Raising A Few Wives in a Beast Apocalypse

Mrs C who had been looking away from the glaring Muku for close to a minute, finally turned around.

Her eyes were bright with purpose. She had finally figured out how to escape the situation. And she was certain it would work. She was so certain that a little smile appeared on her face.

"Okay, okay. Please stay calm. Anything can seem negative depending on how you choose to look at it. Like this instance. You can choose to look at it like that or look at it as you trading your hard work for a chance to see your loved ones. Which is something some people would even kill for but still wouldn't get it. You on the other hand got to see, touch, hug and interact with them. So are you saying that your personal benefits are more important to you than reuniting with your loved ones? If so, just say so and I'll apologise right now" Mrs C finished her speech with a wronged expression on her face.

Muku was left at a loss for words. Which was understandable since all the girls were glaring at him angrily. And that was understandable too, after all, from where they stood, it seemed like Muku wouldn't have agreed to use his reward slot to bring them there if he was given other options.

Mrs C looked on still with that wronged expression on her face. However, she felt anything but wronged inside. She was laughing in happiness. She had successfully managed to turn the tide and now Muku was the one facing the storm.

She praised her quick thinking. After all, what she said wasn't the real reason she brought the girls there. She had wanted to meet them for a very long time. She just didn't have a reason before. Dragging souls from another world was a big no, no.

Then a crazy idea formed in her head. Why not justify the action by making it a reward for Muku's trial? That totally made sense... At least to her. As for what would happen after that... She'll take it as it came.

"No, no. I was just thoughtlessly speaking. There's really nothing in the world which I wanted more than seeing the girls again. In fact, I was about to express my gratitude. What you have done for me today is something I'll never forget" Muku tried his best to defuse the situation while sweating terribly.

Fortunately for him, the girls didn't want to make a scene in the little time they had together. They felt that what Jade had done before was enough drama for the whole meeting.

"Oh? Is that so? Okay. And you're welcome. That's what mothers are for, right? If that matter is over I guess we can move on to the next matter" Mrs C didn't make things hard for him.

She secretly knew that she had tricked him after all. And despite everything she wasn't shameless... At least not to that level.

"Ahem! Before we move on. I and the other girls would like to thank you... M.. .mother, for bringing us here. You have no idea what this means to us. No, sure you do, which is why you did it. Thank you again. If there's anything we can help you with in the future, please tell us. We'll do everything we can to see it through if we can do it. Even if we can't, we'll give it our all" Audrey suddenly spoke up before Mrs C continued with what she wanted to say.

She got up and bowed to Mrs C and she did. The other girls also did the same. Even Muku joined in, and he was as grateful as they were.

Mrs C smiled gently and got up too and pushed Audrey and the others back onto their seats lovingly. She then went back to her own seat.

"No, child. We're family, there's no need to thank me. And it's Muku who went through the trials not me. He's the one you need to thank. But if you still feel the need to thank me, you can do so by giving me grandkids as soon as possible. And I'm not just saying that. I'll have you know that the higher someone's rank is the harder it is for them to have children. So the more your rank increases the lower the chance of you conceiving gets. Four R3s, it can take three years of constantly trying before anything happens. For R4s it can take up to eight years and so on. While the higher your rank increases, the more your lifespan also increases, I'm sure you all can still agree that eight years is a long time. Even if you can now live for over three centuries..." At some point, Mrs C started, blackm... Cough... Trying to talk the girls into giving her grandkids.

"Oh and since your strength will keep on increasing. I'm sure eight years from now you'll all be at least R6 or R7. If you reach R7 without kids then you might as well forget about having them without putting in effort for at least two hundred years. So yeah... I'm not saying have them now, I'm just letting you all know" Mrs C finished off her informative session.

She was clearly not being truthful when she said "I'm not saying have them right now" after all, she had literally told them to do that multiple times already.

However, the girls didn't catch that obvious sign of manipulation since they were still caught up in her words.

Hell, even Hope and Elsa who had no plans of having kids or had anyone they wanted to have kids with couldn't help but think about her words...

Seeing everyone's dazed expressions made Mrs C feel very happy. It seems her plan was working.

Actually, she knew that even if they started trying at that moment. It would probably take at least a decade for one of them to get pregnant if they were lucky. And with their constantly increasing strength, a few hundred years before the first pregnancy was what she expected.

She only made them aware of the situation so that she could see her grandkids a few centuries earlier. Was it selfish and manipulative? Well, yes, but it was only slightly and wasn't harmful to them so it was okay... Probably.

Anyway, no one was paying attention to her at the moment. Muku wanted to curse at her again but he couldn't do it with the six burning gazes focused on him.

He felt as if he moved even a little bit and showed a little weakness, they would pounce on him and have their way with him. Which would be absurd since they were only souls so doing such a thing would be pointless.

Who knew Mrs C's words were enough to turn them into maniacs so quickly? Was the thought of having children so appealing to girls??

The reaction was a bit expected from Audrey, Emily, Jade, Chloe and Layla. But he didn't expect Freya to join in as well.

Like since when did she think of him like that? Or was he just a convenient choice for her? Was she after him just because he was the only one around?...

That thought disappeared from his mind as soon as it appeared. He knew that Freya wasn't that kind of girl, after all. So while he didn't want to believe it, he had to accept that somewhere along the lines, she had fallen for him as well.

And that confused him greatly. Like wtf did these girls see in him? Were they crazy or was it because he was the MC and girls fell and threw themselves at him with no sane reason to do so?... Yeah, that had to be it. That was always it.

He was a harem protagonist so obviously his OP plot armour extended to girls too!

Enough of that. He had to figure out how to get out of the current situation first. The girls were literally looking at him like hungry predators after finding easy prey.

"Now, now girls. Calm down. Did you forget that you're currently souls? Even if what you want to do was possible right now, which it isn't, it would be pointless since you don't have the physical body which is needed for having babies" Mrs C suddenly intervened right when the girls were about to lose themselves and jump on Muku.

For a split second, Muku looked at her like she was an angel. Then he realised that it was all her fault and began cursing her in his head instead.

Hearing Mrs C's words brought the girls back from the dark place their minds had gone to. They all uniformly blushed as if it were practised.

Speaking of which, it was quite interesting that souls could freaking blush when they had no blood or any other physical organ which worked in that obviously physical mechanism.

They were literally just consciousnesses being supported by soul energy.

In fact, they should have been naked too. Yet they were fully dressed in the clothes they were wearing on their bodies back on the Blue Planet.

You know what, it was better to forget logic when Mrs C was involved. The lady had admitted that the only thing she was certain she couldn't do was create life after all. So it was the same to assume, everything else was within her capabilities.

Actually, that was Muku's philosophy now. No matter what happens as a result of his mother's actions, he wouldn't question it. He would just accept it and move on.

Which is why despite saying, "impossible" when the girls showed up, he still accepted it easily. That was just a surprised reaction.

In his head, he was like, "Yup, this totally makes sense. It's my mom we're talking about, after all"...