IHNMSL Chapter 64

Chapter 64: Chapter 64 Past Events (Chris’s Emotional Arc)

Inside the interrogation room, a medical bug was examining a female general’s body and devising a treatment plan. The female bug’s hands were covered in abnormal, dried black bloodstains, remnants from her fight with Chris.

“What did Aibei do to him?”

Across the heavy, tempered glass barrier, Aikman soothed the crying little bug in his arms, whose tears were flowing freely. The child couldn’t understand reason, and Aikman was at his wit’s end. Even being swamped with work for days and nights on end hadn’t given him such a headache.

“Ixus, don’t worry, male father is fine. He’ll be better soon. Once male father is a little better, I’ll take baby to see male father, okay?”

The handsome and aloof noble male bug lowered his head, patting the little one’s back and softly comforting, “There, baby, don’t cry…”

“Mmm… Bad Uncle can’t trick Ixus…” Ixus responded with a sob, clearly doubting the sincerity of his promise.

The adjutant on the side revealed a ghostly expression. Really? Was this bug in front of him really his superior? His current demeanor was too far removed from the image of the sinister and cold-blooded Grand Judge.

Aikman had come to clean up the mess Aibei had left behind. He wasn’t exactly angry, just somewhat perplexed.

Hevia was at least a Double-S grade female bug; what methods did Aibei use to make Mandel so obedient?

The adjutant dared not conceal anything.

*Little Young Master, may you be blessed by the heavens…*

“Preliminary tests show that the concentration of male pheromones in his body exceeds the normal intake by more than a thousand times. It’s Young Master Aibei’s pheromones… they have a strong hallucinogenic and controlling effect…”

The dark-skinned, green-eyed female bug, restrained by an electric shock collar and several suppressors, was in a daze. Mandel’s insectoid state was slowly receding, and he should wake up soon.

After a simple bandage, Chris returned to the legion.

He woke up in pitch darkness, his mouth filled with the taste of blood. The black bloodlines at the wound site hadn’t disappeared; instead, the covered area had grown larger. The spiderweb spread, and the blackened flesh gave rise to a greasy, nauseating feeling.

The female bug clenched his palm. The feeling of sluggishness and loss of control was intensifying.

The antitoxin serum had neutralized half of the venom, but the pain hadn’t subsided, Chris thought it was just a matter of time.

Unfortunately, after a night, the situation seemed to have worsened.

Chris’s glands were stimulated and out of control…

That churning, sickening, burning sensation in his stomach was even more intense…

The clear citrus scent… he had ingested other male bug’s pheromones, which was torture for Chris.

He wasn’t like Mandel, an unowned male bug. He had accepted Will’s mark, and in this life, he could only ever submit to the duke’s pheromones. This unprocessed pheromone, heavily tainted with another male’s scent, was a deadly torment to him.

“General?” The guard outside the room heard a loud thud of something heavy hitting the ground.

“I’m fine…” Chris gasped in pain, gritting his teeth to get up. The female bug’s body wasn’t fragile, but the pain made him vomit a mouthful of blood.

Chris had to admit that he underestimated Mandel this time.

Why would Mandel’s venom contain such a thing? And the concentration and grade of the pheromones were not low; did he swallow a male bug alive?

His body could barely break down the venom, but the chain reaction triggered by the male pheromones… the uncontrollable heat…

Chris’s legs were weak. Even with his SSS-grade military female willpower, he couldn’t suppress the pain in his glands.

From the moment he accepted Will’s mark to improve the efficiency of his spiritual guidance, he was destined to never escape Will’s influence.

As long as he could achieve his goal and get the chance to climb higher, Chris never feared any cost. After all, he had little left to lose, no matter how hard he tried, even the bug he liked discarded him like trash.

He hated Amy’s abandonment, and even more, his own powerlessness.

In the years after the divorce, Chris had gotten used to getting through heat with inhibitors, and he had never kneeled down to beg Will.

As Ixus’s male parent, Will certainly wouldn’t do things too absolutely; a decent separation was also for Ixus’s better growth.

If he asked Will for pheromones…

Knowing Will, he certainly wouldn’t refuse. Although he would find it disgusting, Will wouldn’t use it to humiliate him in any way.

The pain that spread from his bones outward was about to tear Chris apart. His throat and nasal cavity were full of crimson blood.

He knew that these were all symptoms of his body not being soothed by pheromones for too long; just a little bit of Will’s pheromones would calm these abnormal organs.

Chris soaked his whole body in ice water, trying to alleviate the heat. For his restless body, it was just a drop in the bucket, not a cure.

The shadow of suffocation and death twisted the female bug’s grim face. Half of his face, as white as a ghost, floated to the surface of the water. Not knowing what he was thinking, Chris pulled a small bone ring from his wet pocket, trembling, and pressed it against the root of his tongue.

“Ugh… Will…”

With suppressed gasps, the powerful and unparalleled female bug’s body began to soften, his eyes unfocused. Like an addict, he whispered his ex-husband’s name, licking the bone ring that contained his pheromones, the sweetness suppressing the taste of blood in his throat.

The female bug’s spiritual attachment to the marker was uncontrollable. During heat, Chris’s body and mind were desperately craving that male bug.

The brand left on his glands, this mark truly created the illusion of deep love for Chris.

He wanted Will, wanted him so badly that he was about to break. Those surging memories that made him want to live and die, those painful memories that he wished he could erase from his mind countless times…

Chris dreamed of the first time he met Will.

Their first meeting was at the Central Military Academy. Will, who had come with his older brother to attend the ceremony, was temporarily pulled onto the stage by his brother to participate in the awards presentation.

The spoiled and sunny little prince, wielding immense power, could not be overshadowed even in Central Star, where nobles and dignitaries gathered. Wherever Prince Will appeared, he was bound to be the center of attention, the focus of all eyes.

On StarNet, he had been the top candidate on the Most Desired Male Bug list for a long time. Even though Will was still in his growth period at the time, countless female bugs were coveting him and waiting for him to come of age.

Everyone wanted to see who would be the one in a billion lucky bug to gain the little prince’s favor.

The Klink family’s wealth and pure bloodline were the little prince’s greatest assets, not to mention that he had a shrewd and capable higher female bug brother to pave the way for him.

At that time, the male bug was still in his most innocent, carefree years. The look in his eyes when he presented the award was clear and pure, without a trace of malice.

Perhaps even Will himself didn’t know that Chris had a deep impression of that first meeting with Will.

Even though Will had done nothing wrong, Chris simply loathed these nobles who were born with halos. Their joys and sorrows were not the same.

In the Central Military Academy, the strong were respected. Chris, a poor female bug with a low innate level, was out of sync with the noble young masters and higher female bugs here.

Some bugs were born with everything, and no matter how hard he tried to chase after them, he couldn’t catch up even a little.

Perhaps because Chris’s attitude at the ceremony was too presumptuous and disrespectful to Will, the little prince’s brother sullenly stepped on Chris’s head in the mud and severely humiliated him afterward.

This kind of humiliation might be humiliating for those nobles, but it didn’t leave any waves in Chris’s heart.

There were too many such bullying incidents in the Central Military Academy. There was no room for survival for the weak here, and Chris had already learned this in the first month of his admission.

The Klink family female bug’s warning was not as lethal as the lowest-level prank his classmates played on him.

Unlike other young and passionate military school bugs, Chris participated in the Interstellar League not for glory, serving the Federation, or making a name for himself.

He stood on the challenge stage again and again, facing those higher nobles whose levels were far superior to his own, refusing to give up even when he was beaten to the point of only having one breath left, staging a desperate counterattack.

Only for a vulgar reason.

The one who adopted him was a vain male bug, and he had many, many wishes. Even more star coins could not satisfy him. He wanted to live in a big house, drive a luxury starship, and Amy yearned for the extravagant life of the upper bugs.

Chris had been working hard to fulfill Amy’s dreams.

He wanted to make Amy happy.

In addition to the high scholarships set up by the Central Military Academy for outstanding students, Chris also participated in countless competitions. Among them, the Interstellar League sponsored by the Klink family had the largest amount of prize money.

Hundreds of millions of star coins flowed into Chris’s account through life-and-death battles. Every star coin was exchanged by Chris for his life.

He was still young and still had value. Amy raised him, so he should always recover the interest. These were all he should give.

Chris used to think so.

But since he came of age and was admitted to the Central Military Academy to study, Amy’s frequency of replying to his messages became lower and lower, and his attitude towards him became colder and colder.

The star coins Chris transferred were returned the same way, and the small house away from the main city where they had grown up together had long been transferred to others.

[Where are you?] Chris’s throat was dry and bitter. The female bug’s keen hearing in the call could clearly perceive the noisy sounds on the other side, ambiguous and chaotic music, singing and dancing, and the sound of glasses clinking.

He hated that his hearing was so good.

“Amy, look! Your distinguished guest is here again!” It was the sound of companions teasing the male bug.

Amy blushed: “I’m not in that kind of relationship with the adult, don’t talk nonsense!”

“Okay, okay, you’re defending him now. If you say you’re not, then you’re not!”

“That… Chris, I still have something to do, so I’ll go and get busy first. I’ll talk to you when I have time, goodbye…”

Dudu——The communication was hung up in a hurry, Chris stared at the disconnected light brain for a long time.

At this time, it was almost ten minutes past standard star time midnight.

At this time, he, a male bug allergic to alcohol, was outside drinking with other bugs? What was going on with Amy’s “distinguished guest”?

The young Chris was distraught. He didn’t understand why he had such sour, violent emotions. He was just worried that Amy would encounter bad guys.

But the raging fire burning in his chest was clearly the possessiveness that a female bug would have for a beloved male bug.

Chris, who had tossed and turned all night and couldn’t fall asleep, saw his roommate in the early morning who had not returned all night and was covered in alcohol.

His name was Hevia. Chris knew that this roommate with a weak presence was not someone who could be easily provoked.

The elusive female bug rarely appeared at school. Except for the necessary exam scenes, the professors of each subject turned a blind eye to this.

This noble female bug, who came from an extraordinary background and was amorous everywhere, had a very bad reputation. It seemed that entering the Central Military Academy was just to get gilded.

Chris had seen too many female bugs like this, but Hevia gave Chris a contradictory feeling. His attitude towards people was extremely alienated. It was hard to imagine that such an extremely rational female bug would be as addicted to sex as she was, flirting with male bugs everywhere.

At this time, Chris, who was emotionally broken, had no time to pay attention to his roommate. His eyes were dull and lifeless.

“Are you crying?” Hevia was surprised. He thought he might have returned at a bad time.

Chris’s eyes, who had not rested all night, were covered with red bloodshot eyes, and his face was covered with mottled tears, looking even more tired than Hevia, who had been having fun all night.