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Two tongues intertwined at once, and a breath full of peach scent, bringing the two together.

No matter who came first, they hugged each other and tangled in pleasure.

Asha, who was close to him with a hot body, hugged his warm neck tightly and whispered.

“I am not broken by this. It’s the life you gave me. I am not weak.”

“Damn it, Asha.”

“So don’t hesitate and hug me, Tamon.”

Flames lit up in Tamon’s red eyes. A moan was heard.

As if to appease Tamon, Asha smiled softly as she kissed his hardened chin.

“It’s the same with our child. It’s yours and mine. Never, ever, weak.”

At those last words, Tamon collapsed.

He sighed and closed his eyes tightly.

Holding her in his strong arms, he buried his lips in the nape of her slender neck as her life fluttered.

“If you do this, I will collapse. At any moment, at any heart. I can lay down like a dog if you want. But I’m afraid I’ll make you sick. I’m afraid I’ll hurt you with my hands.”

It was a voice that scratched the neck harshly, but there was no strength in it.

With his trembling hands as if fighting against himself, he continued to sweep Asha’s neck, shoulders, waist, and back without rest.

“Never.”

Asha whispered as she placed her thighs over Tamon’s, and looked into his eyes.

“I’ve never been sick because of you.”

She smiled as she looked at the swaying bright red eyes.

“…but there were many good times.”

Eventually, a moan broke out.

Tamon kissed her neck roughly like a man who had been sunk.

***

In conclusion, it could be said that Asha’s operation had paid off ‘to some extent’.

Anyway, from that day on, she was able to assert strongly that she could go down the stairs on her two feet, and that assertion was enough to be accepted by Tamon.

Going out with Anna was also easier than before.

However, it was easy only in terms of being able to go out, but it was not easy to say that their outing itself was “normal.”

“He cleared the street for me to go out…”

At Asha’s sigh, Anna covered her mouth with her hand and let out a laugh.

A few days ago, she was told that a troupe had come to a theater in the town of Monstein. Asha’s ears perked up at the news that Amor’s most popular novel was being dramatized these days. Again, the title was ‘The Red Passion of the Desert’.

Asha wanted to see this with Anna, and she declared to Tamon that she would go to the theater no matter what he said.

However, Tamon, whom she thought would think it was dangerous and said anything against it, willingly let her go for some reason.

Asha was perplexed for a moment, but Tamon, who had checked every corner of her body, was relieved now, and Asha was also somewhat relieved.

And it wasn’t until that day that she could understand why he happily let her go.

When Asha thought of that day, she still felt absurd and her laughter came out.

“I think the way he thinks is really different. He (Tamon) rented out the whole street at once.”

“It’s because he loves you so much.”

“If he loves me twice more than this, he will turn the country upside down.”It’s already possible enough….

Anna swallowed her words silently and only laughed.

Asrel, who was laughing with the same emotion as Anna, intervened while mixing tea.

“Thanks to that, the stores around the theater said that sales were good. The sellers said they wish this would happen more often.”

At Asrel’s words, Asha smiled with an embarrassed face. She recalled her conversation with Tamon.

“It’s not a big deal. After the play is over, go shopping and enjoy yourself, it seems like you are getting frustrated too.” (Tamon)

But you rented every shop on the street I wanted to walk!

“Don’t look at me like that, Asha. I paid a fair price.”

When Asha looked at Tamon with stunned eyes, Tamon shrugged his shoulders as if nothing happened, and smiled calmly.

“…It’s not right to waste money on a place like this, Tamon.”

“Nothing is useless to spend for you.”

He was ready to give it to her right away if she asked for the key to his safe.

Fearing that the assumption would be true, Asha didn’t say anything and just shook her head.

She even had to do some shopping that day that she had never considered for merchants wasting a day’s business.

And she asked them to send all the purchased items to the poor or to the children without opening the packages.

In a way, it wasn’t a completely meaningless expense.

Asha drank the tea calmly, trying to think positively.

Suddenly, Asrel opened her eyes wide as if she had remembered something.

“Come to think of it, I went to the grocery store and heard a very interesting rumor.”

“Rumor?”

“Yes. It seems that there are rumors about Lady Asha and Master Tamon in Monstein.”

Asha remembered the stinging gazes of those who looked at her.

Eyes that couldn’t hide their curiosity.

Even before she became the Crown Princess, she thought that she had nothing to be conscious of because that already followed her everywhere, but there seemed to be a reason.

“There has been a huge wealthy couple who came down to this city, and they never showed up, so it’s just a rumor.

Then that day, they saw Lady Asha and Master Tamon, and they had more interesting guesses.”

Asrel lowered her voice as if conscious of her surroundings.

“Well, there are rumors circulating that Master Tamon is a pirate who stole and married a Princess from a foreign country.”

“Pftttt…..”

Anna spit out the tea she was drinking without realizing it. Asha, who stroked Anna’s back as she coughed, also raised her eyebrows as if absurd.

“A pirate? Why did Tamon become a pirate?”

“I think it’s because of the color of his skin. Most of Tanatos people have white skin, and the sea is so far away, so it seems like they have fantasies about pirates.”

Asha nodded her head.

Although she was able to meet various races through diplomatic affairs, local people like Monstein could be unfamiliar enough to outsiders with slightly different skin or shape.‘Still, a pirate.’

It fit so well with Tamon that she burst into laughter.

If it were that man, even if he became a pirate, he must have become the pirate king.

Then people must have had a headache trying to catch Tamon who was doing bad things here and there.

It was a very plausible assumption.

Perhaps not only for this country, but also for the sake of other countries, they did not know that it was lucky that Tamon was born with noble blood instead.

“But you don’t see the Pirates of Amor today? What’s going on?”

Towards the end of the teatime, Anna tilted her head curiously.

Originally, the man, who came to check Asha’s condition and mood once an hour, had been strangely absent since yesterday.

“Master Tamon has been dealing with guests since yesterday. I don’t know what serious talk they are talking about. He stays in the parlor all day from morning to night.”

At Asrel’s words, Asha raised her head and looked inside the mansion.

It was because she remembered the face of Tamon who stroked her face when she went to bed last night. He didn’t say anything, but the eyes that had subtly sunk caught her eyes.

“…who has he been seeing since yesterday?”

****

“Thank you for telling the story. Goodbye.”

Tamon opened the door of the parlor and sent off the guests.

The man with a fedora pressed down with a well-grown beard and waved his hand.

“No. Thank you for inviting me. There aren’t many people who are interested in this kind of thing, so I went there out of curiosity, but I’ve heard a lot of good stories.”

“It’s too bad. Well, if I think about it, I guess I wasn’t interested at all until my partner was pregnant with a child.”

“Usually, people only pay attention to their work. However, there are also a lot of people who are indifferent to people’s own business or family business. In that sense, you are a very special person.”

The old man smiled kindly and looked at Tamon.

Tamon shook his head and politely sent off the old gentleman.

When the old gentleman left Tamon’s mansion, the sun had already set in the evening.

Tamon lent a carriage to the old man.

He was grateful to the old man who was far away that took more than a day and a half to come.

“Lutre, when he gets off, take this bag and hand it to him.”

“This…….”

Lutre held a heavy bag handed by Tamon.

Tamon sent Lutre to see the old man off without further explanation.

He went upstairs, pressing his fingers against his sore eyes.

“… The birth of life is a joyous thing, but it is by no means easy. Many mothers have lost their lives while giving birth. It’s actually very dangerous to trust the old midwife in town more than the doctors.”

He went to wash his body with warm water right away.

It was late, so he just wanted to wash his body and lay down comfortably next to Asha.

“It’s so common that something goes wrong while having a baby that isn’t even special news.”

A bathroom full of misty water. Tamon soaked himself in the hot water.

“That’s why it’s often dismissed as something insignificant. However…… How could it be so trivial to risk your life to give birth to life? Just as God, whose body was torn into fifteen pieces, created a human being, the birth of a small life in the pain of being torn apart is perhaps not a great power given by God?”

The old man’s voice was constantly ringing in Tamon’s head.

***

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