After finishing enjoying the moments of intimacy with Ophilia, Sian, who was still between her legs, thought.

'It seems that after sex, her scent is even more pleasant, it’s as if it’s calling me for another round.'

‘Wait! This smell... I get it, now I get it!’

'I finally get why I like her so much!’

‘That is the only explanation, after all, it’s impossible for someone cruel like me to fall in love out of nowhere.’

‘Even if she looks like ‘that woman’, it still wouldn’t make me feel that way, my normal self would just feel a little bit of nostalgia and that’s it.’

While Sian was lost in thought, he didn't realize that Ophilia had already composed herself and was sitting on the bed facing him, watching him closely.

Time passed slowly and she decided to break the silence, "Did something happen?"

"I think I understood why I suddenly started to like you so much."

He put his hand on the chin and sat with his legs crossed, "Can you smell that scent that you have?"

"Am-Am I stinking?" She said nervously as she sniffed her arms.

"No, that's not what I meant." Sian denied it and said thoughtfully, "It's a pleasant smell that makes me feel comfortable, but sometimes it makes me excited, like an aphrodisiac."

"I don't smell anything, I never heard anyone say I have that smell." She said confused.

"In that case, it can only be what I was thinking..." Sian said.

‘So that’s why I wasn’t able to dissipate, it’s not magic, it’s just a physiological effect.’

“Ayze once told me that even though rarely, some female Beastkin are born with a mutation that makes them release pheromones when they are in the fertile period.

These pheromones attract the opposite sex and leave them attracted to the owner of the pheromones, but it is extremely rare for anyone to be affected by these pheromones.” He said, looking Ophilia's naked body up and down.

'Really a diabolical figure.'

"Sorry, I didn't know that." Ophilia said apologetically.

“It's not your fault, it doesn't have such a strong effect, it's just that you look like a person who took care of me when I was at the orphanage. Even the personality is a bit similar and when you put it all together, I ended up feeling a certain familiarity, that's probably why I like you so much.” Sian said.

"What do you intend to do now?" She asked.

"Nothing, I feel like being like this is good, I feel comfortable when I'm with you, I like to talk to you, to hug you, when I'm with you I feel like my life is brighter." Sian looked deeply into her eyes, "That is why if you accept, I want to build a family with you."

After a moment of silence, Ophilia asked apprehensively. "Do you really want this?"

"For sure!" Sian said without hesitation, "I promise to do my best to make you happy."

“Thank you for being so considerate of me even though I'm just a slave. Even if I don't think I'm good enough, I'll try my best to respond to your feelings.” She said.

“What are you based on to say you don't deserve me? For me, you are an incredible woman, or rather, I think I don't deserve you, you don't know my past...” After a brief pause, he continued. "I'm a very bad person, I've done some really bad things out there and when I think I can be with such a kind and gentle woman, I can only think that fate is being unfair to you, but I still want to follow that feeling inside of me."

"Is it all right for you to love a woman like me? After all, you know…" Hesitating a little, she continued, "You know what I used to do in the past."

“The past doesn't matter, we should just focus on the future and build our lives going forward. When I'm with you, I feel like I can become a better person.” He hugged her. "And we still have a lot of time to get to know each other better."

While they were still embraced, Sian used magic to clean them together with the bed.

Realizing that, Ophilia said. "Don't you want to continue?"

“Well... I want to, but it's not good for your body, from your dark circles, it's obvious you're tired." Sian said.

"It can't be helped, after all, we did it a lot last night, I wasn't counting, but I think it was at least eight and in the end, you looked like you could take it even more." She said.

"Kulhum, I'm sorry about that, I hadn't done it for a while, so I ended up getting excited." Sian said awkwardly.

“How can you last that long? Usually, men only last 2 or 3 rounds.” She said.

"It's like you said, but I’m not a normal person, I’m a particularly strong magical warrior, so my resistance couldn’t be weak." Sian said proudly.

"So what are we going to do with this little boy who's poking my belly?" She asked.

"Just ignore him, he'll be back to normal soon."

"If you say... But seeing now, magic is really very convenient."

They spent some time chatting, but as Ophilia was tired, they didn't extend the conversation too much and soon they went to sleep.

***

In the middle of the night, Sian woke up hearing strange sounds. The moment he opened his eyes, he realized that the sounds were coming from Ophilia, who was trembling as she murmured incomprehensible words.

With a face full of concern that not even he expected to have, Sian grabbed her shoulders and shook them slightly to try to wake her up, “Ophilia, wake up! Ophilia.”

When she woke up, he realized something he hadn't seen before, there were tears streaming down her eyes.

He brought his face close to hers and stroked her hair. "Did you have a nightmare?"

Still trembling slightly, she nodded slowly.

He hugged her to his chest and said, "Don't worry, I'm here, I won't let anything bad happen to you."

Perhaps because she felt more secure, she hugged him tightly and buried her head in his neck.

'It must have been quite a nightmare for her to be in that state... I’m even feeling her tears running down on me.'

"I heard that if you talk about the nightmare to someone else, you will feel better, do you want to tell me what it was about?"

“I-I...” Although hesitant, she continued, "I had a nightmare about my daughter..."

'What?! Ophilia is a mother?!! ’

Despite being surprised, he didn't show it on the outside and just kept stroking her while he waited for her to continue.

"She told me a lot of things... That I'm a horrible person... That I abandoned her... That I put her in the world just to suffer…” Saying until then, she couldn't take it anymore and started to cry.

"Don't mind this nightmare, it's just an imaginary thing, there's no way you can be a horrible person. I may not have known you for a long time, but I trust my intuition. If you abandoned her, it was certainly for a good reason or you had no choice."

“But... But-But still..." While sobbing in tears, she continued. "I abandoned her... I didn't do my duty as a mother... She has every reason in the world to hate a person like me..."

"It may not be as you think, you know?" Sian said, "As I said before, I am an orphan and even without knowing my parents or knowing where they are, I would like to know why I was abandoned... Maybe they had a good reason..."

Seeming to have calmed down a little more, she said. "Even if it was a good reason, it wouldn't change what I did..."

"Can you tell me what happened?" Sian asked. "If this is uncomfortable for you, you don't have to force yourself."

After a moment of silence, Ophilia said. "Do you remember 5 years ago when someone fought a dragon in the Edrorian forest?"

Hearing this Sian was a little surprised, without understanding the reason for the question, "Well, there's no way not to remember, after all, it was a fight against Frygor, The Furious, this fight ended up with a huge part of the forest there."

“A few days after that, I found out I was pregnant… I spent a lot of years as a slave who worked as a prostitute, but Mr. Badonis always made sure that none of the slaves attended to someone of the same race to avoid becoming pregnant.

But even if it seemed impossible, I ended up getting pregnant, when I found out about it I went into despair. Even though I was over 30, this was something I never experienced before and I was just a slave who had a single purpose to serve customers, no one would want to be attended by a pregnant woman, I would become useless, I was very afraid of what was going to happen to me...

Fortunately, Mr. Badonis and his wife weren't bad for me, the moment they discovered my pregnancy, they put me to work in the kitchen and supported me about giving birth to the child, but even so, I was worried.

I didn't know who the father was... I also didn't know if I was going to love the child or not... I spent many sleepless nights, always wondering what I should do if I didn't love her...

But all of this ended up being meaningless when I gave birth to her... She's a child that came out of me, she's part of me, she has my blood, my flesh, it's impossible not to love her...

That was the first time that I felt truly happy in a long time. It was the joy of being a mother…” She said as she went through a whirlwind of emotions.