episode_0079

Um… so, you want to touch my chest right now. Is this not about wanting breast milk that comes from my chest…? Did I hear it wrong?

“You didn’t hear wrong.”

What? Why do you need my breast milk? I don’t even produce breast milk in the first place…?

“Don’t worry about that. I can make it come out for you.”

You can make breast milk come out? Are you saying you’re going to impregnate me!?

“No, that’s not it. Here, take this.”

Su-unni brought a small bottle to me, and a thick liquid dripped from her finger into the bottle, filling it up.

Is this breast milk?

I accepted it without thinking. It must be some kind of medicine that, when consumed, makes breast milk come out of my chest.

My chest is already uncomfortable enough; I can’t imagine how much more uncomfortable it would be with breast milk coming out.

“I really want to drink it now and have breast milk, but I have a promise to keep, so I’ll endure a little.”

“What do you mean?”

“I made a deal with a child named Lily. I promised to give everything to that child first.”

What did I do after fainting, Lily…?

“So, kissing is allowed.”

“Yes? Uh…!”

Suddenly, Su-unni kissed me. Even though there was quite a distance between us, before I knew it, she covered my lips.

It’s my first time kissing a woman I just met…!

But maybe it’s because Su-unni is a tree spirit or a special being, her kiss felt quite surreal.

At first, I didn’t realize it, but Su-unni’s scent was intoxicating. Just by smelling it, all the tension in my body eased, and I naturally surrendered to the kiss.

Su-unni’s tongue was quite unusual. It was so long that it felt almost like a tentacle exploring my mouth.

Is this some kind of octopus…?

Furthermore, my mouth quickly dried up. I didn’t know how, but Su-unni’s tongue seemed to be sucking up all the moisture in my mouth.

Is her tongue a tree root…?

After the kiss, Su-unni looked at me with a surprised expression.

“It’s really… really delicious. How can such a taste exist in this world? The potion Lily gave me wasn’t a lie. I was skeptical at first, but I can’t resist this.”

Potion? What does that have to do with me? Usually, potions are mentioned in relation to saints or churches.

“It’s nothing. The children will be here soon, so I’ll leave now. Rest well.”

Su-unni said her piece and disappeared.

She’s really unpredictable.

To soothe my parched mouth and throat, I drank the water Su-unni had left beside me.

“Wow…”

I just drank water, but the sensations were different from what I expected. I looked at the water in my hand.

This is incredibly delicious. Well, not delicious because it’s water, but what should I call it? Refreshing and cool water. And the smoothness as it goes down my throat.

This is heavenly.

I filled my mouth with water again and swallowed it.

As I kept drinking the water, I suddenly noticed a tea bag next to the water bottle.

If the water feels this good, how would the tea taste if I brewed it with this cold water?

But tea bags are usually steeped in hot water. The water Su-unni left behind is all cold water.

But there must be a reason she left the tea bag and cold water together, right?

I put the tea bag in the cold water.

“Oh?”

As expected, the tea bag was different from the ones I knew.

Despite being cold water, as soon as the tea bag entered the water, it quickly spread out like watercolor in a cup.

The water turned a bright green in an instant.

‘This smell…’

After the tea bag completely dissolved in the water, the fragrance that rose was the same as the one I smelled while kissing Su-unni just now.

The scent coming from Su-unni’s body was exactly the same as the scent emanating from this tea bag. Could it be that Su-unni made this tea bag with her own body? It makes perfect sense.

But it doesn’t make sense for Su-unni’s scent to come from a tea bag. And this scent is not just any ordinary fragrance.

The moment I sniffed it, all the tension in my body melted away, and I felt a sense of psychological comfort from the fragrance emanating from this tea bag. It’s unlikely for such a fragrance to come from something as ordinary as a tea bag.

It’s definitely not ordinary. I think this tea bag was personally made by Su-unni, the World Tree.

I grabbed all the tea bags and looked at the maid outfit I made…?

Huh?

My clothes.

My maid outfit.

Why am I naked? Huh?

Was I naked all this time? Wow…

==

Bored. So bored.

Fortunately, there was no pain in my body. I don’t know how long it’s been since I woke up in the chandelier room, but the Elven Kingdom is quite far away, so it must have been quite some time.

That means it’s been quite a while since I last took the medicine. Yet, despite that, it seems like this place is really helping me, as I don’t feel any pain in my body.

I notice that there is not a single window in this room. It’s tightly sealed all around.

Yet, the air feels incredibly fresh, as if I were in a forest, and breathing feels invigorating. Moreover, there is no sense of stuffiness at all.

Is it because I’m inside a tree?

It was quite boring to spend time doing nothing on the bed. I feel like I want to go out of here, but the problem is that my legs won’t move.

I can feel the sensation, but I just can’t muster the strength.

And now, I really need to go to the bathroom…!

I drank too much water and got carried away with the tea bag, so I quickly became itchy.

So, I tried to get up from the bed to find the bathroom, but my legs wouldn’t move.

So, I couldn’t even go to the bathroom and just tried to hold it in as much as possible on the bed.

I called out to Su-unni in distress, but she didn’t come to find me.

And that’s how the situation has come to this.

The boredom has disappeared, and now I can only think about the bathroom.

“Amelia!”

“Lily!”

At that moment, the tightly sealed wooden door slowly opened, and Lily came in.

I smiled widely at Lily’s appearance and opened my arms. Lily jumped towards me and hugged me.

Lily buried her face in my chest. I held her head slightly.

“Hmm?”

Fortunately, Lily seemed completely relieved. Her eyes, which were once dark, returned to normal, and the black tear marks were all gone.

Then I held Lily’s hand, placed it in front of me, and examined it carefully.

The wound between Lily’s fingers was healed.

Realizing that I was checking the wound, Lily smiled slightly.

“It’s okay.”

“Really? That’s a relief. Is everything settled with the family?”

“… Ugh! It’s, it’s all settled now.”

“Oh, by the way, Su-unni.”

“Su-unni?”

“The World Tree.”

“Why do you call her Su-unni?”

“She asked me to.”

“Ah… okay, so?”

“She gave me this.”

“What is it?”

Lily received a small bottle from me with a puzzled expression.

“Uh… according to Su-unni, it’s a medicine that produces breast milk.”

“… What?”

Lily looked at the bottle, then quickly raised her head and leaned towards me.

“… It’s a medicine that produces breast milk. Su-unni said something about Lily being this and that at first.”

As I handed her the bottle, I was conveying the words Su-unni had said to me, and it didn’t take long for me to realize that what was stuck in my mouth was the bottle Su-unni had just given me.

And then a thick liquid flowed in, and without realizing it, I gulped it down.

Before I knew it, I had swallowed everything in the bottle. And Lily was looking at me with a hopeful expression.

Come to think of it, Lily likes my chest. No, she’s obsessed with it.

Ever since we were kids, starting from when we were 8 years old, she would touch my chest or suck on it like a baby.

Lily, who never received love from her parents, has always been fixated on my chest. And even with that fixation, I still find Lily incredibly lovable.

But I never expected her to give me a medication that induces lactation without any hesitation.

The tingling sensation in my chest at that moment. Along with the already heavy feeling in my chest getting heavier.

And after feeling that, it didn’t take long for me to start feeling discomfort in my chest.

==

The only way to reach the World Tree.

Ordinary elves may only catch a glimpse of the World Tree once in their lifetime, but the High Elves are the only beings close to the World Tree.

And thanks to Amelia, the High Elves had Charlotte. I immediately went to Charlotte and told her about the current situation.

“Ah, Amelia!?”

Charlotte and her maid, Marie, were surprised by my words. Without any hesitation or doubt, Charlotte shouted loudly in response to my request.

“Of course! I’ll go meet the World Tree right away!”

Upon Charlotte’s words, I created a space at the location of the World Tree and tore open the space right in front of me.

Charlotte and Marie, who saw this, were stunned, but upon my urging to hurry, they quickly followed.

“But how? The location of the World Tree is strictly hidden…?”

I’m sorry, but I had obtained the roots of the World Tree in the future before coming to the past, so I knew exactly where the World Tree was located.

And so we arrived at the World Tree.

Of course, the World Tree’s response was a rejection.

“Do I have a reason to do so? For the sake of humans?”

Charlotte looked dejected at the World Tree’s words. From a human perspective, meeting the World Tree like this is nothing short of a miracle.

But I know. The World Tree is very particular about scents and flavors. So I have confidence that once it tastes this, it won’t be able to refuse.

I carefully and lovingly took out the Amelia essence that I had obtained this time.