Chapter 251 – Buying Baby Stuff (5)
The light in the delivery room flashed on. I sat down in front of the tightly closed green iron door, shaking my head and breathing heavily. Ichie was next to me. She was brushing her hair while holding my hand tightly. I asked, stroking the back of her hand.
“It makes sense. Did you contact senior Yoojung?”
“I texted you. Since there is no reply yet, it must be inside the gate.”
“Under… This feels strange.”
I looked at the delivery room once again. Over there, Seong Ha-yeon was giving birth to a child. The doctor told me that he did not recommend seeing me come in, and Seong Ha-yeon also held me back. However, since I was waiting for news outside, I wondered if it would have been better to go inside.
Will my wife be okay? Will she be okay with the child? The Almighty Emperor’s voice enveloped me in a calm tone.
[Don’t worry. Hunters are very strong. Rather, worry about the doctors who will get hurt by doing something wrong.]
[Are the doctors hurt?]
[In my memory, there was definitely such an incident.]
I was suspicious of her words and started looking up the news on the Internet. It was because I wanted to focus my mind elsewhere since I was sitting here worrying. Meanwhile, another doctor was running towards the delivery room. He was armed as hard as the hunters rushing into the gate, but he said it was the minimum equipment to avoid being hurt by the hunters’ power.
Ichie stared at the screen of my phone, which I lowered slightly, and started reading the article.
“In the United States, a doctor died while helping an S-class Hunter give birth.”
“Wow!”
With those words, the doctor’s scream was heard from inside the delivery room. Amidst the buzz of nurses and urgent cries, the doctor could be heard shouting again.
“Are you okay! Go ahead!”
“Cheer up a little!”
[The death of a doctor who helped give birth to an s-class hunter in the United States is shocking. At the time, the doctor who was inducing natural childbirth came to the scene without wearing safety equipment, and was unconsciously hit by Hunter’s fist and died instantly.]
I read the rest of the article once more and looked at the delivery room again. The door to the delivery room rattled, and Ichie and I involuntarily met our eyes. We blinked and looked at each other’s faces, then looked down at the floor again.
I said.
“Should I buy some fruit for the doctors to eat when it’s over?”
“More than fruit, he would prefer meat.”
“…Is that right?”
We just kept our mouths shut and stared at the swinging door.
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A nurse held out her finger in front of me as I dozed off. Her ichie took her hand carefully as her nurse tried to touch mine on the shoulder, then she patted me on her behalf. I, who had been observing the situation with wide open eyes, blinked and stood up like someone who had just been released from anesthesia.
The nurse’s face was drenched in sweat, and his face was flushed. She looked down at me with an expression similar to that of her warrior who had gone through all her battles before opening her mouth under heavy breathing.
“Congratulations. That… Both mother and child are safe.”
“…What about the doctor?”
“Ah, it’s okay, so you don’t have to worry about it.”
The nurse said that and smiled. We looked at each other with puzzled expressions, then bowed our heads and said.
“Thank you. Really…”
“No. You must have suffered greatly, but for a few days, the mother will have to monitor her progress, so she will have to receive inpatient treatment at the hospital. She will then have to be discharged. Oh, are you going to call a caregiver?”
“No. The caregiver won’t be called. I think we will be taking turns.”
“Yes. All right. He is currently resting here in room 203.”
“Ah yes.”
“If you go and wait a bit, you can hold the baby right away. Please go upstairs and wait a bit.”
“Ah yes. All right.”
We went up to the room following the kind nurse’s guidance. White light leaked through the crack in the door of Room 203. I involuntarily held my breath and grabbed the doorknob. Ichie was following me stealthily, looking around.
For some reason, I was afraid to open the door. Am I nervous for no reason? It was only after Ichie held the doorknob together that I was able to calm my trembling hands. Taking a deep breath, the two of us met eyes. Ichie grinned, and I opened the door wide.
“Yes, Mom. I’m in the hospital right now, and Suhyun? Huh. I’m with you. Oh come Shall I change it? Oh, okay. Okay.”
Seong Ha-yeon had a slightly flustered face there, but she was talking on the phone in a calm tone. Somehow, since I was facing her face, I felt like crying, her tears welling up. As I stared at her with a tearful and sullen expression, she, who was sitting on her bed and hugging her pillow, pointed to my funny expression and asked,
“What’s the matter? Huh? Who hit you?”
I hugged her tightly without saying a word. After Seong Ha-yeon went through childbirth once, she seemed to have become a little more relaxed. Her cool expression, with a clear feeling as if she had finished the biggest hurdle in her life, was still the same even when I hugged her tightly.
“Oh, wait a minute, your stomach still hurts, so don’t lean on it too much. It really hurts.”
As I pushed myself to surrender, she said that in a puzzled voice and pushed me away. Then, after wiggling her legs for a while between the covers, she straightened her back and regained her energy. Ichie sneaked up to her side of the castle and asked her.
“Sister. Are you very sick?”
“Oh, I thought I was going to die. You don’t have children.”
“That, is that enough?”
Seong Ha-yeon grinned and nodded her head, and she said:
“Of course. Because I will give birth to the second and third.”
“Ah! Uh, it can’t be like that! I will give birth to the second!”
Ichie was startled and waved her hand around as she said so. Seong Ha-yeon giggled and shook her head as if it was fun for Ichie to say this.
“Hey, hey. It’s a joke, of course it’s a joke. Suhyun.”
Seong Ha-yeon, who was laughing and exchanging jokes with Ichi-e, looked at me again. Her face had gone wild in an instant, and there were dark shadows under her eyes. The corners of her mouth were quivering, and she relaxed, but her weariness was clearly visible on her face. She stroked my face once in that state and asked.
“Are you worried about me? They said we had a baby now.”
“No.”
She stroked me like her pet dog and held me in her arms again. She gave me a crushing hug and leaned back on her pillow, she said.
“My stomach still hurts. I’m going to be a bit sick today. Rather, when will my baby come? Haven’t you finished examining your baby yet?”
“Well. You said you would send it up right away?”
Ichie stuck her head out in front of her door, and as she shook her head, she slapped me on the shoulder. I checked the hallway over her head, wondering what was going on, while tilting my head sullenly at her flirtatious response.
“Ah… !”
There the doctor was walking with a limp. His face was blue with bruises, one arm was still being kneaded because it was sore, and his leg was lame, but he was clearly a doctor. I decided not to ask why those injuries were formed. Next to the doctor was a nurse holding a child.
The child, who had not yet opened his eyes, tossed and turned over with his lips tightly closed and his philtrum slightly sticking out. An older, middle-aged nurse was walking forward with his arms firmly fixed, fearing that the child would drop it when he moved. The doctor’s appearance made me feel like a black magician about to announce a sinister plan.
“Oh my… !”
As soon as the doctor stopped in front of the hospital room door, he caught his breath and grabbed his waist. Seong Ha-yeon turned her head slightly with an awkward expression, and Ichie averted her eyes. I had no words to pretend to keep my head down. Said the doctor.
“Ah yes. Here is a healthy son. Hug me once.”
Seong Ha-yeon, as if concerned about the doctor’s condition, kept looking at the doctor’s trembling limbs while holding the child. The nurse was holding back a laugh, and I didn’t know what to say in this atmosphere.
“Because it’s okay. Look at the kid baby.”
The doctor told Seong Ha-yeon that it was okay and pointed at the baby again. Our cute baby Her face was the size of a fist, and her nostrils, as small as the eye of a needle, twitched with each exhalation. Seong Ha-yeon’s arms seemed uncomfortable, so he twisted her body and tried to talk to her while making her face flinch.
“Oh, what do you do? I think I will cry.”
Seong Ha-yeon was restless as she held her child tightly in her arms. Looking at me from the side, both Ichi and I were making the same expression. The expression of not knowing what to do with this cute creature.
How the hell am I supposed to treat a small child? We were busy groping the empty space with the same hands as if we were touching a ball of cotton floating in the air. The doctors and nurses were smiling as if they were satisfied when they saw this.
“Oh my… ! Aigoo… !”
And the smiling doctor rubbed his back again and sat down in his chair, and the nurse smiled wryly. She said.
“You don’t have to worry too much. Even though Hunter mothers are a bit rare, it’s not that there aren’t injuries like this.”
“Sorry. I’m really sorry.”
The doctor shook her hand as if it was okay, and she said as they walked out the door.
“I like Korean beef.”
The hospital room where the nurse took the child and disappeared. Seong Ha-yeon fiddled with her cell phone by her bedside, she said.
“…Should I buy Korean beef?”
“I’ll have to come back a few more times, so I’ll have to buy them.”
It was fortunate that the doctor did not know about our family planning. She seems to be a stable and very competent doctor, so I thought that she should definitely give birth here from now on.
