Chapter 328 – Teach Me Slowly (3)

I focused on my movements, carefully adjusting the position of my hands on Ju-yeokseon’s belly.

Of course, it was important to concentrate during the movements, but there was another reason why I needed to focus even more.

“Don’t move, don’t react…!”

I concentrated as much as possible to avoid showing any strange reactions to the fact that I was touching Ju-yeokseon’s body.

If I showed any signs of embarrassment, it would be the end of everything, so I avoided looking into Ju-yeokseon’s eyes and focused on this round belly as much as possible.

“I thought it wouldn’t be a big deal…”

Even though I had seen her true form, Milphra, now she looked like a cozy next-door neighbor aunt.

But now that I was touching her bare skin, the image of her true form kept coming to mind, making my hand move in a strange way.

Not now. I couldn’t show any signs of arousal until I achieved at least my mid-term goal.

“Sohyeop, are you feeling tired?”

“Yes, yes?”

“You’re sweating a lot. Shall we take a break?”

I touched my forehead with my left hand and it was sticky. Even though it was indoors, the weather was cold, and I was worried about sweating so much.

“Yes, let’s take a break.”

“Then I’ll bring you some cold tea.”

Ju-yeokseon brought me some cold tea, considering my sweating, and while I was resting, she was writing something down on a piece of paper in a distracted manner.

I couldn’t see it clearly, but she was probably jotting down how her body was reacting and how she could use it to her advantage.

“It’s not very pretty handwriting, but…”

Ju-yeokseon spoke awkwardly, noticing my gaze.

“Oh, was I not supposed to see it?”

“No, it’s fine. Actually, I’d be happy if Sohyeop could take a look, but I’m afraid it might be a burden to show you everything.”

“It’s no trouble.”

Apart from the work she was doing, teaching Ju-yeokseon some of the duties of a court lady was also a way to prepare for the possibility that my women might get hurt.

I hesitated for a moment, then took the paper from Ju-yeokseon and quickly read through it.

“Hmm…? Is this a method for removing poison?”

“Yes, I came up with it as a more effective way to extract poison when the patient loses consciousness…”

“With this method, you can prevent the patient from accidentally ingesting the poison and becoming poisoned themselves.”

“That’s right! I also took that into consideration…! I came up with it…”

Ju-yeokseon spoke loudly without realizing it, but when she met my gaze, her voice gradually became smaller.

“I’m sorry. My voice…”

“No, it’s okay. I’m happy to see you pleased, Lady Ju.”

“…”

Despite the reassurance from me, Ju-yeokseon felt even more embarrassed. It was inevitable since conversing with me was more enjoyable than she had anticipated.

I had always thought that she had a broad range of knowledge, but I didn’t expect her to have a fair amount of medical knowledge as well.

“Ju-chaek, really…”

For her, practicing medicine to help people was enjoyable, but seeking new medical knowledge like this was also a pleasant time.

However, Ju-yeokseon had come to realize that seeing me chew and taste what she had come up with only added to her enjoyment.

“I’ll think about it and see if it’s actually possible.”

“Thank you, but you don’t have to go that far… Don’t you have other things to do?”

“There are many things I can do while thinking. If it helps Lady Ju, I’m happy to do it.”

“…Then, I’ll leave it to you.”

When Ju-yeokseon accepted, I nodded my head and put down the paper before raising my hand again.

“Let’s continue what we were doing before the break.”

At the signal from me to continue, Ju-yeokseon untied the waistband that she had been holding and revealed her round belly once again.

As soon as my hand touched her belly, Ju-yeokseon let out a strange sound from her mouth.

“…?”

Ju-yeokseon quickly suppressed the strange sound that came out of her mouth, but I looked at her with a suspicious gaze as if I had heard it.

“Oh, it’s nothing. Just a little…hiccup.”

“Is that so?”

As my gaze returned to her belly, Ju-yeokseon tightly clenched her fists.

‘Why am I doing this…?’

Something was happening inside her.

As she felt the warmth from my rough hand, she felt a tightness in her chest and a dryness in her throat.

Ju-yeokseon didn’t want to know what it was.

While Kang Yoon was trying to make Ju-yeokseon lose her balance, Kang Ho continued to move without any hesitation.

Although Fahrenheit was not a strong force, it was a neutral zone where all of Kang Ho’s forces were not involved, so it was inevitable that it would not remain quiet when attacked by unknown enemies.

In the Gu Pa Il Bang headquarters, where O Dae-se was already aware of the full story of the incident, he was on high alert to prevent any potential mishaps.

But in Hwang Bo-hyo’s opinion, among them, the busiest one might be Sachun Bunta.

“You! Didn’t I tell you to prioritize?! It’s Son Ryong first, not those Eunryeong or Geumryeong bastards!”

“Oh, come on, Bunta-ju! How are you going to dig up information on someone who’s just holed up in their house?”

Sachun Bunta-ju, who had more of a malicious, skinny impression of working under a landlord than a beggar, spoke as he slammed his staff on the ground.

“Isn’t there already a spy in Son Ryong’s clinic? Isn’t anything coming out of that bastard Songmun?”

“If there was, would I be saying this?!”

The beggar under Bunta-ju’s command answered in a torn voice, but Hwang Bo-hyo’s eyes were not blind holes, and she was well aware that their conversation was unnatural.

“Okay, Bunta-ju. So you can’t find any information on Son Ryong, is that what you’re saying?”

“It’s a task given by the boss, so I’m ashamed to say it, but what can I do if I can’t even do this?”

In fact, Sachun Bunta was already chasing after Eunryeong’s back with all his might.

With people dying because they were so short-handed, they had ordered him to follow Son Ryong’s back, which was suspicious because Hwang Bo-hyo had appeared out of nowhere.

Hwang Bo-hyo was momentarily stunned to see them putting on a play instead of directly petitioning her for help due to a lack of manpower, but No Hee-bang nodded her head as if she were familiar with it.

“Okay, got it. These damn bastards.”

No Hee-bang naturally cursed, but Bunta-ju hid his face in front of them as if he couldn’t hear anything.

Hwang Bo-hyo, who was lost in thought in front of the frenzied hierarchy of the beggars, regained her senses when she heard No Hee-bang speak.

“Hwang Bo-hyo, I’m sorry. You came all the way to this beggar’s den, but it seems like the bosses are busy as ever.”

“Oh… no, it’s fine.”

“For the time being, it seems like there won’t be anything for Hwang Bo-hyo to do. But don’t worry, we’re not saying you have to stay here in this beggar’s den.”

Hwang Bo-hyo breathed a sigh of relief at No Hee-bang’s words.

The fact that she didn’t have to stay in Sachun was also somewhat reassuring, but more than that, the fact that there was no room for Open to turn its attention to Kang Yoon was even more reassuring.

In the first place, she had followed No Hee-bang because she was worried that Kang Yoon might get caught up in Open.

However, as if she couldn’t see that Hwang Bo-hyo was relieved, No Hee-bang continued speaking.

“But you don’t have to wait here for too long. Kang So-hyeop will get busy soon enough, even if he doesn’t come out. By then, it won’t be difficult to approach him directly.”

“Yes?”

Hwang Bo-hyo asked with a puzzled expression, and after hearing No Hee-bang’s reply, she found some parts of it convincing.

But if that were the case, it might be even more difficult than if Open came out.

‘What should I do…?’

But depending on the perspective, it could also be a good thing. So it was a more worrying matter.

Whether No Hee-bang knew what Hwang Bo-hyo was thinking or not, she spoke in a low voice.

“We’re currently conducting background checks… But if we only look at what’s on the surface, Kang So-hyeop will eventually become a big pillar of the Jungpa Murim.”

“…”

“If his innocence is proven, I will sincerely apologize to him. But I hope this is just my excessive suspicion. Sincerely.”

Is it really excessive suspicion?

Hwang Bo-hyo’s anxiety, which she couldn’t be sure of, only grew.

If there was one thing I felt sorry for women about, it was that I had reduced the number of times I spent the night with them.

Of course, as my experience deepened, it became possible to satisfy them in a shorter amount of time, so there were no cases where women felt dissatisfied with their desires. But rougher sex was not always the answer.

“Shall we do it just the two of us tonight?”

“Yes.”

So when Ju Yeo-rin suggested that we do it just the two of us tonight, I naturally looked at Yang Ha-jeong, and she nodded her head as well.

Originally, it was scheduled for me to be with Ju Yeo-rin and Yang Ha-jeong at the same time…

But when I saw Ju Yeo-rin smiling happily, I thought something good had happened.

“Are you pregnant?”

“Oh, I was going to tell you!”

Since it was now a time when we could confirm it more definitively through the veins, I just took a rough guess, and it turned out to be correct.

It was only when all of our children, including Gyeon-i, were involved that Ju Yeo-rin was so openly happy about it.

“Let the woman talk about this kind of thing… Don’t you also want to have a child with her?”

“Should we start over then?”

“Start over?”

“Shall we do it just the two of us tonight?”

“Ahahaha!”

When I asked again as if nothing had happened, Ju Yeo-rin started laughing while holding her belly.

“Look at this, my lord. What on earth is going on?”

“Haa, haa… You’re really a strange person.”

Was it really that funny?

Ju Yeo-rin caught her breath and then opened her mouth again.

“Actually…”

“Yes?”

“I, your woman… I’m carrying your child… Hahaha!”

Perhaps because she felt relaxed after having a child, Ju Yeo-rin’s laughter became uncontrollable as she hugged me tightly.

“You’re carrying my child! Are you happy?”

“Yes. I’m so happy.”

I meant it. If there were no problems with Ju Yeo-rin’s body, there was no way she wouldn’t get pregnant after receiving my super sperm.

But regardless of the fact that having a child was natural, the fact that another child who inherited my blood was born was a miraculous event that was hard to explain.

“Thank you. Both you and the child. I’m so grateful that you came to me.”

“W-why are you suddenly like this… I, I feel shy…”

On the topic that she didn’t bring up first, Ju Yeo-rin squirmed to get out of my embrace.

“T-that’s right! When I showed the doctor to Ju Eui-won, she said that the child is growing up very healthy. So you don’t have to worry about anything.”

“…Ju Eui-won?”

“Isn’t it obvious? Didn’t she bring in those women and your child to take care of them?”

Ju Yeo-rin said it as if it were obvious, but I was a little worried.

For some reason, I couldn’t figure out why, but Ju Eui-won’s attitude towards me had been changing little by little over the past few days.

It wasn’t a bad attitude to begin with, but it was more affectionate…

Anyway, I couldn’t figure out the reason, but there was no reason for me to reject her, so I just left it alone.

‘But, um…’

Did I let my thoughts wander too much? If Ju Eui-won had developed feelings for me, and her feelings worsened as she confirmed that Ju Yeo-rin was pregnant…

“Why are you like that? Is there something wrong? If it’s difficult, you can just rest tonight.”

“No. There’s good news, and I can’t just let it go like this.”

I couldn’t think about anything else when Ju Yeo-rin was right in front of me, happy at the moment.

I hugged Ju Yeo-rin and started walking towards her place.