"Alms, I'm pregnant.
　Well this time the tetras come first?

　In the fall....
　It was clear that Tetra's pregnancy was the result of her daily sowing.

　'We won,'
　What's the betting on...

　However, Yulia is not happy about being beaten to the punch.　
　Probably, if Yulia had been pregnant first, she would have declared victory over Tetra.

　.........Even though it's because of the 'safe delivery blessing', it's not a surefire way to say that it's safe, and I don't want you to get pregnant like you're competing.

　I've already had plenty of kids....

　Alms, do you want a boy or a girl?　
　'Ummm ... a girl?　And the boys are on time.

　The House of Rosais, and Marcus as King of the Age.
　As the head of the House of Ath, Anx.

　Each of them has the necessary heirs in place.

　If I had to say something, I would like Julia to give birth to another boy.
　I'm sorry to say, but as a 'spare'.

　In this world, it's not uncommon to have ten children and have eight die before the age of three.
　Well, I know the concept of hygiene, so I make sure my children wash their hands and disinfect with alcohol, and even if they catch a cold, not a single child has died so far because of Uriah's spell.

　From Raimondo and the others' point of view, it must seem dangerous to have only one 'boy' of Julia's, a potential heir, in danger.

　Well, Tetra's children are not involved in the succession to the throne or anything like that, so there's not much of a problem in that area.

　For a boy, you have to prepare for various things such as adult occupation, position, mansion, land, wife, etc., but for a girl, it's not a problem as long as you send her off to marry somewhere, and if it's a girl for a political marriage, it doesn't matter how many girls you have.

　There are plenty of noblemen and foreign royalty who want to have my daughter.

　Preferably with Pofenia...
　However, Pofenia is a republic, not a monarchy, and the government is not very stable, with mainstream factions changing hands very quickly.

　Even if you married the Hanno family for political reasons, it would mean nothing if the Barca family's power grew.
　In fact, the danger will only increase.

　As for Persis........
　I don't think it makes much sense as it would be buried in a mountain of side rooms.

　I mean, I feel sorry for my daughter.

　'Yeah, I'll have a girl then.'
　You can't have a baby.

　If you can give birth, I wouldn't have had that much trouble with Julia, but....

　I hear that eating vegetables helps you have more babies.
　Are you sure?

　Some kind of superstition...
　Well, if there's even a 0.1 percent chance, it's worth a try...

　You need to eat your fish and meat. You need to be strong...
　Yeah, I know.

　I stroke Tetra's head.
　Her hair is silky and beautiful, and it's smooth.

　'Hey, Alms!'

　Julia pokes her head out like she's jealous.
　Pet me too!
　So that's it.

　I touch Yulia's hair.
　Her hair is smooth and purple-red (lavender) and shakes.

　It smells good, sweet, somehow.
　It's a gentle smell that makes me want to smell it forever.

　I'm not going to be able to get it right. Is it perfume?
　Oh, I think it's that poisonous flower I've been studying lately. It's addictive, I'm afraid.

　I let go of my hand in a hurry.
　What a thing to make me sniff!

　Joke, joke. It's a perfume.
　...Really?
　It's true you can't do a lot of things when I'm addicted.

　That would be fine.
　When I look at the drug fields in my backyard, I get worried sometimes...

　You didn't do it, did you?
　'I know the dangers better than most and it makes me sad just to see a rat addicted to drugs or something. I'm the one who makes them ingest it.

　Julia uses rats for her drug research.
　There are about 1,000 rats in the laboratory.

　Probably the building with the highest rat population per unit area in Romalia is this palace.

　'Yes, cannabis makes your senses more sensitive when you use it, so you can eat rice and other things that taste good, how's the alms?　Use it?　Marijuana isn't very toxic and it's okay once. Maybe.
　I'm interested, but no thanks.

　I've heard people say it's less harmful than cigarettes, but I'd say it's a fifty-step process either way.
　I've made up my mind not to take in any harmful substances that are unnecessary to the human body.

　Huh?　You're asking if it's okay to drink?

　It's okay to drink.

　Don't get hung up on the details.

　There's one guy in this country who's about to have a revolt if we ever get Prohibition going.

　"Bartolo's organs look okay?
　'Hmm, I don't know.　I'm sure he's more ravaged than a bad drug addict. Well, he's on pins and needles for now, and he'll be fine for another five years.　And just so you know, I don't seem to have any bad symptoms.

　It is common knowledge in the Kingdom of Romalia that Bartolo, when it comes to organs, is an alcoholic.
　So much so that Bartolo is famous for his heavy drinking.

　

　'Yulia, you're not pregnant yet but you're going to have to be careful with the poison, okay?　You may be okay, but you don't know what's going to happen to the child in your belly, do you?
　That's a little late for that. I'm quite used to dealing with poison.

　Well, I've already had three babies.
　It's certainly not a new story.

　"Oh yeah, I actually made a great discovery recently, do you want to hear about it?

　Suddenly, a thought occurred to her, and Julia suddenly began to lean forward.
　She wanted to say very much.

　'I want to hear it, I want to hear it. 'What is it?'

　I'll ask her anyway.

　Isn't it true that there's a highly addictive poisonous plant called magical plants?
　Really?

　I don't remember the name of the weed at all.

　As long as I was experimenting with rats, I thought it was just a drug, but then I realized how great it would be if I could get people to smoke it.

　In case you're wondering, the person who was smoked by Yulia is a person on death row.
　Well, I guess it's good to be happy before you die...

　What?　Don't be a waste.
　To my surprise, the spell power has been restored!

　You're talking about...

　'Does that mean that smoking the magical weed will allow the sorcerer to operate for a longer period of time than ever before?
　'Yeah, it will. Well, as it stands, it's still a drug... but recently we've been experimenting with cultivating magical plants with less addictive ingredients and extracting only the ingredients that restore spell power. It hasn't yielded any results, though.

　That's a great find, even if it didn't pay off!

　This will develop more witchcraft and sorcery than ever before, and if we can supplement our spell power and other powers to some extent with medicine, then the threshold of spell power required for spellcasters should also be lowered.

　Then our country's military and medical technology would also improve.

　I raise Julia's head good girl good girl.

　''That's great work. Julia!
　'Humph, I'm his wife!　It's not like a side room that always argues with some astronomer and never comes to a conclusion.

　Julia proudly stretched her big chest.
　Hmm, I've grown up a lot compared to when I was twelve years old.

　''Well it's not that we haven't come to a conclusion. It's just that he doesn't give up. Both observations and calculations, the celestial motion theory is far more reasonable.
　Ha ha.....

　I know the geocentric theory is correct, but ....
　You can't prove Tetra to them.

　It's because Tetra is far more knowledgeable and intelligent.

　I don't understand it, but at least with this world's observational technology, the 'heliocentric theory' is clearly more correct and the 'geocentric theory' would be wrong.

　There are certain planetary movements that are provable in the "Heavocentric Theory" but impossible to prove in the "Geocentric Theory", or something like that.

　Well, we'll have to wait for the invention of the telescope for this one.
　At least, we don't have the technology to produce glass, and even if we could, we would not be able to produce a lens that is so transparent that it could be used in a telescope.

　We'll need another few hundred years.

　But our calendar is based on the calendar made by Nikolaos, right?　And Almus is also a geocentric person. I'm a heliocentric. The sun is a symbol of goodness, right?　Then it's not surprising that the sun, a symbol of goodness, is at the center of it.

　You're a geocentric, you just want to play with tetras....

　Tetra puffs up her cheeks and turns away, as if she's offended.
　I take Tetra's cheek between my hands and let the air out of it.

　'Don't be so offended I'll be looking forward to your magical research.

　I rubbed my cheeks with Munimni, and Tetra immediately leaned back against me to see if she was in a better mood.

　'I've made some progress on the magic front lately too.
　What?
　'The first magic circle was two-dimensional. After that, I increased the amount of information even more by making it 3-dimensional. By making it four-dimensional, the amount of information will increase even more, and we should be able to use magic with even greater effect.
　Oh!

　But what about the fourth dimension?

　It's a theory because it can't be done.
　....
　....

　Progress, huh?　It's....

　You should have been born more in the future, two thousand years ... or maybe three thousand years from now.

　If I had done that, I would have discovered something greater than I do now...
　Ah, but without Tetra, I don't see how magic and other physics, math, and chemistry can be developed without him.

　Lately, you've been applying what I've taught you, and you've started proving math, physics, and chemistry that I don't even know about...