“Why is your body like this all of a sudden?”
Claudel was lying on the bed, exhausted, unable to come out to greet him. When he coaxed her, saying that she should do this much to see the baby while on the boat, Claudel took medicine and ate thin soup that seemed to be made of meat and vegetables.
The woman who had been crying because she couldn’t swallow food regained her energy just by drinking water.
When she came to the castle, Claudel felt a sense of stability because it was her old place, and she was filled with joy at being able to see the baby, so her health was improving every day.
When he saw Claudel’s pale face, Kaian became very anxious.
‘She looks like she could stop breathing at any moment.’
The woman who had been crying because she couldn’t swallow food regained her energy just by drinking water.
When she came to the castle, Claudel felt a sense of stability because it was her old place, and she was filled with joy at being able to see the baby, so her health was improving every day.
When he saw Claudel’s pale face, Kaian became very anxious.
‘She looks like she could stop breathing at any moment.’
The fact that the doctor had said that she could die at any moment left a deep impression on him.
When he saw Claudel’s health, he thought of a pile of burned firewood.
There were times when they would gather things to warm up their bodies on the battlefield, pile them up, and burn them all together.
When you blow wind on a pile of firewood that is dying, the embers will glow red, and when you turn around and lose interest for a bit and do something else, don’t you see only gray ash scattered?
Claudel was just like that, so he encouraged her to eat and sleep well, and she would come back to life, but in an instant, she felt precarious as if she might not be able to open her eyes tomorrow.
Kaian instinctively put his arm under her back and hugged her slender body, but she was startled.
“Are you cold?”
When he hugged Claudel, she was shivering slightly. Moreover, the body he touched felt cold, unlike that of a living person. As if someone had come back from the Valmonde Ice Valley in their pajamas during the midsummer season when Rowen grapes were ripening.
Claudel’s entire body was cold, and her hands and feet in particular were like ice.
“The doctor said that if your extremities like your hands and feet are cold, your blood circulation is poor.”
He examined Claudel, but his opinion was not much different from what the doctor had said.
It was said that Claudel’s health was in shambles.
“It’s not cold.”
“What is it? What were you doing that made your body like this?”
Kaian was furious and angry.
“Madame Cronach or Hannah. What is Madame Repel doing?”
“...Kaian.”
His heart, which had been racing, suddenly stopped when he heard his name being called thinly.
“You should keep me warm.”
He almost felt bad, but when Claudel acted like a spoiled brat, he felt warm as if nothing had happened.
“Just like you did on the ship.”
That was because he wanted to satisfy his selfish desires.
Anyway, since he couldn’t hate it now, Kaian quickly took off his shirt and hugged Claudel, who was wrapped in a blanket, into his arms.
“Whew.”
He sighed as he felt the woman’s cheeks against his chest, which were cool, and then gradually became lukewarm as if his own body temperature had transferred to her.
“If you’re not feeling well, call the maids and have them put some firewood in the stove.”
“It’s okay. I don’t have to be so shaky.”
“Why are you so shaky?”
“If I light a stove and sweat, it’s even worse. When the sweat dries, I’ll catch a cold.”
“You have common sense. Stop talking and go to sleep.”
Kaian buried his nose in Claudel’s red hair.
“You need to rest to get better quickly.”
Fortunately, there hadn’t been any recent incidents where Claudel seemed to be struggling for her life without regaining consciousness when she was woken up, like on the boat.
“Kaian. Do you like girls? Boys?”
Claudel asked out of the blue, without context.
“Suddenly?”
“I wanted to ask you when the baby was in the boat. I didn’t have the chance.”
Thinking about how much she must have been suffering alone at that time made his heartache.
“Of course I like girls.”
Kaian said forcefully.
“Honestly, if it had been a boy, it might have been a headache in many ways.”
Those who had been arguing at the wedding reception that they would kick out the bride of Vermont were still alive and well.
But it wasn’t just because of that that Kaian answered like that.
The mistress of a prestigious family was given the responsibility of succeeding in the family line.
It was to the extent that it was considered nothing to say if a mistress who couldn’t bear a son was divorced or kicked out.
‘Considering Claudel’s current health condition, I will only have one child.’
When he saw Claudel’s health, he thought of a pile of burned firewood.
There were times when they would gather things to warm up their bodies on the battlefield, pile them up, and burn them all together.
When you blow wind on a pile of firewood that is dying, the embers will glow red, and when you turn around and lose interest for a bit and do something else, don’t you see only gray ash scattered?
Claudel was just like that, so he encouraged her to eat and sleep well, and she would come back to life, but in an instant, she felt precarious as if she might not be able to open her eyes tomorrow.
Kaian instinctively put his arm under her back and hugged her slender body, but she was startled.
“Are you cold?”
When he hugged Claudel, she was shivering slightly. Moreover, the body he touched felt cold, unlike that of a living person. As if someone had come back from the Valmonde Ice Valley in their pajamas during the midsummer season when Rowen grapes were ripening.
Claudel’s entire body was cold, and her hands and feet in particular were like ice.
“The doctor said that if your extremities like your hands and feet are cold, your blood circulation is poor.”
He examined Claudel, but his opinion was not much different from what the doctor had said.
It was said that Claudel’s health was in shambles.
“It’s not cold.”
“What is it? What were you doing that made your body like this?”
Kaian was furious and angry.
“Madame Cronach or Hannah. What is Madame Repel doing?”
“...Kaian.”
His heart, which had been racing, suddenly stopped when he heard his name being called thinly.
“You should keep me warm.”
He almost felt bad, but when Claudel acted like a spoiled brat, he felt warm as if nothing had happened.
“Just like you did on the ship.”
That was because he wanted to satisfy his selfish desires.
Anyway, since he couldn’t hate it now, Kaian quickly took off his shirt and hugged Claudel, who was wrapped in a blanket, into his arms.
“Whew.”
He sighed as he felt the woman’s cheeks against his chest, which were cool, and then gradually became lukewarm as if his own body temperature had transferred to her.
“If you’re not feeling well, call the maids and have them put some firewood in the stove.”
“It’s okay. I don’t have to be so shaky.”
“Why are you so shaky?”
“If I light a stove and sweat, it’s even worse. When the sweat dries, I’ll catch a cold.”
“You have common sense. Stop talking and go to sleep.”
Kaian buried his nose in Claudel’s red hair.
“You need to rest to get better quickly.”
Fortunately, there hadn’t been any recent incidents where Claudel seemed to be struggling for her life without regaining consciousness when she was woken up, like on the boat.
“Kaian. Do you like girls? Boys?”
Claudel asked out of the blue, without context.
“Suddenly?”
“I wanted to ask you when the baby was in the boat. I didn’t have the chance.”
Thinking about how much she must have been suffering alone at that time made his heartache.
“Of course I like girls.”
Kaian said forcefully.
“Honestly, if it had been a boy, it might have been a headache in many ways.”
Those who had been arguing at the wedding reception that they would kick out the bride of Vermont were still alive and well.
But it wasn’t just because of that that Kaian answered like that.
The mistress of a prestigious family was given the responsibility of succeeding in the family line.
It was to the extent that it was considered nothing to say if a mistress who couldn’t bear a son was divorced or kicked out.
‘Considering Claudel’s current health condition, I will only have one child.’
It was because it seemed unlikely that a woman who could just eat, sleep, and rest comfortably would get better and then stop having a baby again.
The resident doctor of the castle often said that Claudel’s pregnancy was a miracle.
It was amazing that she had a baby without any aftereffects even after recovering from her herzol.
He worried that Claudel, who was already weak, might get pregnant again or feel mentally stressed about not being able to have a son.
“She looks so pretty like you. I’m good enough as is.”
Since she resembled her mother so much, he wondered if she would be like Claudel when she grew up.
Just imagining it made the corners of his mouth twitch and go up, and he was on the verge of becoming a doting father.
“Don’t you usually want a boy?”
Claudel asked stammeringly, and it seemed that she was quite concerned.
His wife’s problem was that she thought too much.
“Not me. It doesn’t fit our situation.”
Due to the extravagant private lives of the early ancestors of the family, there was a fight within the family over the issue of succession to the title, so when a son was born, he was raised in an ascetic manner.
Unlike the many blood relatives in the collateral line now, Kaian was the only one in the direct line.
But before marrying Claudel, Kaian had never tried to suppress or control his male desires.
When he saw men talking about women so casually, he thought that he was not the type to be particularly interested in them.
When he thought about his feelings for Claudel, Kaian had thoughts that only a creepy adolescent boy would have.
This was true love.
So he had no intention of forming a government or anything to have a son and heir.
'It doesn't seem like it'll work out.'
Embracing another woman. As soon as he thought about the act, he got goosebumps and his desire to see Claudel subsided.
"It's good that I don't have to think about breaking up with our Princess. I won't have to send her off."
Finding a son-in-law he liked would be like looking for a star in the sky, but he should at least pretend to find one. It was fortunate that he wouldn't have to send his daughter far away.
Before he knew it, Claudel had fallen asleep with a tired face.
Seeing the small tears forming in the corners of her closed eyes, Kaian wiped them away with his fingertips.
“Why worry about something like that?”
It’s enough for me to have only you.
Kaian kneaded Claudel’s hands until they were warm and kissed her forehead countless times.
The next morning, the doctor was called in.
“I need to be healthy to take good care of my lady, right?”
He seemed dissatisfied.
However, Kaian had been thinking a lot the night before.
“But the sun came up and called me.”
The middle-aged man, who had been promised a large salary and guaranteed the position of resident doctor at Rowen Castle until he wanted it, kept his mouth shut at the shameless attitude that he was being polite.
“The emergency medicine doesn’t seem to be working.”
As soon as Kaian returned to the castle, he caught the more energetic one of the two fighting over the throne in the moat. However, Claudel’s condition didn’t feel as good as before.
“I did some research here and there while my lord was in the capital.”
The doctor coughed and took out a small notebook from his bosom, and spread it out.
“The heart of a calf is used as a medicine.”
“That’s right.”
“It’s a wild buffalo, so it’s not something that people raise. I don’t know how big it has to be to be considered a calf.”
“Oh. I see.”
It certainly had grown bigger, and its physique was quite different from when it was first caught.
“That’s why I suspect it’s not effective. It basically cures her role, but it prevents aftereffects and protects the body.”
The doctor scratched his head.
“Medicine works differently for different people, but it worked well for Madam.”
“Should I get it for her?”
“Yes? Are you going again?”
“I really want to catch a little more this time.”
At first, he felt nervous about unfamiliar prey.
But after learning how to catch a calf easily without hitting it properly in a roundup, he decided to have the soldiers take care of it without going out himself.
‘I have a child, so I have to be careful now.’
He didn’t even care that the soldiers he was going to roll were someone’s father or son.
Kaian went hunting wild buffalo right away.
The elite knights who always moved as if they were one with him knew better than anyone how much Kaian was serious about Claudel.
It was because they were the ones who had to work the hardest when the lord went crazy and went crazy trying to find her, to the point of building a dam on the lake.
With everyone’s cooperation, Kaian caught five cubs.
“It seems like we’re raising them now.”
“Come and collect them when the time comes.”
The knights, who had become accustomed to the sight of the buffaloes rushing in like a rough chariot force, luring their precious young into traps, snickered as they hunted.
“You all worked hard. I’ll congratulate you separately when we return to the castle.”
“Give me alcohol instead of money.”
“Of course. Even if you take money, only your wife will be happy. If you want money to buy a bottle of alcohol, you have to be considerate.”
Kaian, who was caught up in their conversation, hurried back to the castle, his heart pounding at the thought that he had a wife to be considerate of.
“We’ll arrive at about the same time.”
Since he had hurried as much as possible to get there and back, it wasn’t much different from the previous hunt, so he arrived in the middle of the night this time too.
The castle seemed strangely noisy as he lowered the drawbridge.
Kaian squinted.
“What’s going on?”
The signalman waving the flag on the castle wall shouted loudly.
“The Lady has disappeared!”
The resident doctor of the castle often said that Claudel’s pregnancy was a miracle.
It was amazing that she had a baby without any aftereffects even after recovering from her herzol.
He worried that Claudel, who was already weak, might get pregnant again or feel mentally stressed about not being able to have a son.
“She looks so pretty like you. I’m good enough as is.”
Since she resembled her mother so much, he wondered if she would be like Claudel when she grew up.
Just imagining it made the corners of his mouth twitch and go up, and he was on the verge of becoming a doting father.
“Don’t you usually want a boy?”
Claudel asked stammeringly, and it seemed that she was quite concerned.
His wife’s problem was that she thought too much.
“Not me. It doesn’t fit our situation.”
Due to the extravagant private lives of the early ancestors of the family, there was a fight within the family over the issue of succession to the title, so when a son was born, he was raised in an ascetic manner.
Unlike the many blood relatives in the collateral line now, Kaian was the only one in the direct line.
But before marrying Claudel, Kaian had never tried to suppress or control his male desires.
When he saw men talking about women so casually, he thought that he was not the type to be particularly interested in them.
When he thought about his feelings for Claudel, Kaian had thoughts that only a creepy adolescent boy would have.
This was true love.
So he had no intention of forming a government or anything to have a son and heir.
'It doesn't seem like it'll work out.'
Embracing another woman. As soon as he thought about the act, he got goosebumps and his desire to see Claudel subsided.
"It's good that I don't have to think about breaking up with our Princess. I won't have to send her off."
Finding a son-in-law he liked would be like looking for a star in the sky, but he should at least pretend to find one. It was fortunate that he wouldn't have to send his daughter far away.
Before he knew it, Claudel had fallen asleep with a tired face.
Seeing the small tears forming in the corners of her closed eyes, Kaian wiped them away with his fingertips.
“Why worry about something like that?”
It’s enough for me to have only you.
Kaian kneaded Claudel’s hands until they were warm and kissed her forehead countless times.
***
The next morning, the doctor was called in.
“I need to be healthy to take good care of my lady, right?”
He seemed dissatisfied.
However, Kaian had been thinking a lot the night before.
“But the sun came up and called me.”
The middle-aged man, who had been promised a large salary and guaranteed the position of resident doctor at Rowen Castle until he wanted it, kept his mouth shut at the shameless attitude that he was being polite.
“The emergency medicine doesn’t seem to be working.”
As soon as Kaian returned to the castle, he caught the more energetic one of the two fighting over the throne in the moat. However, Claudel’s condition didn’t feel as good as before.
“I did some research here and there while my lord was in the capital.”
The doctor coughed and took out a small notebook from his bosom, and spread it out.
“The heart of a calf is used as a medicine.”
“That’s right.”
“It’s a wild buffalo, so it’s not something that people raise. I don’t know how big it has to be to be considered a calf.”
“Oh. I see.”
It certainly had grown bigger, and its physique was quite different from when it was first caught.
“That’s why I suspect it’s not effective. It basically cures her role, but it prevents aftereffects and protects the body.”
The doctor scratched his head.
“Medicine works differently for different people, but it worked well for Madam.”
“Should I get it for her?”
“Yes? Are you going again?”
“I really want to catch a little more this time.”
At first, he felt nervous about unfamiliar prey.
But after learning how to catch a calf easily without hitting it properly in a roundup, he decided to have the soldiers take care of it without going out himself.
‘I have a child, so I have to be careful now.’
He didn’t even care that the soldiers he was going to roll were someone’s father or son.
Kaian went hunting wild buffalo right away.
The elite knights who always moved as if they were one with him knew better than anyone how much Kaian was serious about Claudel.
It was because they were the ones who had to work the hardest when the lord went crazy and went crazy trying to find her, to the point of building a dam on the lake.
With everyone’s cooperation, Kaian caught five cubs.
“It seems like we’re raising them now.”
“Come and collect them when the time comes.”
The knights, who had become accustomed to the sight of the buffaloes rushing in like a rough chariot force, luring their precious young into traps, snickered as they hunted.
“You all worked hard. I’ll congratulate you separately when we return to the castle.”
“Give me alcohol instead of money.”
“Of course. Even if you take money, only your wife will be happy. If you want money to buy a bottle of alcohol, you have to be considerate.”
Kaian, who was caught up in their conversation, hurried back to the castle, his heart pounding at the thought that he had a wife to be considerate of.
“We’ll arrive at about the same time.”
Since he had hurried as much as possible to get there and back, it wasn’t much different from the previous hunt, so he arrived in the middle of the night this time too.
The castle seemed strangely noisy as he lowered the drawbridge.
Kaian squinted.
“What’s going on?”
The signalman waving the flag on the castle wall shouted loudly.
“The Lady has disappeared!”
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