There's No Love In the Deathzone (BL) novel Chapter 732

Chapter 732: Side Story 4. Endless Journey - 15

As the flower bloomed around the cliffs and the hills, the blessed baby inside Zein’s belly grew nicely. She enjoyed her time alone there, unlike the twins, and was very gentle to Zein.

There were no complications, nothing uncomfortable, no weird cravings, and even Bassena’s proxy morning sickness disappeared entering the second trimester. She grew bigger than her brothers, probably because she was alone, and Zein’s womb had more experience carrying fetuses.

And said brothers were elated. The little knights loved to follow their fathers to the ob-gyn and took the ultrasound pictures to their room. They were full of gasped and wonder when they saw the little blob moving inside their Dada’s belly. Especially after the shape looked more and more like a baby instead of a blob. At home, they would compare their sister’s ultrasound pictures with their own.

Thankfully, rather than feeling jealous because her knight had another princess, Nari was as excited as the twins to welcome the sister. The little girl had told Zein that she wanted to have matching dresses with the baby and helped the two fathers choose the baby’s paraphernalia.

After all, a little girl would be the best curator for another girl’s room, wouldn’t it?

And as expected of Reina’s daughter, her taste was immaculate--even for Zein, who knew nothing about taste.

When the weather started to get warm and a little bit humid, the new nursery had been set up, and a labor room had been reserved. The only thing left was... choosing a name.

Yeah--even at the end of his pregnancy, Zein still couldn’t decide on it.

With a swollen belly and an inescapable back pain, Zein lounged on his favorite spot on the patio. Unfortunately, Bassena got rid of the hammock. The bright side? Zein had a new, comfortable lounge chair that felt more like a small bed with a canopy. He had spent countless mornings enjoying the sunlight while thinking about a name for their daughter there.

And he ended up falling asleep there before deciding on one.

See? He was bad with names. He couldn’t even remember most of the names of the people he had met. If they weren’t close to him, chances were low for Zein to remember even the first letter of their name.

Even for his brothers. The damn parents did not bother to tell him the children’s names--and both of them had a speech delay, so Zein couldn’t even know the babbling version of their names--so he picked things out randomly somewhere. Was it from a book? A flyer? He didn’t even know from where.

He wasn’t proud of it, so he didn’t want to do the same. But he also didn’t want to just name his daughter with his mother’s name. Just like how he wanted his twin sons to be different from his twin brothers, he didn’t want his daughter to be treated as a replacement for his mother.

Granted, the piece of her ’soul’ had been passed through generations of his mother’s ancestors, but...

Oh?

Suddenly, Zein got an idea. He called Senan and about an hour later, the clan’s new Elder arrived with Cohen.

"Young Master, I got the record here!" Senan went straight to the patio from the backyard, waving a book in his hand.

"I told you to stop calling me that," Zein clicked his tongue. It couldn’t be helped with the other household members, but it felt distant when the family’s Elder called him that, so he had been asking Senan to just call him by his name--at least in a private setting.

"Haha--forgive me," Senan scratched his head and grinned before handing over the book to Zein. "It’s hard to get rid of the habit."

This was why the others were so stiff.

Cohen, who had a bundle of folders on his hands, spoke. "The second quarter report, Patriarch."

Like this man.

"Haa..." Zein sighed and chuckled. He thought Cohen would ease up more after steadily going on a date with Rina, but...didn’t seem so.

"Give it to me," Alice took the folder from Cohen. "I’ll process it and give you the summary this afternoon, Boss."

Zein smiled gratefully. Radia had lent Zein’s old assistant after he entered his third trimester, which was a big help. Even after years, Zein still hated desk work. Unfortunately for him, it was the majority of his work after he left Trinity. While he had some assistance from the household, Alice knew him best after his family, so he was glad for her help. She even moved in so she could help the busy patriarch better.

"Why don’t you just work for Zein already?" Cohen told the girl.

Alice turned toward Zein instead. "Would you like me to?" _{freёwebnoѵel.com}

"Why wouldn’t I? I told you I’d die if you weren’t there when I was a Captain," Zein shrugged. "But I also knew you were raised and trained to work for the Mallarcs, so I refrained from saying anything."

"...okay," Alice nodded after staring at Zein in contemplation for a while. "I’ll talk to Young Master Radia and come back to you."

Cohen laughed at that, because even he knew the twins’ godfather wouldn’t say no if the girl herself showed willingness. "That is like a confirmation already. But why do you need this record, Zein?"

"I’m looking for names," Zein replied while opening the book. It was an archive journal being passed on from Elder to Elder, who had the duty of preserving the clan’s factual history.

Among the archives were notes about the people carrying the mark of Setnath--the people that House Ishtera protected. The last entry was Zein’s own name, and before that it was Lucia. It went all the way back to the Age of the Apocalypse.

Senan raised his brows. "Names?"

"Yeah, for my daughter," Zein flipped the older pages carefully. "I thought I would have an idea if I looked at the ancestors’ names."

"Oh, that’s a good idea," Senan clapped his hands in agreement. "There’s a pattern among your mother’s lineage."

"Yeah," Zein looked at the registry and chuckled. "Lucia, Luciola, Lumerta, Lucian..."

"Luzein," Alice muttered.

Zein smiled and leaned back, tapping on his cushion. "Since Bas told me to name our daughter this time, I was thinking of preserving the tradition."

He closed his eyes to think, muttering to himself. "Hmm...Lucre...Lucre...was it because Setnath’s human name was Lucre?"

"Most likely," Senan shrugged.