Chapter 21 (2/2)

As he hadn’t been able to fly until recently, he had never participated in the flying contest. But when he was one year old, he had once watched the live broadcast with his family.

At that time, he had seen how both of his parents had show an expression of approval when looking at the cubs who had gotten a good ranking in the contest. After seeing it, he had always wanted to make them show that expression because of him too. It was true that he was a bit nervous and afraid, but…

He wanted to participate.

“Tiuh!” Under the patient gaze of the youth, the Kuhti cub suddenly lifted his chest and determinedly called out.

He had finally managed to learned how to fly, this was not the time to back down.

Hearing his response, Xie Tao gently stroked the cub’s little raised chest with one finger, it was very soft to the touch.

As he did this, he happened to glance at the other two fluffy cubs sitting nearby. The contest was held for the three races, not just the Kuhti. After briefly thinking about it, Xie Tao reached out to touch the two cub and asked, “Do you two want to go too?”

The flying competition seemed to be very important and meaningful for the cubs of these three races. Xie Tao therefore wanted to bring all three of them so that they could personally experience it.

“Tiuh-tiuh-“

The two cubs called out to him and lightly rubbed their beaks against his fingers in response. Touching the two fluffy cubs, a gentle smile surfaced on Xie Tao’s lips.

The competition in itself would not take long, however including the time needed to get to and back from Orte, they would be gone for two to three days.

Xie Tao discussed it with the staff, and seeing as their absence would not be a problem, he anticipatively awaited the next month’s arrival.

However, they unexpectedly had a setback.

There were only ten days left until the flying competition, but in those days, Gaia’s northern hemisphere started to quickly heat up and the season changed from winter to early spring.

One could still feel the winter cold linger in the early morning, but by noon, a hint of the upcoming summer’s warmth could be felt.

The sudden warmth was a relief to Xie Tao, however Spring was a season prone to illness and being careless with how the temperature once again lowered at night, he accidentally caught a cold.

In the beginning it was just a small cold that did not get in the way of work. He was very careful to not spread the cold to the cubs and even wore more clothes to keep his slightly sick body warm.

But when he woke up the next day, his body had still gotten worse.

Xie Tao did not notice this at first. It did feel unusually cold when he went outside, but he only thought that the temperature must have dropped again. However when he entered the living room in the cub house, he started to feel a little dizzy.

“Ah Tao… are you feeling okay?” Seeing the youth’s glassy eyes and red cheeks, Xia Qi could not help but ask.

The human race was one of the weakest races in the interstellar and many alien races did not have a disease such as “a cold”, which was very common among humans.

Xia Qi had read up on it after Xie Tao had told her yesterday that he had “a small cold” and she felt that the human youth in front of her was now strongly showing signs of one of the graver symptoms. He really looked as if his body temperature was too high.

“I’m fine…” He rarely got sick and was not familiar with the feeling of fever.

However, after saying this sentence, Xie Tao, who was already unstable, suddenly felt a wave of dizziness and fell sideways.

“?!”

Everyone was taken aback.

The youth collapsed so suddenly that they had no time to catch him-

But just as Xie Tao was about to slam into the hard ground, a cold silver tail firmly wrapped around his waist.

The ice cold silver tail slowly lifted the youth up and moved him over to its owner who was now in his adult form. The silver haired young man looked down at the unconscious youth in front of him and after a slight pause, gently enwrapped him with his arms.

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Translator’s note:

Thanks to Jessica Lins for the coffee which helped boost me through the psychology exam and to my editor for once again having to deal with a stress-written text.

I will sadly have to pause the translation for one week, but I will resume translating like normal after that. I know that I’m leaving you with a bit of a cliffhanger, and it pains me to do so, but I have to focus on my exams and assignments. (I’m even holding a speech on stage, the horror!)

In order to lessen the impact of what I just told you and make you forget that I’m leaving you with a cliffhanger, here is some cute chibi pictures I recently found which match our story: