Male Infertility
Having reached the limit of my tolerance for the scheming of the House Laurel’s maid, Yemy, I used my power.
After lifting Yemy all the way to the ceiling in one go with Telekinesis, I aggressively plunged her all the way beside us, bound her, and stopped with her hovering in mid-air.
“Kyaーh!!! Wha-, wha-, wha-! What’s going on!”
The maid screamed with a screeching voice! Everybody who was there froze and looked up at the maid.
“This is my doing. Now then, what is the relationship between that maid and the house called ‘Hyssop’?”
I asked Anna in a cold voice.
“Y-, Yemy, is it? Yemy is House Laurel’s head maid. I heard that she worked at House Hyssop for a long time before coming to House Laurel, and she joined this house together when House Hyssop’s second Onee-sama married into House Laurel”
“I see. Is that what it is. Ever since coming into this room, this maid has been glaring at Anna-sama the whole time, so I got curious and read her mind”
“Read her heart? Tsukuyomi-sama can do something like that?”
“Eeh, well. Just now, this was what this maid was thinking about”
“I hope this lass doesn’t say anything unnecessary……she shouldn’t have realised that I lied to milord. If either of the Hyssop household’s daughters conceive a successor during this period, this lass will become unneeded……”
“Furthermore, this was what she was thinking about when Okaa-sama invited Anna-sama to the Royal Castle”
“My! What an unnecessary thing that princess is doing! I cannot answer to the House Hyssop if I allow something like that”
『Th-, this child is a monster!』
“Hahaha! Now, she berated me, saying, ‘this child is a monster!’. You sure are holding in there huh”
“Uguguguu!”
Yemy is making an incredibly sour look without saying a single word.
“Yemy! How dare you say that to Tsukuyomi-sama. Furthermore, have you been trying to set me up!”
“You can’t weasel your way out anymore, you know. Now then, how about saying what is truly on your mind?”
I said and slowly lowered Yemy to the ground. Perhaps Yemy resigned to her fate, she collapsed onto her knees on the spot, cried, and started talking while sniffling.
“I-, I, had looked after Laura-sama and Eliza-sama ever since they were born. The two of them married into House Laurel one after another, and as the reward for having served as their wet nurse and their maid for many years, Hyssop-sama spoke to Laurel-sama, and I was able to be the head maid of this house”
“At that time, I promised to help so that they would conceive a successor no matter what. But, they did not conceive a successor no matter how many years went by, and Martin-sama, who got fed up with waiting, received Anna-sama”
“And then she conceived Melissa in just two years. I was thinking that, at this rate, Laura-sama and Eliza-sama’s positions will be in peril……”
“So what did you spread to milord about?”
“……after Melissa was born, whenever milord tried to call Anna-sama to the room, I would drug Anna-sama’s tea with sleeping medicine, have her sleep, and continuously reject milord, saying that milady is feeling unwell and is resting”
“N-, no way……so you are saying that milord had been continuously rejected by me……then, the fact that I wasn’t told to come to the Royal Capital as well?”
“I said that you have not fully recovered yet. I personally suggested that the Royal Capital is rowdy and distracting”
“What have you done……”
“For you to go as far as to drug her! Stellaria. Please arrest this individual and bring her to the castle”
“Yes!”
Ordered by Okaa-san, Yemy was apprehended by Stellaria and Veronica.
“Anna. We will return for today. I will call Marquis Laurel to the castle and talk about the incident from start to finish. On top of that, I shall have him decide on the punishment of this individual. As for the matters after that, we shall take our time talking about it again, alright”
“Armeria-sama. No way! Is it alright to leave it to you?”
“Yes. Please leave it to me”
“Now then, let’s return”
In the ship’s front seat, the restrained Yemy sat between Veronica and Stelleria. I used Teleportation on the entire ship all the way to the castle and returned. It was still morning when we returned to the castle.
A messenger bolted from the castle to the House Laurel in the Royal Capital, and Marquis Laurel was ordered to come to the castle immediately.
While having lunch with Okaa-san, we explained the situation to Ojii-san, the King, and asked him to be the judge.
It’s still early in the afternoon. Marquis Laurel is kneeling in the King’s audience room, lowering his head deeply and awaiting orders.
Into the audience room, King Viskam, Second Queen Wisteria, Armeria-kaa-sama and I entered.
After that, Stellaria and Veronica brought Yemy along.
“Oh, Marquis Laurel. Raise your head”
“Yes!”
Marquis Laurel sees the restrained Yemy and is stunned. Yemy is making a face like it’s the end of the world.
“This morning, my daughter, Armeria, visited your wife, Anna”
“Ye-, yes. I was told of the visit”
“Hohoo. The Princess and her son, Tsukuyomi the God, who was even touted to be a Savior, visited, and yet you treated it as none of your concern huh”
“N-, not at all! I-, I would never think that way……”
“Well, it’s fine. You probably had your official duties after all”
“I-, I afraid so”
“So, about what happened at your mansion. It seems Armeria, who found it suspicious that Anna was left alone with her daughter in a mansion far away from the Royal Capital, went and asked all kinds of questions”
“The-, there is, a reason for that……”
“Umu. I would think so. And then that ‘reason’, is that criminal over there spreading lies to you and undermining Anna. Furthermore, she even drugged Anna”
Okaa-san informed Marquis Laurel of everything Yemy said at the mansion after that.
“Yemy. Is that true!”
“M-, my apologies. I-, it is all because I was single-mindedly trying to keep the promise with Hyssop-sama……”
“What have you done……something like that. Anna is a given, but it will not be of any good to Laura or Eliza either, right!”
Yemy broke down crying limply on the spot.
“Marquis Laurel. The matter this time around. There is no damage to the Royal Family. However, it seems that that individual berated my daughter and grandson though. But that is the voice inside her heart. I shall not charge her with lèse-majesté. The rest is your household problem. I’ll leave the resolution to you”
“Yes! The matter this time around, is all brought about by my failure. To redeem myself……”
“Marquis Laurel!”
“To redeem myself……?”
“Listen up, alright? I don’t care for you redeeming yourself or whatnot. You’re to quickly make a successor. Consult Armeria and Tsukuyomi”
“Co-, consult? is it?”
“That’s right. Listen to what they have to say carefully”
“Un-, understood!”
It does feel that the sentencing is light, but it’s true that it’s not like that maid directly showered us with her insults. It’s the voice in her heart at best. I’m the only one who can hear it after all.
I guess to charge her for a crime just for that, would be a tad arrogant.
2 weeks passed since the House Laurel’s mess.
We’ve received an invitation to the House Laurel in the Royal Capital. We headed to House Laurel with the exact same faces as before. There’s no need to rush either since it’s inside the Royal Capital this time around. I decided not to lay my hands on the ship this time around.
“Veronica. I won’t push the ship today, so steer it without worrying, alright”
“Ye-, yes! Understood”
“You don’t have to be that nervous. Could it be that I’m scary?”
“N-, no way! Not at all!”
“Tsukuyomi. You cannot be teasing Veronica”
“Oーkay”
Veronica, she has red short-bob hair with green eyes. I end up wanting to tease her because she’s adorable.
And then, we arrived in just a few minutes. At the second floor’s front main entrance, seemingly pretty much every one of the servants, Marquis Martin, Laural, Eliza, and Anna received us en masse.
“Armeria-sama. Tsukuyomi-sama. Welcome to our mansion. And, I would like your forgiveness for the insolence the other day”
“Marquis Martin. It has already been settled. Besides, who you should really apologise to is not us”
Okaa-san answered indifferently with her beautiful face. It’s a bit scary.
“Thank you. Please, come on in”
We were led to a very spacious parlour.
“Marquis Laurel, first, could I ask about Yemy’s punishment?”
“Yes. Armeria-sama. I removed Yemy’s head maid’s employment in this house and sent her back to House Hyssop. Also, after discussing with House Hyssop, House Hyssop will pay monetary compensation to House Meier and Anna”
“Is that so. Laura, Eliza. Were you aware of the what happened this time around?”
“Armeria-sama. We trusted Yemy completely and did not know about anything. Nevertheless, we sisters, who were not able to converse with Anna often in the day-to-day, are also to blame”
“Yeah. I do think that you, as the older sister, should keep an eye out for Anna, your younger sister, a bit more. But, there is also the matter of you not conceiving after all huh”
“The cause of it is all due to the incompetence of me, the current head of the family”
“By the way, how many years has it been since Laura got married?”
“Yes. 10 years. 7 years for Eliza”
“Why, have you not conceived a child; do you have any clue?”
“Yes. We read the book distributed by Tsukuyomi-sama and understood where we were wrong”
“And, after reading that book, have you been doing according to it?”
“Yes. We believe so, but……”
“I am a doctor, so may I ask about those parts in further detail?”
“Yes. Please ask us anything”
“Then, for this one year, have you been recording in the basal body temperature chart?”
“Yes. Here it is”
“I will be having a look. ……yeah. It looks like there is no problem with the menstrual cycle”
“Then, most recently, which day on this chart did you have sexual intercourse? One person at a time, please point it out on the chart”
Immediately after, both of them pointed at the day that would be the ovulation day, or off by a day, furthermore, just a single day.
“Erm……did each of you only have sexual intercourse only once a month?”
“Ye-, yes. That is, uh……”
“Er-, erm……tha-, that is, I……yeah. I was……exhausted”
“Aah, is that what it is. Then, Anna-sama conceiving a child in 2 years, was a complete coincidence huh”
“Marquis Laurel. Pardon me, but are your official duties that busy?”
“Yes. It might be because I am not capable enough……”
“Un? Huh? Marquis Laurel, is not that old yet, right. How old are you?”
“Yes. I am 27 years old”
“Eh? You are the head of the Marquis household at 27 years old? Did your father pass early?”
“No, he is alive”
“Sorry about that. Why, the change of leadership so early?”
“Chichiue1 said he wants to retire early, so I had no other choice”
“Then, are you doing all of the Marquis household’s official duties by yourself?”
“Yes. Exactly so”
“How many hours do you work a day? Do you have any rest days?”
“There are no rest days. Because the work never finishes, it takes from 8 in the morning until 10 in the night”
“Aah, I see. I got it. You will not be able to have a child that way”
“Eh!”
Everybody over there raised their voice at the same time for some reason. If I’m not wrong, even Stellaria and Veronica.
“Wh-, why, will I not be able to?”
“Yeah. Then, first, aah, I guess this will do”
I held a black ceramic vessel filled with sugar, and I moved all the sugar inside into an empty cup.
“Marquis Laurel. Please release your semen into this vessel”
“Se-, semen? Release my semen in here, you say? How exactly? am I to do that?”
“You’ll go to the toilet or bathroom and rub yourself off. If it is difficult by yourself, you can also have your wives help out though?”
“Wha-, what, am I doing something like that for?”
“I am a doctor. It is to verify whether or not you require treatment. You have to conceive a successor, right? This much is probably nothing”
“Ye-, yes. Got it. La-, Laura. Can I ask for your help?”
“Understood”
The two leave their seats with beet-red faces. And then all the women in this room are frozen with their hands over their mouths.
10 minutes later, the two of them returned.
“Well done. I will verify the state of your semen from here on out then, alright”
I slightly use See-Through Vision and observe the state of the sperms moving inside the semen. Uーn. The sperms themselves are few, and their movements aren’t good either huh. This is a mild case of male infertility huh.
“Got it. Marquis Laurel. You have an illness called ‘male infertility'”
