You Smelled Wrong Chapter 16: I bit you too

Chapter 16: I bit you too

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: Karai

 

Lin Xu moved his gaze from the bridge of Heinrich’s nose to the other party’s eyes. The unusual golden eyes had always had an icy aura, but at the moment the icy prism was followed by firmness.

“The Empire has a set of laws against alphas in their susceptible period getting out-of-control and causing injuries, but the wounds are so minor that I don’t think it’s enough to rely on the law to settle disputes.”

Lin Xu’s calm exterior showed a hint of puzzlement.

“No, Mr. Lin, the Marshal was referring to…” Metz looked torn, “The Empire has laws regarding alphas forcing the marking of an omega, and although you are a beta, the Marshal and I have conferred that this set of legal procedures also applies, so if you wish to sue…”

Metz tried to pull on a professional smile to maintain his professionalism, but his heart was going crazy. When he was working on Capital Star, he had only encountered cases where a noble alpha had forcibly marked an omega and then threatened the victim not to sue. He had never encountered a situation like this where the victim was asked to sue, and in a situation where the other party didn’t even take being bitten seriously!

But his position as the head lawyer of the legal department made Metz force himself to stay professional and pertinent and not to put pressure on any party.

Lin Xu didn’t give him a hard time, his eyes swept over Heinrich’s neck, glossy and clean, the rise and fall of muscles and veins showed a sense of power, “I also bit you when I first met you, Marshal. It’s not much different from where I was bitten. Is the Marshal planning to sue me too?”

This bombshell made Metz stare straight at him, and he couldn’t help but look Lin Xu up and down again.

If the Marshal did not prevent him, how could such a young and thin beta in front of him force a bite on the neck of S-Class alpha?

And a calm and sensible, hardworking gender like beta would not be controlled by pheromone, so why would he do it if he had no autonomous thoughts? Plus even after the supposedly forced marking, Lin Xu did not show resistance to the Marshal. Metz almost suspected that Heinrich’s earlier rhetoric that almost scared the piss out of him was teasing him.

No wonder Arnold said that when the Marshal approached him for legal advice, he patted him on the shoulder with a complicated expression and advised him to just do his best and not to force it.

Heinrich replied quickly, almost as soon as Lin Xu’s words fell, “Of course not.”

Lin Xu said, “Now that we’ve reached an agreement, let these two things go.”

“… Okay.” Heinrich’s vaguely tense shoulders relaxed and he leaned forward, “Are you getting used to living on the Victoria?”

“Everything’s fine.” Lin Xu leaned back in his chair, sitting casually, but after Heinrich’s last “legal question,” his light voice rose and fell a bit, his emotions rippling.

“If you need anything, you can always ask the intelligent system Ruth. If your permission is not enough, come to me.”

Lin Xu pondered for a moment, he did have a need, “Marshal, can I learn to pilot a mecha?”

Heinrich frowned, even Metz was a little nervous. He watched Heinrich’s face carefully, he couldn’t help but rub the fabric at his knees. It was a bit abrupt to make this request as an ordinary citizen on a military ship.

Lin Xu looked thinner and messier than the average beta, not like he could drive a mecha.

At this point, Heinrich spoke slowly and hesitantly, “Blizzard’s cockpit door and internal mechanics are damaged and are being serviced, so we’ll need to wait a while.”

He didn’t mention the culprit who had destroyed Blizzard, “Lin Xu… how much do you know about mecha piloting?”

“Very little.” Lin Xu answered honestly.

“There is still access to StarNet on the Victoria, so you can start by trying the holographic mecha combat game for an hour a day, and I’ll come online and teach you.”

Lin Xu was a little surprised, he had also worked in a leader role in the apocalypse survivor base, he knew how hectic the daily work of managing a fleet of tens of thousands of people sailing would be.

“Thanks a lot Marshal.”

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The conversation didn’t last long, and as Heinrich got up to see Lin Xu off, he told him that the Victoria had a cafeteria that served cooked food, and that it was good enough to try.

Lin Xu replied that he would try it, and then said goodbye to Heinrich. Metz looked at Heinrich’s forlorn back as he stood in the doorway and thought that the subtext of his words was that he wanted to invite Lin Xu to join him for dinner.

But he failed to make his invitation clear, and Mr. Lin…remained politely detached despite the mutual neck-biting incident between the two.

Metz worried about the Lord Marshal’s romance today, too.

Lin Xu left and went back to his room to settle his dinner with nutritional supplements. On the verge of sleep, he heard a knock at the door and the gentle mechanical female voice of Ruth, the intelligent system, rang around him, “Visitor, Marshal Heinrich Chu.”

He walked over and opened the door, Heinrich appeared in front of him, still in a pitch black uniform, but the collar was unbuttoned a few, he was also almost rested. The door of room 002 was opposite room 003 and was half hidden. He could vaguely see the neat and rustic furniture, the most conspicuous thing was the chair draped with a military jacket with golden star epaulets.

A bizarre thought flashed through Lin Xu’s mind: How many different styles of military and combat uniforms did Heinrich have?

The two rabbit-cats, who had been going crazy at night, pounced on the door and rolled around, were ignored by Heinrich, who handed Lin Xu a chip, “There is a networked holographic pod on level C. The chip contains the initial Star Ocean registration account. It contains the mecha piloting class materials from Deep Blue Military Academy and the currently declassified mecha combat video. You can take the time to read the materials first. We’ll start the official log-in in three days.”

“Okay.” As Lin Xu took the chip, Heinrich’s fingers gently slid across his palm, tickling it, and when he looked up, Heinrich still kept his expression the same.

After Heinrich finished giving the chip and stopped in front of Lin Xu’s door, Lin Xu guessed he had something else to say and quietly asked with his eyes.

The misty eyes made Heinrich sway, he controlled himself and fished out a translucent gem from his coat pocket, “The crystal at the banquet broke, I couldn’t find a second silver crystal, would you mind replacing it with a red one?”

The thumb-sized red crystal remained in its original state, not cut with fine reflective planes, rough but translucent and transparent, lying quietly in Heinrich’s palm.

Lin Xu could see the coarse calluses on Heinrich’s palm, the hands of a warrior, but now carefully holding the rose-like gemstone to Lin Xu.

His eyes lit up a few degrees, a small detail Heinrich was acutely aware of, and Heinrich pursed his lips in order to keep the corners of his tugged-up mouth from leaking an unknown delight so excessive as to be frightening.

“No, I wouldn’t. It’s beautiful.” Lin Xu cupped the red crystal and half tilted his face up to look at Heinrich, “Marshal, may I ask where this gem comes from?”

Lin Xu’s gaze didn’t dodge like he used to, it was like a switch, and Heinrich felt the agitation in his heart diminish, replaced by a strong emotion that gripped his chest, “They come from the Dragon Planet. My father left a lot of them behind, do you like them?”

“Yes!” The energy surging through the crystals gave Lin Xu a burst of excitement, which was tempered for a few seconds by the news that they came from the Dragon Planet, a planet that resisted visitors.

The crystals were dragon food, and Heinrich’s father had brought many of them with him, but Heinrich himself had no use for them. Since his father’s death, most of them had been locked away in a safe to gather dust, but if Lin Xu liked them…

Heinrich began to recall which of the crystals in the safe were the purest and most beautiful, and planned to ask Arnold to find some artists who were good at jewelry design to design the crystals into wearable jewelry later, and to start work when he returned from Earth, so that he could not give the humble bare stones to Lin Xu again.

“After a while, I’ll get some more for you.” Heinrich’s eyebrows were as sharp as ice, not unlike the God of War, the Sword of Empire that Lin Xu had seen on the propaganda posters. Lin Xu would not be surprised if such a person was cold-tempered, intimidating, frosty-faced, cruel and cold-blooded, but underneath the usual sharp face, what Heinrich was doing could almost be described as eagerness.

“Marshal, but I have no reason to accept so many gifts.”

“Just think of it as… an advance payment.”

Lin Xu pondered for a moment what he had to offer before he remembered that Heinrich had originally approached him to translate an audio recording, and before he could reply. Heinrich took the lead and said, “It’s late, get some rest as soon as possible, I’ll leave you alone, good night.”

As if he was afraid Lin Xu would slip the crystal back, he took a step back to say goodbye.

“Good night.”

Heinrich watched Lin Xu close the door before turning around and going back to his room 002.

Lin Xu sat back down behind his desk and fiddled intently with the red crystal he had just been given. The energy in it almost dazzling him, Heinrich’s overly obvious and close intent to make contact being set aside.

He tried to break it, the crystal was so hard and tough that it wouldn’t budge, he stared at it for a moment and put it between his teeth.

The zombie energy crystals were generally only the size of a fingernail, with the option of crushing and absorbing them, or taking and absorbing them; the crystal in front of him was too hard to crush, so he had to take the second option.

Lin Xu’s teeth gently squeezed, click –

 

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