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Birth Ru’s pregnancy continues. In solidarity, the village gives up alcohol until Ru can drink again. Ru's labor and delivery period is an uneasy time for Hiraku as he was banished from the house for the time being so he wanders the farm until Ru gives birth to their son Alfred, a half-vampire, and Hiraku is overjoyed at being a first time parent. Hiraku decides the village needs its own currency as their current system of trading goods is no longer sustainable, so he forges Great Tree coins and gives three to every villager, though there is some confusion regarding exactly what one coin is worth. To celebrate Alfred’s birth a grand feast is held and the dwarves produce a celebratory wine to be saved until Alfred is old enough to drink. Beezel finally declares the Great Tree village to be too powerful to ever defeat and plans to become allies instead. Galgardo throws a tantrum, mistakenly thinking Beezel wants to arrange a political marriage between Yuri and Hiraku. Hiraku receives requests from almost two hundred people wishing to move to the village to escape wars or persecution, leading to a decision to build an entire second village nearby to house them all, Great Tree Village 2.