Chapter 170: Pregnant?

When Zhang Fan woke up, it was already late afternoon. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Bakel's face, both tense and excited.

As soon as Bakel saw Zhang Fan's hand move, he immediately lunged to the bedside, tightly gripping Zhang Fan's hand, and said excitedly:

"Fan Fan! You're awake? Do you feel any discomfort anywhere?"

Zhang Fan slowly blinked his eyes, somewhat hesitantly asking:

"Bakel, what happened to me? How am I home? Shouldn't I be fighting? Ah! I can't remember what happened afterward! Right! Bakel, where's Fei Er? Where's Nuoya?"

Seeing Zhang Fan had regained his vigor, Bakel felt relieved. He said somewhat helplessly: "Fan Fan, you're suddenly asking me so many questions; which should I answer first?"

"Then... let's answer them one by one! Hehe!" Zhang Fan said with a grin.

Bakel smiled gently, stroking the top of Zhang Fan's head.

"All right! I'll listen to Fan Fan! Then I'll answer each one for you! You're at home because you fainted. I was supposed to be commanding in the east, but as soon as I heard someone say you'd fainted, I rushed over immediately.

At that time, when I arrived, Fei Er and Nuoya were taking care of you. Seeing you faint, I immediately brought you back. By the way! I already had Uncle Wei Er and Am come to check on you—rest assured, your body is truly not sick!

Saying this, Bakel's face suddenly flushed with a suspicious red hue. Excitedly he said: "Fan Fan! We have a child!"

Upon hearing that, Zhang Fan burst out laughing. "Pfft~ Bakel, I thought you were going to say something else! Your bashful, timid expression paired with your sturdy build is really quite attractive!

"Besides! Didn't we already have a child?" he said, pointing at the dragon egg lying beside him, and smiled.

Bakel had originally thought Zhang Fan already knew about his pregnancy, but hearing Zhang Fan say that, he realized it was a misunderstanding. Moreover, it was a complete misunderstanding—most importantly, Zhang Fan definitely didn't know he was pregnant.

Thinking this, Bakel helplessly rubbed Zhang Fan's head, then gently placed his hand on Zhang Fan's lower abdomen, saying: "Fan Fan, I don't mean that! I mean, here you have our child."

Zhang Fan's previously relaxed expression fell away. His whole body suddenly froze as if struck by lightning. After coming to his senses, Zhang Fan suddenly laughed again.

"Hahaha... Bakel, what are you saying? Me? Having a child? Good heavens! Are you sure you're not joking with me? How could I possibly be pregnant? I'm not even a true female! How could that happen?"

For some reason, as Zhang Fan laughed, tears welled up at the corners of his eyes.

"Bakel, I think it's time I came clean with you about everything."

Saying this, Zhang Fan wiped the expression from his face and spoke solemnly:

"Actually, on Earth, people like me are called men! That is, the males you speak of. And on Earth there are no beastmen at all, so there wouldn't be beastmen and females like you have here.

"There, the females who bear children are called women. I don't know if you still remember, but when I first met you, I already asked you whether there were people here with two round lumps of flesh on their chests.

"You said no, and at that moment I already knew I had come to a planet never before seen or heard of. To be honest, I love everything about this planet, even though it's always dangerous.

"But precisely because of that, I chose to conceal my gender. If you feel my concealment has caused you great harm, then I can choose to leave."

As Zhang Fan began his explanation, Bakel's face filled with doubt. He couldn't believe that his partner of nearly a year was telling him he was male!

Moreover, before his partner told him these things, he had just learned the joyful news that he was about to have a child. When Zhang Fan said he might leave, Bakel suddenly froze.

No matter how he thought about it, he couldn't understand why Fan Fan would suddenly say these things to him.

"Fan Fan, believe me—I'm not joking! Uncle Wei Er and Am have both confirmed it—you really are pregnant!"

Having said that, Bakel furtively glanced at Zhang Fan's complexion, swallowed the words he was about to say, took another sip of water, and spoke earnestly:

"However! I think I should believe what you're saying instead. Moreover, I don't feel that your concealment toward me has caused any impact; on the contrary, if it weren't for your initial concealment, I wouldn't have believed I could fall for you so irresistibly.

"So, Fan Fan, please don't leave me, and don't leave our child, okay?"

Seeing Bakel's sincere demeanor, which didn't look like a lie, Zhang Fan believed him.

"All right, get up! I'm starving—can we eat now?"

Saying this, Zhang Fan had already climbed out of bed, put on his shoes, and headed first toward the main hall.

Bakel, seeing this, hurriedly followed, supporting Zhang Fan as they went out.

The next morning, Zhang Fan should have risen early, gone to the Tribe Center Square to lead his troops onto the battlefield to support the male beastmen guard unit.

But just as he was about to get up, Bakel, who had been lounging in bed refusing to rise, entangled him.

"Fan Fan, what are you going to do? Look, I'm sick—how can you bear to abandon me, a patient, at home while you take care of the child? How can you be so heartless? Cough cough cough..."

After saying that, Bakel began a violent coughing fit.

Seeing this, Zhang Fan had no choice but to agree to stay and care for Bakel and the child.

However, he didn't know that Bakel had long planned this. After Bakel entangled Zhang Fan, he put him back on the bed and covered him with a blanket.

"All right, Fan Fan, you'll stay home with me today—don't go out. Cough cough cough! Occasionally stealing some leisure is also quite nice."

Saying this, Bakel coughed again. Seeing Bakel cough so severely, Zhang Fan immediately reached out to pat his back, furrowed his brows, and said with a worried expression:

"Bakel, I think you're getting worse! This won't do—we need to find Uncle Wei Er to have a look!"

Upon hearing that, Bakel, without hesitation, stopped Zhang Fan from going out.

"No, Fan Fan, I think I'm fine—just a bit of a cold. It'll be okay after resting a few days at home, so there's no need to trouble Am and Uncle."

Seeing Bakel so insistent, Zhang Fan didn't want to keep arguing. Anyway, he didn't have to train today, so he might as well stay home and guard Bakel; if Bakel really developed other problems, he could still bother Am and Uncle later.

Thus, Zhang Fan was persuaded by Bakel to stay home, and they went back to sleep together for another nap.

When Zhang Fan woke up again, Bakel's figure was gone from the bed—even the spot where he had slept had cooled down.

Upon realizing Bakel was missing, Zhang Fan suddenly sat up from bed. Without even putting on his shoes, he bolted out of the room and began searching everywhere for Bakel's trace.

In the end, Zhang Fan found Bakel at the doorway of his own courtyard.

At that moment, Bakel was just opening the courtyard gate, having come in from outside, when Zhang Fan caught him red‑handed! Seeing Bakel just return from outside, Zhang Fan was furious beyond words!

"Bakel! Didn't you say you were sick? Why do you still have the leisure to go out? Come clean! Are you pretending to be ill just to keep me from training? Speak up! You'd better be honest—otherwise… humph! You know the consequences—serious, grave, severe!"

Zhang Fan's face turned livid as he pointed at Bakel's nose and began to flare up.

Bakel instantly felt embarrassed, rubbed his nose, let out a sneeze to ease the awkwardness, then pulled from his coat pocket a small bottle of pills he had picked up on the way out when he stopped by Dier's.

After rubbing his nose, which felt itchy from nervousness, he apologetically said to Zhang Fan:

"Sorry, Fan Fan, it's all my fault, but I went out because I felt awful, so I went to get some medicine from Am. Fan Fan, you must be hungry by now—breakfast is warming in the pot; we can take it out and eat."

Having said that, Bakel turned, closed the courtyard gate, then walked to Zhang Fan's side and gazed at him affectionately.

Zhang Fan's anger had already been doused by the sight of Bakel's medicine bottle. Seeing Bakel, even while ill, still so concerned about his health, warmed his heart.

Gradually he also smiled, and together with Bakel they went into the kitchen, took their breakfast from the pot, ate it, and by then it was already half past ten in the morning.

If it were usual, Zhang Fan would already be taking the females to do training subjects. However, now because Ba Ke Er is sick, he couldn't go as wished to the Tribe Center Square to train with the females.

For the whole morning afterwards, Zhang Fan and Ba Ke Er spent it together on the lounge chair in the courtyard. When it was time for lunch, since they had eaten breakfast too early and were not yet hungry, they hit it off and decided to push lunch back to the afternoon.

So, when Fei Er and Nuoya finished their morning training and rushed over to visit Zhang Fan, what they saw was the two husbands sunbathing on the lounge chair.

"Fan Fan, how do you feel? Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere? You don't even know, you fainted yesterday suddenly, it almost scared me silly! I said your archery aim was originally the best, how could you miss the target!"

Out of curiosity, I turned my head and saw you standing there with a pale face, as if you might collapse at any moment! So, yesterday I was trying to save you, which is why I left my post without permission.

Now I only hope you will consider, for the sake of me saving you and your unborn child, let me and Nuoya off the hook? Don't hold us responsible for our unauthorized actions.

Fei Er's words, to Zhang Fan's ears, were only the first few sentences, which were still relatively normal; the later part was all over the place. What struck Zhang Fan as odd was that Fei Er, just like Ba Ke Er, kept saying he was pregnant.

But this is just nonsense! I'm a proper grown man! What pregnancy? This is absolutely impossible, okay!