Nalun: “……”
“We, we just happened to have things…… to report.” The young officers backed up a few steps in panic, practically wishing they could throw themselves outside of the ship to calm down for a moment.
Sirius said coolly: “Good timing. Speak.”
“It’s just, just……” The tall, buzz cut leader of the group choked and turned red, temporarily unable to give a suitable reason.
A short officer was struggling to peek his head out from behind him, eyes almost absentmindedly and sneakily glancing towards Nalun’s direction. Meanwhile, the other extremely stern looking man smacked the shortie on the head in warning.
These people exchanged glances, silently communicating with each other.
In comparison, Sirius can be considered very calm and indifferent: “Weilin.”
The short officer, who was peeking his head out, flinched back: “Here.”
“You explain.”
Weilin froze and then stammered: “Vice-admiral An…Andrew wanted us, wanted us…… to notify everyone of takeoff .”
The buzz cut man’s expression was blank and dazed– this kind of reason…… Wasn’t something like ‘takeoff’ obvious to see?
With the lull of the spaceship beneath their feet and the stars passing by outside of the windows, there was no need to report it to feel it.
They’re finished. They’re done. Eavesdropping on gossip of their superior, yet getting caught firsthand. And even finding such an absolutely horrible excuse. He could already foresee what they were about to face.
Weilin also realized this himself. With a bitter face, he sent a silent plea for help to his friend.
Sirius: “If there’s nothing to do, you guys can go help Hager.”
The three people nervously stood up straight.
Don’t joke, they didn’t want to wash dishes in the oily kitchen alright?!
Nalun, curiously: “Hager?”
The stern looking man locked his gaze on Nalun: “That’s our head chef. Although his personality is slightly eccentric, his cooking is great. If you have anything you’d like to eat, feel free to tell me.”
Nalun: “……” Why did he feel like this person was purposely attempting to get in his good graces? Re-adjusting his mental state and saying a few words of courtesy, the Honored Prince expressed that he temporarily didn’t plan to eat yet.
Sirius thought briefly and seized the opportunity to list a pile of dishes.
Nalun was stunned: “……” They were all things he liked.
The young officer’s face also stiffened. He said with difficulty: “It’s Monday today. Hager doesn’t make sweets.”
Sirius raised a brow.
He immediately corrected himself: “No problem, leave it to me.”
Sirius finally nodded his head in satisfaction.
To the side, Weilin still had a frightened expression. He stopped turning his head randomly and remained in place like a quail.
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The buzz cut in front of him didn’t even dare to make a sound.
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Sirius immediately smiled and turned to introduce these three eavesdropping subordinates to Nalun.
The stern-faced one was born from a mining planet just like Diya. Relying on his own strengths to overcome one difficulty after another, he arrived in the Imperial Capital and passed the recruitment exam for ‘Sarri’. The shortie was Weilin. He was the youngest member on this spaceship. Simultaneously, he had the most lively personality, an existence that gave people headaches.
As for the buzz cut, he was much more reliable. As a senior ranked personnel who had followed the Admiral for many years, his relationship with Sirius go way back to the military academy years. Fortunate enough to attend during his godly upperclassman’s last year within the academy, he was able to observe the other man’s excellence in school from afar. After graduating, with a beautiful, idle dream of the Imperial military and a desire to follow in Sirius’s footsteps, he enlisted resolutely and without hesitation…… thinking about it now, he was really too young and naïve.
Actually, Nalun has heard about these people somewhat previously. During social exchanges in the Imperial Capital, there’s always people discussing Sirius and his loyal subordinates. At that time, Nalun held Sirius in contempt. Naturally, he also regarded his subordinates with disdain. He had never really imagined that one day, he’d be interacting harmoniously with this group of people.
This was the first time they engaged in this kind of almost ‘private’ meeting. The three people expressed enthusiastic welcome towards his arrival, as if the rift that he had with the military previously had never existed.
Nalun also returned with a similarly friendly attitude. When he dislikes someone, he’s either too lazy to bother or uses harsh words to force the other to back off. However, when he’s being friendly and interacting with the purpose of making friends, the eloquent Honored Prince was always capable of speaking pleasant words that made people happy.
After a few words, they discovered that the unapproachable Honored Prince in their impressions was actually pretty interesting. In the past, other than seeing him in some verbal disputes with Sirius, in addition to some requests like ‘a friendly duel’, the relationship of both parties had never evolved to the point of life and death.
Weilin started to become restless. After a few words, he couldn’t help but ask Nalun regarding the reason for his arrival.
Sirius swept him a look and then focused his gaze on the person beside him, also waiting for the answer.
“Oh. I wanted to go take a look at the borders.” Nalun’s answer was boring and normal, both perfunctory yet maintain courtesy.
He just finished speaking when he keenly noticed that Sirius seemed to have heaved a sigh?
Weilin had a rather doubtful expression. However, his teammates all stopped him from discussing more– the current atmosphere was already very peaceful now. They didn’t want to enter another awkward state with their superior again.
The mystery between Charvey and Monte wasn’t simple. If they weren’t careful and cautious, things may get risky. Publicly discussing the matter right in front of the people involved was obviously extremely dangerous conduct.
Weilin wasn’t a smart teammate. However, they were astute enough to act reasonable before he did anything stupid.
The buzz cut thought of a plain and normal excuse to take leave: “Andrew is still waiting for me to help him. It’s almost time for us to meet. I have to go first.”
The stern faced officer immediately said: “Is there work? I’ll come help.”
Weilin turned his head, saw his two teammates both with the intent to leave, and said hesitatingly: “Then…… I’ll follow as well?”
This time Sirius didn’t stop them and expressed they could go.
The group heaved a sigh of relief: Sure enough, it’s not so easy to get gossip on their superior.
–This kind of thing was best suited to be discussed behind his back.
Nalun watched as the three people left. His eyelids twitched abruptly but then relaxed very quickly. He turned his head to look at the person beside him and saw the other was also looking at himself.
A hint of confusion flashed across his grayish green eyes.
Upon receiving the invitation, he had impulsively agreed immediately. After calming down, he finally felt this was somewhat inappropriate. However, after pondering about it carefully, he’s thinking that it’s not that big a deal again.
Being part of a relationship shouldn’t make him become timid and afraid, as if he was doing something shameful or something.
The room next door was cleaned up very quickly.
The transport robot moved the luggage inside. Nalun said goodbye to Sirius, stepped into the room, and discovered that the arrangement of this room was not too different from the previous room: a simple single bed, a small two person sofa with a coffee table. It looked very simple.
As an organized person, he planned to use the enroute time to create a travel itinerary. He didn’t sit for too long when he heard movement behind him. A cabinet in the corner moved and Sirius walked inside with a pile of things.
Nalun looked at the door to the room and then looked at the door created by the cabinet. In the end, he locked his gaze onto the person who arrived.
There’s actually a secret door between the walls of the two rooms?
He deeply felt the designer of this spaceship had very questionable ideas.
Sirius behaved very calmly. He carried over a big pile of things and sat next to Nalun. After discovering Nalun looking at him, he even reached out a hand to touch Nalun’s fluffy head.
“???”
The hand on top of his head withdrew very quickly.
Nalun naively thought this was only a random occurrence. It wasn’t until the entire journey ended that he finally realized: Sirius, unexpectedly, was extremely sticky and particularly liked doing some harmless little moves from time to time.
When the two people departed, it was close to nightfall. Because this was a 10 hour trip, he had planned to rest.
He did indeed rest too.
When it was pretty close to normal bedtime, Nalun reminded a certain someone, who had slipped into his room and acted like he was about to settle down here.
“I need to rest.”
Hearing this, Sirius very quickly finished what he was doing, took his stuff, and left Nalun’s room.
Looking very well behaved.
Nalun let out a breath of relief, thinking that this day would finally end in dreams.
But in actuality, this was only the beginning.
Sleeping on a spaceship wasn’t an easy task. Even if one falls asleep, it’s hard to sleep soundly.
Although the spaceship tended to travel smoothly, some turbulence during the route was inevitable. Therefore, when Nalun woke up midway and flipped over, he just happened to face the head of a dark figure.
“!!!” He abruptly moved back, pressed his back against the surface of the wall, and extended a leg to kick the unknown species in the bed.
In the darkness, that person turned over. Under the dim nightlight, a drowsy, handsome looking face appeared in Nalun’s view.
“Sirius?”
He was certain he saw the other person leave before he went to sleep!
But right now?
The cabinet in the corner had unknowingly opened. The cramped narrow single bed was stuffed to the brim with two blankets. The owner of the blanket had his eyes tightly closed and was currently laying right beside him, fast asleep.
Nalun: “……”
The series of movements he made just now wasn’t small. Not only did he kick, he also yelled the other’s name. However, Sirius didn’t show any hints of waking up.
With the previous black history still fresh in mind, Nalun narrowed his eyes and felt like he couldn’t rashly eliminate the possibility that the other was feigning sleep.
Using the dim lighting, Nalun started to examine Sirius carefully– As the intergalactic idol, Sirius’s outer appearance really did have an appeal that made people go wild. The sleeping man looked extraordinarily true and honest. He laid on his side naturally. Leaning close, it’s even possible to hear his slightly heavy breathing.
The view was very pleasing to the eyes. However, it still couldn’t erase the irrationality of the other’s presence here.
Nalun quietly propped himself up and sat upright in the bed with a wooden face.
It was almost time. In two hours, they should be arriving at the destination. He decided to wait just like this for Sirius to wake up and see how the other planned to explain this.
A few minutes later, he yawned and pushed the soundly asleep person. The other still did not give any response and laid in place unconsciously, without awareness, and motionless.
“You’re at least a high ranking military official. Where’s your basic sense of vigilance while asleep?”
Nalun couldn’t help but curse internally. The prolonged period of silence made drowsiness come easy. Very quickly, he felt his eyelids turn heavy.
If in the beginning he was only suspecting that Sirius was awake, now he was completely convinced– The man’s pretense was perfect. His soundly asleep posture was practically comparable to Nalun’s own a while back.
But Nalun definitely refused to believe that with such huge movements, Sirius could still sleep so soundly.
Green eyes holding a layer of drowsy mist, the Honored Prince somewhat gloomily poked Sirius on the forehead.
“You’re squishing me.”
Two big grown men squeezing onto such a small bed. Sirius even occupied 2/3 of the space. The remaining 1/3 definitely wasn’t enough for him to extend his four limbs comfortably.
Seeing Sirius still not moving, the Honored Prince smiled coldly.
“Alright. I’ll yield.”
He climbed out of the blankets, knelt on the bed, and sorted them out– Worst comes to worst, he’ll go sleep in Sirius’s room.
Sirius: “……” Recognizing the other’s plan, the Admiral aptly moved his body and pretended like he was about to wake up.
The Honored Prince, who was lacking sleep, didn’t fall for this trick. He picked up his blankets and planned to climb over the body laying horizontally in front of him.
“Sleep well. Looks like you really like this bed.”
Saying this, he didn’t notice the person beneath him quietly raising a leg. In a moment of carelessness, he was tripped and fell coincidentally on top of Sirius.
The Admiral let out a muffled, unclear mumble: “What’s the matter?”
He shook his head, eyes still tightly closed, looking completely like he had been disturbed in his deep sleep. As he talked, he circled his arms around Nalun tightly and rolled towards the wall, hiding Nalun within his embrace, trapping him inside.
The room immediately sank into a mysterious silence.
After a long time, the Honored Prince, whose face was red from suffocation, couldn’t help but say: “Too cramped.”
Feels like his body was about to go numb.
Sirius hovered on the edge of releasing and not releasing him.
Only to hear Nalun say darkly: “Switch the position.”
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Nalun gave up 😂
sirius wins, yet again 😹