Chapter 66: 42.1

Chapter 42.1

The Young Cliffhanger Expert

Translated by boilpoil
Edited by boilpoil

 

The boundless cosmos abound outside, but it’s just static imagery if you look at it often enough.

Jin Yue then looks back at his holodeck, putting his head on his arm, and pokes the screen, “if Sun Wushe needs me, tell him I’m busy on a mission.”

“Which mission?” A tall and imposing shemale scratches his head, asking, “er, wait, why would Sun Wushe ask for you?”

“… He’s probably about to get found out. Because of me,” for once, Jin Yue feels a slight guilt. Very slight, “and what are you standing around asking questions for?! Don’t you have work to do?”

The shemale is not getting a move on, however, “boss, are we really doing this?”

“Do I look like I’m joking?” Jin Yue crosses his leg, then waves to dismiss his subordinate.

Normally, yes, but not this time. The shemale is still hanging around, though, so Jin Yue turns his attention away from his holodeck to ask, “what’s happening, then? Talk to me.”

“The Blackiron’s got a ship with two males aboard. Normally, they should send them back, but boss, you said earlier…” The shemale doesn’t continue.

Jin Yue only asks after a moment of silence, “are they of age?”

“Thirty-forty or so, still young,” young enough for the insectoids with long lives. Blackiron is a mid-sized group of space pirates, one of those that responded when Jin Yue mentioned cooperating.

The shemale’s hands are grabbing his own trousers, crumpling it nervously, “boss, are we already going to start now?”

“Tell them they don’t have to let them go. Keep them alive. That’s all,” Jin Yue turns back around once more, but the shemale does not move.

Silence ensues, until the shemale gulps, and says, “b-but…”

“But what?!” Jin Yue suddenly rises, his golden, vertical pupils reflecting the light of the cabin menacingly, “who are you trying to sympathise with?”

“No, I…” The shemale takes a step back.

Jin Yue quickly gives him a firm kick, “who are you trying to sympathise with?!”

“You’re pitying those bastards?! Then who would come to pity us?! Answer me!” Jin Yue grabs the shemale by the collar, pulling him to his face, “tell me, why did you end up a pirate?! Who else but those bastards are to blame when you can’t even live a normal, boring life outside the shadows?! Tell me!”

“Bu-but a male in a group of shemales, unprotected…”

“Oh? And you think they’re innocent?” Jin Yue raises his brow, “let me ask instead – what happened to your legs? Your father didn’t beat and slice and stab them, until they snapped, until they pulverised?”

The shemale does not answer. Jin Yue then pats his face, telling him, “at least pity your own body some more, ok?”

“And don’t come bother me with every little boring thing in the universe,” Jin Yue stretches while saying that. There is not a single sign of the angry, disappointed insectoid from just now here.

“What if, he is someone who treats his cijun and shemale concubines well?”

Jin Yue does not answer, for long enough that the subordinate thought Jin Yue isn’t going to answer at all, until suddenly, Jin Yue says, “I used to be kind of like that dumbass Wei Zhuo. Look at me now.”

“They never felt the slightest remorse no matter what kind of shemale you were. Why should we not do the same?”

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The shemale is looking at the floor. Finally, he turns around to leave, “boss, I’ll be going.”

After the shemale has finally left him alone, Jin Yue pokes around on his holodeck. He pulls up a photo, and projects it outside.

The shemale in the projection looks exactly like Jin Yue, but his short, blonde hair is neatly brushed to the back of his head. He stands tall and straight, dressed in academy uniform. It rather resembles the military uniforms, too. He is looking at the camera with a poker face. In short, he looks like a stern and taciturn figure.

Jin Yue knits his brows at the figure, “what a retard,” then he deletes the photo.

After that, he exhales, and lets himself sprawl spineless on his seat. Bored, he scratches his head a little, mumbling, “he slapped me?”

That slap certainly knocked the sense out of Jin Yue. Sure, he once planned to kidnap Cheng Zhaoci, but he’s still a space buccaneer. Their leader, even! Fuck this. The more he thinks, the more he starts questioning Sun Wushe’s weird preference in males.

Cheng Zhaoci is being thoroughly investigated by the hands-on Zhou brothers.

“Are you really alright everywhere? We mustn’t be careless. What if he injected you with something when you weren’t looking?” Zhou Luoluo looks very concerned indeed, “this is serious business.”

Cheng Zhaoci finds himself dizzying from all the moving around, “wait a minute. What kind of situation do I have to be in to not sense I’m being injected with something at all?”

When Zhou Xiaobao tries to pull his clothes off, Cheng Zhaoci quickly says, “the Squadron Leader has already taken me to the medical pod for a complete check-up. Stop.”

“Oh,” Zhou Xiaobao quietly lets the clothes go.

“We’re worried, you know. The news just broke that there were two males from the Song family who were aboard that ship the pirates hijacked. They’re not letting the males go home, I heard,” Zhou Luoluo is speaking quietly even though there’s no one else around, “the pirates have become bold recently.”

The pirates are scary, and Jin Yue is the leader of one of the biggest groups of pirates. That’s even more scary.

“Yes. My family cancelled their plans for a vacation,” Zhou Xiaobao adds, “but you don’t have to worry. Your dad is a grade A shemale soldier, and the one you like is a grade S shemale soldier. The pirates won’t go after you if they have any sense.”

The males aren’t being released? Is this an unofficial declaration of war with the Federation? Though the idle thought passes quickly. He’s neither a government official or an army officer. It’s not like he could possibly be any help blindly guessing what the pirates have planned in store.

In any case, he’d still need to get the plot for the second arc of the story out, so that they all have stuff to draw.

The communications technology of the insectoids is extremely advanced, but the Zhou brothers prefer drawing next to each other rather than over a projection. The inspiration flows better, according to them.

As Cheng Zhaoci doesn’t have material for them to work with yet, he’s let the brothers hang out on one side, with Xiaobao writing up a rough draft of his story, while Zhou Luoluo sits next to them, with brows furrowed, and mouth unstoppable.

“This feels weird to me. Alcohol would actually lower our sexual drive. So it means the male is definitely only being driven by lasviciousness here.”
“Is that male an idiot? He’s fallen for the ‘taste’ of the protagonist? What does that even mean?”
“Woah! Seriously?! Why not just abort such an unwanted and unconsented pregnancy? Why even go through the pain of labour at all?”

Zhou Xiaobao is giving Zhou Luoluo the cold shoulder, “brother, you’re annoying me.”

“You’re just being too sensitive,” Zhou Luoluo disagrees, “and there are too many plot holes in your script!”

“Shut up. Yes, you,” Cheng Zhaoci gives Zhou Luoluo a threatening glare. The incessant blabbering is draining his inspiration!

He’s like one of those guys in his past life who ends up reading a classic retro style dog-blood romance novel – full of ‘why’s, and not just full of whys, but he has to ask them out loud too! And all he’s doing is just interfering with their work!

 

 

boilpoil's notes:

The middle of the raws had some words missing, so I've done my best to link the parts together.

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