Choosing the Baby’s Father From the Following – Chapter 10

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Then Ren glared fiercely at Ernst.

“Why, what, why?”

Ernst smiled beautifully even in this situation.

“Ah, well…… Could it be that you’re the only one who knows about the pregnancy……? Did you work so hard thinking that was the case? Thanks to that, it was cozy and nice, though.”

Now Ren’s gaze was directed at me.

‘I did promise not to tell Erni……’

Bu, but he said he already told him!

‘I didn’t know! I’m sorry!’

……I couldn’t say that either.

“Th, the medicine Ren gave me…… It’s very effective. Thankfully. Thank you.”

I muttered, feeling like I had to say something, and Ren shyly averted his gaze.

“You didn’t believe me when I said I wouldn’t let you be in pain?”

“No, no, I believed you! Believing you and being grateful are two different things……”

Ren still had a sulky face.

Oh dear, now that I see it, he’s quite a handful.

I had no choice but to reach out and lightly touch his cheek.

‘Why is his skin so good……’

I quickly stopped my stray thoughts and spoke again.

“Thank you, Ren.”

Ren finally seemed to have calmed down and got up from his seat.

Then he sighed and approached Ernst.

“Ha, I really tried not to deal with you high nobles anymore……”

Contrary to his words, one hand was extended as if asking for a handshake.

“Let’s have a temporary truce again. For now, we need to protect Lou and our baby.”

A ‘temporary truce’ again?

Then, have they had a truce before?

‘And, he just said ‘our’ baby again?’

However, it seemed like nothing strange to Ernst.

“Truce established.”

He nodded in agreement and took Ren’s hand.

“But Tower Master-nim, wasn’t it too much in Babenberg? There’s no solution if that Grand Duke bastard goes astray.”

The Crown Prince of a nation gives the Tower Master the honorific ‘-nim’, and calls the Grand Duke a ‘bastard’……

‘These guys are really close friends.’

As I watched their conversation with interest, Ren shrugged.

“What can I do? Lou can’t even eat a spoonful of soup without me.”

I nodded seriously.

Because this time, he was right.

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“If you’re not going to seek other help, Lou needs to get married right now.”

At Ernst’s words, Ren lifted his chin to one side.

“To whom?”

Then Ernst beautifully reddened under his eyes.

“Of course, I think of it as my child……”

Ren coldly interrupted.

“It’s my child.”

Wow……

‘What is this mess?’

At this point, I was wondering why no one was making the crazy claim that it was ‘everyone’s child’.

The conversation continued, leaving me sitting like a folding screen.

“It doesn’t matter if it’s not. I can raise it as my own. So……”

―Whoosh.

Even though it wasn’t winter, the flames in the fireplace suddenly flared up like crazy.

Ernst tried to continue speaking even in the midst of it, but Ren was faster.

“There’s no need for that. Because it’s my child.”

A brief silence followed.

I blankly stared at the two growling at each other, making the previous truce or whatever meaningless, and then I remembered Callisto, whom I had seen on the screen earlier.

“I, you……”

Even a complete newbie in relationships could tell.

‘That was definitely the expression right before a confession.’

It seemed that Callisto was also planning to insist that he was the father of the child.

Seeing everyone insist so much, it didn’t seem like they had no basis for their claims.

‘Louise, you promiscuous bastard!’

However, now that I had become Louise, it was no use calling her name.

‘I can’t figure out who the father is……’

Right now, everyone was claiming to be the father, but at first glance, the three of them looked so different.

Ernst had blonde hair and golden eyes, Cal had silver hair and blue eyes, and Ren had black hair and purple eyes, right?

‘If I give birth to a child, wouldn’t it naturally resemble one of them?’

What if I trusted Cal and got married, but gave birth to a black-haired baby?

What if I married Ernst and gave birth to a blue-eyed baby?

‘It would be fortunate if the child happened to resemble only me, but what if it didn’t?’

What would happen then!

―Mom, why are my eyes yellow? Actually, was I picked up?

What if the child cried while saying that!

The morning drama that the grandmother in the next bed in the cancer ward watched vividly came to mind.

‘……Yeah, no matter how much I think about it, this is not it.’

Even if it was a shotgun wedding, I couldn’t just marry anyone in a hurry.

‘Besides, look at Lurik’s condition now……’

If I left him alone without the female lead, Helena, Lurik would definitely go berserk.

‘Because dozens of innocent people die when he goes berserk, Lurik endlessly blames himself even after meeting the female lead and being healed.’

As expected, wouldn’t it be better to let him meet the female lead even if I leave?

“Both of you, stop!”

I finally made up my mind and declared to the two bickering men.

“It’s my child.”

Their gazes flinched and hardened.

“And I will protect my child.”

That was my conclusion in the end.

Even if I couldn’t find the father, it was the same.

“I’ve been thinking about it ever since I went to the doctor alone.”

I resented being possessed by a pregnant woman, then thanked her for surviving, then resented the unknown father, and then thanked everyone for working hard for me.

‘I stumbled into Louise’s place.’

I didn’t suffer as much persecution as she did while growing up in the imperial family, and I wasn’t tormented by a scary brother.

In this world that I created, I didn’t pay any price, but I luckily possessed Louise, who was of marriageable age.

‘Even though I’m pregnant……’

Honestly, wasn’t this like winning the lottery?

The position where the empire’s strongest wizard, the richest Grand Duke, and a prince as beautiful as a work of art all loved me.

The beloved younger sister of the next emperor.

‘I possessed such a honey-like extra character.’

It would be extremely unconscionable to mistreat the life in my womb just because I didn’t know who the father was.

‘If I did that, I would feel too sorry for the real Louise, who disappeared without a trace.’

Of course, the same went for the men who each insisted they were the father and courted me.

“But right now, my brother needs me too.”

I continued, desperately hoping to persuade them.

“Others may not know, but I can see it clearly. My brother is very tired from the long war. If I suddenly leave, saying I’m pregnant out of wedlock, he’ll be shocked. I probably won’t be forgiven by my brother ever again.”

Instead of saying that one of you might be killed by my brother, I said that.

“That’s why I need your help.”

A very short silence followed my words.

Ernst scratched his forehead with one finger.

“You know that what you’re saying right now sounds incredibly hurtful, right? Is there a reason to speak so elaborately when you need our help?”

Ren playfully knelt on one knee and took my hand, kissing the back of it.

“Just give the order, Your Highness.”

Only then could I relax and smile.

“Help me keep the pregnancy a secret until my brother calms down a bit. Before that, no one should rashly propose or create a strange commotion.”

Ren released my hand and replied curtly.

“Who else can help you but me anyway? Just tell that bastard Cal not to propose rashly.”

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Lurik came to find me in the evening, as promised, for a walk.

I was worried because I couldn’t follow him to the unwelcome banquet hall again, but fortunately, nothing special seemed to have happened during the day.

‘Today his eyes are clear and bright.’

I thought so and relieved my worries.

Then, I watched him carefully and cautiously said,

“Um, brother. Now that you’ve won the war, how about going to the monastery to offer a prayer of thanks after the banquet?”

“Monastery?”

Lurik had a displeased face.

I quickly added to persuade him.

“I suddenly feel suffocated after returning to the Imperial Palace……, I thought it would be good if I went with you.”

Then Lurik slightly unfurrowed his brow.

“……You’re saying you’ll go with me?”

Then, he suggested in a reluctant tone.

“I didn’t really have any plans to do that…… But if you wish, we could spend 2 or 3 days visiting the nearby Tul Monastery.”

No, going to other monasteries won’t work.

“But I want to visit the Kaisarea Monastery this time.”

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