Episode 51
“That’s ridiculous! Is this how it’s always been? Is raising a child always this hard? Then why isn’t there a single scholar discussing this?”
My little sister was born. That alone changed my life completely. Every time I would see her, she would cry, sleep, or breastfeed.
I changed cloth diapers often.
The baby would wake up every two hours to breastfeed, and would sleep while slowly drinking, and I had to pat his back for over 20 minutes to burp him. If he fell asleep without burping him, he would vomit in his sleep.
Whenever I had a chance, I hugged my younger sister Dina. She was nineteen years older than me. If I had wanted to, I could have gotten married and had children right away, but I put that thought off a bit while raising Dina.
‘It’s so fu*king hard.’
It was much harder to take care of Dina all day than to restore my past memories and hone my swordsmanship. The baby did not give me any rest. Above all, the fact that I had no prior information about the baby was a great fear for me.
It wasn’t something that could be said to be strong. No, rather, it was something that required less strength. The baby was so weak that it seemed like it would break if held with even the slightest force.
Amy took the time out of her busy schedule to come see me and help me.
“Because childbirth is a woman’s job. Even if a child is born, it is still just a child’s job. I learned that the work of women and children should be postponed until later.”
Women and babies were a class that was looked down upon regardless of their origins. In particular, girls were considered inferior to boys.
I’ve read a lot of books, but none of them were about parenting.
‘It would have been difficult for common women to write books since they could not read and write. Noble women would not have felt the need to leave records since their maids would take care of the children for them.’
I kept a detailed record of Dina’s care for nearly two weeks, including the interval between bowel movements and urination, the time she breastfed, changes in her weight and height, and even emotional changes.
It was an ambitious book that I started writing, but according to Amy’s testimony, each child grows up in a different way. It seemed that only by finding the average could a usable parenting book be published.
The newborn baby weighed at most three kilograms. Babies easily got fevers, but the midwife advised against using herbs. She said that the medicine could actually harm the baby.
“If this continues, medicine will be of no use. What should we do when the child gets sick?”
“You watch over them while feeding and putting them to bed well. If you have a lot of money, you can call a priest.”
“Are you trying to say that there is no proper priest in the Hebron village?”
Amy smiled broadly.
She would have already selected a list of priests.
“Shall we look for it?”
“A person with outstanding healing abilities. I don’t care about other conditions. Since there is already someone who has been designated as the priest of Hebron, find a priest to work under him.”
“If you say so, there is one person who fits the bill perfectly. But is that really okay with you? Are you okay with not looking at any other conditions?”
“I trust your judgment.”
I took Dina’s pulse. After observing Dina for two weeks, I found out that the newborn’s aura rod was different from that of an adult. It was a simple structure consisting of a single tube, but as it grew older, it became more complex. In the process, the aura rod became blocked or distorted, and this seemed to have a definite effect on the child’s talent.
‘The children of the Antaria royal family were taught the Aura training method as soon as they were born. The first 100 days were spent inducing stable breathing, and the next 3 years were spent training in the training method in earnest. It was said that the basics were to keep a magic stone by their side so that they could become accustomed to magical power… ‘
A ring with a magic stone was placed on my finger. It was a gift from Viscount Zielson.
He stroked Dina with his hand and observed the changes in her aura.
“Yes, Dina. Do you feel it too? Trust and follow this brother. I will make you healthy. I will train you so that death will not overtake you, so that you will not catch a cold while living.”
Amy left the room quietly because I was starting to focus on Dina.
‘I will make it a success. For Dinah’s sake, and for the future of Hebron.’
The Ramajusri Aura breathing technique was a breathing technique for the mothers of this world.
I tried to develop a ‘Aura Training Method for Babies’ targeting Dina. It was logically impossible to teach training methods to a newborn who could not speak.
‘It is possible to induce a reaction through artificial means.’
It was a task that required patience. I had to stimulate the baby repeatedly until he responded to my aura, but without straining his small body.
‘It’s possible.’
He seized on a glimmer of possibility and devoted himself to his research. It was the first time in Louis de Hebron’s life that he felt a burning passion, a passion that had become quite familiar in his previous life.
‘Idiot.’
I hugged Dina, patting my head that didn’t turn as much as I expected. As if the child knew what I was thinking, she smiled or fell asleep whenever I spoke to her.
“… … pretty.”
If only I could carry the child around the neighborhood and spread rumors.
I wanted to scream out loud, ‘Dinah de Hebron is beautiful! This child’s cuteness is deadly! Anyone who thinks otherwise, step forward! I will cut off his head!’
“Louis, leave Dina to me and go get some sleep.”
Her mother breastfed Dina every two hours.
It was common for noblewomen to ask around for a woman who had given birth to breastfeed their children, but mothers breastfed their children themselves.
“Oh, I guess it’s time to breastfeed already. Then I’ll stay by your side and practice the Aura. Mom, you breastfeed.”
As I sat cross-legged on the floor and practiced the Aura, my mother breastfed Dina and said:
“When you were born, you were sick for over a month. I was worried about what would happen to you.”
It was the first time I heard about it.
I practiced Aura and listened to my mother’s words.
“We tried to invite a priest from far away. But that wasn’t easy. Hebron was far away, and the priests thought we couldn’t pay tribute. That wasn’t wrong. Hebron was poor, unlike now. I was so upset back then. I wanted to invite a priest who would heal you even if it meant cutting off my arms and legs. There was someone who helped you at that time. He suddenly appeared, blessed you, and left. I tried to ask him his name, but he just laughed and left.”
I never thought raising a baby would be this difficult. On the one hand, it was hard to accept the reality that nobles, men, and scholars had turned their attention away from such a great undertaking.
“I heard from the rumors that he was a very great man. He was the high priest of the Haryan Church, and I also heard that he will be the next pope. If you ever meet him, be sure to thank him. Don’t forget the high priest of Valancia.”
‘Valancia!’
Valancia was once a high priest sent to the Duke of Breio. Rumors of him being the next Pope circulated for over ten years, but he ultimately failed to become Pope. This was due to his weak personality. For a while, the Duke of Breio tried to support him, but Valancia was a true priest who sought recognition rather than material gain.
The Archpriest of Valancia was also my teacher who taught me the doctrine of the Haryan religion. He was my benefactor, so my connection with him was deeper than I thought.
‘I must bring him here.’
It wasn’t an urgent matter.
I was more concerned about Dina than that.
‘My fever is rising. Why? What did I do wrong?’
Dina was extremely weak. Even the slightest touch of a cold wind would make her feverish, and she would get hot if she was touched by many people. The midwife said it was because of the touch, and that it was because she was growing.
“They say that children have fevers that come and go periodically. So don’t worry too much and just watch.”
Contrary to what she said, my mother looked anxious. It must have been because she was reminded of the time when I was sick when I was young.
‘I can’t live with a heavy heart every time my children get sick. If even newborns can learn the Ora Yeong Gong method, and if it’s possible to imprint it on these guys, wouldn’t it be possible to drastically reduce infant mortality rates?’
-You’re wasting your talents! You’re a Brayo. Brayo should live looking up, not down!
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I could almost hear the Duke of Braiot’s cries. I snickered. The Duke of Braiot was the most consistent person I knew.
I felt sorry for my previous life, where I struggled to catch the eye of such a person.
‘It’s my talent, so I’ll use it as I please. I’ll protect my beloved family and grow my territory. You say I should look up, not down? Duke Brayo, you’re wrong. If the bottom isn’t strong, it’ll eventually collapse. You say you look up, but aren’t those achievements also thanks to your strong subordinates?’
I made up my mind. Not only was the way of Breyo engraved in my soul. I also had the memory of Hebron.
I decided to squander my talents to the fullest, following the Hebron way.
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‘it’s okay.’
Dina’s night sleep lengthened from two to four hours.
The midwife said it was because it was time, but Dina hadn’t cried once in the past ten days. She lived each day like the epitome of a healthy baby.
I took Dina’s pulse.
I placed my fingertips on her thin wrist and injected a little aura into her.
‘Yes, my theory was correct. It was possible from the beginning.’
Newborns could not learn the normal aura training method. Even those who were called geniuses learned the training method from the age of four or five, and even then, they trained in the abbreviated training method first. This was because the aura rod in their bodies had not yet been fully developed.
Dina breathed evenly. Every time, the thick aura rod that crossed her body filled and emptied with aura. She had learned a very simple, level of training method that would awaken monsters instinctively.
‘They say the baby’s cervix is open, and so is the Aura Road. You have to make progress before the cervix closes. If you can do that, you’ll have an Aura Road that’s stronger than anyone else’s.’
Dina and her mother awakened the Aura training method. Dina may have inherited her mother’s genius talents because she resembled her mother. In order to determine the achievement of the training method for the baby, more samples had to be obtained.
‘I must gather all the newborn babies in Hebron. I must train specialized personnel to take care of them, and I must visit them often to instill in them the Ora training method.’
Although fatigue was creeping in, I sat down at my desk and wrote. I had already established the theory, so all I had to do was organize it and write it down.
I stayed up all night writing two books and took them to Amy. It seemed like she had stayed up all night too, doing the work I had given her.
We looked at each other with blank eyes and nodded, taking in each other’s appearances.
“Prime Minister Amy.”
“Yes, my lord.”
“That’s it. Teach the Ramazuri Ora method to pregnant women, and the Dina method to the knights. From now on, the knights of Hebron will take the time to instill the method in newborns.”
There might have been someone who would have said that the knight could not do such a trivial task. That would have been a remark that ignored me, who had been doing such trivial tasks up until then, and the lord’s anger was intended to be engraved into the knight’s bones.
I gave Amy the book while the ink was still wet.
