The Demon Lord's Bride (BL)
Chapter 563: Children are the key to peace

Chapter 563: Children are the key to peace

This time, no one was in panic.

I did not black out, because Shwa left out around a quarter of my mana. The headache came from it being drained too fast, but I was even well enough to watch the layer of petals bloom oh so beautifully, with more little flowers popping out to fill the garden. The little shed had turned completely into a flower field; some even crawled on the wall and into the frame of the bed in the corner.

But I could only enjoy the view for a minute before I had to bid Shwa goodbye and receive my transfusion in the Lord’s Quarter. Jade refused to go away this time, so we had Lesta come over to babysit him while Natha and D’Ara set up my transfusion. Naturally, Eruha came along too, since neither of them had seen this device and how it worked.

"Lesta, why can’t Jade see it?" my little boy asked with a sullen voice while Lesta covered his eyes from the sight of Natha piercing my wrist with a needle.

"I don’t know, Jade. This is also my first time seeing this," Lesta said. Only after Natha had entered the needle and covered it with a bandage did Lesta relayed it. "Oh, I think it’ll be too scary for you, Jade."

"Scary?"

"Hmm...you might think His Lordship is hurting your Papa."

"Whaaat?!"

"No, no," Lesta patted the little boy reassuringly. "There’s no way His Lordship will hurt your Papa, right? Oh, it’s done!"

During the conversation, I had been stifling my laughter that Natha had a hard time putting the needle in because my shoulder kept shaking. He had to literally pin my arm down and take the needle’s cap off with his teeth.

Which was hot, but my attention was still on Jade and Lesta’s adorable conversation.

"How interesting," Eruha stroked his chin while watching Natha’s mana flow down the tube into my system, gradually filling my core again. "Are you going to introduce this method to the public?"

"Not in the near future," Natha replied while tidying the rest of the equipment. "We just introduced the recording device, so the realms should concentrate on that first."

"Hmm..."

"Why?" Lesta, who was delivering Jade to my bed, asked in a slightly sharp tone. "You want to try it?"

I raised my brow--so did Natha. D’Ara took a seat beside me and brought over a plate of cookies that we shared together while watching our Eternal couple.

The corner of Eruha’s mouth twitched. "It looks...interesting," he said. "Can’t I?"

Lesta narrowed his eyes and turned his head away. "Do whatever you want," he said coldly, and I bit into my cookie to stifle more laughter.

This was...familiar.

"Lesta, Lesta..." Jade tugged on the demon’s sleeve. "Lesta look like Zia when Zia angry because Izzi won’t play with Zia."

Yep. It was jealousy. I had no idea what he was jealous about, though? Was Lesta thought Eruha would want to try other people’s mana instead of his own?

At any rate, this was interesting.

Lesta blinked in confusion, but I couldn’t hold back my laugh anymore, and ended up choking on the cookie crumbs. Natha, as if already anticipating it, gave me a glass of water while Eruha curled his lips and slyly tilted Lesta’s face by his chin.

"Don’t worry, I only like the ’fresh’ one," the vampire whispered with a scandalous voice that made Lesta’s ears red in fluster.

"Hey! Not in front of my child!" I snatched Jade away from Lesta and glared at them.

Really, guys? In front of your Mother and a child? Hmph--Imma keep calling you Eruru from now on!

"Don’t tease the sweetling too much, Eruha," thus the mother spoke.

"You usually do it more than me, Mother," Eruha, who was in a good mood for catching his Eternal’s rare jealousy, scoffed before chuckling and told his Eternal that he was merely jesting--which only made Lesta even more flustered for falling for it. After all, he was usually the one doing the teasing part.

"Also, I was thinking we might be able to introduce it exclusively to Gluttony first and see how it goes," Eruha explained further. "From your explanation, it seemed like it could be used for other things too..."

"It can be used for blood, but..." I glanced at Natha.

"While it’ll only need a much simpler apparatus without complicated spells, drawing blood from someone could be more dangerous and might seen as repulsive," Natha explained.

In this world where the concept was yet to be established, people might be scared by the thought of expelling blood and putting it inside someone else’s. It was different from mana, which people normally expelled to activate a spell, expelling blood always be associated with injuries.

"We need to be careful with this one, and only introduce it to the healers association first," Natha continued. "Well, not that we can do much without one of the makers here--unless you want to do it, Teacher."

D’Ara scoffed in response, which was enough for an answer. Well, I didn’t think the healers and scholars would be able to put their minds to work if she was the one to give them a seminar.

"Anyway, I’m not going to think about anything else until the little one is here," Natha decided in a final tone.

Lesta, finally recovered from his fluster, raised his brow. "Is it close?"

"Probably around the end of the second month."

"You should told me that sooner!" our jack of all trades, who had to do everything from finishing the nursery to managing external affairs, protested in frustration. "Are you going to tell me only when it’s only a few days left again? Huh?!"

"I’m...sorry?" Natha smiled wryly, because he was indeed in the wrong.

Umm...perhaps I did too, since I was the one who made Natha stay home all the time, so I was also mumbling an apology softly.

"Hmph!"

Oh...overworked people were scary. Even Jade clutched me in surprise.

"But well, I’m glad the child will be here soon," Leste exhaled slowly, perhaps to calm himself. It was rare for him to lose his cool after all, but we did kind of overwork him, hehe...

But, oh...hearing Shwa would be here from someone else made it feel so much more...real? We hadn’t told anyone except for Jade and D’Ara, so it made me giggle.

"But Lesta," I glanced at him teasingly. "You’ll probably have to babysit them once the child’s here, you know."

The calm that barely came back was running away again. "Why? Why me?"

"Because you’re handling Jade better than anyone else," I laughed, patting his back. And if he could handle my baby bird, he should be able to handle my other baby.

He looked at me and the giggling Jade incredulously, because babysitting Shwa meant babysitting Jade at the same time. I couldn’t help but laugh because he looked exactly like someone suffering from success.

Well, who told you to be so good at handling children, huh? Maybe he was just the type who was natural at it...

Oh?

"Hmm..." I tilted my head and looked back and forth between Lesta and Eruha as something suddenly popped into my curious head. "Eruru, since you’re D’Ara’s child, you’re able to make offspring, aren’t you?"

Lesta flinched at this, but Eruha nodded without any hesitation. "I can."

"Then...would that mean the child is also Lesta’s?"

Again, Lesta twitched at my words.

"Naturally," the one who answered, however, was D’Ara. "The child formed from the vampire’s blood, and a vampire with an Eternal filled their vessel with their Eternal’s blood, so..."

Aha! I glanced at Lesta, and was that another blush I saw? Hoho...

"So I won’t ever make one without Lesta’s permission," Eruha said seriously, and whether it was because of that or the low voice, Lesta was red all over and coughing on nothing. Eruha smiled and patted his flustered Eternal’s back. "But we have no plan for that now."

"Why not?" D’Ara gasped, clutching her heart as if she was heartbroken. "Give me grandchildren already!"

"You’ll have one in a month anyway," Eruha rolled his eyes.

"Why can’t I get more?"

"Why would you want more right away?" Eruha clicked his tongue. "It’s better to focus on one child at a time. And it’s up to us when we’re going to have one--or we have one at all."

D’Ara gasped again, but Lesta looked relieved. Well...I guessed there would always be disagreement about this kind of thing in a family, huh? Neither I nor Natha had parents anymore, so we didn’t have that kind of problem. It was interesting watching that, though--a nice event to observe while waiting for the transfusion.

Still, I had to agree with Eruha on this one. With how busy those two were, the new vampire would probably have to stay with D’Ara instead, and I didn’t like to see a child away from their parents.

That being said, D’Ara looked like she wanted to argue more, and as much as I loved a spectacle, I didn’t like dissent.

"Papa, why is everyone arguing?" before I could say something, Jade already spoke up, pursing his lips in annoyance. "Jade don’t like it. No arguing when Papa is sick!"

Two tiny fists slammed into the mattress, and both vampires pressed their lips. D’Ara even looked rather embarrassed and apologized to the little boy immediately, prompting me to laugh and dissuade the light tension in the air.

Papa wasn’t exactly sick, but good job, Jade.

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