Chapter 52 – Chapter 51 – Wish Carefully (3)

The living room was filled with the sound of Silnia crying.
Hernan felt dizzy and ran to Sharpie’s room.

During that short period of time, he quickly looked back on the situation just before.

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Silnia’s bedroom was filled with the owner’s screams.

“Aaaaagh!”

Marina sat down in a chair next to her and put on an embarrassed expression.

“Sylnia… Even if you don’t scream like that, the baby will come out.”

“That, is it? Everyone in our forest screams like this?”

Hernán smiled as he prepared to receive the baby who was slowly coming out.

Silnia’s childbirth, which started as soon as dinner was over, went very smoothly, unlike the previous two.

It came out a few days earlier than expected, but it’s a common occurrence, so there’s no big problem.

From Hernan’s point of view, it was Marina who was rather worried.

“Lady. It doesn’t seem like a problem, so why don’t you go in and rest? The saintess is also a full-term pregnant woman.”

Even though Marina herself was also full-term, she tried to come along, saying that she would help Gireco Silnia give birth.
Hernando sternly refused, claiming that he was fine now that he had quite a bit of experience.

There was such a short confrontation, but because Silnia shouted that she should take care of herself quickly and not to be a jerk, Hernán allowed Marina to come in.

Instead, as she is now, Marina decided to sit quietly and give Hernán advice.

The saintess spoke quietly to Hernán while wiping the sweat from Silnia’s forehead.

“The baby hasn’t come out yet. I want to watch until the end.”

Hernan confirmed that Marina’s face was relaxed and nodded as if he couldn’t help it.

It wasn’t his turn to haggle with Marina again, it was time to focus on his new baby.

“Ugh!”

Silnia gave strength, and the child was quickly pushed out.
Looking at the child who came up to his shoulders at once, Hernan opened his mouth.

“Sylnia. Aren’t you giving me too much power? I would be surprised at how quickly babies come out.”

“Noisy!”

Silnia screamed loudly, but she didn’t look too upset.
Marina also waited for the baby to come out with a bit of tension, looking at her father, Hernan, who was now able to afford childbirth.

It was around the time that the child came out to the waist.
The child in Hernán’s hand burst into tears even though it hadn’t come out yet.

Silnia raised her head with an incomprehensible face.

“What? Has the baby already come out?”

“No. Legs still have to come out. Come on, give me strength.”

“Ouch…”

Silnia put her head down again and gave strength.
Hernán waited for the whole body to come out, thinking that the child was crying just as loudly as his mother.

After a while, the child’s leg came out and Hernán saw the whole body of the new child.
He found something strange and reached for it.

“Has the baby come out?”

Marina came over and stood beside Hernán.
Hernan didn’t answer and put his hand on the child’s right leg.

Marina, puzzled, turned her eyes to it and stopped moving.
She breathed in and muttered so that only Hernán could hear.

“The legs…”

Hernan was silent as he looked at his abnormally bent right leg.
Sylnia gasped and questioned the two of them.

“Hey… Still not out? I felt like something was breaking through.”

“The kid is out. You wait and don’t move. The placenta still needs to come out, and I still have to wash the baby.”

Hernán answered as calmly as possible and hurriedly cut the umbilical cord.
He covered her child so that Silnia could not see her and went to the hot water in one corner of her room.

Carefully wiping off the amniotic fluid and filth from the child’s body, Hernán examined her child’s legs.

The shape of the leg itself is generally normal.
However, the angle of the joint from the groin to the thigh is awkward.

“Hernan!”

Marina hurried over and talked to Hernán.

“Kid… Show me the child!”

He lowered his voice as low as possible, but it was a tone that felt urgency.
Hernán lifted the child who couldn’t stop crying and made it easier for the saintess to see the baby’s legs.

She took a closer look at her leg and pinched the angled joint with her hand.

Immediately, the child made a gurgling sound and cried even louder.

“Hernan, saintess! Don’t just look at you guys, show me too!”

When Sylnia heard her child cry, she was impatient with her curiosity.

However, Hernan and Marina exchanged glances.
We chatted first.
Anyway, the child cried so loud that even if she was an elf, Silnia, you wouldn’t be able to hear her conversation.

“What happened, saintess?”

“Looks like a fracture.”

“A fracture?”

Hernan asked Silnia, who was urging her to wait a moment longer, and asked her saintess.

“Then will it be cured?”

“The bones will stick.”

“Couldn’t you tell me that you’re sticking?”

Hernán anxiously watched her saintess caress her child.
She was embarrassed, but answered calmly.

“Probably the disability will remain. It is not clear what exactly caused the fracture, but if the femur and hips were broken like this, there is a high probability of permanent sequelae…”

Marina looked at Hernán’s contorted face and stopped her words.
He was recalling the incident when Silnia was shocked by her body.

“Because Karine went on a rampage?”

Silnia said that the day Carine ripped out her kitchen table and swung her, she had a big fall.
Even after that, she complained of her pain from time to time, and her child was born with major injuries.

No matter how you think about it, her cause and effect matched.

Marina also heard Hernan mumbled, and her face turned blue as if she remembered the same incident.
However, she suggested other possibilities.

“Oh, I don’t know yet. It is very common for the fragile child’s body to be shocked during childbirth. In particular, if it is a heterogeneous birth like this one, accidents are more frequent.”

The saintess seemed to want to claim that it was something that happened during her childbirth itself, not an external factor.

Hernán felt her insides boil, but she pushed back the feeling.
The important thing now was how to say this to Silnia.

Marina also brought up the subject with a tense expression on her face.

“Are you going to tell Sylnia?”

“Of course. Speak and make a wish…”

“Hernan.”

The saintess interrupted her words, removing her hand from her baby.
She said as she heard Silnia groan behind her as she pushed out her placenta.

“Can you afford it?”

Hernán, who was immediately filled with thoughts of her words and wishes to comfort Silnia, couldn’t understand the absurd words.

“What do you mean you can afford it?”

“What if I told Silnia that her child was born with a badly broken bone? A fracture that will leave you permanently disabled.”

“Of course he would try to treat it with the wishing sphere.”

“What next?”

As the conversation continued to that point, Hernan also noticed what Marina was trying to say.

It is human nature to want to know why the fire started right away.
Silnia will immediately wonder what caused her child to be this way.

Coincidentally, there are people everywhere who have been playing with fire.

Hernan groaned and opened his mouth.

“Is Silnia saying she won’t let Karine go?”

“Yes. Even if I claim that it was all an accident during childbirth, Silnia will not believe it.”

To be honest, I thought that Ernan himself was also Carine’s fault.

Rather than explaining that the house was burnt down by accidental embers, it is more convincing to say that the crazy girl next door set the fire on purpose.

And due to her Silnia personality, she will seek out her scapegoat, even if it is a truly coincidental event.

Marina continued to glance behind her and quietly continued her words.

“If you tell the truth like this, things will really get out of hand. No matter how much I say that I am not certain of the hero’s fault, it will be useless.”

“The demons forbade serious violence. No matter how much Silnia wants to harm her Karine, it won’t be easy.”

The saintess stared blankly at Hernán.
Hernán bit her lip as she received glances asking if she really thought so.
He recalled a story floating around in the dark among the people here.

Wouldn’t the violence involving demons be more limited than you think?

He didn’t intervene when Potty’s ribs were cracked, nor did he intervene when the Demon King was beaten by an elf so that his face was covered in blood.

However, when Karine tried to attack the pregnant women, even though they weren’t hurt yet, the strong body of the hero was restrained to the point of being incapacitated.

If so, the Demon God might be involved only in violence, which is the goal of this place, to fill 25 people, that is, to make it difficult for women to conceive.

While Hernán was imagining Silnia crippling one of Karine’s limbs, Marina brought up an additional thought of herself.

“And I don’t think it’s necessarily beneficial to make a wish on a demon.”

Hernan comforted the crying baby and picked up a towel.
He felt dizzy from the sounds all around him.

“It seems that only divine power is used when a demon fulfills a wish. I don’t know how he uses the divine power mixed with the energy of the old gods, but the Demon God is using that power very immaturely.”

“What does it mean to write immaturely?”

As soon as he was born, he looked at his baby in pain, Hernán asked.
The saintess spoke more quickly as Silnia felt as if she was slowly pushing out the placenta from behind her.

“Hernan’s hair left a rough mark of divine power. It’s less than that in the hero’s body, but there’s quite a lot left.”

When Silnia asks if she hasn’t come out of the placenta, Marina replies that she still is, and continues her story.

“Originally, if a being like a god uses divine power, the power is collected cleanly, so there shouldn’t be any traces like that left.”

“According to the saintess, are demons bad at using divine power?”

“Yes. It’s to the point where I wonder if he’ll ever be able to fix such a serious injury. On the contrary, you may not be able to control the overflowing power well, so you may use a rough method.”

Even when she blows the magic of her own head, he suffers severe pressure and blurred vision.
It had never been like that before, when her saintess removed the magic from her body.

And she does the same when sealing Karine’s powers.
The primitive way of her ceremony to squeeze her out of her.
Thanks to her mighty divine power, her wish itself was safely granted, but Karine fainted for about ten days.

So what if that power were exercised on this newborn baby?

“Hernan! No, how long have you been washing to decorate my child?”

I heard Sylnia’s tired yet hopeful voice.
Hernán saw the child behind her that the mother desperately sought.

Marina spoke urgently.

“If you ask me to keep the injury a secret, I will do so. Even the apparent abnormality can be hidden until the child walks if I match the bones.”

The saintess held out her hand to Hernán and made her gesture to ask for her child, then spoke one last time.

“In the meantime, I will do my best to treat you. Or you can carefully make a wish after finding out more about the power of the Demon God.”

Hernan was about to say that he would rather persuade Silnia by saying that, but then stopped.
Silnia, who used to reveal her motherhood beyond expectations, won’t be able to wait.

She would cry every day at her child’s leg, and every day she would make a fuss about getting it treated quickly.

It would be an embarrassing situation for Hernan, who could only consider her Silnia.

The full-term Marina spoke as eagerly as the voice of Silnia, who was looking for her baby behind her.

“Please… Any more riot or despair than this is unbearable. It’s too hard…”

Even if things go well for her if she announces her child’s condition, Silnia will take her anger out on Karine, ruining the atmosphere in this place full of her babies.

If the wish doesn’t work out, she’s nothing more to say.

In comparison, Silnia will keep quiet if she successfully conceals her child’s condition.
In the meantime, she might figure out how to cure the child or use her wish-rights more safely.

It is indeed the best result that does not aggravate any situation.

But…
But what if you can’t hide it later and no proper way comes out?

Silnia will fall into despair.
She will be outraged by the lies surrounding her.

And Hernán himself, the father of her child, will find it difficult to bear.

Hernan turned to Silnia with her baby in his arms.
The saintess sat down in her chair, closing her eyes tightly.

Before going to the child’s mother, Hernán spoke softly to Marina.

“As the child’s father, I will handle it.”

Marina had lost her composure and asked in a weary voice.

“Could you please?”

“I will try.”

Hernán went to her, calling her Silnia.