Chapter 144
The mission Nicoletta had received from her father was as follows:
First, pretend to be mad to lower their guard.
Second, lure the queen out and kill her.
Third, if that failed, infiltrate the evening banquet and use the separately prepared poison to lace the drinks. No one would suspect a lunatic.
Fourth, if caught, she was to insist that she had acted alone, and that the family had no knowledge of it.
It was probably a case of “succeed if you can, and if not, oh well.” Truly despicable.
“If it were me, I wouldn’t treat my own child that way.”
As she left Nicoletta to rest, she muttered under her breath. Yasamin, who had been listening, suddenly brightened.
“Child? A baby? Our baby?”
“…Huh?”
“That’s right. Why didn’t I think of that?”
“What are you talking about?”
She blinked in confusion, and a dazzling smile spread across his handsome face.
Like light shimmering on the surface of deep waters, his lips curled into an even broader grin.
“Let’s have a child.”
“…Out of nowhere?”
“That would be perfect. Then you wouldn’t be able to leave me. Why didn’t I ever consider that before? I’ve never seriously thought about it in that way.”
A flash of madness struck his green eyes like lightning. It seemed that the idea of a “child” had sparked some great inspiration in him.
‘Of course, Ananta is my descendant, so in a way, I have had a child before.’
There was no reason she couldn’t have a child with Yasamin. He was her legal husband in the human world, not a stranger, and they had already shared their bodies multiple times.
If she were to have a child again, she supposed it would be Yasamin’s.
Still, it was a rather novel thought. A beast from the mythological era longing for a family?
“This is a first. Does living a thousand years change one’s mindset?”
As she murmured to herself, Yasamin pulled her into his arms and covered her with kisses. It was no different from a puppy showering its owner with affection, so she pushed him away, only for him to grin at her with laughing eyes.
“If the child takes after both of us, they’ll be beautiful, don’t you think? Black hair would be nice, but so would blond. Green eyes or blue eyes—both would be lovely.”
“As a demi-god, they’d certainly be strong.”
The last beast of the mythological era and a god inhabiting a human body—what kind of child would be born from such a union?
Without a doubt, they would become a hero.
But as for their personality… she honestly couldn’t imagine it.
“Let’s hurry and take care of these bothersome things, then go somewhere nice, just the two of us.”
“Because if we have a child, you think I’ll belong to you forever?”
“I won’t deny that thought is there. But more than that… You’d love your child. And because they’re your child, you wouldn’t be able to abandon their father. I also just want to see the outcome of the two of us combined.”
So, even the beast race—who originally had no such desires—could change with time.
It was as if a breeze had swept through her mind and heart, refreshing her thoughts. And at the same time, strangely enough, she found herself dreaming of something new.
A child waddling toward her, arms outstretched, calling, ‘Mommy!’ A baby running to Yasamin, squealing, ‘Daddy!’ and throwing themselves into his arms.
It was an image she had never once envisioned before—so odd and unfamiliar, yet strangely natural and inevitable.
Everything about it seemed absurd, yet at the same time, it felt like the most natural thing in the world.
“What should we name them?”
Yasamin, already excited, asked the question eagerly.
Siren, deep in thought, let a few syllables roll on her tongue.
“Sa, Sei, I, A, Hu, Ren, Ran, Min, Ya.”
“Should we combine them?”
“Yes. I’d like our names to be part of it.”
Wait a minute.
Saying that was practically the same as agreeing to have a child.
Realizing this, she froze in place.
For some reason, the tips of her ears grew embarrassingly warm.
Of course, it wasn’t as if she had been actively preventing pregnancy all this time, but that didn’t mean she had made a firm decision to have a child, either…
“You’re embarrassed?”
Noticing her reaction immediately, Yasamin slipped an arm around her waist and began to tease her.
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