My eyes opened and instead of feeling a stinging pain in my abdomen where the injury from the beast should have been, I felt an intense headache.
'Wakey wakey!~'
A voice resonated in my mind which I recognise right away; it didn't concur with the beautiful face of Kyoko that was in front of me.
'Chiyo...'
'Time to wake up, Brand-kun... there is a world to save, there is no time to sleep'.
'Do you want me to save the world, or to become stronger as I do so...?'
'I wonder. Whichever it may be, the result will be delicious~'
Instead of going along her pace, I decided to ignore her. This thing will now be living inside my mind, or my brain... I don't know which is worse. If I can't see her breasts or voluptuous body... then this is nothing short of a monster that seeks to rip my head apart and eat it.
"Brand... why are you looking at me like that?"
Kyoko held my head between her hands, she was sitting on the side of the bed, analysing my face.
"It is nothing... just thinking. How long has it been?" The room was lit up by a vague light with nothing but darkness coming from the window. It must be the evening. There is also a delicious and subtle smell in the air that's making my stomach rumble.
"A day... you slept all day. Rested enough?" His gaze was filled with concern, I imagine also a tinge of powerlessness. They could do nothing while Saeko, Lucy and I fought that creature, even less when Chiyo appeared.
"Yeah, I feel much better" I held her palm against my cheek which made me feel warm as if my mother was checking me up, a luxury I never had until now.
"Nothing happened while I was asleep?"
"Nothing... were you expecting anything?'
'I guess he doesn't have the balls...' I smirked, recalling Higuchi's most recent behaviour and signs, 'that or it was me overthinking and he doesn't plan to do anything'.
If he did try anything, Lucy is ready to take him down; we've both been in the streets long enough to know when someone is scheming anything. The thing is, we could be wrong and Higuchi is quite helpful. Time shall tell.
"Nothing at all. Why are you here, Kyoko? ugh" I asked, it was odd for her to be here on her own. I tried to stand up and winced a little, not due to my stomach but due to the headache that was progressively calming down.
"Don't move too much".
"No, I don't feel pain, it is just a horrible headache... let me check these" I started to take away the bandages that Shizuka had tightly placed around my wound, they weren't soaked in blood. This indicated to me that she had come and changed them on her own for clean ones several times, cleaning the wound as well.
"Shizuka told us that your wound was closing at an abnormal speed, is it-"
"There is nothing..." I uttered in shock, my body was as good as new... a wound that would definitely not heal in a long time even with suturing; closed in a single day.
"B-Brand... what are you?" Kyoko sighed, her gaze didn't contain fear but instead exasperation. Uncomfortable that you may be standing in front of a monster, perhaps that's the best way to call the gaze she's giving me.
"I don't know... but if it is like this then... it is not bad, right? it means I won't die easily"
"I guess... I-I have something to tell you" Her hand lowered to my naked chest; she was rubbing the place where my wound had been.
"You're pregnant?"
"Hush... no. You haven't even done it inside. As for Rei, we don't know yet".
*Phew!*
I released a deep exhalation of relief that didn't make Kyoko very happy, she snorted and slapped my arm lightly.
"You! How can you be so relieved!"
"We're in a catastrophe you know? it is not the right moment to have kids, Rei's thing has kept me anxious, it was a mistake... but if she's pregnant then we have no choice but to raise that kid in the middle of the goddam apocalypse. What a good childhood he or she will have..."
"You know... people are dying in the thousands. I don't know if Japan is the only place that's suffering this fate, but... if it isn't then this world will need a repopulation, so... I mean; any birth is a good birth, don't say it that way... if that kid is born, at least he or she is going to have a lot of mothers that will love him and a very valiant father, it won't be that bad"
Kyoko explained with a smile, her hand still rubbing my abdomen. She was quite enthusiastic about it, I couldn't help but smirk and look at her up and down, dressed in loose brown pyjamas. A shirt and trousers.
"Is that so, do you want to have my baby, Kyoko?"
"I want... whenever you think it is the best time. W-We could- uhm~" She moaned a little, gasping and watching my sinful hand that was -all of the sudden- cupping her breasts through the shirt.
"How about now?".
"That..."
"Stand up, Kyoko".
She licked her lips and did what I said, standing up next to the bed and looking at me with growing expectations.
"Take out those trousers..." I caressed her slim waist, and my sinful hand went into the bottom of her shirt, feeling her skin directly. Kyoko took out her bottoms and revealed to me a rather tight black thong that fired me up.
"Where did you get that?"
"The owner of the house... had it in her wardrobe..."
"I'm going to have to speak to Rika about that... that said, you did choose risque underwear, Kyoko" I squeezed my finger into the tight lace that was deforming the shape of her skin lustily. Slowly but surely my fingers reached her crotch. It was black so I don't know if that's moist or not.