Choosing the Baby’s Father From the Following – Chapter 42

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟒𝟐
It was an urgent situation, but it was clear that the old man’s presence was extraordinary.

‘That person is……’

Helena felt something from the old man as surely as when she discovered another life force within the youngest princess.

She shouted as if the old man, whom she was seeing for the first time in her life, was a great savior.

“Here! Here, there’s a patient! Please help!”

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“Thank you so much. I don’t know how to repay you……”

At the greeting of the oldest monk, the old man in the black robe shook his head.

“It’s too early to be thanked. I have healed the wound, but the spread of the iron poison must be monitored while taking medicine. However, the problem is that I don’t have much medicine left.”

Zariya had lost too much blood in an instant.

Helena looked down at her sleeping colleague with a tired face and tears in her eyes.

“Even if she seems fine now, if she’s poisoned by iron, the illness can still occur even after a month. I know this well because I lost my mother to that illness……”

Everyone clasped their hands and prayed, but Helena felt a tightness in her chest.

When her mother was ill, she prayed harder than anyone else.

But God still took her mother away.

‘I believe she went to a good place……’

She knew it was a thought she shouldn’t have as a nun, but Zariya was too young.

‘Wouldn’t she still have many things she wants to do in this world?’

The old man rummaged through his pocket and took out a small medicine bottle, then handed it to Helena.

“One spoonful in the morning and evening, it should last for about a week.”

“Will that be enough to cure her?”

Helena asked desperately, but the old man avoided her gaze and immediately got up.

No one dared to hold the old man back.

However, Helena took courage and followed him.

“Magician-nim.”

The old man asked without looking back.

“How did you know I was a magician?”

He was the benefactor who saved Zariya’s life, but it wasn’t the time for wordplay.

“What do you mean ‘how’? You healed Zariya with magic in front of everyone. You stopped the bleeding and healed the wound with just a wave of your hand, without any tools……”

Then the old man stopped.

The moment he looked back, Helena took a breath at a strange, eerie feeling.

“That’s not it, young nun.”

The old man’s gray eyes shone brightly under his black robe.

“You knew I was a magician from the moment you made eye contact with me. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have called out so desperately to an old, shabby man you’ve never met before.”

Helena caught her rough breath.

To be precise, the old man was wrong.

‘It’s not that I recognized that he was a magician.’

Helena only recognized……

“I only saw the magical power hidden within you, Magician-nim.”

The old man’s expression hardened.

“You saw magical power?”

Unlike the time she felt the energy of the baby in the womb, seeing magical power was a secret she couldn’t even tell Melots the nun.

‘The monastery did not officially recognize magic.’

But if she said she saw magical power, it could put Kaisarea Monastery in a difficult position.

“I happened to see the Tower Master-nim a while ago…… It was a similar feeling to that time.”

She didn’t know how great the magical power of this magician and Tower Master Ren was compared to other magicians, but their magical power was clearly felt without having to hold hands or make physical contact.

When she first saw him, she thought it was just a mistake, but after realizing the princess’s pregnancy, the feeling became even more vivid and clear, making it impossible to ignore.

Helena swallowed hard.

“I…… have a slightly different ability than others. I went on this pilgrimage because I wanted to know more about that ability.”

It must not have been a sufficient answer, but the old man immediately asked something else.

“When did you see the Tower Master? How are you sure he’s the Tower Master?”

Judging by his questions, the old man was definitely a magician and might even know the Tower Master.

If she could somehow get a little more help from him, Zariya’s chances of survival would increase.

So Helena nodded.

“I heard people call him Tower Master Ren-nim…… He has black hair and purple eyes, and he’s very tall.”

“……Where exactly did you see him?”

Fortunately, the magician showed interest in the Tower Master.

Helena took courage and continued.

“We are nuns from monasteries all over the Empire on a pilgrimage. I started from Kaisarea Monastery, and a while ago…… about a month ago, the Imperial family and the Tower Master-nim visited there together.”

“……By the Imperial family, you mean?”

To prove that she wasn’t lying, Helena continued to answer.

Hoping that the Imperial family’s visit to the monastery wasn’t a big secret.

“I heard it was the Second Prince and the youngest Princess.”

But when she answered, the magician’s gray eyes shook greatly.

“You…… saw them up close?”

Helena was inwardly flustered by his much more intense reaction than when she mentioned the Tower Master’s name.

“……Very close.”

She said so and took another deep breath.

Perhaps the person she was dealing with now was a much more formidable magician than she thought.

‘He’s definitely not as powerful as the Tower Master-nim, but I can feel a tremendous amount of magical power from him.’

But Zariya desperately needed his help.

“If I tell you more details, can you help Zariya a little more?”

When she asked, squeezing out the remaining courage, the magician smiled a little crookedly.

“What use would an old man like me have for the affairs of those high and mighty people?”

He clearly seemed desperate to know, but……

Just as Helena was disappointed, the magician added.

“It’s a pity, but aren’t we on the westernmost side of the Empire, the furthest from the Magic Tower? It’s not that I don’t want to, but getting more medicine isn’t easy for me either.”

Helena reflected on her attitude of trying to make a deal with him using the news of the Imperial family, which wasn’t even hers to share.

The old magician was already a benefactor to the nuns for what he had done so far.

He even restored the collapsed tent to its original state with a single wave of his hand.

“I’m sorry, I was rude. I was just…… too desperate.”

When she apologized immediately, he smiled faintly.

“It’s alright. It’s understandable that you’d be anxious, having lost your mother to iron poisoning.”

Helena nodded slightly and said to the old magician as he turned around.

“The Princess and the Prince will be fine! They have a deep bond…… I was even envious!”

She decided to hide the fact that the princess had collapsed.

‘Because Her Highness asked me to keep her pregnancy a secret.’

That’s why Helena didn’t even tell Melots the nun who was pregnant.

She just said that she felt the energy of the baby in the womb after having a long dream.

She wanted to deliver the best news she could reveal, but the magician stopped and turned around again.

“You say they’ll be fine? They have a deep bond?”

Then he suddenly burst into laughter.

“I’m suddenly interested. Do you still have more stories to tell? Then, for the sake of the young nuns, this old man will try to use his old connections a little more.”

It was clear that he meant he would save Zariya.

Helena hurriedly approached him.

“Of course. I took care of the Princess for three days since the Imperial family arrived at the monastery. They were both such wonderful people. It was evident from the fact that they came to the monastery to atone for the sins of war in the first place.”

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―Beep……

A strange sound rang in my ears as I woke up.

‘Oh, what’s this again……’

I put my palm on and off the ear where the sound was ringing.

After a while, the sound stopped.

As I got up groggily, Phoebe was waiting by the bed for me to wake up.

“Did you sleep well, Your Highness? How are you feeling?”

“Uh, Phoebe……”

The beeping sound rang again.

I put my palm on my ear again, then took it off and answered.

“My ear is ringing strangely.”

“Yes?”

Phoebe was startled and opened the medicine box.

She poured a spoonful and a half of the tinnitus medicine Ren had meticulously prepared and fed it to me, then began to search through a pregnancy book she claimed to have borrowed from the library, pretending to care for her sister-in-law.

‘Ugh……’

Meanwhile, morning sickness hit me.

“Haa……”

I took the morning sickness medicine myself without calling Phoebe.

Again, it would be better to go on a recuperation trip before anyone else finds out……

‘When will I be able to go?’

Come to think of it, it was a little suspicious that Lurik didn’t visit me even once yesterday.

‘The day before yesterday, I even collapsed in front of him.’

So I asked Phoebe.

“Did my brother come by yesterday while I was taking a nap?”

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