Don't Save Me - Chapter 6



“Do you know why?”

After hesitating for a while, Theano asked the midwife in a low voice.

“Just a little, just a little more... My lord.”

Theano sighed with an anxious face.

He was standing at the head of Ravieli, who was lying quietly, but her face looked very tense for some reason.

“Just a moment... Ues. This will be fine.”

Ravieli, who was lying on the bed, rolled up the blanket and grabbed it.

Even if she were a woman, it was not pleasant to spread her legs in front of another person.

No, far from being pleasant, it's a terrible thing.

But regardless of Ravieli's feelings, the midwife was still groping her lower body with her dry hands.

It was when a feeling of discomfort seeped between her legs and Ravieli unconsciously tightened her thighs.

“Is it hurt?”

The midwife who inserted her finger asked Ravieli.

Her fingers are as wrinkled as dry firewood.

Ravieli thought that if she put in a branch, it would look like this.

"Miss?"

"... Yes."

“How are you now?”

The midwife asked again.

“It’s uncomfortable.”

“Are you hurt?”

“...A little.”

At Ravieli's answer, the midwife pulled her finger away.

As soon as he felt her lower body empty, Ravieli immediately closed her legs.

Then the midwife took Ravieli's knees with her free hand and spread them apart again.

“This time, would you like to try applying pressure below your belly button again?”

The voice was soft and kind, but it didn't feel comfortable at all.

The woman looking into the vagina between the legs was the famous midwife, Jerez, who was so famous that everyone in the Rotten area knew her.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that all of Rotten's children were received by her.

With her extensive experience, Jerez was skilled in receiving and treating children, and even performed simple procedures in cases where a doctor could not be called due to a lack of money.

Of course, it was illegal for midwives to prescribe medicine, but the royal family and Theano tacitly tolerated it.

In fact, that was not all of Jerez's true value.

Because she knew more about a woman's body than doctors, she helped them when they had problems in their marriage or when they couldn't get pregnant.

That was why Theano called midwife Jerez today.

Theano was always dissatisfied with Ravieli's dryness.

Applying saliva or oil alone was not enough.

“Do you know why?”

Theano, who seemed a bit anxious, asked Jerez again.

She had a pale white face and completely white hair.

The fine wrinkles on her face hinted at her life's journey, but her eyes sparkled with a clarity that seemed untouched by time.

“As you might have guessed, she is insensitive.”

“...”

“She was born that way.”

"Ha..."

Theano's long breath instantly froze the room.

He asked the midwife with a somewhat surprised expression.

“Then what about children? Surely she can’t have children?”

“No, my lord. That’s not the issue.”

“Then what the hell is the problem!”

He was afraid that the old woman would say that it was because of him, a man.

He was already anxious because he had been surprised a while ago and couldn't get an erection.

“There is absolutely no problem with getting pregnant.”

“Then now...”

He was just about to ask what he should do.

Jerez wiped his hands in the washbasin that the maid handed him and spoke.

“My lord, in fact, I have never seen anyone as dry as the young lady.”

“...”

"She's so insensitive. God has given such a beautiful woman such a cruel body."

This time, the maid, Mage, who was standing next to him, handed Jerez a dry towel.

Theano, who was watching Jerez's slow movements, spoke with a pang of sadness.

"So, is there no way? What should I do? Now that I understand this unfortunate body, tell me a solution!"

As if she didn't want to miss a single drop of moisture, Jerez very slowly and thoroughly dried her hands with a towel.

Then she nodded and began to speak.

“It is a difficult case, but...”

The midwife hesitated, then handed the towel back to Mage.

Then, she closed her wrinkled lips once, then opened them again and cleared her throat.

Theano, who understood Jerez's meaning, raised his hand and spoke in a low voice.

“Everyone, step back.”

As the maids stepped aside, Jerez began to move her wrinkled face.

“I have been seeing women and conceiving children for 30 years, but I have used this method less than ten times.”

“This way?”

“Yes, because the ingredients are so hard to obtain... and because they contain secret ingredients.”

After finishing speaking, Jerez bowed her head politely and remained silent for a moment.

It's a face that clearly shows what she wants.

Then Theano twitched one corner of his mouth, took out a silver coin from his bosom, and placed it on the table.

“Tell me. If it’s effective, I’ll pay you ten times the compensation you initially promised.”

Jerez took a quick look at the silver coins and then spoke cautiously.

“This is a task that requires your efforts above all else. Are you able to do it?”

“There is nothing I wouldn’t do for her.”

Theano looked at Ravieli with a fake smile.

Ravieli, who was lying still, did not really hear the whole conversation because it seemed like it had nothing to do with her.

"You will need a mixture of pressed yellow daffodil seeds, the fingernails of a Mermel chick no older than a month, the root of the Grendor tree, which grows only in Ostlin, and the grease of an old badger. Add this... and mix it in."

Jerez handed me a small pouch from her bosom.

“What is this?”

"This is a traditional ointment passed down through our family. Mix equal amounts of these ingredients and apply every night."

“Where?”

When Theano asked, Jerez bowed his head and answered.

“To the young lady.”

"Ah..."

Ravieli, who had been listening quietly, put a lot of strength into her toes under the blanket.

“After applying a generous amount to my lord’s first finger, slowly insert it into the young lady. Five times to the right, five times to the left.”

Theano listened intently, as if hearing a message from a god, forgetting even to answer.

“Five to the right, five to the left.”

“Then, in two weeks.”

Jerez looked towards Ravieli and whispered in a low voice.

“I may be presumptuous, but she will kneel before my lord every night, weeping.”

At Jerez's words, Theano began to laugh bitterly.

"However, you must not miss a single day. If you do, the effect will be lost. Also, you must not rely on a maid's help. It must be done by a man. My lord, your help is essential."

“Yeah... I can keep that. Are you saying that if I do as you say, her insensitivity will really disappear?”

“Yes, my lord. How could I tell you such a lie?”

Jerez continued, emphasizing the last word.

"My lord, once you start applying this medicine, you must do it every day for two weeks. If you stop before that, the medicine will no longer be effective."

“...”

“If this medicine fails, then I am out of luck.”

“Yes, I understand. Keep that in mind.”

Jerez bowed her head again and said nothing more.

Then Theano took out a thick bag of silver coins from his bosom and handed it to her, giving her his final request.

“I’ll keep a close eye on everyone in this house, so you just have to watch your tongue.”

“Is there any possibility, my lord?”

Jerez answered politely as she swept up the silver coins on the table.

A few days later, the midwife came.

For some reason, Theano did not look for Ravieli.

All the things the midwife had mentioned were difficult to obtain, and Grendor was even a tree whose felling was prohibited by law.

Theano was engrossed in gathering materials without even leaving the mansion.

He secretly met with smugglers and had them search the mountainous regions for the Mermel cubs.

While he was busy moving around, Ravieli was trembling with fear, waiting for the ceremony that might come at any moment.

After several days of hesitation, Theano finally obtained a Grendor tree through smuggling and created the medicine the midwife had mentioned.

Meanwhile, Lucian kept his head down and observed the situation while Theano was in the mansion.

He knew from his talkative maid that the midwife, Jerez, had been there.

He carefully observed the atmosphere in the house, wondering if she might be pregnant, but it didn't seem like that.

Time passed by so precariously for everyone.


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