life with me, right? Remember the promise you swore in my tears!”

The weight of the promise I made with my lover weighed on my shoulders.
But instead of recalling those memories, Hernán thought of something else.

How will the demons accept themselves and Shapi’s children?

It is probably not very different from human society.
Considering what Sharpie said earlier, it was clear that even in the demon society, mixing with humans was prohibited as a religious doctrine.

Still, wouldn’t it be okay if it was what the demon commanded?
Right now, they are in a situation where they are trapped due to the magistrate’s trick.

Unlike mankind, which worships many gods, demons worship demons as the only god.
To that extent, the authority of a demon god would be incomparable to that of a single god in human society.

But if that happens, what about his and other women’s children?
The child to be made with Fortina, Marina, and Silnia has nothing to do with demons.

I wondered if they would accept them too.
Because not all demons are friendly like Sharpie.

“Hernan! Are you listening to me?”

“Sorry. What were you talking about?”

Carine bit her lip and came right in front of Hernan, knelt on one knee, and met Hernan at eye level.

“Eat your heart out. And look at me.”

As she said, I looked at Karine’s face.
Karine said with earnest eyes.

“Are you going to look like this weak when you go out? You know how the politics of the kingdom work.”

“I know.”

“Then, like someone you know, take heart.”

As she said, I thought to eat my heart a little bit.
If they go out, they’ll be illegitimate children anyway.

I felt an overwhelming sense of rejection.

“Are you going to stay with me until the end? So look at me, not the other girls and the kids from them!”

Looking into her eyes, it was a very hard thing to say.
So, as she said, I gave more thought to abandoning women and illegitimate children.

Then he remembered Carine, who had suffered because he was an illegitimate child.

Do your own children suffer like that?

Hernán felt a shattering headache.

“L! Did you understand me?”

She once nodded her head at her.
She still has a long way to go.

Even if it wasn’t necessarily Karine’s method, there might be a solution.
If you consult with other women during the remaining time, you may come up with a solution.

If it doesn’t work out, at least pray to a demon.

Hernán put the matter of her illegitimate child aside like that, and brought up her immediate problem.

“Karine. I’ll do as you say, so can’t you just listen to one thing?”

“What?”

Karine waited for her lover’s words with a slightly relaxed expression.
Hernán opened her mouth after a moment of moxibustion.

“Can’t we be gentle with other women?”

Her face hardened again.

“Not everyone wants to get pregnant. You’re working hard to get us all out, so at least be as reasonable and gentle as you are out there.”

“You end up…”

In the end, Carine couldn’t stand it and jumped up holding Hernan’s hand.
Looking at Hernan, who got up, she kissed Hernan for some reason.

Hernán barely opened her mouth to her rough kiss.
And she moved her tongue with difficulty to keep pace with her lover’s tongue that was digging in unhesitatingly.

The kiss was a one-sided kiss that coveted her lover’s mouth without considering Hernán’s movements.
Rather than feeling good, I only felt a sense of alienation.

After the short and dry kiss, Carine looked at Hernan’s face.
On the contrary, Hernán dropped her gaze and avoided her eyes.

Hernán’s eyes turned to her floor and he saw a petal that had fallen from a red rose.
All of them were dry, discolored, and lost much of their scent.

“Get out…”

Karine muttered as she sat down on the bed.

“And come back at night.”

Instead of answering, Hernán picked up the fallen petals.

Karine asked with her face contorted.

“What are you doing?”

“I am cleaning. I’m going to throw it away because it’s messing up the room.”

That was the last conversation between lovers before leaving.

Hernan picked up all the petals that had fallen on the drawer and looked at the water bottle with the flower in it.
The red rose had lost most of its petals.

I remembered what my lover had said yesterday that he would exchange the rose for a new one.
Hernán reached out to her and tried to pull the flower out.

However, her rose pushed through her thorns and rejected Hernán’s touch.

Okay. Because there are still petals left.

Hernán left her room, confirming that she was still alive and had petals attached to her.

* * *

“Did you see it? This body is still intact!”

As soon as I stepped into the living room, I heard Sylnia’s excited voice.
She was waving her slightly stained towel to Potty.

Potty hated it, but congratulated him.

“Chu, congratulations…”

Hernán approached Silnia with her dried petals in her hand.

“What are you so excited about?”

“Ugh.”

Silnia looked at Hernan and was a bit taken aback, but she soon pushed her towel in front of Hernan with a confident expression.

“Blood!”

“However… ?”

It was more brown than red, but it smelled like blood anyway.

“It’s menstrual blood, you idiot!”

No one enjoys getting menstrual blood in front of their eyes.
Naturally, Hernan also frowned at her.

When Silnia saw Hernan wrinkling her expression, she exclaimed confidently.

“I’m not pregnant!”

It is clear that she is glad that she has added her hopes of returning to her forest.
And this rough way of expression is also the usual Sylnia-like behavior.

Hernán shrugged her shoulders, met Poti’s eyes with her little sack in hand.
Forty perked up his ears and said nothing, and Hernan decided to congratulate him as well.

“Okay. Congratulations.”

Sylnia replied with a grin.

“Don’t ever think about fucking me again!”

“… Pay attention So, let’s refrain from drinking.”

Hernan tuned in to her tune and asked Potty where her saintess was.
When she was told that she went to the bathroom for a while, Hernán replied that she knew, and then she went to the wall where every meal was paid.

There was a temporary trash can for everyone to use.
Collect the garbage here, and throw it out when the hole through which the food comes out opens.

Due to the nature of the enclosed space, if you throw it away here, you will never find it again.

Hernan hesitated for a moment holding the petals in her hand.
She brought the dried petals to be sure to throw them away, but she kept hesitating.

Then the voice of a saintess came out of the bathroom.

“Poem, Sylnia? Why are you pushing that?”

Hernan turned her head for a moment and looked at the living room.
The saintess saw Silnia’s boastful menstrual blood and her face turned white, while Potty was fiddling with the bag she was holding in her hand.

A woman who is not pregnant with a child of her own, a woman who is about to conceive, and a woman who is pregnant.
The women I will be with for years to come…

Hernán dropped her petals into her trash can.
The dried rose petals soon disappeared among the dark trash.

“Eh, Hernan!”

As she completely discarded her petals, she heard Potty calling to herself.
Hernan looked back and saw a petal very similar to the one he had just thrown away.

“My lady, these are rose petals from the lab. It’s freshly picked, so it smells really good…”

As I approached her, Potty opened her door and the fresh scent of flowers wafted from her little sack.

“Would you like to take it?”

Potty’s small hand handed her a pile of petals and held it in her hand.
She smelled so good and the color was so beautiful that it was incomparable to the petals she threw away.

“Would you like to make some tea with it? It is especially good for menstruating women. It’s also good for warming up…”

“Rose Tea! I like it too.”

Silnia cut in from beside her.
The saintess glanced at Silnia and approached her with a bad complexion.

Hernan once again looked at the petals of her hand.

“Okay. Let’s drink now.”

Potty smiled softly as she handed over the rose petals that were in her hand.

She dropped them into the water she had already warmed up in her lab.
The vibrant rose petals were terrifyingly frightening to fall into the clear water, giving off a fragrant fragrance all over.

Hernán even prepared a cup of sharpie in her room, and she waited for the cold to warm everyone’s stomach.