Chapter 60 - Remote Command (1/2)

Train your troops for a thousand days, use them for a short moment.

News of the announcement of Lebor’s integration into the Navi System spread. When the entire Federation was debating over it, Navi had already readied two regiments to take control of the major planets of the Lebor System in lightning speed. In conjunction with the Lebor Military Command, they forcefully demolished all of “Butterfly’s” monitoring devices before the Capital could make any declarations.

For the Navi Military Command, this was its first large-scale foreign mission since laying low in Navi for so long. Even though they were busy, everything was done in proper order, because they hadn’t only been preparing for the past few days. They had been preparing for many thousands of days and nights just for this day.

At the end of the press conference, the Supreme Commander himself who had returned to the Navi System appeared in a place that nobody expected him to appear.

Improvements could be seen recently in Navi’s economy. There was a relatively small planet that gradually gained some fame even in the Navi System thanks to a clothing store that was opened on it that spanned half the planet. Many people have made a special trip to the planet just to buy clothes. And today, dressed casually, Adrian landed in a low-key manner with two of his guards on that small planet.

But no matter how low-key he tried to be, his face was way too recognizable. He had only visited the first store when half of the planet’s store owners had already heard the news.

After being attacked, the security level around this Supreme Commander had multiplied considerably. The two guards were standing on guard by Adrian the entire time. Only a single clerk who was casually picked out by Adrian was allowed to follow him, to give Adrian information on their clothes.

The young salesgirls gathered together to peek at Adrian’s handsome profile from afar and were whispering to each other excitedly. They were also feeling envious towards the lucky girl that had been picked.

“The Commander is really tall! This is my first time seeing him in person. It feels like he looks even taller in person than in the photos circulating around the virtual community!”

“Of course, he’s usually standing with the adjutant and the rest of the gang in the photos. Adjutant Suster is very tall as well, so he doesn’t look especially tall in them.”

“Didn’t you see the photos that came out from when they were still studying in the Supreme Institution? That time when he was standing with…that guy, he looked really tall.”

“What do you mean that guy? Didn’t you see the live broadcast earlier? That name isn’t banned anymore. They’ve already gotten married.”

“You say it if you have the guts. Anyway, I’m not saying it.”

“I don’t dare to say it either…”

“Didn’t he say he wasn’t getting divorced because he couldn’t afford it?”

“Did we watch the same broadcast? I don’t think he means it like that…”

“I saw someone posting an analysis and they said…”

While the two girls were eagerly discussing the hot comments in the virtual community, another clerk interrupted them and said, “You can talk about that later! Look, it’s weird, the Commander is holding two pieces of clothing and one of them doesn’t look his size.”

The two salesgirls quickly stopped their talk and looked over.

One of the guards was holding the clothes he had picked out so they couldn’t see the size, but Adrian himself was checking out a warm brown sweater. Strangely enough, he was talking non-stop, but he didn’t seem to be talking to any of his guards or the sales girl next to him.

After a while, he said a few things to the clerk, and she quickly helped him find the size he needed. Adrian held it out to see, and all the girls watching could clearly see right then: the size of this one was definitely much smaller than Adrian’s body.

“Should I just get the brown one?” Adrian tried to confirm as he turned around and began looking at another row of clothes. Only then did the clerks saw the wireless headset on one of his ears, and the camera function was lit up.

Clearly, Adrian was talking to someone through a video call, and buying clothes under remote command of the other person.

That person didn’t come out with him. Perhaps it was because it wouldn’t be convenient to. And when they linked it up with the size of the clothes…

The salesgirls looked back at each other, and all of them made the same, bold guess.

From a small distance away, Adrian’s voice would occasionally drift into their ears. Even though they couldn’t hear him too clearly, it still didn’t prevent them from hearing the gentle tone of his voice.

“…But doesn’t this look pretty good? Too expensive? It’s not that bad…”

“Okay, okay, I’ll listen to you, I won’t buy it.”

“I’ll buy you a red one, how does that sound? I don’t think you have any bright-colored clothes. What do you think about this one?”

“You want me to wear it? …Maybe not…Alright, alright, I’ll wear it, I’ll wear it.” Adrian turned his head to the side. “Miss, get me two of these, one in the other size, and one in mine.”

Then, he picked out another two sets of pajamas. He had casually bought two sets of pajamas for Zhong Yan last month. Among them was the one with the cartoon prints of the giant space rabbit that he had bought as a nasty joke, and was torn by him the night before Zhong Yan left. It was a good chance now to buy another two sets.

After stocking up on Zhong Yan’s daily clothes, Adrian was chatting with Zhong Yan about some casual matters and was just about to leave when he suddenly saw an unusual set of pajamas from the corner of his eye.