Ventorino Kingdom - The Witch and the Reunion (11)
“If I had to guess, I’d say you’re going to get pregnant, wouldn’t you? ...Sylvia.”
“Ah, ah, fuhuh, ahhaa…♥♥”
Just before the Hero died, just before he was reincarnated into a demon, that had been the Demon Queen's true name—the one she had once told him.
At the sound of the name of the man she loved, a name she had not heard in so very long, her body shuddered, and she climaxed once more.
And in that instant, she felt it.
One life had begun to throb inside her womb.
She was not the only one who noticed.
As the trembling faded, as her eyes still fluttered, as her heart beat hard and fast, and as that meaningful pulse traveled up from her lower belly, Valdes smiled faintly and whispered into the Demon Queen’s ear.
“You’re pregnant, aren’t you?”
“Haaah… yes, I’m pregnant, I am…♥ Inside Yeo’s womb, our son’s child... I’m pregnant…♥”
“Good.”
He turned her face and kissed her lips.
The beastly, carnal mood that had wrapped around them only moments before vanished. In its place came a gentler air, warm with the tenderness of lovers, and it enclosed them both like a soft embrace.
“Haa, mm… chuup, uh, hng…♥ Chuup, smooch, smack, sluuurp….”
The two of them continued their deep, wet kiss until at last they let their tongues fall away, and, unable to quite let go, they bumped their lips together a few more times with soft, reluctant clicks before lying side by side.
The Demon Queen hugged him, using Valdes’s arm as her pillow.
“Hoo. But, my son.”
“Mm?”
“Wasn’t it a little much to call my name right at the end?”
They had only just finished climaxing, and yet the mere sound of her true name had sent the Demon Queen shivering and tipping over the edge all over again. Remembering what had happened a moment ago, he could not hold back his laughter.
“Hahaha.”
“D-don’t laugh!”
“Sorry, sorry. You were just too cute.”
“Tch…! Do you have any idea how shocked I was?”
“Hahaha! I was a little surprised too. I just had this feeling for some reason—that if I called you by your name now, you’d get pregnant.”
As he said that, Valdes bent the elbow beneath her head and stroked her cheek.
Even for him, it had been a sudden premonition. In the Demon Castle library, he had once read that when someone reached a transcendent level, a sort of intuition close to precognition could sometimes surface, though only with the thinnest odds.
Warrior or mage, the higher one’s level, the keener one’s awareness of the surroundings became. And with that came ever-increasing mana. Mana was the foundation of the world itself; the more completely one wielded it, the closer one came to the world’s core. The article had gone something like that—no one could say exactly why, but perhaps that was the reason.
He had not recalled that article the moment the feeling struck him, but in his life he had rarely regretted following a sudden instinct. So he had obeyed it, and in the end the Demon Queen really had become pregnant. Whether that instinct had caused it or merely acted as a catalyst, he had no way of knowing.
“……”
“What is it?”
As he was thinking about her pregnancy, he smoothed out the crease between the Demon Queen’s brows, where she wore a look as though every last thing in the world had displeased her.
“...Yeo had expected something.”
“Huh?”
“Even after Yeo told you my true name, you almost never use it, so... I thought... I thought you’d call me that somewhere special.”
“Ah….”
An awkward sound of realization slipped from his mouth.
Truthfully, he had not meant anything by it. He had simply never found the right time to call her name. Even in his previous life, he had kept calling her the Demon Queen. After being made young again in a child’s body, he could hardly call her Mom, and her true name still felt strangely uncertain on his tongue, so the title had stuck all on its own.
Besides, Demon Queen had turned out to sit on his tongue surprisingly well.
“Like, from the throne after declaring the conquest of the continent.”
“……”
“Or from the imperial palace after unifying the continent.”
“……”
“Or maybe standing on the ruins of the shattered Holy See.”
“Uh, th-tha—”
“Yeo... had too high an expectation, didn’t she?”
As the Demon Queen’s face began to fall, Valdes panicked. He had never imagined that she would attach such importance to her name.
But to the Demon Queen, her true name really was something special.
After becoming the Demon Queen through force at a rather young age, she had cast aside the name Sylvia. Or rather, it was not exactly that she had thrown it away—but because there was no one who would call her by it, it was as good as discarded.
Then, after spending decades living not as Sylvia but as the Demon Queen, she had finally found a chance to become simply a woman instead of the Demon Queen, and she had made that chance real. For someone as romantically inclined as her, there was no way a name that only one person could speak would not be special.
And that precious name had been used, of all things, for the purpose of stirring up a filthy bout of sex and getting her pregnant, so of course she had been upset.
“I-I’ll do it! Everything I just said, I’ll do all of it!”
“……All of it? Hmm... I suppose that might be enough to cool my temper.”
“And is there anything else you want? It was only just conceived, so there’s still a long way to go, but... should we pick out a baby name already?”
“Hn, hng... my son, that sounds lovely.”
For all that she said it was fine, the Demon Queen’s eyes were sparkling. She liked the idea of choosing a baby’s name in advance. Just as she was about to wonder what name would be best, Valdes launched his counterattack.
“But, you know...”
“Mm? What is it?”
“Wouldn’t it be better to call me something other than son now?”
“Ah... u, uh...”
The Demon Queen’s face flushed bright red under the sudden ambush.
Something other than son. She could not possibly have misunderstood what those other words implied. The things she had thought of but not dared to say aloud—Valdes named them before she could.
“Honey, husband, sweetheart, darling, my dear, my lord, my husband, my groom.”
“……”
“Which do you think sounds best?”
“Y-you’re so unfair….”
“What are you talking about? This is the obvious choice.”
With one hand still stroking her face, he lifted the other and rubbed her lower belly. Unlike the other women, the Demon Queen had not been branded with a Stigma, so her skin remained smooth and untouched, still showing its natural color. Perhaps it was only in his imagination, but Valdes thought he could feel the faintest pulse from that place.
“Our baby has just started growing in there.”
“Nnh….”
“Then the old ‘son’ address has to be retired, doesn’t it?”
“...I, i-it might... be a daughter…?”
After fidgeting with her fingers for a long moment, that was the line the Demon Queen finally squeezed out.
“Puhaha! Sure, that could be. ...But that’s not the point, is it? I want to hear something other than son from your mouth. Something overflowing with affection.”
“……”
Shy by nature, she could not answer so easily. He was obviously right, but even so, the courage to abruptly change how she addressed him was scarcely there inside her—far less than one might expect from the size of her chest.
But now she carried his child as well. Things had to change.
So which of the many possible names would be best? The Demon Queen’s mind began to race.
“……”
“Thinking it over?”
“Sh-shut up!”
“I’ll be looking forward to it.”
“Hng…!”
She snapped at him for teasing her, but in truth she had already nearly settled on her answer.
“...H-husband.”
“Hm? What was that?”
“...Husbaaand...”
“I can’t hear you.”
“Ughhh... husband, dearest...♡ I-is... is that all right?”
“Hahaha!! That was perfect. That’s definitely good enough for me!!”
Valdes burst out laughing and rolled over to hug her tightly.
It had only been once, but he was quite satisfied. The Demon Queen’s face as she shyly called him husband was so cute and beautiful that he wanted to remember it for the rest of his life.
With her habits, the way she said it came out as “husband, dearest,” and he regretted that small addition a little, but if she kept saying it, she would either grow embarrassed and drop the extra word herself, or he would simply become used to it.
“Th-that’s a relief….”
“But this little bastard says otherwise.”
Squish…♡
“...Huh?”
Her face turned all at once from that of a queen into that of a woman, the instant her eyes fell on the male cock already huge and hard, pressing insistently against her soft pussy.
“Haaah…♥ S-stop that, ...husband dearest♥”
“How is that a face asking me to stop?”
Thrust—!
“Hihahaaang—!! ...Ah♥”
The thick shaft charged forward again and again between her slick, springy folds, and the two of them began a second round then and there.
Outside. More precisely, inside the carriage.
“……”
“Today makes three days already….”
“Aaaagh!! Isn’t this too much?”
Unable to contain her grievance, Yueli sat on the floor and shouted like a spoiled child. Her shoes had been neatly lined up to one side, and several layers of cloth had been spread across the floor so her clothes would not get dirty, but it was still far from a pleasant sight.
“Someone’s pulling the carriage out here!! And someone else is inside all day just screwing around!!”
“-...I’m the one pulling the carriage...”
“Shut up!”
“-......Why are you taking it out on me... sob.”
“……”
Rachel made an awkward face at the spirit’s wounded grumbling, which carried in from outside the carriage.
From what she had heard about the relationship between a spiritist and a spirit from working in the pleasure district, the bond between them was supposed to be tighter than family, and spirits were supposed to be tremendously powerful, sublime beings. But looking at Yueli and her—she did not know the spirit’s name, only that its nickname seemed to be the “Runt”—she found herself thinking that perhaps that was not always the case.
“Haa... seriously, when are they coming out….”
After snapping at the spirit, Yueli let out a long sigh and stared at the half-spherical barrier of magic that concealed Valdes and the Demon Queen inside. It looked like it would break with only a little force, but she did not quite have the courage to do it.
“Please calm down. They’ve been inside for three days, so they’ll be out soon.”
“...You said that yesterday too.”
“Th-that’s true, but….”
Irena’s cheeks, as she tried to soothe Yueli, had turned red.
She had never expected them to stay inside for this long, let alone for a whole day and more. At this point, it was hard not to suspect that the two of them really were doing nothing but having sex in there.
“Still... three days...”
“Oh, oh! It’s disappearing! It’s disappearing!”
“Pardon?”
As she was nervously trying to say something, Yueli’s shout made her turn her head and look at the barrier of confinement magic. Sure enough, the wall was already growing hazy.
“Ah…!”
The three women’s gazes locked onto it, and as the barrier vanished rapidly, the man and woman inside finally appeared.
“Mmm, mm... huwup, smooch, slurp... smack, hah, haa…♥”
“What the...”
“……”
“W-wow...”
There stood a man and woman, both neat and fully dressed, yet still locked in a wet, lingering kiss.
Yueli and Irena stared at them with dumbfounded expressions, wondering if they were still at it. For Yueli, whose emotions were always plain on her face, that was one thing—but for Irena, it was proof of just how desperate she had been outside.
By contrast, Rachel covered her bright-red face with both hands while quietly spreading her fingers apart to peek through them. To her, this kind of deep, affectionate physical closeness was even more stimulating than ordinary sex.
“Sluup, smack, sluuurp…♥ ...Haa, yes. This should keep me going for a while.”
“What, is this some kind of magic tool?”
“Heh heh. As your wife, what else could I do?”
One word from the two of them after the kiss ended caught Irena’s ear.
Wife.
Quick-witted as she was, she understood immediately what that change in address meant.
“Congratulations, Demon Queen!”
“Mm? Ah... Irena, I’m sorry. I hadn’t been paying enough attention to you.”
“N-no, not at all.”
“Heh heh. I will gladly accept your congratulations.”
As she said that, the Demon Queen casually rubbed her lower belly. That obvious, almost blatant gesture was enough for Yueli and Rachel to realize the truth only after the fact.
“P-pregnant...?”
“Heh. So it has come to pass, spiritist.”
“Wow... congratulations!”
“...Ah, right. Yes, thank you….”
The Demon Queen, who had been about to strut a little in Yueli’s direction, found herself thrown off by the other woman’s genuinely pure congratulations. Knowing exactly how hard Yueli the spiritist had chased after the Hero Pedro eighteen years ago, she had hoped to show off her own early pregnancy, but Yueli did not give her the reaction she had wanted.
“A child... I wonder if I should have one too? Hmm, if Master wants it...♡”
Unlike ordinary people, Yueli’s personality was so different that she did not take much interest in the idea of having a child with the one she loved, at least not in the way normal women did.
“The young master’s... child….”
At Yueli’s murmur, Irena’s gaze turned toward Valdes and the Demon Queen. Noticing that, the Demon Queen nodded.
“Mm. Since Yeo am pregnant, it doesn’t matter now. Pregnancy is fully unlocked.”
“Huh? Is that okay? If we don’t wait a little longer, the others will be born first.”
“That doesn’t matter. What matters is that Yeo was the first to become pregnant. Of course... the Demon Queen’s heir will be this one’s child.”
“Well, that’s true enough….”
It was something Valdes had more or less already been thinking about.
“What about you, Irena? Do you want one now?”
“I-I’m fine. If I had a child right now, it would interfere, even a little, with carrying out the young master’s mission. I would be grateful if you could get me pregnant later.”
“Got it.”
“I want mine later too!”
“Sure, fine.”
With that brief conversation, the mood was settled for the moment, and the Demon Queen soon departed from the carriage. There was no capital city on the direct route between here and her demon domain.
Not long after the Demon Queen left, Valdes fell asleep.
And so the carriage raced onward for the remaining four days, drawing once more near the capital of the Ventorino Kingdom.
“We should part here.”
“Indeed. Well then... perhaps I’ll raise a couple of pets.”
A wicked smile curved across Valdes’s face.