Chapter 38 – Chapter 38 – Preparing for Change (1)

Hernán thought the weight of the food on his arm had become heavy.
The size of the bread also increased, and the amount of fruit subtly increased.

Probably because of the pregnant women in front of them.

Hernán set the dinner down among the women who quietly chatted among themselves.

After each person takes their share, the remaining share is transferred to Hernán.
And when the warrior asks to start eating, he eats everyone.

It was a scene of a peaceful daily life that had been maintained for a month after the saintess’ special room was opened.

“The amount of food has definitely increased.”

Karine said to Hernan with a calm face.
Hernán scanned the pregnant women.

Except for potties and sharpies.
It’s hard because I have to bend her head a lot to see her anyway.

Instead, he saw a saint and an elf.
Marina kept looking sideways at Potty and Sharpie, and she tore off the bread with a puzzled look on her face.
Silnia, on the other hand, was glaring at the food in front of her bed with her nervous face.

After roughly checking the women, Hernán calmly replied to Karine.

“Anyway, since the number of pregnant people has increased, the amount has increased. If a person grows inside, you have to eat a lot.”

It was close to a mechanical explanation.
The hero nodded at the explanation and put the bread into his mouth again.

Hernán sighed inwardly and listened to him.
Then, in the distance, there was the sound of tableware rattling and bread being crushed and swallowed.

It sounded like a slight whimper, but that was probably an illusion.

Then the saintess carefully opened her mouth.

“Hero.”

“Why?”

The hero received the saintess’ words in a slightly soft voice.
The saintess glimpsed the face of a warrior who had recently become kind to her and Silnia.

And she opened her mouth in anticipation of the favor.

“You have already kept the demon king and wizard so far away for a month… Couldn’t we bring her to her original place at least forty thousand?”

The hero turned his eyes away for a moment and looked at the other end of the table.
The dining table was large enough to seat about 20 people, so there was a considerable distance between Potty and Sharpie.

Hernan also took advantage of that gap and quickly scanned the place.
There Potty was eating feebly with her ears drooping.

The sharpie next to him smiled and said something, but Potty just ate quietly without any reaction.

Seeing that, Hernan remembered a month ago.

After the announcement of the new rules, the hero was very displeased.

Although the displeasure was not specifically expressed in words.
However, there was so much life around her hero that even Silnia, who didn’t care much about other people’s feelings, was cautious.

She put her guide to the side of the table, then she urged everyone to think about getting out of here.

It was as if life here is only a fleeting moment, and it was his way of saying that he should go out and think about the life and goal to regain.

The hero approached Hernan and Poti right after that.
Stopping her hastily, Hernán said he had already talked to Poti, so he didn’t have to worry.

Fortunately, Poti agreed with Hernán, and he apologized after repeatedly telling the hero that he would be careful.

Maybe that’s how he moved on and gradually approached himself again, aiming for the new rules to be enforced.

However, the hero was taking the situation more seriously than Potty thought.

Around the time Hernán was finishing reminiscing about her one month ago, Carine answered her saintess with a cool voice that had no difference in her pitch.

“Why? It seems that the wizard and the demon king have become friends recently. Even the demon lord would be lonely eating alone every day, so you gave him a close friend.”

The saintess’ face looked like she wanted to say since when did she care so much about the welfare of the demon king?

Of course, the saintess didn’t actually make that expression.
She just put on a puzzled look.

Hernán judged that it was most likely that his thoughts were projected and he seemed that way.

Shall I suggest that we bring Forty back?

Hernán looked at Potty once more, feeling hopeless even to himself.

She listened to Karine’s deliberately loud words, and was anxiously rolling her eyes here and there, examining the situation.
Potty then met Hernán’s eyes and hurriedly lowered his head.

It would be a wise move, as the check of the hero who prevented her from meeting Hernan at all times, let alone during meal times, would become more severe if her eyes met Hernan’s.

Meanwhile, as if the saintess had made up her mind, she continued to speak to the hero.

“Warrior. However, it seems that Forty is too harsh to forcefully adjust the washing time and keep following the demon king.”

Originally, Potty’s washing time is right before Hernan.
The hero pushed Potty’s washing time behind Sharpie to prevent Potty and Hernan from meeting in the process.

Even though the hero’s face hardened, Marina mustered more courage and pointed at Hernán.

“Forty must have reflected enough. Stop separating from Hernán…”

The hero deliberately set down the teacup to make a loud noise.
Silnia frowned as the sharp sound of glass scratched her ears.

Carine took one look at her saintess and then glared at Poti in front of her.
Potty must have felt a sense of terror, and he hiccupped as he almost slammed his head into the table.

Sharpie patted her on the back to comfort her, but that had to be stopped by the warrior’s words.

“Wizard. Come here.”

“Yes? Oh, I see!”

Potty looked surprised at his unexpected words and hurriedly returned to her seat holding her bowl.
Hernan also wondered if the hero was trying to look after Potty’s actions without realizing it.

However, the warrior was not one to forgive easily.
Carine opened her mouth again and called out to Potty.

“Who told you to sit there?”

“Ah…”

Potty trembled and glanced at the hero.
She trembled with visceral horror when the hero spoke so savagely, even though her cracked ribs had already healed.

In fact, as long as there is a rule prohibiting serious violence, the hero cannot hit Potty as easily as last time.
Hernan had also asked Sharpie to tell Poti about it.

However, when Potty saw the object of fear approaching him, it seemed difficult to control his body.

“Dae, why are you calling me… ?”

“Come to my side, wizard.”

Potty stood up reflexively.
Hernán felt emotions welling up inside him, but he held back as much as he could.

Here, she can’t stand herself and if she defends Potty, Carine will get even worse.
Because the hero is clearly feeling a serious sense of crisis right now.

Given the hint that pregnancy and childbirth will grant rank, anyone can think that Forty will be advantageous.

The hero judged like that, and it must have been his intention to defeat the enemy while his superiority was still firm.

No matter how competent Karine was in politics, she had the social experience to make such judgments.
On the other hand, Potty experienced her proper human relationship for the first time when she joined the warrior party.

In front of the hero, the wizard trembled with pain in the hearts of those who saw it.
But Karine asked coldly.

“You haven’t had enough energy lately? Are you having trouble getting pregnant?”

“That, that…”

“Or is there another reason?”

“Sorry, sorry…”

The hero turned his gaze away from Potty, who was seeking forgiveness, and looked at Hernan.
Hernán faced her with her hard face.

Carine opened her mouth with her eyes fixed on Hernán as it was.

“Or is it because there are people you want to make eye contact with, talk to, and mix with, but you can’t?”

“Yo, warrior…”

Potty’s face turned pale.
But at the same time, he bit down his molars and raised his ears slightly.

“Choi, at least interacting with the child’s father while pregnant… Hick!”

Potty was frightened by the flying hand and tried to fall backwards.
Hernan also jumped up, but fortunately the hero held onto Potty’s clothes so she wouldn’t fall.

Carine pulled Potty over and made her stand upright.
Potty was barely standing still with a face that looked like she was about to faint.

Towards such a magician, the hero said mockingly.

“What next? After she gives birth, will she be willing to stay with Hernán for her child? Why don’t you just tell me to give it up?”

“Huh… Hero, because I was wrong…”

In the end, Hernán couldn’t stand it and squeezed between Carine and Potty.

“Karine! Acting too much now!”

“L. You go to your seat.”

“How are you going? Your wild behavior is preventing everyone from escaping!”

Hernán insisted as strongly as he could that he did not come because he thought of Poti, but because of public interest.

A dissatisfied look appeared in the warrior’s eyes.
However, he did not refute Hernán’s words.

Hernan didn’t miss the opportunity and pointed to her belly while helping Poti.
Potty, who was pregnant earlier than the others, had a slight bulge in her belly.

“What would you have done if you had a miscarriage? If the Demon God judged you to have broken the rules, it wouldn’t have ended well!”

Hernán was a little but she felt she was used to this situation.

She comes from a fallen aristocracy, and unless she borrows the name of Carine, it is difficult for her to engage in direct political activities.
So, her primary political activities had to be left to Karine.

She often did extreme things like now during such activities, and Hernán had to do everything she could to rectify them.

Of course, the hero’s intentions come back with the results she didn’t want.

She is still like him.

“Forty looks surprised, so I’ll put it next to the saintess.”

Hernán took her Poti and went to her saintess.
Marina gently hugged Potty and seated her in her chair, where she kept asking if her stomach was okay.

In the meantime, when Hernan returned to his seat, her dining table arrangement returned to normal.
The warrior slightly bit his lip.

She got angry at best and drove Potty away, and this time she tried to make sure it was by giving her fear, but she lost the previous one as well.
She, too, will surely feel her dismay as she recalls her old days.

Hernán leaned over to Karine.

“Did you forget your promise to me? You decided to take good care of the women.”

“What? You should be faithful to me too. But why did you just take care of that bitch?”

Before Hernán could say the next thing, he saw Silnia twitching her ears with a bad expression.
She has a good ear, so she may be listening to this whispered conversation now.

However, the emotions and fatigue boiling inside her made her feel reluctant to hide it.

“Remember what I said. You said you have to take care of women first so that I can be faithful to you.”

Hernán whispered that and looked at the other women.

Silnia had been chewing on bread and fruit with an expression of disapproval from a while ago, and the saintess was busy trying to soothe the sobbing Potty.

And the demon lord Sharpie was watching all of this with soft eyes.
When her eyes met Hernán’s, she winked in one eye and glanced at the hero.

In response to the signal to pay attention to the hero first, Hernán continued his explanation.

“So let’s reconcile with Potty and get along. I’m sure I have feelings for you, so I don’t worry at all…”

Karine listened to Hernan and gradually frowned at her.
As her cold face revealed her emotions, Hernán had no choice but to keep her mouth shut.

“Hernan.”

Karine opened her mouth, shaking her voice for the first time in a while.
Her voice was quite loud and she seemed unwilling to hide her words from others.

Or there is no such situation.

“Do you really love me?”

“Why are you asking that here?”

When Hernán asked back with her puzzled face, Karine clenched her fist.
As the wooden fork in her hand snapped, most of her women looked this way.

Only Silnia was forcing the fruit into her mouth with her displeased face, ignoring her surroundings.
It was a truly amazing and indifferent way of eating.

Anyway, Hernán was about to take her lover, who suddenly said something embarrassing, to her room, but Karine kept opening her mouth.

This time, there was even anger in his voice.

“Have you changed your mind about me?”

“Why do you ask such a thing? Do you even suspect me?”

Hernan thought that today, exactly 100 days since she came here, she doesn’t know how much the relationship she knew has changed.

Karine asks her openly now that her love hasn’t changed in front of others.

She received unexpected affection from Forty, and she felt guilty from Marina.

Her hostile relationship with the demon King Sharpie became a relationship of coveting each other’s body while protecting each other’s lives.

And with Sylnia…

“Oops!”

Silnia suddenly jumped up from her seat and covered her mouth with her hand.
All of her attention, which had been focused on her Hernán and her Carine, shifted to her at once.

It was the same for the two lovers who were on the verge of an explosion, so they both looked at Silnia with her puzzled faces.

“This fuck…”

Silnia looked at the bowl in her seat with a look of disbelief on her face.
Inside her bowl was the fruit she had driven for the vegan elf.

She hastily picked up one of her dried prunes and brought it to her mouth.
And immediately she threw it away and bowed her back.

“Wow!”

Colorful paint smeared on the floor next to the table.

Hernán stood up, clearing the dry fruit that had fallen on her face.

It seemed that change did not come only from relationships.
Pregnancy is something that happens to the body, so it’s natural in a way.

“Such a dog… Whoops!”

Silnia vomited and she hurriedly staggered to the bathroom.
Hernán tried to turn her body to follow her.

But someone grabbed his arm and stopped him from going.

Hernan stared at that person, Carine.
Carine spoke her words as she slowly stood up with her eyes met.

“I will take care of the women…”

She tried to push Hernán back into her chair.
Ernan tried to resist to go to Silnia, but she sat down because of her headache stabbing her head.

Carine looked at Hernan with trembling eyes and said.

“You only think of me.”

She was revealing a little, a little, but the face of a richly expressive girl whom Hernán had been passionately in love with in the old days.

“Please.”

Karine went to the bathroom without waiting for her answer.

Hernán ran his hand across her face, then she moved to clean up what Silnia was vomiting.