Chapter 244: Female Disguised as Male x Despairing Straight Female (4): Felix Wants to Prove He’s Much Bigger Than Him

[Nooooo (horrified) Major General Lucas, what are you doing? Stop right there! Don’t invite a female-loving female to bathe with you!!!]

[Every military female going to the military region’s public bathhouse today needs to be on maximum alert and swear to defend their lower body to the death.]

[Military academy students too. What are we supposed to do when the academy only has communal showers? (wailing)]

The military females throughout the military regions were all on edge.

For a moment, they didn’t even know whether they should be guarding their backs or their fronts.

[A female-loving female definitely wants to enjoy himself, right? As a female Zerg, obviously he’d be eyeing the front, wouldn’t he?]

[Female Zergs would never imagine in their entire lives that someone might have designs on their fronts. Better grow two extra pairs of eyes to stand guard while bathing.]

[Don’t even mention it. The atmosphere in the bathhouse today is tense as hell, practically reeking of gunpowder, like a fight could break out at any moment. Everyone’s consciously keeping their distance. Anyone who gets even slightly too close gets suspected of having ulterior motives.]

[Felix single-handedly plunged the entire military into panic.]

[You can’t exactly put it that way. Felix really is gorgeous, and he’s incredibly capable too, practically an all-rounder. And with that face fit for palace intrigue, he’s absolutely a feast for the eyes. Under normal circumstances, everyone would definitely be happy to hang out with him. Even bathing together would be fine. Who doesn’t like cuddling up to a gorgeous Zerg? But... you know... that particular thing is still pretty challenging to accept.]

[Please, Felix, stop going down the wrong path (begging). If nothing else works, why don’t you discuss it with Major General Lucas and marry the same high-ranking Male Zerg together?]

[What Male Zerg could marry both Major General Lucas and Felix? Keep dreaming! A Male Zerg would already have hit the jackpot marrying just one female like them, and you’re dreaming of getting both?]

[Female Zergs have to get married eventually. If they’re going to marry anyway, why can’t they marry me? Since Felix likes Major General Lucas, why can’t they marry me together? It’s perfectly common for female Zergs to follow a commanding officer they trust into marriage.]

[The guy upstairs proving it personally (facepalm). Male Zergs are always so confident.]

[Even Lord Philor wouldn’t casually say he wanted some officer from the Third Legion to marry him, would he?]

[I can vouch for what the commenter upstairs said. Lord Philor may have married a lot of Zergs from the Third Military Region, but every one of them was recommended by General Cyril. Basically, the General recommends them, the Male Zerg gives his approval, and then they join the family household. It’s absolutely not Lord Philor running off to the Third Legion to “select concubines.” There’s a pretty huge difference between the two.]

Philor hadn’t expected the gossip to suddenly involve him. He immediately sat up straight.

Huh, huh? Let him see what this was all about.

He actually didn’t know much about the Third Military Region. At most, he knew his Female Attendants’ ranks and positions, which Female Attendant had gone on a mission, which one was on leave, which one had taken troops somewhere for a change of defense... just the ordinary things a Male Lord would know in everyday life.

It was only because they were all in the Third Legion that it made him seem familiar with every movement of the Third Legion.

Select concubines? How would he dare go into his Female Lord’s legion to “select concubines”—no, select Female Attendants? Did he think his life was going too wonderfully?

Heaven knew how terrified he was of making his Female Lord angry.

Cyril had never actually done anything to him, but all it took was one glance from him and Philor could give a full, detailed account of every female Zerg he had met that month, right down to what he had eaten for breakfast.

Philor hurriedly declared his loyalty to his Female Lord, insisting that he absolutely had no designs on the military females under Cyril’s command.

“Mm.” Cyril nodded, accepting the declaration without thinking it was anything serious. He merely said, “It’s fine even if you do. As long as both sides are willing, you can marry anyone you like. Someone outside the Third Legion is fine too.”

What exactly did he mean by “both sides are willing”?

The Male Lord is willing and the Female Lord agrees?

Philor decided not to pursue the subject any further.

He hadn’t married a new Female Attendant in a very long time.

Ever since reading Hill’s story, he had become much more cautious about marrying Female Attendants.

Before, as long as his Female Lord recommended someone, Philor found him pleasing to the eye, and nothing seemed wrong after briefly getting acquainted, he would marry him. Now, however, he carefully considered the feelings of every member of the family.

There were already too many Zergs. Managing everything became far too complicated, and there were simply too many feelings to take into consideration, so he might as well stop marrying any more.

He already had plenty of Female Attendants and plenty of hatchlings, and his Female Lord had been staying home to nurture his pregnancy lately anyway. Philor might as well save that time for the family members he already had.

Sometimes, Philor also felt that having too many Zergs wasn’t necessarily a good thing.

A Zerg only had so much time. The more Female Attendants he married, the more his time was divided, and the less time he could spend with each individual member of his family.

Occasionally, when he looked at Hill’s marriage, he wondered whether a small household like Hill and Iso’s, with only one Female Lord, might actually be better.

Wondering was one thing. Asking him to go 1v1 was absolutely impossible.

He had many family members. This was the big family he shared with his Female Lord and Female Attendants, and every single one of them was important.

Besides, it wasn’t as though every Zerg in the Zerg race could go 1v1, right?

Until the sex ratio engraved into their genes was resolved, there was simply no solution.

Actually, compared with primitive times, the sex ratio among Male Zergs was already much better. At least it was no longer an astronomical one-to-one-hundred-million ratio.

As the ages progressed, Zerg genes were gradually adapting and changing as well. Perhaps one day the ratio really would even out. Whatever happened, it would be natural selection.

Until then, traditional Male Zergs like Philor were very important.

If there were Male Zergs like Hill pursuing pure 1v1 love, then naturally there also had to be big-family Male Zergs like him “bearing the burden and marching forward.”

Philor nodded firmly to himself, feeling that his entire family was truly admirable.

Right now, however, what interested him more was how Felix and Lucas’s relationship would develop.

He really liked Felix in the novel, and he liked the name too.

He had even considered using it as one of the possible names for his and Cyril’s hatchling.

Ever since <School Heartthrob> became wildly popular, countless newborn hatchlings throughout the Zerg race had been named “Isidore.”

The same was true of “Axel” from another book.

So it wasn’t strange for Philor to consider using “Felix” as his hatchling’s name.

Felix contained the “Phi” from his own name and a “li” that sounded like part of Cyril’s name, perfectly fitting his family’s usual naming method.

Just like Hill’s name back then.

Still, he would need to discuss this with his Female Lord.

At present, he wasn’t sure how accepting his Female Lord would be of Felix, given his reputation as a “female-loving female.”

Philor pulled Cyril along and continued reading the novel.

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[Because of its geographical location, Silver Fortress had several hot spring areas.

Lucas took Felix to one of them.

It was a small mountain, with numerous natural hot spring pools scattered beside the path leading upward. There were also hot spring caves hidden among the mountains that offered even greater privacy.

Night had only just fallen and it was still early. Most of the military females were still undergoing nighttime training, leaving the surroundings completely deserted. There was nothing around them but the warmth of the hot springs and wisps of rising white steam.

The heat had steamed Felix’s face rosy red.

He followed Lucas, passing one natural hot spring pool after another beside the path as they headed toward the summit.

It was even quieter here, with better scenery, and the place belonged exclusively to Lucas.

Felix first went to the nearby wooden cabin to change into a bathrobe. When he returned, he saw that Major General Lucas was already in the water.

Night had fallen, and warm yellow lights glowed beside the mountaintop hot spring, creating an intimate atmosphere.

Beneath the starry sky and amid curling white steam, Lucas leaned halfway against the edge of the pool, every muscle in his body relaxed, beautiful and utterly detached from the world. His golden-red Zerg markings followed the contours of his muscles down beneath the water. Shrouded in the hot mist rising from the spring, the sight brought a dry, restless heat to anyone who looked at him.

Felix clutched his bathrobe tighter and felt even hotter.

The temperature of the hot spring at the summit seemed higher than those below. Just standing beside the pool, he could already feel the waves of heat rolling over him.

Lucas had long since heard the footsteps stop behind him. After waiting for a while and hearing no further movement, he turned around in confusion, unable to understand why Felix wasn’t getting in and why he was... wearing so much.

Felix looked completely out of place in this setting.

He wore a pure-white, full-length bathrobe that covered him down to his calves, and he was even hugging a large, thick bath towel against himself, hiding even the skin around his collar.

Military females weren’t afraid of the cold. Besides, it hadn’t even begun snowing yet, and the nighttime temperature could hardly be considered cold.

When they actually bathed, plenty of military females ran around the hot spring area completely naked, or at most wearing a pair of shorts. A military female who bundled himself up as thoroughly as Felix would normally get laughed at.

“What’s wrong?” Lucas asked with a soft laugh, finding it rare to see Felix looking so awkward.

Felix gathered his bathrobe around himself and sat on a rock by the shore. His face was burning fiercely, and even through the white steam of the hot spring, he didn’t dare meet Lucas’s eyes.

He was the one who had been coveting Lucas, yet now that the moment had actually arrived, he was also the one who couldn’t bring himself to face him.

A completely oblivious straight female really knew how to issue invitations that were impossible to handle.

“You wash first.” Felix lowered his head and covered his face, hiding half of it behind the bath towel. The corners of his eyes were slightly red as he said, “I feel a little hot. I need a moment first.”

Hot, yet he was wearing all that?

Lucas glanced at Felix’s flushed face and found that he really did seem quite hot.

At the same time, he couldn’t understand the contradiction in his behavior.

Remembering what Felix had said earlier, Lucas {N•o•v•e•l•i•g•h•t} recalled that Felix apparently had never bathed with other female Zergs before. He had even asked about the bathing facilities before agreeing to join Silver Fortress. With that in mind, Lucas began to understand.

This female Zerg probably had never exposed his body in front of another female Zerg, nor had he ever seen another female Zerg’s body.

He was embarrassed.

Lucas suddenly found it amusing.

Such a beautiful and outstanding female Zerg, the sort every other female Zerg would envy and feel jealous of, was actually ashamed to expose his body in front of the same sex.

He really was more innocent than a hatchling.

Lucas smiled. As Felix’s commanding officer, he felt that he ought to encourage his subordinate and help him overcome this psychological hurdle. He couldn’t keep acting like this forever. Military life was communal, after all.

And so Lucas took the initiative and said, “Come in. There’s nothing you need to hide. Even if you’re not as big as me, I’m not going to laugh at you.”

Lucas was talking about muscles.

But Felix instinctively interpreted it as something else. Deeply unconvinced, he desperately wanted to prove that he was much bigger than Lucas.

After meeting Lucas, he was practically about to undergo a second development.

But Felix obviously couldn’t actually lift his bathrobe to prove it. How would that be any different from behaving like a pervert?

He wanted to get closer to Lucas, but he still couldn’t bring himself to do something so outrageous—at least not before Lucas accepted him.

Felix’s face turned scarlet from holding everything in. In the end, he could only mutter quietly yet stubbornly, “I’m really big.”

Lucas recalled the quality of Felix’s muscles that he had come into contact with and felt during their spar and decided not to discourage this young junior after all.

As a female Zerg, Felix truly was exactly the type Male Zergs liked, from his face and figure to his height and even his overall temperament.

But as a military female, he still had a long way to go.

Seeing that Felix genuinely couldn’t overcome his embarrassment, Lucas didn’t force him. After all, this was only his second day here. There would be plenty of opportunities in the future.

Since Felix was still sitting pitifully on the shore waiting for him, Lucas didn’t occupy the pool for long. He casually washed himself and relaxed for a while before stepping out of the water.

Felix watched Lucas stride toward him on those long legs without a stitch of clothing on, and an ear-piercing scream erupted inside his head. He hurriedly covered his eyes, only to find himself unable to resist spreading his fingers apart and secretly peeking through the gaps.

Perhaps anything a beautiful Zerg did was pleasing to the eye, because even when Lucas saw his exaggerated reaction, he only found Felix adorable.

The corners of his lips curved upward. Without lingering, he picked up his clothes and walked past Felix.

Only after the footsteps had faded into the distance did Felix slowly lower his hands, facing an entire hot spring pool amid the quiet mountain breeze.

This was water Major General Lucas had soaked in.

There was absolutely no way the heat in his face was going down.

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