Chapter 1049 – #250_Pregnancy – DeepL
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1.
Witches cannot get pregnant.
The same is true of apprentice witches.
However, if you ask if this is due to the nature of the spirit body, it is not.
The spirit body is the ideal body.
It is only right, then, that the ability to conceive and bear children should be exceptional.
A witch who has contact with men should be able to have babies in no time at all, and even start a club.
So why can’t witches hold office?
It’s really quite simple.
It’s because the accumulation of wishes, which is the starting point of magic and is passed down from generation to generation, is inscribed in the stigma, and the stigma exists in the womb.
A witch’s mark is a recorder, not a reproductive organ, and it intentionally excludes all abilities related to reproduction.
As it was, there was no record of a witch’s belly being full, at least as far as Yevin knew.
At the same time, a number of questions arose.
The biggest one is the safety of the mother and fetus.
Is it really okay for a witch to give birth to a child?
What happens afterward?
What about the fetus?
A witch’s stigma is a place filled with magnetized magic.
Is it really possible for a fetus to grow and develop there?
“Ms. Amelia, this is all new to me, so I can’t give you any answers. I’ll be back tomorrow to look for more of Master’s records.”
“Okay.”
“I think Mr. Xiu should have a proper checkup tomorrow as well, I don’t know how in the world this could have happened….”
“Yes.”
Neither Amelia nor Sharon looked anything but stunned.
This was too unexpected an event for them to express joy or anxiety.
“Have you been practicing magic for the last eight weeks?”
“No.”
“Well, just in case, please refrain from using magic as much as possible, and in the first trimester, it’s important to be absolutely relaxed, mind and body.”
“Yes.”
“No alcohol, no cigarettes, and I’d like you to refrain from having sex with your husband for a while. And….”
Unsure of what to say, Yevin gave her a quick list of things pregnant women should do, then hurried back to the workshop.
Amelia and Sharon were the only ones left in the parlor.
“…….”
“…….”
The two beauties stood there with their mouths half-open and blank expressions on their faces.
It was Sharon who made the first move.
“Black.”
“Miss Sharon?”
Sharon let out a small cry.
I looked to the side and saw tears streaming down her face, unblinking.
“Congratulations, so, so many congratulations. Hmph, hmph…. Why does this make me cry….”
“Ms. Sharon….”
“This is so, so exciting, you should tell Xiu, she’ll be so happy.”
Sharon’s tears were tears of joy, as she was known to be a tearful person.
She hugged Amelia, who had become her best friend, tightly and sobbed hysterically.
“Awww, Miss Amelia…!”
“Miss Sharon, a grown witch can’t cry like that.”
“But, but, but, but, it’s so good…. Hmph…!”
“Tsk, tsk, stop crying and come here.”
Amelia, who was smiling embarrassedly, also stroked Sharon’s head gently.
2.
She rested well for two days.
The fever is completely gone and the headache is gone.
“I’m really well rested.”
Feeling light as a feather.
I was just warming up with some light stretches when Amelia walked into the room with Yevin.
“Xiu, are you okay?”
“I’m sorry to have worried you. I feel like I could run a couple more conferences right now.”
“I have a message for you.”
“Sure.”
Xiu woke up bright and early and poured himself a cup of coffee and lit a cigarette.
Amelia’s slender hand pulled Xiu’s cigarette from the corner of his mouth.
“Hmm?”
As far as Xiu knew, Amelia had been smoking for a while.
Xiu couldn’t remember seeing the cigarette that had been a habitual fixture in Amelia’s mouth since Xiu had been turned into a child by Ketter’s hand.
“I think I should quit now, Xiu is a father.”
“What?”
In front of a dumbfounded Xiu, Amelia smiled softly and carefully wrapped her arms around her stomach.
“I’m having a baby, Xiu’s baby.”
Aha, such situational drama?
Even with Yevin by her side, Amelia is bolder than ever.
“Amelia, you’ve been joking around a lot, too. I’ll… stop smoking.”
Apparently, smoking has been a bad habit for her.
It’s not that hard to quit smoking.
After all, you’re a spirit and you can’t get addicted to nicotine or tar, so it’s more of a mental dependency.
Amelia’s first reaction to Xiu’s declaration of quitting was a pout.
But then, as if she understood, she continued.
“I’m eight weeks along, and today Ms. Yebin listened to the fetal heart, it’s so tiny and twitchy.”
“…….”
“Do you want to listen, Xiu?”
Turning to Xiu, who was still in shock, Ms. Yebin worked her magic.
-Tong tong tong tong
Would this be the sound of a small drum underwater?
A lively beat, small but fast and even.
“You have no idea how happy I am, Xiu.”
“Ah.”
“What do you think the name should be?”
Only then did Xiu realize that Amelia’s words were not a joke or some kind of situation play.
Was she really pregnant?
Amelia was really having a baby?
If so, does that mean he’s going to be a dad from now on?
Suddenly, I remembered the advice my father had once given me.
“Son, if I could go back in time, I’d go back to the day you first found out your mom was pregnant.
‘Because that’s when I said the wrong thing to your mom.
“What did you say? Are you sure? I said, “Let me get my shit together and we’ll talk.” Your mom was really upset.
“As a wife, it seems like something he says or does can last a lifetime.
“So you need to show that you’re happy for him, unconditionally, whenever it happens.
When I first heard my dad’s advice, all I could think about was how immature and young he was.
I thought, “How can I not be happy for the love of my life when she’s having a baby?
But now I understand how he felt.
To be a father is to be a father in the truest sense of the word.
To be the pillar of support for a small, precious life.
It’s a responsibility that comes with the question, do I deserve to be a father? and what will happen next? and the anxiety of what the future holds.
It wasn’t something that could be dismissed with a simple feeling of joy.
But as my father advised me, there’s an attitude that I need to show now that’s separate from these feelings.
“…pinch.”
“Pinched?”
“Chhhhhh!”
“…….?”
“I’m a dad now! I’m a daddy now! Rrrrrrrr!!!!”
“Shhh…! Are you that happy?”
“Of course!”
Xiu did a backflip.
Amelia grinned from ear to ear.
3.
Of course, it wasn’t that she wasn’t genuinely happy.
She had decided early on that she would be responsible for all her lovers.
She hadn’t expected to be burdened with new responsibilities and obligations when she was so undeservedly loved.
It was just that he hadn’t anticipated it, and there were so many things that bothered him.
It wasn’t until Xiu was alone with Yevin after the joyful blessing with Amelia that she asked him some serious questions.
“Is there anything wrong with your body?”
“For now.”
“Is the mother’s safety guaranteed?”
“That’s something we’ll have to find out more about, but for now, we know that the fetus is an apprentice witch, so it’s fairly stable, and we don’t have to worry about a miscarriage.”
“I don’t know if I should be relieved….”
My first concern is for Amelia’s safety.
A witch being pregnant is unheard of.
There are no reports of what the prognosis is.
But even Yevin couldn’t say for sure.
Judging from the checkups, the fetus hasn’t had any adverse effects on the mother so far.
The next thing that came to mind was ‘prophecy’.
Xiu visited a prophecy agency and saw two prophecies.
One showed him holding his baby and rejoicing.
The other was of the unconscious ruling as king of the witches.
One of them is already about to come true.
If a prophecy has a level of inevitability that defies even a witch’s common sense.
Could it be that one day she would be taken over by the unconscious and reign as king of the witches?
The final question that came to mind was, “Why Amelia?
The odds seemed to favor Xiu’s fertility being limited to Amelia.
Otherwise, Siu would have had multiple children by now.
If not, then….
“…….”
An involuntary image of a tiny mother-in-law with a swollen belly sent a chill down Xiu’s spine.
After all, Amelia wasn’t the only one whose magic was amplified.
Not only was there no amplification, but there was no replication of the stigma.
It was an anomaly that she couldn’t even figure out the cause of.
“I’ll help you with the research as much as I can, but I’d appreciate it if you could keep Amelia and the baby out of trouble as much as possible, and I’d like to ask you to keep this matter confidential, just in case.”
“Of course. I’ll do everything in my power.”
All hell breaks loose.
No one knows what will happen next or how it will happen.
Xiu remained alone, quietly recalling the sound of Yevin’s heart.
Is this how you felt the day your father received the news from your mother that you were having a baby?
As the confusion and suddenness subsided, a single thought floated in his mind again.
Happiness and joy for the first time, never expecting to feel these things, and yet they shine brightly.
A sense of responsibility that seems to come naturally.
“…….”
Xiu fiddled with his cigarette case.
A symbol that had been with him since his days as a slave, accompanying him through woes, joys, and hardships.
How many times had he laughed and cried over this one cigarette?
So many things flashed through my mind.
“Thank you for all these years.”
Xiu quietly threw the cigarette packet in his hand into the trash can.
The former slave brought to the Witch City had become the father of a child.
