episode_0512

Since Agnes and Lizzie visited Blackwood Manor, quite a few guests have come and gone.

… To be honest, I don’t understand why they keep coming to me so much.

“I’m glad you’re safe, Miss Release. Are you feeling better?”

“Yes. But is it okay for Princess Seraphine to visit like this?”

“It’s okay. I just stopped by on my way back to the academy anyway. I can easily set aside a day to check on Lilith Yang’s condition.”

“I’m glad you’re safe, Mr. Release.”

Seraphine and her attendant, Luke, took time out of their busy schedules to come check on me.

“What the heck, you’re really pregnant, Lily… Rosewood Lady? Wow, I never would have imagined that.”

“… Why did you come here, warrior?”

“On the way back to the academy, Serista wanted to check on the release status. If she was really pregnant, she also wanted to find out what the baby’s condition was.”

“… Did you receive a separate letter from Lilith?”

“Huh? No? There wasn’t any letter sent to me?”

“… Then that’s enough. This was well written, so I’ll return it now.”

“Ah, the whispering leaf? You can keep it. If it runs away again later, you’ll have to go catch it again.”

“… If you say something like that one more time, I’ll ask you to decide whether to live or die, warrior.”

“Ah, I see… . Anyway, I really can’t joke with you… .”

Serista came to check on my condition after hearing the news that I was pregnant, and the warrior and Silena who seemed to have come with me.

“Release! Are you feeling okay?!”

“Oh, surprise. Oh, it’s been a while, Miss Natalie and Mr. Thomas.”

“I stopped by briefly on my way back to the Academy. I don’t know if this is the right time to say something, but… Anyway, congratulations.”

“Oh, yes. Thank you, Mr. Thomas.”

“Ber, I’m already so full… . Oh, ohh… ! I feel something inside Lilith-nim’s body… !”

“Natalie, don’t bother the mother and stay away… .”

“I’m fine. Thank you both for coming to see me.”

Natalie and Thomas even came to see me on their way up, perhaps because the Blackwood estate was located between their hometown and the academy.

In fact, I didn’t really send letters to people I knew but had an ambiguous relationship with, but somehow, other people ended up visiting the Blackwood family as well.

Of course, most of them only stayed for a day or so before going up to the Academy, and Agnes and Lizzie were the only ones who stayed at Blackwood for the entire summer vacation, from the middle to the last day.

“Lee, release. This, a gift.”

“What is this, Miss Agnes?”

“… Last semester’s class at the Ministry of Magic. I wrote down as much as I could remember. I think I’ll need it when I return to the Academy next year. ”

“Did you write all this yourself, Miss Agnes?”

“Because it’s the same magic department. I’m the only one who can give this to you. I’m not sure if the class will be the same next year, but I think it’s better than nothing.”

“Thank you, Miss Agnes. Thanks to Miss Agnes, I will be able to return to school safely next year.”

“… Anyway, I didn’t come here empty-handed.”

“I already said that I was grateful for Ms. Agnes’s kindness. But I will accept this gratefully.”

Agnes, feeling a little burdened by Lizzie’s barrage of gifts, secretly creates an academy genealogy and gives it to her.

They were two people who really made people’s hearts tangle in many ways. … Of course, that doesn’t mean that the interest in them itself was unpleasant.

“Take care of yourself, Miss Release! I’ll see you at graduation!”

“Goodbye, Lilith!”

“Ha, always keep your stomach warm… . Move your body a little whenever you have time, but, you must definitely avoid excessive exercise… .”

Anyway, after making such a fuss at the Blackwood family, the visitors left, leaving behind the various gifts they had brought.

Aside from Lizzie’s things and Agnes’s Ministry of Magic genealogy, I also received a lot of helpful gifts, such as Seraphine’s congratulatory money and Cerista’s holy water.

… I didn’t really send the letter for that purpose.

“You are very lucky, Sae-ah. Judging from the fact that the princess and saintess came to visit Sae-ah because she is pregnant.”

“Yes. I also want to thank everyone who came… .”

“Take care, Ethan. Maybe I’ll see your grandson next time I come back.”

“Yes… . Take care on your way back, ah, father… .”

Finally, after seeing Harold off as he returned to Luminor Academy for his teaching duties, the spacious mansion felt completely empty.

Agnes and Lizzie had been staying the past few days, and new guests had been arriving and leaving almost every day, so I couldn’t help but feel that it had suddenly become quiet.

“Wow, everyone’s finally back. I didn’t know there would be this many visitors.”

“That means everyone was worried about the release. So next time, don’t just disappear without saying anything.”

“Yes… . It’s definitely something I can’t do twice. Not to Ethan, not to everyone else. ”

Perhaps the original release didn’t have this level of connection with other characters.

Even though she was a member of the same heroine’s party, she inevitably felt distant from the other heroines because she was one of the heroine’s harem members.

Looking at it this way, it seems that my life at the academy was quite fulfilling. It must be because I participated in many of the main events of the 『Luminor Academy』.

Except for Lara, who had social phobia, and Mirif, who belonged to a church, who sent letters, everyone actually visited, so it felt like Blackwood Manor had become a second Academy stage, unintentionally.

… In the original work, the only time they would gather at Blackwood Manor like this would be to fight Ethan.

This was also a result of my release, so I didn’t feel too bad about it.

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Time passes and passes again, and it is already mid-October. Nine months pregnant.

As I entered the later stages of pregnancy, I could feel my body getting heavier day by day, and after about 9 months, it became clear that even moving around was becoming a bit more difficult.

Meal times were mostly spent on the bed, with Isabel or Katharina bringing the food to the room. Maybe it was because she felt like the baby in her stomach was being deprived of nutrients, but her food intake had also increased considerably.

Even before giving birth, her breasts were leaking milk so much that she had to ask Ethan to pump it for her once or twice a day.

I could clearly feel the baby moving in my stomach, so I really felt like it was ‘coming soon’.

… Not even 24 hours after that thought, the sudden, stabbing pain in my stomach also began.

“Haa, haa, haaa… .”

“Release, are you okay?”

“Yes, yes… . Ah, I can still hold out… .”

… Actually, it wasn’t okay. Almost every 20 to 30 minutes, a stabbing pain that felt like my stomach was going to burst would engulf my body.

I guess this is what is called prenatal labor. I’ve seen it quite a bit in comics and dramas, but of course this is my first time experiencing it firsthand.

I’ve never experienced menstrual cramps before, so this was a completely new and unfamiliar pain for me, and I naturally found myself holding onto Ethan’s hand with all my might.

“Haa, haa, haaah… !!”

“Lee, release!!”

“Release?!”

“Haa, haa, haaa… .”

Shit, I think I’m going crazy.

If you’re going to come out, come out quickly. How many hours have you been struggling in my stomach?

I kept feeling confused as if someone was clawing at the inside of my uterus with their nails and squeezing the entrance to my uterus with their fist.

This feeling repeated every 1-20 minutes, and the baby never came out, so I thought I was going crazy.

“Release, do you want some more painkillers?”

“Oh, no… . If you eat more, it might not be good for the child… .”

I did take some of the painkiller that Lizzy brought me, but no matter how much it hurt, I felt a little burdened to take more than the recommended amount.

I don’t want to cause any problems for the child if I do something wrong. Rather than suffering for almost ten months and having something go wrong, I’d rather just get sick for a little while.

“Ughh …

“Release!!”

“The mother’s water broke! We will start preparing for childbirth right away!”

“Haa, haa, haaah!! I’m dying…!! I, I’m dyingooohhh…!!”

The feeling that I would scream out loud if I let my guard down even a little was the limit of my patience, so the pain that was being forced upon my body from the inside was just as difficult to bear.

It felt like something inside my stomach was forcibly twisting my bones and skin, squeezing and leaking out. It was so painful that I wanted to faint at any moment, but I had to somehow hold on to my senses when I thought about the fact that it was Ethan’s child.

Because nothing is more dangerous to the baby and mother than the mother losing consciousness during childbirth.

“Euuu!! Huu, huuu!!”

“Release… . Hold on a little longer… .”

“Release, come on! You have to breathe properly!”

“Lee, Release…! Chi, calm down and breathe slowly as the priest said earlier… .”

“Ughh …

F**k!! Why on earth does this fucking world not have a cesarean section!!

Thanks to divine power, medical care was far more advanced than modern medicine, but I was resentful of this world where there was no way to give birth by just waking up and having it happen.

If there was a cesarean section birth, there would be almost no side effects compared to the original world. The incision site and the body would be completely restored with divine power anyway.

However, as if betraying my heart, the pain in my abdomen grew stronger as time passed, and outside the window, which was clearly broad daylight, the sun had set and it was dark.

After a battle that lasted literally hours… no, after a fight, I suddenly felt a sense of lightness inside my stomach, and at the same time, the voice of the baby that had been tormenting me for the past few months struck my ears.

“Ewww!! Eww!! Huh …

“Haa, ha, haaa… .”

“Release, you worked hard…!! You really worked hard, Release…!!”

“Haa, ha, ahahahahaha… .”

I thought you were really falling behind, not just saying empty words… .

Even if it’s Ethan’s child, you should never have a second child…