After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World-Chapter 1141: The New Cleaner

"Big brother Koo, have one too!" Mamu said, looking sweetly at the big guy.

Koo smiled and, after rearranging the goblin babies hanging on his body, took a pinch. "Thank you," he said, goofy as always. The ten-year-old sparkled, obviously liking the big man’s gratitude.

Koo Yu might be a young man, but his mind was still that of a child’s. He got along with the kids very well—except at the same time he was a big adult and could do things they could not, making him extra cool.

The aborigine kids in particular were close with him because they lived in the same area. They looked at him as both a peer and as an older brother. It was definitely a unique dynamic they really liked.

As for how he ended up babysitting triplet goblins, it was kind of a long story.

In Goblin culture, babies were taken care of by a group of nurses at the same time in one place while their parents went to work.

They were literally placed in one room with comfy cushions on the floor, the green dumplings grouped together—either in rows or in cots—and laying/playing there for the entire day.

If they needed something, they’d make a specific sound, and the nurses would know exactly what the babies needed.

From an outsider’s point of view, one would just see a room densely filled with green balls.

Of course, although they looked the same to humans, the goblins had no problem determining which one was theirs. Be it by smell, sound, or some other qualities humans didn’t know anymore, there was no case of baby-switching among the goblins in the entirety of their existence.

This practice of taking care of babies in bulk did not change in Alterra. They cleared out one of the communal rooms in their dormitories to serve this purpose.

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If humans were there, they would met at the cute green balls gathered in one room, but sadly no one was there to see that. They could only see the babies when they were taken out individually or with their families.

Today, it happened that a pair of goblins just wanted to take their kids out for a walk—something they learned to be very healthy for children.

They naturally wanted the best for their children and there was also the fact that minorities tended to emulate the prevalent practices more than others, so many goblin families followed this practice to a tee.

Even if the female was heavily pregnant and due to give birth soon...

Anyway, Alterrans loved the sight of babies—no matter what race—so it could be said their ’walk’ was very welcome. People would stop by and look at the strollers, they would chat them up, and they would coo the babies and greet them, promising treats when they grew teeth.

While it was shocking and intimidating at first, the goblins knew the emotions going around were mostly warmth—except for a few aborigines who were still uncomfortable by their freedom—so they adjusted quickly.

This was another one of the reasons why the goblins loved taking the children out occasionally. It made their babies feel… loved.

Anyway, sometime during the walk, they encountered Koo Yu and the kids hanging out.

They exchanged words and the children looked at the goblins curiously, asking questions like ’when do they start to walk?’ or ’how big are their poop?’

These were all genuine inquiries, which the parent goblins answered sincerely (and yes, even the poop question).

Note that these were mostly aboriginal children, yet none of them showed a hint of disgust with them at all. Children were much more honest with their emotions, after all, and the fact that there was no discrimination in the younger generation was very telling of the current education system.

The bigger kids (like Koo) were allowed to hold the babies. They were already several months old, but goblins at this age could actually already walk so they were already strong enough to be carried around by strangers.

Then… the goblin female screamed. Her water broke.

Goblins, once they had treated a place as home and its inhabitants as trustworthy, they could get careless and trusting—to a fault.

"Please take care of my babies! I will find you later!" The male goblin yelled, carrying his yelling wife and running to the hospital, disappearing before Koo could even answer him.

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And so was the current scene.

Mamu, Koo, and the others adjusted well enough, and it seemed like goblin babies were much more well-behaved than human babies.

Whenever they cried (they had really, really, small voices) Koo would just place them back into the strollers and they’d push the stroller back and forth as if giving them a ride.

The kids had to do it because Koo was too big to push the small stroller comfortably. Anyway, it almost always worked and the kids started doing it as a game—i.e. who calmed the goblin babies better?

In any case, having fun while goblin-sitting was definitely an adventure and challenge for them, but it wasn’t an unwelcome one!

Althea smiled and took her eyes away from them, while a certain ’prisoner’ —who was in-charge of hauling out trash—watched them longingly, his heart clenching in pain.

This was Jest1, one of the prisoners of war from Basset Town. He was also judged as a low-risk one, so he was allowed to serve near people unlike most of the others.

His main job, given to him just this morning, was to clean up the trash along the streets, sweep fallen grass, and so on.

Although there were rules against littering, there were often times that people would just lose track of their trash but it was too crowded to take it back, and were therefore just left there.

Anyway, they were already penalized so there was little incentive to fight against the crowd to find a candy wrapper they accidentally dropped.

Other than his main job, he also had an on-call job. Because Jest was from a Town, his level was decent.

Other than cleaning up trash in the territory, another task was to clean those outside. So after beast mobs, he’d help out with the carcasses and also fight against some smaller monsters that found their way there.

"Fuf cwouds yummy…" he turned to look at milky voices that seemed to go near him. He turned to look at Miss Althea, her husband, and her children happily eating that… colored cloud.

He watched as the babies took a bit of the cloud and fed their parents, who naturally opened their mouths to eat them.

Jest pursed his lips and gathered all his courage, stepping into their paths. Although he was a prisoner, he was given relative freedom like talking to whom he wanted to.

"What is it?" Althea asked, startled, but not particularly impatient. Her daughter was trying to feed her and insisted on doing so, so while talking to him, Miss Althea had a steady stream of little clouds put in her mouth.

"If… you have nothing—later, Pepper, Mummy’s talking—" she munched on the cloud anyway, before looking at Jest. "If you have nothing else to say—"

"No, please, it’s important—"

They really paused and just stared at him, waiting for him to speak. His heart swelled with hope.

To be honest, he never thought it would be a possibility for him to even talk to an elder after the war was lost. However, the more he saw about the territory, the more he felt in his heart that he could… ask.

What really touched his heart was how Alterra treated their casinos. Back home, casinos were the main part of how his family fell apart.

So when he found out Alterra had a casino, he specifically chose the area to clean first. He spent the morning there, just watching the people come in and go, watching their reactions, and—he predicted—their future suffering.

What he wanted to do or what he wanted to see, he didn’t know, but he stayed there anyway.

However, while he saw that many people were sad and annoyed, there was no… despair—not the one he was used to seeing. Back home, people would look like they lost their entire lives… which they probably really did.

It was then that he found out about the very humane limitations put up. He would even realize that most of the ’annoyances’ from the customers were because they were kicked out after reaching the spending limit.

A territory that could forgo its greed for the sake of its people made him think that maybe—maybe—he could have a voice this time.

If you forgot already, he made an appearance in the latest war xD He was one of the people sent by Basset Town to help out during the war