The Place Where I Was Sold as a Slave Was the Imperial Palace

197 The Crown Prince is born

Rudy put his arm under Lilitha’s head and gently hugged her.

“It’s okay. It’s not urine. It’s probably amniotic fluid. Did you hear from the midwife?”

“Amniotic fluid… Yes, the amniotic fluid burst. Thank God. I, knowing that you did such a shameful thing next to Lu… I really wanted to die…”

While trying to soothe Rilisha’s crying with a squeak, Rudy only glanced slightly to the side. The Baroness came in and stood at the foot of the bed. The baroness quietly bowed her head.

“I have called the doctor. The midwife will come in after preparing for childbirth. From now on, it will be a space for women only, so please leave, Your Majesty. I’m sorry.”

“Okay, give me a minute.”

Rudy kissed Lilitha’s forehead, nose, and cheek while looking at her tear-stained face.

“Lilisha, I love you. You are more precious than anything else in this world. Even if it’s difficult, please give me a little bit of strength. If I could do it for you, I’d love to do it, but that’s impossible, so I’m sorry, but Lilitha, give me a little bit of strength. Please. hey.”

“Lu… I’m scared.”

“Yeah, I’m scared too.”

“Ludo?”

“Yes. I don’t think I’ve ever been so afraid. I wonder if I’ll lose you, isn’t it too painful, I’m too afraid.”

“…”

“You are my dark knight. Please be courageous…”

Childbirth at this age is very difficult. There was nothing to alleviate the pain.

Rudy’s magic spells have various effects, but they cannot alleviate the pain of childbirth. Doing something to reduce the pain has become an obstacle to giving birth to a fetus.

The fortunate thing is that the spell that can help her recover after giving birth has already been carved into Lilitha’s body.

But that’s the story after giving birth safely. The risks of giving birth were unavoidable.

Rudy poured a kiss into Lilitha’s hand.

“Sorry, Lilitha. I’m sorry I put a burden only on your body.”

Lilitha, whose face was wet with tears, pressed her fingers against Rudy’s chest.

“It’s not a burden. It’s my child. It’s just a little scary.”

After saying that, she wrapped her arms around Rudy’s neck. Rudy lowered herself as she did. Lilitha whispered in my ear.

“Lou, come when I call. Come to me no matter what anyone says. When you’re scared or sick, everything will be better with Lou. Courage comes out.”

“If you call, I’ll be by your side. I won’t leave you alone.”

“huh.”

Meanwhile, the doctor Pablo and the midwife entered.

The midwife is in charge of all childbirth. Pablo puts up a partition and waits in a corner in preparation for an emergency.

Handmaids put partitions around the bed, and maids brought water bottles and several linens.

“Sorry, Your Majesty. Please step aside.”

Taira and the maids brought several pieces of cloth and bowed.

When Rudi got up, the ladies-in-waiting put several layers of cloth under Lilitha.

Rudy quietly withdrew. Rilisha’s eyes wavered anxiously.

I couldn’t bear to leave, but I couldn’t stay here for long. He gets in the way. It would be difficult for the maid and midwife to act freely.

Passing through the busy ladies-in-waiting, Rudy headed to the waiting room next to the empress’s room. This is the room where the maids of honor wait for the empress.

Originally, it wasn’t the place where the emperor would be, but today, the place where Lilitha’s voice could be heard the closest was Rudi’s place.

The emperor never stayed at the woman’s birthplace. The emperor visits only after the baby is born and the clean-up is over.

But how can he do that when his wife is risking her life to give birth to a child? Rudy insisted on staying here.

Even in such a situation, unfortunately, the emperor’s work does not wait. Urgent work continued to come.

Thanks to this, it is the aged servants who suffer. The young attendant did not come close to the place where the empress’ secret affairs were taking place. Because of that, only the older attendants moved.

Aged attendants hurriedly tidied up the desk and chair where the emperor would be, and put urgent documents in a cart and moved them.

As soon as seats were prepared, they all withdrew.

Only the chamberlain remained in the waiting room.

“I’m sorry, Chamberlain.”

“Nothing to say. I fully understand His Majesty’s feelings.”

Rudy forced his consciousness to read the document.

Sometimes I stop the pen and look at the visit. Through the slightly open door, the maids could hear the sound of encouraging Rilisha.

As time goes by, it seems that the contraction interval is getting shorter and shorter. At first, it hurt for a while, but gradually the sound of the pain became longer and the interval became shorter.

The day passed and dawn came.

It was around that time that the real pain began.

Lilitha cries pathetically like a puppy. It hurts, it hurts, and she was crying softly.

Hearing that sound, it feels like cutting your heart thinly with a knife.

“Being a man is truly incompetent. There’s nothing I can do for you.”

As I muttered abruptly, the chamberlain spoke as if comforting.

“Just having His Majesty by your side will be of great help.”

“…”

A little time passed. It is still dark everywhere. Lilitha’s voice became more and more drowned out by the pain. I couldn’t pay attention to the paperwork any longer.

Rudy clenched his fists and rested his forehead against the wall, standing near the door.

The midwife and maids continued to talk to Lilitha. Lilitha’s voice grew like a scream in pain. And at some point, she cried and called herself Lou.

It feels like your feet are flying through the air.

Without feeling the ground being stepped on, I hurriedly headed towards Lilitha.

As soon as I got to bed, I felt like I was out of breath.

Blood is familiar, but knowing that it came from Lilitha’s body, he couldn’t even look straight at it.

I raised my gaze and looked at Rilisha. Lilitha’s face was wet with sweat. Fearing that she was really alive, he held her hand without realizing it.

“Lilisha.”

“Lou, it hurts.”

“Yes, yes…I love you, Lilitha…my cute wife…”

That’s the only thing I can say to return it. I couldn’t say anything to cheer up. Because she’s already at full strength.

Lilitha, who had been struggling for a while, got stronger in her hands and the midwife’s voice echoed throughout the room, saying that she could see the baby’s head.

It was a moment later, after a short period of time like eons of time had passed, that the sonorous cry of a baby rang out.

“You are the prince.”

The baroness’s voice is higher than usual.

The bright screams of the ladies-in-waiting resonated throughout the room.

All the demonic creatures that were a little away gathered closer and looked at the baby. There is no sound, but it seems to be noisy. The light of the demonic creatures that filled the room lit up the entire room like a Christmas tree.

“You are a healthy, very healthy prince.”

After the baroness had washed the baby, she wrapped it in a soft cloth and showed it to Rudy and Lilitha.

The hair was black. There are wrinkles on the wrinkled neck and arms and legs. I thought it was weird rather than pretty.

“What about your fingers?”

When Lilitha asked while crying, the ladies-in-waiting laughed.

“Fingers and toes are all normal. He is a very healthy prince with nothing to blame.”

Carefully holding the baby to Ririsha, Ririsha quietly looked at the baby’s face.

“I don’t think it’s pretty.”

As soon as he said one word, laughter broke out among the ladies-in-waiting again.

“I’ve never seen such an adorable baby.”

The midwife said something, and the baroness added more.

“I think so too. The two of you look exactly alike.”

no, that wouldn’t be it Wrinkled baby, where can you find such a figure?

Rudy muttered inwardly.

However, it seems that Rilisha felt the same way.

“I don’t think they look alike at all.”

Tears fell from Rilisha’s eyes as she said that.

Rudy feels like he’s about to cry. He alternately kissed the foreheads of Lilitha and the baby, and spoke in a low voice.

“Thank you, Lilitha.”

No matter how much time passes, today’s event will never be forgotten.

The baby started to cry whether it was hungry or if it didn’t like something.

The phoenix flew over the baby and happily dropped light powder. The light penetrated the baby’s body and disappeared like melting snow.

The baby seemed to pause for a moment, then began to cry louder.

The demonic creatures moved around as if they couldn’t overcome their joy, and each one ran out.

The entire black sky turned bright like a fireworks display.

It seems that someone saw it and realized that a baby was born. It was noisy outside.

“I will appoint my first son as the crown prince here. Prepare.”

When Rudy ran out of words, the ladies-in-waiting began to collect the items used for childbirth and put them in a wooden barrel. The maids hurriedly brought barrels and water, and the curtains on the beds were lowered.

As soon as the Empress was hidden from view, the Chief Chamberlain brought several items on a silver tray.

After bowing politely, the chief chamberlain looked at the crying baby with a bright red face. In an instant, the chief chamberlain’s eyes became cloudy. I hope you are crying

The chief chamberlain took a deep breath and slightly dipped his finger into the small golden cup on the silver tray.

“First, let’s measure mana.”

The way to measure mana is simple. When the baby cries and expresses emotions, mix finely ground magic stone powder with water and apply a little.

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Depending on the amount of magical power you have, the magic stone powder emits light, and you can roughly judge the degree of strength and weakness with it.

I’ve heard that it’s normal if there’s a little bit of soft light.

If the baby had too little magic power, the time to be installed as the crown prince would be postponed. You will have to wait for the next child to be born.

He was born after taking the Dragon’s Yeouiju. I thought it wouldn’t happen. But I was also a bit nervous.

The head chamberlain slightly loosened the cloth wrapped around the baby and applied a little bit of a mixture of water and magic stone powder to his toes.

As the baby screamed and wiggled his feet, in an instant, light came out of the magic stone powder and spread in all directions. It was as if the sun had entered the room for an instant.

“This, this.”

The head chamberlain’s eyes widened.

Pablo, who was waiting in the corner, was also surprised, so he screamed.

“Such strong magic!”

The chief of staff said as if he was thrilled.

“I’ve never seen anyone with such strong magic power in my entire life. Your Majesty, reduce, reduce. Your Highness the Crown Prince is unprecedented, no, that’s not true. I heard that Your Majesty had more magical power than this. My God. The current emperor and his descendants in succession…”

The head chamberlain’s face was smiling.

Now, even if I hit him with a club, I think he would be laughing.

But let’s hurry. The longer it takes, the harder it is for a newborn baby.

When Rudy held out his hand, the chief chamberlain pricked his finger with a needle and bleed several times, just as he had done to Emperor Sang Hwang earlier.

After dripping enough of the blood onto the surface of the signet ring, Rudy gently placed it over the baby’s belly button and uttered a spell.

As the ring shimmered, a sentence identical to the seal appeared on the baby’s skin.

Rudy kissed the child’s forehead and spoke solemnly.

“Since I have made my son Julien the crown prince, the chief chamberlain urgently announces this throughout the country.”

“I will do as you command.”

The chamberlain bowed quietly and withdrew. His behavior was the same as usual, but the corner of the chief chamberlain’s mouth was torn all the way to his ears.

The baby was immediately returned to Lilitha’s arms.

When I lifted the curtain and looked in, I saw Lilitha breastfeeding the baby.

There are cushions under Lilitha’s arms to keep her body from straining.

Seeing the child, Lilitha gave a small smile.

Somehow I can’t speak.

I thought that a child gave birth to a child, but maybe a woman becomes a mother only by giving birth. Lilitha’s face as she looked at the baby felt strange.

Lilitha lifted her head a little, probably feeling his gaze. When our eyes meet, we smile.

“Aren’t you tired?”

When Rudy asked, Rilisha tilted her head slightly.

“I’m tired. I’m still sore, it’s hard to sit still, and even blinking an eye bothers me. But the senator said breastfeeding is important for the first few days.”

Lilitha really speaks like a mother.

When Rudy made a surprised face, Lilitha laughed.

She looked at the child, looked at it for a moment, then blurted out.

“Because I keep looking at him, I think he resembles Lou.”

Rudy came closer and saw the child’s face. The face of the child, whose eyes were not open, seemed flat and distorted for some reason.

“In my eyes, no one looks alike.”

“Here, the foreheads are similar. The nose also looks a bit similar.”

“…”

no, not at all.

We talked about that for a while, but before I knew it, Rilisha was breastfeeding and her eyes were half closed.

The baby’s mouth, which had been suckling for a while, also stopped.

Both mother and child are sleeping, but they manage not to separate from each other.

As the baroness carefully lifted the baby from Lilitha’s arms and held it, Rudy laid Lilitha comfortably on the bed.

For several days from that day, bells in celebration of the crown prince’s birth resounded in every city in the empire.

Everyone was overjoyed at the news of the young emperor’s first child.