Nalun furrowed his brow, finally responding after a long while.
“Sirius and the others?”
Weilin nodded and said indignantly: “How could they not bring me!”
Asha finally opened fire on the Aerta people hiding on the satellite moon. As a member of the military, he didn’t even board the battleship. This made Weilin extremely disappointed. His gaze landed on the screen of his personal comp. Then his expression froze.
“Huh? Andrew wants me to head back to the Imperial Capital?”
“And me.” Hager’s voice suddenly sounded behind the two people. With a tremble, Weilin turned and looked at him in surprise.
“Setting off right now.” Hager said.
Weilin: “Wait, why?”
Nalun was also confused and befuddled: “May I ask the reason?”
This head chef, who has always been totally submissive to Nalun’s requests, shook his head this time: “Your highness, this can’t be made public yet.”
He took a step forward and said: “I made a lot of food that can be stored up to 7 days. If there are any you like, you can feel free to take them. I hope you and Monte will have a wonderful vacation.”
Still can’t say?
–After Diya, another member was heading back to the Imperial Capital on a secret mission.
Nalun’s thoughts spun swiftly, pondering all sorts of possibilities.
What kind of mission was there to do on the Imperial Capital? Domestically, Asha has been at peace for many years. As the capital of the entire nation, there’s very few urgent military tasks to be performed there. Just what was Sirius planning?
As he pondered, Nalun suddenly realized a peculiarity.
His presence on Dargi was also a very inconceivable thing.
Sirius invited him. The initial reason was because of the Aerta people. However, there was no suspense in this dispute at all. He could feel that none of the people on this journey have treated those green guys hiding on the satellite moon as a threat. Under such a situation where victory was inevitable, for Sirius to come over from so far away, was actually a huge waste of talent.
What’s there in the Imperial Capital?
Nalun focused his gaze on Weilin. He discovered the other also looked very confused. Then he glanced at Hager from the corner of his eyes. The other’s stern face didn’t show any clues at all.
Forget it. After Sirius returns, he could ask the other personally.
Hager rested his hand on Weilin’s scrawny shoulder and said in a heavy voice: “Let’s go.”
Like a quail, Weilin followed him blindly and left– This small officer looked extremely like a pitiful baby chicken being held by the back of his neck.
Nalun watched as the two people left. The surroundings quieted down.
He lowered his head and started to try to fetch information from his friends and family who were far away in the Imperial Capital.
First was Yaming–
[Ge, have you been well lately?]
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
[When are you coming back?]
Lf mbeiv ecvfgrajcv atf atbeutar bo ibculcu tlr fivfg ygbatfg tjv obg tlw.
[Soon. Has anything strange happened in the Imperial Capital?]
[I’ve been waiting for you to come back all this time.]
[Ge, I’m very well. However, lately in the Imperial Capital……]
[Father is also very worried about you. You should start on a journey back tomorrow.]
[……]
Ktf fivfg ygbatfg-vjgfc rfca rbwf rqfmlji lcragemalbcr jr kfii.
[Keep some distance away from that Monte guy.]
[Oh. Good night.]
Rjiec vlrmbnfgfv atja tf mbeivc’a jvnjcmf atf mbcnfgrjalbc jcswbgf.
Pwwfvljafis joafgkjgvr, tf atbeuta jybea tlr ojlgis gjalbcji fivfg mberlc, atf Swqfgbg–
[Your majesty, how has it been lately?]
[Not good.]
Nalun furrowed his brow: [Did something happen?]
After a long time, a message came from the other side: [You betrayed me.]
[???]
[You delivered me, who trusted you, into someone else’s hands.]
Rjiec rajgfv ja atlr gbk bo kbgvr, qbcvfglcu obg tjio j rfmbcv. Nfgs delmxis, j mfgajlc gbecv yeu jqqfjgfv lc tlr tfjv.
[Charvey, if there’s nothing, we should decrease our interactions in the future.]
[Xi Jin?]
[Don’t say anymore. I have already prepared the route of departure.]
Nalun thought briefly: [Be good. Return the personal comp to Luye first.]
[I won’t trip in the same place twice….. I won’t give you the chance to notify anyone.]
Xi Jin’s attitude was exceptionally cold and resolute.
[Kacha Kacha.]
Nalun: “……”
This was clearly text messaging, so why was there an onomatopoeia for chewing?
Looks like Luye Derlin didn’t absorb the lesson learned from last time and once again handed an important metallic item into the hands of the Metal Devouring Bug.
Very clearly, his elder cousin’s route had been blocked dead as well.
Gazing through his contacts, Nalun shockingly saw Mona Yisi’s name on the list. In view of the fact that once, Charvey Sr. had tried to match him with General Yisi’s daughter, and adding to the fact that they had some interactions during the Hunting Festival, the two of them had exchanged their contact information in the past.
This extremely well-known and popular female streamer seemed to have an in-depth knowledge of all sorts of news and gossip within the Imperial Capital– She even once made Nalun become the topic of people’s idle conversations.
Perhaps he could find something out from her.
But…… Who can guarantee that this woman, who dared to discuss anything and everything and even boldly took a picture of himself without his permission, wouldn’t do something else that’s terrifying? Unless it was absolutely necessary, he didn’t want to rashly provoke her.
Nalun searched around in his head once more. He sorrowfully discovered that he didn’t know anyone reliable. This didn’t actually mean that he made bad friends. It’s only… because of a certain internal reason, he felt that actively finding someone to ask them about the Imperial Capital’s recent development was really too strange.
Was he supposed to charge over and ask: “Has Sirius been doing anything within the Imperial Capital recently?
– It practically made him seem like some obsessive fanboy who was eagerly trying to know the whereabouts of his idol.
Reading the news, however, was feasible.
Ever since he came clean with Sirius, it’s been a long time since he paid attention to his live feed. As soon as he opened it, a piece of news jumped out: [Two men publicly beat up an extraterrestrial child. Is this the death of humanity or a degradation of morality?]
Nalun: “……”
For news like this, either the child was naughty or the men were too scummy.
The exaggerated headline did not affect Nalun. Right when he prepared to press the x button, Nalun suddenly noticed that the green colored child at the center of the picture looked very familiar. Two skinny antennae fell softly to the sides of his cheeks. A rather cute green colored face and a pair of shiny eyes shyly looked ahead.
Eyelids twitching, Nalun abruptly had a bad premonition growing in his heart.
Very quickly, his premonition became reality.
After clicking inside, there was a video. In the video was the scene of two violent men bullying a child. The camera view shook terribly. The people were already mosaicked, but this didn’t hinder Nalun from recognizing himself immediately.
–He never imagined, the brief episode during the day had actually been recorded by someone and even spread around on the internet?!
He took a deep breath.
Social issues like this would often make the crowd emotional. However, what’s strange was that the comment section below was actually very ‘serious and proper’.
“This entire incident must have been planned for a very long time. First, the sunglasses man enticed the child to come closer. Then the short, perverted man seized the opportunity to pick up the child. So smooth. The poor child cried so much, even his voice became hoarse.”
“To combine forces and plan this child bullying incident, just what did they want?”
“The management of Dargi should become stricter.”
“Looking from the outer appearance, that seems like an Insectoid child.”
“No, they should be an immigrant from Aerta– A mixed insect-human. Not long ago, there was a rumor of extraterrestrials arriving at the border. Then Admiral Sirius disappeared from the Imperial Capital……”
After this, everything headed in a bizarre direction. They first discussed the serious topic of diplomacy between Asha and neighboring nations and galaxies. Then, it turned to predicting Sirius’s whereabouts. Plenty of people believed that the matter at the border must have something to do with Sirius’s disappearance and even boldly stated: if they were to go to Dargi at this moment, they might even bump into the Admiral.
Nalun: “……” Sometimes this group of people were really terrifying.
“Speaking of which, something scary might be happening in the Imperial Capital soon.”
Grayish green eyes flashing, Nalun realized that this was the clue he was searching for!
“What do you mean?” He used a small account to reply to that comment.
Soon afterwards, he received a reply.
“Two big family clans have become hostile and started a big fight.”
Nalun felt a jolt to his heart. Thinking briefly, he then felt this shouldn’t be related to him. Afterall, people from the Charvey family shouldn’t have trouble maintaining an outward display of courtesy and friendliness.
“Supposedly even his Majesty had to step forth. The two clans arranged to meet in the middle of the month and conduct a reconciliation banquet. His Majesty even invited the old Admiral Harris and other elders from that generation to play mediator…… I suspect the banquet will turn into hell.”
Some bystander also noticed the exchange here and interrupted, saying: “You make it sound pretty truthful, but to drag the old Admiral into this seems a bit fake. Where did you hear about this?”
“A certain goddess mentioned it during a stream! She even said that recently, gold invitations have been circulating the Imperial Capital. The people who received the invitations could attend the banquet. However, the number of invitations was too few. The goddess’s father, General Yisi, was lucky to receive one!”
Nalun typed: “Which two clans?”
“That I don’t know.”
After that, he indirectly asked a few more questions. However, the other person didn’t reply again.
Then, Nalun went to research about the gold invitations. Everything he discovered were some insignificant headlines, not anything he wanted to see. He had no choice but to give up and wait for Sirius’s return to ask him about the situation.
Sirius returned at midnight.
After returning, he first turned into his own room to take a bath. After pulling on his sleep robes, he finally walked over to the front of Nalun’s bed.
The bedroom was completely pit-black, only giving a faint view of the bundle on the bed. The person in bed breathed very softly and shallow; every breath was long and filled with sleep.
Sirius opened a small dim night light and discovered that the soundly asleep Honored Prince had actually kicked off the blankets. His cute and round toes were exposed outside– As if affected by the light, the young man frowned in his sleep. His toes curled briefly and then a few seconds later, relaxed slowly again. This kind of unconscious reaction in Sirius’s eyes was really very adorable.
Bending down, Sirius reached out and held this exposed foot in his hand. Entering his hand, it felt slightly cooled. He stuffed it back into the blankets. Before letting go, Sirius gave it a light squeeze.
Under the illumination of the night light, the young man slept unconsciously and unaware, mouth opened slightly, and looking very docile.
The corner of his mouth curving into a smile, Sirius moved his fingers downward and tickled the soles of Nalun’s feet twice.
“En…..” The Honored Prince let out an unclear mumble. A slight displeasure between his brows, he unconsciously withdrew his foot and hid it away.
Sirius laughed quietly and got up. Untying the belt around his waist, he revealed a sturdy and vigorous body. In the many years of military life, he had built well-proportionate and powerful muscles. A beautiful mermaid line extended downwards, which turned into a smooth curve as he bent down.
The sleeping Nalun didn’t squish the corner of the blanket firmly beneath him. Sirius easily lifted a corner and made his way inside. While not waking up the person sleeping in the bed, he still fulfilled his own wishes. After laying down, he silently extinguished the night light and quietly examined Nalun’s silhouette in the darkness.
So pretty.
Even prettier with his eyes open.
Sirius actually didn’t feel drowsy at all. Turning on his side and pillowing his head with one hand, he reached out his other hand and pulled a certain fluffy head into his embrace. His eyes turned deep and profound.
Clearly, Nalun liked him.
But the other was also a stubborn fellow who’s persistent with his own opinions and his own way of thinking. Despite the fact that Nalun Charvey had already changed from the original deep impression in his heart to the current state of being defenseless in front of him, from his understanding of their relationship, Sirius still didn’t dare to go too far.
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