After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 2194

Chapter 2194: Bonding with Children

Now that the Elyssian stone was fixed in Alterra, the babies at least had an enhanced amount of aether in their environment. They could, in theory, use their powers without getting sick, provided that they remain in the territory’s scope.

"Ma hosteyg!" Meatball said, his sword up, along with his crew.

The other team, led by Theo, dressed as a knight, tried to negotiate. "Pirate King! If you give us the princess, we will give you a bag of milk chocolate balls."

Meatball paused, his previous enthusiasm flickered for a moment, and the ’enemy’ crew kindly waited for him to decide.

"How manee?" he asked, with a very solemn expression on his tender face.

"..."

Althea’s eyes were filled with her energetic children, full of life and vitality. For a moment, it overlaid with the image of those horrendous days when they were weak and dying.

She was blessed to have found so many of the required ingredients with relative ease, considering how impossible the task seemed to be at the start. Hopefully, the last leg would be just as lucky.

Althea quietly watched the children play from the side, not disturbing them. Whenever she didn’t think about her research and her mountains of tasks, she would watch the kids play for hours without getting tired.

Since coming back from the long trip, she and her husband decided to be leisurely for a few days before preparing for the next leg of the trip. Her people were already preparing a mountain of consumables she could bring, especially when she and Garan had enlarged spaces.

After Princess Pepper successfully escaped the pirate ship on her own and became the queen, they finally found their mother and asked her to play with them. It so happened that the other kids had to go home, so Althea had the babies all to herself.

Meatball, the loser of the previous game, was ’it’. Little Meatball was now covering his eyes with those chonky hands (though Yana wiped his hands off the chocolate).

The two-year-old faced the wall and counted very seriously. "Wan...! Tuu..! Tee...! Foooow! Fayyvvv...! Seeksu...! Sebun...! Eyuttt...! Nayun...! Ten!"

He then cutely turned around, narrowing his glittery round eyes around him. His little feet lifted and he headed to the nearest potential hiding spot.

daddadada~

Althea chuckled. The babies, while she was outside, learned how to count to 10. Well, it seems to be a bit more, but ten was the perfect score.

The baby went around for a couple of moments, but he saw none of his playmates. He pursed his lips but wasn’t discouraged. Hide and seek was supposed to not see them immediately!

No matter. Little Meatball would find them!

His short legs headed to a random direction, the squeaky sound of his little shoes mixing with the rustle of leaves as he searched for his targets with those large green eyes.

Then, at some point, his little feet lifted off the ground.

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