Chapter 265 - Adult Room Baby
"First, we need to secure the ones who were leveling up those thugs."
Apparently, he looked like a young Caucasian male, but was he just an ordinary member of the Human Race?
If that was the case, it was troubling that he didn't even trigger Angelica's detection skill, unless he was an extreme villain.
That said, since there is no one else around me with exploration-type skills, I have no choice but to rely on her.
I called out to Angelica, who was wearing a troubled expression in front of her laptop, "Got a sec?"
"Perhaps the best way to cure the High Priest is to strike them hard on the head..."
"I suppose..."
However, she seemed preoccupied with having a dangerous consultation with Ayako-chan and didn't seem to notice my call.
"Hey—Ange. Ange! If you're just going to end up with crude folk remedies, why don't you just wrap up your research and come over here?"
"Eh? Were you calling me?"
"I was, I was."
When I beckoned her over, saying it was fine just to come here, Angelica sat on my lap with a look of absolute naturalness.
Her movements were like a pet cat's; she reeked of being a mistress.
Due to her excessive familiarity, Mano-chan's wariness suddenly reached its peak.
"Um... I've been wondering this the whole time, but who are these women? They're all so beautiful, but..."
"Hmm? Ange is my Mother."
"Eh?"
I explained it again to the stunned Mano-chan. I pointed at the sixteen-year-old Caucasian girl with confidence.
"I'm telling you, Ange is my mother. Is something wrong?"
"Eh!? No, I mean, the race, the age... isn't everything about this wrong!?"
"Is it?"
I exchanged glances with Angelica, thinking nothing was particularly wrong.
"I mean, look, aren't all younger girls 'mamas'?"
"...!?"
Previously, I had been forced to read a fertility information magazine by Ayako-chan, and it said something like this:
Male sperm begins to be produced after puberty, but in the case of females, they possess primordial follicles, which are the precursors to eggs, from the moment they are born.
In other words, every baby girl is born with eggs packed inside her belly.
They are mamas from the moment they are born.
Therefore, it is not at all unnatural to feel maternal instincts toward a little girl; even I feel maternal instincts toward child actors in my daily life.
Naturally, finding a "mama" in the sixteen-year-old Angelica is a completely normal reaction.
In fact, since the number of eggs decreases as one gets older, if you consider "number of eggs = potential as a mama," wouldn't you say that a person who doesn't indulge younger girls is a type of mentally ill?
Wait, everyone else doesn't make teenage mamas? Are you guys crazy? is what I want to say.
Good grief.
I heard that progressive education was already over. Do they not teach this kind of thing in schools lately?
"You might not be able to accept it, but Ange is my mother. If you're going to be coming by my place from now on, Mano-chan, please keep that in mind."
"That's right, because Father and I are connected by a fateful umbilical cord, you know."
"..."
Mano-chan was staring silently at a single point on the wall.
I wonder. Is she planning to call the police?
"...This is intentional, isn't it?"
"?"
"Because I'm still a middle school girl... you're intentionally saying gross things so that I'll hate you, right?"
"No, that's not it at all."
"I won't give up on Nakamoto-san just because of that."
Why is it that teenage girls are so prone to making assumptions?
It seemed Mano-chan's competitive streak had been fully ignited, and she had hardened her resolve to never leave my side.
Perhaps when one faces the tragedy of an old man coddling a minor, the brain glitches and loses the ability to make calm judgments.
Most of the girls I've brought home recently have shown similar reactions. Among them, there was a powerhouse who called 110 on the spot, but because the officer apologized apologetically, saying, "Nakamoto-san's case is an exception, so please just let him do as he pleases...", there was an idol who fell into despair and retired from the entertainment industry.
I think I did something very bad there. Please forgive me, because I took responsibility and made her my seventh girlfriend.
Wait, how many girlfriends do I have now? I haven't counted past eight, so even I don't fully grasp it.
Well, whatever.
That doesn't matter at all.
More importantly, right now, I am an inhabitant of another world.
I rested my head on Angelica's lap, transitioning into a posture like a young child clinging to its mother.
"Hey, is it possible to find ordinary people from the other world using detection?"
"I think it would be quite difficult."
I pondered while Angelica stroked my head.
"Maybe we'll have to just check every single foreign man one by one."
"That sounds like a hassle."
"Exactly. It's always just this kind of thing; even I'm getting tired of it."
"I thought so. Here, this."
As she spoke, Angelica held out an energy drink.
An energy drink in a baby bottle.
"Oh, thanks."
I've reached a state where I don't know if I'm an old man or a baby, but my mental state is so exhausted that I can't go on unless Angelica lets me drink this.
"Heeere, Father, say 'aaahn'~"
"Aaahn."
I opened my mouth, which was fully set with permanent teeth, wide and accepted the baby bottle.
"Is it yummy~? It's milk that's kind to baby-uncles, filled with lots of caffeine, arginine, and taurine~. Please drink lots and become a super-energetic infant~"
"Mama~"
"It seems 'child-room uncles' are a problem in the world, but since Father is a baby yet manages to rent an apartment with his own salary, he's an adult-room baby, isn't he? Such a good boy, such a good boy."
"You're the only one who says things like that, Ange..."
"Now, now. You mustn't call Mama by her name without honorifics, okay? Or I won't wash your face with my breasts anymore!"
"A-Ange-mamaaa!"
Mano-chan watched the exchange between me and Angelica while trembling, and she was, as expected, angry in a misunderstood direction, shouting, "Just because I'm a middle school girl...! Just because you want me to give up...! To go this far!"
"Father is so cute... The way his stubbly, scratchy mouth is working so hard to suck on the baby bottle is so incredibly cute..."
[Angelica's Sexual Arousal has reached 70%]
Angelica and I have already reached the point of no return, haven't we?