Liz quietly called Hersis, but he didn’t hear her, being engrossed in enjoying Isshar and Sadam.

During that time, the feeling of splash came again, and this time, there was quite a lot of amniotic fluid. The floor was soaked.

“Hers!”

As Liz urgently shouted, Hersis turned around. And Isshar, along with others, also looked at the empress.
When Liz urgently shouted, Sanpa stared at her with a clump of chestnut hair. His knees were weak.

“Your Majesty, please go out.”

Liz urged Hersis, looking at him.

“Quickly.”

But Hersis just held Liz’s hand more tightly, ignoring her plea.

When he didn’t listen, Liz sought help from the courtiers.

“Could someone please escort this man out?”

“…….”.

No one volunteered. Even Rosa, fixated on her record sheet, didn’t look in their direction. No one dared to think about chasing away the emperor, a natural thing.

Of course.

“Liz.”

Hersis said.

“I want to be by your side. Is it not okay for me to be there, Liz?”

“Of course not… Ugh… Ugh!”

Liz, following the breathing techniques learned in childbirth education, exerted all her strength to persuade Hersis to leave, all while enduring contractions.

“Go out quickly. Please, quickly.”

Then Hersis, with pleading golden eyes, said, “I’m afraid you might go wrong while I’m away.”

“…….”.

“Every time I’m not around, something happens to you.”

At that moment, Liz realized she could no longer break this man’s determination.

How could she resist such a poignant gaze and an earnest voice?

“Then a curtain. Can you at least put up a curtain?”

At Liz’s request, the courtiers quickly set up a curtain. While they were busy under the curtain, Liz held Hersis’s hand tightly and said,

“Don’t look down.”

“I won’t.”

“And, when the contractions come, I might even pull out your hair. Is that okay?”

To Liz’s words, Hersis chuckled and replied, “You’re welcome anytime.”

Although she threatened him, he accepted it so happily that Liz felt a sense of defeat. She wondered if he could be so pleased even if his hair were actually pulled out.

Meanwhile, contractions began to creep in again.

It already felt unusual.

Hoo , Haa .

Liz took a deep breath and prepared herself.

“Ugh… Ugh!”

The strongest contraction so far arrived.

It felt like her body was being wrung out like a wet cloth. The next moment, there was a feeling of something slipping out of her belly.

But due to fatigue, she couldn’t get it out at once.

Should I hold it? Again…?

Liz, unknowingly, was contemplating executing a joke she had made. She was that out of her mind.

Then Hersis placed Liz’s hand on his head.

“Hold it. Grab and pull.”

“…….”.

Liz gazed at him for a moment, then slowly lowered her hand.

Soft strands of hair gently wrapped around her fingertips.

“I can’t do it.”

“…….”.

“How can I tear out your hair? You’re such a precious person.”

Liz said with a faint smile.
Liz’s sweat-soaked bangs were sticking to her forehead, and her lips were chapped from excessive chewing, with blood clotting. Moreover, her eyes had burst blood vessels, making the whites a deep crimson.

Though somewhat peculiar, in Hersis’s eyes, Liz was the most beautiful in the world. She also appeared the most sublime.

He bent down and briefly kissed Liz.

It was a moment like a break in the intense labor.

“Wait!”

Suddenly remembering, Liz asked,

“Didn’t you promise to tell me something?”

“What did I promise to tell you?”

Hersis asked.

“That day, in the garden when the rebellion happened.”

‘In your past life. Perhaps…’

“Did I say that?”

Hersis grinned, pretending not to remember.

But, in fact, he remembered everything.

That day, facing a significant event, he wanted to ask something while feeling somewhat sentimental.

‘In your past life. Perhaps, the name…’

However, now that everything had been settled, and stability regained, did it really need to bring up old matters?

He wanted to be faithful to his current life. So, he pretended not to know.

“Tell me. What did I say? What about my past life?”

“…….”.

“What about my past life?”

However, Liz, with a face distorted in pain, tears welling up in her bloodshot eyes, pleaded earnestly, making it difficult for her not to say.

“Okay, I’ll tell you.”

With a sigh, Hersis opened his mouth.

“What is it that…”

“Ugh!”

At that moment, Liz, squeezing Hersis’s hand tightly, groaned.

The intensity of a contraction on a different level drowned out Hersis’s words.

Liz felt the whole world turning yellow, as if she were wearing tinted glasses.

It was just as Mirabel had said.

‘When the world looks yellow, that’s when the baby comes out.’

So, this contraction seemed to be the final one.

Liz exerted all her strength without pausing to catch her breath.

She believed she had given her all in everything until now, but it was a perfect misconception. Undoubtedly, there was no task in the world that poured out her all as much as childbirth.

From head to toe, she was given superhuman strength.

At this moment, it seemed like she could even win an arm-wrestling match against Hersis.

“……!”

Suddenly, a feeling of something leaving her body, and like a lie, the pain disappeared.

And in an instant, Liz’s exhausted body collapsed on the bed.

“Wahhhh!”

The cry of the baby resonated. It roared like a boy.

After Sanpa wiped the baby clean and wrapped it in a white cloth, he brought it over.

It was different from the small, cute baby Liz had imagined in her mind.

The red, wrinkled baby couldn’t even open its eyes properly.

Still… it was so adorable!

Sanpa tried to place the baby in Liz’s arms, but she had completely lost her strength, so Hersis had to hold the baby instead.

Hersis, skillfully holding the baby and looking at it affectionately, had the unmistakable face of a proud father.
He tilted his body for Liz to have a better view.

“You look like them, don’t you?”

Liz said. It was because the baby’s hair color was as pitch-black as hers.

“Do I? In my eyes, you look more alike.”

“You might see more when the baby opens its eyes.”

The two of them didn’t hesitate to find similarities between each other and the baby’s face. Memories of past lives had long been completely forgotten by them.

“Wahhh!”

The baby cried again.

Hersis comforted the baby and called out a name.

“Cain.”

Surprisingly, at that moment, the baby’s crying stopped abruptly, and it slowly lifted its swollen eyelids.

Liz burst into laughter, saying,

“It’s you. It looks exactly like you.”