Translator: Deyonna
The young man with a cold face directly walked into the empty room next door, and at this moment, his half-high collar could no longer conceal his abnormality.
A scarlet color spread from his collarbone upwards, along the side of his neck, all the way to his earlobes.
“Come out!”
He deliberately lowered his voice, but it still sounded fierce.
The very confused little octopus: “?”
He didn’t understand why Yuan Ye was fine earlier, but suddenly started getting angry right now?
Could it be that the other party suddenly became clear-headed after covering up and lying for him, and was now feeling uncomfortable about it?
Ye Yunfan felt a bit uneasy.
But now that he was under someone’s roof, he had no choice but to bow his head. Then, a few seconds later, the little octopus silently crawled out from the collar’s gap and returned to his exclusive metal shoulder guard.
He cleverly spread flat.
[So cold, so cold]
[Comfortable~ Comfortable~]
The little tentacles moaned comfortably.
Phew—
Ye Yunfan couldn’t help but let out a sigh of relief as well.
It’s much cooler now.
Ye Yunfan didn’t know how the calendar in this world was calculated, nor did he know what year and month it was now. But based on the temperature, the surrounding vegetation, and the previous thunderstorm, it seemed that the current season was at the height of summer.
Midsummer equals extremely, extremely hot.
And just now, Yuan Ye was so nervous that his whole body was burning hot, causing the little octopus stuck to him to overheat.
As it was lying there, it couldn’t help but flip over, cooling down the other side as well.
Yuan Ye pressed his lips tightly, his expression serious and grim.
“Stand here!”
He raised his left arm and gestured with a fierce gaze for the little octopus to stand on the wrist guard.
The little octopus, sticking comfortably on the cold shoulder guard: “?”
Eh?
Strange?
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Half a minute later, the little octopus stood on the young man’s left wrist guard. He recalled Yuan Ye’s serious tone just now, so he put down the six little tentacles he had raised and stood upright.
What’s going on?
The little octopus tilted its head and stared at Yuan Ye, while simultaneously extending a tentacle to make a question mark.
There’s nothing that could be done since he can’t speak, he can only use body language.
Yuan Ye, who had just wanted to reprimand him severely: “…..”
He looked at those pure, clear blue eyes, which were full of bewilderment and confusion.
Suddenly, Yuan Ye felt all the prohibitions and admonishments he had wanted to say get stuck in his throat.
[It’s quite intelligent, equivalent to a child of a few years old. You should teach him more.]
Old Man Xu’s words suddenly surfaced in his mind.
A child of a few years old…
But what should a child of a few years old be like?
In fact, Yuan Ye didn’t really know, because he had never had any contact with children before. It was only a few years ago that he occasionally passed by the main city’s paradise and caught a glimpse of those little ones protected in the beautiful building from afar.
They looked pure, innocent, naïve, and fragile.
Noisy, carefree, and without worries.
As for what Yuan Ye himself was like when he was young… he didn’t know, because Yuan Ye had no memories of his childhood.
Everiel said it was because he suffered a serious brain injury during a certain mission, so he lost some of his memories.
[You don’t need to worry too much, Yuan Ye.]
Yuan Ye always remembered Everiel’s gentle smile that day, as she said to him.
[You and the other children in the main city are all the same. You were nurtured and born in the Flower House, studied and grew up in Paradise. Afterwards, you were assigned to different positions according to your talents and assessment results, to dedicate yourselves to the revival of the human empire.]
[But you are also different from them, because you have awakened an extremely special gifted ability, and your combat ability is extraordinary. So you smoothly passed the assessment and became a glorious and powerful decontamination officer.]
With just a few sentences, the woman summarized everything that Yuan Ye had forgotten.
Yes, that’s who he is.
The forgotten childhood seemed simple and boring in Everiel’s description, as if forgetting it didn’t really matter.
Yuan Ye’s gaze became blank and at a loss as if he had fallen into the memories. However, the next moment, he suddenly felt a coolness on the left side of his lips.
Poke~
The young man suddenly snapped out of his reverie and turned his head to the side. And he found that the “little jellyfish” had somehow climbed back onto his shoulder again.
And at this moment, it had extended one of its tentacles to poke the other corner of his lips, tentatively and slowly moving upwards, as if trying to help him form the arc of a smile.
—Just like the scene that night.
Ye Yunfan wanted to express that he didn’t want Yuan Ye to be angry, and to be a little happier. But he couldn’t do it using sign language, and it was also difficult to express it just by using his tentacles. Plus, his octopus face only had two round blue eyes, and no mouth, so he couldn’t even smile to show the other person.
So in the end, after weighing the options, he chose this way of expression.
With such a simple and clear expression, Yuan Ye should understand this time, right?
The little octopus was actually a bit nervous, but at the same time, he had opened his round blue eyes wide, staring at Yuan Ye without blinking.
At this moment, the young man’s expression went blank in an instant.
Those beautiful heterochromatic eyes reflected a small round pink shape, and then suddenly contracted a few times. Afterward, it was as if he had suddenly realized something. He subconsciously took two steps back, abruptly turning his head away—
“You…you!”
Yuan Ye didn’t know what to say. He couldn’t even tell whether he was angry now, or feeling some other emotions.
But fortunately, he didn’t lose control of his ability due to emotional turmoil, like he had in the past, which had ended up hurting many people.
Ye Yunfan was very surprised. He didn’t expect Yuan Ye to have such a big reaction. Because that night he had done the same thing, taking advantage while the other was asleep.
It was obviously the same thing, but at the time, Yuan Ye had seemed extremely calm, as if he didn’t mind at all, and yet now…
“You, return down!”
The young man’s tone became harsh again.
Eh.
The little octopus turned its head inexplicably, raised his six tentacles, and scurried back to his second exclusive spot – the wrist guard.
Yuan Ye’s emotions quickly settled down. He felt this matter had to be seriously discussed, otherwise if the little creature didn’t understand and climbed all over him or poked him with its tentacles…
“……”
Just the thought of that image made Yuan Ye’s entire body unconsciously tense up.
He tried to keep a stern expression, wanting to establish his authority.
“From now on, you are not allowed to randomly crawl into my clothes outside.”
“?”
The little octopus blinked his eyes.
…Outside?
In front of others outside?
Ye Yunfan pondered for a moment, and then immediately had a flash of realization—
Oh, oh, oh!
Maybe he was seen by several people in the room when he was moving around in Yuan Ye’s clothes just now.
So Yuanye felt embarrassed and lost face?
Understood!
The little octopus raised its head again, and its gaze toward Yuan Ye seemed to have already seen through everything.
Yes, he’s just a young boy, he has to save face in front of others.
Moreover, Yuan Ye is the kind of awkward person who insists on portraying himself as a cold and aloof guy. And just now he was in front of his former subordinates. Even though he had been dismissed, he still had to maintain a certain dignity as a leader.
But Ye Yunfan had never thought before that Yuan Ye’s burden as an idol would be so heavy?
The little octopus finally realized the reason for the other person’s anger(?) and patted the young man’s hand with his tentacles.
He nodded understandingly to Yuan Ye, only missing the gesture of stroking his beard and nodding.
—Understood, understood.
In the future, he absolutely must leave some face for his cool younger brother when out in public.
Yuan Ye witnessed the entire process of the “little jellyfish’s” actions. Although he couldn’t pinpoint exactly what was strange about the other party, since the little guy had already nodded seriously, he just considered this educational attempt a success.
Immediately after, Old Man Xu’s young apprentice knocked on the door outside.
“Mr. Yuan Ye, Mr. Yuan Ye?”
Yuan Ye smoothed out the wrinkles in his collar and then went to open the door.
“What?”
“That, there are a few military investigators outside…”
The young apprentice was not very old, looking to be around fourteen or fifteen years old. His voice was timid, and he seemed somewhat afraid.
Military investigators?
Yuan Ye glanced to the side, his gaze passing over the young apprentice in front of him and looking outside. Sure enough, he saw a few people wearing military investigators’ combat uniforms talking to Chen Xinyue.
The leading man had a very gentle appearance, but his combat uniform was still damp, with very visible wounds on his exposed skin, as if he had just finished an underwater battle.
As soon as he arrived, he saluted toward Hu Changchuan, who was standing nearby.
“Greetings, Officer Hu. I am He Li, a B-level investigation officer from the investigation corps. I belong to the fourth squad of the sixth team of the third army.”
Translator’s Corner: Here’s the promised third update this week, hope you enjoyed it. See ya tomorrow!
When is our little jellyfi- I mean octopus going to realize Yuan Ye’s aversion to touch?
Thanks for the chapter!!!
The problem is he often doesn’t have that issue with our clueless pink blob – talk about conflicting signals 🤣
Thank you for the chapter 😍 ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
Thank you for translating!
Little jellyfish, you don’t understand the scolding you just dodged…
Thank you for translating!
Little jellyfish, you don’t understand the scolding you just dodged…
Thank you for the chapter! ❤
Thank you for the chapter!!!
Thanks for the chapter ❤️🐙