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– … There won’t be any need for vaccination. Except for the wings, it looks like a baby, but it is a fairy.

Even in this world where superhumans exist, vaccinations naturally exist.

No matter how early a child awakens, before awakening, he or she is a normal baby and is likely to be exposed to residual illnesses.

Also, even after awakening, the remaining illnesses can be ignored, but major chronic illnesses are still a threat.

However, it is said that this is not necessary for fairy babies.

Not only are they racially superior to humans in basic abilities, but they are even more unnecessary because they are ‘fairy knights’ who specialize in military force.

In other words, I was relieved to learn that I would not have to suffer from minor illnesses for a long time.

– plod along

On the way back to the dormitory. The tiles of the maintained road were gradually becoming colored by the slowly creeping orange light.

It’s already dinner time. This is because the story with Professor Liana became longer.

“Koooo…”

Thanks to this, the baby was unable to overcome boredom and sleep and fell asleep breathing evenly in my arms for a long time.

‘… sleep well.’

The baby seemed quite comfortable.

A baby sleeping in one’s arms, with one strand of heaven’s wing feathers on his head, one strand in his arms, and the wide strands rolled up.

Fortunately, I was able to hug him because he liked the feel of it.

Thanks to the fact that the entire body is covered with heavenly wing feathers, basic protection and body temperature can be maintained at all times, and when the posture is uncomfortable, it can be easily and correctly corrected without using hands.

‘As expected, you chose well.’

Choosing the wings of the sky was, of course, the best choice. It’s a winning streak. I have never regretted it.

I manipulated the sky’s wing feathers to ease the baby’s position, but I was sorry that I had caused great fatigue because it was too late.

Professor Liana is an elementalist. Spirits and fairies have a deep relationship, and in the process of getting to know spirits, I also learned a lot about fairies.

He himself once searched for a fairy, and eventually became connected with the Taesan family and went to visit a fairy within the realm.

However, that didn’t mean he knew anything about fairies.

Exactly… How do I raise a fairy? I couldn’t answer the questions clearly like an expert.

It was obvious. Isn’t he an elementalist, not a fairy magician in the first place?

What Professor Liana could answer was only the brief knowledge she had about fairies and information from examples of other races, including spirits.

If you want to know more accurately, you must go to a person or force who knows more about fairies than Professor Liana.

Both Professor Liana and I know of such a group.

‘Taesan…’

Taishan (泰山).

A force that is tied to three major families such as Gyeophwa and Changhae.

As can be seen from its status as one of the three major families, the Taesan family is also treated as very important in the original work.

The power he had was so great.

The head of the Taishan family is a top-tier hero and a powerhouse on the verge of pioneering.

The family has a number of units capable of entering the Demonic Territory and conducting long-term subjugation operations.

However, Taishan’s advantage did not come from military force.

Taesan is a power that has occupied the southeastern part of the Korean Peninsula since the time of the founding fathers, and is an area mostly made up of mountainous areas.

If you look at this alone, it may not seem like a very good land, but all kinds of ingredients, including natural herbs that grow there, bring benefits that rival even large-scale gold mines.

If you add continuous management using Taesan’s unique ability to control the land and vitality… a land that truly laughs at the price of gold is completed.

Among the areas of Taishan, there is an area where fairies live.

Members of the Taishan family… To be exact, those in charge of managing fairies would know quite a bit about fairies.

‘…I don’t have much contact with Taesan.’

The problem is that the Taesan family and I don’t have much of a relationship.

Gyeop-hwa became friends with Hong Yeon-hwa, and Changhae became friends with Baek A-rin.

Since they were both heirs of the family, their friendship was quite strong.

However, there has been no contact with members of the Taesan family so far.

A member of the Taishan family… the successor was only briefly observed in the tournament arena.

‘Lee Ji-yeon.’

Heir of the Taesan family and currently a 2nd year student in the 120th class of Siyoram.

Lee Ji-yeon is also a character who is involved quite often in the original work.

In the first round, he was a party member who met at the beginning, built up goodwill, resisted the tower’s invasion, and stayed with him until the end.

It was also intertwined in later episodes.

In the third round, the relationship became complicated due to Taesan’s unique ability being discovered, and in the fourth round, the relationship involved trading various natural resources and monster by-products to replace the player’s body.

In the 9th round… I killed and ate them here to absorb their power…

Episode 9 〈Angry Ghost (餓鬼)〉

This episode completely abandoned the good karma-centered play and went down the truly bad karma route.

This is an episode in which he ate members of Taesan, including Lee Ji-yeon, and took away their powers using his unique ability ‘Greed.’

In the 9th episode, after committing such a series of senseless evil acts, he was designated as a ‘priority target of extermination’ by the Association and was soon subjugated by the Allied forces that came in.

Anyway.

In order to build a relationship with the Taesan family, it would be best to go through the family’s successor, Jiyeon Lee.

I’m planning to apply to Jiyeon Lee during the mentor class in the second semester, so wouldn’t we meet officially then?

Of course, there is no guarantee that they will unconditionally accept me… but I think they will accept me in some way. It’s not that there isn’t another way.

[Cadet Lee Ha-ryul, certified]

Arrived at the dormitory.

On the way, he disappeared using magic and avoided people’s gaze with the power of observation, so he didn’t encounter anyone.

‘It’s not necessarily an issue that needs to be strictly prohibited… but there’s no need to let the neighbors know.’

Sighing… I swallowed and tried to put the baby down on the bed.

– Ugh…

As I was about to put the baby down along with the feathers, a cute finger grabbed my clothes.

It is a reaction of not wanting to fall. It was the same in Professor Liana’s lab.

I tried to lay him down on the cot with the feathers of his heavenly wings to make him feel more comfortable, but instead he struggled to get out of my arms.

I had no choice but to take action with the baby in tow.

First, he opened the box on the table and took out the contents.

I brought it up in the morning with a pre-ordered delivery that arrived at the delivery storage room installed in the lobby on the first floor of the dormitory.

The contents were not very diverse.

Basically, clothes and diapers for the baby to wear.

On the way to the lab, I bought a bunch of clothes and diapers and put them on… but since I didn’t have enough money, I bought them one at a time, so now I’ve ordered several sets.

and…

Several round, cylindrical containers piled up on one table.

On the surface, there is a light yellow background and pure white clouds. There was a picture of a baby smiling brightly.

This is formula purchased to feed the baby.

Since he has a few teeth, I thought I should feed him baby food… but I followed Professor Liana’s advice and bought powdered milk.

I picked him up with a strange look on his face.

This is something I thought would have nothing to do with me. I never thought I would buy and use this.

– Ding

[Start heating]

First, I boiled water to make powdered milk. Surprisingly, there was a product called a kettle for making powdered milk… a powdered milk pot.

While I was boiling the water, I washed it by hand and used a spoon to pour the powdered milk into the baby bottle, which I had used the purification spell dozens of times.

Ding – When the water in the formula pot reached the right temperature, an alarm sounded. It was a temperature that did not require a cooling process.

I put water boiled in the baby formula pot into the baby bottle. At first, instead of adding it all at once, I added it in portions to dissolve the powdered milk powder, and only then did I add the remaining water.

The process was quite simple.

Perhaps because it is a world with magic, some of the processes I knew were omitted.

“ing… bah.”

[Sorry for waking you up]

[Let’s eat and sleep]

Since I couldn’t feed the baby while he was asleep, I woke him up again. As I gently rubbed the earlobe, the baby’s white eyes opened dreamily.

He patted his back saying he was sorry and held him in his arms.

The baby’s back was covered with arms, and the wing feathers were distributed appropriately to support the entire body, including the neck and head.

It’s such a strange sight. If someone looked at it from the side, it seemed acceptable to say it was a tentacle monster, but since I have no arms, this is the best I can do.

All of the preceding processes were implemented through detailed operation of the power of observation.

Temperature of boiled water. The amount of powdered milk in the bottle and the dissolving process. Everything, including the position in which the baby was held, was done exactly as described.

I wrapped the powdered milk around the feathers of my wings and brought it to the baby’s mouth.

– Sniff? Sniff…

The baby’s nose twitched as he tilted his head as something strange approached. The baby blinked and opened his mouth to take the bottle.

– Tsk… Tsk?

The baby’s eyes opened wide as he instinctively sipped his cheek. Soon, with strangely faster sipping, the contents of the baby bottle gradually decreased.

“……”

The sight of such a baby is truly bizarre.

The powdered milk was quickly empty. Even though we fed it in the lab… the baby didn’t eat a lot.

I hugged the baby. Maybe it was because he was warm overall and his stomach was full, but the face on my shoulder was extremely languid.

“Png.”

That moment.

The baby’s body shook slightly, and a burp came out of its mouth. Even though I didn’t really guide him by rubbing his back or patting him, he seemed to be doing well on his own.

As time passed, the baby burped several times and fell asleep, breathing evenly.

The baby… the baby…

‘I guess I’ll have to give it a name…’

While observing the sleeping baby, I felt a strange feeling. I became more concerned about the thoughts that had been nudging me from earlier.

To a person, a name is a word that represents me as an individual from other human beings.

Names are usually given by parents.

Alternatively, grandparents or other relatives may give them a name after much deliberation, or they may go to a naming center and receive a name with deep meaning.

I made up my own name.

My parents didn’t give me a name, and it wasn’t until my house burned down and I went to orphanage that I realized the need for a name and came up with one myself.

At the time, it didn’t matter what my name was, but I felt a bit uncomfortable about someone I had no connection with giving me something, so I looked in the dictionary and came up with my own name.

‘Lee Ha-yul.’

How can Ha (何) and law (律) in this honorable person?

To roughly interpret it as a rule… it means to follow the rules you set for yourself anytime, anywhere so that you can be proud.

I am happy with my name.

To be honest, I scribbled it down roughly at the time, but until now I have never been made fun of because it was a strange name, and I have never felt uncomfortable.

‘……’

However, if I had been in a situation where I was giving someone else’s name, I would never have given it a rough name.

Now I am facing such a situation.

It is impossible to lump them together and call them baby, child, baby, baby, etc. forever.

You have to give it a name…

As soon as I thought of that thought, I felt dizzy.

That kind of work is usually done by the family… by the parents.

I am not the baby’s parent. They have no qualifications or ability to become parents.

I don’t intend to dispute what other people think of as a parent, but at least I didn’t fall short of the level I decided was necessary to be a parent.

I don’t have enough money, and my knowledge about parenting is minimal… I just don’t have anything to meet my needs.

but.

“……”

The baby was following me as his parent… Just thinking about leaving such a child in a facility like a daycare was painful, as if my head would break at any moment.

That was… my ‘parental’ behavior. This is something you should never imitate or imitate. It is an act of denying something fundamental about me.

– Phew…

I exhaled carefully and organized my thoughts.

I summarized it simply and not in a complicated way.

Becoming a parent is a burden.

The baby follows me as his parent.

I’m not worthy of being a parent.

However, throwing away a baby who follows me as a parent is an extremely disgusting idea. impossible.

If so… I have to raise it.

‘…They said fairies grow up quickly.’

Fairies do not take as long as humans to reach physical adulthood.

According to Professor Liana… Fairy knights who specialize in protecting rulers will grow at a rapid pace in the fairy axis.

That period is only a few years. At that point, it becomes an adult by fairy standards.

In other words, it reaches a level where one can think and judge normally.

‘At least until then… I can raise it.’

I have absolutely no qualifications to be a parent, but my biggest drawback is my uncertain lifespan.

If, while raising a baby, I suddenly end up with its nose on the side of the road and dies, the baby’s situation would be in a really, really awkward situation.

However, as expected, even if the curse cannot be lifted, it will last for several years, and in the meantime, the adult baby will be able to live on its own.

I will also contact the Taesan family from before, and if I die suddenly, I plan to ask them to send the baby to the fairies.

It is truly a complicated feeling. Has there ever been a time when I felt more depressed than this?

I swallowed the sigh I was about to let out on my own and patted the baby on the back.

“Ehehe…”

It was just such an action, but the sleeping baby smiled brightly as if everything was happy in the world.

I felt even more complicated.

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The sun set and rose again. The date has passed by one day.

Yellow eyes blinked continuously. The expression was very complex… and confusion was prevalent.

Elia’s gaze, which had been scanning my face, went down and focused on the baby in her arms with a sad expression.

“Do you want me to… take care of this baby at my house only during the vacation?”

[yes…]

A day after I promised myself that I would raise it to an adult.

I uttered the words of a discarded guardian.