Chapter 67: Little Kit
Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations
Editor: Karai
Yun Yingzhi successfully completed the paperwork for his leave of absence. Master Alvin returned, and Yun Yingzhi took the two Little Buns to visit him. Life gradually began returning to order. Even though he was on leave, Yun Yingzhi still had plenty to do every day.
During the daytime he brought the two Little Buns with him to the Source Weapon Association to work. After returning home and eating dinner, he attended make-up lessons taught by either Elvis or Yun Yinghui, then headed to the training hall built outside the villa to train.
Training time was when the two Little Buns became the most excited. Whenever he did physical conditioning, the two light little things bounced all over him, trying their best to increase the difficulty of his workout.
Everything was fine—except for the tutoring. Yun Yingzhi didn’t enjoy that at all. He felt like he was going bald. He had never been someone who liked studying. It was as if the Little Buns sensed his dislike of learning, because a few days later, every time he attended lessons they twirled and danced nearby. It didn’t look like cheering him on—more like they were gloating.
Occasionally, when they were bored, little egg used his spatial esper to forcefully drag Yun Yingzhi to the Yaoming Battle Arena.
The most ridiculous incident happened when Yun Yingzhi was in the middle of an intense discussion with several source weapon artisans at the association.
Little egg must have been bored, because not only did he pull Yun Yingzhi and little kit away, he even dragged along two master artisans from the association straight into the Yaoming Battle Arena. The moment they arrived, a crowd swarmed them.
Yun Yingzhi managed; he had extensive experience escaping this sort of situation. The two masters, however, stood dazed and stunned, and only escaped with great difficulty under the help of the arena staff.
Feeling deeply apologetic, Yun Yingzhi realized he couldn’t let little egg use spatial esper to run wild anymore. That very day, he worked together with the association to design a source weapon that could limit little egg’s spatial ability.
A few days later, the finished source weapon was put into use, and the little egg stayed visibly depressed for several days.
Life continued in an orderly rhythm. Emperor Jarren and the Imperial Consort adored the two Little Buns. Since Yun Yingzhi refused to enter the palace and the Little Buns refused to leave his side, the Emperor and Consort went to the villa district in Yunhai to meet them.
Looking at the clingy pair, Yun Yingzhi thought: since they were so attached to him, if he wanted to return to school as soon as possible, he had to find a way to make them more independent.
After some thought, he opened his personal terminal and drafted a schedule. He had to admit—when he was ruthless, he was truly ruthless. And not a decent person at all. According to the schedule, if the Little Buns stayed by his side, they were forbidden from visiting the Yaoming Battle Arena. The worst part of all was… The two Little Buns had to attend lessons.
They couldn’t even talk yet, and they were forced to study alongside him. The gloating Little Buns instantly tasted the full malice of their dad.
Elvis and Yun Yinghui taught the lessons together. If Elvis taught Yun Yingzhi, then Yun Yinghui taught the Little Buns, or they switched. Yun Yingzhi studied while keeping a stern eye on things.
Compared to Elvis and Yun Yinghui, Yun Yingzhi was absolutely the strict father. Whenever the two adults tried to spoil or indulge the Little Buns, Yun Yingzhi hit them—and the buns—with a death glare. Not only the adults—the Little Buns were miserable too. They often swayed pitifully, and little kit even learned to kneel before Elvis and Yun Yinghui, putting his tiny paws together to beg for mercy.
The two adults definitely wanted to spare the poor babies, but Yun Yingzhi didn’t permit it. Whenever that happened, Yun Yingzhi pushed them aside and personally taught the Little Buns. The material was simple—like “What’s 1 + 1?”
Little kit answered by tapping his paw the right number of times, while little egg answered by hopping the right number of times. They were completely overwhelmed. It reached the point that even Yun Yingzhi—and the ever-biased Elvis and Yun Yinghui—began questioning whether the two Little Buns were actually… not very bright.
But thinking about it—no, they were simply far too young. In the blink of an eye, a month passed. By April, the two Little Buns could finally be apart from Yun Yingzhi. At most, about ten minutes. Yun Yingzhi felt a tiny sense of relief.
During that period, he hadn’t had a single moment of privacy. Even when he went to the bathroom, the little kit scratched at the door trying to get in, and the little egg simply teleported inside using a spatial esper. Whenever they were apart from him, the two Little Buns were either in the process of searching for Dad, or crying because they couldn’t find him.
By June, after growing another two months older, they could finally be away from Yun Yingzhi a little longer—around two hours. That was just long enough for Yun Yinghui to bring them to the palace for a short visit with the Emperor and Imperial Consort.
In July of that year, Elvis was about to graduate and participated in the final Ranking Battle among the Ten Great Military Academies. Elvis’s year was known as the strongest cohort Fansa Academy had ever seen. With Elvis and Wei Yuanqing’s overwhelming strength, plus support from their classmates, Fansa Academy successfully took first place in the Ranking Battle.
The star network was flooded with news about the victory. Yun Yingzhi felt a little jealous, and he suddenly wanted to take part in the Ranking Battle too. At the same time, the graduation of Elvis and the other students marked the beginning of Fansa Academy’s pressure. The fourth-year students of this class were all geniuses. After Elvis and the others graduated, there surprisingly were no particularly outstanding students left in the entire academy.
If there were any worth mentioning, it would probably be Huai Boshe, who would soon advance from second year to third year, and Yun Yingyao, who would be advancing from first year to second year.
In just half a year or so, both Huai Boshe and Yun Yingyao had changed noticeably. In the past, Huai Boshe always liked to look for Yun Yingyao. Now he had pulled away completely. Even when they met, they did not say a single word to each other. Rumor said that the two of them had a falling-out. During it, Huai Boshe accused Yun Yingyao of ruining his relationship with Yun Yingzhi until it became like that of strangers, all because of him.
In response, Yun Yingyao gave him a loud slap. People said Huai Boshe was suffering terribly and looked gloomy every day. These were all just gossip.
At the end of August— Graduates from the military academy were assigned and dispersed into the military. Those with ranks directly led small corps in and out of various life planets.
Elvis said goodbye to Yun Yingzhi and left the Imperial Star. Faced with Elvis’s sudden departure, Yun Yingzhi felt a little lost. However, Elvis contacted him nearly every day, claiming the two Little Bun missed him.
The two Little Bun truly missed Elvis badly. To help the two Little Bun contact Elvis more smoothly, Yun Yingzhi discussed it with Yun Yinghui, and they bought the two Little Bun their own personal terminals.
The two Little Bun were… indescribable. Math within ten digits was painfully difficult for them, but learning to use a personal terminal came to them at lightning speed. Things like tapping on icons to send video calls, short videos, or voice clips…
Ever since they got their personal terminals, everyone on their friend list became their victims. Little kit, for example—he never felt it was troublesome. No matter the time of day, whenever he felt like it, he sent short videos or voice clips to everyone on his friend list.
Opening those videos or audio clips revealed a flood of emotional squeaks and chirps that ordinary people could not understand at all. The two Little Bun had at least one obedient trait. Under Yun Yingzhi’s strict teaching, they understood one rule: during the day, they could harass anyone on their friend list with video calls, but at night they were not allowed to send video calls. Short videos or voice messages were still okay, though. Before they knew it, September arrived.
The two Little Buns were born last November. By now, they were over ten months old. Judging by the size of their second forms, they were still very tiny, only slightly bigger than before. Forget about transforming from second form to human form—little egg did not even show signs of cracking their shell.
When Yun Yingzhi looked things up on the star-net, some cubs who were born in second form could convert into human form within four to five months at the fastest. Yun Yingzhi’s anxiety was almost at its limit. Check after check, the results showed both Little Buns were in perfect health, but Yun Yingzhi remained deeply uneasy.
At the beginning of October— Yun Yinghui said goodbye to Yun Yingzhi and returned to the military. Yun Yingzhi could not bear it and cried his eyes out. The two Little Bun did not know why he was crying, but they decided crying along with him was the right thing to do.
Yun Yinghui patted his head and smiled, saying, “Zhizhi, you said you wanted to become a general. Since you want to surpass father, you have to overcome separations like this.”
Yun Yingzhi immediately stopped crying. He had to be strong. The two Little Bun saw this and stopped crying for now. However, starting that very day, the two Little Bun were not doing well.
After Elvis left, the only one who spoiled them was Yun Yinghui. Once Yun Yinghui left too, the emotionless Yun Yingzhi treated the two Little Bun like learning machines. Whenever he studied, the two Little Bun had to study as well.
The two were miserable. Whenever they found a chance, they video-called Elvis and Yun Yinghui, squeaking desperately for help. Although they were terrible at studying, they were surprisingly smart in other ways. Realizing help from afar was too slow, they immediately switched to seeking rescue from Emperor Jarren and the Imperial Consort, and called them whenever they found an opportunity.
Emperor Jarren and the Imperial Consort were delighted. Secretly, they hoped Yun Yingzhi would keep the two Little Buns studying twenty-four hours a day so the two Little Buns would only have eyes for their grandparents.
Thanks to their presence, the two Little Buns, who originally could only be away from Yun Yingzhi for two hours, gradually managed five. Any longer than that and the two Little Buns would start a riot.
Their dad had many flaws, but it did not stop the two Little Buns from loving him deeply. There was one particularly outrageous incident. After Yun Yingzhi sent the two Little Buns into the palace, he left. The moment he stepped out, little egg became sneaky and used his space ability the moment Emperor Jarren let his guard down, teleporting His Majesty, the Imperial Consort, and little kit together. Their destination was clear: the Yaoming Battle Arena.
If they had gone just a little farther, the headlines would have read “Emperor Jarren and the Imperial Consort Bring the Two Small Imperial Grandchildren to the Yaoming Battle Arena.” Fortunately, Emperor Jarren was also a space esper and immediately brought everyone back. Even so, plenty of people found out about the incident.
By mid-October— Elvis and the others discovered a life planet completely taken over by a zerg army. Groups of soldiers headed there to rescue civilians.Yun Yingzhi developed a new source weapon model and sent it to Elvis. By late October, Elvis’s corps successfully rescued the civilians on that life planet.
November— Little kit and little egg were about to turn one. For cubs born in second form, their birthday was calculated from their first transformation. This month was also the registration period for the new Starshine Competition.
From February to October, Yun Yingzhi rarely appeared in public. To resume school peacefully, he kept himself as quiet as possible so others would forget about him. It worked fairly well. In the past, he dominated all major media, yet now his appearances were rare. Unexpectedly, when November arrived, his name appeared all over the news again.
Everyone in the Loos Empire hoped Yun Yingzhi would participate in this year’s Starshine Competition. The principal of Fansa Academy and the professors from the source-weapon department all contacted him, hoping he would participate and win a second honor for Fansa Academy.
Yun Yingzhi wanted to join too—he really was broke. He earned money quickly, yet spent it even faster. However, he simply could not. Setting aside the fact that his current source-weapon research required enormous amounts of time, the main problem lay with the two Little Buns.
The little egg was manageable. Other than growing slowly and not hatching, he had no issues. The little kit was different. The once lively little kit had been listless for days, without energy. Even when Yun Yingzhi was studying or training, the little guy could not perk up.
Repeated tests concluded that the little kit might transform soon. Anxious, Yun Yingzhi waited and waited, but the little kit remained lethargic. His small body stayed at a high temperature, yet he showed no signs of transformation.
Little egg, who usually did not get along with little kit, found chances to freeze himself into an ice-chilled egg with his ice esper ability, then nestled beside little kit to help cool him down.
Yun Yingzhi’s tears dripped nonstop. His mentality collapsed completely, and his eyes were swollen like walnuts. Because of the little kit, Yun Yingzhi had no way to sign up for the Starshine Competition.
When Yun Yinghui heard about little kit’s situation, he immediately returned to the Imperial Star to stay with Yun Yingzhi and the two Little Buns. The groggy little kit saw Elvis, whom he had not seen in a long time. He reached out a tiny paw to pat Elvis, then fell asleep again.
Elvis held the little kit in his arms, and his heart hurt terribly. Emperor Jarren and the Imperial Consort visited little kit whenever they had the chance, especially the Imperial Consort. By late November, he brought a medical team and directly moved into the Yunhai villa district.
The Imperial Consort’s eyes were red. He comforted Yun Yingzhi, saying, “Zhizhi, Jiaojiao is going to be fine. Our Jiaojiao will successfully transform.”
Yun Yingzhi threw himself into the Imperial Consort’s arms, his tears continuing to fall in big drops. Over the past few days, the amount of time the little kit stayed awake grew smaller and smaller.
The Imperial Consort’s voice trembled as he said, “Zhizhi, once our Jiaojiao transforms, he’ll be such a beautiful child. He’ll have soft black wavy hair like you, bright black eyes like yours. He’ll be the best-looking little one.”
Little egg, who was busy helping cool the little kit down, bounced a few times, then leaned against the little kit again. Yun Yingzhi wiped his tears and nodded. In his heart, he thought that it would be fine if the little kit resembled him, or resembled His Highness Elvis, or even neither. He only wished for the little kit to be safe. Elvis gently hugged Yun Yingzhi, silently comforting him.
On the last day of November— Little kit transformed into human form for the first time. The whole empire rejoiced. Emperor Jarren suddenly became muddle-headed from joy and issued a slew of policies benefiting the people, guaranteeing that everyone in the Loos Empire would forever remember little kit’s birthday.
However, something happened that no one expected. Yes, absolutely no one. Little kit’s hair and eye color were not the same as Yun Yingzhi’s. Before today, because of little kit’s second form, everyone assumed his human form would definitely look exactly like Yun Yingzhi.
On the surface, the little kit had the same white hair and violet eyes as Elvis. His brows and eyes, though, resembled Yun Yingzhi quite a bit. One look made it obvious he was Yun Yingzhi’s child. The little kit’s human form was extremely small—only the size of a three- to four-month-old human baby. He could not walk and could only just barely roll over.
After successfully transforming into human form, he looked much more energetic. His fever finally receded, but…Little kit was super angry! He could not move around freely like before. He could only smack his tiny hands and feet in place and had to use all his strength just to roll over. He found this unbearable.
He could not even use his esper ability! What upset the little kit even more was that although he could not move, the little egg could still bounce around like nothing had changed. Little kit was deeply aggrieved, his tears falling nonstop. The poor Little Bun looked weak, pitiful, and helpless.
After a series of tests, the results showed that the little kit was perfectly healthy.
In most cases, a cub’s esper ability was stronger in second form than in human form. When little kit shifted from second form to human form, losing his awakened esper and becoming physically weaker was completely normal. A very clear example of this was Yun Yingzhi.
Yun Yingzhi’s second form was just a tiny white rabbit, yet the power of his second form surpassed his human form. Everyone who had been worried about the little kit finally relaxed. What pleased Yun Yingzhi even more was that babies slept a lot—especially babies around three to four months old, who could sleep almost the entire day.
Yun Yingzhi felt that once the little egg transformed like little kit, he would finally be able to return to school and work toward his future career. Life suddenly felt hopeful. He only needed to endure a little longer.
Ten days after little kit’s transformation, he still could only roll over. He could not use his ability, could not move freely, and could not walk. Little egg, who had been confused at first, began provoking the now weak and helpless little kit. The little egg approached the little kit, bounced once on his hand, then quickly jumped away.
Yun Yingzhi, Emperor Jarren, the Imperial Consort, and the others immediately noticed the small baby’s brow twitch heavily, and his violet eyes turned to follow the little egg’s movements. The little egg quickly approached again and bounced once on little kit’s tiny belly.
Yun Yingzhi’s mouth twitched. He felt that the little egg probably had not been beaten by the little kit for several days and was now floating from arrogance. Yun Yingzhi slightly opened his lips, ready to tell the little egg to behave and stop bullying the little kit.
The next moment, he saw the little kit—who could not move a moment ago—glowering at the little egg with his chubby baby face. The moment everyone saw little kit’s expressive, intelligent baby face, they burst into laughter.
Little egg, still unafraid of death, provoked little kit for the third time that day by charging at him and rolling across his belly. And then… the little egg suffered a tragic fate. Maybe it was because the little kit was too angry. Normally, cubs under a year old had a very hard time switching between human and second form. But…
The repeatedly provoked baby instantly transformed into his second form. With a sharp “rawr!” the little kit pounced on the little egg. The little egg trembled, terrified, and rolled away quickly.
In an instant, one bunny and one egg were darting and rolling around the large hall. The floating, fearless little egg finally got beaten. Everyone stared in shock and admiration.
Yun Yingzhi’s eyelid twitched wildly. He asked, “When… when will Jiaojiao be able to turn back into human form again?” No one could answer his question.
By mid-December— After confirming that little kit was perfectly fine, Elvis and Yun Yinghui both left again. They were extremely busy. At the same time, the new Starshine Competition was in full swing.
Many people expressed regret, saying that it would have been great if Yun Yingzhi could participate with the two Little Bun. Human memory was limited.
As the Starshine Competition continued showcasing one astonishing source weapon after another, fewer and fewer people mentioned Yun Yingzhi. By late February of the new year, almost no one brought him up anymore. By the end of February, the Starshine Competition successfully came to a close.
The champion of this year’s competition surprised everyone. The winner turned out to be another student from the Ten Great Military Academies—a third-year student from Sofei Academy’s source-weapon manufacturing department.
In the final match, that student created a level eight source weapon and won the title in one stroke.
At the beginning of March, the little kit transformed into human form for the second time. He looked like a baby of about seven months old. Compared to the previous time, he had improved; now he could crawl forward using his tummy.
Yun Yingzhi began handling the procedures for returning to school. Before he could resume his studies, Yun Yingzhi needed to retake the exams. If he failed, he would not be allowed to return.
Fansa Academy truly was that harsh on its students. However, the school proposed that if Yun Yingzhi entered the source-weapon manufacturing department, he could be exempt from all exams. Yun Yingzhi had been on leave for a full year.
During that year, he studied and trained almost every day, and he was mysteriously confident in himself. Whether it was the written exam or the combat exam, he believed he would definitely pass. In fact, to prepare for the combat exam, Yun Yingzhi came fully armed. He forged twelve eighth-level source weapons that could respond to any situation.
Yun Yingzhi felt that at this point, not to mention a normal exam—even if he faced Huai Boshe, he was confident he could finish the fight in under three minutes.
If Fansa Academy did not have strict rules against skipping grades, Yun Yingzhi felt he might even be able to graduate early and enlist right away.
He was that confident.
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