Hey, hey ... are you okay?　My belly.

　I looked at Alice's swollen belly and became very concerned.

　Even with this, I've seen Yulia, Tetra and pregnant women a lot, and I know the endurance of a woman's body.
　But Alice's belly.....
　They were far more puffy than normal.

　'Triplets ... maybe four or five!

　Alice is happily patting her belly, but honestly, it looks like it could burst at any moment...
　Please, be quiet.
　It's exciting to watch.

　Alice, don't move, okay?

　Julia carefully touched Alice's belly to see what was inside.

　'How many people are in this thing?'
　'Hmmm, on the record in the past, quadruplets are the biggest...but they're a lot bigger than my belly at the time. By the numbers. There are definitely more than five in there, right? Yeah.

　I can see the color of astonishment on Julia's face like that.

　But why so many.........

　Maybe it's because it's a spider?

　Tetra blurted out.
　'Yeah, maybe that's the truth.

　'Are they all going to be born safe?'
　With the quadruplets, two of them died in the womb and the pregnant woman died too, but...

　I asked in a whisper, and Yulia whispered back.

　.........Isn't this Alice's life in danger?

　Julia nodded a little, as if she understood what I was thinking.

　''First of all, I'll read some medical books on Cilicia and see what I can find out. You might find some good material. I'm going to go to Lesado for a bit.
　Yeah, you'll need to bring your bodyguards.

　The Cilician book manuscript business is going on, but not all of it has been copied and brought to Los Angeles.
　Most of the books are in Lesado.

　Now, what I'm going to do....

　'It's best for Almus to stay in a hurry. There's nothing I can do about it either.
　Well, yes, but...

　Tetra tapped me on the shoulder to calm me down.
　It's true that Tetra is inferior to me, the king, and Yulia when it comes to medical arts, but all I can do now is pray.......

　Pray?

　Hey, Alice, don't you think that "Safe Childhood Blessing"...　

　-I don't think we should ask the elves to do too much of everything but didn't you say you gave it to them last time?　I'll probably be fine. Well, but the quintuplets are a bit of an unknown to me, too, so I'm not too sure - but I'm not too sure.

　The fairy replied with a laugh, seemingly amused.
　Lately, when I call out to her, she responds rather easily.

　To be honest, I don't think it's a good idea to rely on them too much or trust them too much, though.
　For what it's worth, the power of fairies is dependable.
　Well, there's nothing better than being friendly with them.

　Making enemies is the trickiest thing to do.

　''Sire, have you got a name in mind?''

　Despite our worries, Alice has a wry smile on her face and is smoothly writing down potential names on a piece of paper.
　.........Well, it's true, names for more than five children are painful to think about.

　'Tetra, if you don't have anything to do, come up with something together.
　Yeah, it's good.

　Thus, me, Tetra and Alice came up with about twenty potential names for men and women combined.






　Alice's belly was getting bigger and bigger with our worries at the other end of the spectrum.　
　And.........

　Are you okay or are you in pain?
　I'm totally fine!

　Alice's belly, which was smiling, didn't seem to be okay at all from a sidelong glance.
　It was swollen to a level where even a light press of a finger might cause it to burst.

　But Alice, the owner of that belly, doesn't seem to be in any distress; rather, she is happily touching her belly and excitedly saying that it is moving and moving.

　You're not going to be able to get it right. Hey Julia, are you feeling okay?
　Maybe.

　Julia gave a bitter smile.
　She didn't look serious.
　For now, at least as far as Yulia could see, she must be fine.

　Yulia's knowledge of medical arts is quite a thing considering this era.
　It's probably safe to trust her.

　''But a woman's body is amazing.

　How can it be swollen like that and not burst?
　The womb is really tough.

　I'm not sure that Alice could be special.

　Tetra expressed her thoughts as she looked at Alice's belly.
　Tetra is quite small compared to Yulia and Alice.

　.........It certainly doesn't look like Tetra's belly is going to be able to withstand it.

　''But it might stretch out more than you think, huh?
　It's not very often that I get pregnant with quintuplets and I have a lot of kids.

　Tetra seems to be rather happy with the number of children she has now.
　After all, it is quite painful to give birth to a child, so she doesn't seem to be willing to give birth too aggressively, even if it is safe with the 'blessing of a safe birth'.

　'I'd like to have at least one more child. Hey, Alms.

　Julia said and hugged me.
　I twined my right arm around her and took a glance at Tetra.
　Tetra made a miffed face and grabbed my left arm.

　'Then I'm two,'
　So there are three.
　Four.
　Five.
　Hey, guys, no need to play games.

　I pull them both out of my arms.
　Alice is looking at me enviously from earlier.

　Well, I can't hug her with that belly, you know.

　I move closer to Alice and stroke her head.

　'I'm rooting for you.　''Yes, I'm going to give birth to a hundred!
　...that's a lot, indeed.

　You could organize an army, let alone a football team.







　In conclusion, Alice is dead.







　She is not dead, and she has given birth and is alive and well.
　In total, six children, three male and three female, were born without incident.

　Yulia and I both expected a difficult birth, so we prepared many spellcasters and experienced birth mothers and took all the necessary precautions, but we had nothing to worry about.

　With Julia and Tetra, we stepped up quite a bit and finally gave birth to one...
　So I was totally in that image.

　But Alice's child was born pompom.　
　Pom-poms are really like pom-poms...

　It took about two hours for the first child to poke his head out, but the next five were born in a total of an hour.......twelve minutes each.

　While they were fussing over the birth of one, the other one began to chirp and whine.
　At first the sorcerers and birthing mothers were nervous about the birth of the king's concubine, more than five children, but in the latter half of the day, they were completely bitter and smiling.

　Alice didn't seem to be in that much pain either - of course, she was in anguish when she gave birth, and she was sweating so much that her clothes and hair were sticky - but she even smiled from time to time.

　One, every time she was born.

　'Your Majesty!　She's born again, this time it's a boy!
　'You did it, Your Majesty!　I'm a girl!

　It's true that I was very relieved to see Alice reporting to me in good spirits, but....
　I felt like I wanted my worries to be returned.

　In addition, I asked the fairy if it was her blessing that made my delivery so easy. I asked him, with a rare wry smile.

　-If anything, it's Alice's peculiar constitution.

　I replied.
　I knew that being half spider was a big deal.




　When I gave birth to my last child, Alice said to me, "I did it! He fell asleep soon after.
　Even though it was a short period of time, consecutive births must have taken a lot of energy.

　I muttered to myself as I looked at Alice and the baby who was sleeping in a row on the six small beds beside her.

　'It's a good thing Alice is a concubine.'
　What does that mean?

　Julia nods her head.

　''No, if it had been a side room I would have had to find a suitable job, bride or wife for six people,''

　After all, there are six of us.
　There are plenty of people in this country who want my blood, so there are plenty of candidates for it, but
　There are people who want to share their blood with me, and people who don't want to.
　And when it comes to a legitimate child, I want him or her to be married to a nobleman or a child of an aristocrat with great achievements.

　When you think about it, there aren't many candidates.

　No way, it can't be a set of three sisters, Julia's daughter and Alice's daughter for Ron's son.

　But if it's a bastard child, there's no need to take it that seriously.
　Since they are not official children, there is no political meaning (that much) involved in their marriage.

　Of course, as long as she's my son and daughter, her blood has a certain value to it.

　You can choose from a wide range of people, from aristocrats to commoners.

　The same is true for work.
　You have to give them a suitable government position if they are the son of a royal family, but those jobs are few and far between, and I'd rather focus on competence than bloodline to begin with.

　On the other hand, if he's a bastard, he can be a bureaucrat, a soldier, or anything else.
　In that sense, these kids have the most options to choose from.

　Maybe they're happier than Marx...