It was unexpected news.
Of course, pregnancy is better than death.
But it took some time to accept the news.
“...Wha, what?”
“Pregnancy, pregnancy.”
“...Who?”
“Her Highness Melanie.”
“Ouch? Pregnancy, not death?”
Moiya mumbled, frustrated that his intuition was wrong.
“Sharon, tell me more.”
“Yes, Your Highness. That’s right. Master Logan was treating Her Highness Melanie’s abdominal wound when he suddenly panicked. Then, after feeling her pulse here and there, he said he could feel fetal movement. However, he said the Lord of the Tower needed to look at her again for a more definitive diagnosis...”
That’s why Sharon had brought Bellos.
At the news of Melanie’s pregnancy, everyone’s eyes turned to Linel.
“It’s not a burden,”
He said flatly.
“I guarantee it.”
Even though hr had stepped forward, those who didn't know about Melanie and Hetor's relationship naturally assumed Melanie's pregnancy was connected to him.
He immediately pointed to Hetor to prove his innocence.
"After marrying Prince Norton and Rosie, I planned to marry Hetor and Melanie."
"Your Majesty, how can all the concubines remarry...?"
Grand Duke Martins began to laugh.
Come to think of it, it wasn't just Rosie and Melanie.
Even Pecilini, pregnant with Prince Tesla's baby, would soon be going to the Kingdom of Shattonil, which Grand Duke Martins would rule.
"This won't be a loss for the Lapion Empire. It won't be a bad thing for Rosie's family or Melanie's family either,"
He said to the meeting participants, placing a hand on my shoulder.
Rosie would become the Crown Princess of the Pasha Empire, and Melanie would become the Queen of Tanya Island.
"And if Catherine follows Count Ethan out of the palace, the palace will feel quite empty."
“Thanks to our children and the wyverns, I won’t be lonely, will I?”
Just imagining children who looked like him and me running around on the ground and wyverns flying in the sky filled me with anticipation.
“Now, let’s go see Melanie, who is pregnant with Hetor’s baby.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Hetor was the first to run to Melanie’s guest room.
“Zelda, what did Hetor just put on his shoulder?”
He asked, pointing to one of Hetor’s shoulders as he ran down the guest room hallway.
“...Bellos.”
Hetor ran with Bellos slung over his shoulder as if kidnapping him to treat Melanie.
Logan was outside Bellos’ guest room door.
“My Lord.”
“Logan, is it true? That Her Highness Melanie is pregnant?”
“Yes, but I think my lord needs to see her again.”
“If that’s what you felt, then I guess you’re right.”
While not as good as Bellos, Logan was a capable wizard.
“Just in case, I haven’t told Her Highness Melanie about the pregnancy yet.”
“We’ll need a bit of a delay until the Magic Tower Master examines her,”
Linel, who arrived later, patted Hetor on the shoulder and teased him.
Hetor tried to calm his excitement before entering the guest room.
Linel and Zelda smiled and entered the room, followed by Hetor.
“Oh, did you hear about Roxana?”
Bellos asked, turning to Logan as he entered.
“I heard...”
“His Majesty intends to depose Roxana based on various testimonies. Your testimony will be the most important.”
“Ha, that’s truly a relief.”
Logan exhaled, as if venting his uneasy feelings.
He had already been worried that Roxana, who had lost her life to Galaco, would be ruled an accident.
“Of course, there will be a trial for you during that process.”
“I’ve already prepared myself for that...”
“Don’t worry too much. It’ll be a light punishment.”
“Yes, my lord.”
Fortunately, Logan looked much more relaxed.
Bellos comforted his disciple and entered the room with him.
Inside, Rosie was looking after Melanie.
"She fell asleep a little while ago."
Rosie said in a low voice.
Melanie must have been in a light sleep, however, because she soon opened her eyes.
Looking around, she met Hetor's eyes and suddenly groaned.
"Uuuuuuu... Oh my, my stomach..."
“How are you feeling?”
Zelda approached and asked.
“It hurts, really hurts. You’ve never been stabbed by a sword, have you? You wouldn’t know this pain.”
“I had a sword in my heart.”
At Zelda’s calm retort,
“Oh, right...”
Melanie’s moans suddenly stopped.
“Bellos, check Melanie’s condition again.”
At Linel’s instruction, Bellos placed both hands on Melanie’s body and began feeling her energy. He nodded to himself and took her pulse one last time.
Hetor waited for Bellos’s diagnosis as if he had forgotten how to breathe.
“Congratulations. You are definitely pregnant.”
Everyone laughed quietly at Bellos’s words.
“...What did you say?”
Melanie looked at Hetor, puzzled.
“It’s so early in the pregnancy that the doctors can’t feel the fetus moving when they take the pulse,”
Bellos said proudly.
He also added that since he and Logan were capable wizards, they could sense subtle life forces.
Melanie, who finally understood the situation, looked down at her belly and reacted violently.
“Pregnant! Me? Pregnant?! Lord of the Magic Tower, am I amazing? Or is the father amazing?”
“Huh?!”
“I’ve only had it a few times.”
“!”
At Melanie’s words, Bellos, who was nearly 300 years old, blushed.
The others’ complexions weren’t much different.
Only Melanie’s face, lying injured in bed, had a normal complexion.
“Hetor... there’s a baby... in my belly.”
Melanie raised her arms, tears welling up in her eyes, and Hetor bent down and hugged her.
“He’s such an amazing man!”
Everyone quietly congratulated Melanie’s raucous joy, then quietly left the room.
That night, at midnight.
Prince Norton returned to her room with Rosie.
“It seems like it wasn’t long ago that the two started getting close, and already she's pregnant...!”
How did things get so far already?
Rosie's worries deepened.
"Hahaha, timing is important, isn't it?"
Prince Norton chuckled.
"Yes, passion and ability are important, I guess."
Rosie retorted coldly.
"?"
"Come to think of it, everyone's had babies. Her Highness Zelda, Her Highness Pecilini, and now even Her Highness Melanie."
"Are you jealous?"
Prince Norton asked, looking through a book on the table.
"Huh?"
"I thought Your Highness Rosie looked jealous just now."
"No..."
"Really?"
Prince Norton smiled and asked back.
"Actually, I'm not jealous of the pregnancy. Well, I'm jealous of that too, but it's more than everyone seems to be passionately sharing love... that's what I'm jealous of."
"Ah."
"So Her Highness Melanie got pregnant before the wedding, right?"
Rosie continued speaking calmly at first, but her tone became more irritated the more she spoke.
“We’ve known each other much longer than you two….”
And weren’t they about to get married soon?
“Your Highness Rosie is still a concubine of the Lapion Empire.”
Prince Norton said in a determined voice.
He patted her hand, saying he was cautious in many ways.
Even his touch was cautious.
“Prince, I know it’s a bit awkward to say this, but Her Highness Pecilini is pregnant with the baby of a Prince from a neighboring country, and Her Highness Melanie is pregnant with the baby of the pirate King of an island nation? Both as ‘concubines.’”
Even though the Emperor had officially approved their relationship!
Rosie felt unnecessarily sad.
Prince Norton, sensing something unusual in her protruding lips, asked seriously,
“Do you think I’m being patient because I don’t love you?”
“That’s not true, but if you loved me deeply, I don’t think you could be this patient. Unless there’s a functional problem.”
“There’s absolutely no functional problem.”
“Then I guess you have a problem with your affections.”
Rosie’s tone was quite stern.
"You misunderstood. I was trying to save you until the wedding..."
"Am I worn out? Why do you keep saying you're saving me, really?"
Rosie finally exploded.
"?"
At that moment, Aoshi and Moni entered Rosie’s room carrying a basket of sausages.
Aoshi put down the sausage basket and clapped his hands as he watched Rosie, who was breathing heavily and grumbling.
“Wow, our orange head is congratulating you too, Moiya~?”
“...What?”
“Aren’t you pregnant too?”
Moiya asked brightly, staring at Rosie’s belly.
“!”
Rosie gasped and pulled her belly in.
“No. You’re so tactless. Rosie is just a piece of shit, Moni~.”
Moni scolded Moiya, saying something even more tactless.
Rosie’s face turned bright red.
Normally, she would have just snorted and ignored it, but hearing such things in front of Prince Norton was embarrassing.
Prince Norton was gazing lovingly at her lower belly, his hand wiggling as if he wanted to touch it, but Rosie didn’t notice at all.
“Oh? Your belly is bigger than Melanie’s pregnant, but you’re not pregnant.”
“Oh. At first, I thought Rosie put a book in her belly, right, Moni~?”
While Moiya and Moni were giggling and completely lost in the atmosphere,
“Meow meow...(I’m going to go outside and sleep...)”
Aoshi, who had been under the bed, quietly came out, jumped, opened the guest room door herself, and went outside.
“Why are you here? You said you were going to Rosie’s room to sleep.”
Of course, pregnancy is better than death.
But it took some time to accept the news.
“...Wha, what?”
“Pregnancy, pregnancy.”
“...Who?”
“Her Highness Melanie.”
“Ouch? Pregnancy, not death?”
Moiya mumbled, frustrated that his intuition was wrong.
“Sharon, tell me more.”
“Yes, Your Highness. That’s right. Master Logan was treating Her Highness Melanie’s abdominal wound when he suddenly panicked. Then, after feeling her pulse here and there, he said he could feel fetal movement. However, he said the Lord of the Tower needed to look at her again for a more definitive diagnosis...”
That’s why Sharon had brought Bellos.
At the news of Melanie’s pregnancy, everyone’s eyes turned to Linel.
“It’s not a burden,”
He said flatly.
“I guarantee it.”
Even though hr had stepped forward, those who didn't know about Melanie and Hetor's relationship naturally assumed Melanie's pregnancy was connected to him.
He immediately pointed to Hetor to prove his innocence.
"After marrying Prince Norton and Rosie, I planned to marry Hetor and Melanie."
"Your Majesty, how can all the concubines remarry...?"
Grand Duke Martins began to laugh.
Come to think of it, it wasn't just Rosie and Melanie.
Even Pecilini, pregnant with Prince Tesla's baby, would soon be going to the Kingdom of Shattonil, which Grand Duke Martins would rule.
"This won't be a loss for the Lapion Empire. It won't be a bad thing for Rosie's family or Melanie's family either,"
He said to the meeting participants, placing a hand on my shoulder.
Rosie would become the Crown Princess of the Pasha Empire, and Melanie would become the Queen of Tanya Island.
"And if Catherine follows Count Ethan out of the palace, the palace will feel quite empty."
“Thanks to our children and the wyverns, I won’t be lonely, will I?”
Just imagining children who looked like him and me running around on the ground and wyverns flying in the sky filled me with anticipation.
“Now, let’s go see Melanie, who is pregnant with Hetor’s baby.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Hetor was the first to run to Melanie’s guest room.
“Zelda, what did Hetor just put on his shoulder?”
He asked, pointing to one of Hetor’s shoulders as he ran down the guest room hallway.
“...Bellos.”
Hetor ran with Bellos slung over his shoulder as if kidnapping him to treat Melanie.
***
Logan was outside Bellos’ guest room door.
“My Lord.”
“Logan, is it true? That Her Highness Melanie is pregnant?”
“Yes, but I think my lord needs to see her again.”
“If that’s what you felt, then I guess you’re right.”
While not as good as Bellos, Logan was a capable wizard.
“Just in case, I haven’t told Her Highness Melanie about the pregnancy yet.”
“We’ll need a bit of a delay until the Magic Tower Master examines her,”
Linel, who arrived later, patted Hetor on the shoulder and teased him.
Hetor tried to calm his excitement before entering the guest room.
Linel and Zelda smiled and entered the room, followed by Hetor.
“Oh, did you hear about Roxana?”
Bellos asked, turning to Logan as he entered.
“I heard...”
“His Majesty intends to depose Roxana based on various testimonies. Your testimony will be the most important.”
“Ha, that’s truly a relief.”
Logan exhaled, as if venting his uneasy feelings.
He had already been worried that Roxana, who had lost her life to Galaco, would be ruled an accident.
“Of course, there will be a trial for you during that process.”
“I’ve already prepared myself for that...”
“Don’t worry too much. It’ll be a light punishment.”
“Yes, my lord.”
Fortunately, Logan looked much more relaxed.
Bellos comforted his disciple and entered the room with him.
Inside, Rosie was looking after Melanie.
"She fell asleep a little while ago."
Rosie said in a low voice.
Melanie must have been in a light sleep, however, because she soon opened her eyes.
Looking around, she met Hetor's eyes and suddenly groaned.
"Uuuuuuu... Oh my, my stomach..."
“How are you feeling?”
Zelda approached and asked.
“It hurts, really hurts. You’ve never been stabbed by a sword, have you? You wouldn’t know this pain.”
“I had a sword in my heart.”
At Zelda’s calm retort,
“Oh, right...”
Melanie’s moans suddenly stopped.
“Bellos, check Melanie’s condition again.”
At Linel’s instruction, Bellos placed both hands on Melanie’s body and began feeling her energy. He nodded to himself and took her pulse one last time.
Hetor waited for Bellos’s diagnosis as if he had forgotten how to breathe.
“Congratulations. You are definitely pregnant.”
Everyone laughed quietly at Bellos’s words.
“...What did you say?”
Melanie looked at Hetor, puzzled.
“It’s so early in the pregnancy that the doctors can’t feel the fetus moving when they take the pulse,”
Bellos said proudly.
He also added that since he and Logan were capable wizards, they could sense subtle life forces.
Melanie, who finally understood the situation, looked down at her belly and reacted violently.
“Pregnant! Me? Pregnant?! Lord of the Magic Tower, am I amazing? Or is the father amazing?”
“Huh?!”
“I’ve only had it a few times.”
“!”
At Melanie’s words, Bellos, who was nearly 300 years old, blushed.
The others’ complexions weren’t much different.
Only Melanie’s face, lying injured in bed, had a normal complexion.
“Hetor... there’s a baby... in my belly.”
Melanie raised her arms, tears welling up in her eyes, and Hetor bent down and hugged her.
“He’s such an amazing man!”
Everyone quietly congratulated Melanie’s raucous joy, then quietly left the room.
***
That night, at midnight.
Prince Norton returned to her room with Rosie.
“It seems like it wasn’t long ago that the two started getting close, and already she's pregnant...!”
How did things get so far already?
Rosie's worries deepened.
"Hahaha, timing is important, isn't it?"
Prince Norton chuckled.
"Yes, passion and ability are important, I guess."
Rosie retorted coldly.
"?"
"Come to think of it, everyone's had babies. Her Highness Zelda, Her Highness Pecilini, and now even Her Highness Melanie."
"Are you jealous?"
Prince Norton asked, looking through a book on the table.
"Huh?"
"I thought Your Highness Rosie looked jealous just now."
"No..."
"Really?"
Prince Norton smiled and asked back.
"Actually, I'm not jealous of the pregnancy. Well, I'm jealous of that too, but it's more than everyone seems to be passionately sharing love... that's what I'm jealous of."
"Ah."
"So Her Highness Melanie got pregnant before the wedding, right?"
Rosie continued speaking calmly at first, but her tone became more irritated the more she spoke.
“We’ve known each other much longer than you two….”
And weren’t they about to get married soon?
“Your Highness Rosie is still a concubine of the Lapion Empire.”
Prince Norton said in a determined voice.
He patted her hand, saying he was cautious in many ways.
Even his touch was cautious.
“Prince, I know it’s a bit awkward to say this, but Her Highness Pecilini is pregnant with the baby of a Prince from a neighboring country, and Her Highness Melanie is pregnant with the baby of the pirate King of an island nation? Both as ‘concubines.’”
Even though the Emperor had officially approved their relationship!
Rosie felt unnecessarily sad.
Prince Norton, sensing something unusual in her protruding lips, asked seriously,
“Do you think I’m being patient because I don’t love you?”
“That’s not true, but if you loved me deeply, I don’t think you could be this patient. Unless there’s a functional problem.”
“There’s absolutely no functional problem.”
“Then I guess you have a problem with your affections.”
Rosie’s tone was quite stern.
"You misunderstood. I was trying to save you until the wedding..."
"Am I worn out? Why do you keep saying you're saving me, really?"
Rosie finally exploded.
"?"
“What am I, some kind of melt-away candy? I'm chocolate!”
Aoshi put down the sausage basket and clapped his hands as he watched Rosie, who was breathing heavily and grumbling.
“Wow, our orange head is congratulating you too, Moiya~?”
“...What?”
“Aren’t you pregnant too?”
Moiya asked brightly, staring at Rosie’s belly.
“!”
Rosie gasped and pulled her belly in.
“No. You’re so tactless. Rosie is just a piece of shit, Moni~.”
Moni scolded Moiya, saying something even more tactless.
Rosie’s face turned bright red.
Normally, she would have just snorted and ignored it, but hearing such things in front of Prince Norton was embarrassing.
Prince Norton was gazing lovingly at her lower belly, his hand wiggling as if he wanted to touch it, but Rosie didn’t notice at all.
“Oh? Your belly is bigger than Melanie’s pregnant, but you’re not pregnant.”
“Oh. At first, I thought Rosie put a book in her belly, right, Moni~?”
While Moiya and Moni were giggling and completely lost in the atmosphere,
“Meow meow...(I’m going to go outside and sleep...)”
Aoshi, who had been under the bed, quietly came out, jumped, opened the guest room door herself, and went outside.
***
“Why are you here? You said you were going to Rosie’s room to sleep.”
As Linel and I were about to sleep comfortably for the first time in a while, the intruders came. As soon as their identities were revealed, they knocked and came in very confidently.
“We got kicked out, Moni~?”
“It was just a small misunderstanding, Master.”
“Moiya misjudged Rosie. She saw Rosie’s belly and asked if she was pregnant too, and congratulated her.”
Moni said as she hugged Linel.
“In front of Prince Norton?”
Guys, you can’t have done that, right?
“Oh? Then Rosie will be embarrassed and work out hard, Moiya~?”
“...You’re not wrong.”
He said with a smirk.
“Why is Linel like that?”
I said with a glare, and his smile immediately disappeared. After hearing the two guys talking nonsense to Rosie, I couldn’t just send them away.
“But the Prince is here too, so you shouldn’t say things like that. Go to Rosie tomorrow and apologize properly.”
“Yes, master. I’m thinking of writing a letter to Rosie.”
“No, you should apologize directly to the person involved. Face to face.”
Moiya nodded repeatedly with a look of enlightenment on his face as I gave him serious advice.
“But master. Can I sleep here today?”
As Moiya lay down on the bed, Moni quietly went over to his side and covered him with the blanket. I checked Linel’s expression.
“Yes. You worked hard today, so do as you please.”
After he gave permission, Moiya sat up again.
“You don’t know how fortunate it is that the cold body has a warm heart.”
“Your Majesty has a really big chest, right, Moni~?”
Moni praised his broad chest revealed through his robe, giving him a double thumbs-up.
“Yes. My heart is warm, and my heart is also big. Your heart is as big as your body. Hahaha.”
As Linel burst out laughing and praised himself, Moiya crawled up onto his lap and looked up at him with bright eyes.
“Why, Moiya?”
“Really... your heart is big too?”
“Of course! Ah, since you subdued the Galacos today, I will grant each of you a wish to commemorate it.”
He spoke to Moiya and Moni with a kind expression, as if trying to personally demonstrate his own big heart.
“Huh? Really?”
“Oh? Your Majesty, can you keep that promise?”
Moiya swallowed hard and folded her hands respectfully.
“Why, Moiya, your wish must be quite big.”
“That’s right.”
“Huh, what’s your wish?”
He said heartily, saying that he was in a good mood and that he would grant anything today.
“Forgive me.”
“...What?”
“I’m so sorry.”
Moiya suddenly knelt down and apologized to him. To be exact, towards his lower body.
“As expected, no one else reacts except you, Master. Oh, by the way, you said that you should apologize to the person in question, right?”
Moiya muttered something and turned his head to ask me.
“Huh? Uhh...”
I answered absentmindedly and exchanged glances with him.
He tilted his head, his expression bewildered.
Linel looked back and forth between his lower body and Moiya, bewildered.
"What the hell are you doing?"
Moiya said, untying the strings of his gown.
"Am I trying to apologize in person, Moiya?"
He tilted his head, his expression bewildered.
Linel looked back and forth between his lower body and Moiya, bewildered.
"What the hell are you doing?"
Moiya said, untying the strings of his gown.
"Am I trying to apologize in person, Moiya?"
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