The Demon Lord's Bride (BL)-Chapter 642: It is the parents’ job to prepare a place for their children in this world

Chapter 642: It is the parents’ job to prepare a place for their children in this world

Shwa woke up exactly three hours later, feeling hungry. Leaning against my husband’s chest, I fed my baby with the small bottle, and my other baby swooped down in the middle of it, transforming into a little boy, and slammed onto the mattress while laughing.

"Jade feel Shwa wake up!"

"Ung--waa!"

Shwa moved his mouth away from the bottle to respond while swaying his arm, before getting back to the milk again. Jade giggled and nuzzled the baby’s side, asking me if he could feed Shwa too.

What a lovely view. Naturally, I captured it in the recording device so I could watch it later when I returned to the Human Realm.

Haa...thinking about returning made me depressed again.

Thankfully, we did a real tower tour after Shwa finished his burping, and it elevated my mood significantly. We spent a lot of time in Jade’s room, rolling around on the round bed while Natha tried to find a place to sit down between children’s furniture. freёweɓnovel.com

I was having so much fun and relieving so many nostalgic moments that I almost couldn’t bear to leave the Lair again. It would be fun to spend the night in the Lair again, but we didn’t pack enough milk for Shwa so unfortunately, we had to return to the Castle.

We bid goodbye to Doun and the twins before returning just in time for dinner. When I came out of the bathroom with Natha later, Shwa and Jade were already fresh in new cute nightwear on our bed.

"Pajama party!" Jade raised his arms to welcome us.

"Aaa!"

I patted his head as praise because he restrained himself from using the mattress as a trampoline when Shwa was there. "Are you excited, baby? Are you happy to sleep together with Papa and Jade?"

"Uuu!"

"Papa, Jade want to read this tonight!"

The little boy raised a book about a Demon Realm’a folk tale, and we read them together for Shwa, acting out the conversation with Natha--who was a pretty good actor, surprisingly. But then again, according to Zarfa, a merchant was supposed to be good at acting.

"They must have a lot of fun today, if they fall asleep this fast," I patted my babies ten minutes later. The tale hadn’t even ended yet, and Jade had already curled up next to Natha. His small finger was gripped by Shwa’s tiny fist, which was mega cute!

Needless to say I was spending the next thirteen minutes trying to capture this moment on the recording device--taking both video and photos.

"Shwa only gets this excited when you’re here," Natha smiled.

"Really?" the corner of my lips raised by themselves.

Truthfully, I couldn’t help but worry about whether or not my baby would forget my face since I was rarely there during his early development. I mean...his eyes were starting to focus, but he could only see my face what--once a week? I would be so heartbroken if I came to him one day and he only stared at me blankly as if saying ’Who are you?’.

If that were to happen, I felt like I would become a puddle of sad tears on the ground.

It was truly fortunate that Shwa didn’t just use his five senses to recognize me. My son knew me by mana, so even if someone impersonated me, Shwa would not be swayed. Good boy! Good son!

I spent more time kissing my babies after capturing their pictures, giggling when Natha did the same to me. "Are you also only this excited when I’m here?" I asked mischievously.

But Natha answered without hesitation or lie. "Of course."

I covered my mouth so my giggle wouldn’t wake them up, and we tiptoed to the sofa. This time, we didn’t place any noise cancellation because Natha and the nannies said Shwa started to make noises while sleeping at night, as if he was dreaming.

I heard from the nurses in my past that babies didn’t usually dream, but Shwa was rather...different. He had a higher cognitive level than other babies and a sealed memory somewhere in his soul plane. Dreaming...was not improbable.

Anyway, it sounded adorable, so I wanted to hear it too.

"Haa...this is why you shouldn’t leave your baby’s early days..." I whined a little bit while Natha braided my hair on the sofa.

"Don’t worry, sweetheart. Most of his development will happen later anyway, once we are done with this whole thing."

"Right," I nodded, only for Natha to hold my head in place again. "I’ll make sure to never leave his side after we get his full custody!"

Despite my serious declaration, Natha was silently laughing on my shoulder, shaking his hands and with it, my hair.

"Why?" I pouted.

"Nothing," he smiled and kissed my pouting lips. "Let’s get that...custody, and we can freely show more of the world to Shwa."

"Yep! Let’s take the airship and visit all kinds of places--ah, we should take him to our island too!"

"It warms me that you called it our island."

"Oh, we should take him to the realm of nature too!"

"Where? The place we made him?"

"Hey!" I smacked his arm and he just laughed, tightening the cord at the end of the braid. "It’s not like the converging point will stay there..."

He laughed louder that I had to clasp his mouth so our babies wouldn’t wake up from the noise.

Well, the converging point should have moved after we conceived, since the process absorbed the mana in the area. Honestly, I had thought of returning to that place just for fun and nostalgia, but I knew the lake and perhaps even the tree wouldn’t be there anymore. My spatially challenge ass wouldn’t be able to find the place if I tried for a hundred years.

"Well, there’s still a lot of places to visit over there," Natha chuckled and pinched my pursing lips. "You also still have a lot of places to visit."

"You’re right," I nodded enthusiastically.

Going through this whole journey in the Human Realm made me realize I had been cooped up too much in the Castle. The world was truly vast, and there were many more things I could see by going through the land rather than the air or teleporting everywhere. I was sure it would be even more fun if we could travel leisurely instead of with a mission at hand.

I had visited several cities in the Demon Realm during the annual inspection, but I couldn’t freely enjoy it last time because I was still afraid of the citizens’ rejection--and Natha was grounding me for throwing up after that purification. I wanted to see more of the smaller town too, the hidden gem, the hidden delicacy like that small village I visited the first time.

I wanted to check the halflings’ settlements and see how they were doing, and visited the oasis again. Of course, Ignis’s volcano too. Naturally, I wanted to visit other demon realms too aside from Gluttony, wanted to see how different everything was from the realm of greed.

I wanted to go to the underground city again, and the other druid settlements. I also hadn’t visited Izzi’s hometown--hell, hadn’t even visited Zia’s. Oh, there were truly a lot of places I wanted to see, and...

"And?" Natha asked when I paused on my blabber.

"And...umm..." I bit my lips and looked up sheepishly. "I want to bring Shwa to visit the graves."

Natha raised his brows. "Of the Princess and the Priest?"

That sounded like a book’s title, but yeah. "I mean...they are technically Shwa’s grandparents," I shrugged. At least physically. I snuggled deeper into his embrace and asked carefully in a whisper. "What about you, Nat? Do you want to visit your parents’ graves?"

"...I don’t know," Natha replied in a quiet voice. I could feel his arms tightening around me as he added. "Maybe. One day."

"Okay," I nodded. "One day."

I felt his smile at the top of my head, and I hugged him tighter. "Will it be possible, though? I mean, bringing Shwa to the Human Realm..."

"It might be," Natha said in a light tone that got me pulled back to look at him in surprise. "If you manage to get the Goddess, make sure you ask for some favors."

I shifted my posture in attention. "What favors?"

Natha shrugged. "Like correcting the wrong teaching? You’re going to sit the deities at the same table anyway, so perhaps we could finally do something about this whole conflict."

I gasped. Why...didn’t I think of it? All I had been thinking about was making sure I got my baby’s full custody, but--but what if we could do more?

It was such a brilliant idea, but I was surprised that it came from Natha. He looked at my surprised and confused face before chuckling and rubbing my slightly frowning brows.

"I had been doing a lot of thinking, and..." Natha sighed softly despite the gentle smile on his lips. "You said you wanted to make a place where our mixed child could live peacefully, didn’t you?"

I nodded.

"Isn’t it sad?" his smile turned bitter. "That we have to make a special place to protect him. The world...the world where our children live shouldn’t be such a sad place. We shouldn’t need to make a separate place for mixed races. The world should never reject them in the first place."

Again, I nodded--this time more vigorously. Natha was right. We shouldn’t cater to what is wrong with the world. We should strive to fix it if we have a way.

And we did have a way. Well...we might have a way.

"Besides," the silver eyes curled. "It will always be more profitable for merchants to have a wider range of customers."

I looked at him incredulously for the shattered illusion, but burst out into laughter a few seconds later.

"Uu...aaa...waaaaaa!"

Oops. Time to pacify my son.