After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 961

Chapter 961: Plans for the Babies

The name ‘Ansel’ seemed familiar, Tilda thought.

When she started to place the names—she was gossipy by nature and naturally heard a couple of ‘important’ names—her eyes widened and she looked at Hana.

“Ansel? The handsome elder?” she asked, leaning over and intruding on the other’s personal space. “He lived in a nice villa?”

Hana looked at her in confusion before nodding. At this, Tilda’s eyes sparkled. “Then let me help you.”

“What?”

“Let me help you,” Tilda repeated, eyes narrowing.

Not only would she rid her brother of this parasite, she could also get connected to such a good family! Maybe she could even find her own target there!

Genius!

…

Back at the villa, Althea felt a little sad that she missed the drama. Garan somewhat sensed her disappointment and gently squeezed her nose.

They were now eating dinner and catching up with each other’s day. The first one that came up was the fact that one of Ansel’s exes arrived—obviously trying to rekindle something—only to fail miserably.

“Enough about me,” Ansel said, tutting. He looked at his sister. “How was the trip to the wood factory?”

Althea smiled. “Very well, actually,” she said, giving an account of their visit to the woodworkers’ factory.

Such an important tool naturally had to be designed well, which was something the woodworkers also took priority of.

One feature was that the cruiser had to be extremely flexible. Because the babies grew fast, the baby walkers needed to adjust as well.

The twins’ had a circular frame with a small fabric seat in the middle where the baby would be placed inside. Their weights would be supported by the raised seat and their little feet would rest on the floor, requiring only a bit of force from them to move forward or spin in place.

It was designed so that the adults could leave the babies in a room and not be afraid that they’d fall or hit a surface (because the walker’s frames would hit them first).

There were also plenty of toys built in and there was also another one that could be set like a fishing rod in front which the babies could run after. In Little Meatball’s walker, it was a sliced pineapple. In Little Pepper’s, it was strawberries.

There was also a small bell attached that would make a little sound with every movement so people would know where the babies were and where they could be heading.

Althea also noted that Bianca also seemed to have adopted two little aborigine boys from Mauin.

When they visited, both of them were in the factory—watching, learning on their own, and asking many intelligent questions. If they did well, Althea mused they could very well trigger occupations after a couple of years.

Anyway, soon enough they would be seeing the babies ‘walking’ around on their own. The adorableness!

This was also the cutesy image that passed by everyone’s heads and they all couldn’t help but smile a bit.

Speaking of babies, at some point, Shiela told them about her encounter with Kimmy.

Althea frowned, also feeling a bit guilty for ignoring her. But what could they do? There were so many wars plus the heat wave. How could they find the time to comfort an acquaintance?

“Pregnant?” She asked. “Is she alright?”

“I think her pregnancy was the thing that shook her awake,” Sheila said, referring to that period of unnatural daze wherein no one could get Kimmy to respond at all.

Althea and the others looked at each other. “Has Dr. Juliet gotten a look at her yet?” Juliet was the psychologist they recruited from the former Fargo Village. She had done a lot for the women who were abused.

Sheila shook her head. “There were too many… victims,” she said. “And Kimmy had really been unresponsive for a long time…”

Basically, guardians would take the victims to Juliet, but Kimmy had always been on her own (and not taken by her housekeeper) so she had not talked to Juliet yet.

“Send her the instructions to do a house visit,” Althea said. “We cannot have Kimmy entering a void where we can’t get her back.”

…

In another house, Kimmy looked out the window, gently patting her stomach.

What happened back in Belluga was an experience that shook her very soul.

For a long time, it felt like she couldn’t find herself, as if it was destroyed by that tragedy. For a long time, she felt like she was in a void. She could see what was happening in the world around her, but she felt… detached, like she wasn’t a part of it anymore.

For many weeks, she had been like this. She didn’t even care when Thessy acted like she owned her house. At the same time, that woman made it seem that she was sacrificing herself for her.

Thessy also used the money Raine sent for herself a lot, only feeding Kimmy with just enough…

At the time, Kimmy barely had a sense of taste, so she didn’t particularly care about what Thessy had been doing.

Things changed when she suddenly felt ill. She couldn’t even move. Kimmy couldn’t do anything and there was no one in the house.

Thessy was probably fooling around elsewhere, because the house was locked and she couldn’t bring her men—which were usually newcomers—inside without alerting Raine.

At some point, she thought… death had finally arrived. Why had she been holding on for so long anyway? This was perfect…

However, an odd thing happened. It felt like a string of consciousness appeared, connecting her to the outside world. She dragged herself to the door and out of the garden somehow—for some reason—and there she was found by passerbys who took her to the emergency room.

It was then that she found out about the life that had been forming inside of her.

For the first time since that day, her soul was shocked awake. At first, she felt extreme disgust and pondered abortion.

However, just when she was about to ask the question…, her heart clenched.

She realized she didn’t want to lose it. Even if it was disgusting—she wanted to keep it.

She hated those men with a gusto, but this was probably her only relative left… So how could she hate her own blood in the end?

She snapped back to reality then. She immediately fired Thessy and started to feel the real world again, determined to survive this.

At the same time, she didn’t want the baby to be associated with those bastards. She didn’t want it to have any connections with those monsters.

So… there was only one thing she could do:

Get rid of them.