Chapter 81: Heavenly Garuda Male x Zerg Military Officer (6): A Male Zerg’s Language of Flowers Is "Too Slow Means You Lose"

At the end of the month, An Ruo received another batch of gifts and letters from his Female Zerg patients.

There were now so many letters that he had to set aside an entire study just to store them.

As for the gifts, they could only be kept inside his spatial button, and he had to spend time organizing them bit by bit every day.

Apart from performing Psychic Soothing and writing novels, An Ruo spent all his time replying to letters and sorting through gifts.

It was a massive undertaking.

Flowers and gemstones were by far the most common presents.

Occasionally, however, something rather unusual would appear...

—A holographic poster of Marshal Ulysses!

Wow.

It seemed to be from when Ulysses had just assumed the position of Marshal.

Dressed in a black-and-red ceremonial military uniform, wearing the Emblem of Stars and Suns, his gaze sharp and commanding...

He looked unbelievably handsome.

Whoever had sent this poster had to be an absolutely fanatical admirer of Ulysses.

Which was perfectly normal.

Among military Female Zergs, who didn't admire him?

An Ruo held the poster, admiring it for quite a while.

As expected of the great villain he had written.

He was ridiculously handsome.

He almost wanted to hang it on the wall immediately.

But he couldn't.

Ulysses wasn't like everyone else.

He occasionally visited his prison cell.

If the owner himself saw it...

That would be rather difficult to explain.

Reluctantly, An Ruo treated it as part of his personal collection and stored it away separately.

He also received a gift from General Enzo.

The usual gemstones and flowers.

Those were gifts that could never go wrong when given to a Male Zerg.

But besides those...

There was actually another holographic poster.

And...

A squishy insect egg toy.

The poster showed Enzo holding Axel's Male Zerg egg.

The photograph was taken very formally.

It looked almost like an official portrait commemorating becoming a female parent for the first time.

This gift had probably been chosen based on Uriel's suggestion.

Only Uriel and Ulysses knew that he liked hanging posters of his own protagonists on the wall.

As for the squishy insect egg...

That felt more like General Enzo's personal idea.

It was simply adorable.

An Ruo had never imagined Enzo would give him something like this.

Turning an insect egg into a squishy toy...

Whoever came up with that idea was a genius!

Beneath the cold exterior of the military General was an exceptionally gentle heart whenever hatchlings were involved.

Happily, An Ruo hung up the poster of Enzo and Axel's egg.

Then he placed the squishy insect egg on his desk.

Unable to resist, he picked it up and squeezed it over and over for quite some time.

The little toy suddenly filled him with inspiration.

He decided to release another extra chapter.

...

【In the end, they never managed to finish the movie.

Watching the emotional entanglement between the little albino Male Zerg from the same orphanage as himself and the son of a high-ranking official, Axel cried until his eyes were red.

As soon as Enzo held him and comforted him...

He fell asleep in his warm embrace.

The broad chest of the one who raised him had always been the place where a little Male Zerg felt safest.

Back when he had still been a tiny hatchling...

Enzo would let him lie on his chest during nap time.

Warm hands gently patted his back until he drifted to sleep, giving him an endless sense of security.

Even though Enzo wasn't truly his female parent and couldn't produce milk...

Little Axel still loved burying himself in his embrace.

He thought it smelled nice.

The grown-up Axel was exactly the same.

When he woke up again...

He found himself inside a newly furnished bedroom.

Enzo wasn't beside him.

Axel pouted.

Enzo had been frighteningly efficient at preparing the new room.

His opportunity to occupy Enzo's bedroom had disappeared.

His terminal showed two new messages.

Enzo had sent him a list.

A blind-date list.

He wanted Axel to choose several candidates he liked so they could meet that afternoon.

Enzo even said that if Axel didn't want to meet them one by one, they could simply hold a gathering that evening and invite everyone on the list over at once.

Looking at the [N O V E L I G H T] list...

There were no fewer than a hundred names.

"..."

Had Enzo gone crazy?

How many Female Zergs was he planning to marry him off to at the same time?!

Just moments ago he'd been holding him warmly in his arms to comfort him...

And now he'd changed his face completely.

How hateful!

Fuming, Axel stormed downstairs.

"I'm not meeting anyone!

"And I'm not having any gathering either!"

Enzo was sitting on the sofa arranging work through his terminal.

Hearing that, he helplessly looked up toward the Male Zerg, who had come downstairs wearing nothing but his pajamas.

He sighed inwardly.

"Axel, you need a guide to accompany you through your mating season."

"Why can't my guide be you?

"You stayed beside me during my physiological awakening too!"

Enzo's pupils suddenly contracted.

Long before Axel's physiological awakening, he had already searched for a suitable guide.

But Axel had insisted on going through it alone.

He was afraid of unfamiliar Female Zergs.

He simply didn't trust strangers.

An unfamiliar guide would only worsen the anxiety he felt during awakening.

Enzo could only respect his wishes.

Then...

Standing outside the door...

He heard Axel's tearful sobs.

He heard him calling for him.

Enzo injected himself with three suppressant shots, completely sealing off his pheromone glands before entering the room.

He gathered the crying Male Zerg into his arms.

Axel's pheromones soaked into his clothing, slipping into every corner.

For both Axel and Enzo...

It had been an unbearably painful night.

Fortunately...

Axel successfully completed his awakening.

Within Enzo's embrace...

He transformed like a butterfly emerging from its chrysalis.

Enzo saw his wings.

Pinkish-purple wings.

Their outer edges traced in brilliant gold.

Their surfaces shimmering with dazzling luster.

Beneath the sunlight they glowed with violet light, dreamlike beyond words.

It was a sight that the overwhelming majority of Female Zergs would never witness in their entire lives.

Unlike the weapon-like wings of Female Zergs...

The wings of Male Zergs were simply too beautiful.

They also carried an unmistakable implication of courtship.

Because Male Zergs were so vastly outnumbered by Female Zergs...

There was no longer any need for them to expend effort courting others.

The overwhelming majority of Male Zergs would never reveal their wings to anyone throughout their entire lives.

Enzo had only been fortunate enough to witness them because of Axel's physiological awakening.

Everything that had happened that day...

He buried deep inside his heart.

He intended to seal those memories away forever.

Yet today...

Axel had exposed them with a single sentence.

...】**

The moment readers reached the description of a Male Zerg's wings...

Every Female Zerg following the novel completely lost their composure.

[Ah?! Enzo, you...!]

[You actually got to see that??!!]

[I'm definitely not dying of jealousy. (Puts on sunglasses.)]

[Male Zergs really have wings? I've only ever seen them in history books! I thought their wings had already completely disappeared!]

[Same! I've only seen them in TV dramas.]

[Here's the painful truth: most Male Zerg wings in television are props and special effects. Wings are something so private that no Male Zerg Lord would actually display them on camera.]

[I'm devastated! I've collected so many screenshots of Male Zerg Lords' wings over the years, and they're all fake!! (Wails loudly)]

[Enzo actually got to see them... What kind of luck is that?!]

[After seeing a Male Zerg's courtship wings, you still had the heart to reject him and arrange blind dates with other Female Zergs? You've got even more self-control than Claire.]

[The greatest master of endurance in history!]

[When that Male Zerg marries someone else, you'll regret it then!]

[A Male Zerg's language of flowers is "Too slow means you lose!" Too slow means you lose!]

The Female Zerg readers were simultaneously jealous and furious at Enzo for wasting such an opportunity.

At that moment...

The Heavenly Garuda readers showed up just to brag.

[Hahaha. Poor Zergs who've never even seen a male's wings.]

The Zerg readers replied:

[Huh? You've seen them?]

The Zergs and the Heavenly Garuda shared a common ancestry.

Although their societies were completely different, both races had far more females than males.

Since Male Zergs were so rare, they no longer needed to display their wings to attract mates.

Surely the Heavenly Garuda couldn't be much different.

But the Heavenly Garuda answered:

[Among the Heavenly Garuda, every male voluntarily spreads his wings on the first night he joins with his Female Lord.]

[To be more precise... he spreads them on the first night with every Female Lord.]

The Heavenly Garuda proudly showed off.

Successfully making the Female Zerg readers seethe with envy.

But before long, someone produced evidence.

[According to research, Heavenly Garuda males spread their wings primarily because they're frightened. They're forced to display themselves in this way to please the intruder, reducing the harm they fear may follow. (Research paper attached.)]

The battlefield shifted instantly.

[You damned Heavenly Garuda! I knew you had no shame, but I never imagined you'd sink this low! You're actually treating a male's suffering as something to brag about?!]

[I told you long ago the Heavenly Garuda ought to be wiped out from the universe!]

[Kill them! Kill every last one!!!]

The Heavenly Garuda were bewildered.

The paper actually sounded rather convincing.

But...

Could they really blame them for everything?

All they wanted was to sleep with their newly married Male Lord.

It was simply that males were rather timid.

They were easily frightened by unfamiliar females.

Once they became familiar with them, everything was fine.

Males were also extremely important members of their families.

Marrying one cost an enormous amount of money.

Even military Female Zergs who had served for years often needed several brothers to pool their savings before they could afford to marry a male.

They had never deliberately intended to frighten them.

In fact...

To accommodate the males' fragile emotions...

Even when several Female Lords married the same male at once, they would carefully arrange a schedule based on military rank, financial contribution, and individual strength.

They would take turns spending the first night with him.

They absolutely would not all rush in together.

The Heavenly Garuda defended themselves.

Those who foolishly spoke their honest thoughts aloud...

Immediately became targets of the enraged Zerg readers.

They were attacked so fiercely that their accounts disappeared almost instantly.

Meanwhile...

The Male Zerg readers stared at the novel before gradually remembering something.

[...? So I actually have wings? I'd almost forgotten.]

[Hahaha, same here. Haven't used them in hundreds of years. I genuinely forgot.]

Young Male Zergs who had only recently completed their physiological awakening still remembered.

But for Male Zergs over a hundred years old...

The experience felt like suddenly discovering they possessed an entirely new organ.

[They feel so unfamiliar. My wings and I seem like complete strangers.]

[I spent ages figuring out how to release them. Then I stood in front of the mirror staring for a long time before realizing they actually looked like this. They resembled what I remembered, but not quite. Too much time had passed. My memories had become blurry.]

[My Female Lord was reading the novel just now. Then he suddenly looked at me with the most resentful expression, like he desperately wanted to ask something but didn't dare.]

[True, Male Zergs never really need to court anyone themselves... but that doesn't mean we can't indulge them every now and then.]

[I just spread my wings for my Female Lord after all these years together. He completely froze. He couldn't even finish a sentence. It's the first time in our marriage I've ever seen him lose his composure like that. Tonight, I'm going to enter him with my wings spread.]

[I learned something today. The brave Male Zerg gets to enjoy the world first. I'm going to spread my wings in front of the handsome Female Zerg I've got my eye on. There's no way he won't fall head over heels for me after that.]

[Since when do Male Zergs court Female Zergs?]

The older, more conservative Male Zergs simply couldn't stand it.

[Young Male Zergs nowadays have no restraint whatsoever. They're throwing away all the dignity of Male Zergs.]

[High-quality Female Zergs are "too slow means you lose" as well!]