Chapter 873 NEOMAxYOAN/NEOMAxRUTO
"I'M FUCKING annoyed for some reason," Neoma complained out loud while clenching her hands tight. "I don't know why, but I want to punch something."
"Are you hungry?" Ruto asked worriedly. "You're not supposed to get hungry while you're in your Spirit form, though."
She clicked her tongue before she gave Ruto a dire stare. "Babe, do you think my random anger is caused by hunger?"
"Yes," Ruto said bluntly, then he gently held her hands to unclench them. "I'll cook all your favorite food when we get out of here."
And then he did something that completely melted Neoma's random anger away.
Ruto gently placed a kiss on her knuckles.
[Gosh, my man got rizz.]
"I'm craving Japanese food," Neoma said, now calm. "I want ramen, katsu curry rice, and beef yakiniku."
"Alright."
Neoma smiled, satisfied with Ruto's promise.
"Are you done flirting?"
Oh, right.
Neoma slowly faced Giant Neoma who was now carrying Vitu in her arms.
Of course, she was slightly jealous that her other self was holding THEIR baby. But she had a feeling Giant Neoma would lose it if she said she wanted to hold Vitu, too.
"Sorry, we got distracted," Neoma said, clearing her throat. "So, why did you return?"
"I'm here to give you my final message," Giant Neoma said, then she handed Vitu to Commander Yoan. "Let's talk, Neoma Roseheart de Moonasterio."
"Gosh. Why are you calling me by my full name?"
Giant Neoma just ignored her complaint, then she turned to Ruto. "I need to talk to this child in private, Commander Ruto."
"I understand, Princess Neoma," Ruto said politely. "It just so happens that I also need to talk to Commander Yoan in private."
Hmm?
[Something is sus.]
"Neoma, enjoy your conversation with the princess," Ruto said, slightly touching the back of her hand with his fingers. "I'll be waiting for you."
"Okay," Neoma said, grabbing Ruto's hand. "I'll scream if Giant Neoma threatens me."
"Pfft."
Both Ruto and Commander Yoan pretended to "cough" to hold back their laughter.
[Gosh, they're really the same person.]
"Mommy, Small Mommy, don't fight!" Baby Vitu said, pouting. "I'll scold you if you fight, okay?"
"We're not going to fight, dear," Giant Neoma said to their baby. "If we do, your Small Mommy will die because she's so pitifully weak at the moment."
Wow.
[I'm offended.]
Neoma wanted to curse but held back because of Vitu, so she only cursed Giant Neoma with her gaze.
[So fucking annoying.]
"Honey, don't pick on the young princess," Commander Yoan said while rubbing Giant Neoma's back. "She's you, so she'll definitely react the same way as you if she snaps. Have mercy on the Eternal Flame's domain."
Giant Neoma just scoffed.
"Babe, you should also calm down," Ruto whispered in her ear. "You don't want the title of being the strongest anyway, do you? You're the Visual Goddess, and that title is more important to you, isn't it?"
Neoma beamed, then she turned to Ruto. "Right? I already gave up the title of being the strongest because I don't want my life genre to turn into wuxia. I'm just going to be a very beautiful main character who's slightly strong in a romance fantasy novel. There's no need to conquer the world."
Ruto smiled and nodded while gently patting her head. "Cute."
***
"DADDY, SMALL Daddy, it's okay if the two of you fight– I'll judge the match fairly."
Pfft.
Ruto still felt awkward with children, especially his own child, but he couldn't help but think that Vitu was adorable.
[He got his (over)confidence from his mother.]
"Why is it okay for me and the other commander to fight, but you stopped your two mommies from fighting?" Commander Yoan complained lightly. "Is this blatant discrimination, you little rascal?"
Vitu grinned. "Daddy, you know my two mommies would destroy this world if they fought since they have no self-control. But both Daddy and Small Daddy are very careful, so I'm sure you will fight without harming anyone or destroying things here."
Oh.
"You're smart," Ruto commented approvingly. "You got your mother's brains."
"I did! I'm smart because I got Mommy's brains," Vitu said cheerfully, then he turned his back on them and ran to the fields. "And since I'm smart, I'll play alone so that Daddy and Small Daddy can talk privately~"
And the child really played alone.
Well, not really alone since Ruto could see the Spirits running with Vitu.
"Have you told your Princess Neoma about the deal we made with the God of Death and the Goddess of Life?"
"Not yet."
Commander Yoan let out a sigh. "The young princess has already retrieved the memories of her first life. You should come clean already."
Ruto gulped before he asked. "What did your Princess Neoma do when you told her about the deal?"
"I almost died even though I'm nothing but a piece of your soul."
"That sounds… scary."
"My wife is really protective of our child, so it's understandable that she got mad."
'Wife.'
Ruto blushed when Commander Yoan referred to Neoma as his wife.
After all, a pleasant image suddenly flashed in his mind.
Ruto saw Neoma in a white wedding dress, smiling brightly at him.
[Am I getting ahead of myself?]
But Neoma already expressed her desire to have a child with him NATURALLY.
[That means she's open to the idea of marrying me, right? The hook-up culture is a thing, but I don't think Neoma only wants me for my body… er, let's stop with these embarrassing thoughts.]
"Hey, are you still listening to me?"
"Neoma just got her memories back," Ruto said when he tried to focus again. "She may look calm, but I know she's still seething inside. If I told her about the deal now, she might snap. I have to find the perfect timing first."
"I understand what you're saying, but don't keep it a secret for long," Commander Yoan said firmly. "It will be bad if your Princess Neoma finds out about it from other people."
He let out a frustrated sigh. "I know that. But you should also know that Neoma's temper has gotten worse in this timeline."
"Then I wish you good luck."
"Thanks. I need that."
Commander Yoan chuckled while shaking his head. "I thought you were going to be a chef in this timeline. Why are you wearing that blasted commander brooch again?"
Ruto let out a sigh, shaking his head. "I AM a chef. But I made a deal with His Imperial Majesty. I'm going to be the temporary commander of the White Lion Knights until the war is over."
"I see– His Imperial Majesty doesn't want you to marry your princess."
"It doesn't matter," he said confidently. "I will still marry Neoma."
"A Solfrid and a de Moonasterio," Commander Yoan said, smiling. "The gods in the Upper World would lose their minds once again."
"We already obliterated them once, it's easy to do it the second time."
"Let's say you and your princess got married in this timeline…"
"Just get straight to the point."
Commander Yoan's entire face turned red. "Are you planning to conceive a child naturally this time?"
Ruto almost choked on his saliva, but he still tried to act as calmly as possible. "That's what Neoma wants. And I want it, too."
"Is she still obsessed with having a child? I thought she wouldn't feel that way anymore since she's no longer alone in this lifetime."
"Why is it strange? Neoma and I are dating. Isn't it only natural for us to get married in the end and decide whether we want a child or not?"
Of course, Ruto dated Neoma with marriage in mind.
"I seem to recall that we decided you'd only watch your princess from afar this time."
"It's hard to watch Neoma and not fall for her," he said firmly. "Even after I lost my feelings to the Ancient Devil, I still fell for her all over again."
"I just hope that you're a better lover to your Princess Neoma this time, Commander Ruto," Commander Yoan said, smiling while patting Ruto's shoulder. "You'll once again earn Lord Levi's wrath for choosing Neoma this time, too."
"I'm not afraid of Lord Levi," Ruto said, sighing. "It's the entire Imperial Family that I should fear the most."
[And Neoma's "children," too.]
***
"ARE YOU going to marry Commander Ruto?"
"Of course," Neoma said without missing a heartbeat. "I'm dating him with the intention of marrying him in the end."
"Then are you planning to conceive a child with him naturally?"
"Yep," she said bluntly. "But Vitu has to wait for a little while. I'm thinking of becoming a mom once I'm in my late twenties or early thirties."
Giant Neoma's eyes widened in shock. "That late?"
Right.
In the world that Giant Neoma grew up in, it was normal for girls to get married early and become teenage mothers.
[Even Mama Boss gave birth to Nero and me when she was in her late teens…]
But Neoma had lived as Neoma Kim for more than two decades. In Korea, the average age for women to get married was thirty.
[And I want to get married at that age, too.]
"I want to live as a lady of leisure after this freaking war," Neoma said. "Then, after marrying Ruto, I want to enjoy our honeymoon stage for a few years. Once I lazed around enough, only then would I feel ready to become a mother."
"You're going to put yourself first before your child?"
"Hey, don't be judgemental," Neoma argued with her other self. "It's far more selfish to bring a child into this world when you're not yet ready to be a parent. Of course, I can't wait to meet Vitu again. But I can only be a proper mother to me once I'm mentally stable, and unfortunately, I'm not mentally stable at the moment."
She was still seething inside after recovering her past memories.
The only reason she hadn't lost it yet was because she met Vitu here.
Heh.
[The world should thank my baby boy for keeping me sane.]
"Neoma Roseheart de Moonasterio, I have a question."
"Gosh. I told you not to call me by my full name–"
"You're going to conceive a child with Commander Ruto the natural way," Giant Neoma said bluntly, her red eyes glowing. "What makes you think the child you'd conceive would be Vitu when Vitu was a Sapling I created myself?"
What?
Neoma knitted her eyebrows. "I can't meet Vitu that way…?"
***
HANNA stepped onto the balcony and saw Lewis dominating his fight with Eloise.
Queen Lisica and Lord Rustin were doing a good job stopping the reanimated corpses of the Silver Foxes from interrupting Lewis' fight.
[It seems like everything is under their control.]
"Lewis."
She didn't have to raise her voice.
Lewis, with his sharp hearing, heard her. He kicked Eloise again before he turned around to face her. "Go, Princess Hanna. I'll take care of things here."
[As expected, he already knows I need to leave.]
Hanna smiled and nodded even though Lewis quickly turned his back on her to block Eloise's attack.
She then returned to the room.
"Sir Alucard, let's leave…" Hanna trailed off when she saw Alucard Dionisio lying on the floor while bleeding. She then froze on the spot when she noticed a man standing in front of Neoma's ice coffin engulfed in Hanna's Black Hole. "Who are you?"
The man with purple hair and glowing dark purple eyes was staring intently at Neoma's ice coffin before he slowly turned to her.
That was when she recognized the stranger.
"The Ancient Devil?"
"I go by the name 'Noah Solfrid' now," the Ancient Devil said, then he smiled eerily at Hanna. "Princess Hanna Quinzel, I'm sorry but I cannot allow you to leave this place."
Hanna immediately gathered her Mana in her hands. "I'd like to see you stop me, good sir."
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