While a lot of people chose to go to establishments, some decided to spend the rest of the holiday in the privacy of their homes with their families.
For instance, in Mathilda’s home, the family of three and their in-laws were having a nice peaceful dinner on the verandah.
The other teammates—even the old women Yana and Lola—were either in their other villa or outside playing in the carnival. Even the cats were roaming around town, no doubt being fed with who-knew-what by strangers.
Anyway, this allowed the closest of kin to have a nice quiet time together, just catching up with one another after their busy schedules.
At this time, they were cooing at the latest addition to their family.
"Ohh, my baby Claire…" Mathilda said, voice gentle, as the adorable purple-haired baby girl looked at her.
In front of her was Gwen, similarly turned to mush, holding out a colorful rattle for the baby. Eventually, the baby made what looked like a toothless smile and they turned to mush.
"So pretty…"
Mathilda chuckled. "I’m looking forward to yours, too."
Gwen blinked and looked at her mum, before nodding. "We’re trying."
This made a certain introverted blonde at the side flush, rubbing his own shoulder as if to soothe the tension there.
Gwen and Ryan held a wedding a few months ago.
It was held inside one of the halls of the Grand Hotel. It was quite intimate and lovely—with a lot of the elders pitching in to sponsor certain things—and the food was really incredible.
They also held a very heated honeymoon there—one that lasted 3 days.
Some staff were quite the gossip, so after being asked, some curious folks found out that the couple practically didn’t leave their room during their stay.
Legend also had it that Ryan was the bottom.
Of course, if anyone asked—which no one dared to do yet—Gwen would laugh at their faces. Your next read awaits at Freewebnovel
Don’t judge a book by his introverted cover!
Anyway, the family spent the night catching up, especially since Ryan was part of the latest batch sent to Ferrol for intense training. They had only been together for a little over a month as a married couple when he was sent out. He had just returned in time for the upgrade.
It was unfortunate but, with the upcoming upgrade at the time, all of the soldiers had to greatly increase their training.
They were expected to be the main Terran forces for Alterra, after all.
Fortunately, Gwen didn’t mind this and simply worked hard as a guard as well. Their level gap was too wide—and increasing. It’d be hard for them to conceive as they were now.
"The mobs for Towns also have a lot of low-level monsters," Ryan said. It wasn’t like the mobs at Village level would suddenly avoid Towns or anything.
"The difference was that there would be stronger monsters mixed in between. The stronger the monsters are, the lesser they are in number," he told them. It was a balancing act of nature, and pretty logical considering how difficult it was to level up here after a certain point.
"I heard there were quite a few smaller mobs that appeared," Gwen said. "Fortunately, we have shifts and never lacked people in the battlements so the alarms didn’t have to be sounded—for now."
Gwen gently poked the baby’s cheek one more time before leaning back to her seat. As she did so, a cute meow sounded below her, rubbing her ankle.
It was Lele, one of the kittens. She smiled and leaned down, bringing it up to her arms. "You’re my baby for now…"
"Meow~" the kitten purred, relaxing into her touch. Very cute.
The cats Raffy and Kat were having a date outside (sponsored by random people who encountered them), but they left their kittens to their human nannies (i.e. them).
Speaking of that, back in Terran, there was a running joke about how dogs saw their humans as masters to serve while cats saw humans as servants to order around.
Now that she had battle pets and could actually understand what they thought by instinct, she could confidently confirm that theory.
The communication between master and battle pets was not exactly in words—they simply understood what the other was trying to say.
Those cats had the gall to ask them to look after the kittens while asking for snacks to tie on their necks! And they said it so matter-of-factly as if she and Ryan were just supposed to do so!
Gosh—
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Anyway, the cute little ones were now either walking around the house and rubbing their feet asking for hugs.
"Be a kind kitty, okay?" she told Lele. "Don’t be bossy like your mum and dad."
Seeing their sister getting attention, the other kittens also approached, meowing for attention. The other humans found them cute and took at least one each, petting them until they purred.
Gwen’s cats had given birth to a small liter of five kittens: Lala, Lele, Lili, Lolo, and Lulu (the children named them, and the adults went along). The kittens were already six months old, but they hadn’t really seen the outside yet.
However, they weren’t too lonely. Like the Gaea Team, Mathilda’s was also 2 villas combined together and the two large gardens were meshed together. If the gates to the Gaea Team’s large yard were opened up, their pets—including Fufi and Snow—pretty much had four lots to play on.
So, in normal days, people would see the cats and kittens roaming around these four lots, usually with the twins. If the kids didn’t have school, they’d join in too. Similarly, after ’work hours’ Fufi and Snow were the same.
So, at certain hours of the day, the houses would be filled with children’s laughter and giggles, as well as cute meows or barks from their pets.
It was a simple happiness, but Gwen and the others loved watching them.
Speaking of pets, they had actually found more Terran mutts and cats during the past few months!!