Chapter 39 – Chapter 39 – Preparing for Change (2)

Hernan held out the bread this time.
Silnia picked it up very carefully.
And she took it to her mouth and to her nose.

“Oops!”

Nausea came up immediately, and Silnia hurriedly put the bread down.
The saintess pushed the bread toward the pile of fruits and vegetables with her pitiful face.

Feeling troubled, Hernan said to Silnia.

“What the hell can I eat?”

“Plants, you idiot!”

Silnia shouted at Hernán and she tried to say something more, but as if she was sick to her stomach, she closed her mouth again.

“Ugh…”

Silnia, an elf, is vegetarian.
That is, she did not touch any food containing meat or animal fat, and she ate only grains, vegetables and fruits.

Does such Silnia vomit at the mere smell of her vegetables?
If she was funny, it was funny.

Of course, since he was in the position of seeing a woman carrying her own child, Hernán couldn’t smile.

“Sylnia. I’d rather eat this.”

What Hernan handed over was cheese left over from the meal.

Silnia looked at Hernan, who sat in the seat of the warrior who entered first, with her drawn face.
And she immediately shook her head.

“You’re a really strict vegetarian.”

The Demon King, who was able to approach because there was no hero, stuck out his tongue and put cheese in his mouth instead.
Silnia glared at the sharpie with her weak eyes, and she barely opened her mouth.

“It just stinks and I can’t eat it.”

“Are you talking about the smell of cheese?”

Hernán smelled her cheese.

I didn’t know how to eat it every day, but cheese was definitely a food that gave off a very subtle smell.
Elves with a sensitive sense of smell may find it unpleasant.

But what the hell are you going to eat if you don’t eat this?

Hernán let out a deep sigh and looked at the saintess.
Marina, the only medical person here, sighed in the same way because she didn’t really have a solution.

Sharpie, who was watching it beside her, continued to pass her cheese down her throat and asked.

“Can’t we eat meat?”

“No.”

Sylnia answered immediately.
The demon king tilted his head and continued to ask questions.

“Why? Because you’re a vegetarian?”

“I am not a vegetarian, I am only a vegetarian! Have you ever seen a meat-eating elf?”

“Did you eat because you were hungry?”

Seeing Sharpie respond calmly to her, Hernan reminded him that she was the Demon King.

Perhaps there was a chance to see a captive elf.

When Sharpie told her meat-eating elf she had seen, Silnia immediately clenched her fists.
Seeing this, the demon king flinched and withdrew, but luckily Silnia never used that fist.

“I’m out of energy…”

She seemed to have no strength to move furiously.
She opened her mouth instead and she started talking word by word.

Words like “Don’t talk nonsense like meat-eating elves” And “It’s a divine rule for elves to be vegetarian” Came out one after another.

By the time her face was all trembling, Sharpie opened her mouth again.

“So in conclusion, elves are creatures that can only be vegetarians?”

“Yes, they are no different from herbivores.”

After hearing Silnia’s words, Hernán openly turned her head and looked at her potty.
Potty started eating only after the hero entered, so he still had leftover food in front of him.

Just as she was eating meat, the bunny ears on her head were moving little by little with her movements.

Others followed Hernán’s blatant gaze and began to stare at Potty, a rabbit beast, eating meat.

Potty, who was eating melancholicly, suddenly sensed the gaze and put the jerky from his hand with an awkward hand.

“Um, is there any problem… ?”

Hernan smiled and glanced sideways at Silnia.

“No, I just heard that herbivores can’t eat meat. Are rabbits also herbivores?”

After a while, laughter broke out between the party.
However, Silnia got up from her seat after drinking a large gulp of water, as if her face was burning.

“I-I’m going to go inside and take a rest, you guys take care of it!”

“Sylnia.”

Hernán spoke softly as he held Silnia’s wrist as she was about to leave.

“Half of the children in the ship are human. Even if you don’t like it, let’s eat some meat tomorrow.”

Silnia hesitated as she looked at the human man’s hand holding her.
Taking advantage of that opportunity, Sharpie picked up one of her dried meat and gently brought it to Silnia’s mouth.

Silnia caught her breath, startled by the sudden thrust of the meat.

“Uh… ?”

The elf tried to put on an expression of disgust at the smell of the meat, but immediately became confused.

Sharpie smiled and said affectionately.

“Ah try ah~”

As everyone watched nervously, Silnia opened her mouth with her confused face.

The moment her meat was about to enter her mouth, Silnia spurned her mind and pushed it away.

She stammered at her words and cursed everyone around her, including the Sharpie.

“Eh, elves don’t eat meat!”

Silnia quickly escaped from Hernan’s hands and ran to the room where the forest spread out.

The saintess looked at it bitterly and opened her mouth.

“It seems that the elf is doing that to maintain her identity.”

Hernan also shared the bitterness and nodded her head.

Silnia had already given birth to a human child, and by returning to the forest, her chances of living out a life as an elf were slim.

Still, she holds on to her elf life, clinging to the slightest possibility of her own return to the forest.
Vegetarianism would be one of those efforts.

I don’t want to disparage Sylnia’s efforts.
For now though, the health of Silnia and her child comes first.

If she is somehow encouraged every day to try her meat diet, she will eventually give up her vegetarian diet and eat meat for her health.

Just like that, she kept worrying that Silnia would fall into depression as she moved away from the elven way of life.

Rather than spoil the barely restored mood by bothering to tell her, Hernán got up from her seat.

If you’re going to feed Silnia meat tomorrow, you’d better try the Sharpie’s diet, which is rich in a variety of meats.
And, of course, if she wants to sleep in another room, she has to talk to her lover first.

“Sharpie. I will go to your room today.”

“My room? Ah! You want to grease the mouths of our fresh elves?”

Sharpie waggled her tail happily.
Hernán shook her hand lightly, thinking that he wanted to spend time with her.

“I’ll tell Karine right now and she’ll come, so wait.”

Hernan said in a tone as if it was nothing, and she headed to Carine’s room.
The demon king just smiled strangely and watched Hernán leave.

* * *

Unlike the lively living room, Karine’s room was quiet.
Only the constant sound of cutting trees broke the stillness.

Sitting in her chair, Hernán thought she wanted to come on and get out of the room.
However, Karine continued to sculpt on her bed, but there was no response.

In her left hand was Hernan’s dagger, the only weapon she brought with her when she entered this place, and in her right hand was a thick branch that seemed to have been taken from Silnia’s special room.

He was sculpting hard with those two, but he didn’t know exactly what he was making.

Hernán thought she would wait for her to stop carving, but she didn’t want to wait any longer.

“Carine.”

The warrior’s hand stopped.
But her eyes were still stuck in the wood chips.

Hernán raised her sculpture as a topic, thinking that she should start the conversation gently.

“What are you making?”

Hernán wanted her voice to sound as soft as possible, and she waited for her response.

Soon, Carine replied indifferently.

“I don’t know because I just make it as I go.”

Those blunt words made it difficult for Hernán to continue the conversation.
Even so, Carine stopped her hand and waited, as if expecting Hernán to say more.

The two lovers remained silent, thinking that the other would continue the conversation.
However, the longer the wait, the more disappointment and awkwardness, not the expectation.

In the end, Karine opened her mouth first.

“Why aren’t you saying anything?”

It was a word that cooled the atmosphere even worse than silence.

Hernán forced her to speak, trying to put her mind at ease.

“Sylnia couldn’t eat anything today.”

“Do you get morning sickness from vegetables or fruits?”

When the conversation finally continued, Hernan felt relieved and continued her words.

“That’s right. Besides, she didn’t react well to the bread either. I think there is a rejection reaction to vegetarianism in general.”

“What then? Eating nothing is fatal to pregnancy.”

“So I’m going to try meat tomorrow.”

Carine slightly but frowned at the corners of her eyes.
It was an ambiguous movement that seemed to be annoyed or laughed.

She opened her mouth as she started sculpting her again.

“I will do it again tomorrow. I don’t eat much anyway, so would you like to try it with my portion of meat?”

“The meat served here is all dried lamb, so it smells bad. If you give her that, there’s a good chance Silnia won’t like her.”

Carine listened to her lover as she cut down her tree without hesitation.
Hernan thought that it had been a while since he had seen her sculpt, and she announced her plan.

“So you need a meat-rich diet. Like sharpie’s favorite food, for example.”

The hero moved his dagger and did not stop cutting the tree.
But unlike a moment ago, she slowly lifted her head and looked at Hernán’s face.

Hernán felt dangerous.

“Karine. When handling a knife, why don’t you look at the target the knife lands on instead of me?”

Despite her words, Carine continued to stare at Hernán.
Hernán, who saw her knife narrowly brushing her hand, tried to tell her to either fix her gaze on the piece or stop her hand.

But Carine’s words were faster.

“You mean you’re going to sleep with the demon king, right now?”

Instead of the words to warn the hero, Hernán brought out words that corresponded to the reason he came here.

“That’s right. Sharpie’s diet includes a lot of meat. So tomorrow…”

“Don’t be stupid all of a sudden.”

Hernan shut her mouth.
Karine continued to speak to her lover in a cold voice.

“You’re going to sleep with the demon king to feed the elves? If you want to tell me why, bring something nice.”

“I told you. The basic beef jerky here has a strong smell, so it’s hard for Silnia, who has a sensitive nose, to eat it.”

“You’re not being stupid, are you thinking of me as an idiot? The demon lord’s diet is so full of spices that the elves won’t even touch it!”

Hernán immediately refuted that statement.

“It smells like spices. You can get rid of it by washing it off with water and then cutting off the outer part. Jerky smells all over the food, making it impossible to get rid of.”

Hearing those words, Carine’s hands trembled.
It was an expression that could not hide the rising rage.
When she lost her temper and strained her hand that gripped her tree, her fingers dug right into her tree.

Hernán nervously swallowed his saliva.
And he hastily got his word out.

“It’s not because of Silnia, it’s because the baby needs to grow up healthy to go out here. Some understanding…”

“You don’t like sleeping with me, do you?”

“What? Absolutely not.”

Hernan was quick to deny it, but Carine opened her mouth with a look of great agitation on her face.

“You don’t like sleeping with me even for such a ridiculous reason?”

Hernan tried to deny it again.
It’s not that I don’t like sleeping with you.
Don’t worry, my heart and affection are firm.

She was going to say that.

But strangely, no words came out.
Her breath seemed to be choking, and her mouth did not drop.

Instead, the thought came to her that she wanted to get out of this situation quickly.

Karine opened her eyes wide as Hernán remained silent and refused to deny it.
Her voice trembled badly as she barely spoke.

“That silence… Do you really mean you don’t like sleeping with me?”

Hernan avoided her gaze and barely spoke.

“If you take good care of the girls, I decided to focus on you, right?”

“Don’t talk back.”

“But now, to take care of Silnia, I need different food than usual. To get that, I have to sleep with another woman.”

“What are you talking about!”

In the end, Karine made a loud noise.
Her cry in her head gave Hernán a headache, but she continued to speak.

“So please let me go to the other room today. Because that’s taking care of other women.”

Carine let out only her short sigh as if it was ridiculous.
She took her breath for a moment, then coldly called out to her lover.

“L. Make eye contact with me and talk.”

Hernán raised her head and met her lover’s eyes.
Seeing her blue eyes gave her a strange feeling.

“Sleep with me today. Silnia, I will feed you tomorrow somehow.”

Hernan didn’t answer and just looked into her eyes.

It was a strange feeling indeed.

She’s the reason She came anyway She decided to go to Sharpie’s room today.
Even though Karine objected, this time she forced herself to go out and sleep.

However, when she looks into Karine’s eyes, her mind becomes ridiculously weak and she wants to do as she pleases.

“L? Did you understand me?”

Come to think of it, whenever she and Karine had a disagreement recently, whenever she made eye contact with her, she ended up doing her will.

At first, she thought that her lover’s earnest request had shaken her heart.
However, as this situation repeated each time, her doubts piled up.

In her capital, it certainly didn’t matter if she looked her in the eye or begged her to please her and have her way.

Feeling that Karine’s choice would tighten her throat, she somehow refused and tried to choose the right direction.
Carine was so dissatisfied with her that it was too much for her appearance.

Of course, it wasn’t that she easily rejected her then because she loved her less.
Even when she lived as her friend and helper in her capital, she loved and loved her very much.
Even more than now when we are entangled in a relationship called lovers…

Displeased with the thought that came to her at the end of her moment, Hernán struggled to deny it.

He himself still loves Carine.
Just like before.

Although she had committed many outrages since her arrival here, it did not cool her own love for herself.

Even if other women are pregnant with their own children, and Karine will most likely handle them and children, she still wants to follow her lover.

Even though she has recently been thinking of other women more than her…

While she was thinking that, she approached her so much that Karine almost touched her face, and he met her eyes.

“Hey, let’s sleep together. Will you do that?”

Suddenly, a small question popped into my mind.

Does she really love her even if her lover did that?

Hernán looked at his lover’s blue eyes and patted her hand before finally closing her eyes.

When a question arises, it usually causes pain in the body and confusion in the mind.
But now it’s different.

Her rather exploding head and nauseous stomach calm down somewhat, and her thoughts wandering through her mind subside.

Hernán said coldly, feeling the sensation vividly.

“See you tomorrow morning.”

As soon as the words were finished, both Hernan and Carine stood up.
Both were headed in the same direction.

Hernán headed out the door, and Karine was following her lover, so she hurriedly followed.

“Eh, El?”

She couldn’t hide her embarrassment and grabbed Hernán’s clothes.

“Are you not paying attention to me? Look at me for a second…”

Hernán gently pushed her hand away and looked at her doorknob.

“Do you trust me?”

If you trust your lover, she won’t have to be so obsessive.
Hernán thought about that and she held back her headache soaring again.

The door opened slowly and closed quickly.

“Hernan!”

Karine was so flustered that she let go of her lover in vain, even though she was able to hold him by force herself.

Gazing blankly at the door closing in front of her, Carine forgot she was even breathing.
She feels as if she had an audience with her father for the first time.

She went back to her bed and grabbed her knife again to erase that feeling of abandonment from her.

If she was her usual hero, she would have jumped out, grabbed Hernán, and quarantined the woman who wanted to sleep with him.
But now she was more like Karine, her illegitimate son who had once been coldly insulted by her own father, than her usual hero.

So she brought up an old way to soothe herself.
The lover’s dagger, unlike the departed lover’s, was held tightly in her hand as she carved out her tree.