Chapter 1051 – #250_Pregnancy(3) – DeepL
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1.
It is a cognitive assumption that jealousy and envy arise from the happiness of others.
This is evidenced by the nuanced proverbs around the world, such as the one about getting sick to your stomach when your cousin buys land.
But just because something is universal doesn’t mean it’s true for everyone.
Sharon was a person who was capable of purely blessing the happiness of others.
She had been accustomed to the world from a young age, so she understood the event of pregnancy.
He said, “Isn’t Amelia a friend, not a stranger?
It was absurd for him to feel jealous, let alone envious, that his friend was bearing the fruit of his love.
So he blessed Amelia more than anyone else, and as he traveled from manor to manor, he told his lovers the good news.
“Miss Amelia is having a baby?”
But was there too much excitement?
What she hadn’t realized was that the same news could be received in very different ways by different people.
As soon as she saw Eloa’s reaction, Sharon realized my mistake.
“That’s good, and I hope nothing happens to Miss Amelia’s health.”
Eloa gave a small shudder.
The small gesture conveyed an unmistakable agitation, even as she offered her generous blessing.
Sharon dared to look into Eloah’s heart.
Eloa is just like Sharon.
As much as she loves Xiu, she harbors affection and respect for his lovers.
Had it been any other sergeant, she would have laughed with joy.
But for Eloa, “child” means more than that.
Something she lost through her own mistakes, something she wishes she could get back, something she had to give up in order to stay on the right path.
It’s also something she’ll never have again.
Eloa has vowed to take no more apprentice witches.
For her, the mere thought of carrying Xiu’s child naturally became an object of intense desire.
“Sin, I’m sorry.”
“Nay, what have you to be sorry for?”
“I think I got a little too excited when I said that….”
“It’s all right, Miss Sharon.”
Eloah soothed the apologetic Sharon and sent her on her way, but the news she delivered still left a ripple in her mind.
“…….”
I can’t help but think about the future of carrying Xiu’s child, even though I know it’s almost hopeless.
Just imagining carrying, giving birth to, and raising his child makes me happy.
The corner of my mouth twitches at the thought.
Eloa envied Amelia almost as much as she envied him.
2.
It didn’t take long for Amelia’s news to reach Linnaeus and Dorothy.
The Gehenna-to-temporal communication system was more robust after the flooding.
Xiu was not without his own concerns, so he broke the news to Dorothy and Linnaeus carefully so as not to hurt their feelings.
He also assured them that not much would change in the future.
Dorothy and Linnaeus were both witches who had lived for hundreds of years.
They have the courage and grace to handle anything that comes their way, especially when it comes to the public world of sensationalism.
“…….”
“…….”
The two of them were stunned, as if a flashbang had gone off in front of them.
I congratulate Xiu, but I can’t seem to regain my composure.
“…Ah.”
Linnaeus has a blind fantasy of a united family.
The final piece of that puzzle is her children.
The story of Linnaeus’ child with Xiu and his other wife, who gave up the path of Sura and set his sights on a new life of harmony, can be found here: ….
It was like a milestone toward an ideal.
Until then, she hadn’t even dreamed of it, but it hadn’t happened.
If someone else could do it, maybe Linnaeus could too.
Linne’s eyes lit up and she flipped open her laptop.
“…….”
Despite the archaic kimono and haze suits she always wears, Rinne is as familiar with modern culture as any exile or public figure.
Rinne diligently searched for information on how to conceive, pregnancy gymnastics, and foods for pregnancy.
She added dozens of books to her cart that she thought might help.
One day, when she meets Amelia, she plans to ask her about the secret and ask her to do some research.
That said, Linnaeus had only positive reactions to the news.
Unexpectedly, it was Dorothy who couldn’t hide her excitement, and who would normally tease Linnaeus by saying, “You’re going to have a sister.
“…What, I feel weird.”
I should be happy, but what is this feeling?
Dorothy was unfamiliar with the feelings that were stirring in my heart.
It was the kind of strangeness that, when you think about it, makes you want to cry into your own little bowl.
Dorothy was jealous of Amelia now, more fiercely than anyone else.
Witches are great beings.
But not all witches live fulfilling lives and have everything they want.
Dorothy knew that her ideal life was out of reach.
She saw it in Happy Pig’s dream.
“Ugh.”
Barely able to quell her burning jealousy, Dorothy reached for the crystal ball she’d gotten in a trade.
Midsummer on the Peninsula.
The stifling humidity that did nothing to cool it, but only made it sting.
In it, Dorothy was a salary-earning career woman who lived in a house on a mortgage, and Xiu was an idiot who could only do household chores.
Oh, and Xiu was a little better at night work.
They didn’t have vast amounts of money, or vacation homes around the world to go to when they got bored.
No witches, just ordinary families like you’d find anywhere.
Inside that world, Dorothy was smiling, surprisingly happy, even for herself.
“…….”
Dorothy had lived long enough to know how empty the word “if” is.
But if.
If only Dorothy, who wasn’t a witch, had met Xiu, who wasn’t a witch, and had a child.
How happy would that life have been?
I suddenly realized that thought.
3.
Leroux is a well-trained archwitch.
She was more knowledgeable about pensions and potions than her twin, who was still an apprentice witch.
“Don’t you say it’s impossible?”
“How can you be sure of that?”
“That’s right, you know what!”
“…….”
As if it were the invention of the century, the twins associated the blonde’s “pregnancy” with the potion.
Leroux shot a sharp jab at Odile and Odette, who were quickly getting excited.
“There is no precedent, is there? The history of witchcraft is long, and if there were such a novel potion, there would have been a scribal precursor.”
“Who knows if there was a precedent and it was never written down?”
“You’re an assistant, so you can’t approach this with conventional wisdom, right?”
Odile and Odette were both desperately screaming “I’m right!” as they tried to come up with their own rationale, but the more they looked at it, the more hollow it was.
“Well, you’re getting frustrated. Now, listen.”
First of all, the Potion of Eros itself is a potion that affects the emotions, not the physical body.
Besides, too much time had passed between the time the blonde drank the potion and the meeting.
“There must have been a plethora of unobservable and uncontrollable external variables, and it would be a fallacy of false causation to attribute the pregnancy simply to the potion.”
But for the twins, who had found their only hope, Leroux’s facts were off-putting.
“Are you T, don’t you empathize?”
“Fool, you know so much about magic?”
With their dislike for Leroux in full force, the twins made their way to Amelia.
Normally, they would have been too scared to do so, but their determination to find out her secrets fueled their actions.
But when they returned to Amelia, she was stubborn.
“I wiped the potion’s ingredients long ago.”
“That can’t be….”
“I shouldn’t have….”
“But I did, and you and Miss Odile told me so.”
Amelia was dumbfounded by the twins’ sudden entrance, but they slowly corrected her misunderstanding.
At the time, Amelia had been frantically trying to save Xiu from a coma, and Odile and Odette had chalked up Amelia’s love to a side effect of the potion and confessed to taking it without her knowledge.
Torn between whether her feelings were genuine or a side effect of the potion, Amelia purged her body of all ingredients to find out the truth.
The detoxification of a 23rd ranked witch and no one else.
Naturally, it was a clean sweep, and it didn’t make sense pharmacodynamically that there would be any residual ingredients all these years later.
The spiritual body slowly breaks down foreign substances into magical energy, just as the food a witch eats naturally disappears.
“It can’t be….”
“It wasn’t…?”
The twins crumbled like lost loyalists.
Anyone else would have thought they were making up a plausible lie to keep up appearances, but this is Associate Professor Amelia.
As inflexible as she was, she was not a great liar who could lie without drooling.
“Miss Odile, Miss Odette, promise me you’ll never experiment, just in case. You two are still apprentice witches, it’s dangerous.”
“Yeah….”
“Hmph….”
Hearing Amelia’s sound advice, the twins stumbled out of the room, their shoulders slumped.
Amelia shook her head at the sight.
