Chapter 139 – Episode 133 – Rabbit… Will You Like It? (5)
A night when work is done and everyone goes to bed.
Hernan stood in front of Potty’s room.
“I’ll take care of the kids.”
“Yes!”
Poti smiled and accepted Marina’s children.
“El, don’t worry and go to sleep. As I have the most children, I am good at putting children to bed.”
Lately, it seems that her skills have declined.
Instead of words revolving inside, Hernán said a good bedtime greeting.
“Yes, I will trust you. I’ll see you tomorrow.”
Seeing Hernan’s smile, Potty smiled brightly and shook his rabbit ears.
“Good night!”
She saluted and patted her eldest son on the butt.
“Oona! Say hello to Dad.”
“Good night.”
The child rubbed her sleepy eyes and greeted her with a fairly precise pronunciation.
Hernan also responded, waving her hand to Potty as she entered her room.
Soon, her potty went into her room, and Hernán also went into Silnia’s room.
In this way, the living room seemed to be immersed in her quiet silence, preparing for her life the next day.
But after an hour.
Silnia’s door opened without a sound.
From there, the slightly nervous Elf and the calm Hernan came out quickly.
They went straight to Marina’s room right next door.
Really quick and precise action.
It seems to have been prepared in advance.
As soon as Hernán opened her door and entered with Silnia, Marina turned on the light next to her bed.
“You’re working hard to find me late at night.”
Hernan answered her greeting and saw Silnia hesitantly beside her.
The elf was chewing on the hair on her cheek, displaying an uneasy look.
“Let’s go.”
When Ernan spoke while passing the hair on her cheek, Silnia let out a deep sigh.
“Looking at her face, her feet won’t come off.”
“You can’t go back. If it’s really hard, just take care of the sleeping pills and go. First of all, reconciliation is more of a justification for coming here.”
In fact, it was close to the thought that it would be nice if the elf and her saintess could talk well and have a better relationship.
However, you can’t ruin Carine’s sleeping pills just by overdoing it.
“Are you going to be standing here? Let’s go, Sylnia.”
“Under…”
Silnia let out her sigh once more and started moving.
Together with the barely moving elf, Hernán sat down on the chair she had placed next to the bed.
Marina slowly opened her mouth, looking at Silnia’s stomach sitting next to her.
“How about a boat? She’s due soon, and I’m worried that I won’t be able to take care of her.”
“Uh…”
Silnia, not knowing that she would be asked such a question, squinted at Hernán with her embarrassed eyes.
But before Hernan could notice anything of her, Marina’s hand reached out to her pregnant belly.
“What?”
Her sylnia’s head stood up slightly as her bandaged hand touched her belly.
And her hands wriggled meaninglessly in the air, unable to find where to go.
“I don’t see any major problems. The complexion is fine, and the shape of the stomach is normal. Were there any other symptoms?”
“No, what are you doing…”
As Silnia was confused and lost her way, Hernán carefully held Marina’s hand.
“Sylnia is very healthy. It’s the saintess, her hands aren’t healed yet, so don’t overdo it.”
“Even with her hand injured, this level of checkup is possible.”
She freed her arm from Hernán’s grasp.
And she continued to look at Silnia’s hands and knees to see if there were any swelling.
“You are healthy. Like Silnia, her body is all strong.”
“Did I come to see you?”
Silnia muttered with a face that at least calmed her perplexity.
Up until just a few weeks ago, Marina had been doing this every day, so she seemed to have gotten used to it.
The saintess replied with a faint smile.
“No problem. Would you like to move on then?”
Right before Hernán answered Marina, she looked at Silnia’s side of her face.
Her rising hair had already fallen back down, and her wary expression had softened before she knew it.
She even felt a more relaxed atmosphere than before she came in.
“I see. There is nothing good about dragging time.”
She nodded her head to the saintess and took out her vial from her pocket.
One is a medicine bottle with a piece of paper that reads, “For general use.”
The other is a medicine bottle with the word for Carine written on it.
This is the most important thing today.
“You mean these are sleeping pills that Potty made?”
Silnia wrinkled her nose at the sight of her glowing vial, reflecting her lights.
She nodded her head there, and Hernan removed the lid.
With a cheerful sound, the bottles opened and one pill of sleeping pills came out of each.
“This one was written for general use, and this one was written for Carine. And this.”
Hernan took out a crumpled piece of paper.
It was so small that you could say it was just a bunch of scraps of paper.
At first, the saintess had an expression that she didn’t know what it was, but she soon opened her mouth as if she noticed it.
“Are you Karina leftovers from her original medication?”
“Yes.”
Hernán nodded her head and opened the paper.
There was a pill that looked exactly like the sleeping pills placed in front of her.
“Anyway, this must be necessary to clarify the case more clearly.”
“Why?”
Silnia had a hard time keeping up with her conversation.
Hernan explained, handing over the pills piled on paper first.
“Even if there is a problem with one of the sleeping pills, you can say that Forty gave me the correct one. I apologized to Karine and took out the remaining one.”
Seemingly understanding, Silnia nodded her head.
“Good. Then, smell this first.”
She brought the medicine close to her nose, which was made more sensitive by her pregnancy.
“Hmm… Next.”
Hernan and Marina watched as Silnia took turns sniffing her medicines.
The elf said while tilting her head with her eyes closed.
“The medicine Karine used to take… It smells more like the sleeping pills that were labeled as sleeping pills for Carine.”
Taking her pills once more, Silnia took a deep breath.
“What, a thicker smell? It seems to have been simmered longer and more medicinal materials were added.”
At that, Marina lowered her voice.
“Then Potty at least once gave me a sleeping pill marked for Carine.”
A sleeping pill for carine that has a higher concentration than regular use.
Potty gave it to Karine.
What remained as physical evidence was up to the last amount, but I wondered if it was given for quite a long time.
“Then let’s find out more about the ingredients this time.”
Hernan wrapped the sleeping pills he received from Carine in her paper again, and then pressed the pill in question with her fingers.
As the kernels crumbled, the small crystals the saintess had mentioned earlier came out.
As a human, Marina has not been able to figure out what this crystal is.
“Sylnia. You don’t know what the ingredients are, so be careful not to get it into your body.”
Hernan accepted Marina’s words and said to Sylnia.
“Did you hear? Smell carefully.”
He handed the powder to the elf, who was ready to sniff it.
“Do not inhale directly so as not to inhale the powder.”
“Try to hold it under my nose.”
As Hernan stopped her hand at her mouth, Silnia tried to suck the air out of her, exhausting her arrogance.
Hernán hurriedly removed his hand, and instead created wind with his palm.
“What is it. It also smells a bit disgusting. In addition, it has a very unusual, never-before-smelling scent. It smells like burning.”
“Is it too bad?”
“No. It’s really blurry. You humans will never be able to handle it.”
She said and continued to sniff her.
“Um… Does it smell a bit cheap? This is really blurry It’s hard for me too.”
After sniffing a few more times, Silnia shook her head.
“There is no more distinct smell.”
“Great job.”
Silnia’s expression softened at Hernan’s praise.
“I’ve always smelled your sweat, women’s blood, and milky smells, but now that I smell something like this, it’s new.”
However, what she said was not so soft.
Realizing that nature does not change easily, Hernán cautioned.
“You smell too. I thought all elves don’t smell, but meeting you has shattered my illusions.”
“What? To me, it must be a refreshing woody scent!”
In fact, even now, the faint scent of cedar emanated from Silnia’s body.
However, that doesn’t mean that the smell of sweat or the basic body odor itself doesn’t exist, so Hernán answered with an amused tone.
“Let’s do that for now.”
“Ha, really!”
Silnia was determined to make her smell all over her body even if it was right away.
She, of course, was in front of Marina, so she couldn’t put it into practice, and she only stared at Hernán ferociously.
Letting go of that gaze, Hernán asked her saintess a question.
“It was a bit noisy. Anyway, do you draw anything from the information Silnia just gave you?”
“Considering the materials in Potty’s lab…”
The saintess seemed to be comparing the materials in Potty’s lab with the characteristics Silnia had mentioned in her mind.
“If you’re having trouble, how many materials should I bring from the lab?”
“It’s okay.”
The saintess shook her head with difficulty and continued her words.
“Let’s start with Silnia’s most characteristic scent. Did she say it smelled like burning?”
“Huh. It smelled like burning, but it seemed oddly fragrant.”
Marina glanced sideways at Hernán at that answer.
“Then the next disgusting smell…”
“Don’t you know what it is?”
She quickly intercepted her words in response to her hasty passing.
However, the saintess started by saying that she should move on first.
“After guessing all the ingredients, I will give you the final word.”
She left only those words and hurriedly passed her subject.
“What if it smells disgusting?”
“That is…”
Silnia’s face was colored with displeasure, unlike her just now.
“It’s so disgusting. It’s the first level I’ve ever taken on. If you mix garlic, onion, and rotten oil, it might be similar.”
“Hmm… Then what about the smell?”
“It was hard to tell because it was so faint, but I could tell because it smelled familiar.”
Silnia’s expression returned to normal.
“It smelled like mint. It’s a little different because it’s refined, but it’s probably right.”
After that, while talking a few more times, Marina carefully began to talk about the material of the crystal.
“First of all, what Silnia said are all medications that are actually used by people suffering from insomnia.”
“Looking at the saintess’ reaction, it seems that she doesn’t use it often.”
Hernán felt uncomfortable.
The saintess looked at him and Silnia for a while before opening her mouth.
“Opium, hemp, mint, in the order I asked.”
At her words, the two people next to her froze, especially Silnia.
“Opium and hemp? This, do humans normally use such things as sleeping pills?”
Hernán replied by stroking his chin.
“… It is mainly used as an anesthetic or pain reliever.”
“If I use that, it goes to the goal in one shot?”
This time, Marina answered Silnia’s words.
“As elves have sensitive senses, they are more alert than human society to these addictive drugs. I’m living a relatively healthy life, so I don’t think I’ll have to rely on anything like this.”
There was nothing wrong with the saintess’ words.
Although it is a dangerous drug, it is a drug that is often used in places where it is difficult to get help from magic or divine power.
Of course, it is also widely known that it is a dangerous drug with strong addiction.
Hernan resisted wanting to run to Poti at any moment and looked at her saintess.
“But all of this is not for a woman who is breastfeeding…”
“Hernan.”
Marina moved her arm and put her hand on her lap.
“We must not forget that a very small amount was used. When she protests by pushing these things at Forty, she will only protest that she has made a slightly stronger sleeping pill.”
She pointed her bandaged fingers at Silnia.
“I’m afraid Silnia, the elf, might eat it, so she might be able to make up an excuse that she distinguished it for Carine.”
Silnia flinched and looked at Marina.
It was hard to tell if she was startled by what she said, or if she was surprised to see the hand she had broken.
The saintess held out her hand and continued her words.
“In that case, this could be a misunderstanding and Potty has no intention of hurting Karine. It may just be for the purpose of curing insomnia that is so strong that life is difficult.”
“Nonsense! Everyone here knows how much the rabbit hates the hero. Could you really have mixed it up to help?”
“So did Carine show any withdrawal symptoms other than having trouble falling asleep? Did her hands shake if she didn’t take her sleeping pills?”
Hernan shook her head.
“She was just having a hard time falling asleep. Her addiction symptoms are still… It didn’t exist.”
If you take it for too long, you may actually get poisoned, but I put enough of it that I could barely see it even in a pill smaller than a human fingernail.
It may indeed have been intended to slightly intensify the effects of sleeping pills.
“But Karine is a nursing mother. Even small amounts can be a problem for my children.”
“Yes. In that respect, we should tell Forty to stop making such drugs immediately. But…”
“But?”
A strange strange color appeared in Marina’s eyes.
“There is one material that is the biggest problem. There are parts that Hernan can definitely take issue with.”
Hernan also had a light in her eyes.
“It must be a material that hasn’t been mentioned yet since the name was mentioned earlier.”
The saintess nodded and opened her mouth.
“It’s time to tell you about the toxicity of mint.”
Saint Marina continued to speak without interrupting her words there.
“And it seems that the time has come to drop the power that is focused on the alliance between the rabbit and the demon king.”
