Chapter 112
112. The Gay Little Prince, Part 1
A warship was advancing at a constant speed on the predetermined route in the dark universe. This was the spaceship of the Third Corps of the Beastman Empire patrolling the border.
Recently, the common border of the stationed area of the First Corps and the Third Corps was not very peaceful. Not only were some of the detectors placed here inexplicably missing, but a merchant ship also lost its traces here. Therefore, the Third Corps specially dispatched a battleship led by a lieutenant colonel to come patrolling, hoping to find the merchant ship.
The battleship was very large. Not to mention that it could carry one hundred thousand soldiers, it was also equipped with many weapons. Of course, today, science and technology had already made personal military force seem insignificant, and it was no longer the more the number of soldiers, the better it was. So there were only a total of ten thousand people loaded in this spaceship at present, and half of them were not soldiers who needed to participate in battles.
Gary was not a soldier but a warship maintenance engineer as well as a mech maintenance engineer. He had only joined the army for ten years but because of his perfect mastery of technology, he was already the chief of the maintenance department, holding the military rank of a major.
After conducting routine maintenance on the warship, Gary began to call out to his assistant-cum-close friend, "Will, it's time to go, or we won't be able to grab those cheesy chicken nuggets." It was already time to eat now. He felt embarrassed to eat on the sly in front of his subordinates, so he was currently very hungry.
Will was a tall and thin sub-beastman, almost as tall as Gary who was a beastman. He packed up his things, came hurriedly to Gary’s side, and immediately frowned at Gary, "Master Gary, I think you shouldn’t eat those things anymore. You’ll get fatter and fatter if you continue like this."
"How come, I don’t even reach the standard weight of beastmen." Gary said with a smile while touching his chubby face.
"That's because you’re too short." Will showed no quarter when he spoke.
"You're really not charming, Will." Gary was speechless.
Will opened his eyes wide to glare at Gary.
Gary knew very well about his close friend's personality and immediately smiled, saying, "Fine, my Will, can’t you not poke my scar? You have to believe me, sooner or later, there’ll be a day when I succeed in losing weight." That was what he said, but he obviously didn't take it too seriously. Although he was a little round, he was not fat. Wasn’t such a look very good? As for losing weight . . . if he was willing to be like his mother, who insisted on not eating for a period of time, he would definitely be able to lose weight quickly. This matter was truly nothing.
Will, staring at Gary’s appearance, could not help being discouraged somewhat. "Gary, I'm doing this for you. Green, he . . .”
"What's wrong with Green?" Gary asked in puzzlement. Green was his lover. He had always been very kind to him, and recently, he had even been more attentive. Gary still didn't know from which corner Green got a bunch of flowers for him . . . . That was really a tough job for Green since they were on the warship.
"Gary, you must be a little careful about that Emir. I think he has bad intentions." Will suddenly mentioned another person.
Gary froze. Will’s words always had substance. He definitely had a reason for reminding him to be careful about Emir, and this reason . . . might be related to Green.
Was there something between Emir and Green? What’s going on with them?
Gary was in fact not unfamiliar to this one named Emir. This man was a maintenance engineer whom the maintenance department found half a year ago, a very petite and cute sub-beastman. And a few months ago, Green once mentioned to Gary that Emir had confessed to him.
Green was the highest-ranking officer on this spaceship and had the authority to control this spaceship. Many sub-beastmen on the spaceship liked this tall and handsome man. It was very normal for Emir to fall for Green, but he and Green never concealed the fact that they were lovers, and everyone on this spaceship already knew about their relationship. When all was said and done, Emir still confessing to Green under these circumstances was too much. So Gary simply transferred Emir to the lowest cabin to take responsibility for maintenance work, making him have no more chance to come and hang around in the upper cabin.
Later . . . he had been so occupied with helping Green construct his mech he did not even have time to sleep, so he actually hadn't paid attention to Emir at all. Could it be that something happened in between?
Gary kept Will’s reminder in mind, but he still faced Will with a smile, saying, "I’ll be careful about him, Will. But even if he gets ideas, others also get ideas, ah!"
"Do you feel so reassured about Green?" Will said directly.
Gary once again froze and then replied, "We’ve been in a relationship for more than ten years."
"You, ah! You’re totally devoted to Green. All your pay is used to change the equipment of his mech, and even your sleeping time is squeezed out for him. Be careful that you’ll lose both life and property in the end.” Will said again.
Will had a good impression of Green before, but now he suddenly spoke like this . . . . Gary's eyelid jumped.
He and Green met at the Imperial College. At that time, he studied in the Mech Maintenance Faculty, while Green studied in the Mech Faculty.
There were a number of mechs for the purpose of teaching and learning at the Imperial College. Teachers would let the students of the Mech Faculty use the mechs, and if they were broken, they would be repaired by the students of the Mech Maintenance Faculty. Because he had the best technology, the most broken mech would be handed over to him every time.
One day, he found a note in the mech that said, "I'm so sorry. I seem to have made the mech too damaged . . ." The signature was Green.
After that, they got acquainted, and he also learned that the most broken mech he repaired every time belonged to Green.
Green was the most dazzling student of the Mech Faculty in that year. He was invincible when battling against people with mech, but he also had a shortcoming, that was, when fighting with people, he was too reckless to the extent that he often wrecked the mech.
If you wrecked the college's mechs, you had to pay for damages. And if your own mech was ruined, it was even more expensive to find a mechanic . . . . Green dared to study in the Mech Faculty because his family financial situation was still pretty good, but it also couldn’t stand being squandered like this by him, so he was often unable to make ends meet.
He actually had a purpose by using such a way to get to know Gary—he wanted to find a school student to help him repair his personal mech, then the repair price would be cheaper.
Gary agreed. Since then, he had been repairing Green's mech as well as using Green's mech for experiments.
He asked Green to buy a lot of materials. In addition to repairing the mech for Green, he also helped Green modify the mech.
He was still a college student at that time, and he did not have much experience in modifying mechs. Although he was able to modify Green’s mech for the better most of the time, he would occasionally mess up the mech. There was one time when Green was fighting with someone, and the mech suddenly had a problem. In the end, it completely jumped out of his control and ran towards the distance, making him lose thoroughly.
But even so, Green did not blame him.
They spent more and more time together. He inevitably had a good impression on Green, and he could feel that Green also liked him.
Sure enough, on the eve of graduation, Green confessed to him.
He promised Green and then followed Green to the Third Corps to become a mech maintenance engineer of the Third Corps. It had already been a full ten years up until now.
Although he and Green could not get everyone’s blessings like ordinary beastman and sub-beastman combination because they were both beastmen, over the past ten years, they had long considered each other as a part of themselves, intimate and impossible to separate.
He really couldn't imagine that Green would betray himself. Even if they had less contact with each other at the beginning because he had to make mechs, Green had always made use of every second and every inch to send him things, hadn’t he?
As for the fact that he spent a lot of money on Green . . . . Although he would help Green repair or modify his mech when they were in school, he always charged him. After they worked, Green would deposit two-thirds of his pay into his bank account every month, and he did not charge Green for repairing or modifying his mech.
He loved Green very much. He often used the best materials when modifying Green’s mech, and the value naturally exceeded the pay Green gave him. Not to mention that some time ago, he also helped Green make a mech personally.
He did spend a lot of money on Green. If he was really going to calculate it, he estimated that he had spent all his salary and bonuses of these past years, and he would even continue to subsidize Green. It was no wonder that Will would be outraged by the injustice done on him.
However, he actually didn’t care about the money . . . . For your information, his family was the richest family in the Empire.
His father was the emperor of the Beastman Empire, his mother was the empress, and his older brother was the crown prince . . . . Although he was the most unremarkable family member and had never shown his face in front of the public, compared to his older brother, his parents and grandparents loved him more. As a result, he was now wealthier than his older brother.
Anyway, he did not care about the money, but he cared about his relationship with Green . . . . Later, he had to find Green to have a chat and ask Green whether he had done something that would make people misunderstand.
After making a decision, Gary went to the dining hall with Will. Once he got there, he went straight to the area where dishes for sub-beastmen were prepared.
"Uncle, give me a portion of all the meat dishes!" Gary, smelling the mouthwatering fragrance, immediately ordered.
"Okay, Gary!" The kitchen uncle replied to Gary with a smile and started to prepare the dishes for Gary. As a cook, he liked Gary the most on the entire spaceship because Gary was always full of praise of his cooking skills.
Gary seemed to eat a lot, but it was actually not much compared to the beastmen. You should know that beastmen generally wouldn’t come to this side to get food; instead, they would go to the other side, which was the beastman cooking area. Reportedly, a meat dish there could make up for a dozen or more dishes here.
Although Will was as tall as Gary, he was a sub-beastman after all. Ordering two meat dishes and two vegetarian dishes was enough for him. Seeing Gary take a seat at the dining table and eat happily, Will’s face showed a helpless expression.
"I really think you’re born with the wrong sex." Will could not help but say. If Gary was a sub-beastman . . . .
"I think being a beastman is great." Gary laughed. If he really became a sub-beastman, he definitely wouldn’t have so much freedom now, and he reckoned that he would not be allowed to drive a mech.
In fact, when he was little, he was always very proud that he was a beastman, and he kept thinking that he was going to marry a sub-beastman. Alas, he inexplicably liked Green later on . . . .
His physical condition was very special. Just like his mother Shu Shu, although he looked like a beastman, he did not have a beast bead. After eating someone’s beast bead, he might get pregnant. He chose to be with a beastman now, so maybe he would be compelled to become a sub-beastman . . . .
Thinking of this, Gary was a little depressed, but when he thought of Green, his depression disappeared.
Green looked very, very handsome. If he could have a child as handsome as him . . . . According to his mother’s statement, giving birth to a child was very quick and not painful at all. It was actually no problem to have two.
While thinking and worrying, Gary ate up all the food in front of him quickly.
As Gary wiped his mouth with a paper towel, he suddenly heard a voice, "Obviously a beastman, but always mixes with sub-beastmen and even comes to grab food with sub-beastmen. Really shameless."
This was clearly talking about himself. Gary immediately frowned.
He liked fine food, but the beastmen’s food was all machine-processed big chunks of meat, so he would have a meal at the sub-beastmen’s dining area. And he had already applied for this as well as been approved when he entered the Third Corps.
His skill was very good, so the Third Corps did not mind giving him such a benefit in kind. Since this was the case, did others get turn to speak?
Looking up, Gary discovered that the one speaking was a sub-beastman dressed in a white coat, clearly a medical worker on the spaceship.
He was in charge of maintenance, and medical personnel were not under his control. He could not deal with others, but his military rank was higher than that of the other party.
Looking at the sub-beastman, Gary said with a frown, "Don't you know that you have to salute when you see a senior officer? Are you so ignorant?"
In places like dining halls, it had always been the default that you did not need to salute when you see a senior officer, but since Gary raised this issue, the man had to salute and bear the previous accusation of being "ignorant".
The sub-beastman was obviously unwilling, and his eyes were red.
"Sorry, Major, he’s not from the maintenance department, so he didn't recognize you." A sub-beastman next to him suddenly said.
Gary looked over towards that sub-beastman and suddenly found that the talking sub-beastman was actually Emir, whom Will had told him to be careful of.
Emir was a pretty sub-beastman. Although Gary looked pretty good and had good skin as well, he could not compare with Emir after all. Gary frowned when he saw Emir standing with the sub-beastman who had criticized him.
There had to be a relationship between these two people. In this case . . . for what purpose did Emir dare to come and provoke him?
Gary was not a person who thought too much, but he was born in the imperial family and had received imperial education from an early age, so he was not as bad as his mother, whom was such a silly and sweet innocent.
With such a deep thought, Gary’s heart suddenly "thudded", and he had a bad premonition.
"Aren't you supposed to work at the bottom floor? How did you come up?" Gary turned his gaze to Emir. The spaceship was very large; each floor housed thousands of people and had different dining halls. People who worked on the bottom floor had no reason to appear here.
"I had a job transfer." Emir glanced at Gary and lowered his head in fear. "I'm sorry, Major."
"You’re still in the maintenance department, right?" Gary ignored his apology.
"Yes, that’s right." Emir said.
"There’s no one to clean the waste cabin. You’ll go there and sort all the parts into different categories starting from tomorrow." Gary directly ordered. The spaceship's waste cabin was a place on the spaceship to store various worn or damaged parts. There were many parts there, and it was very dirty and disordered. Making a sub-beastman tidy up that place was him deliberately making things difficult.
He did not know for what purpose Emir moved up, but it was definitely ill-intentioned. Naturally, he had to get rid of him quickly.
"Major, you can't be like this. I'm a maintenance engineer, not an army orderly." Emir looked at Gary with some horror. "You don’t comply with the rules by doing this."
"This maintenance engineer," Gary looked over, "Before you entered the Corps, hasn’t anyone told you that you must listen and obey the senior officers’ orders?”
Emir's face turned crimson, and at this moment, a beastman officer came over hurriedly from outside. Carrying the lieutenant colonel’s insignia and looking handsome, he was Gary's boyfriend Green.
"Gary, what happened?" Green took off his cap and turned his gaze to Gary, while stealing a glance at Emir out of the corner of his eyes.
"Someone is disobedient, so I arrange a little work for him." Gary said. He clearly saw Emir and the sub-beastman next to him breathe a sigh of relief. This . . . .
"Lieutenant Colonel Green, Major Gary ordered me to sort out the discarded parts . . . . That should be done by the cleaning robots.” Emir looked at Green with some grievances.
"Lieutenant Colonel Green, Major Gary is targeting us!" Emir's friend also spoke.
Gary's face sank as he turned his gaze to Green.
"Gary, don't make things difficult for the sub-beastmen." Green frowned, looking full of disapproval. "We’re beastmen; be a little magnanimous."
Gary did not speak, and Green asked again, "Why’re you targeting them?"
"I also want to ask you. You never came to manage the affairs in my maintenance department before, why’re you helping this sub-beastman talk now?" Gary stared directly at Green with a cold expression. "Also, didn’t you say that you had no time to accompany me for a meal? Why did you come now? And why did you immediately decide that I’m targeting them once you came up?"
"Gary, don't be like this." The expression on Green's face showed a little guilty conscience towards Gary.
This time, even Gary’s heart sank too.
"This is an order. If you’re not willing to listen, please leave the maintenance department then." Gary stared directly at Emir and then turned to face Green. "Green, you’ll give me an explanation!"
It was obvious that there was something between these two men before him. So Green had a hand in Emir’s job transfer? No wonder Green suddenly began to give him presents recently. Was it actually because he had a guilty conscience?
Gary only felt a surge of anger rising from the bottom of his heart, but he still restrained himself in the end and did not make any embarrassing action in a public place with numerous people.
Maybe . . . Green had some secret troubles?
"What explanation do you want? You’re a beastman clinging to another beastman. It's truly shameless!" The medical worker dressed in a white coat who had criticized Gary of being shameless once again condemned Gary of being "shameless".
"Major Gary, you're a beastman. It's too much to bully a sub-beastman. You're not worthy of being a beastman at all." Green's aide-de-camp also stood up and looked at Gary with disapproval across his whole face.
"Gary, don't entangle Lieutenant Colonel Green anymore. Lieutenant Colonel Green won’t be with you, a beastman!" Another man appeared from behind Green.
Gary knew that a good deal of people around Green did not like him and wished for Green to marry a sub-beastman and live a normal life. However, he was still rather unacceptable to be criticized by someone all of a sudden.
"Shut up!" Green said to his aide-de-camp. He looked at Gary with hesitation across his whole face and finally said, "Gary, shall we talk?"
"Let’s go." Gary turned round and walked. As a result, he just took a step, and Emir's startled shout came from behind him.
His footstep halted, and he turned his head, only to see Green looking at Emir worriedly.
"Emir, what's wrong with you?" His companion was quite anxious.
"My stomach hurts, Green. I feel very painful." Emir stated, brows wrinkling.
Gary could see at a glance that Emir was pretending, but . . . seeing Green's worried expression, his heart really felt like being stabbed ruthlessly by someone.
Green was the man he liked, and he had only ever loved this one man in all his life. Yet now, only that sub-beastman remained in this man's eyes!
He did not know how this happened!
Gary turned round and walked away, and he did not care about the people behind him anymore. He walked very fast and did not even heed Will's cry after him.
There were a lot of problems between him and Green. He should have thought of it before. He could not see through it because he had been blinded by love.
Many of Green's friends did not like him, but Green only let him try not to be in contact with his friends as much as possible and had never thought of changing his friends' views.
Green's family had been opposed to their relationship from the beginning. Green also only let him wait and had never made a stand and fight.
Furthermore, the beast bead . . . . After two beastmen chose to stay together forever, they would usually give each other their beast beads to convey their determination. Among his uncles, there were some couples who were both beastmen, and they had exchanged beast beads long ago.
He had no beast bead and could not exchange with Green, so he had no other choice but to not mention this matter. Green had never mentioned it either from beginning to end.
He had thought before that if Green took the initiative to propose exchanging beast beads, he would tell Green his own identity as well as his physical condition, yet Green had never mentioned this.
Because he had concealed his identity, although Green had many shortcomings, he accepted Green completely and even felt a little guilty toward him. Now though . . . .
Clenching his fists tight, Gary's face was very ugly.
After sitting in the room alone for a long time, his communication device suddenly rang with a message from Green, asking him to open the door.
Momentarily silent, Gary then stood up and opened the door. He would give Green a chance to explain, and after that . . . they would probably break up?
"Gary, I’ve nothing to do with Emir." Green immediately said as soon as he entered the door.
"Why did you help him just now?" Gary asked.
"I just think it's not nice of you to bully a sub-beastman. Gary, you’re a beastman after all . . ."
"I don't want to listen to these, and you also don't need to say these to fool me."
Green was silent and finally said, "Gary, I love you, but my parents don't allow me to be with a beastman. Gary, be more understanding toward me . . ."
"How do you want me to be more understanding?" Gary asked in reply, his heart having long been thoroughly disappointed.
"Gary, we can be together secretly . . ."
"Get lost!" Gary slapped Green on the face. He did not expect that Green would actually say such words.
"Gary . . ." Green endured the powerful slap. He was just about to say something, and their spaceship suddenly shook violently.