Volume 3, Human, Non-Human Killer 4: A Non-Human Body and a Human Experiment (1/2)

Volume 3, Human, Non-Human Killer Chapter 4: A Non-Human Body and a Human Experiment

Translator: Raylight

March 8, 2110, Stormy

The little young master had a huge quarrel with the Sun Emperor… Though rather than a quarrel, it was more like the little young master was finally bored out of his mind, and therefore, started to throw a tantrum.

The cause of it was that someone tried to assassinate the Sun Emperor today, and even made it all the way to where the Sun Emperor could see the person. The little young master, disguised as a bodyguard, noticed and dealt with the assassin. That was the first time I’d seen the little young master take action. He’s much stronger than I originally thought. So it seems that he really isn’t a useless person. I kind of look at him in a different light now.

Once they got home, the Sun Emperor fired a whole lot of bodyguards. The reason was that they actually let the assassin kill everyone in the way and reach the Sun Emperor… But that part wasn’t important. The real problem was that they let the little young master see the assassin, so he had to take action. Moreover, he had accidentally gotten a small cut.

The little young master roared at the Sun Emperor in a rage, “I am your bodyguard, not your guarded treasure!”

From what I can see, the truth is exactly the opposite.

It was close to five o’clock in the morning. The lights turned on, and I opened my eyes. My first thought was to prepare the young master’s breakfast quickly. Recently, the young master has been very active, so his food intake has increased accordingly as well. Six sets of breakfast might not be enough for him, so I decided that ten portions would be more appropriate, just in case.

I stepped out of the metal cabinet that I slept in. However, once I saw the decorations in my immediate surroundings, I froze for a moment. This is not my room… That’s right! Starting today, I temporarily did not need to serve the young master. Of course, that meant I did not have to cook breakfast either.

I felt a little lost. Then, what should I do… However, I then recalled that Aren and the others required breakfast too, though they probably did not have daily routines like that of the young master, who wakes up at five… I suspected that, even at seven, probably no one would be out of bed.

However, there were utterly no daily necessities within this place. Therefore, I could make use of this time to go to the morning wet market to buy food and other essentials.

After I finished pondering over my plan of action, I decided to clean the place first. That was because it was still early, and I did not need to rush to the market. Moreover, this place had been uninhabited for a long time. It truly needed a thorough cleaning.

I walked into the living room, and it was empty. As expected, no one was out of bed yet. Soon after I started cleaning, I heard the doorbell ring. The moment I discovered that it was the young master at the door, I promptly opened the door and saw the young master standing outside in his exercise attire.

“Young Master! Is the breakfast that Curtis cooked to your liking? Are the portions enough for you? How is his attitude toward you?”

At this point, the young master laughed. He said with a smile, “Charles, it’s only been half a day since I last saw you, and you’ve already forgotten my daily routine? It’s only five now. It’s not time for breakfast yet. I was just about to go for a run.”

Ah… From the moment I had woken up, I had kept thinking about breakfast. That was why I had even forgotten that the young master only ate breakfast after his run. I quickly apologized, “My sincere apologies.”

“It‘s fine.” The young master smiled, and then said, “An Te Qi-bàba called. He said he won’t come before eight or nine o’clock or so. Remember to cook some breakfast for him too. Before he has finished the breakfast you made, he’s definitely not allowed to go and see Aren!”

“Certainly.” I was a little puzzled. If Mr. An Te Qi is unwilling to eat breakfast, then perhaps it is because he has already eaten? However, a butler’s job was to follow his employer’s orders and not to question them.

The young master took the initiative to explain, “An Te Qi-bàba is an experiment maniac. Once he starts working, he can’t stop and frequently comes to the verge of starving to death. Therefore, other than taking care of Aren, help me take care of him as well for the next few days. No matter what he says, make him eat three meals a day. It’s okay even if you have to resort to violence to force him to sit at the dining table and eat!”

That explained the matter. I promptly said, “Very well.”

“As for me, you don’t need to worry.” The young master snickered as he said, “I won’t die of hunger!”

“That may be so, but please take care of yourself.”

“No worries,” assured the young master. He then inquisitively looked at the cleaning rag I had in my hands and asked, “Are you cleaning?”

I nodded and replied, “Indeed so. In a while, I will have to go to the market to buy some groceries.”

“The market?” Curiosity was written across the young master’s face as he said, “Is it the wet market? I haven’t been there before! Can I go with you?”

“If Young Master is willing to.” Once I answered him, I immediately saw the young master nodding his head vigorously. Clearly, he was extremely willing to go. The young master really loved novel things that he had never experienced before. I smiled as I said, “Then, please wait a moment. I will go change my clothes.”

“Weren’t you going to finish cleaning first?” The young master asked, uncertain.

That was the original plan, but I smiled and replied, “It is the same even if I do the cleaning after I come back.”

“Charles, are you okay wearing so little?”

On the way to the market, the young master looked at my clothes with concern, especially at my arms. That was because the shirt was cut off at my shoulders and did not have sleeves.

Quickly, I explained to the young master, “It is fine. The morning and evening sunlight is weak. It would not affect me.”

“The next time we go to X-Killer, let’s buy you some less revealing clothes!”

“Thank you, Young Master.”

Midway through my words, the young master was attracted to the din of the market. His eyes widened, and his footsteps quickened. When we walked into the market area, he looked about eagerly. Basically, whichever stall owners’ cries were the loudest, the young master would gravitate toward them. He had a burning curiosity for everything, and even a fish that was alive and wriggling made his eyes widen.

The young master stopped in front of the fish vendor, and the fish vendor welcomed him warmly. “Come over, come over. Customer, you really have good taste. This fish is a wild snapper! Snappers are a common sight, but wild ones aren’t! To be able to bring in one a day is already considered really great! Your luck today is excellent, for not only did three wild snappers come in, all of them are also of top quality! Look at how their scales shine, and how red the gills are! I guarantee that you have not eaten a delicacy like this before!”

The young master’s eyes started shining.

I walked to the young master’s side, and he instantly said with urgency, “Charles, Charles, I really want to eat this kind of fish! It looks really tasty!”

“You have eaten it before. I have bought it several times, ‘Ah Ye.’” As I replied to the young master, I took the chance to remind him that we were now currently in the role of “brothers.”

At this moment, the fish vendor looked at the young master with interest and then at me. The curiosity in his eyes was simply no less than the young master’s.

With a smile on my face, I introduced him to the fish vendor, “This is my little brother, Ah Ye.”

Hearing that, the young master turned around, looking at me with both surprise and curiosity.

I explained to him smilingly, “I come to the market often to buy groceries. Everyone recognizes me and also knows that our family is a really big one! They all know about you too! Come, say hello to everyone here!”

Probably, because he remembered the “charade of a big family” that we did when Yue Gang came over last time, the young master laughed out loud. Then, under the inquisitive gazes of the vendors, he gave a radiant smile and said extremely politely, “Hello to all the uncles, aunties, big brothers, and big sisters here.”

After his greeting, all of the vendors, regardless of whether they were male or female, old or young, had a doting expression on as they gasped in admiration. I believed that I would be able to get more discounts when I came to buy food in the future.

“How much would you charge me for this wild snapper?” I asked the fish vendor with a smile.

“There’s no discount for this kind of wild snapper…”

Midway through his words, the young master, standing to one side, seemed to feel that he would not be able to get the fish. His expression turned worried, and this made the fish vendor start to stammer.

“T-This… Perhaps I can give you twenty percent off.”

The young master definitely did not understand what twenty percent off was. He stared at me with his eyes wide open. I muttered to myself, “Is that so? That is still a little too expensive. There are a lot of people at home, and I will have to buy all three fishes for there to be enough to eat! Let’s buy the tilapia instead! Ah Ye, is that okay?”

The young master’s expression naturally turned to one of extreme and utter disappointment… Even I, who had gotten used to seeing the young master’s various expressions, nearly changed my words at once to say, “I will buy it for you immediately” and the like.

However, thankfully, I managed to hold back. That was because, in the next second, the fish vendor blurted out, “Oh my! Ah Ye, don’t cry! I’ll sell it to your brother at cost price!”

Instantly, I quickly replied, “You have my gratitude for this! Then, I’ll buy all three of them.”

The fish vendor froze, as though he had just processed what he had said. His expression turned into a horrified one.

Then, the young master cried out, “Fish, fish! I want to hold it. Can I?”

“Very well, you can carry it. However, we have to let the fish vendor remove the scales first.” I nodded my head and smiled. At the same time, I saw that every vendor, and even the grandmothers and mothers doing their shopping, were all staring at the young master with an expression… as though they were about to melt.

The fish vendor did not haggle with me any further. He went to remove the scales of the fish with a silly smile, then put the fish in a bag, and handed it to the young master… If I had not promptly handed him the cash payment, he probably would have completely forgotten about it.

The young master was already twenty-two years old, and he was also very mature and rational when dealing with issues, even more so than anyone else. However, he also frequently exhibited child-like behavior.

When the young master behaved like a child, everyone around him would all turn into… silly mothers.

Following that, I brought the child-like young master and turned all of the vendors in the market into silly mothers. And I received discounts of thirty percent off, half price, cost price, free, and the like.

If it was not for the fact that both the butler’s code of conduct and my honorable father have clearly stated that a butler cannot make a request of his employer, I would have really wanted to ask the young master if he was willing to come with me to the market in the future…

“Charles, treat me to breakfast.”

In this world, there was only one person who would ask me to treat him the moment he saw me. However, that person was definitely not an early-riser. I turned around, extremely surprised. As expected, I saw a policeman, though he was dressed in casual clothes.

“Yue Gang, good morning. You woke up really early today.”

“What do you mean woke up?” Yue Gang unhappily said, “I haven’t slept at all… Ah! Xiǎodì, you’re here too! How are you? Were you freaked out by what happened yesterday?”

The young master shook his head with a smile.

“Your family’s Xiǎodì is really something!” Yue Gang gave the young master a thumbs up, and then he put his arm around my shoulders as he said, “Let’s go eat breakfast together. I want to hear your Xiǎodì talk about what happened when he was caught!”

“Didn’t I already make a police statement?” The young master asked a little doubtfully.

“Ah! Statements are statements, and chatting is chatting. Let’s go!” Yue Gang pushed our backs and walked out of the market. He even shouted loudly, “I’m starving!”

It seemed like whether it was recording statements or chatting, they were probably both secondary to breakfast. Breakfast was the most important thing to him.

Sitting in the breakfast place, the young master also looked famished. I simply called back and asked Curtis not to prepare the young master’s breakfast, as we would be eating at the store.

I was originally a little worried whether Yue Gang would become suspicious over the young master’s appetite. However, when Yue Gang ordered eight portions of breakfast for himself, I was no longer worried.

Though Yue Gang had stated that he wanted to chat, he had been eating non-stop ever since we walked into the breakfast place. Along with the young master sitting beside him, who was also eating continuously… If given no explanation, people watching would probably think that they were in an eating contest.

At the start, I had also ordered a set of breakfast for myself in order not to raise suspicions and forced myself to take a few bites. However, as it was, I truly felt that it was a redundant action.

No matter how I looked at it, the people opposite me eating furiously were more suspicious than me.

After I acknowledged that fact, I gave up eating my breakfast that tasted like wax. Then, I turned my attention toward the public television that was in the store. The morning news was about to start soon. Yesterday, Dark Sun had a huge battle with the werewolves, and later, the young master had been carried off by a werewolf. All of this was big news, and they should all appear later.

The breakfast place near the market was originally very noisy. Customers were ordering in loud voices, the boss was busy frying omelets, the oil on the grilling plate was sizzling, and the customers were also conversing loudly… However, all of them abruptly fell silent.

Everyone was looking at the television screen.

On the screen was the young master with tears rolling down his cheeks. Beside it, a few words appeared.

The angel fell into the mortal world, but was abducted…

On the screen, the jewelry advertisement that Ji Luo Chu had shot of the young master, “Tears of an Angel,” was playing. In addition, there was also an image of the young master being captured by the werewolf yesterday.

A beautiful boy who even a werewolf can’t bear to hurt!

Following that was an image of the werewolf raising his claws to attack him but not being able to do so even after a long time.

Tears of an Angel flow only for you.

The last line froze on a picture of the young master crying, and on his forehead, he was also wearing the angel series necklace.

The entire advertisement was very long. Come to think of it, the jewelry firm had probably spent a lot of money on this… However, I believed that they would definitely be able to earn it all back. With how this advertisement matched with a real-life case, even the news would certainly bring up this advertisement and help the jewelry firm advertise itself once more later on, right? Moreover, the advertisement itself was beautifully shot and was extremely eye-catching.

At this point, I could not help but turn to look at the young master. At the same time, I also saw all the customers in the store and the shopkeeper turn to look at him… Even Yue Gang, who had just bit into his omelet, stared at him with a dazed look.

Faced with everyone’s attention, the young master blinked and told me, “Last night, Luo Chu-gē called to talk about the advertisement. Is the advertisement nice?”

I immediately nodded my head at that. Then, one glance around the room told me that all those present in the room were nodding together with me.

Seeing that, the young master laughed. Extremely delighted, he said, “That’s great.” Following that, he continued eating his breakfast. However, probably due to the excessive attention on him, he ate especially slowly, almost to the point of a normal eating speed.

Yue Gang finished off the omelet in his mouth in a few bites and then asked me in astonishment, “So your Xiǎodì is actually a celebrity?”