Chapter 38 (2/2)

Being snuggled by the cub, Xie Tao unconsciously held onto the cub in his arms a bit firmer, fearing that the cub would accidentally snuggle himself out of his arms and fall down.

“Meaah.” After stroking against his chest two times, the Knox cub settled down and nestled quietly in the youth’s embrace.

Temporarily putting the matter regarding the black patter aside, Xie Tao started discussing the cubs’ basic combat training with the other.

“Before we begin, I would like to recruit an extra guard that can cover his shifts. Xia Qi, can you send out the job information today?” Xie Tao was stuck in his thoughts for a moment, but then turned his attention back to the middle age man standing opposite him. “Before we recruit a tutor to teach basic combat to the cubs, we will have to trouble you to do this for the time being, your salary will naturally rise.”

When he heard the word “salary”, the corner of Zarad’s eye twitched, but he still nodded his head to answer the youth’s words.

It was not long ago that he suggested that he could be a combat instructor to the cubs. When he heard the others talk about recruiting an instructor, Zarad had felt that, as a former Star Alliance general who had gone through numerous battles, he was better fit to be an instructor rather than a guard and had with great confidence immediately proposed himself for the position.

“Little Gale has just developed his ability, I hope you can give him some help and teach him how to use it.” Looking down at the two ice crystals that had now almost fully melted, Xie Tao unconsciously slowed down his voice.”The mermaid cub is a good baby. If you teach him, he will surely study hard.”

Zarad did not hesitate even for a second and directly agreed. To be honest, being given the chance to mentor a mermaid cub who had developed an ice ability, even if the youth hadn’t asked him, Zarad was itching to do it.

A rare variant ability user, if he could teach such a powerful student, then he could have a lot of face as a teacher—

Later, when it got known, even his former rivals in the army would need to plaster on a fake smile and compliment him. Just thinking about it, Zarad felt a sense of peace that he had not felt in a long time.

In order to complete the task assigned by the youth, Xia Qi quickly finished work and then went onto Xingyou to post the job information.

After publishing it, Xia Qi was about to turn off the connector when she suddenly thought of the post they did yesterday. She decided to log in again and see if there were any comments that needed answering.

As their club’s official account was managed by her, she would log in every day to check the situation.

Initially, Xia Qi was only intended to look over the account like she usually did. However, when she clicked the list of reposts on yesterday’s post, a particular sentence attracted her attention.

“How come the golden mark on the mermaid cub’s forehead resembles the mark of the Houdie family…”

The one who had written this had actually not thought about it deeply and only made a casual remark.

This casual remark had, however, unexpectedly gained attention and many people started discussing it in the comment section.

“It turned out that it was not just I who thought so, it must be true then, right?”

“Absolutely not. If it was a cub of the Houdie family, the mermaid cub would not be in a Cub Raising Branch but in a Connor Branch at Hailumite.”

Hailumite was the capital planet of the mermaid race and Connor was the fourth largest nursing association in the universe. As one of the most influential families in the mermaid race, the Houdie family had without fail sent each of their cubs to a high quality Connor branch.

Seeing this comment, some people seemed to rethink and were partially persuaded by it.

Actually, they couldn’t be 100% sure that the mark on the cub’s forehead was what they thought it was. The only close-ups in the pictures did not capture the cub’s face and although they really believed it, they couldn’t speak out with confidence.

However, many people on Xingyou were idle and jumped at the chance to join the argument. It didn’t take long before someone unknown found Connor’s enrollment list of the past years, together with the class photos.

Comparing the mermaid cub in the photo with their cub, Xia Qi, who had seen that mark up close many times, was stunned when she found that the two golden marks on the cubs’ foreheads were indeed identical…

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Translator’s note:

Happy Easter everybody! ????

Many thanks to K. Samel for the coffees. ????

How have your holiday been so far? Eaten a lot of candy or waiting until Sunday? I myself have already somehow managed to eat all candy I bought for Easter… Cought…

Anyway, we seem to have gotten a big hint to the mermaid cub’s past in this chapter, here is a pic that shows the golden mark: