After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World

This had always been the dynamic between them. Althea was the introspective, somewhat introverted one, while Winona was the super extrovert who could talk for hours.

Of course, even if she was gregarious, it didn’t mean that she truly liked talking to the person. It was just how she was raised—to network.

It was only with Althea that she could truly talk for hours on end, and still be filled with energy afterwards.

”The day started like normal. I was exercising in my home gym while watching Keeping Up with The Bazoomas, as always, when the doorbell rang.”

”It was my grandma.” She sneered a bit at the memory. ”Yes, that grandma.” Althea nodded, understanding that this was obviously the paternal grandmother Winona didn’t like.

”You can imagine the torture of living with a snobbish old woman in the forest, then on a lackluster territory, then on another slightly better territory…”

She shivered just by remembering.

”Anyway, I jumped too soon. I’ll start from when we were in Terran.”

She cleared her throat and sat in a more comfortable position.

”So, she was nagging me about my fiance at the time. She went on and on about me getting old and it was time for me to give birth.”

The blonde’s eyes twitched at the recollection and shook her head, turning to Althea looking as if she had been violated. ”She kept saying I no longer had the excuse to keep delaying the marriage blah blah…”

”Then we lost consciousness. For a moment I thought I had a little aneurysm with all the nagging. Turned out the world went haywire.”

It was particularly unfortunate that, except for a couple of jewelry, all of her own wealth was digital. She had a little silver when she transferred here.

Fortunately, her grandmother had a habit of hoarding and a lot of her old jewellery was sold.

”We hid ourselves in our house. But most of the servants became monsters and we almost died twice inside our own house!”

Fortunately, they were both raised in ultra-rich families. Ultra-rich families required some sort of self-defense knowledge of the progenies, so they weren’t completely helpless.

Even grandma could defend herself from the zombies, unless they were upgraded like some of the servants who unfortunately didn’t make it with them. Those Winona had to fight herself, almost dying many times.

In any case, they spent the rest of those 24 hours in the house, filling up their spaces and cleaning up the zombies they encountered. It was only when they transferred that they met life-threatening situations again.

They survived thanks to wits and some strength, but it was definitely far from easy. Although Althea was living a good life now, Winona couldn’t imagine how it was when she just entered with that large stomach of hers.

”What about you?” She asked. ”What have you been through? And how did you guys get to this place?”

Winona was amazed by what Althea had built here, though she wasn’t that surprised because Althea had always been super resourceful.

Anyway, she was very glad Althea found such a good territory. She couldn’t imagine being out there with the little ones.

She shivered at the thought and couldn’t help but kiss both the children’s chubby cheeks to comfort herself.

Ah, so happy~

Althea smiled, telling her much of what had happened. She told her almost everything. Almost.

Because there was no compelling reason, Althea didn’t take the initiative to tell her about her being the Lord. But, if she found out on her own, it wouldn’t have mattered.

By the end, she got to her reunion with her brother. ”Ansel should be back in a few days.”

At the mention of Ansel’s name, that guy’s smug face appeared in her head. Winona sneered in response, mentally swiping the image away. ”Well, I’m glad you found your brother. Even if he is an embarrassment to all good men, he still makes for a relatively decent sibling.”

Seeing the other woman’s gnashing teeth, Althea couldn’t help but recall all their antics.

It seemed like even before, Winona was still annoyed just at the thought of Ansel.

The story was… a few years back, Winona sneaked into Althea’s house once to surprise her, accidentally getting in Ansel’s room.

She then saw him making out with a girl who was definitely not the girl he was with the week prior.

Since then, Winona never hid her disgust for Ansel and Ansel was never polite and talked back all the time. Their interactions were fraught with sarcasm and double meanings.

They were, of course, very decent with each other. After all, they had to retain a certain amount of civility because Althea was in the middle.

They had a very complicated relationship.

Then Winona paused and narrowed her eyes, looking at Althea with a bit of worry. ”He didn’t do anything… inappropriate, right?” To you?

”Inappropriate?”

”Nothing.”

Althea had been used to the way Winona’s mind went on tangents, so she took it upon herself to bring the conversation back to a more sensible topic.

”So what’s your plan? You can live here with us.” Althea said. She knew Winona had always liked sleepovers, at least sleepovers in her house. Surprisingly, Winona shook her head with reluctance.

”I have to pick up my grandma first,” She said, ”I don’t want to put you through the ordeal I call my grandma, we’ll rent another house. I researched and the prices here are quite fair, especially if it was just a rental.”

Althea shook her head, patting the other woman’s hand, ”I already have a well-paying job for you when you get back.”

Winona actually specialized in Materials Chemistry, and she was quite good at it. In addition, her family was the leader in the energy industry back in their continent (although… Winona had wanted nothing to do with it, but Althea thought the blonde should still know some things).

Whether or not she did, however, Winona would be very helpful to the laboratory team she and Eugene were forming. There were already plans for a huge research center, and they needed all the help they could get.

”Okay! I’ll take you up on that offer!” Winona said, earning herself a big smile from Althea.

”That’s great, there are plenty of things I need your help with,” Althea said with a weird smile. ’Yes, very much.’

”...”

Winona looked at Althea’s smiling face, feeling a little weird.

Her best friend was obviously smiling at her, why did she feel like a sheep in front of a tiger?

She must be imagining things…?