“So, that’s the reason,” in his heart Roland secretly sighed,
Scroll went over to the kettle and filled up their two cups. Afterward, the room was silent for a long time until she said: “Your Highness, I have a question I want to ask you.“
“What question?” Seeing the serious expression on Scroll’s face, Roland got started.
“Nightingale, are you there?”
“Well,” Nightingale said, “Do you need me to leave?”
“No… you already know about it anyway,” Scroll shook her head, “so you can accompany me this time, and be my witness.”
“You previously said, that you are willing to take a witch as your wife and marry her, but I do not know if you know, that a witch is unable to conceive a child.” She paused, and after a moment she finally asked, “Your Highness, even if it is like this, is there still no change to your original intention?”
Roland at first doubted whether what he’d heard was true, only after a while was he able to say, “What?”
Scroll bit her lip, but then repeated what she had said once more.
This time he was convinced that this wasn’t the result of a hearing problem. Was that also the initial reason why the witches cared so much about marriage? “Are you certain that witches cannot have children? Does it come… from that specified source, which lead to the known mistake? For example, the same as what lead to the Holy Mountain previously.”
“I would have hoped so too,” she sighed. “Unfortunately, many cases have already confirmed this point. Whether it was between an ordinary man and a witch who got along or by forced intercourse, there has been no time that the Witch Cooperation Association had heard of a witch falling pregnant.”
The first person Roland thought of was Anna.
Although he couldn’t deny that he would regret it if he couldn’t have children with Anna, his wish to raise a child with Anna was based on his affection for her, so not being able to have a child with her wouldn’t reduce his affection. For a person with a modern soul, and for him, having blood relation with his descendants is of far less importance than it was to the people of the past. As a separate living individual, he does not regard his child as the continuation of his life — the latter could neither inherit his thoughts nor inherit his memories. Instead, they were an entirely independent person.
So, looking at it from an emotional point of view, he could accept that a witch cannot have a child.
Then only the real obstacle would be — the need for an heir. However, looking at the history this was still not a thorny matter, he just has to establish an empire that doesn’t need an heir, and how to achieve this, there were options he could choose from, but which one he would pick he could slowly decide on later.
Looking at the big picture, Roland surprisingly discovered, that this was good news for him.
He and Nightingale had already spoken several nights and pondered on this question, how to build a social framework which allows witches and ordinary people to peacefully coexistence and progress together. Right now, even with the God’s Stone of Retaliation, as long as they had enough time, witches and their offspring would always form a more powerful community — even in the case where science and technology allowed an ordinary person to use magic. Even then, it couldn’t make up for the witches increased intelligence, memory, comprehensive speed and their overall leading edge.
But now he was told that witches are unable to give birth. This significantly avoided the problem of forming witch clans, closing the gap between witches and ordinary people, giving him the hope to one day see people and witches work together and advance hand in hand.
