Chapter 71 – Chapter 70 – Family Planning (7)

The paper was handed to Sharpie, who smiled.
Upon receiving it, the demon king let out a happy voice.

“It’s time for another womb tattoo!”

Shapiman’s word for pregnancy confirmation patterns.
Other people are embarrassed and don’t talk about it often, but in fact, it’s easy to sing and it’s hard to forget because it’s the type that stays strong in their minds.

“Come on, that womb… No, attach a pattern to confirm your pregnancy.”

Hernán urged him to check it out, refraining from trying to say that it was a womb tattoo without even knowing it.

Soon, Sharpie’s belly glowed, revealing a full heart.
She smiled brightly and looked around at everyone.

“Who wants to congratulate you?”

Hernan’s congratulations immediately followed.
He said softly, hugging Sharpie gently.

“You haven’t had your period yet, but you got pregnant right away?”

“It’s because Hernan is often cheap!”

The demon king giggled and came out of Hernán’s arms.
She exchanged words with the women who came to congratulate them.

“What… Congratulations on your pregnancy.”

“You have another child. Congratulations.”

There was no hostility between the elf who reluctantly and awkwardly celebrated and the saintess who was blessing the birth of a new life.

Considering that these were the people who came to kill the demon king in the first place, it was a significant change.
Unlike the first pregnancy, Shapi also nodded his head in response to the congratulations.

And rabbit ears fluttering between people’s faces approached.

“Sharpie…”

Potty, holding a child, called out to Sharpie with a slightly strange expression.
Sharpie also smiled and listened to Potty.

“Hey, congratulations on your pregnancy! And I want to ask a separate question…”

“Did you apologize because the queen congratulated you?”

Sharpie responded to Potty’s words by lowering his head slightly.
Potty blushed at the words and stuttered.

“Is that so? Then I’ll congratulate you more!”

She didn’t really care if she was in a good mood or if she had stopped talking.
Rather, they exchanged good wishes with Sharpie and shared topics that pregnant women could relate to.

As the conversation with the women was roughly finished, Hernán slowly tried to get them to sit down.
Just as I was about to start eating breakfast, the devil sent a paper and the meal was interrupted.

As he opened his mouth to return the women to the table, someone delivered a belated congratulation.

“Congratulations…”

Karine, who had come to the people before she knew it, murmured halfway without looking at Sharpie’s face.
Originally, it was a normal voice when no one could hear it, but everyone was silent at once, so I could hear it clearly.

Karine was taken aback by the sudden gaze and silence.

“Chu, congratulations! The demon king is pregnant…”

Silnia spat out the words with a face as if she had seen something she couldn’t see.

“Hey, what are you doing all of a sudden?”

Not only she, but Marina also asked the hero in a tone that made her feel embarrassed.

“Warrior? Did you congratulate the Demon King?”

“Why are you… Can’t I congratulate you on your pregnancy?”

Karine bit her lip and put on an unfair expression.
Then, accepting the pouring hostility, he lowered his head.

Toward such a hero, Forty spoke in a tone full of energy.

“Th-Think about what the hero has been doing in the meantime… Please come and join us now…”

“Thank you, Karine.”

Hernán passed on his thanks through the increasingly threatening atmosphere.

“Thank you so much for congratulating me on my pregnancy.”

Carine shook her shoulders and slowly lifted her bowed head.
She looked astonished, like someone who accidentally met water in the desert.

Hernán laughed bitterly inwardly and maintained a warm voice.

“It’s nice to see everyone here celebrating.”

Instead of Sharpie who was silent with a strange smile, Hernán accepted Carine’s congratulations.
Then the hostile atmosphere of the women toward her faded little by little.

One of the parties, my father, accepts my gratitude, but it must be difficult to dare to be angry.

Of course, if Karine does anything that crosses the line here, like running up to her or craving her affection, she would rather backfire.

Hernán, who didn’t want the girls to get further apart, pointed to her table, careful to make sure Karine wasn’t acting out of her way.

Now, it was his turn to draw attention away from Karine.

“Additional celebrations individually later and let’s sit down to eat. I have something else to say.”

Fortunately, Carine backed off to let her girls pass without her sudden behavior that Hernán was concerned about.

It just made her eyes slightly redden…

The women went to their seats one by one, giving Karine an unkind look.
Hernando Shafi was about to head towards her table.

Then she slipped her mouth open as Sharpie, who had been silent ever since Karine spoke.

“Thank you, Karine.”

The hero flinched and glanced sideways at the demon king.
Hernán paid attention to the fact that Sharpie used the name of a hero, a title he did not usually use.

Karine handed her congratulations to the demon king she hated the most, and the demon king called the hero by name.

It was awkward.

Is this a sign that things are getting better?
Or is there something she doesn’t know?

Hernan looked at the two most difficult women to get along with, the hero and the demon king, and took another step.

* * *

Hernán continued his words as he looked at the children in the arms of women.

“As you all know, I have to give birth to 15 now.”

The women were listening to Hernán over the meal that was almost finished.

“Since Potty is now pregnant with two and Shafi is pregnant with one more, she has to conceive 12 more…”

Sharpie smiled brightly and opened her mouth.

“Will I get two more pregnancies? If you calculate that even if Forty can’t do it, she will give birth to six more, then she just needs the rest of the women to give birth to three more.”

Of course, this is if only the women except Karine were counted.
Carine made it her premise that you weren’t pregnant, and carefully considered her sharpie and her words.

The current number of people is 10 people.
There are 15 new people to give birth to.

Here, if Forty gives birth to six more children, including the child she is currently pregnant, the remaining three people will have to give birth to three children each.

Just when you thought the number was not small, Silnia said in a tired voice.

“Three more fuckers… ?”

Silnia spread her three fingers with her frown on her face.
She couldn’t believe that she had to give birth to three more children.

“3 people…”

Marina muttered the number calmly.
Hernán felt that his heart was heavy with the girls’ reaction.

But there is no way.
As the Demon God has focused all of his environment on having babies, it is certain that he will not let them go before the 25th person is filled.

In other words, they had to make a large number of 25 people without moving.
At least the women seemed to be pinning their hopes on Potty being able to give birth to many children.

In fact, Sylnia seemed to be very interested in the fact that Potty, whom Sharpie secretly suggested, would give birth to six children.
However, Hernán felt skeptical about those words and opened his mouth.

“Let’s think about whether Potty can give birth to six children after giving birth to two this time.”

Last time, Potty had a very hard time giving birth to a single child.
Even if she is in a state of nervous breakdown, it may be difficult for Potty to give birth to many children as her body is basically weak.

However, Potty himself didn’t seem to think it was that dangerous.
No, even if it was dangerous, I didn’t think it was a big problem.

“I’m OK! Eh, just in case, I have Marina wish tickets in reserve.”

Marina was silent for a moment, then nodded her head.

“I was saving my wish ticket in case of emergency in the first place, so you don’t have to worry too much about Potty’s birth.”

“D-Did you hear? Now that it’s okay, L makes a lot of babies with me!”

If there is a problem during childbirth, the right of wish is used to treat it.
As much as Hernando Marina had spoken to Nana Poti about it many times, he nodded her head.

Although the demon’s ability to heal is questionable…
In any case, in such a situation, the only place they can rely on is the drinking god.

There is no good countermeasure, but rather than scare women about to give birth by talking about insecurity, it is better to act as if the remaining method is reliable.

In an attempt to erase the creeping anxiety, Hernán raised a suggestion related to this topic that just came up.

“Right now, I’m only worried about Potty’s childbirth, but isn’t childbirth itself dangerous for women? So, let’s make a piece of insurance in advance, just in case.”

For example, when a sharpie gets a wish, she writes down a wish to save the sharpie’s life immediately.
Pass it right before Hernan and use it right away when a dangerous situation comes.

In this way, the right to wish only remains for the person whose health is at stake, but it can be used even when that person is unconscious of writing the right to wish.

In addition, although there are many wishing rights, it can be prepared for the case where the wishing rights cannot be used due to the sudden rejection of a woman in the upper class.

At Hernan’s explanation, the women nodded.
In a situation where the only outside help is drinking, there is nothing wrong with insurance in advance.

However, if the right to wish is consumed in large quantities and there is a separate wish, dissatisfaction may arise.

So Silnia raised her hand in displeasure.

“Then won’t my son’s treatment be delayed?”

The demon god used the wishing sphere about 4 times and asked her to make a wish to heal her son.
If she saved up her wish rights for insurance purposes, her earnest wishes would be pushed back more and more.

Hernan looked at Silnia’s face and said cautiously.

“Sylnia. I am the father of the child, so I want to treat her leg quickly.”

“Then, just leave one copy for emergencies and quickly use the wish ticket!”

“But I am also the father of the other children.”

Hernan looked back at the children in the arms of the women.

“If someone here gets into trouble during childbirth…”

She didn’t bother to say that she would die.

“Some of my children will be put in a pitiful situation. Of course, people here will be delayed too.”

“But…”

Silnia tried to spit out her words in displeasure, but she stopped her words.
Even her stubbornness, when she heard that, it seemed that it was not easy for her to speak.

Hernán calmed her elf in the softest possible voice.

“If I can afford the wish ticket, I will try to use it as soon as possible. Take care of my son more.”

He glanced sideways at Potty for a moment so as not to show it.
She is giving birth to two children this time.

As two wish tickets come out, even if you make one insurance, you can afford it.
If you consult with Poti and consume her wish sphere quickly, Silnia’s dissatisfaction will be relieved to some extent.

“Under…”

Silnia sighed and closed her mouth.
Hernan called Marina, looking to see if anyone had a different opinion.

“Then, would you like the saintess to write in her wish book first, asking you to save Potty’s life?”

“All right.”

Marina wrote her wish without delay.
Soon, the right to wish passed through Silnia, Sharpie, and Poti disappeared into Hernán’s arms.

He bowed her head to her saintess briefly before speaking to her.

“Since you used it instead of Forty, I will reserve one of the right of wishes that Forty obtained for the saintess’ birth.”

Hernan looked at Potty while saying that.

“Are you fine? It’s a one-on-one exchange.”

Forty nodded her head so that her ears twitched.

“Joe, great!”

“I…”

Rather, it was the saintess who wanted to say something.
As soon as everyone looked at her, she evaded her words and placed her hand on the baby on her back.

“It’s nothing. Let’s do it…”

Her slightly sullen response made Hernán sense that she was dissatisfied with something.
But it would be rude to ask that now.

Hernán had saved the conversation with the saintess in her head, and was about to bring out her words to conclude her conversation for the day.

“Hernan.”

Sharpie grinned and entwined Hernán’s arms with his tail, who was sitting next to her.

“Will the pregnancy order go like this?”

Why did you bring that up?
Hernán looked at the saintess again, feeling embarrassed inside her.

The saintess calmly listened to her story.
But do you really have no idea?

If you give birth to a child in a way that no one else can touch, like Potty, who sits in the seat of honor, or if you don’t give birth to a child at all, like Karine, who only stares at the bowl with a droop, then it doesn’t matter at all.

However, the order of pregnancy is quite important for these three people: Sharpie, Silnia, and Marina.
The current situation in which the ranks fluctuate depending on who gets pregnant first.

If a saint from the lower caste wants to move up, she must become pregnant before Silnia.
She’s had a lot of conversations about rank, so she probably understands that too, and maybe she wants to occupy a higher rank.

But she was a saint and she hardly ever had sex with herself, and she didn’t seem to want to have any extra pregnancies either.

Hernán spoke carefully, deducing the saintess’ intentions.

“The order of pregnancy doesn’t work for me. I’m just trying to get out of here ASAP.”

Marina still listened in silence with a calm face.
Sharpie smiled and waggled her tail from side to side.

“Yes? After all, it is better to follow the order of nature!”

Sharpie said that and shut her mouth, and so did the saintess.
If so, it is better to end this topic now.

Potty, who actually won the class competition, was not very interested in this conversation in the first place, and Sylnia did not even know what he was talking about.

Even if the saintess was dissatisfied, she wouldn’t raise her objection at the gathering, so she didn’t need to say anything more.

Hernán concluded the conversation by wondering if she was simply asking a question, or if she was saying it with the intention of maintaining rank.

“Who will have more children in the future will only know when Potty gives birth to her children.”

Potty smiled confidently.
Feeling insecure for no reason at such a figure, she finished her words.

“For now, let’s think like this, our escape plan.”

* * *

After everyone went back to their own lives, Hernan was sitting at the table alone.
As he prepared to finish building the cradle, he took care of the dagger, the only tool here.

Then a calm voice was heard.

“Hey, El.”

Carine approached Hernan, who was examining the dagger.
She opened her mouth after making sure there were no other girls.

“Today’s family plan…”

Family planning.

I wasn’t really thinking of those words.
Rather, he said he was planning an escape.
But if you think about it, it was as Karine said.

What is family planning if not planning how many children you will have?

“Okay. Family planning. Why?”

Carine hesitated when Hernán asked a question.

Hernan didn’t say anything for a long time, so she brought up another story.

“Thank you for congratulating Sharpie today. In the future, try to open up your relationship with women even little by little.”

“Uh? Ah…”

Carine was taken aback for a moment, then she smiled awkwardly.
Hernán asked quietly as he wiped the sharp dagger.

“Karine. Do you have any business? Talking to Sharpie, for example.”

“Oh, isn’t it?”

It seemed right that I had a conversation with Sharpie.
After all, there was no way Karine would approach Sharpie first for no reason.

She deftly wiped off her dagger, meeting Karine’s inner face with her eyes.

“It’s all good, but don’t cross the line.”

Karine was taken aback, only her mouth twitching.
Hernán said quietly, feeling her growing suspicion.

“Especially serving a demon is absolutely not allowed. Then it’s hard to handle when you’re here, and it’s the same when you go out.”

Sharpie is suspected of spreading her faith, which she drank from Marina.
She promised herself that she wouldn’t do that, but since she didn’t know, it wouldn’t hurt to warn her like this.

“… Okay.”

Carine lowered her head and covered her face.
And turned her around.

Hernán closed her mouth again, lowering his gaze to her dagger.
The only cutlery here.

Recalling that she had cut all of her children’s umbilical cords with this, he repeated Karine’s words about family planning.

If what you just created is family planning, are we a family?

Children born of her own seed and their mothers.
And he, the father of all his children…

“L.”

The accident stopped, and Karine’s voice was heard again.
When she looked up, she saw that Karine had returned to her uneasy yet determined face.

She opened her mouth slowly.

“I heard that it’s better to leave room for family planning.”

Of course, pregnancy is an area that is difficult for humans to fully control.

It is said that very high nobles and royalty sometimes use contraceptive magic, but it is not usually used because the religious denominations hate such magic.

After all, pregnancy is closer to the realm of God than the realm of humans.
And it is not easy for humans to arbitrarily cut and plan the realm of God.

“Okay. There’s a chance it won’t go your way, so you’re not wrong. It’s just that Karine, I don’t think it’s your business? Especially if it’s so sudden.”

She spoke rather coldly to her old lover.
Karine smiled bitterly and nodded her head.

She disappeared into her laundromat, now completely shut up.

Hernan moved his hand to clean his dagger again.

“Ah.”

His fingers tingled for a moment.
She seemed to have been stabbed while glancing at Karine.

In an unexpected wound, he wrapped his finger in the towel he had used to wipe his dagger.
It had been a long time since he had been hurt by his own weapon.

Hearing this unexpected sting from his familiar weapon, Hernán smiled and stood up.

According to today’s plan, the frame of the cradle must be finished.
There is no time to focus on a wound like this.

Hernan inserted his dagger into his waistband and disappeared into the hallway.