In the quiet night, with the wind blowing fiercely and the waves surging high.
The fluffy Casey Cat, under the enormous shadow of the cubs—specifically referring to Little Darling, appeared particularly small, pitiful, and helpless.
Little Darling stretched out its entire body, and the thick, entwined tentacles slapped the sea, creating high splashes that soaked Casey Cat from head to toe.
Meanwhile, Second Treasure, also fluffy, lay on the core flesh of Little Darling, emitting an angry cold snort.
Well.
Casey Cat shook off the water from its fur, and its ears twitched to catch the buzzing of butterfly wings in the shadow.
Considering that its half-soul, who loves to eat alone and has no conscience, had just taken away the mother of the little ones to spend a pleasant night, the overflowing joy in its soul made even this outsider cat unable to resist the urge to purr. It’s no wonder it couldn’t get along with the cubs anymore, as they couldn’t help but feel disdainful towards it.
Casey Cat was pushed back by Little Darling’s tentacles to a distance that the cubs considered sufficient. Even without being driven away, they were already irritated by the sight of Casey Cat, who they deemed as the assistant teacher of the coaching class.
Although Casey Cat wanted to say that at this distance, it could reveal the truth about how bad Little Darling was, but it just opened its mouth and ended up pretending to nonchalantly lick its paws.
It’s all Shi Yuebai’s fault.
Casey Cat was abandoned by it.
Say, it actually wanted to join the cubs’ team and add some new creativity to the phrases they constantly repeated about Shi Yuebai being a bad influence. Unfortunately, the cubs did not welcome its inclusion.
As soon as they saw the golden eyes of Casey Cat, they associated it with how Shi Yuebai hooked up with their mother, and the picture of him happily avoiding responsibility. Just one glance was enough to make them angry, and the ice-cold seawater couldn’t extinguish Second Treasure’s anger.
Little Darling turned over comfortably in the seawater, and its fine, dense tentacles soothingly rubbed its younger brother’s fur. Its tentacles rolled and stirred up high waves, looking from a distance like hundreds or thousands of giant serpents dancing wildly and surging on the sea surface.
Luckily, this was a place far from the coastline with no passing ships. The only ones witnessing this spiritually polluted scene were its two younger brothers and Casey Cat.
But, Mom was having so much fun.
Little Darling conveyed a different perspective than its younger brothers.
Its tentacles continued to extend further into the sea, spreading out into a large mass floating on the sea surface.
The bright blue, eye-shaped patterns on its tentacles glowed faintly in the dark night. With the ripples of the water, they intermittently lit up, as if numerous eerie creatures were gathering and wriggling in the sea, glaring at them with eyes as cold and malicious as ghostly fires.
This is the first time Little Darling has entered the real sea since its existence. It is entirely different from Shi Yuebai’s artificial training ground, being profound and vast like a huge, soft bed that accommodates Little Darling, which cannot fully spread out comfortably on the land.
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Playing happily is such a wonderful thing.
Although Little Darling doesn’t have a strong hostility towards Shi Yuebai, it simply doesn’t like him occupying the time that originally belonged to them and their mother’s joyous moments. Especially when he attempts to take away the market for the Little Darling bedding set—every time Mom and Shi Yuebai have their intimate moments, there is never a chance for the Little Darling bedding set to make an appearance.
However—Little Darling, as the older brother, must remind its two brothers, who are blinded by possessiveness, that no matter how cunning the male mistress is or how charming the vixen may be, he still makes Mom very happy.
In various senses.
Little Darling doesn’t have a brain throughout its whole body and is far from as smart, vigilant, and scheming as its two brothers. However, it understands Mom’s personality better than its two brothers. He knew that even now, when Mom was angry, he would still be frightened to the core. A mother who wants to explode cannot be deceived by some tricks.
Don’t upset Mom; we need to be good children.
Little Darling’s tentacles moved chaotically, adjusting the frequency of the sound emanating from the vortex-shaped organ on its core to a sharp and high-pitched level. This could force its brothers into the frequency band.
The school of fish swimming among Little Darling’s tentacles was disturbed by this chaotic and terrifying frequency, writhing in extreme pain. Soon, they exploded, spreading a large area of foul-smelling and blackened blood in the water.
Before long, the iconic dorsal fin of sharks appeared on the sea surface, and deeper in the water, echoes of dolphins transmitted messages through sonar waves. Larger fish were lured by the bloody smell, rushing towards this feast of carnage.
However, the pieces of flesh floating and spreading in the sea, like poisonous bait, only caused symptoms of numbness, convulsions, and twitching when they touched the red area where the bloody scent spread. If the greedy ones swallowed the floating pieces of flesh, the terrifying and decayed black spots would spread from inside their bodies to the surface of their skin. Without a chance to scream, they would turn into a mass of viscous, dark liquid resembling spoiled milk.
The tentacles, like water grass floating with the waves, didn’t eat the nutrition-lacking fish meat, but the blister at the base of the tentacles, storing venom, eagerly absorbed the thick viscous “milkshakes” that came its way, sucking them up in no time.
From those pale and yellowish blisters, tiny red blood-like patterns gradually seeped out, resembling countless eyeballs embedded on the tentacles, only leaving the whites of the eyes visible.
Second Treasure was discomforted by Little Darling’s roar, whimpering in pain and clutching his head with his paws, showing a painful expression.
Third Flora, who was already not accustomed to the underwater environment, burst out like a big butterfly, struggling for a while in the sea before managing to find footing.
The power of all things is determined by their names, as if Xu Yintang bestowed a sequence upon Little Darling, the eldest son. The other siblings accepted it as their older brother, and Little Darling gained more authority in front of his younger siblings.
However, Second Treasure and Third Flora still maintained a rare united front, insisting on their own views.
“Male misstress/vixen! You must get out of this house!”
They shouted so loudly that even the residents struggling in the deeper struggles above were affected, and the sea surface gradually floated with the fragmented bodies of large and small fish.
The seawater, contaminated by the profane chaotic power, emitted an ominous and foul smell. Yet, when it flowed to the side of Casey Cat’s paw, it was guided by something to separate, and not even a single fur of Casey Cat touched it.
Casey Cat used its claws to sniff the drifting pieces of meat and looked surprised.
During this period, the siblings were all eating the nutritious extra meals snatched from Daeis by Xu Yintang. It was a period of the most unstable energy fluctuations, and Casey Cat reduced the courses on power outbreaks in its daily tutoring sessions. It focused more on control and refinement.
Consequently, the grasp of the explosive growth limit of the siblings’ powers was not as accurate. Sensing such a high concentration of impure power, it was genuinely surprised.
At this level of power, the combined strength of the three siblings might be able to contend with some advanced minions of certain evil gods.
Casey Cat contemplated how to adjust the courses for the siblings’ tutoring to better adapt to their growth progress. On the other hand, Little Darling, who had numerous mouthparts but could not argue with his two younger siblings, and Second Treasure and Third Flora, who were cooperating effectively, had turned a large area of the sea into a hellish scene of shattered flesh and blood.
The rich and terrifying aura of death spread with the water flow. At a certain moment, the three siblings and Casey Cat sensed something awakening in the deepest part of the sea. It was just a moment so brief that they couldn’t savor what it was, but it immediately turned the three siblings from enemies into the sweetest allies.
Without needing to discuss tactics, their instincts told them how to surround and devour the most delicious—and of course, the most dangerous—prey.
Third Flora’s butterfly swiftly moved, following the dim and turbid shadows toward the fragrance. Little Darling’s tentacles retracted and swayed, smoothly swimming forward in the seawater. Second Treasure, who disliked getting wet, stood on one of Little Darling’s extended tentacles, and his eyeballs turned in his true form, alert to any potential danger from above or below the water.
Casey Cat smacked its lips, assessed the danger level of the thing in the sea, confirmed it as prey that the three siblings could handle with the skills they were taught, and didn’t attempt to stop them. It fulfilled its duty as a tool cat looking after the children, following not too near or too far, just in case the siblings hadn’t studied well, and it needed to rush up to rescue them.
At this moment, in the room, Xu Yintang and Shi Yuebai had just finished one round and were about to start another. They hadn’t reached the final step, but both felt very happy and satisfied, leaning against each other, kissing and rubbing affectionately, talking about serious and non-serious matters.
They discussed the follow-up plans for this instance, having information from Long Hao and the village girls for intelligence gathering. They didn’t have to endure the harassment from A-Jin and A-Duo by selling their appearances, even though they put on a cold face in front of others.
Considering that this world wasn’t a one-time instance, and they would have to come back, Shi Yuebai regretfully dispelled the idea of publicly coming out in front of everyone.
“Do you think, why not?” Xu Yintang kissed the corner of his mouth where his mask had fallen, feeling that this expression was cuter than his smiling face.
Being kissed by him, Shi Yuebai couldn’t help but lift the corners of his mouth. Taking the initiative, he bit Xu Yintang’s tongue, smiling vaguely, “If you want to recruit people under your hands, you have to give them some face.”
If they made Wang Laowu lose money due to false advertising, Wang Laowu would definitely dare to accept unpleasant tasks to disgust them.
Promoting someone, Shi Yuebai didn’t like subordinates who couldn’t distinguish between public and private matters affecting their work.
“Um, your turn now,” Xu Yintang licked Shi Yuebai’s upper jaw, causing a slight tickling sensation. Shi Yuebai had to loosen his mouth, and the caresses from the back of his neck to the base of his tail made his waist soft. The tail begged for mercy as it entwined around Xu Yintang’s wrist.
“Uh… it seems like the kids went into deep water,” Shi Yuebai got the first-hand information from Casey Cat and immediately shared it with Xu Yintang, diverting attention to allow for a breather.
Xu Yintang leisurely rubbed the soft and trembling tip of the tail in his hand. “They must have found something delicious, those little gluttons.”
Being touched by him made Shi Yuebai’s tail base so tender that he squinted his eyes, throat emitting a muffled sound, “You seem more at ease than I am.”
Xu Yintang kissed him. “Casey is following them, and you won’t let anything happen to them.”
Because of this sentence, Shi Yuebai chuckled happily, and his hand, following the pattern on Xu Yintang’s lower abdomen, searched downwards, biting Xu Yintang’s neck side.
The halftime break ended, and the second round began.
…
How many rounds they had that night, Xu Yintang and Shi Yuebai couldn’t say for sure.
It was like asking the three siblings how much delicious food they ate that night, and the three siblings who were still hiccupping until morning couldn’t answer.
Second Treasure became a fluffy pancake, exposing his round and bulging belly, asking his mother to rub his belly, while he kept chattering non-stop. Little Darling, rarely speaking much, talked about the sea like a child talking about a dreamy and joyful amusement park.
For Little Darling, the sea was more inclusive and vast, bizarre to the point that even within it, it didn’t seem too unusually vast. Swimming with tentacles in the seawater was so free and effortlessly, lying flat on the sea surface along with the waves was an unprecedented comfortable experience.
Moreover, they found something delicious at the bottom of the sea.
Just slightly inferior to the nutritious extra meals Mom fed them, better than all the various round balls brought by Shi Yuebai, the fragrant and cool treat melted in their mouths. That long and thick strip, they tried to eat it all night but couldn’t finish it.
Casey Cat patiently waited for the siblings to finish narrating their underwater adventure before adding some additional information from the observer’s perspective.
“There’s a dragon’s corpse in the sea, dead for too long with its soul extinguished. It didn’t pose a threat to the siblings and was nibbled on by them about a third.”
“Besides, the fish and shrimp in the nearby sea area are almost completely dead. Last night, when the battle was intense, a cruise ship happened to pass by. It seemed to be heading towards the village for customers attracted by the elixirs. The people on the ship managed to pull the ship out of the vortex, but…”
Casey Cat shrugged, indicating that it was just spectating the commotion and gestured to the now noisy outside.
“I guess rumors about sea monsters and such will stir up trouble until your mission is over.”
Author’s Note –
Others: Strange things happen in the instance, investigate the truth, defeat the boss.
Mother Xu Yingtang: Create strange things in the instance with the kids, replace the boss with them.
I love the idea of swimming little darling
It makes sense that our Little Darling likes the sea, given how it’s basically a mix of Lovecraftian Old God and octopus!
Little darling (Is the oldest but definitely not the brightest): Screams to get the attention of his brothers Your possessiveness is clouding your judgement let I your older brother give you some advice; 1. even if the male mistress/vixen is charming cunning or scheming he makes mom really happy, (even though he takes all of mom’s time and attention) 2. mom is having a lot of fun, 3. if mom wants to get mad petty tricks can’t stop him (spoken from a cub who fears his mom and has experienced his anger) 4. don’t make mom mad, we should be good cubs.
Second treasure and Third flora (On a rare united front?? Is the world about to end!!!??): NO WAY!! NEVER!! Shouting mantras MALE VIXEN LEAVE THIS HOME, MALE VIXEN LEAVE THIS HOME!!
Casey cat (Abandoned child): Sits elegantly in the background licks his paws, minds his own business and curses Shi Yuebai
Shi Yuebai and Xu Yingtang: Rolling in the sheets, about to go for more rounds👀😏
I love these little moments with the cubs 😭 It’s like watching them grow up!
No favorite… each cub is special… but Little Darling playing and lounging in the water was soooooo cute! Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️🤣
I imagine Little Darling with those puffy sleeves for swimming 🤭
Thank you for your translation 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚
One on each of his tentacles (≧∀≦)
EXACTLY!!!!!!