Raising A Few Wives in a Beast Apocalypse

"What do you want to know exactly? She's my mother... What's so interesting about her?" Muku spoke with a confused expression on his face. He was obviously trolling them.

"Oh please. Just tell us already..." Audrey spoke while rolling her eyes.

"Fine. So, it went like this..." Muku didn't troll them anymore and told them what they wanted to know.

From the day he met her to everything significant which happened until their separation. Of course, he skipped the embarrassing parts.

Raya felt an itch to expose him, but one glare from Muku stopped her from doing it. She remembered the time she couldn't properly control her body and she suffered at his hands.

Considering that she wasn't sure whether she would ever be in such an unfavourable position again, she decided to play it safe. The man was a real demon when he wanted to be, and she wanted no part of that side of him...

"So what you're saying is that you met her in a sketchy location and she "adopted" you on the spot then began showering you with presents until you folded and accepted her as your mother without caring about her mysterious background?" Layla summarised what Muku said in the most brutal way possible.

"You know, if you put it like that, it makes it seem like I'm greedy and easily won over by gifts..." Muku spoke with a slight frown on his face.

"Well, am I wrong? Is that not what happened?" Layla continued.

"Well, it is. But instead of saying I was won over by gifts. You should say I was won over by her caring heart. I could really feel her motherly love, which I never felt. And that's what won me over. Okay? Not the gifts" Muku defended himself.

"We both know the truth. She's sketchy and you're greedy..." Layla didn't back off.

"Is that what you all think?" Muku asked while looking across the room.

All the girls avoided eye contact with him when he looked their way. This obviously meant that they were on the same page as Layla.

"So that's how you see it? Okay. Fine. Then I guess you don't need these gifts I got from her. I should just go and throw them aw..." Muku was speaking when he was interrupted.

"Wait, wait. Big Brother" Hope interrupted him.

Hearing her the girls who were getting anxious after hearing what he said cled down. With Hope getting involved, everything will be taken care of and they won't lose their gifts.

They wouldn't have said anything if they knew there were gifts. After all, who didn't like gifts? Especially from peak beings like Mrs C? Even her junk was probably treasure to them.

If that's how they thought, weren't they the same as Muku and were just hypocrites? Yes, very much so. In their defence, they heard a saying before which went like, "Corruption is good. It's only bad when I'm not involved in it".

That's probably one of the most warped statements out there, but it's what many humans live by... It rotted the world more and more each day, but oh well...

"Before you throw them away. You should give me my gifts. I was on your side. I was waiting to support you and Mom, but you didn't look at me. As for the rest of them, they don't deserve anything. In fact, just give me everything" Hope's words destroyed the calm which was settling in the other girls.

"Hope you're going too far!" Chloe shouted angrily.

"Yes! To think that after being close for two years you'd throw us under the bus like this!" Emily supported Chloe.

"So greedy" Even Layla chimed in.

Audrey and Freya wanted to say something too but they were too embarrassed. They couldn't help but admire the shamelessness of the three girls.

Young Elsa just looked on with her face hidden behind her hands. She peeked through her fingers as she was hit by second-hand embarrassment.

Again she asked herself how she was the youngest when the older ones were like how they were.

"You hypocrites. Weren't you saying that righteous people should be able to resist gifts?" Muku asked the girls.

"Tsk. Don't put words in our mouths. We never said anything like that. You rushed to conclusions before we could say anything... We were about to support you by calling Layla out for saying what she said (Hey!)" Chloe spoke like she was possessed by Jade.

After all, such a level of shamelessness was only expected to be found in Jade. Or maybe because her personality was the most balanced, she could fall on any side whenever she wanted...

"To think my own sister would be the first one to throw me under the bus..." Layla spoke with a deadpan expression on her face. Of course, she wasn't happy about Chloe being sick quick to stab her in the back like that.

"Hehe...hahahaha. Oh, how I missed this. How I missed you guys. Hahaha. Now this is what life should be like..." Muku couldn't help but start laughing hysterically as he looked at the girls.

The girls paused and looked at him for a bit then they also began laughing. Without knowing it, they had returned to how they behaved before Muku left. Hell, they were even more open than back then. And it all happened so naturally.

Muku really was the heart of the group.... With him around, everyone was lively. Without him, they were dead...

...

A while later...

"So, are you going to give us the things mother-in-law sent us or what?" Audrey who had at some point come to sit beside Muku asked.

She has switched seats with Raya who didn't care about sitting close to Muku...

"Alright, alright..." Muku spoke while taking some things out of his storage ring.

The moment he did, all the girls were surprised. Not because of what he took out. They didn't even look at that yet. Their eyes were focused on the ring he took the things out of.

"Is that the legendary storage ring?" Chloe the anime geek asked with glowing eyes.

The others who had long become anime fans also guessed the same thing.

"Isn't it cool? The space in this is bigger than five football fields. Which means it's countless times bigger than Layla's creepy-looking Shadow Pocket (Hey!)" Muku showed off the ring as he spoke and casually took a stab at Layla.

He was petty enough to get her back for calling him greedy. She knew that, which is why she didn't make a scene after the initial "Hey!".

"Hehe. And before you ask. No, you can not have it. Any of you. You can not even try it out since I do not trust any of you to give it back. Well, maybe Young Elsa and Freya would give it back, but with Emily's influence on them... Well, whatever. Mom said that there will be a chance for all of you to get your own in the future. I don't know when or how. But you can wait until then. And instead of focusing on this ring, you should focus on the things on the table..." Muku shut the girls down, pacified them then directed their attention elsewhere before they could say anything.

Despite being away for a long time, he still knew how to deal with them. He thought about them every day, so forgetting was hard, if not impossible.

"Fine..." Audrey replied as she and the other girls looked at the things on the table.

There were eight different coloured bags on the table. It was clear to see which bag belonged to whom just by taking a glance.

And so, everyone took their bags leaving Jade's on the table. Muku retrieved it for the time being. He'd give it to her when she woke up.

"Whoa! What beautiful dresses! These are just what we needed!" Audrey spoke as she took out 15 dresses of different colours and designs from the bag.

As for how everything fit in the seemingly small bags, only Mrs C knew...

The others also took out fifteen dresses each with glowing eyes. They couldn't wait to try everything on. Being in the apocalypse after everything was destroyed made it hard to find clothes.

For that reason, none of the girls had more than five different clothes. They had more initially, but the many battles and experiences destroyed everything.

Fun fact, even mana slowly destroys clothes. So clothes were an issue they were really worried about. Mrs C couldn't have sent them the clothes at a better time.

It was great to have a caring mother-in-law!

"You perv!" Emily suddenly called out after finding an unknown number of underwear beneath the dresses. There were at least twenty. And some of them were rather risqué and suggestive.

Out of the girls present, only Elsa and Hope found normal underwear without the risqué ones, but even they were embarrassed by how Muku was the one who brought the stuff.

"Hey! I'm not the one who packed this stuff. I'm only a messenger here! I'm only learning about the contents now since you're showing me!" Muku who felt that his integrity was about to be destroyed quickly defended himself.

"Really?" Emily asked while she and the other girls looked at Muku suspiciously.

"Of course! I'm not a pervert!" Muku exclaimed with a wronged expression on his face.