Did you really think this was the next episode?
Did you think I'd made a comeback??
Tada~☆ It was Galjwa!
You've been trolled by me once again!
Pfft, now I'll make the Galfeed Wagon disappear—
???: "Hand it over."
Heh, I'm immune to that. If you thought that would throw me off, you're dead wrong! Muda muda!
So hurry up and make the Galfeed Wagon vanish—
???: "Please?"
"I'll… I'll give it to you…!!"
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A room where everyone has to get pregnant.
I don't know who sent that, but it was nothing short of a message dripping with malice.
Why did Bronie say I was bound to become public enemy number one?
The answer was simple.
It turned out to be far more straightforward than I'd imagined.
How does pregnancy actually work?
They say if a man and a woman go to bed together, something forms between their legs.
Honestly, only pure little kids in the lower grades of elementary school would really believe that.
But the truth is very different.
Just because a man and a woman sleep together doesn't guarantee pregnancy.
Natural conception rates vary by age, health, ovulation cycle, and many other factors, but generally the chance is only about 20–25%.
If you liken it to a gacha, that's actually a pretty generous rate, but you can keep failing pull after pull because there's no pity system for pregnancy... though maybe that's a strange analogy.
In any case, even a healthy couple needs a good deal of effort and luck to conceive.
Bronie and Bianca were extremely lucky.
And this time, it wasn't just one person—it was five: my wife, Kiana, Raiden Mei, Bianca, and Aunt.
Jere is already pregnant, so she's already counted.
So what's the chance that all five of them will get pregnant quickly?
At 0.2⁵ to 0.25⁵, that comes out to roughly 0.00032 to 0.0009765625.
In percentage terms, that's about 0.032% to 0.098%.
In other words, it barely even reaches 0.1%, let alone 1%.
With natural conception that unlikely, the big problem is that we can't predict when—or if—it will even happen.
And as time goes on without any pregnancies, who will people blame and resent?
At first, they'll blame themselves. Later, they'll resent me for being the only man who could impregnate them.
Bronie called that exactly.
"So, what do you think we should do?"
"It's a surprisingly simple approach, yet the most difficult one," Jere said.
That contradictory statement made Jere pause briefly before she continued.
"If we take it at face value, the barrier trapping us was calibrated to our current strength... so the only option is to become stronger than we are now."
"Yes, that's right," Bronie agreed.
"Ah, now I see why you called it the hardest method."
Bronie nodded at Jere's words.
As it stands, we've already reached our limit.
Honestly, surpassing this is nearly impossible.
But... we still had to transcend it.
Even if it was just for our families waiting for us outside.
"Oh, and by the way, brother."
"Huh?"
"The number of people you need to impregnate... is four. Not five."
"...Huh?"
"What do you mean by that?"
At those words, both Jere and I looked at Bronie with puzzled eyes.
Bronie scratched her cheek, clearly reluctant to explain, and hesitated.
A slightly embarrassed expression flickered across her face.
Seeing that, Jere shot us a hopeful look back and forth, and I too stared at Bronie, filled with anticipation.
Unable to stand our gazes, Bronie blushed and spoke softly.
"It's... not me."
"Huh??"
"Then who is it??"
Bronie, addressing our question, slowly opened her mouth.
"Well, that's—"
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