Beast World: A Fragile Beauty Blessed with Many Children-Chapter 274 - 273: Six of One, Half a Dozen of the Other
It was a blatant provocation. Xuyou hugged Yuanyuan and playfully squeezed her. "You little rascal, you did that on purpose, didn’t you?"
"Uh-huh!"
"You dare say ’uh-huh’?" Xuyou puffed up her cheeks and gently butted Yuanyuan with her head. "Change again for your sister. I didn’t get a good look just now."
Yuanyuan tilted her head, and with another POOF, she turned into a chubby baby wearing a red belly bib embroidered with a panda holding an arrow bamboo. She looked just like one of the cherubic dolls from the New Year’s paintings in their heritage, exceptionally festive.
On her head was a pair of mini-pigtails tied with red string, just like Xuyou’s!
Xuyou’s face lit up. She pinched Yuanyuan’s cheeks and shouted again, "Father! Mother!"
But as soon as she yelled, Yuanyuan changed back into an Iron Beast Cub, staring at her with those moist little eyes, the very picture of innocence...
Xuyou’s cheeks puffed out, her eyes welling with tears. When Xiao Cheng peeked in to see what was happening, she held out her arms for him to pick her up.
"WAAAH... Yuanyuan is bullying me!"
"Uh-huh!" Yuanyuan replied, not forgetting to respond even as she gnawed on an apple.
The adults were amused. Xuyou was usually the mischievous one in the family. What on earth could little Yuanyuan have done to make her cry so pitifully?
In the evening, Ji Liang returned and shared the news he had gathered with everyone. "Mi Xing has given birth to five litters of cubs in total, all in families with two fathers of the same Beast Form. They are the cubs of High level Beast Husbands with the same Beast Form, but..." He paused. "But the aptitude of the cubs from the two older litters is not very satisfactory—it’s below the average for cubs born to a Female Saint! As for the three younger litters, it’s still too early to tell."
"Such a strange thing... have they not noticed it themselves?" Si Shuo asked curiously.
As an outsider, she had noticed something off about Mi Xing with just a little attention. So, hadn’t her own Beast Husbands, or her close friends and family, noticed anything unusual?
"No one would think of that," Yin Jiang said, her brows furrowed slightly. "Everyone hopes for their unborn cubs to have good aptitude. Who would use a perfectly good superpower for such trickery?"
"Mi Xing isn’t that old yet, and her first litter of cubs is only about five or six years old; they haven’t even awakened their superpowers. She definitely wants to find a more powerful backer before everyone discovers the anomaly," Ji Liang said with a sneer, the corner of his lip twitching.
Xu Chi had a sudden realization. "The last time Mi Xing wanted to stay with us, she was looking for an Iron eating Beast Husband, wasn’t she?"
"A pair, to be precise!" Xiao Cheng said with a light chuckle, raising an eyebrow.
Wei Ce ground his teeth. Iron eating Beastmen were rather solitary by nature. It was rare for a family to have two Iron eating Beast Husbands, even if they were from the same litter.
Mi Xing sure was audacious! If she hadn’t kidnapped Xiao Cheng before, and if their family wasn’t well-off for Crystal Stones and thus unwilling to rent out their courtyard, she might still be hanging around, using the opportunity to coax and trick two Iron eating Beast Husbands into her fold.
In other words, if she hadn’t targeted their family but had stayed with another Iron eating Beastman family instead, she might have actually succeeded!
Wei Ce couldn’t sit still any longer. He shot to his feet. "No, I have to give my Father a heads-up. The females out there are terrifying!"
Si Shuo pulled him back down in exasperation. "It won’t kill you to wait a minute. You can bring Father some food later. Besides, what do you mean, ’females out there’? Are you just now finding out how treacherous people can be?"
"I wanted an Iron eating Beast Husband from the very beginning. You’re the one who latched onto me; I didn’t lead you on."
Wei Ce chuckled and hugged her. "Uh-huh, uh-huh. It’s a good thing I ran away from home. Otherwise, who knows which clansman would be by Shuo’s side right now."
"If I saw you with someone else back then, I would have gone crazy with jealousy. I might have even been willing to be the junior husband for you."
Si Shuo pressed her lips together, unable to hold back a smile. She turned her head and kissed his cheek. "How did our Brother Ce get so smooth with his words today?"
"Did you sneak some honey?"
Hearing the word "honey," Tuanzi and Yuanyuan, who were wriggling like little worms on the table, started grunting. They clearly thought their Father had eaten honey without sharing it with them.
Wei Ce fondly stroked the two cubs. "Do Tuanzi and Yuanyuan want some honey? Next month when Father goes hunting in the forest, I’ll get you a few honeycombs so our cubs can eat until they’re nice and plump."
"What do Little Ye and Youyou want? Father will bring it back for you too!"
Xuyou put her hands on her hips, shot a glare at the twins, and shamelessly started listing her requests. "Lots and lots of meat, fruit, and... pretty Beast Skins."
Xu Ye was particularly obsessed with flying. Whenever there were no outsiders in the room, he would be constantly flapping his white wings.
Si Shuo watched him with longing eyes. ’Honestly, I would have been fine being reborn as a male Flying Beast if it meant I could fly...’ Perhaps sensing the obsession in her heart, the little guy was showing off every chance he got!
Xu Ye didn’t really have any demands. After all, his sister had already made a huge list, and everything she’d asked for was what he wanted too. "The same as Youyou."
The twins’ eyes went wide. Although they hadn’t grown teeth yet and could only drink milk, eat baby food, and gnaw on fruit for fun, they couldn’t resist the temptation of all the delicious foods described in their inherited memories.
"Hungry!" Tuanzi cried out urgently in a milky voice, patting his paws to emphasize. "Meat!"
The adults were surprised. Was the little one already trying to talk? But what was he mumbling about?
As the older brother, Xu Ye dutifully translated, "My little brother says he’s hungry and wants to eat meat." 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺
"Uh-huh!" Tuanzi nodded vigorously.
Xuyou huffed. "You don’t even have teeth. You can just drool over it! You two little rascals!"
As she spoke, she took a bottle of milk out of her storage space, sat down in front of the twins, and started drinking with loud GULPS. "Your sister has already achieved milk freedom."
This made the two little ones so anxious they started grunting desperately.
Si Shuo exasperatedly poked her on the forehead, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. "You’re supposed to be the older sister, but you act more like a younger sister who was just born a little earlier, don’t you? And you have the nerve to call these two little ones rascals?"
Xuyou hugged Si Shuo’s arm, grinning and showing her baby teeth. "Youyou is obviously bad, they’re secretly bad. It’s six of one, half a dozen of the other."
"Alright, alright, you’re all little rascals, and your fathers are big rascals," Si Shuo said with a laughing nod.
Xu Chi and Wei Ce: (•᷄ࡇ•᷅)??!! What did this have to do with them?
Xuyou drank her milk, having a stare-down with Yuanyuan, who was now also holding a milk bottle. This battle was far from over.
She narrowed her eyes slightly, glanced at her own brother, and grinned as an idea popped into her head.
The next day, when Tuanzi and Yuanyuan woke up, the only person by their bed was Xuyou, sitting on a wooden horse and sucking on a pacifier.
When Xuyou saw they were awake, she smiled, swapped her pacifier for a milk bottle, and began to drink from it slowly.
The two little ones had slept for a long time and were now starving, grunting in desperation.
"Hungry... Sis..." Tuanzi was so anxious he even managed to speak human words!
Xuyou looked at Yuanyuan. "Come on, transform for your sister, and this is yours." She shook the milk bottle in her hand.
Yuanyuan blinked, placed a paw on Tuanzi, and with a POOF, Tuanzi turned into a baby boy with a buzz cut, wearing a blue belly bib.
Tuanzi looked down at his chubby hands, flailing them with joy. "Changed! Want!"
Although Xuyou was young, she was a cub who kept her word. Haughtily, she shoved the milk bottle in front of Tuanzi.
Yuanyuan got anxious and, with another POOF, also turned into a baby girl with pigtails. "Sis!"
However, a group of adults suddenly appeared in the room...
