Chapter 469 – Ep.468 Waiting (2)
Fifteen days have passed since Smith left.
“Ahh!! “I can’t take it anymore!!”
“Shiron.”
Kernax caught Siron as she got up and threw her knitting on the bed.
“… Oh really!!”
Siron, who looked at Kernax’s frozen face for a moment, scratched his head and sat down on the bed again, picking up the thrown knitting needle.
“It’ll be okay.”
“…”
Kernax smiled and stroked Siron’s head.
Siron did not shake off the touch, which he would normally have dismissed as creepy, but quietly rested his head on Cernax’s shoulder.
“You… “If you do that, what will become of me?”
“W-ba, what did you just say?”
Cernax opened his eyes wide and asked again.
“Well, you’re older than me, and you had kids first…” … “You’re my sister.”
Siron replied, pouting her lips as if she were embarrassed.
A faint smile appeared on Kernax’s frozen face.
Then, he gently wrapped his arms around Siron’s head and pulled him a little closer into his arms.
“I never thought I’d hear those words from you.”
“… Joy.”
“I am very happy. Sincerely.”
“… “Stop it.”
“Haha.”
Kernax smiled cheerfully and lowered the knitting needle he was holding in one hand onto his lap.
“Don’t worry too much. Smith can be a bit quirky and he has made us worry a few times, but he always comes back to us with a smile. “It will be like that this time too.”
“… “The situation is different from back then.”
“Well, he is like that too.”
“Are you kidding me?”
As Siron wrinkled her forehead and raised her eyes, Cernax smiled awkwardly and stroked her Siron’s head a little more kindly.
As Siron said, all the problems Smith has faced so far have been related to ‘women’, so except for being kidnapped by the Nuit Church, she has only experienced incidents where her safety was virtually guaranteed unconditionally.
But this time it was different.
-Mr. Smith went through a trial to accept new powers.
This was news that Lihina, Giena’s mother and the actual head of this place, had told them.
She did not tell me exactly what the ordeal was for, but she said that the process was very difficult and that it was entirely up to her husband who was going through the ordeal as to when it would end.
‘It was difficult when Shiron went on a rampage…’
Siron runs wild and tries to climb up to the place where Smith is trapped, thinking that this is a ploy to steal Smith away.
She couldn’t win against Siron, and she shouldn’t have moved, not even for the sake of the child in her stomach.
Because I think she considers Shiron like her younger brother, on a similar level to herself, it seemed like she couldn’t bear to put a hand on her.
Nemea, her trustworthy power, was overwhelmed by suppressing Amela, who was trying to rampage to a level similar to that of her Siron.
Nyaho and Tania are, of course, non-others.
Beneo, a character who can make objective decisions in all situations and who is not very difficult to subdue Shiron, has not yet returned.
But fortunately, Siron’s rampage did not occur.
This is because Siran, who returned at the right moment, mercilessly struck the top of Siron’s head and knocked him unconscious.
Perhaps because Siron had become an example, Amela, who was engaged in a grab-and-go match with Nemea, also silenced her.
‘Siran seemed to know something more.’
She didn’t ask what it was.
This is because she thought that if there was something to be told, she would have told it sooner.
‘… Honestly, I don’t know.’
She was the only one among her husband’s wives whose true intentions were unknown.
Of course, apart from that, she was very happy when he first asked her to become his foster daughter. But that and her trust are separate issues.
That doesn’t mean that Shiran doesn’t truly love her husband. No matter how she looked, she was always smiling when she was with Smith.
‘The problem started after I met Bizelin.’
From what Amela had heard, Bizelin said that when the Empire was created, she was the only sorceress to be awarded the title of Archmage.
She has lived for hundreds of years. She had been expecting it ever since she found out that she and Siran were sisters, so she wasn’t that surprised.
What really surprised and alarmed me was that the wizard named Bizelin had been interested in Smith for a very long time.
Of course, since her husband is handsome and has a nice body, she thinks it’s normal for a woman to be interested in him. So didn’t she herself buy things like Smith’s sweat-soaked shirt that Wieselin had put up for her secret auction?
What is important is that the status of the Great Wizard of the Empire is added to that obvious part.
Grand Wizard of the Empire.
A magical genius who has lived for hundreds of years.
She once asked Nyaho for books related to him and read about two.
And in the two volumes, there were stories written that were like fairy tales read to me by senior knights when I was young.
An archmage who can fly freely in the sky, change the weather at will, and travel from the end of the continent in an instant if he wants.
She even says that she can create anything she wants, and that her words soon become magic and cause miracles.
I don’t know how much of what is written in that book is true.
Maybe it’s the truth without any exaggeration or addition.
The point is, why did such a great wizard show interest in her husband?
Maybe she was just attracted to the opposite sex.
Or it could simply be to satisfy one’s carnal desires.
But in my opinion, it was neither of those things.
If I was attracted to the opposite sex, I would have approached him somehow and made contact. Didn’t he even use his own body to learn how to manipulate magical power?
Despite this, she was never seen meeting Smith in private.
Satisfying one’s desires is also for the same reason as above.
If she had intended to fulfill that desire, it would have been right for her to have had more contact with Smith, but she did not do that.
Crucially, even when dealing with her doll named Shio Rin, she always seemed to avoid her position even when she had the opportunity. There were times when she was caught by Smith and mixed with her body, but at that time, she completely kept behind her.
As such, her suspicions about Siran also stemmed from her Bizelin.
Because Siran, who had shown so much hostility to her in the capital, had been away from her post for several days without any major incident since she returned to Molingta, and she met Vizelin.
Above all, it was Siran who convinced her husband that Daeda, who was a sister, should come to this elven forest.
In other words, Kernax thought that Siran either knew that Smith would end up like this, or that she intended it to be like this.
So maybe he was the only one who was able to keep calm while everyone was angry and confused.
However, even these doubts were not a reason to be wary or hate Siran. In the first place, I had no intention or desire to do so.
That’s probably what her husband, Smith, feels the most sad and guilty about.
Cernax slowly stroked his stomach and the head of Siron, who was leaning next to her.
‘I received so much happiness…’
She never thought that such a happy moment would come in her life, when she thought she would just live as a knight and die as a knight.
She said she was becoming a mother of a child.
Therefore, Cernax made a vow to herself that Smith, who had given her such happiness, would never do anything that would cause her sorrow.
And although Siran and Bizelin were up to something, she believed that it would also help Smith in the end.
Then why are we wary of Siran?
“… “Are you crying?”
“What.”
At Siron’s sudden question, Cernax frowned as if slightly angry and then pinched Siron’s cheek.
“It’s not like that.”
“… “Or it’s not.”
Siron blew air into her pinched cheek, puffing it up, and she immediately fell down on her knees with her knitting needles up.
Kernax smiled slightly as he looked at Shiron and stroked her head.
The reason Siran is wary.
It was so simple and so shameful.
She knows that she is the only human being.
At first, he was relieved to think that since Smith was also a human being, he would grow old with him. However, as time passed and he got glimpses of his abilities one by one, he became vaguely aware of them.
That my husband is not an ordinary human being like you.
She said that from then on she often thought about it.
When everyone spends time with their husbands as they are now, only she grows old ugly.
And now that I am pregnant with my child, when everyone is having a happy time with their husbands and children, I often think about my own child who is left alone.
‘… ‘It’s greed.’
Be wary of Siran.
It was because she wanted her husband to be an ordinary person like her.
Because she couldn’t shake the feeling that the more she did something, the more her husband became distant from her.
She was an incompetent woman who could do nothing, so it was natural for her to feel that way even more.
All of my husband’s lovers were capable people.
‘Actually, it’s not okay at all…’
Kernax, who was stroking Siron’s head, smiled bitterly.
No worries about Smith.
Their husbands will definitely come back to them smiling like always.
‘It was really… Back then. …’
【That’s what I was thinking.】
“S-smith?”
“What? Fool? Where?”
Hearing Cernax’s embarrassed voice, Siron quickly got up and looked around her.
“… “There is no one.”
“Oh, wow, the one who heard the auditory hallucination”
Knock. Knock. Knock.
The door opened with a polite knocking sound.
And Gienna, who was out of breath from how urgently she had rushed in, came inside.
“S-Miss, you… Awakening, awakening, presence… Do…”
“Really?”
“Yes. He will wake up in the evening at the latest…”
“Really, why are you so late!! Isn’t that… Sister?”
“Uh, uh, uh… ?”
Kernax turned his head at Siron’s call.
“Aren’t you happy?”
“Well, I’m glad. I’m happy. It looks like you were so happy that you lost your mind for a moment…”
“Anyway, no fuss.”
Siron laughed and Cernax also smiled awkwardly, raising the corners of her mouth.
‘It must have been anger, auditory hallucinations, auditory hallucinations…’
