Chapter 114
114. The Gay Little Prince, Part 3
When fighting with the marching ants, the spaceship could not be near them because once they climbed onto the spaceship, those damn cosmic creatures would swarm until they were as difficult to remove as gangrene that had set in the bone.
In the present situation, the First Corps men should arrange a defensive line far from the battlefield area and then bomb the marching ants in that area along with the Third Corps’ spaceship, which was nearly eaten up.
As for the red mech trapped among the marching ants, they should order him to retreat as quickly as possible instead of going ahead to rescue him.
Yet now, Colonel Mund himself was actually going to the rescue.
Green as well as the people around him were very puzzled after seeing Colonel Mund’s behavior on the opposite spaceship. Meanwhile, on the other side, after the people in the main control room of the First Corps' spaceship looked at each other in dismay, they had a feeling of suddenly seeing the light.
"Is it him?"
"It should be him."
"Definitely!"
"No doubt about it!"
. . . . . .
These people nodded one after another, faces full of excitement, and they stared at the red mech on the screen with glowing eyes.
"What’re you talking about?" A major who had just been transferred to the First Corps looked perplexed—he was unable to make sense of what these people were talking about.
"You should’ve seen the boss' mech, right?" Someone turned to face the major who had asked the question.
"Yes, what's the matter with it?" The major was very puzzled.
"Haven’t you discovered? Other than the color, that red mech is exactly the same as our boss' mech!"
"So? What's wrong with this?" The major was still at a loss somewhat. Many mechs looked the same, ah!
"You’re stupid, ah! Don’t you know that our boss’ mother is the greatest mech master in the Beastman Empire? The boss’ mech was made by him personally. According to reason, it should be unique and unmatched, but now an identical mech suddenly appears. There must be something, ah!"
"Exactly! It’s nothing much if it’s only the outward appearance that looks the same. But the powerful firepower configuration of that mech is also the same as that of the boss’ mech . . . . He he he, there must be an inside story."
“Boss always says that he likes a strong beastman, but he never tells us who the man is. This time we should be able to get acquainted with him!”
"Really, the couple mech has been given to the other party. Why does the boss still tell us that he has no chance whatsoever to date that man? Is he playing with us?”
“I’ll say! I’ve even treated the boss to a drink several times in order to comfort him . . . . The boss should return my money back!”
“No wonder the boss would bring us here. It turns out that the man he falls for is here!"
. . . . . .
While having a spirited discussion, these people also put the defensive line in order. Once the boss came back, they would launch an attack on those marching ants.
The newly-arrived major, however, was still quite at a loss. He was stupid for a long time before he suddenly said, "You mean, Colonel Mund likes beastmen?" The man who piloted the mech was obviously a beastman, ah!
"Don't you know? I thought this matter was already known by everyone." The chief of staff of the White Tiger Force, Archie, glanced at the major. "A few years ago, the sub-beastmen voted for ten most eligible beastmen. When the colonel won second place, didn’t he say that he liked beastmen in front of everyone?”
Colonel Ludwig of Mund’s father was the Duke of Mund, aka General Calvin of the First Corps, and his mother was the Duke of Grote, aka Mech Master Myer. Out of the three Grand Dukes in the Empire who were second only to the imperial family, there were two in his family. It could be said that he was absolutely rich and powerful. Naturally, he was elected as the second most eligible beastman with hardly any exception, and his number of votes were just . . . three times less than the first place.
Imperial Crown Prince Fred became the most eligible beastman in the whole empire with a number of votes that no one could surpass.
It was a pity that after the election, Imperial Crown Prince Fred announced right away that he was about to marry his childhood sweetheart. Soon after, Ludwig also stated in public that he actually liked beastmen.
These two men’s attitudes instantly hurt the hearts of countless sub-beastmen. Afterwards, the man whom sub-beastmen most wanted to marry became the second prince of the imperial family, whose name had not even been made public.
Although the little prince was very mysterious and never showed his face in front of the public, his parents and older brother's genes were extremely good, so he surely wouldn’t look bad, would he?
It was said that the emperor and the empress loved him more than the crown prince!
"I thought the colonel was lying at that time . . ." The major looked depressed. Although Colonel Mund said in public that he liked beastmen, after several years, they still hadn’t seen any beastmen approaching him. Thus, many netizens now thought that he was lying at that time.
"How was it lying? Colonel, he’s already had a beastman he likes. It’s just that we don’t know what that beastman looks like . . ." Archie went to look at the screen again. At this time on the battlefield, besides the red mech and numerous marching ants, there was also a blue mech, which was Ludwig's mech.
Gary killed the marching ants brutally, venting the anger and unwillingness in his heart on those marching ants.
The man he loved dearly betrayed him, not to mention abandoning him at the moment of crisis and running away . . . . He was spoiled by his family from childhood until he grew up and had never suffered such grievances!
The carcasses of marching ants floating around Gary had almost shrouded him completely. Meanwhile, those marching ants at the rear attacked Gary incessantly while eating the carcasses of their kin in front.
Spiritual power almost exhausted, Gary finally calmed down and was planning to leave this place.
In fact, he dared to stay among the marching ants because he had a few things to rely on—not to mention that his mech was very powerful, he also carried a lot of weapons and bombs with him. It was difficult for people who wanted to protect a ship to escape, but if he alone wanted to escape, it could not be easier.
With a wave of his hand, a round bomb was thrown from the fiery red mech and promptly exploded in the distance, killing countless marching ants in that area.
Borrowing the blast from the explosion, Gary flew backwards, intending to break away from the battlefield.
Halfway through, Gary was suddenly grabbed by someone and then caught and evacuated at a faster rate.
Who was it? Gary turned his gaze to the display screen in front of him and saw a very, very familiar blue mech.
At that time, his teacher Myer made a red mech for him, but he also made an identical mech with blue color for his son . . . . Not only were the internals of the two mechs the same, the externals were also completely the same. This made him feel weird somewhat, and he initially didn't want to accept the mech, but . . . .
The design of this mech was really too exquisite and too perfect!
No one who liked mechs could refuse such a mech. Naturally, he could not either!
In the end, he still accepted the mech, but he was embarrassed to use it. Later, when he found out that Ludwig, whom he regarded as his younger brother, was actually interested in him, he was even more embarrassed to use this mech.
In the past, he would only take the mech out when he discussed mech technology with Myer each year.
He finally used this mech again after having just been abandoned by a man and immediately encountered Ludwig. This made Gary feel a little uncomfortable, and he unconsciously broke free from Ludwig's hold and started running ahead alone.
The blue mech saw the red mech run like this, but instead of chasing it, he turned back to face the pursuing marching ants and made a few big moves.
Many of those marching ants died, and the marching ants in the back started to concentrate on gnawing the carcasses of the marching ants in front and no longer continued to chase on . . . . Only then did the blue mech turn round to chase after the red mech.
Two mechs, one red and one blue, quickly arrived within the defensive line arranged by the First Corps. At the same time, the spaceship of the First Corps opened fire and began to attack the pursuing marching ants.
Neither of the mechs returned to the spaceship. The number of marching ants was very large, and the bombs on the spaceship were not necessarily able to kill all the marching ants. Therefore, some mech soldiers were required to stay outside to clear up the fish that escaped the net.
Two mechs, one red and one blue, quickly cleared up the surrounding marching ants. At the same time, the mech soldiers of the First Corps also filed out and began to help strangle and kill the marching ants near the spaceship.
The number of marching ants that could survive the artillery attack was very small, so Gary's work was very easy. With a slash of his knife, a marching ant was split in half, and Gary breathed out the anger in his heart.
Those who forsook me, yesterday was irreversible. From this moment on, he and Green were completely separated and had nothing to do with each other anymore.
"Gary, everyone else has run away; why did you still stay among those marching ants?" Ludwig's voice was suddenly heard, and Gary realized that the other party had actually connected the communication between the two mechs.
He was abandoned by someone . . . . Gary felt a little embarrassed and simply used silence to answer.
"Sorry, I asked too much." Ludwig, seeing Gary not speaking, was a bit dispirited. He had liked Gary since he was a child, but he never knew how to please Gary.
He was in poor health when he was a child. When he was two years old, his mother spent a lot of money to buy a chance to get the empress to treat him. After he was brought to the hospital built by the empress, he met Gary, whom was four years older than him, there.
Gary was amazing. He could always come up with all kinds of interesting ways to have fun and would also take out various kinds of snacks for him to eat.
Because of his poor health, his mother managed him very strictly. Although he was a beastman, when he was a child, he rarely had the opportunity to run and jump and were also not allowed to eat even one bite of snacks and so on. His life was very dull and boring, but after he met Gary, all this changed.
He followed after Gary to play wild, and he would eat anything Gary gave him . . . .
Although he would feel unwell when he ran too much, have a stomachache when he ate too much, and occasionally gasp for air, Gary and Gary’s mother were always there to help him heal right away.
A few months later, his body was completely restored to health, but his serendipitous relationship with Gary was not broken.
His father was going to war at that time, and his mother was also very busy. He could only live alone in a large manor in the capital star.
His mother did not allow him to go out, but Gary would often come to see him. Gary said that his older brother went to play with his wife, and he was bored, so he came to find him.
He was thinking then, it turned out that becoming someone’s wife could make that someone come find him. So, would it be better for him to become Gary’s wife?
Um . . . Gary came to find him often and maybe had already regarded him as his wife!
He inwardly thought so and was secretly proud of himself for a long time, until he suddenly realized one thing—he and Gary were both beastmen, and two beastmen normally couldn’t be together.
He lived in the capital star until he was eight years old and spent six years with Gary. Then he left the capital star to reunite with his parents. Six years later, at the age of fourteen, he returned to the capital star to receive education.
He had been living in the barracks for the past six years. He grew so fast that when he saw "Older Brother Gary", who was omnipotent in his eyes, again later, he suddenly found that Gary now was actually shorter than him!
Then his feelings for Gary inexplicably changed.
He liked a beastman, a very high-status and powerful one to boot—although Gary was shorter than him, he was no match for Gary.
At the age of sixteen, he confessed this matter to his parents, hoping that they would not stop him from pursuing Gary nor force him to marry others.
After that . . . he was mercilessly beaten up by his father and sent to a remote planet. His father said that he could not let him continue to stay at Gary’s side and lead Gary astray. It was not until two years later that he was brought back to the capital star from that remote planet by his father.
He learned a lot of skills on that remote planet, and when he reappeared in the capital star, he was much more self-aware and remarkable. However, even before he went to find Gary, he discovered that his parents’ expressions were very abnormal.
His father worried that he would lead Gary astray and thus sent him away. As a result, Gary was led astray by someone else—Gary, whom he liked, liked another beastman.
Gary and that beastman joined the military together after graduating from the Imperial College, and he could do nothing else besides asking his mother to make a present of the mech he made to Gary.
Both his father and mother did not want him to be with Gary, yet he kept insisting on it. They finally softened and no longer stopped him, but Gary became someone else’s . . . .
In the same year, he also joined the military, and his mother gave him a mech too, which was exactly the same as the one he gave to Gary.
During the past ten years, he worked hard and thrived in the military, and his performance in all respects was better than that of the beastman Gary liked. That beastman had just become a lieutenant colonel, while he had a chance to become a major general, yet Gary still didn't like him.
Did Gary stay behind to become a rearguard for that man?
If he was the one Gary liked, he was certainly reluctant to let Gary stay behind to become a rearguard. That guy was really not a good person!
Ludwig scolded Green fiercely in his heart, but he did not dare to talk to Gary again.
He thought he had hid his feeling for Gary very well, but it was still discovered by Gary five years ago. Afterwards, Gary, who previously had been very nice and affectionate to him, was no longer willing to see him alone. Thus, when his mother went to find Gary to discuss mech problems, he could only stand on the side and watch Gary silently . . . .
Gary was really amazing. Not to mention his great strength, his mech technology was also good. There was no one more amazing than him in this world!
Others say that the crown prince was entirely worthy to be the strongest among the younger generation, but he always thought that Gary was the strongest. Even if the crown prince fought more powerfully, what was there to show off with mere brute force? He was pretty sure that the crown prince definitely didn’t know how the mech was made!
Ludwig stopped talking, and of course Gary would not take the initiative to start talking, so the two were silent.
At this time, the spaceship of the First Corps had already received all the survivors of the Third Corps onto their spaceship.
Will had been staring at Green with hatred, and the people of the maintenance department were far away from those mech soldiers. Besides Emir, who originally stood together with those mech soldiers, no one was willing to step forward to repair the mechs of those mech soldiers.
Emir was actually willing to help these people repair their mechs, but his skills were so poor that he was simply unable to repair those heavily damaged mechs.
"You sort yourself out. Let the robots get what you need." The First Corps person responsible for the placement hurriedly said and then left—the battle outside was still going on; they were certainly very busy.
Green stopped him at this moment. "I'm the mech division of the Third Corps. I want to participate in the battle."
The atmosphere in the spaceship’s hold was too weird; he felt he could not stay here anymore. Moreover, Gary . . . . Could his Gary survive? Was there any possibility that the red mech had rescued Gary?
Green urgently wanted to go to take a look.
"Then you follow me." The First Corps man replied.
"We’ll go too!" Some soldiers of the Third Corps said.
"Injured or severely damaged mechs can’t go to the battlefield. Everyone else can go!" The man added, "Also, the maintenance engineers can go to the hold door to help." He looked at Will and others while he was talking. The maintenance engineers were very important in the war—if the spaceship broke down in the course of battle and no one repaired it, the people on the spaceship, even if they were a strong military force, could only be shut in and starved to death in the universe.
The Third Corps originally came with ten thousand people, but now there were only five or six thousand left. Many people who once fought side by side with them had died under the mouth of those marching ants. They were full of hatred for the marching ants, so they all wished to help now.
A large platform was extended out of the First Corps’ spaceship to provide a resting place for those mech soldiers fighting outside, and the men of the Third Corps whose conditions were still fine all came here now.
After getting onto the platform, Green immediately climbed into his golden mech. As a result, he was just about to go out to fight, and he saw that invincible red mech fly toward the platform, followed by Colonel Mund's blue mech.
Close up, Green discovered that the outward appearance of the two mechs was actually exactly the same and also very, very similar to his golden mech.
Green discovered this, so of course Ludwig discovered it too.
This guy’s mech was made by Gary, right? A mech that was so similar to his and Gary’s mech was actually the third party who forcibly came between his and Gary's "couple" mechs.
No, this guy was not the third party; it was himself who might be the third party.
Realizing this, Ludwig was extremely dejected, but unexpectedly, something that shocked him happened in the next second.
The red mech beside him suddenly pounced on the golden mech and then directly tore off one arm of the golden mech!
After that, the red mech continued to move. The golden mech was unable to guard against its own maker and was eventually dismantled completely in a very short time!
The red mech not only dismantled the golden mech but also smashed it to pieces. Before long, only the cockpit in the middle was left of the golden mech.
What was this all about? Was the man piloting the red mech insane? Internecine strife within the military would be subjected to severe disciplinary action!
Everyone around was stunned. At this time, the red mech had pulled apart the barely remaining cockpit roughly.
Green fell out of the cockpit with mortification. He quickly got up and turned towards the red mech resentfully. "Who’re you? What do you think you’re doing?" The mech that Gary made for him painstakingly was actually torn apart by this guy!
In the case of the spaceship already being gnawed away, this might have been the last thing Gary left him . . . . Green, overcome with grief, simply wished he could kill the person before his eyes.
Ludwig too was quite shocked seeing this scene. What was wrong with Gary? Why did he suddenly attack? And attacking his lover to boot . . . .
Anyway, Gary was really amazing! His posture of dismantling the mech simply couldn’t be more handsome! Ludwig stared at Gary with adoration across his whole face. Having recorded all of Gary's actions, he planned to review and practice them after he returned.
Well, incidentally, he could also enjoy the mortified appearance of his love rival.
TL's note: The next two chapters are pretty short, so they'll be posted on the 25th and the 30th.