Chapter 1051 – #250_Pregnancy(3)
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1.
It’s human nature to feel jealousy and envy towards the happiness of others.
This is evident from the proverbs found all over the world that express the sentiment of feeling pain when a cousin buys land.
However, just because it’s a common tendency doesn’t mean everyone is like that.
Sharon was someone who could genuinely bless the happiness of others.
Even though she was familiar with modern things from a young age and had a high understanding of the event called ‘pregnancy,’ she was still like that.
That’s because Amelia wasn’t just anyone, but her friend, right?
It was absurd to feel jealousy when a friend had borne the fruit of love, even if there might be some envy.
Therefore, she blessed Amelia more than anyone else and went around the mansion, sharing this joyful news with the lovers.
“Miss Amelia is having a baby?”
But perhaps she was too excited?
She had overlooked the fact that the same news could be received with completely different feelings depending on the person.
As soon as she saw Eloa’s reaction, Sharon realized her mistake.
“It’s a good thing. I hope nothing happens to Miss Amelia’s health.”
Eloa flinched slightly.
In that small movement, there was an undeniable agitation that couldn’t be hidden, even while conveying her heartfelt blessings.
Sharon could dare to understand Eloa’s feelings.
Eloa was like Sharon.
As much as she loved Siwoo, she held affection and respect for his lovers.
If it were any other happy occasion, she would have smiled with joy as well.
However, for Eloa, ‘a child’ was not such a simple meaning.
It was something she had lost due to her mistake, and something she had to give up in order to walk the right path, even though she wanted to get it back.
Furthermore, it was something she could never obtain again.
Eloa had sworn not to take in any more apprentice witches.
For Eloa, ‘the act of carrying Siwoo’s child’ itself had naturally become an object of intense desire.
“I-I’m sorry.”
“No, why should you be sorry?”
“I think I got too excited when I told you…”
“It’s alright, Sharon.”
Although Eloa comforted Sharon, who was apologizing, and sent her away, the news she had delivered still left ripples in her heart.
“……”
Inevitably, even though she knew it was almost hopeless, the future of carrying Siwoo’s child came to mind.
Just imagining carrying his child, giving birth, and raising it made her happy.
It was just a brief thought, but the corners of her mouth turned up.
Eloa was envious of Amelia, almost to the point of resentment.
2.
It didn’t take long for the news of Amelia to reach Linne and Dorothy.
Since the flood incident, the communication system between Gehenna and the mortal realm had been more firmly established.
Siwoo also had some concerns, so he carefully delivered the news to Dorothy and Linne, making sure not to upset them.
He also made it clear that nothing would change much in the future.
Dorothy and Linne were both witches who had lived for hundreds of years.
Especially since they had both been in the public world where all sorts of incidents occurred, they had the courage and composure not to bat an eye at most events.
“……”
“……”
The two of them were stunned, as if a flashbang had gone off in front of them.
They had congratulated Siwoo, but they couldn’t seem to come back to their senses.
“…Ah.”
Linne had a blind fantasy about a close-knit family.
The last piece to complete a close-knit family was, of course, children.
For Linne, who had given up the path of Asura and carved a new life goal of domestic harmony, the story of Siwoo having a child with another wife was…
It was like a signpost towards her ideal.
She had never even dreamed of it before, but wasn’t there an actual case now?
If it was possible for someone else, it meant it might be possible for Linne too.
Linne’s eyes lit up as she opened her laptop.
“……”
Despite her old-fashioned impression due to always wearing elegant kimonos and martial arts uniforms, she was familiar with modern things, just like any other exile or public figure.
Linne diligently searched for how to get pregnant, pregnancy exercises, and foods good for pregnancy.
She added dozens of books that seemed helpful to her shopping cart.
If she ever met Amelia, she planned to ask about her secrets and ask for research as well.
In other words, Linne only expressed positive reactions to the news.
It was Dorothy, who would usually tease her with a bright smile, saying, ‘Linne has a younger sibling~,’ who was unexpectedly unable to hide her agitation.
“…What is this? This feeling is weird.”
It was something to be happy about, but what was this feeling?
Dorothy felt the emotions swirling in her chest were unfamiliar.
It was a pathetic unfamiliarity that would make her lament her own smallness if she pondered it.
Dorothy was now more intensely jealous of Amelia than anyone else.
Witches are great beings.
However, not all witches can live a satisfying life and get everything they want.
Dorothy also knew that her ideal was something she couldn’t obtain.
Because she had seen it in the dream of Happy Pig.
“Sigh.”
Dorothy, who had barely suppressed her burning jealousy, took out the crystal ball she had received in a trade some time ago.
The stuffy heat of the midsummer peninsula.
The immense humidity, which did nothing to cool it down and only added to the discomfort, was vivid in her eyes.
In it, Dorothy was a salaried career woman who had taken out a loan to buy a house, and Siwoo was an unemployed man who only knew how to do housework, though he was a bit better at night work.
There was no wealthy tycoon who had accumulated enormous wealth, no villas in resorts around the world that they could visit whenever they wanted.
It was an ordinary family that could be found anywhere, not even a witch.
In that world line, Dorothy was smiling happily, even to her own surprise.
“……”
Dorothy, who had lived for a long time, knew how futile the word ‘if’ was.
But if.
If, just if, Dorothy, who was not a witch, had met Siwoo, who was not a witch, and had a child.
How happy would that life have been?
She suddenly had such a thought.
3.
Ruelle was a great witch who had received a systematic education.
She was well-versed in alchemy and the knowledge of potions, even more so than the twin apprentice witches.
“You’re saying that’s impossible, aren’t you?”
“How can you be so sure?”
“That’s right! What do you know!”
“……”
The twins, who had linked ‘pregnancy’ to potions as if they had made a groundbreaking invention, were quickly excited and jumping around. Ruelle gave them a sharp rebuke.
“There are no cases of it, are there? The history of the witch society is long. If there was such a miraculous potion, there would have been a pioneer, wouldn’t there?”
“Who knows if there was a precedent but it wasn’t recorded?”
“You can’t approach the assistant with the common sense of the past, because she’s an irregular!”
Odile and Odette each presented their own reasons and desperately shouted, ‘I’m right,’ but the more Ruelle looked at it, the more absurd their theory seemed.
“You guys are so frustrating. Now, listen.”
First of all, the potion of Eros itself is a potion that affects emotions, not the spirit body.
Moreover, too much time had passed between the time the blonde had drunk the potion and her conception.
“Wouldn’t there be countless external variables that were unobservable and uncontrollable during that time? It’s a fallacy of false causality to simply attribute pregnancy to the potion.”
However, for the twins who had found their only hope, Ruelle’s facts were bound to be upsetting.
“Are you a T? Don’t you empathize?”
“Smarty-pants! Do you know that much about magic?”
The twins, who were full of antipathy towards Ruelle, went straight to Amelia.
It was an action they would normally be too scared to do, but this time, their firm determination to find out her secret supported their actions.
However, the answer Amelia gave was firm.
“The ingredients of the potion were all removed a long time ago.”
“That can’t be…”
“That shouldn’t be…”
“But it’s true. Odile and Odette told me that back then.”
Amelia was bewildered by the sudden arrival of the twins, but she slowly corrected their misunderstanding.
At that time, Amelia was busy trying to save Siwoo, who had fallen into a coma, and Odile and Odette had confessed that they had concluded that Amelia’s love was a side effect of the potion and had secretly given her the potion.
Amelia, who was agonizing over whether her feelings were genuine or due to the side effects of the potion, had eliminated all the ingredients of the potion from her body in order to know the truth.
It was the detoxification of a 23rd-level witch, no less.
Of course, she had cleaned it up neatly, and it was pharmacologically impossible for any residual ingredients to remain now, several years later.
Just as the food a witch eats naturally disappears, the spirit body slowly decomposes external factors into magic power.
“That can’t be…”
“It wasn’t this…?”
The twins collapsed like loyal subjects who had lost their country.
If it were someone else, they would have thought that she had made up a plausible lie to keep her rivals in check, but the other party was Professor Amelia.
As inflexible as she was, she was not the type to lie without batting an eye.
“Odile, Odette. Just in case, promise me you won’t experiment. You two are still apprentice witches. It’s dangerous.”
“Yes…”
“Hmph…”
The twins, who had heard Amelia’s sound advice, drooped their shoulders and trudged outside.
Amelia tilted her head at the sight.
