>After heaps of magical-sourced abuse from monsters and Dolce alike Pico's shrunk down to thimble size, sapped of her ghostly "stuff" and chronically fatigued: Dolce doesn't mind if it means Pico is too tired to perv around
>Dolce heads to the baths and it's that time of the month which gives extra urgency to hygene: she's having a good soak and oblivious to what's around her, including Pico taking the opportunity to take a catnap on Dolce only to get swept down south into Dolce's canyon when Dolce absentmindedly swats at her
>Dolce suddenly realizes what's up and tries her best to get Pico out to no avail, eventually yelling at her which Xiao thinks means a perv is in the women's bath, rushing in battleaxe at the ready only to see Dolce working her ladybits and draw the obvious-if-incorrect conclusion to both's embarrassment; Dolce later claims it was a soap bottle cork and puts the event behind her, thinking Pico'll get out eventually
>A week later and Dolce's feeling sick and bloated and to her horror can guess exactly what's causing it, doing everything medicinal and physical she can to try and flush Pico out of *there*: Nancy takes notice and eventually catches Dolce in the act
>After convincing Nancy and Jones it wasn't Lest and thus keeping Jones from killing her boyfriend, Dolce confesses the whole situation; Jones, who's consulting a bottle of medicinal brandy, leaves this one to his wife, who can only guess that like any other baby Pico'll only come out when the time's right and that she'll be growing and sustaining herself from Dolce
>Dolce lets Lest in on the situation before it becomes too obvious and he goes into dual White Knight and Super Perv modes to her pleasant chagrin, and time passes by as she keeps looking for a solution and dealing with her ghost pregnancy, which largely entails enduring friendly teasing and curiosity from the other girls and siccing Lest on Doug whenever he makes a smartass remark
>Dolce finds that as weird and embarrassing as the situation is, it's not all bad: some of her more womanly assets are developing quite nicely as things progress, the need to make alterations to her clothes and eventually make outright maternity wear is good sewing practice and Lest is friendlier and more devoted than ever, helping her with all sorts of womanly needs
>She even finds, with a mix of pleasure and slight revulsion, that she's enjoying some of the maternal aspects of the situation, like subconsciously rubbing her belly while reading or only mildly protetsing when Lest helps her milk her breasts
>As regular pregnancy length comes and goes and Pico remains, it's obvious some drastic measures are going to be needed and Dolce, having found nothing medicinal that could help, grudgingly floats the idea of using rough sex to trigger birth
>Lest bribes Lin Fa with a fat sack of cash to let him and Dolce use the baths late at night with no questions asked and closed to everyone else, and after making preparations and getting a crash course on baby delivery he and Dolce head out to do what must be done
>The two quaff some stamina boosters and wine and aphrodisiacs and what Lest is pretty sure is homebrew spermicide and eventually get down to business, though not without plenty of lovey-dovey cuddling and foreplay and buildup as Lest can't help himself but fawn over his girlfriend in such a beautiful state and appreciate every detail of her gravid form
>The sex is some intense and amazing shit, building up to a feverish pitch as Lest just plows into Dolce harder and harder and making her cum once, twice, three times before he finally slams himself in into the hilt and blows his load, temporarily mindbreaking Dolce until she realizes IT'S PICO TIME
>Lest gives Dolce some extra medicine and healing potions before gagging her to muffle her birthing screams, then begins the task of slowly, disgustingly and painfully (for Dolce) guiding Pico out of Dolce's depths and holding the prize aloft ("It's a ghost!")
>As per tradition, Lest slaps the baby to confirm they're alive (though in this case Pico's face instead of her ass, repeatedly) and Pico groggily greets Dolce before realizing what'd happened and glomping onto her, happy to see her as always; Dolce, as much as she's ready to re-kill Pico at this point, can't help but be happy to see her as well
>Things go back to normal - for about a week, before Dolce suddenly finds herself feeling sick again and she calls Lest over to ask him if he was sure he used protection and he realizes he took a double dose of homebrew Viagra instead: suddenly the gigantic, red-eyed shadow of Jones appears behind him, also asking him if he'd used protection
>Skip 5 years and it's a quiet family evening, Luna playing on the floor with Pico, Lest and Dolce reading and talking on the sofa, family photos on the wall behind them: zoom in on one and it's a wedding picture, Lest smiling and sweating bullets; Jones also smiling and holding a syringe of poison to Lest's neck; Dolce smiling, redfaced and knocked up in her wedding dress; Nancy smiling and just happy her adoptive daughter is finally married, circumstances bedamned; and Pico in bridesmaid's regalia, as happily manic as ever