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189. Fortress (2)

As I head to Carmela’s convenience store, Sia’s eyes widen as she wonders who the other woman is.

Tinkle tinkle-

“Welcome… Oh my?”

“Unnie Camella!!”

Po-ok!

While Carmela hesitated for a moment, looking at Sia and Lauren’s faces instead of mine, Sia quickly ran to the counter, hugged Carmela lightly, and gently stroked her belly.

Carmella looked slightly taken aback by Sia’s actions, but when I nodded, she smiled and hugged Sia back.

Since Carmela has the second largest breasts after Sia among the women, the sight of their breasts rubbing together was quite appealing.

“Oh my, Sia, it’s been a while since I’ve seen you, so you’ve become a lot more affectionate?”

“Hehe- I’m surprised that my sister is a Cain woman!”

“Huh…?”

Carmella’s body froze at Sia’s words.

“Uh…Hey, Sia?”

“Huh?”

Carmella’s pupils shake violently at Sia’s bright words.

From her perspective, she came to me, a real mistress, and told me that she knew everything about your relationship.

“My..my..”

“Since my sister is also a Cain woman, we all live together!”

Carmella’s expression is confused, and Lauren is wandering around the store looking at the items as if the store is new.

I walked up to Sia and Carmella and gave them a hug.

“Camella. Come with us.”

“Uh..where are you going?”

“Where is our accommodation? From now on, you will be with us.”

“That’s…uh…”

Carmela stuttered, as if she didn’t know where to begin.

“Let’s go and talk about the details. Let’s go for now.”

“Yes..! Just a moment.”

Then Camella hurried into the break room and came out carrying a heavy pouch.

thud-!!

“What is this?”

“I told you last time.”

“Ah. That?”

It was a bag of money that Carmella had neatly packed away, intending to embezzle Johnson’s assets without him knowing.

“I haven’t stolen everything yet, but I think this will be of some help to you and your party members, right?”

“That’s enough, just bringing your body would be fine. Lauren!”

Lauren, who had been fiddling with various items with her eyes wide open, looks at me in surprise.

“Ugh..yeah!!”

“Here’s the money bag. Let’s take it.”

“Do…is that money?!”

At the word money, he quickly approaches and opens his pockets.

Chorrrruk-

“Wow…”

Lauren, who had spent her time without money and was sad before being raped by me in the forest, looks hazy as she sees the light emitting from the coins between her pockets.

“Let’s go back to the dorm quickly since we only need to take Camella.”

“Yeah!! Hehe, let’s go quickly, unnie~”

“Yeah. Sia.”

Whenever he would stop by the grocery store, and sometimes Sia would follow him, he would not treat Carmela so kindly.

But with the addition of Lauren and other sisters, Sia’s actions naturally become more charming, and Carmella smiles softly as she walks arm in arm with Sia.

Pink is also a color derived from the red family, so if you look at it, it looks like sisters or a mother and daughter.

Lauren was walking around with her head tilted from side to side pathologically, carrying a bag of money.

Since it was still broad daylight, we were able to arrive at our accommodation without any major problems.

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“Heh heh..! Camella?”

“Ho…Mr. Hawk… It’s been a while.”

“Ahem..!”

Even though Tanya thought it was something like that, Hawk, the uncle who introduced us to Johnson’s general store, was shocked when he saw Carmella entering the room.

Carmella also greeted Hawk with a slightly embarrassed expression.

“Uh… Camella…?”

“Mr. Claude. It’s been a while…”

“Haha…”

Claude also looked at me and Carmela with a dejected expression.

“Sia, Camilla will be sharing a room with us, so go up first and show us around.”

“Yeah! Let’s go, unnie!”

“Lauren, come with me too.”

“Yeah!”

After a brief awkward moment, Sia smiled and took Carmela’s hand as they headed to the second floor.

I sent Lauren up and sat down at the table where Claude and Mr. Hawk were sitting and asked Claude.

“What about Ms. Jury?”

“Not yet arrived.”

“Really? Is it because the black market is further away?”

“What a kid….”

“What?”

“Nothing.”

Soon after, Juri and Zion arrived at the accommodation.

Mila followed in cautiously, her head bowed, carrying a small suitcase behind her.

Soon, Mila’s eyes met mine and she let out a “hiit-!” sound. Her head jerked and she barely managed to greet me.

“Ah….Hello!!”

“Long time no see.”

“Yes….”

Mila, who seemed a little intimidated by my words and shrugged her shoulders, barely managed to say hello and went up to the second floor with Zion.

“Thank you for your hard work, Juri.”

“What’s the hardship? The kids will come back to the dorm with their stuff in the afternoon.”

“Then, let’s take a short break, have lunch, and then have a meeting.”

“Okay.”

After quenching her thirst with the drink on the table, Julie went straight back to her room, and I went up to my room too.

Squeak-

“Sia, this is how it should be organized.”

“Ah…Okay, I get it, sister..”

“Lauren is also a woman, but she doesn’t clean up at all. What is this?”

“Ugh…!”

“Even if you are an explorer, you should know how to do basic organization.”

“Ugh…”

Inside the room I opened the door to and entered, Carmella was busily going back and forth to tidy up the room while scolding Sia and Lauren.

Sia helped Carmella clean up with a sullen expression, and Lauren’s ears were slightly down.

“Oh my, honey. You came up so quickly?”

“Uh. Everyone who was supposed to come has already come, so we’ll have lunch and a meeting later. But why are you two getting so upset?”

“It’s not a place I’ll spend my whole life, but it’s my home for the time being, so I’m not satisfied with it.”

As I come in, Carmela stops cleaning and starts talking, wiping the sweat off her forehead.

Less than an hour after sending the three up, the interior of the room was tidied up to a dazzling degree.

It’s clear that housewives’ jjambap isn’t going anywhere.

“Don’t be like that. Sia is young and Lauren has only been in the forest until recently.”

“Right… I’m sorry, Sia? Ms. Lauren, I pushed you too hard, didn’t I? ”

“Eww! No, Sister.. I have a baby too, so I’ll work hard!”

“Ma… That’s right. You’ve got this much belly… Just order us over and sit down and rest!”

Carmella, who was already 20 weeks pregnant, had a bigger belly than Tanya, and Sia and Lauren were fidgeting while looking at her.

I walked up to Carmela and held her in my arms, then fell down on the bed.

dump-!

“Ahh! Cain…! I need to clean up a bit more..”

“Let’s take a break. You guys come up too.”

“”Yeah!!“”

I fell asleep while gently stroking Carmela’s belly, and when I woke up, Carmela was gone.

“Sia! Where’s Carmella?”

“Um… Huh? Huh… Where did Unnie go?”

“Lauren.”

“Okay… Wait a minute… Oh, I think it’s downstairs!”

Lauren hesitates for a moment, then answers that she hears Carmella coming from the kitchen on the first floor.

“Looks like he went down to help prepare lunch. Let’s go down too.”

I hurried down to the first floor and saw Uncle Frank carrying food.

Judging by the clinking sound coming from the kitchen, it seems that Carmela is cooking.

“Even though I tell him not to, he goes into the kitchen and won’t come out.”

Uncle Frank, who had been looking at me with an embarrassed expression without me even asking, spoke as if making excuses.

I guess Carmela said she would cook by herself because she was worried that I would get jealous if she cooked with Uncle Frank.

“It’s okay. It’s not good for a pregnant mother to not move around much.”

“Mr. Frank~ Oh my. Cain. You came down?”

At that moment, Carmela, who had popped her head out of the kitchen and was looking for Uncle Frank, found me and smiled brightly.

“I woke up and was surprised because I couldn’t see you.”

“Huh, sorry. Oh, Mr. Frank. Where do you store the seafood?”

“In the storage bin next to the vegetable shelf.”

“Thank you. The rest of the food is almost ready, so please wait a little. Cain.”

Carmela nods and winks at me as Uncle Frank explains where the ingredients are, then disappears into the kitchen.

Sia and Lauren were waking up to the delicious smells wafting from the kitchen.

Soon, as all the other colleagues came down to the first floor, Carmela finished cooking and approached the table where the group was sitting.

She took off her apron, placed one hand gently on her swollen belly, bowed her head to the group, and introduced herself.

“Hello~ I’m Carmela, the owner of the general store. I’m 32 years old. I feel like the eldest sister to Julie and Lauren, so I’ll talk comfortably. I’m not good at it, but everyone enjoys it.”

Sia and Lauren tried to help her in the kitchen, but Carmela firmly turned them down after seeing the state of the room.

“Sister! Sit here!!”

Knock knock!

Feeling sorry for not being able to help with the cooking, Sia pulled a chair out between herself and me and urged Carmela to sit down.

Mila, Sion, and Mion were surprised to see her swollen belly when they first saw her, and Tanya had an expression as if she was looking at a comrade.

For lunch, instead of eating out at a restaurant, we had home-cooked meals prepared by Camella.

As she loves seafood, the table was filled with a variety of seafood dishes, perhaps because she put in the effort.

“Camella introduced herself, so the other one too..”

“Huh…!”

thud!!!

As soon as I finished speaking, Mila banged her head on the table and started shivering.

Finally, as if she had gathered her courage, she stood up from her seat and caught people’s attention.

“Ah…hellooo…my name is Mila…s…twenty-nine…years old…and I’m…ah…a…good-for-nothing who makes stuff on the black market…ahh!!!”

Knock!! Knock!! Knock!! Knock!! Knock!!!

As Mila’s voice trailed off and her introduction turned to self-deprecation, Zion started poking her in the ribs.

“You’re from a magic tool workshop! I tell you not to keep talking down to me, but you still do that.”

“Heeeek… Zion… What a wild child..”

“Okay. Just tell me your name and age. Everyone, let’s eat first.”

After the self-introductions of the new members, we had a delicious lunch and began the meetings necessary to fortify the accommodation in earnest.