The following day after entrusting the Aizu couple to Usokawa’s team.
I was contacted on my phone that policewoman-sanーーAizu Wakako-san has gone into labour.
Because the line is still unstable and the phone is still unreliable, I don’t really count on it but, at times like this, it really comes in handy.
The convenient tools that civilization has brought about are brilliant.
“It’s still early to become a mother huh……”
“What’s wrong, Aki-chan”
When we are driving the car to Usokawa’s facility, Aki-chan suddenly muttered that.
“Ah, when it actually comes to the talk about childbirth, it feels hasty to become a mother when I’m 17 years old”
“Well, that’s certainly true”
I also can’t really give a straight answer if I was asked ‘Do you have the resolve to immediately live as a father for the coming ten odd years?’.
“Un, that’s also true”
It seems that Sakura-chan is also roughly thinking about the same thing.
“Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth1……is what they say but, as Aki-nee has said, I think it’s too hasty”
“I guess so, the two of you are still in your teens……”
We’ll think about it when it happens.
“But it’s also unthinkable that the medical equipment and stuff will be usable forever…… It might be better if it’s earlier”
That’s also true……
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The baby was already born when we got to Tokyo.
However, the baby that was born……
“Ahーahーah, nnn……un, the throat is functioning without any issues”
Rather than a baby, a naked two to three years old toddler is being carried in the arms of the mother.
“Oi, Usokawa. Where’s the baby”
“That child is the baby…… Though it’s probably unbelievable”
Usokawa is also at his wit’s end.
“It grew to that size all of a sudden at the same time it was born, it was as though a video was fast forwarding……”
“This kind of baby, it’s the first time I’ve seen it……ee”
The doctors around Usokawa are also bewildered.
“Oo, you’re the man who rules”
“You can speak……huh”
The strange girl who was carried in Wakako-san’s arms stares at me.
The eyes are……black.
“It’s not, red……!?”
“Aa, I’m the new generation…… an existence that has adapted to the virus”
New generation……huh.
“Firstly, let me express my gratitude, thank you, the man who rules. I’m really grateful that you’ve brought my parents who were separated back together…… And I’ll say it again for my parents who can’t speak, thank you.”
“You’re, welcome?”
The man who rules……is me, right.
“And also the ones……who are using the woman who rules. Thank you, it’s thanks to you guys that I was able to be born, I’m grateful”
“What……exactly are you? Why can you speak? Whyーー”
“An impatient man will be disliked, you know? The spouse of the woman who rules…… I’ll answer one by one, in order, in an easily understood manner……alright”
She smiles as she says thatーー
