By Zephyria 
I had already anticipated something like this. Now, no matter what I asked, she would have no choice but to answer by using her imagination. I was curious about what Aska would imagine, so I pretended not to know and asked again.
“But you buy them. Do you know how they’re made? How do you get children at the market then?”
The bleeding had already stopped, and nothing was coming out of the wound. Aska, holding his arm with the reddish swelling and small teeth marks with both hands, pondered hard before saying,
“Don’t they bring them from a farm? If you pull them from the field…”
“Pull babies from the field? Like vegetables?”
“Vegetables grow when you plant seeds in the soil.”
“Ah, so do you plant human seeds in the soil to get babies?”
Aska was about to nod, but he must have sensed the laughter in my tone because he frowned.
“Why do you keep asking me that stuff?”
“Because I’m curious.”
“Don’t you know either?”
Aska’s eyes widened in surprise as he asked back.
“……”
I was so dumbfounded that I was speechless.
“Geez…”
Where on earth should I even begin? I sighed in frustration, and Aska grumbled.
“Anyway, that’s that, but can’t you give me what you gave me last time? This doesn’t even come out well…”
Aska, holding my arm like a chicken leg, put his mouth back on the wound that had already stopped bleeding. He sucked a few times, but of course, no blood came out.
“A few days ago, you poked it with something like a needle.”
“I don’t have it now. Anyway, if you’re done eating, come here to sleep.”
I pulled Aska, who was holding my arm, to the bed. Only when I lifted the blanket and lay down did Aska release my arm. He lay down next to me with a disappointed expression and muttered,
“It feels worse when I only eat a little.”
“You’re not supposed to eat before bed.”
“Why?”
“It’s hard to digest.”
“Why is it hard to digest?”
“Just sleep…”
At his clueless voice, I closed my eyes and said weakly. What on earth was this commotion in the middle of the night?
“……”
Aska didn’t say anything more either, and I was tired too, so I tried to close my eyes for a while to fall asleep, but my mind only became clearer. Eventually, I turned my head and looked at Aska.
Lying curled up on his side with his back turned, he looked cold at first glance. But even if I covered him with a blanket, Aska would kick it off and drop it on the floor after a while. Still, it was chilly at night, so maybe this weather was the right temperature for Aska.
I took my arm out from under the blanket and looked at the spot where I had made the wound earlier. There were various marks left, but it didn’t hurt. Even when I rubbed it with my fingertip, I felt nothing.
“Hmm.”
Perhaps because I was thinking too much, I unconsciously made a noise. And for good reason, it was strange that I felt so fine even though I had just been injured.
Actually, I had been wondering about it for a while now. Like how my mind suddenly went blank when I looked into Aska’s eyes earlier… Could it be some kind of monster ability?
Since some time ago, the pain disappeared whenever Aska put his mouth on my wounds. At first, I clearly felt the sensation of him digging with his tongue, and it stung when he bit or sucked…
After some time, the pain would come back, so I didn’t think much of it, but it seemed that wasn’t the case.
“……”
Moreover, it was strange that I didn’t know that Aska had gotten up, opened the window, and gone outside until he was right next to me. No matter how relaxed my mental state was, it didn’t make sense. This was the biggest problem.
This wasn’t just a one-time thing…
Is this one of his abilities?
“……”
Suddenly feeling a chill down my spine, I slowly raised my upper body from the bed. Thoughts were chasing each other’s tails, and sleep was long gone.
“……”
The civil war had ended with Mahir’s appointment as Crown Prince, so Actan had officially entered an era of peace. However, small subjugations were still taking place in various places. Although the scale was too small to be called a war, it was still a battle.
When the sun rose in the morning, I would have to go to Mahir right away and find out where the nearest subjugation force was. Even if I made great achievements in a small-scale battle, it wouldn’t even come close to Mahir’s authority, so there wouldn’t be a problem.
I had been restraining myself as much as possible for fear that some fools would get their hopes up, but if those bastards who were trying to enthrone me as Emperor again appeared because of something like this, then…
Rustle.
Perhaps because of my acutely sharpened nerves, even the smallest sound pierced my eardrums like thunder. When I turned my gaze, I saw Aska tossing and turning before turning closer to me.
“……”
A small and fragile breath, as if it would break if touched, reached my carelessly left hand. I felt my hairs stand on end and moved my hand away in disgust, causing Aska’s brow to furrow before smoothing out again.
Watching that, I took a deep breath inwardly. I realized that I was being unnecessarily sensitive about something trivial.
Asella, as well as the recent actions of the Servants of Talim, and that young brat from the Duke’s family who had lost his fear… In fact, when I thought about it, there were quite a few things that would make me sensitive. Aska’s matter too… And Mahir was also injured…
“……”
Still, I calmed myself down. There was no point in getting agitated.
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Having failed to calm myself down even after staying up all night, I went to the Harem as soon as the sun rose and looked for Fatima.
“How do people usually get sex education?”
When I asked abruptly, Fatima tilted her head.
“Sex education? What are you talking about all of a sudden?”
“Answer as if you had a younger sibling. Very young. Under ten years old.”
Aska was older than that, but his behavior was definitely under ten years old. After pondering for a moment at my words, Fatima said as if I were asking something obvious,
“Don’t you naturally realize it after experiencing it firsthand? Do you really need to educate them?”
This was another unexpected answer. I looked at Fatima with a disgusted expression and opened my mouth.
“I’m talking about under ten years old, what firsthand experience are you talking about?”
“I mean, after they get a little older. Why are you asking about that? Do you have a sibling?”
“Haa…”
I’m tired… It seemed I had come to the wrong person to ask. I lay down on the soft bed and sighed, and Fatima approached me.
“More than that, it’s been a long time since you came.”
Perhaps because I hadn’t slept properly, my head was spinning from suddenly lying down. I closed my eyes and pressed my temples with my hands before glancing at Fatima and saying,
“I’ve been busy.”
“Hehe.”
“……?”
I tilted my head at the sudden lewd laughter. Fatima was covering her mouth and looking down at me with a strange expression.
“Rumor has it that you’re keeping your newlywed bride by your side and not letting her out.”
“Rumor?”
“They say you even prepare her meals every time? And sometimes you even cook yourself.”
“Where on earth did you hear that stuff?”
It was true that I prepared his meals myself, and it was also true that I was keeping him by my side and not letting him out, but it was a completely different matter from what Fatima was thinking.
“The Talim is already full of rumors that you’re the century’s greatest lover, you know?”
“The century’s greatest lover?”
I was dumbfounded by the title I was hearing for the first time. And I suddenly understood why the Servants had been acting like that towards me lately.
Did calling me a lover make me look a little more human? Anyway, it was absurd.
“They say you take care of everything from A to Z? The Servants haven’t even seen your rain, is that even possible? Then who bathes him and who changes his clothes?”
Fatima continued to chatter with a nasty look on her face. Perhaps it was because I was dumbfounded, but my mood, which had been bad, had improved somewhat.
I got up from the bed and said,
“Stop saying strange things, and I’ll send a doctor soon, so take care of your health.”
“Are you leaving already?”
“I have to go before he wakes up because I left without saying anything.”
He might have escaped again with the excuse that I wasn’t there when he woke up.
Fatima’s expression, who had no idea of my troubles, changed lewdly again. I turned my gaze away because I thought I would feel bad again if I kept looking at it.
“Let’s talk about going out again after seeing your condition.”
“Okay. And look for something like a textbook for sex education. I don’t know why you’re suddenly asking about that, though.”
I nodded at Fatima’s words and left the Harem. It seemed that I had no choice but to borrow the power of books.