In the final months of pregnancy, Ellis escaped from the basement where he had been imprisoned, his belly heavy with the child he was about to deliver.
The labor pains were coming more and more frequently. His baby was almost here.
*
Half a month ago, he had transmigrated into a Sentinel-and-Guide novel as a low-ranking Guide hated by everyone.
He had a handsome face, but his spirit form was a calico tortoiseshell cat, considered ugly by its own kind, and his psychic powers were pitifully weak.
In the original story, he had been infatuated with the top Sentinels in the main cast, pestering them relentlessly until he turned evil and died a miserable death.
Ellis, after transmigrating into the book: ...
If he couldn't afford to provoke them, he could at least avoid them, couldn't he?
In this life, he rarely left home except to attend classes, and avoided every plot point that would bring him into contact with the main cast.
But he was still bullied.
Strange texts began appearing on his phone.
[Baby, your waist is so slim. Can you really carry a baby?]
[I saw you on the subway just now.]
[Your mouth is so small. Can you fit me inside?]
People deliberately pressed against him on the subway, someone was always touching his waist at the training ground, and he was even followed on his way home.
It wasn't until one day, when Ellis was locked in a basement, that he learned what those people really wanted.
They had been bullying him because they wanted to mate with him.
*
Ellis started feeling nauseous and sleepy.
He realized he was pregnant.
Hidden inside the body of this unusually fertile calico cat was a womb that had never been discovered before.
The fetuses kicked inside him. No matter how hard Ellis scratched at his belly, he couldn't kill them.
In the final months of pregnancy, Ellis escaped in despair.
But the moment the basement door opened, he stumbled into a familiar embrace.
It was the main cast from the original story, the people he had spent months avoiding.
*
There had never been any bullies.
The perfect, lofty top Sentinels from the book held his ankles and kissed them reverently.
"Why have you been avoiding us?"
"Look at us."
One of them placed a hand over his pregnant belly.
"And don't reject our children, either."
Only then did Ellis realize that the Sentinels who had supposedly hated him in the original story had all been longing for his affection.
Theme: Strive with all your might.
