episode_0148

After talking to Elsia, I went straight to find Chloe.

Chloe was preparing food for the refugees with Sylvia.

“I’m back.”

“Honey, are you here?”

“Cyan~”

Chloe approached me first, then Sylvia came to my side.

Unlike Chloe, who was in the early stages of her pregnancy, Sylvia had a slightly protruding belly.

“Sylvia, don’t push yourself too hard while you’re pregnant.”

“No. I’m so full of energy these days.”

Sylvia answered my concerns by showing me her arms, but I couldn’t shake off my worries.

‘You must have a lot of money. You should hire people to do the housework.’

Now that I am a proper nobleman, I don’t want to keep my women getting their hands dirty.

“Sylvia, you don’t have to do any more housework.”

“Huh?

“I’m thinking of hiring a few of the refugees as housekeepers. And Sylvia is my woman, so I can’t make her suffer any longer.”

“But… I don’t know how to do anything else.”

“There’s something else Sylvia needs to do for me. And now she’s pregnant. Think about our baby.”

“Cyan… ”

After a brief kiss with Sylvia, whose face was red.

I took Chloe to my room.

“Honey, I’m sorry for talking nonsense.”

“Why are you apologizing?”

I hugged Chloe and said.

“Chloe is my wife. She deserves it, and I respect her choice.”

“Honey… ”

“As much as Chloe trusted me, I should trust her too. That’s what a couple is.”

They exchanged loving glances and then naturally shared a passionate kiss.

“The warrior is here… Sorry.”

Helia came to find me with Ciel at an unfortunate time.

When you don’t know what to do with the silence that passes by for a moment.

“Apaaaat!”

“Ciel~Daddy’s here.”

The awkward atmosphere was relieved by my daughter coming to find me.

“He seems heavier than before, but it looks like he’s eating baby food well.”

“Yes, he recently started crawling on all fours. I think he will take his first steps soon.”

“Really?”

Perhaps because he resembles me in that he has good motor skills, Ciel has already begun to move actively.

“Grow up healthy and strong like you are now.”

Let’s give Ciel a kiss on the cheek. Ciel gave us a bright smile.

“Apuaaat Abubu!”

“Yeah yeah, I love you too, Dad.”

Maybe it was because he hadn’t been able to play with his dad lately, but Ciel had no intention of leaving me, so he grabbed my clothes with his cute little hands.

After playing with Ciel for a while, Helia looked at me and said in admiration.

“You’ve gotten stronger again in the past few days.”

“Yeah, I was cured by swallowing the holy water.”

“The communication was true.”

“How does it look different?”

“It may not look different on the outside, but the divinity inside is clearly different.”

Helia, who checked my physical condition, asked cautiously if she was worried about something.

“Have you recently experienced any dizziness or mental confusion?”

“No, there’s nothing like that. Why is that?”

Helia glanced at Chloe for a moment, then whispered in my ear.

Hmm, this makes me feel strange.

“The divine substance is a mass of divinity. And divinity contains the will of God.”

“Really?”

“It is said that in the past, a certain Titan swallowed several gods, and then went completely mad because of the will of the gods that had seeped into his divinity, and even swallowed his wife and children.”

The stronger you get, the crazier you become. This is exactly that.

‘But Helen and Allie didn’t say anything.’

Maybe Helia was being hasty in her judgment.

If I were crazy for eating a single divine object, not even a god, the Holy Kingdom wouldn’t have invested this much in me.

“It’s okay. Thanks for worrying about me.”

“No. It’s something I should do as a nymph of the warrior.”

Helia responds to my gratitude with a smile.

He is a nymph who serves Hestia, and he strangely resembles Helen.

“Is Helia related to Helen?”

“Not related to the second apostle.”

“Really? They look alike.”

“Warrior?”

As a chicken instead of a pheasant, I gently pinched and touched Helia’s cheek instead of Helen’s.

Ciel also followed suit and touched Helia’s cheek, perhaps because she found the sight amusing.

After leaving Ciel in Helia’s care so naturally, I went to meet the other families.

. . .

Clara and Vivian were hunting at the entrance to the Dark Forest.

Even though it’s early in the pregnancy, isn’t hunting too much?

‘Everyone is now adept at using the Aurors they learned from Camilla.’

As Clara’s arrow hit the Warbear’s eye, Vivian threw her Tusk Tribe’s signature axe and charged at the Warbear.

Vivian’s axe, glowing with blue aura, struck the Warbear’s front paw.

Warbear let out a howl of pain.

They were hunting the Warbears as I had told them.

“Gooo!”

“Vivian! Let’s run away.”

“Tsk!”

While the two of them were hunting enough Warbears, another Warbear suddenly appeared.

‘I guess it’s because winter is approaching, but the Warbears are also very active.’

There are some that occasionally lose in the food competition and leave their territory, and this guy seems to be one of those.

‘Well, in the dark forest, Warbear is like a wild dog.’

Vivian decided that it was too much to fight two Warbears at the same time, so she started to run away, and Clara protected Vivian with her bow.

‘It’s a shame to let it go like this, since we caught it together for the first time.’

He concentrated his divinity on his fingertips. The blue light condensed and in an instant, it became lightning that split the sky and struck Warbear.

Gurrr – Boom!

Lightning flashed and tore through the warbear with a sound that seemed to split the sky.

“Cyan?”

“My lord!”

Clara was dumbfounded by the divine power, and Vivian ran to me with the aforementioned face.

And I was confused too.

‘What, it seems like I’ve gotten stronger.’

Originally, he had intended to throw lightning to subdue it easily, but the Warbear was reduced to a pile of ash without even leaving a trace.

‘I didn’t know it before, but just being in the dark forest makes me feel better.’

I think it might have happened because we got close to the Titan Mountains.

Because it is the only place in the world where traces of Titan remain.

‘I guess I’ll have to climb it sometime later.’

Even though I thought I was strong enough, I didn’t feel like climbing the Titan Mountains easily.

‘It’s not time yet.’

Let’s go up after we get a little stronger.

“My lord! I missed you.”

Vivian, who was now somewhat fluent in the Imperial language, came to me and hugged me, followed by Clara.

“Are you feeling okay now?”

“Didn’t you see the lightning just now? Not only was it completely cured, it became even stronger.”

“Thank goodness. I’m really glad.”

I felt sad for no reason when I saw Clara speaking while shedding tears.

From now on, you shouldn’t get hurt.

“Clara, you hunted because you were short on food, right?”

“Yes, because there isn’t enough bread to feed the refugees.”

“Wasn’t there a place where you could share grain?”

“Everyone gave me some support, but not much.”

“I can’t help it.”

No matter what the village chief decided, it was a different story whether the villagers actively followed him.

‘It’s impossible to expect favor from a remote rural village like this in the first place.’

I was so busy taking care of myself that I didn’t have the energy to take care of others.

“Let’s just grab that and go home.”

“That?”

“There’s a giant bore in front of you.”

Since obtaining the Lightning Divinity, my hearing has become somewhat more sensitive.

It wasn’t quite the fraudulent detection ability seen in the comics, but it was enough to hear the breathing sounds of hidden monsters.

“I can’t stand pork.”

After quickly hunting the Giant Boar, I proceeded to slaughter it along with the Warbear hunted by Clara and Vivian.

. . .

It’s not that the people of Lugeron don’t know the taste of meat.

They also liked juicy meat.

However, because of the abnormal ecosystem of the Dark Forest, it was not easy to hunt, so eating meat was rare.

It’s not for nothing that Clara said that meat was a precious food that could only be eaten on important days.

‘But you don’t eat much meat and you have that body?’

In other words, it is easy to win the favor of the townspeople with meat.

“What are you doing, oppa?”

“To share meat with the villagers.”

To commemorate my inauguration as the lord of the village, I planned to share some meat with the villagers like a rice cake.

“Cyan, are you going to make it smoked?”

“That way it’ll be easier to store. Kids, help me out.”

“Yeah!”

Clia helped me along with Becky and Bessie. Since they had done this a lot, the kids all prepared it very well.

“Clea, I’m going to add some spices here for a moment.”

“Spices?”

“Wow, there’s even pepper.”

“Pepper?!”

Everyone was shocked by the appearance of a spice more expensive than gold.

“As expected, nobles are different.”

“Want to taste it?”

“I want to eat it!”

Clia snatched the pepper offered to Clara and ate it as if she was inhaling it.

Hey, if you eat it like that…

“Colok Colok! What the heck is this!”

The spicy taste of pepper started to tickle my nose, making me cry and runny nose.

“Oppaaah! Is pepper this spicy?!”

“Of course. Spices are just ingredients. Well, who would want to steal them?”

“Eeee!”

Leaving the distressed Clia behind, I prepared the smoke with the children.

“Hmm, it smells good.”

Pick a piece of wood, light a fire, and sprinkle some pepper on it. As the smoke rose, it mixed with the smell of the meat and spread an appetizing aroma.