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Aftermath Episode 3 Karin’s Story (3)

I decided to think about what to do once I recovered. I couldn’t just stay cooped up in the room forever. Also, I had to run to the kids as soon as they woke up.

I told Lana about my thoughts.

“Okay, let’s do that. Here, ah~.”

A piece of chocolate moving in front of my eyes. I may be weak, but I think she’s treating me like a baby too much.

Of course, that doesn’t mean I won’t eat it.

“Ah….”

I opened my mouth and the chocolate went in. I chewed and melted it in my mouth again. Lana, watching me, smiled brightly and said.

“Karin, aren’t you too cute? Why are you so cute?”

“…I’m not cute.”

“No, you’re incredibly cute. Every word and action is so cute and lovely.”

Lana rubbed her cheeks against mine. It was so intense that I started to feel hot.

I didn’t dislike it. I hadn’t had time for this lately because of the baby. I quietly accepted Lana’s affection.

Anyway, while I was spending time being cared for by Lana… someone knocked on the door from outside.

-Kyle-nim, Lana-nim. This is the maid Hermine. May I come in?

“Yes, co…”

“Come in!”

Lana interrupted me and answered instead. I used to always do this…. I felt strange.

In the meantime, the maid came in. I asked her, who looked like she had run here in a hurry. No, I was about to ask.

“What’s wrong?”

Lana spoke before I could. I felt really strange being interrupted twice. My lips involuntarily pouted.

“The children have just woken up.”

“How many?”

“Fortunately, only Estella-nim’s twins are awake.”

Lana looked at me after hearing the maid’s words.

“Enika and Erka are awake. Shall we go see them?”

“…Okay.”

I nodded in response. Regardless of my bad mood, the children were my top priority.

“Oof.”

Lana got up while holding me. My height, build, and weight had decreased, so I got up easily with her strength.

Is there really a need to do this…?

My mind is getting more and more complicated.

“What’s wrong?”

Lana asked, smiling, as if she knew my feelings or not. But no matter how I think about it, I strongly feel that she’s doing this on purpose.

“…Nothing. Let’s go quickly.”

“Okay, let’s go. Ah, before we go… Karin’s hand!”

Lana held out her hand. I stared at her hand.

“We can just go. It’s not that far.”

“What if someone kidnaps cute Karin? Hurry and grab it.”

“That doesn’t happen in the imperial palace.”

The safest place in the world is the imperial palace. The resident staff are also the most trustworthy people. Someone kidnapping me won’t happen.

But Lana didn’t back down. She looked like she wouldn’t go unless I held her hand.

“……Here.”

In the end, I was the one who gave up. Lana tightly grabbed the hand I offered. She even intertwined our fingers.

“Let’s go now!”

I moved in time with Lana’s pace. And the moment I left the room, I made eye contact with the maid.

Her face turned red for some reason. Is it because of Lana? She was already outstanding in appearance, so even if her gender changed, her looks didn’t go anywhere. She had a charm that made you glance at her continuously.

But that was just my delusion. That’s because the maid’s gaze was only directed at me.

Ah, damn it, it’s already starting…. Should I just stay in the room for the time being? I don’t want to experience that….

Fortunately, things didn’t develop in the direction I was worried about. As expected of an elite who could be a maid in the imperial palace. She’s good at holding back.

However, you never know when it might turn into something severe. It was fine at first, but I’ve experienced too many cases of people changing later….

I kept paying attention and headed to the room where the children were.

***

Our couple’s house is a mansion in the imperial capital. Everyone eats, sleeps, and lives there.

But Ariel is not. The Emperor’s house was the Imperial Palace, and for various reasons, she couldn’t go out or live outside freely.

There was a solution. Simply connect Ariel’s bedroom and the mansion. Even if we couldn’t be together all day, we slept together at night as a couple.

Yes, so far, so good. Ariel was satisfied enough. But after the baby was born, concerns arose.

As I just said, Ariel was the Emperor, and the Emperor’s child is royalty. There’s no need to explain its importance at length.

The problem here is that the child has half-siblings. As many as seven.

This was really difficult….

It’s right to separate rooms for safety, but we wanted the children to grow up together. After all, they’re family.

Besides, they said that living together from a young age is good for the future.

There was also the problem of care. If the children were too scattered, it would be difficult for both the children and us.

In the end, that difficult situation was also resolved by connecting the space. There was no other way.

Anyway, we arrived at the baby room. The loud crying that we heard as soon as we entered left us slightly stunned….

“Today too….”

“It’s booming….”

“Yeah….”

Enika and Erka, the children born between me and Estella, were full of energy today as well. They say daughters resemble their fathers, but that loud voice resembles Estella too much.

First, I checked the other beds. Fortunately, none of the children were awake except for the twins. They were only flinching in response to the crying.

But if we left them like this, it was obvious that they would wake up.

“Let’s stop the crying before the other kids wake up.”

“I’ll take care of Erka.”

I slowly lifted Enika and carefully held her in my arms. As soon as I held her, I felt the texture of the child’s skin.

Hmm, soft and squishy today too. The unique baby scent and skin texture are so addictive.

And how cute her face is. It’s so lovely that it’s deadly to the heart.

How could such a child be born? I still can’t believe that this cute child is my child.

I really just want to pinch those chubby cheeks…. I can’t, I can’t. What if she gets hurt?

I temporarily put aside the desires that were blooming deep inside my heart.

Lana was the same as me next to me. Even though she was Estella’s child, she took care of her like her own. However, I heard something that was a bit unpleasant to hear.

“Did our Erka wake up from her nap? So Daddy came~.”

She was clearly referring to herself, not me, when she said the word “Daddy.”

“……Why Daddy? I’m Daddy.”

“Well, you’re a man right now? Karin is a woman, so she’s Mommy.”

“……”

“Does Erka want to see Mommy?”

Lana came towards me. Lana, who was in front of me, shook the hand of her cute and lovely daughter and said.

“Mommy, Erka’s here~.”

Lana was doing a voice imitation as if Erka was talking. Honestly, it was a cute scene.

Good thing + good thing = even better thing. That’s how it felt? My heart is still pounding so hard that I’m going crazy.

I barely managed to resist the urge to hug them both tightly. Then Lana noticed something strange and tilted her head.

“Huh? The kids are quiet? They were crying like crazy just now.”

“It’s because of me….”

Pure and innocent beings come to like me. It was one of the privileges that was basically applied when I was a woman.

Children are at the pinnacle of that, so that power is strongly exerted. Enough to immediately stop crying and smile brightly.

“So that’s why Ariel said it was okay?”

“…Yeah. Anyway, give Erka here.”

“It’ll be heavy?”

“It’s okay, give her to me.”

Even if I’m weakened, can’t I hold two children? I took Erka from Lana.

“Ugh….”

A little heavy….

I thought I would be fine holding two children even as a woman. As expected, a woman’s body is too weak. It’s something I couldn’t even imagine when I was a man.

Still, I could hold them comfortably by adjusting the position of my arms.

“Wow….”

An exclamation that came out as soon as I held my two daughters in my arms. I couldn’t help but admire the babies’ unique high body temperature and squirming movements.

Daughters doubled. Cutness doubled. But the joy is hundreds of times that. If there is a heaven, isn’t this it?

Click!

A sound that I heard at that time. I turned my head in the direction the sound came from.

“…What are you doing?”

“Taking pictures. You look so cute with the kids!”

Lana showed me the printed picture.

Enika and Erka, and me holding them, smiling broadly. The picture itself came out really well.

It was just that I was dissatisfied with the fact that it was my female appearance. After all, it means leaving a record of my female appearance. Should I secretly throw it away later…?

Lana took a few more pictures after that. Then the children started to whine little by little.

I couldn’t know exactly what they wanted, but I knew what actions to take based on my past experience.

“How are the diapers?”

“They’re fine.”

Fortunately, it wasn’t a diaper problem. I changed them to new ones just in case.

“Are they uncomfortable?”

“I don’t think so….”

I knew the comfortable positions for the babies well. If they were uncomfortable, they would have whined a long time ago.

“The room temperature is normal, and there’s no pain….”

This part was being checked in real time with magic so that we could respond to problems at any time.

“They can’t be sleepy since they just woke up….”

“Then….”

“Are they hungry?”

“It’s about that time.”

We came to that conclusion. In a situation where it’s neither this nor that, that’s all that was left.

I wonder if there’s any breast milk stored….

Then I felt Lana’s gaze. She’s looking at me with strange eyes.

“Why, are you looking at me like that…?”

My voice trembled with an unknown sense of foreboding. Lana suddenly said something out of the blue to me.

“Karin, do you produce breast milk?”

“N, no…! What are you even saying!”

I shouted without realizing it. The question was that embarrassing.

“Hmm….”

Lana looked closely at my chest and suddenly disappeared from my sight. She appeared right behind me. At the same time, my arms popped out forward like before.

And then….

“With this chest size, you should be producing, right? It’s bigger than mine originally.”

“W, wait…!”

She started groping my chest as she pleased.

“Stop, don’t…”

“Will it come out if I stimulate it?”

“It won’t come out, stop…!”

Lana didn’t stop. Ignoring my words, she rubbed my chest with her big hands.

I wanted to get away, but I couldn’t. That’s because there were two daughters in front of me, and Lana was hugging me tightly from behind.

The ticklishness that rose with the continued stimulation. That sensation that I had rarely felt as a woman was slowly rising.

“I, I’m going to get angry… really, stop…”

In the end, I used the last resort. Even Lana would stop if I said I was going to get angry.

“Really?”

“Yeah, I’m going to get angry…. And what are you doing in front of the kids? It’s okay if the kids aren’t here…”

“So it’s okay if the kids aren’t here?”

Ah, a slip of the tongue….

Damn woman’s body. It’s never been helpful once, either in the past or now, damn it….