IMPORTANT:
Ojii = Grandfather. Oji= Uncle. Obaa = Grandmother. Oba = Aunt. Onee = Elder Sister.
The Problems A Pregnant Woman Has
Nemophila Kingdom’s lecture and instruction ended.
Before returning, I talked to Ojii-san, Obaa-san, Oji-san, the 3 Oba-sans, the Onee-samas, and Forlan while having tea at the castle’s saloon.
“Armeria. Is it true that Tsukuyomi-sama will stay in this country after turning 5 years old next year until he comes of age?”
“Eeh, that is the plan”
“That is horrible! We have to build a palace in a year!”
“Otou-sama! I think it is unnecessary to build a palace though”
“What are you saying! Tsukuyomi-sama is the individual who will become the next House Amaterasu’s family head, you know”
“Ojii-sama”
“Ojii-sama?”
“Eeh, Ojii-sama is my Ojii-sama, right?”
“Eh? W-, why. That is……”
“Otou-sama. Tsukuyomi is my son. So Otou-sama is Tsukuyomi’s Ojii-sama, right?”
“Ojii-sama, can I not call you that”
“W-, why, I do not mind if it is not disrespectful to Tsukuyomi-sama though……”
“Thank you. Please call me Tsukuyomi as well. There is no need for ‘sama'”
“U-, uーmu. Yeah. I shall get used to it bit by bit”
“Thank you. I am looking forward to the fact that I will be living in this country from next year onwards. Especially the fact that I will be living with the entire family in this castle. That is why there is no need for a palace or whatnot. I am fine with being in the same room as Okaa-sama”
“Eeh! The same room as Armeria? With the both of you? is it? I-, is that not too cramp after all?”
“Otou-sama, if I remember correctly, the room beside mine is empty, right”
“Aah, that’s right. It’s true that it’s empty. We can just have him use that room then, no?”
“I, prefer the same room as Okaa-sama though”
“Otou-sama, how about we remodel those two rooms and redo them into one spacious room then. There is incidentally also the construction work of installing a bidet in the toilet, so I think we can make the bathroom bigger and prettier as well. We will probably be able to remodel it if we have a year”
“Ooh, Stuart. That is a brilliant proposal. Armeria. Is that alright?”
“Yes. Thank you”
“Ojii-sama. My apologies for being selfish. Thank you”
“That much is nothing”
“Well then, Ojii-sama, Oba-sama, Oji-sama, Audrey-oba-sama, Torenia-oba-sama, Shion-oba-sama. Louisa-nee-sama, Annika-nee-sama, Romy-nee-sama, and Forlan. Next year, after turning 5 years old, I will be imposing here, so I will be in your care when that time comes”
“Do we also, call you ‘Tsukuyomi’?”
“Yes. Louisa-nee-sama. Please do”
“But, you are 25 years old on the inside, right?”
“No, there is an additional 4 more years, so I guess it is 29 years old”
“Is that not the same as Otou-sama and Okaa-sama then!”
“Hahaa! Well, that is just my mental age at the end of the day. In this world, I have been born for 4 years. As I thought, I am 4 years old. I will also go to school after turning 10 years old”
“Eh! To school? There should be nothing for you to learn though! Ah! How about becoming a teacher?”
“No, there are tons of things I still do not know about this world. I want to ask the teacher in school”
“Eh! What kind of things would they be?”
“Yeah. I guess, for example, the formation and the revolution and rotation speed of this star, the revolution and rotation speed of the two moons, the atmospheric pressure, and the characteristics of the climate of the respective countries. And I also want to ask about that orbital ring and space elevator in the sky”
“Uーn. I have absolutely no idea what you are saying. I wonder if the teacher in school would know?”
“No, even I, the King, didn’t understand a thing after listening, so……who knows?”
“Eeh! Does even Ojii-sama not know! What about Oji-sama?”
“No, I have absolutely no clue either”
“Eeh? Does nobody know? Ah! Are there past books or documents in the school or this castle?”
“Umu. If it is that, then there are in both. But I do not know if there is anything that will answer your questions just now though”
“Eeh, it is fine. I will read and research it arbitrarily”
“Is that so; as I thought, you are amazing huh……”
“I sure am looking forward to school huh”
“Okaa-sama, how about we go back soon?”
“Eeh, yeah”
“Thank you for today”
“I am the one to say that; thank you. Next year, I will be in your care”
“Now then, Okaa-sama, we are going off!”
“Yes”
I aimed for the Moon Capital and teleported after hugging Okaa-san.
Whoosh!
“Wah! He disappeared! Amazing!”
“He instantly teleported all the way to the Moon Capital. He really has amazing powers huh. For me to be called ‘Ojii-sama‘ by that individual. What do I do”
“Eeh, the last time he came, he managed to use Teleportation on the entirety of that biggest ship in the world all the way to the Moon Capital, right?”
“Is it really alright, for me to be called ‘Onee-sama‘? Otou-sama”
“That, goes the same for me. His powers, his mental age being the same as mine as well. And then his knowledge, his intellect, his abilities. A genius of a different league no matter on what front, and the saviour and God who will guide people after all”
“How are we supposed to get used to it……”
“He’s 4 years old like me, and he said to me, ‘let’s get along, alright’, so I’m gonna get along with him!”
“It’s great how Forlan doesn’t understand anything huh!”
Whoosh!
“Thank you for today. Okaa-sama”
“Tsukuyomi. Thanks, for letting me spend the entire day with Sonia today!”
“I am glad that you are happy”
“What a marvellous son!”
I received a peck on my cheek. Yahoo!
I visited Ojii-san’s mansion after breakfast today.
“Ojii-sama. Good morning!”
“Tsukuyomi huh. Morning. What’s the matter so early in the morning?”
“Yes. Apart from my Okaa-sama, the 7 Okaa-samas had all gotten pregnant”
“Umu. I heard. It sure is easy to conceive if we do according to what Tsukuyomi says huh”
“No, it is not easy though; I think it just went well by chance this time around. About that, there is something I want to ask Ojii-sama beforehand”
“Umu. What is it?”
“Until now, have there been instances where the child cannot quite come out despite being at the delivery stage? And then were you able to resolve it with Healing in those cases?”
“Umu. In such cases, most of them become stillbirths with the reasons unknown, and there are many instances where the mother also die”
“As I thought, you cannot handle it with Healing huh”
“‘Earth’, was it? What did you do during such times in that world?”
“Eeh, we have what we call an ’emergency operation’, and we slice the belly and take the child out”
“Slice the belly? You save the child and give up on the mother’s life with that huh?”
“No! We save the mother as well. Because you just have to sew the sliced belly”
“Sew the sliced belly, you say! How?”
“I mean, it is going to be a needle and a thread if we are talking about sewing?”
“Fufun. Tsukuyomi. You, you’re messing with me huh!”
“No no, it is true. It is not clothing-use threads, but surgery-use threads, but both the skin and the flesh really will stick like it how it did originally if you sew them together with a needle and a thread”
“The ‘Earth’ or whatever you call it sure seems to be a scary world huh”
“I wonder if it is. This world where both mother and child end up easily losing their lives from giving birth is scarier to me. And if giving birth ends up becoming life-risking, they will not be able to give birth in peace, will they”
“You can say that, but the number of deliveries is not that many in the first place, so stillbirths do not happen often either, you know”
“That is so thus far huh. But 7 children will be born in my family alone within half a year. The number of deliveries will increase exponentially in this entire world, you know. I imagine the examples like the ones just now will also end up increasing when that happens”
“Aah, it’s exactly as Tsukuyomi says. What should we do then?”
“Why. That is difficult. If I acquire the surgical instruments from Earth, I am capable of performing surgery, so if it is just the Okaa-samas, I suppose I will be able to handle it even if something happens on the off chance”
“But when we consider that the demographic is all the pregnant women in the world, I think the requests will come to pour in rapidly at the rate of 1 person an hour, or 1 person every 30 minutes in due time”
“I cannot handle them all even if I can use Teleportation to go around the world. It solves nothing even if just I alone am able to do it”
“Tsukuyomi. Sorry that we all came together and worshipped Tsukuyomi as the saviour. I do feel bad. It is not like ‘Tsukuyomi has to go on to save every human in the entire world’, you know”
“Yes. Of course, I do not think that I can save everyone alone. But I do think, ‘maybe I can save even just one more person’……”
“Tsukuyomi sure has a strong sense of responsibility huh”
“Yes. This might also be the habit of a doctor”
“For us, it is something we are extremely thankful for though”
Ojii-san ended up making an apologetic-looking face.
“Tsukuyomi-sama. How about thinking about it like this? ‘Not a single person has been saved until now. But, if even just a single person has been saved thanks to Tsukuyomi-sama, it improved from how it has been thus far'”
“Yes. Dahlia-obaa-sama. I understand what you are saying. Yeah. I will try thinking about it a little”
I teleported to Okaa-san’s room from Ojii-san’s mansion.
Whoosh!
“Wah! You gave me a surprise! Tsukuyomi huh”
“Okaa-sama. Sorry”
“Where did you go?”
“Ojii-sama’s mansion. I had a little something I wanted to ask”
“Is it a difficult problem?”
“Yes. A little……”
“Come over here”
Okaa-san carried me up, sat on the bed, placed me on her lap, and hugged me.
“Are you troubled by something?”
I talked to Okaa-san about the conversation with Ojii-san without hiding anything.
“My! Is that so. That is something really difficult huh. But, I, too, just as Gyougetsu-sama said, think that it should not all be shouldered by Tsukuyomi”
“A ‘saviour’, guides people in the right direction; by no means do they save the lives of every human in this world, is what I think”
“Yes. Am I thinking about it too deeply?”
“Yeah. Tsukuyomi, might be a little too kind huh”
I didn’t respond anything to those words. I drifted into thought inside Okaa-san’s arms.
As I thought, I might not be able to recover from the shock of losing Mai. People die from illnesses. I wonder if I’m reacting overly sensitively to the fact that I can’t save them from that.
I understand it in my head. That I can’t save everybody after all, and that I also don’t have that responsibility. I also know from experience that there are also severe diseases that are untreatable.
Although I do understand, a part of my brain that I can’t control is screaming ‘No’. Aah, I see. I might be suffering from a mental illness.
I wonder if that’s why Ojii-sama said to go to Nemophila Kingdom after I turned 5 years old……
