“Zeki! More importantly, listen to what I have to say!”

Anna hugged Zeki in his filthy state. Zeki felt a bit embarrassed and stroked her back.

“Why are you so happy? Are you crying tears of joy because I came back?”

“Lady Kali says she’ll make you a noble!”

“…What?”

Zeki was dumbfounded. Anna showed Zeki Kali’s letter with the imperial seal stamped on it.

She expected Zeki to be happy, but his expression gradually hardened as he read the letter. Anna panicked when she saw him tear up the letter.

“Why… why are you doing that? Zeki?”

“Are you ashamed that I’m a commoner? Anna?”

Zeki looked furious, so Anna shook her head.

“N… no. I’m not… ashamed. But I want to make my child a noble! If this child grows up as a commoner, they’ll suffer so much. Lady Kali knows that, so she gave me…”

“Then if I become a noble, what will that child think of me? I’m not a noble—I’m a commoner by birth. Even if I receive a surname and become a noble, will the child be accepted into noble society? Do you think other nobles won’t know?”

Anna was at a loss for words at Zeki’s statement. She hadn’t thought more deeply about it. Zeki clenched his fists.

“This child will be happier growing up as a commoner. I’m sorry, but I have to refuse the captain’s gift.”

When Zeki tried to go to the imperial palace immediately, Anna grabbed his sleeve and stopped him.

“Y… you can’t! It’s such a waste!”

Zeki glared at Anna. His eyes were so fierce that Anna felt a bit scared. Zeki left the house without a word.

Anna tried to chase after him, but when she realized he was heading toward his brothers’ house, she didn’t follow further. Her mind was complicated too.

Zeki came to his brothers’ house for the first time in a while and got drunk at the table, making a drunken scene.

“Anna definitely regrets living with me! Because I’m a commoner. Ugh. Hnngh.”

Ricky and Mickey just exchanged glances with each other.

Willas, who had been living in this house, had returned to the Viscount Greco family, gotten married, and was living well.

They heard he passed the knight’s exam and occasionally came to help the Kali Mercenary Corps. He knew his younger sister was living with Zeki but kept it secret from the family.

Willas quite liked Zeki. It was because Zeki had looked after him a lot. Of course, Zeki had been extra nice to him because he was Anna’s brother.

Ricky said to the crying Zeki,

“Sigh. Bro. If sister-in-law wants it, just do it. They say listening to your wife is the best way to have a peaceful household. Murphy married Lina that way too, right? They say Murphy would even pretend to die if Lina asked.”

“Still, Lina’s a hundred times too good for him. How did she fall for that rough-looking Murphy and marry him? Tsk.”

“They say Murphy’s really good at that though.”

“Ah… Men really need to be good at that! That’s how you win a beauty!”

Listening to his two brothers chat, Zeki bit his lip hard.

“Hey! You guys, your brother’s heart is aching like this!”

Ricky and Mickey glared at Zeki. When his sturdy brothers glared at him, Zeki tensed up.

“What…?”

“You snagged a noble lady and what? Your heart aches?”

“She’s not even a commoner—you got a perfectly fine noble lady pregnant, so you should take responsibility! Are you going to let the baby be born without even being able to register the marriage? I understand sister-in-law’s position a hundred times over!”

At his two brothers’ excited, raised voices, Zeki felt himself shrinking before them. He pointed at himself with his finger and asked,

“Did… did I do something wrong?”

Ricky and Mickey yelled at Zeki.

“Of course! And if the captain offers to make you a noble, you should gratefully accept it right away! What are you being so proud for!”

“Go to sister-in-law right now! Don’t you feel sorry for her waiting for her husband who goes to the battlefield every day? Murphy completely retired and is just working as a shutter man at Lina’s restaurant! I’m so jealous I could die. I never thought Murphy would end up like that.”

“Right. When he said he liked the captain, I really thought he had no eye for women.”

When the two started chatting again, Zeki jumped up.

“I need to go to Anna right now and apologize!”

When Zeki rushed out, Ricky and Mickey looked at Zeki’s retreating figure pathetically. Ricky said,

“But when are we getting married? Bro found a good sister-in-law and is even becoming a noble.”

“Ugh. I’m jealous. So jealous. Both bro and Murphy… But Murphy really went too far. I saw him kneeling before Lina and begging with both hands. I don’t know what he did wrong though.”

“Ah. That? They promised to do it three times at night, but Murphy was tired that day so they only did it twice. So Lina got angry.”

“Whoa. So that’s what it was. D*mn. I’m starting to envy Murphy even more.”

The two swallowed their tears.

Zeki ran to the house where he lived with Anna. When he flung the door open, Anna was sitting alone at the table in the dim room.

She had been thinking quietly when Zeki arrived and looked at him in surprise.

“Anna! I! I… was wrong! I didn’t even think about your position! Just don’t say let’s break up! Hnngh.”

When Zeki cried, Anna was even more flustered. She quickly got up and brewed tea to hand to him.

“Zeki. No. I’m sorry too. Break up… I’ve never once thought that.”

Zeki loved the tea Anna brewed. It was all thanks to her that he came to like tea after only drinking beer.

The tea Anna brewed tasted good. It was like the calm grass scent from her body.

Zeki firmly grasped Anna’s two hands and looked into her black eyes as he spoke.

“Let’s go to the captain tomorrow and thank her. And I’ll become a noble, even if only in name. Actually, there was an invisible wall between us, right? This is a chance to eliminate it in one shot.”

“Zeki…”

Actually, after Zeki got angry and left, Anna had almost given up on Kali’s gift.

If he became a noble, it would be easier to become a knight, and if he became a knight, he would receive better treatment than a mercenary and could do more comfortable work.

Mercenaries often left home for a month or two.

And she worried about Zeki on the battlefield every single day. Even aside from the child, it would be good if Zeki became a noble.

Anna felt gloomy.

‘But if Zeki doesn’t want it, I won’t force him either. Actually, I thought it would be nice if Zeki became a knight like brother Willas. And it would be good if the child had a noble surname too, right? But if Zeki doesn’t want it, I don’t want it either.’

Anna was collecting herself alone. She was greedy, but if Zeki didn’t want it, there was nothing she could do.

But when Zeki suddenly said he would do it, she was so happy.

Zeki immediately stripped off his clothes and began peeling off Anna’s clothes one by one like an onion.

“Anna…! I won’t be proud anymore! Just don’t leave me!”

“Zeki. Ahh!”

She exhaled because of Zeki’s manhood suddenly penetrating the now-n*ked Anna. He supported one of standing Anna’s legs with his hand, put strength into his buttocks, and thr*st upward.

Anna leaned her face against his shoulder. Her body kept shaking and she felt like she couldn’t stand properly.

“Haah! Hnnp! Nngh. It’s been… so long it hurts. Zeki.”

“I’m sorry, but I can’t hold back anymore either. Anna!”

“Then… ahh. Mmm. Then on the bed…!”

‘Thud! Thud!’

Zeki had good stamina, befitting someone who did physical work. Feeling his muscles, Anna’s face reddened. This position didn’t seem difficult for Zeki at all.

Since Anna was struggling too much, he lifted Anna and laid her on the bed, then grabbed both her ankles with his hands and spread them.

When her wet v*lva was fully exposed, Zeki swallowed. Anna covered her face in embarrassment.

“Anna… Stay by my side forever.”

“Y…yes. Zeki. Aah!”

As soon as Anna finished speaking, Zeki’s hard manhood disappeared into her split opening.

Feeling the huge foreign sensation for the first time in a while, Anna had her two legs spread wide. She wanted to close her legs, but she couldn’t because Zeki held them firmly.

“Hnnp! Mmm! Hnngh! Zeki! This position is too…!”

“Embarrassing? Anna?”

“Yes! Hah! Aah!”

Looking at Anna’s reddened face, Zeki licked the soles of her feet with his tongue. At the ticklish sensation, Anna flinched and trembled her legs.

He started pistoning again. Her legs spread wide open again.

“Ahnnp! Hmmm!”

“Anna… Always stay by my side! I don’t want to lose you. Hah.”

“I’m always… mmm! Hnp! By Zeki’s side.”

“Yes! Anna! Ugh!”

At Anna’s words, Zeki cl*maxed inside her. Zeki lay next to her, catching his breath. Anna also touched her slightly swollen belly while looking at his face.

Zeki’s face glowed softly in the moonlight. Anna stroked his face. Every time she looked, his skin was rougher and the scars on his body increased.

“Isn’t work hard? I wish Zeki would take the knight’s exam and work comfortably. …I wish you would just command instead of going to the battlefield.”

At those words, Zeki made an apologetic expression to Anna.

“That’ll be difficult. I’m the vice-captain of the Kali Mercenary Corps, right? I have to protect the mercenary corps when the captain isn’t there. Quite a few new recruits have joined.”

“…Then you’ll keep going to the battlefield?”

Anna was sad. Waiting for him day after day when he didn’t come for a month, two months, sometimes even six months was grueling. Zeki kissed Anna’s lips.

“Don’t cry, Anna.”

“…I’m not crying.”

Anna answered with her lips pouting. Zeki kissed her neck. Anna’s face looked sad.

“You look like you’re about to cry.”

He had already climbed on top of Anna and licked her br*asts. Anna moaned and looked at him resentfully. Zeki smirked and said,

“The baby might be born soon, you know. I’m going to avoid going far away for a while. I’m only going to take jobs that end quickly.”

“Hnngh. Re…ally?”

Anna was a bit happy. Being alone while even pregnant made each day scary and lonely. Zeki found such Anna cute.

His lower part started hardening again, so he spread her thighs again and entered. Entry was easy because of the s*men that had flowed out earlier.

When the heavy thing filled her below again, Anna was happy.

“Ahh! Zeki…! Mmm!”

“Anna… It’s been so long, your body feels so good. Hah! Should we think of a name for the baby tomorrow?”

“Nngh! Yes. …Okay.”

Anna’s body scent was still calm like tea fragrance and made him comfortable. He was going to stop taking jobs that took him far away for a while.

‘Kevin is also bothering me.’

One reason he tore up the captain’s letter was because of the mention of ‘Kevin.’ Anna, whom he had obtained with such difficulty—he couldn’t give her to a guy who looked like a gigolo.

Looking down, Anna’s black eyes were clouded. Her br*asts also shook roughly with the movement.

‘She’s mine. A noble lady fell in love with a commoner. I’ll hold Anna in my hand for the rest of my life and never let go.’

He couldn’t let go. Even if she cried and regretted it later, he would never let go. Now Zeki couldn’t even breathe without Anna.

He couldn’t live in a world without her!

‘If she had met another noble man, Anna would have lived much more comfortably. How did she get caught by a guy like me?’

“Ahnnp! Zeki! Aah. Too… hnp! Fast! Aah!”

“Hah. Anna! Ugh!”

He cl*maxed inside her again. S*men leaked out along with love juices from the split opening. Zeki didn’t pull out his manhood and hugged her tightly while still inserted, falling asleep.

Anna tried to get up to wash, but his clasped hands and embracing body wouldn’t release. Eventually Anna gave up and fell asleep in his arms.

Zeki confirmed Anna had fallen asleep and kissed her lips.

“Since you’re caught by me, you have to live with me forever. Anna.”

An innocent noble lady. I’m the commoner man who seduced such a noble lady and got her pregnant without even marrying her.

But thanks to the captain, tomorrow he would also become a noble. He didn’t have to worry about someone snatching Anna away. They would be able to register their marriage.

‘Captain. Thank you…’

Thinking about it, he met Anna thanks to Kali. Zeki was newly grateful to Kali.