Still, thinking of all those games in her library that she had bought but never played, Kiana felt another pang of reluctance. She did not want to spend her precious rest time on something like this.
But perhaps because the "crisis" before her had awakened her little brain, which was already close to rusting over, a flash of inspiration struck her, and she came up with a good excuse—
"It's not urgent yet. If I learn now and forget later, wouldn't that just be a waste of time?
"And we don't even know when our child will be born. Wouldn't it be fine for me to learn while I'm pregnant?"
Simple-minded Kiana did not feel sentimental over words like "pregnancy" and "child," which had once been utterly unfamiliar to her. She merely looked at Gwen with her bright, watery eyes, hoping she could successfully get out of class.
"Sure..."
Looking at Kiana's radiant smile, nearly unchanged from when he had first met her, Gwen smiled and nodded. A faint sense of accomplishment rose within him, as though everything he had done had truly protected something.
But Kiana not feeling anything did not mean everyone else felt the same—
Mei, who had been smiling as she watched the scene, had a slight change in her gaze. She had already begun imagining what her own child might be like in the future...
Although Gwen was the focus of this picnic, after he manipulated time so that every girl had enough time alone with him, the girls formed groups large and small to enjoy the food and talk about happy things together—such as the Commander, the Commander, and the Commander.
Meanwhile, Alicia fluttered among them like a butterfly among flowers, bringing wave after wave of laughter.
After chatting for a while with Jean