Only with Your Heart

Chizuru spent that morning feeling softened and restless.

I know why......

That's what Alde suggested this morning.

Of the first, Thousand Cranes honestly thought it might be a great idea.

A child to hold with Lucrov...... I'm sure he'll be incredibly cute.

Thousands of cranes who are only twenty years old seemed a little far-fetched, such as children... but it may be too late by the standards of this world. Besides, I don't know what to say, but Luklov's old enough. I already have three children at Lone's and my son up there says he will soon be a knight apprentice.

It seemed very natural for a successor title, the Duke, and Ruklov, with a large territory and castle, to await the arrival of his succession.

Although 'it' never went up to the conversation between the two yet, I've never shown a sleigh that I'm particularly opposed to.

It's just that we've never discussed it in depth as a real issue.

Children......

Chizuru liked children.

Even now, I play with them in exactly the kind of nursery where the children of the castle gather. The servants hesitated to give Chizuru, who became the wife of the castle owner and Ruklov, heavy labor, so they didn't do enough to be able to say "working," but still play with each other every day, tell me the numbers... they do what they can.

(with Luklov...... baby)

Once I started thinking, I couldn't stop imagining.

Must be dark hair. I have big eyes, so-called half-faced, plump and soft...

But at the same time, I noticed one fact.

When Luklov holds a thousand cranes - he has never used birth control. From Chizuru. Because, of course, I never did. There are no convenient medical products like pills in this world in the first place, and there are no other means. At least, I don't know Chizuru.

But I've never been pregnant before.

Even though I was first summoned, and now for the second time, I am held countless times.

Every night - sometimes even with the sun in the sky - Ruklov had freed himself deep in a thousand cranes. Still, I've never had it.

"Master Chizuru, what's wrong? You have a hard face."

Suddenly, a small shadow appeared in front of him, and Chizuru returned to me all the time.

Adorable Noah, who is already seven years old, looks up at Chizuru in a long way. I've always thought of her as a child. She's also become a lot more of a teenager lately, and a naughty daughter who gives a good glimpse of the goodness of taking care of her mother, Alde-like.

Chizuru managed to make me smile.

"It's okay. I've played a lot, so maybe I'm hungry."

"Really? My mother brought me some baked sweets. Shall I bring it?

Fashionable, premature tone, now filled with real smiles.

Oh...... of course the baby will be cute, but it will surely be fun to see my child grow up like this and become a dependable being.

But...

Chizuru unconsciously laid his hand on his abdomen and left it empty.

─ ─ Even my period is coming properly.

Even though they hold each other like every night, love each other, and continue to behave naturally even when they are pregnant. Why...?

The day slowly draws to a close, in a more opaque mood.

Besides, today, I rarely saw Luklov at lunch. Together with training and territorial inspections, he said he was patrolling outside the castle with the knights who were the Lord.

Returning to the castle will be about the time the sun sets...... and this was also recently told by Nadal, who has all grown up as a youth, Chizuru was possessed by even more stuffy thoughts.

─ ─ If it was modern Japan, there would have been as much to look into.

It's okay for literature in the library. I can also look it up on the internet. You may need great courage, but you can also see a specialist doctor.

However...... there should have been something like a prone ovulation period, but Chizuru didn't remember it in that much detail. I wasn't really interested in that at the time.

But now, Chizuru regretted it.

Is there a way to get reliable information in this medieval world other than just superstition?

Maybe you should ask the experienced person - specifically Alde.

However, when I remembered her happy blue eyes this morning, I felt it was not appropriate to talk about this and make me anxious.

There are other castle dwellers who are quite close to each other, and I felt a lot better at the wedding with the wife of the loan, when I could call her a friend. Unfortunately, though, there's no way to get in touch with her right away in distant territory.

The phone doesn't exist here.

Even if I were to send a letter, I still didn't have a system like the mail, so I had no other hand than to put a living human being directly on a horse as a messenger. Not very much, but I don't feel like asking for a letter of consultation about pregnancy, etc.

(Ah... but...!

A proposal flickered behind Chizuru's brain as the sunset approached and he was resting in his bedroom before dinner.

One, there is.

I don't know as much as I've been through... but there's only one person who's still knowledgeable, who lives in this castle and seems to keep secrets from me.

Though he wasn't doing anything wrong, Chizuru accidentally spit and carefully looked around him.

Alde is letting it down until dinner begins.

It was getting dim outside, but there was still light in the day. If you hurry up and come home, you should be in time to get out to the dining room for dinner... When I thought of it that way, Chizuru couldn't stay or not.

A coat was prepared from the cosmetics, and when the feathers were quickly woven, Chizuru followed the bedroom with a running leg.

to Estabel.

Pharmacist Estabel also stirred the green liquid boiled in a small kamado that evening with a wooden pattern (13) whilst the witch.

The smell emitted around you is intense and even the devil won't want to come near you.

But Estabel was fully satisfied with the results of the dispensation. Thanks to the uncommon herbs found this time of year, I had a type of medicine that I don't usually make...... It's unclear how many people in the castle need this medicine, but if you go to Castle Town, it could be expensive to sell.

The aroma of a mixture of raw odor and sweetness made me feel that the effect of this medication would be remarkably high.

"Hmm..."

When I mixed it together for the last time, Estabel pulled the pattern out of the kamado and turned aside.

My exploratory mind as a pharmacist nodded because I wanted to try out the new medicine.

However, unfortunately, Estabel was too old to attempt this medicine.

"What's the matter?"

A few knocks suddenly sounded on the door as he left Kamado to look for an empty glass bottle and was walking through the stone wall room.

"Who is it?

Then he asked in his voice, and after the hesitant silence had flowed, he heard a light young woman.

"It's a thousand cranes. of the Duchess of Ruklov. Can I come in?

"Whatever you want."

Estabel replied blurring.

I'm not particularly tired of this Duchess, but I didn't want her to know much about the existence of new medicines boiling in Kamado.

The Duke is so morbidly in love with this girl...... I don't know what the hell will happen if I discover that I've exposed these poor things to her eyes.

Thousand cranes, who had come into Estabel's dispensing room about the time, immediately raised their faces and asked questions.

"What is this smell? Something's burning so bad..."

"I was just frying those scented herbs."

Estabel replied pimply. "It's a drug you don't need to know. Come on, what's going on? What kind of medication do you need? Headache or diarrhea? It doesn't look like a fever."

Chizuru wore a young grass coloured dress that made that skinny look beautiful and weaved his jacket on top of it.

Indeed...... I can also understand that the Duke is obsessed. Even a dry old woman like Estabel had something mysterious and attractive to her heart.

Increasingly the example medication seemed to need to be kept away from her.

You don't have to oil the fireworks.

"Sushi... I need to talk to you. I'm not sure who to turn to for advice… I thought you might know."

"Ho."

Originally, it would be disrespectful to leave the Duchess, Chizuru, standing in the room, but there were few decent chairs in Estabel's dispensing room.

In order to get the conversation going quickly, the pharmacist did not recommend taking a seat in Chizuru.

"Just say it. I'm not free, either."

Chizuru turns his face bright red as he sees it, and begins to rinse his hands together in front of his chest. It seems to be something that is difficult to say.

"The... uh..."

Estabel waited patiently.

"Actually... I'd like to ask you about pregnancy..."

It was a mosquito crying voice, so at first Estabel doubted his ears. Did you say you were pregnant?

"Yeah. Um... us... I mean, me and Lucroff, it's time for you to have kids, I don't know... but..."

Chizuru turned completely downwards.

"I've been married for a year now, and I still can't. Something, like if there's a cause, or the knowledge you need to make it easier to get pregnant, or maybe nod it...... herbs......?

Thanks, Chizuru himself didn't seem to be clear on what to explain.

Anyway, it seems that Chizuru and Ruklov want to talk to each other because they want to get pregnant but they still won't accomplish it.

In the meantime, before we started talking, there were matters that needed to be clarified.

"Did the Duke know you were coming here?

Chizuru raised his face as a scarecrow.

"... you don't know"

Estabel sighed deeply.

"Yeah..."

Chizuru's face is dyed even more red. "I just figured it out on my own. I haven't said anything to Ruklov yet."

"I can't make the slightest one on my own. You know that, don't you?

"Also, of course!

"Do you know how? Some young daughters without mothers don't know how to seed them in the first place."

Chizuru, who has lost his word, is moving his mouth. Would you have used an obvious expression?

But Chizuru quickly tied his lips cuddly and shook his neck vertically violently.

"So what about the number of times?

"What?"

"Frequency. Let me ask you this question... how many times will the Duke hold you in ten days?

Estabel looked at the Duchess, who seemed to be busy reddening, remembering something, and calculating, half interested and half frightened.

Ultimately, Chizuru had a faint voice,

"Maybe... about twenty times, is. Maybe a little more..."

And confessed.

Estabel turned her eyes around and threw her hands into the universe to pose as a surrender.

"That's enough. Is the moon coming regularly?

"Yes."

"The Duke... he's releasing seeds in you, isn't he? Not outside?

"Ugh... yes... must"

"Look, it's not something you can do right away. No matter how many nights we spend together, there are as many couples as it takes two or three years. You're young, and I don't know what it's like to rush the inheritance, but you're still in such a hurry."

And it came to pass, when I said unto him, that the richness that was in the estabel brought his head.

This lady wants to get pregnant.

Estabel has a new medicine in hand… a medicine that might, in a way, help Madame's purpose.

Estabel wants to try this medicine.

"Okay, Duchess. I'll give you a pill that might help you with your pregnancy. This evening, after dinner… try it before the night games."

With a slight grin, Estabel said.

Then, the hot liquid in which it still emitted hot air was transferred to a small glass bottle and handed over to the thousand cranes.