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Side Story – The Family Increases #2

Asha Aphrodite.

I knew that name well.

People who meet me often mention that name to me.

There were mostly bad stories.

“Are you the Asha Aphrodite who married Pendragon Unizer and caused the war?”

I asked the woman in front of me.

Then the woman raised one eyebrow and looked at me indifferently with her black eyes.

The arrogant and self-righteous feeling somehow reminded me of Milione.

“If you want to preach about marrying a Pendragon without permission from the church, please bear with me. Every priest in charge of me talks about that story every day, so it feels like my ears are burning!”

Indeed, it is so.

I figured out the situation.

If the woman in front of me was really that Asha, I had many hypotheses to think about what kind of situation I was facing right now.

“Hey. Don’t just stay silent like you’ve seen some kind of ghost, but come here and pray for my children. Isn’t that what you came here for?”

“I heard that Asha died while giving birth?”

The most widely known story was that Queen Asha gave birth to a child that day in the fortress of Taman and died in childbirth afterwards.

A woman who soon identified herself as Asha spoke.

“Have you not heard a word from Sister Midnar or Gregory? A completely new priest has taken charge of me. Hey. Do I look like a dead person?”

“No.”

I have finished assessing the situation.

The door I opened was not connected to the 21st century, but to the past.

Did something malfunction?

When I looked out the window, I saw a tall cross beyond the transparent window.

It looked like it was a church building, but it looked like it was still under construction, as people were tied to ropes and hanging from the exterior walls of the building, and people were pounding here and there with nails and hammers.

“The Basilica of St. Patroc in Barakán is visible. I guess this is the town of Barakhan.”

In the world I was in, it had already been completed over 20 years ago. Among the six horns of magic that encompassed the country, it was the last cathedral to be completed.

The six-horned technique was recently completed when the “Durgien Cathedral” was rebuilt.

And the “Saint Patro’s Cathedral” being built over there.

I thought I knew what it was.

The huge magic circle spanning the entire kingdom could be the reason for my current situation.

Two magic circles created around 20 years ago communicated closely with each other.

“Hey. Are you listening to me now? Are you ignoring me? What did you say your name was?”

Crackling-.

At that time, Asha snapped her fingers and made a sound.

It was right then.

━Ugh! crying!

The child lying in the cradle began to cry.

It was the baby wearing gold clothes, and Asha quickly ran over and quickly picked up the baby.

“Why is our Princess Ginevit suddenly crying? Do I need to change a diaper? I don’t think so.”

━Garr… !

“I cried because I just wanted to be hugged by my mom!”

A girl smiling brightly.

The name is probably Guinevet Uniger.

That means the man sitting next to him—.

“… … .”

I made eye contact with the guy who was wearing black clothes that didn’t suit a baby and was rolling his eyes in all directions.

His eyes looked smarter and wiser than anyone else’s, and he looked like he would be a great human being.

I have quite the eye for babies.

“This is my first time seeing such a wonderful baby. What is this child’s name?”

I asked.

Then Asha said.

“Nothing. I didn’t give it a name. That child is an unborn child. The baby will have to be separated soon, so don’t worry about it. It’s clear that Priest Gregory will kill her.”

Asha’s voice as she said that was quite cold and cold.

Does he have animosity towards priests?

Well, considering their circumstances of having to go to war with the church, it would be natural.

Sze-.

At that time, Asha lowered one side of her top and breastfed Guinevet Uniger.

Asha was a young woman who seemed to have barely turned 20, but she had the image of a mother without fail.

Baby Ginebit seemed to be full, so she lay down in the cradle and fell asleep again.

I looked at that and asked Asha.

“Do you not give breast milk to this child?”

“The child is going to die anyway, so what’s the point?”

I see.

These black clothes, unsuitable for babies, were shrouds for the dead.

It was said that the baby was as good as dead just because it was born without a name.

Sze-.

I picked up the baby and held it out towards Asha.

“Does this baby look like a dead ghost? This baby is still alive. But if I starve like this, I might really become a dead ghost. If you were a mother, what would you do here?”

“… Ugh.”

Asha secretly averted her gaze, perhaps because she could not bear the baby’s bright and faithful eyes.

She soon sighed.

“Okay. This priest is very strict. The other priests looked at this baby and were so scared that they couldn’t even make eye contact, like some kind of unholy devil or goblin.”

Asha, who was mentioned above, also breastfed a baby boy.

It was that moment.

“Ugh!”

Asha screamed.

This was because the baby in black squeezed Asha’s breast with all his might with his small hands. He must be taking advantage of the opportunity to punish the woman who doesn’t breastfeed him!

Because I know, Hyde!

“This, this bad guy… ! This happens every time I breastfeed… !”

Asha laid the baby back in the cradle.

The baby still didn’t cry and was busy looking around the world with his eyes.

Sze-.

I turned around and opened the door.

# # #

“My ice cream!”

Milione walked around me.

Then he searched my pockets and it looked like he was looking for ice cream.

“What is my ice cream?”

“I didn’t buy it. The place I went to didn’t sell ice cream.”

“What? Where on earth have you been?”

I thought for a moment.

I was wondering if I could tell you where I’ve been.

If you look at all kinds of movies and media, you’ll see a lot of people going back and forth between the past and the future, saying the wrong things, touching the wrong things, and things become a mess.

Of course, I was a man who was better and more outstanding than anyone else, but I was like a huge window that penetrated both the past and the future.

I made a quick decision and thought it would be a good idea to talk honestly about what was happening.

“I went there 20 years ago. Asha Pendragon was alive and little babies were lying in the cradle.”

Love does not live in doubts and secrets.

I wanted to be honest with my wives about this and that.

A confession of an amazing story about time travel to 20 years ago.

Milione opened her mouth as if greatly surprised.

“So you couldn’t buy ice cream.”

It seemed more surprising that I couldn’t buy ice cream than that I had gone back and forth between the past and present 20 years ago.

Soon Psyche, who was listening to this story from the side, opened her narrowed eyes and said something.

“I think it’s more interesting that I went to the past, right? Well, in the case of Hyde, he has done so many incredible and surprising things that it is not strange no matter what he does.”

That was it.

I must be special.

It was clear to me now that my wives would not be surprised if I told them I could walk on water and turn rocks into bread.

match-.

Lucy clapped her hands.

“Baby Hyde! I miss you too! It must have been a baby loved by people, right? huh? Is there anything we can do for baby Hyde?”

well.

What should I do?

It’s a bit like that if you touch something wrong and the time gets mixed up and the present disappears.

“Lucy, can I find some records from 20 years ago? I wish I could focus on what happened in Barakhan.”

“Okay! I’ll find out soon!”

Lucy was still a pope.

Of course, I was not doing any papal work, but I had sufficient access to records from 20 years ago, and eventually, after a few days, a mountain of books was placed in front of me.

“… … .”

I took a good look at what happened 20 years ago in a book.

For reference, the book was a diary in which Gregory recorded various things, and the taboo witch offered the children born in the castle of Taekwondo to Gregory.

And it was recorded that Asha Aphrodite also saved her life by sacrificing those children.

Afterwards, the girl, Guinevet Uniger, was entrusted to the Marquis Sandros, a nobleman’s gathering that began as a gourmet party.

“I made an agreement with the nobles by handing over Uniger’s blood to them. It was from this time that Gregory took the position of Pope and stabilized the country. then… .”

“Hyde, what happened to you? I searched all the other records, but there is no record of boys anywhere.”

Psyche, who was reading the book with me, seemed to have doubts.

There would be no choice but to do so.

Gregory must have already destroyed all records of me 20 years ago.

Actually, what─. Finding out what happened to the baby was easy for me now.

I got up, grabbed the doorknob, turned it, and with a sudden change in the air, I stretched out my feet towards the room where the babies’ cradles were placed.

“Hyde Company. Here you go again.”

Asha greeted me.

She was still sitting in the room.

“Can’t get out of this room? You are Gregory’s prisoner.”

“It looks like you’ve been studying about me a bit. Hyde Priest. But when I asked other priests, they didn’t know you. Everyone treated me like a crazy girl.”

I see.

It was a story that could have happened.

“Hyde, tell me stories about the outside world. Because I can’t even take a single step out of this room. I wonder what it’s like outside. I’m bored too.”

The woman, Asha, was rude like Milione, polite like Psyche, and innocently longed for the outside like Lucy.

Maybe that was why I felt a sense of familiarity with this woman, as if I had known her for a very long time.

“You’re bored. Then read this.”

Sze-.

I handed “Back Alley Nymph’s Village” to Asha.