Chapter 528 – Side Story) Karma Returning From the Deep Sea (2)
“Hey, Dad! “There was something I wanted to say when I met my dad… Can I do it?”
“Daddy, me too!”
“Dad, me too!”
After their mother, Cecilia, certified them as fathers, the daughters, who exploded with the inner intimacy that the children felt with me, just as I felt with the children, clung to me, their father, whom they had met for the first time today, and began to chatter and talk about various things.
“Um, hey… Guys? Well, then I can’t use it…”
And, seeing those kids, I saw Cecilia looking at me.
“… You don’t have to pay attention like that.”
“But…”
“You don’t have to look.”
When I told Cecilia, who was having a hard time, to relax a little, perhaps because I used the honorific term, I saw her flinch and lower her head.
“B-but… So, that…”
Before I could say anything, I was looking at Cecilia who was muttering softly.
“Mom, what’s wrong?”
“Mama.”
“Are you okay?”
The kids who were clinging to me and making noises quickly approached Cecilia.
… Yes.
No matter how much inner intimacy explodes, it is natural that I like the mother who gave birth and raised me better than the father I met for the first time today.
In the first place, I didn’t even know they existed.
… Of course, I knew about the existence of ‘child’.
Perhaps because I achieved half-deity and then descended, I was a contradictory being with imperfect perfection.
In other words, although he has not achieved complete divinity, he has slightly surpassed the demigod status… In fact, he was able to somehow drive out the shy gods on his own if they were in a weakened state right after crossing the dimension like before.
Maybe that’s why my divinity also had just that much omnipotence.
Growth.
Prosperity resulting from that.
Thanks to that power, I knew everything about the whereabouts of my ‘children’.
‘Children’ are related by blood and are also the foundation of my divinity.
However, that is it.
I knew it existed, but knowing its existence and seeing it with my own eyes were two different things.
At that time… The reason I held Cecilia was to package semen for the ‘breeding’ of the species.
In the end, I even ejaculated inside myself, so there were plenty of reasons to have a child, but I didn’t know if it really happened or not.
In the first place, the number of my children who were born that way was… No joke.
As an ambiguous, semi-omnipotent divinity, I can recognize that these children are ‘my children’, but I do not know whose children they are.
… To put it bluntly, that’s it.
Because I have sown so much, and because I have so many children, it is difficult to pinpoint.
“…”
In addition, there are cases like Myuyungmyuung, who are my children but are almost in danger… And there are also cases that are hard to find… That were literally in the deep sea, so it would be safe to say that I didn’t even bother to look for them.
There was a time when I worried about things like racial differences and blood ties, but it’s not a good time to worry about these things now.
… Well, for now.
This isn’t important right now.
I looked at my daughters, who were worried about their ‘mother’ while clutching onto Cecilia’s clothes, which she was wearing properly this time.
Cute girls with blue hair who resemble her mother, Cecilia.
Luckily, the children don’t look like me.
And again.
I shifted my gaze to Cecilia, who was looking at me hesitantly.
Cecilia, who had been comforting her daughters by saying she was fine, flinched at my gaze with a troubled look on her face.
I opened my mouth at that sight.
“What are the kids’ names? Cecilia.”
“Oh, well, that is…”
Instead of hesitant Cecilia, her daughters answered.
“We don’t have a name yet!”
“… Huh?”
When I blinked at the unexpected answer, Cecilia closed her eyes tightly and spoke.
“… Poetry, actually!”
“… Um.”
After hearing the general situation from Cecilia, I couldn’t help but make a perplexed expression.
That’s because it was a story on a larger scale than I thought.
“… So, the children…We’re chosen as candidates for the next queen?”
“Yes, yes…”
Roughly, that’s it in summary.
Mermaids are a thoroughly meritocratic society.
Coincidentally, the current queen and Cecilia’s grandmother was unable to produce any more eggs.
It seemed that among the current queen’s direct lineage, these three, my children, were the ‘queen candidates’ because they were born with the most outstanding talent.
… Somehow it reminded me of Wearhoney Bees.
In this case, it was a little different because it was not her direct lineage, but the queen who could not have any more children gave birth to a ‘princess’ who would become her queen.
They may resemble each other because they both have something in common: they are maternal and require the help of other races for the reproduction of their species.
Even though ants and bees are completely separate species, they have a similar ecology.
Anyway…
It seems that the three children who were designated from birth as ‘children who might become queens’ did not receive a name.
From the beginning, the queen was ‘the one and only queen of mermaids.’
It is based on the culture that the name ‘Queen’ is enough and there is no need for a ‘name’.
If there is a problem…
Even though she is the queen of mermaids who is supposed to be the ‘one and only’, there are as many as ‘three’ candidates for her.
The reason was simple and clear.
This was because the three children were all exceptionally talented in ‘different directions.’
The ‘voice’ that mermaids are born with
The ‘magic’ that is innate as a mermaid
‘Physical abilities’ as a mermaid
Each one alone has a talent that far surpasses that of previous queens.
The problem was that children were born with overflowing talents as kings for the ‘prosperity’ of the species through my power.
Moreover…
“Grandma, it seems like she wants to make mermaids prosper after seeing the children of the next generation…”
That was not only the case for the three children born through Cecilia, whom I impregnated ‘directly’, but also for the numerous Hanzo babies born through packaged semen.
Perhaps because she didn’t do it ‘directly’, she seemed a little inferior to the other three children, but the problem was that all of them were talented enough to become ‘queens’ if they were born with the right time.
Moreover… Recently, due to the chaos on land, the influence of the world government has not reached the deep sea…
“Grandma… It seems like she wants to divide the sea into five and appoint a queen in each sea…”
The two seas, likewise, to the two ‘queen candidates’ who are my half-children.
The remaining three seas belong to Cecilia’s children who are here now.
It seemed like the plan was to dream of independence from the world government by spreading the boundaries of the world, or rather, the boundaries of misunderstanding.
“…”
Honestly, I don’t really know what you’re talking about.
I don’t know, but I understood that my children were so talented that their ambitions were so overflowing that they almost exploded.
Because the children’s talents are so outstanding, it seems like they can’t control their confidence.
The mermaids are a strong enough race to have ‘autonomy’ even after this, and unlike the land that was devastated by the previous incident, they had not suffered any significant damage, so they might have made the judgment that they had taken a stand.
… Yeah, well.
As I was raising my daughters, I also wondered what they would do when they grew up, so it was worth it.
The three children right now… If you look at their talent, they seem to be just as good as Luca.
Even if they are worse than those three children, the number of my children in that distant sea is hundreds.
… I don’t know if it’s really worth a try.
I don’t know right now, but if I wait about 30 years… So it might actually be worth trying after the kids grow up.
Of course, this was possible under the condition that I, my wives, and my other children assisted in this.
… If I were to just look at the numbers, my daughters (wearhubini) were growing by hundreds every two months.
Since the Wearhoneybee race itself is a race that becomes stronger through the power of ‘numbers’ and ‘groups’, the individuals were not extremely outstanding.
Due to the nature of the group and its ‘early maturity’, Wearehoneybee is also the one that reaches its peak faster.
… My head is pounding at the thought that my faceless daughters might rise up from the sea and start an uprising, or that my daughters, whom I raised by working hard to give them names while racking their brains one by one, might end up fighting with each other. But.
“So, that…”
Cecilia raised her hand and cut off what she was trying to say again.
“… For now.”
After scratching the back of her head, she sighed and said.
“I don’t think this is what I want to say here, so please follow me.”
The sounds she heard at home were scary, but she couldn’t pretend to not know because what she heard was a story.
“… Dad? “What’s wrong?”
“… Ugh, there is such a thing.”
He held my hand tightly and looked up… That’s how I answered the question of my daughter who didn’t even have a name yet.
There really was such a thing.
The closer I got to the house, the more I felt shivers and tingles running down my spine… It was clear that the wives, who had already noticed the people I was bringing with them, had become quite uncomfortable after grasping the situation.
“… It wasn’t added, so it won’t be removable.”
As for Cecilia, it was something that the wives had already known, and not something I added arbitrarily.
So my dick will never be detachable.
… I guess not?
“… What is detachable, Dad?”
“… There is such a thing.”
I won’t know when I grow up, but anyway, I roughly patted her head.
“Oh, how shameful! Me too! Dad, pat me too!”
“Dad, me too, me too…!”
… He patted me gently.
Unlike the three children, we arrived at the house with Cecilia, who was still hesitant.
“…”
I already knew, but when I saw the release on the front door.
“Hiccup.”
Before I knew it, a hiccup appeared.
Yeah, well.
… If you know Lilith, who has evolved to stage 3, you will have no choice but to do so.
Anyone would feel the same way when they see Lilith looking like a demon lord.
… And Kang Se-rin was held in the Demon King’s arms.
“…”
… He’s really upset because he passed up the offer to play today.
The cheeks were full and looked like they had a lot of valleys.
However, the problem was that Serin was not the only one.
The triplets, Kang Seo-ran and Gangana, held in the arms of Hoa-ran, who was smiling bitterly behind Lilith, who looked like the devil had descended, and the puppy also had swollen cheeks.
Next to her, there was Kang Yu-ra, who was in Justitia’s arms and looking at her with a meaningful smile, just like her mother.
There were also Arcana and Minerva, each holding one of Carmina’s legs and looking sullen with a tooth in her mouth.
Is that all?
I don’t know who it resembles, but it’s Ariad’s child, Yuria, who is rubbing her mother’s breast with a relaxed expression.
Maya, who is staring at her with her tail curled between her mother Aileya’s legs, has tears in her eyes as if she is about to burst into tears… So Apo, who is being soothed by Sati, is being comforted by her mother Hongryeon’s hands. I also saw Yea holding tightly and glaring in this direction with her lips pursed.
“… Write.”
The children’s eyes turned to the children who were holding my hands on both sides and riding on top of me… I swallowed my saliva when I saw the pain growing even more.
“Oh, dad?”
Unlike the mothers, Lilith and the others, the children are still children.
From their perspective, when they saw strangers holding my hand, their father, they were bursting with emotion.
My children were geniuses who practiced magic from the womb and reached their peak.
The ’emotion’ itself became pressure and was being spread to the children.
However.
“… What are they? “Why are you staring at me?”
“Are you going to try it?”
“To the mainland people.”
These are my children too.
Moreover, his temperament was no joke.
You’ve been acting pretentious all this time.
Does that mean she is a girl even though she is still young…
Anyway, I didn’t want to see the kids fighting among themselves from the first day.
In times like this…
Dad had no choice but to step forward.
“… Now, can you please let go of my hand for a moment?”
I let go of the hands that were being held by the children, and let go of the one that had given Mudeung a ride.
And.
“… I’m sorry!!!”
I suddenly ran over and cast Plaster Pedestal.
