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Surviving Zombies Was Easier Than Raising Beast Cubs

Chapter 179: Do not suddenly grow a conscience because everyone is looking · Oct 31, 2026

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151 Chapter 151: Four Sisters 2026-10-31
152 Chapter 152: There. See? You found something worse than the Rot 2026-10-31
153 Chapter 153: We leaving you with your bad face (Guess what cub said that) 2026-10-31
154 Chapter 154: Oh my God 2026-10-31
155 Chapter 155: Ugh. Ugh. Baby heavy. Miko tired 2026-10-31
156 Chapter 156: The Babies Moved 2026-10-31
157 Chapter 157: Blood Ritual 2026-10-31
158 Chapter 158: The giant just courted your female 2026-10-31
159 Chapter 159: My babies are getting too heavy 2026-10-31
160 Chapter 160: Someone Is Watching Ironwood 2026-10-31
161 Chapter 161: I’m also your baby 2026-10-31
162 Chapter 162: Why is everyone attacking me today? 2026-10-31
163 Chapter 163: If you behave like a lone survivor again, I will tie you to your sleeping mat 2026-10-31
164 Chapter 164: Twin daughters 2026-10-31
165 Chapter 165: Mama says we were cuter when we could not talk 2026-10-31
166 Chapter 166: Ancient subterranean mimic species 2026-10-31
167 Chapter 167: The Water Broke 2026-10-31
168 Chapter 168: I’m having babies 2026-10-31
169 Chapter 169: SOREN, YOU WHITE-SCALED BASTARD! 2026-10-31
170 Chapter 170: I liked that rack 2026-10-31
171 Chapter 171: Mama is going to be angry 2026-10-31
172 Chapter 172: Snake babies 2026-10-31
173 Chapter 173: Why is Swanly alone? 2026-10-31
174 Chapter 174: Can we see Mama? 2026-10-31
175 Chapter 175: Tiny Sisters, Tiny Fangs 2026-10-31
176 Chapter 176: Three Minutes to Live 2026-10-31
177 Chapter 177: Why do you always start with me? 2026-10-31
178 Chapter 178: I would rather die than betray my people 2026-10-31
179 Chapter 179: Do not suddenly grow a conscience because everyone is looking 2026-10-31
180 Chapter 180: What exactly are you talking about? 2026-10-31
181 Chapter 181: The Night Swanly Lost Her Innocence 2026-10-31
182 Chapter 182: You made your males hurt me because you knew I wouldn’t speak 2026-10-31
183 Chapter 183: Hello 2026-10-31
184 Chapter 184: Do not touch the arrow! 2026-10-31
185 Chapter 185: Her Last Three Gifts 2026-10-31
186 Chapter 186: Although I remain available for future children 2026-10-31
187 Chapter 187: Talkative prince 2026-10-31
188 Chapter 188: Ancient creatures have terrible eating habits 2026-10-31
189 Chapter 189: What did he do? 2026-10-31
190 Chapter 190: I want a daughter too 2026-10-31
191 Chapter 191: hide-and-feed-the-postpartum-fox 2026-10-31
192 Chapter 192: A missing toof 2026-10-31
193 Chapter 193: DEER PAPA! DON’T LOTH MY TOOF! 2026-10-31
194 Chapter 194: Snake Papa Is A Bully 1 2026-10-31
195 Chapter 195: Snake Papa Is A Bully 2 2026-10-31
196 Chapter 196: DEER PAPAAAA! DON’T LOTH MY TOOF! 2026-10-31
197 Chapter 197: Miko made it fall out! 2026-10-31
198 Chapter 198: Snake babies were monsters 2026-10-31
199 Chapter 199: Did you just copy me? 2026-10-31
200 Chapter 200: She poisoned someone 2026-10-31

Chapter 179: Chapter 179: Do not suddenly grow a conscience because everyone is looking

She found out very quickly.

”MOVE!”

The shout tore through the settlement.

Selka stumbled as two female guards dragged her from the rear cave.

”Don’t touch me!”

Nobody cared.

Her rust-red hair was tangled from childbirth. Her face was pale with exhaustion. Her body still ached so badly that every rough step sent pain through her hips and stomach.

Her wrists were bound.

So were Brea’s.

The spotted hyena female was dragged behind her, already crying.

”I didn’t do anything!”

Selka’s head whipped around.

Even now?

Already?

They had not even reached Soren yet and Brea had started.

Selka laughed.

It came out ugly.

”Pathetic.”

Brea stared at her.

”What?”

”You haven’t even been questioned.”

Selka’s russet tail lashed.

”And you’re already begging.”

”Shut up.”

”No.”

One guard shoved Selka forward.

She nearly fell.

Her fingers tightened.

Hidden high against the inside of her thigh, beneath the narrow leather tie supporting her primitive wrap, was a thin sharpened piece of bone.

Small.

Nearly flat.

She had kept it for weeks.

Nobody had found it.

Her barely covering clothes had made hiding anything difficult, but nobody had thought to check the narrow band pressed against her inner thigh.

Idiots.

While the guards dragged her forward, Selka twisted her bound fingers behind herself.

Slowly.

Carefully.

Her fingertips found the bone.

Good.

She did not pull it free yet.

Not yet.

Ironwood’s central clearing was already full.

Warriors.

Females.

Survivors from Riverbone.

Sunmane.

People bandaged from yesterday’s attack.

People missing friends.

People missing mates.

People who had buried bodies before sunrise.

The moment Selka appeared, the voices began.

”That’s her?”

”She helped them?”

”My brother died!”

”TRAITOR!”

Selka’s fox ears flattened.

She lifted her chin anyway.

Then she saw Swanly.

And something inside her twisted.

Swanly stood beside Kael.

Alive.

Clean.

Wrapped warmly.

Still pale from childbirth, yes.

Still moving carefully, yes.

But alive.

Protected.

Kael hovered so close his black tail practically curled around her legs.

Nerin stood slightly farther away.

Arion nearby.

Raku beside Soren.

Thalara watched from beneath the shade.

Even Druun’s enormous figure rose behind the shelters.

Everyone.

Always everyone around Swanly.

Selka’s jaw clenched.

And she had given birth in blood and dirt behind bars.

Alone for most of it.

No healer.

No celebration.

No one waiting outside praying for her survival.

Her eyes burned.

Then she heard it.

A tiny cry.

Selka froze.

Three newborn wolf cubs rested in a hide-lined basket near Brann.

Small.

Dark-gray.

Barely able to lift their heads.

One was wriggling restlessly.

Searching.

For her.

Selka’s face changed for half a second.

Swanly saw it.

The hatred disappeared.

Just a mother.

One heartbeat.

Then it came back.

Soren pointed at the ground.

”Put them there.”

The guards forced Selka and Brea down.

Selka hit her knees.

”Careful!”

Her voice cracked.

”I gave birth yesterday!”

Soren’s silver eyes did not move.

”So did Swanly.”

Selka looked at her.

There.

Again.

Swanly.

Always fucking Swanly.

Brea immediately crawled forward.

”My lord, please!”

Selka slowly turned.

Brea’s spotted ears were flattened.

”I didn’t want this!”

Selka’s expression became almost amused.

Here it came.

”I swear! Selka forced me!”

The clearing erupted.

Selka closed her eyes.

Once.

Twice.

Then laughed.

Brea spun toward her.

”What is funny?”

”You.”

Selka’s eyes opened.

”You are.”

Brea’s face twisted.

”You told me to contact them!”

”And you did.”

”You threatened me!”

”You wanted out as badly as I did!”

”No!”

Selka leaned forward as far as her bindings allowed.

”You coward.”

Brea’s mouth fell open.

Selka smiled viciously.

”I may be cruel.”

Silence spread.

”I may be selfish.”

Her fox ears lifted.

”I may even be every filthy thing these people call me.”

She looked Brea directly in the eyes.

”But at least I know what I am.”

Brea went white.

”You?”

Selka laughed.

”You crawl behind me when you think I’m winning, then throw yourself at everyone’s feet the moment I lose.”

”I was scared!”

”So was everyone!”

”You forced me!”

”I didn’t force you to carry messages.”

Brea shook her head wildly.

”You told me where to hide them!”

”And you chose to do it.”

”I thought they were beastmen!”

Selka’s smile vanished.

”So did I.”

That quieted several people.

Soren stepped forward.

”Tell me everything.”

Brea immediately did.

Everything.

The hidden messages.

The carved bark.

Guard rotations.

The water routes.

Weak sections of the wall.

How Selka had told the outsiders Ironwood possessed food.

Females.

Weapons.

An ancient being.

A giant.

Swanly’s strange treasures.

With every sentence, the crowd became angrier.

Swanly became quieter.

That was worse.

Kael noticed.

His claws slowly slid out.

Brea sobbed.

”She said they would free her! She said they would take us too!”

Selka looked disgusted.

”Stop crying.”

Brea rounded on her.

”People died!”

”Yes.”

”Because of you!”

Selka’s eyes flashed.

”Because of us.”

Brea froze.

Selka leaned closer.

”Do not suddenly grow a conscience because everyone is looking.”

Swanly’s stomach turned.

That was the problem.

No regret.

Not even now.

There were bodies barely cold.

Mora’s shoulder had almost been torn apart.

Tilla was covered in bruises.

Nahla had nearly been killed.

Kael had fought inside Swanly’s birth shelter.

Her newborn daughters had almost been taken.

And Selka was still sitting there arguing over percentages of guilt.

Swanly stepped forward.

Kael immediately touched her waist.

”Slow.”

”I know.”

Selka saw it.

That tiny gesture.

Kael’s hand.

Swanly leaning into him without even thinking.

Something ugly twisted across Selka’s face.

Swanly noticed.

”You gave birth.”

Selka stiffened.

Swanly glanced at the tiny wolf cubs.

”They’re yours?”

Selka’s voice softened despite herself.

”Yes.”

One cub whimpered.

Her ears twitched toward the sound.

Swanly’s chest tightened.

Damn it.

She hated this.

If Selka were alone, punishment would be easy.

But those cubs had done nothing.

They did not choose their mother.

They did not ask to enter the world carrying her crimes.

One of them squeaked again, nose lifting weakly toward Selka’s scent.

Swanly looked away.

She remembered Kairo.

Nilo.

Miko.

Tiny bodies looking for Mama.

No.

She could not pretend those newborns did not matter.

But she also could not let Selka keep doing this.

”You nearly got everyone here killed.”

Selka stared at her.

”You survived.”

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