What!! The team leader is pregnant?!!" The rest of the team also looks at me with their mouths hanging open.
"V-Vincent is….is it true you and the team leader are going to have a baby?" Kim walks forward and stands in front of me like she's quite disappointed for some reason.
"Yes, I am having a baby with Abby," I answer sincerely.
Kim simply bites her lips hard till they bleed and walks back to her former position.
I don't know why she's like this, but I just hope it is not what I am thinking.
"Damn…man, you finally nailed our team leader who cleaved off a man's head just because he was staring at her body with lust…. You are the true definition of a man… I am proud of you…." Russell tells me with a pat on my back as he suddenly hugs me.
"Err… thanks, man…hahaha," I reply awkwardly and separate myself from him. Although, I know that he is just congratulating me, I feel weird for some reason.
[Fufufu, you felt disgusted because you are an incubus…] Myra explains.
I glance at the rest of the team and realize that Laura has gone to prevent the other adventurers from stealing our kills. She brings out a pocket knife and begins to carve out their crystals.
Unfortunately, the beast I killed with my mana gun got destroyed along with its crystal, which shows how fatal the gun can be when it evolves to its peak.
Sometime later, Abby slowly starts to open her eyes.
"W-Where is my Vincent? Where…is he?!!" The minute Abby opens her eyes, she begins to call out to me like she had a bad dream during her sleep.
The moment she sees me sitting right next to her, she suddenly springs up and hugs me tightly, sealing her lips with mine, and causing us to fall to the sandy ground.
After kissing me to her heart's content, she separates her lips from mine with a thread of saliva and gazes at me with her tear-filled eyes.
"I am sorry, honey, I…I couldn't protect you. I failed as a partner… and what's even worse is that, I fainted during a battle! I am so sorry…." Abby cries and hugs me tightly.
There's still something I don't understand though, I mean I like Abby and want her as my woman… but it hasn't even been up to two days since we met each other and yet she is this worried about me.
[It's just a coincidence, actually, most Incubus have problems with finding their love interests, however, yours came pretty easily. Even your mum is included. The only problem now is being able to protect them in the future because they will all be targeted by your adversaries…] Myra tells me.
"Cough! Team leader, are you alright now?" Russell asks as he walks forward.
"Nyaaaaa!!" Abby suddenly growls at Russell, as her feline ears twitch in anger and her fingers turn into sharp claws…
What the….
"Haha….sorry team leader, I was just worried about you," Russell says and backs away.
"Vincent, it seems like my guess was right. The team leader is going to become very clingy and obsessive during her pregnancy. Also, she's going to show her feline side more often…. And to be honest, it might get pretty annoying.
So, Just consider her as a kid that you have to watch over for now. She is now your responsibility…." Kurt tells me with a sigh.
Meanwhile, Abby is still hugging me and scratching me with her claws that she still hasn't retracted. Even now, despite the awkward situation, I am tempted to suck Abby's blood, but I am holding myself back.
"Abby, we need to get going…"
"Ahh, okay, that—that's right…" Abby replies and separates herself from me as she stands up. She currently seems to have come to her senses and she looks quite embarrassed about her behavior just now.
At the same time, Laura comes back after carving out all the crystals from the beasts, and she seems to have kept them inside a space ring.
"This is what we acquired, team leader. Twenty-four basic-tier crystals and one intermediate crystal." Laura announces as she hands over the space ring to Abby.
"B-But I thought the intermediate beasts were two right?" Abby asks in confusion.
"Yes, there were two intermediate beasts, however, your husband destroyed one of them along with its crystal, after using a strange weapon against it…" Laura answers Abby in a slightly teasing way.
"Eh?" Abby says in surprise then bites her lip. "I couldn't watch how he defeated that beast. How could I miss such a thing?!" She mutters in surprise and disappointment, clearly shocked and proud that her beloved mate defeated an intermediate beast on his first mission.
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'At this rate, won't he exceed my expectations? Maybe carrying his baby isn't such a bad idea after all. B-But our baby….sigh… The offspring of an Incubus and a Neko are always perverts…
No! I won't let my baby become a pervert…' Abby thinks to herself and lets out a sigh…
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"Team leader, I am so happy for you…. But don't you think that you should rest and let Kurt take over your role since he is the assistant team leader, at least during the duration of your pregnancy…?" Laura asks, flashing a dazzling smile, while Rusell grits his teeth.
"Ahh, Vincent, you!!!" Abby punches me lightly and buries her face in my chest. "Sigh…you kept cumming and trapping your seed inside me, and now you've gotten me pregnant, you meanie!" Abby mutters in shame.
Soon after, she raises her head and glances at the rest of the team.
"It's decided, Kurt will be the new team leader, and you shall all obey his commands from now on…till I conceive. Russell, I am sorry, I know that you are stronger than the rest but you are always irrational" Abby says while Russell grits his teeth.
Suddenly, we hear the deafening sound of a wild roar from across the desert, and at the same time, something also starts to approach us at an alarming speed.
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