The Baby Isn’t Yours

Flutter!

With a pleasant sound of ripping paper, the paper split into two and burned brightly.

In an instant, the paper vanished, scattering pink smoke.

‘No, what did I just do…’

Staring blankly at the scroll that had vanished from her hand, Kalia realized at that moment that she’d been fooled by Simon once again.

‘Such an idiot.’

She closed her eyes tightly, blaming herself.

Her stomach churned as if she’d seen Simon’s smiling grin just before she closed her eyes.

‘Damn, damn it! That cursed kid! Always toying with people!’

Biting her lips, Kalia who was trying to suppress her anger, shook her head as if giving up on everything.

‘Well. It’s not the first time I’ve been fooled.’

It wasn’t a big deal, she had simply fallen for a prank, there was no reason to be angry.

And most importantly…

Look, didn’t nothing happen after all?

That was enough.

“Simon, is teasing me your favorite pastime?”

Kalia sighed as if it was pathetic and pressed hard around her stinging eyes due to the smoke.

And then she looked at Simon.

“…Uh.”

Why is he shining like that?

Simon was excessively shining.

It wasn’t a painful shine, but a tantalizing shine, like a ripe apple.

She rubbed her eyes a little harder, feeling flustered.

“What’s wrong? Do your eyes hurt?”

Simon walked towards her and grabbed her hand, rubbing her eyes as if she was trying to change them, and asked her.

“…!”

His voice was somewhat sweet when he asked if she was hurt, unlike before, his voice sweetly stuck to her ears.

However, what surprised Kalia was not that.

The moment Simon grabbed her wrist, a heat like fire pierced through her.

It became a current, flowing through her whole body, the stimulus was so great that she gasped and took a deep breath.

Surprised, Kalia forcefully pulled out her caught wrist.

Simon looked at her strangely.

His elegant golden eyes were staring intently at her emerald eyes, which were shaking in confusion.

“I’m going crazy wanting to kiss you, wanting to touch your white skin until red handprints are left, or maybe…”

Thump, thump.

“Cover those lips and push inside…”

It was around that time when Kalia’s heart started to race wildly.

“…Wanting to push something rough in, something like that.”

Something went wrong.

Sensing the strangeness, Kalia immediately turned around and ran out of Simon’s lab.

She had a feeling that if she stayed there, something bigger would happen.

Cold sweat poured down.

“Kalia!”

Ignoring Simon’s voice calling for her, she quickly descended the tower.

And just before she could grab the horse tied under the tree.

“Kalia!”

Her wrist was grabbed by Simon who had quickly followed, maybe by using magic.

“…Hmph!”

With that electrifying heat stimulating her whole body from the caught wrist, she let out a strange moan for the first time in her life.

“…!”

Surprised, Kalia bit her lip and glared at Simon.

‘Simon, if you hadn’t played a prank, I wouldn’t have ripped such a suspicious scroll!’

For some reason, Simon was surprised and just stared at her with strange eyes.

Kalia quickly got on her horse, shaking off the odd sensation where she was in contact with him.

“I think I need to go back to the mansion.”

“The scroll…”

“Shut up, Simon.”

Leaving Simon who was staring at her with unreadable eyes, Kalia whipped her horse.

“Yah!”

The horse set off powerfully.

But just as Kalia was about to leave the tower garden, for some reason, the horse she was riding turned its body sharply.

Looking blankly at the receding figure of Kalia, Simon was abruptly approached by Kalia, breathing heavily.

Behind Kalia, a large moon hung in the sky.

The resplendent moonlight pouring over her shoulders scattered dizzily atop her disheveled, lemon-colored hair.

With a heavy sigh, Kalia, who had been gasping for breath, brushed back several strands of hair falling onto her face.

In an instant, she bent down, reached out, and lifted Simon’s collar, bringing their faces together.

“Scroll… decode it now.”

Her voice was rough.

Kalia’s hot breath crashed against Simon’s lips.

“…What?”

“I said decode it now.”

“That’s impossible…”

Simon couldn’t finish his sentence. Before he could, Kalia had pushed her lips onto his, cutting him off.

As if someone had told her beforehand, she felt like she would go mad if she didn’t bite into those lips that were opening up in surprise.

She just couldn’t hold back.

Her head felt like it was going to explode from the intense heat.

“Haah.”

While their lips were still touching, Kalia, who had once greedily devoured those shimmering and enticing lips, mumbled.

Desire-filled, her hoarse voice was like the sound of scraping metal.

“Damn it, Simon.”

‘This is all your fault.’

Just like that, once more, Kalia’s red tongue deeply infiltrated Simon’s mouth, filled with the taste of sweetness.

* * *

What happened afterward?

“…Kalia, Kalia. My Kalia.”

“Hnn… again, don’t stop, Simon.”

“Dammit…! Damn.”

“…Simon, Simon.”

Well.

“…Hmm.”

Wasn’t the life in her womb proof of what happened?

At the vivid and explicit scene that popped up in her mind, Kalia closed her eyes tightly.

She wiped her heated face with her dry hand, blaming herself.

‘Phew… I’m really a piece of garbage.’

She touched her reddening ears, shaking her head at the sigh that naturally escaped.

That was it.

That was Kalia of that day.

That day, Kalia got pregnant from that single fiery night.

With a friend who had grown up like a brother to her!

A baby!

She made!

A baby!

‘…Ahhhh!’

That crazy magician, Derek’s scroll was so powerful, unscrupulous, and truly great.

For more than 20 years, she had devoted herself to the sword to an unrivaled extent, but thanks to that, Kalia, who was as ignorant as a baby about anything other than the sword, truly experienced a whole new world that day.

It was so amazing, sweet, and thrilling that she couldn’t control herself.

Even the incredible spell of Derek’s scroll had her under its control.

She couldn’t stop, she ran wild like a runaway train.

Kalia, ignorant until now, explored the unknown territory very, very aggressively.

On top of that, her stamina was the best in the Empire. Her body, which ran wild all night, didn’t know fatigue.

Rather, it was Simon who fell asleep as if fainting around sunrise.

So, Kalia unknowingly indulged in the sweetness she was tasting for the first time and rushed at Simon.

Not knowing that the night was passing… not knowing that the sun was rising… not knowing that she was tired…

So she went after Simon, Simon… all night long…

Indeed.

“…No matter how I think about it, I’m garbage. There’s no denying it.”

Kalia muttered grimly with a serious face.

As Kalia, who had been peeping at Simon beyond the window, was about to turn her head, Simon turned his head.

His noble, moonlight-like golden eyes stared directly at her.

* * *

“It’s been two weeks, Kalia.”

The two of them stood facing each other in the moonlit garden.

In response to Simon’s greeting of two weeks, Kalia, who muttered, ‘Has it already been that long,’ gave a slight nod.

“You’ve managed to avoid me quite well.”

Kalia frowned unknowingly out of irritation.

She had never avoided Simon before.

Five weeks ago, on the evening of that audacious night, Kalia heard that Simon was still not getting out of bed.

And all day she reflected on the great guilt that she had caused him to rest all day in his room without moving until the next day.

And when he sent a letter the next day saying that he would come to find her, she politely refused his proposal in the hope that his strength would be fully recovered.

‘You don’t have to come, and you don’t need to come, so rest. I’ll come to see you soon. And I’m sorry,’ she said.

As promised, she went to see him the next day, but he didn’t say a word, glaring at Kalia with unexpectedly icy eyes.

It seemed that her written apology couldn’t subdue his anger.

No, it seemed to have incited his anger even more.

As Kalia repeatedly apologized without knowing what to do, Simon angrily drove her out of there.

During the almost 20 years that she has known him, it was the first time she had seen Simon so angry.

She felt even more sorry, but at the same time, she was a little angry.

‘No, did I do all the excited things? That time, he kissed me like a madman, saying it was so good, it was like a dream, and touched me. And it was Simon who made me rip that apart!’

Although she expressed her anger modestly inwardly, she couldn’t help but feel guilty because she was the one who overwhelmed him.

Kalia waited for Simon’s anger to subside.

After three weeks had passed and she saw Simon again, he seemed okay.

He even hinted at her saying he might have a lady to propose to, as he was being pressured to marry by the elders of his family.

Kalia interpreted Simon’s stern gaze as, ‘So don’t block my path to marriage.’

So this time too, as respectfully as possible…

“So finally your time has come. I truly support and congratulate you, Simon.”

After saying this and proposing a handshake of reconciliation, and even promising to ‘take that day’s incident to the grave’, but!

He exploded again in front of her, raged at length, and Kalia had to run away from him again.

‘Such a foul-tempered magician.’

Even so, what’s he going to do if he pours fireballs into the imperial garden!

Anyway, after that day, she went on a two-week business trip to the military training center in Holia, known as the second capital, and came back just yesterday.

And because she always has irregular periods, just in case, very, very just in case, she took a test.

However, as if not knowing such circumstances, or rather, as if not wanting to know, Simon was facing her crookedly.

With a face full of annoyance.

“When the war ends, your face always becomes hard to see. So sometimes I think…maybe I should start a war.”