The Price Is Everything To You - Chapter 257

thank you for choosing me

When the doctor arrived, several people were already gathered in Neris’ room.

It was not an intentional result. It’s just that Neris was always busy, and her mother and Ellen thought there was no way she would suddenly return to her bedroom during the day without doing anything special. Seeing everyone’s faces harden at Dora’s brave words about calling her doctor, Neris quickly gave up her ambition to keep her medical treatment a secret.

The doctor Dora called was an old man who had been at White Swan Castle for a long time. For some reason, Joan was also next to him.

“Your Majesty, I heard that you called a small person.”

“Your Majesty! “Your Majesty, are you feeling unwell?”

Before the doctor could finish speaking, Joan asked with a face that looked like she was about to cry. Nerys sighed.

“I’ve been feeling a lot more tired these days, so I just wanted to see if I was feeling okay. “It won’t be a big deal, so everyone calm down.”

Even as she said that, Neris knew very well that she was also quite excited. Let’s not have expectations, let’s not expect too much in advance, or what are we going to do… … Even as I whispered that to myself, I couldn’t help but feel excited.

In today’s reality, you don’t have to be convinced that ‘there’s absolutely no way you’re pregnant’ while calling a doctor.

The old doctor smiled and nodded, as if he understood what Neris didn’t say. And with the five women watching, he leisurely took out various tools and examined Neris’ body.

Every time blood drips from the fingertip pricked by a needle, every time the magic paper the doctor takes out turns into an unknown color, every time I answer the doctor’s question… … Neris’ chest gradually swelled. And at the same time, my anxiety grew.

I guess I was expecting this. I think it might be again.

But after a while the doctor said, wise eyes curled under his white eyebrows.

“Hehe, Mainland’s successor has arrived.”

Knock! Joan barely uttered his first words to cheer, but instead covered his mouth with her hand. He seemed to think that he shouldn’t surprise the pregnant woman.

“Liz! “My daughter!”

“Congratulations, ma’am.”

“Yes, it is a very good thing, Your Majesty.”

Mom, Dora, and Ellen gave their congratulations in turn. Neris couldn’t answer. Her head was spinning. She felt unreal, as if she had been told in a dream that her wish had come true.

After a while, tears flowed from her eyes. Grumble. And her hands covered her face to quickly hide the tears.

“baby.”

Mom hugged Neris’ shoulder affectionately and whispered.

“When I have grandchildren, I won’t be able to call you that anymore. “Your grandchild will be confused about which baby you are calling.”

Nerys leaned forward and her shoulders trembled. A sob escaped between her slender fingers. Joan deliberately clapped her hands quietly and quietly a few times.

“Well, then, from now on, your vision will be less work.”

“huh?”

At the unexpected words, Neris lowered her hand that had briefly covered her eyes. Joan smiled happily, looking at her red eyes filled with joy and tears.

“I was already asking the doctor. Since His Majesty works so hard, he may not be able to prepare food or medicine to boost his energy. “We decided to provide assistance by mobilizing all the technical capabilities of Morier’s upper pharmaceutical department, but now there is a reason to reduce the work itself.”

Since there is a war going on, everyone is busy, so how can one person reduce his workload? Although such a general idea occurred to Neris, she nodded at Joan’s words.

This is the child I wanted for so long and finally got. I also knew from books that I had to be careful in the early stages of pregnancy. I felt like I needed to stay as comfortable as possible, at least until things stabilized.

“And you should take a spoonful of pantrayu twice a day, morning and evening. You should avoid rat buckwheat. You should dry the stems of the flower bed and put them under your pillow… … .”

Joan’s words did not end there. The names of all kinds of strange foods and wild plants came out endlessly. I grew tired of the faces of the people in the same room.

Ellen asked on behalf of everyone.

“Is that, by any chance, the prescription followed by pregnant women in Ms. Morier’s hometown?”

“yes! This is how my mother gave birth to her six healthy children.”

The doctor laughed and said that most of them were superstitions, but the words ‘six healthy children’ suddenly gave Joan’s argument great persuasiveness. Anyway, there’s no harm in trying, right?

Ellen eagerly fetched a pen and paper, asking Joan to repeat what she had just said. Her mother held Neris’ hand and she shared how she felt when she first found out she was pregnant. Dora was so excited that she twirled around her room several times meaninglessly, as if she didn’t know what to do.

Soon, Neris moved to the bed, being carefully supported as if she were sick. She looked up at the bed’s ornate ceiling and thought she was a little dizzy. She felt sorry for the child. If she had known that she would come like this, no, if she had known that she had already come, she would never have pushed herself too hard. even alittle.

Ellen took everyone else out of the bedroom to let them rest. In her quiet room, Neris placed both hands on her still flat stomach. Even though it couldn’t have been that way, I felt like I could feel a small heartbeat.

It still didn’t feel completely real. She whispered softly, like a sigh.

“Hello, baby.”

A lot of time will still have to pass before I see your face.

I’m already wondering if you look like me or your dad.

“I will make sure that only good things happen to you when you come to this world.”

I will be very good to you.

“Thank you for choosing me to be your mom.”

It will let you hear the sound of waves constantly coming and going.

It will show you the sight of daffodils fluttering under the blue sky.

I’ll let you try a sweet pie made with crushed strawberries.

And I will give you the love that will make you feel that everything is beautiful and that you are lucky to be alive.

“love you.”

Nerys whispered and slowly closed her eyes.

❖ ❖ ❖

The late heat was quite strong.

It was a road that only had to pass through a few large fiefdoms to get to the imperial capital. Cledwin sat alone on a chair in the barracks and leisurely thought about what remained to be done.

By now, the nobles of the imperial capital must be in panic. At first, they thought they would be suppressed quickly, but it wasn’t long before the Mainland army pointed a sword at their throats. If the imperial family had quickly reorganized their battle lines and gathered the hearts of their nobles to respond, they would not have been pushed back so easily.

Abellus wasted precious initial response time on incurring the nobles’ animosity. He is foolishly obsessed with the paranoia that his authority is being undermined.

‘Useless guy.’

Abellus believed that he could read the minds of nobles and incite them to do whatever he wanted. However, that was just an optical illusion created by subordinates following my wishes throughout my life.

An illusion created by Camille, Nelysion, and Megara so that they could borrow Abellus’ name as it was convenient for them.

There isn’t much left now. Since the clever Neris had tied the hands and feet of the enemy, Kledwin planned to end the war without any delay. So before winter he will enter Mainland.

And I had no intention of ever leaving my wife’s side again.

Oh, he said he was tired of this war from day one. From the day he went to war, he couldn’t sleep well. When I wake up in the morning, I start my day by seeing her face, and at night, I have to hold her in my arms so I can comfortably look forward to her tomorrow. Boring fights, unwelcome faces, the death of those who curse him… … I wanted to finish everything quickly. I wanted to go home.

At that time, a brief flash of light came from the magic tool attached to the chair he was sitting on. Kledwin quickly grabbed it and imbued it with his magic.

Clap, clap. After the sound of a few tools lightly clicking together, the voice he had been waiting to hear came out.

< Hello.>

“hi.”

It was an amazing thing. The terrible boredom that had continued to plague him disappeared in an instant with one person’s brief greeting. Kledwin smiled and spoke sincerely.

“I love you today too.”

< … … Me too.>

My wife, who was usually shy and avoided responding when I was told she loved me, said that today, albeit in a low voice. Kledwin smiled broadly. If his subordinates came in right now, he would be so bright that he would have been horrified.

“I guess I’m lucky today. “I heard everything I said to you that I loved you.”

< If anyone hears it, they will think I never said I love you in my lifetime. Don’t you say it often?>

“Do it more often. “So that I can feel that I am loved by you even a hundredth as much as I love you.”

< What are you talking about?>

Neris said in a dumbfounded voice.

< I love you very much. I know you love me too, but to say it's not even a hundredth part is exaggerating. I could love you more.>

“That’s impossible.”

< Why, do you think my love is too small?>

“No, I think my love is big.”

Actually, I just provoked her because I wanted to hear her confess her love. Cledwynn chuckled, and Neris looked like she wanted to discuss something logically, but she ended the topic with a sigh.

< I told Talprin to stop staying near the ecliptic and come up. Because it is time for Her Majesty the Empress to step forward once more.>

Nerys and Kledwin did not do anything special to the Empress. The Empress was not a person of great political ability, and she was not interested in anything as long as she was treated well. The only thing she tried to do was the letter she sent to Diane last time.

In fact, the Empress and Crown Princess of Vista have been like that for generations. Women who had big dreams in their hearts when they first got married slowly lost their hearts because, no matter how good they were, they were treated worse than their much less capable husbands because they were not considered bail in the end. The same was true for Gukseo and his sire.

Moreover, the current empress was not particularly interested in politics. As can be seen from the fact that as soon as the emperor fell, Abellus ran rampant as if he had taken over the throne.

“okay. All the nobles who are scared of having a knife pointed under their chin will run like that. In name, the empress is at the forefront, but in reality.”

< Kamil is coming back.>

Kledwin and Neris did not believe the rumor that Kaymil attempted to assassinate the emperor. If K. Mill had really tried to use his hand, the emperor would have been dead already. And at the time when Megara was rampaging, Abelus ascended to the throne and things did not go well for Caimil.

However, there was a good possibility that something other than ‘assassination’ could have been attempted. For example, a play to escape from the messed up court for a while and let the nobles witness Abellus’s incompetence… … .

“I guessed that it was going to rain and I took refuge in time. She must have been quite fed up with the fact that she backed out even though she knew that Abel Ruth would ruin everything. “To the point where I just want to turn everything over.”

< Kamil has equated the glory of the imperial family with his own glory. It is true that, apart from using dirty tricks, he devoted himself with all his might to the imperial family. She might feel discouraged if she thinks it was meaningless.>

“I know that feeling well,” Neris said with a sneer. Cledwin seemed to see the expression she was making in her eyes, so he closed her eyes and smiled. She must be smiling even more perfectly than usual to hide her bitterness.

“The Empress knows that she does not have the ability to overcome this situation, so the only answer is to reinstate Kaymil. Then it will come back quietly. Since I am a high treason criminal, I cannot come forward publicly. Now it’s about to get a bit more fun. “The guys Abellus sent were the same, so I didn’t feel like dealing with them.”

< You'll take care of it, but don't let your guard down and get hurt. When my child grows up, I'm ready to tell him a hundred times how he was caught off guard by his father.>

“I haven’t even been hit yet… … .”

Cledwin, who had said this, paused. He thought again about what he had just heard. And without realizing it, I got up from my seat.

“I will return to the army.”

The words came out right away. Neris’ laughter rang as clear as a bell through the magic communication port.

< I was wondering whether to tell you now or not because I was afraid you might say something like that, so I told you this. Finish your work properly, Kledwin Maindland. And show my child a clean and organized world.>

Cledwin sat back down in his chair as if it was a lie that he had jumped up. He felt the unmistakable joy in his wife’s voice.

A smile slowly appeared on his lips.

“I definitely have to.”