Slowly, Katherine gently lowered Alex back into his seat before taking out a small bucket and towel.
Filling the bucket with water, Katherine quickly soaked the towel before squeezing all the water.
"You want me to take off your clothes, or I help you take off your clothes?"
Alex immediately took off his clothes on his own, unbuttoning his shirt before throwing it aside.
But taking off his pants became much more difficult, as the soreness on his leg was much more severe than that on the rest of his body.
"Let me help you."
Katherine quickly put the towel back aside, helping Alex pull his pants aside before he was now left with his panties.
"You still have period?"
Alex slowly nodded, his face blushing red. This month's period had been lasting a little longer than usual.
"No wonder why you're so sore. You should have told me that. I thought your period was already done yesterday."
As Katherine picked up the towel, Alex remained silent as he didn't want to talk about it at all.
"Hey Alex, what are you going to do in the future when your chest... become too big?"
Katherine asked as she started wiping his chest, noticing a small bump that had clearly been growing on its own.
"I don't know..."
Seeing Alex looking a little lost, Katherine remained silent, and she started wiping his belly.
"Do you want to reduce it? I know a doctor that can probably surgically——"
"I don't want that."
Alex instantly rejected Katherine's proposal, not trusting the doctors in this world a single bit.
He could still remember the number of textbook examples where a basic sugary task, like removing a tooth, went wrong.
Instead of trying to fix it with some basic stitching, doctors in this world always use magic to heal it, which could lead to unintended effects.
From having too many teeth now to having to go through another surgery to remove them, the success rate wasn't high.
It was almost as if this world had become too reliant on magic, with all other skills being pushed aside in favor of magic.
"That's okay. It's your choice, honey... Can you turn around?"
As Katherine put the towel back into the water and squeezed it again, she began wiping around Alex's back.
"Mom... Do you think I'm a liability?"
Alex's question brought Katherine to a complete stop as she put the towel on the side of the bucket.
"What makes you think that? Is it because of what I said earlier?" Katherine asked as she stared into his eyes with a serious look.
"N-No, I was just wondering."
The serious look quickly disappeared as she grabbed onto Alex before giving him a warm hug.
"I never think of you as a liability a single time, okay? You're forever my cute little baby, and that's the only thing I care about.
I won't say that kind of stuff again. It really makes Mommy scared when you say that."
Hearing Katherine's answer, Alex slowly nodded, realizing that he might have asked the wrong question at the wrong time.
"Sorry, Mom. I shouldn't have asked that."
You just have to be patient and grind it out... But you don't have to decide now. You got plenty of time to think about it."
After wiping both of Alex's feet, Katherine gently puts his leg back down before cleaning the towel one last time.
"I can clean it myself——"
"Let Mommy do everything for you today, okay? You deserve a little break."
Alex didn't bother trying to argue back as she already had moved her hand onto his panties.
With the last thing out of the way, Katherine began gently wiping his inner thighs.
"You done yet?"
Alex impatiently asked as his face was fully red from the sheer embarrassment.
"Not yet. I haven't even wiped your crotch yet. Just be patient."
The cold sensation from the towel immediately made Alex shiver a little, as the warm water from the bucket had already cooled down.
"You okay?"
"I-I'm fine... The water is a little cold."
"Oh, oops. Let me change it."
Katherine quickly poured the small bucket of water out, but it vanished before it could hit the floor.
Next, the bucket was once again filled with warm water, with a small puff of steam flying into the air.
"I'm only going to clean the outside... You can clean the inside yourself, okay?"
As Alex nodded, Katherine didn't squeeze the towel completely dry, leaving a much wetter towel this time.
Slowly, she carried Alex over to her lap, flipping him over to wipe his butt first as she paid close attention to the gap.
Before she continued, she drenched the towel in water and took a bottle out of her pocket.
The water quickly started to get a little soapy before the bubbles disappeared.
Once again, Katherine wiped his bottom with the towel before putting the towel inside the bucket.
"Okay, now one side is done... Just one last part."
With the towel cleaned again, Katherine squeezed all the water out before she began wiping his crotch area directly.
"Tell me if I wipe a little too hard."
Alex slowly nodded as his face blushed red again, but he didn't say anything back as she continued wiping his crotch.
After what felt like forever to Alex, Katherine had finally finished cleaning the outside of his two genitals.
However, Katherine didn't seem to let him go.
She quickly threw the dirty towel into the bucket before a completely different towel appeared in her hand.
"I might as well just clean it for you... Let Mommy check if you have been cleaning properly."
"Mom..."
Alex wanted to protest against her order, but he couldn't move his body a single bit, as if she had cast some sort of restraining spell.
"I know you don't want me to do this. But I don't have a husband who can check his son's proper hygiene.
I don't want to do this either, okay? The faster we do this, the faster we can get this over with."