Reborn as A Holy Knight (Remake) Volume 2 Chapter 11 (Patreon)

Chapter 11 – Acting as Apostle of the Goddess, Part 3

Even though there were only five of them, the women who came to the temple were in various stages of pregnancy. Some had bellies that were not swollen yet, while others were already in their last month.

I put my hand on a pregnant woman’s stomach and, as Xaneela had told me, set my thoughts into it, hoping that the child would grow up healthy and happy.

At that moment, I could feel Xaneela’s power flowing through my body to the pregnant woman’s belly.

“Ahh… I feel something warm in my body….”

It seems that even the pregnant woman could somehow sense it.

This convinced me that the [Blessing] bestowal has somewhat worked.

So, I continued to give the Goddess’ Blessing the same way to the others.

“Ah, me too, me too! I’m feeling a kind of warmth in my belly!”

“Lately, I felt sick, but now I feel much better! It’s like my sickness was a lie!”

“I was feeling a little nauseous too, but suddenly, all of it has gone away….”

“Wow, I thought it was just a little good luck charm… this is amazing!”

Those were the compliments I received on my work.

Then I faced the husbands.

“Oh, yes. Since your wives have been blessed with Divine Protection, you husbands can now have some leeway, if you know what I mean. But that doesn’t mean you can now be reckless with them. Don’t do anything to your wives that will burden their pregnancies, okay?”

“What? Ah. Y-yes!”

“I’ve never done that before, and I won’t do it, ever. So please rest assured, Mr. Holy Knight.”

Oops, looks like one of them is already guilty of what I was talking about.

“If you can’t stand it any longer, go ahead and do it alone. As an apostle of the Fertility Goddess, I’d like you to have more and more children, so it’s even okay if you want to touch someone else-.”

“No, that’s a bit….”

“-of course, with the approval of your wives first.”

This may sound strange, or rather, it would be straight-up adultery if it was my old world, but I can’t still deny the values of this world.

In this world, polygamy is accepted as a norm, meaning having multiple wives is not a criminal offense. Especially now that the population of the brink of extinction due to the lack of males, we cannot be choosy on every path to make babies.

Even I can’t repopulate the whole world alone.

“It doesn’t matter if you lay your hands on another woman, dear.”

“Eh? Oh no, I’m not really….”

“But in exchange, I’ll have my second child with Mr. Holy Knight here.”

“Eeeeh!?”

“Oh my, that would be nice if it happens.”

“Even our Alma here has become more feminine since she got his child, don’t you think?”

“Agreed, agreed!”

“No, how could that be… I am just a priestess… through and through…”

I fully take back what I said.

Something is really wrong in this conversation.

“Hahaha. Thanks, Holy Knight, but no thanks. Even if I want to, I’m already too old for this. Maybe I can ask the Holy Knight to do it in my stead.”

“Hey, dear. What do you take your wife for? The only man I want in the world is you. You and you alone.”

“O-ohh, is that so? Then looks like I’ll have to do my best next time.”

The older husband is blushing.

And just like that, my role as “Apostle of the Goddess” went off without a hitch.

It was my first time, but I was happy to be able to help people in this way.

In fact, I was too happy that in the midst of all this, I didn’t notice a man watching us with resentment and envy from behind the open door of the temple.

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Although I didn’t feel tired after many rounds of sex, I was exhausted after a single job of acting as an apostle. So after a short chat with everyone in the Temple of the Fertility Goddess, I decided to go back to the inn to rest.

Still, it cannot be denied that I have spent a lot of time having sex since I got here.

“Also, Emmy is probably not in good condition yet, so it’s best if I rest for at least one day today.”

When I arrived at the “Cat’s Forehead,” I found Karina at the reception desk.

She was drinking coffee(?) in an elegant manner.

She is a beautiful woman after all, so she makes a good picture.

However, isn’t caffeine bad during pregnancy?

“I’m back. What are you drinking?”

“Oh, thish? It’s pwain warm water.”

Plain warm water? That’s good.

I heard that drinking warm water on a regular basis can help the body to break down fat deposits, relax muscles, and increase blood flow. And the increase in blood circulation can rejuvenate skin cells and keep them nourished.

“That said, you have a guest, Aru.”

Karina shifted her gaze, and over there, I saw a man.

He looked about 40 years old. And not very good-looking.

It is not that his face is ugly. In fact, he’s on the better-looking side. But he has a noticeable scar on his cheek, and his face is somewhat grim, making him kind of look a lot worse than normal.

His clothes are decent, but his bad posture makes him look poor.

Based on that alone, I can say that he’s carrying a lot of things.

“Excuse me. Do you need something from me?’”

The man then stood up and approached me.

“You are the holy knight, right?”

“Oh, yes.”

“Do a favor for me, assuming you’re the real deal.”

“Huh?”

“Please. I want you to impregnate my wife!”

“Buufuuu!!”

As the man bowed his head, Karina spouted the warm water she was drinking with great force.

As for me, I was thinking, “Oh, so there’s the culture of bowing here, too,” as if wanting to escape from reality.

“T-take that kind of talk somewhere else, nyaah!!”

Karina yelled at me when I was still unresponsive to the man, so I decided to ask him to come to my room for the time being.

He seemed a little iffy, but he didn’t seem like a bad guy, especially with his odd request. Also, even if he did plan on doing something to me, I’m confident that I would be able to fight him off.

This may not be polite of me, but let me check your status with [Universal Appraisal].

His name is Joey, and his age is 28… he is younger than me in my previous life? I thought he was older.

When he got settled in the room, and I asked what was going on, he told me his personal story.

When Joey was 18 years old, he got engaged to his childhood friend Katie, who was the same age as him.

However, after their engagement, Joey was drafted into the army.

The front line was quite far from this town, and he could not return home for nearly 10 years.

It was not an easy distance to travel back and forth, even on leave, so they corresponded only by letter.

During that time, Joey asked Katie several times to end their engagement, but she did not agree.

“I would have been happy if you had just forgotten about me and had gone off to be with another man.” He even said to her.

After returning from military service, they were happily married.

The war was over, peace was restored, and they decided to have children and live happily ever after, but unfortunately, they still hadn’t been blessed with any children.

“I know it sounds pathetic, but I… I can no longer get a boner after the war…. I was determined to love her as much as I could and have lots of kids when I got back… but now, here I am… as wilted as a vegetable… no, even vegetables are harder than I am….”

Joey had a self-mocking smile as he said this, but tears were spilling from his eyes.

Is this what they call PTSD?

It was not something that Japanese people are familiar with, but I had seen it in foreign movies and on the Internet from time to time.

“I was trying so hard in the beginning, you know? I tried so hard to make her feel good, thinking that maybe I could heal myself, too, along the way. But in the end, I couldn’t do anything about it, and feeling bad about making her do all the work for me to rise and feel great again, I stopped doing it with her. It has been so long that I’ve forgotten what she looked like when she was naked.”

Guh, this is heavy.

But it is the duty of a Holy Knight of the Goddess of Fertility to listen to such problems.

“I wished for her to divorce me and find happiness with another man, but she won’t listen at all. Even now, she is still cheerful towards me, and I would always feel sorry for that… it’s hard….”

I don’t know what to say to him.

“Then, I heard about you. You can make a woman pregnant in one shot, right? That’s what I heard in your conversation at the temple.”

“Well, yeah…”

“And you’re leaving this town soon?”

“Indeed.”

“Then, for the Goddess’s sake, please impregnate my wife!”

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