A Guide to Raising Your Natural Enemy Chapter 46

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46. The Wife is a Beastman
At first, Shu Shu was pleasantly surprised when discovering that he did not have hamster ears anymore, but then he felt a slight sense of loss . . . . Hold on, why would he feel a sense of loss? Was it possible that he had a deep affection for the ears that had stayed on his head for a long time?
Shu Shu somewhat couldn't figure out what to do and only stared blankly. But because of this, he did not look as scared as before.
Edgar had been paying attention to Shu Shu’s physical data that was displayed by the virtual cabin. When he saw Shu Shu’s heartbeat become normal, he finally breathed a sigh of relief: “It’s good that you’re fine.”
Speaking so, Edgar suddenly felt that there seemed to be something different about Shu Shu.
"Don’t you see, I’ve no ears! I’m a beastman!" Shu Shu pointed at his own ears.
"You put your ears away? You can do that?" Only now did Edgar notice that Shu Shu's two furry ears were missing, and he immediately felt a slight sense of loss . . . . He always thought that those two ears were especially cute.
"No, I passed through the inner demon tribulation. Now I can switch between looking like a man or a beast just like you," Shu Shu said. "Watch me!"
Shu Shu’s voice barely fell when he mobilized the spiritual power in his body, which seemed to be abnormally abundant after passing through the inner demon tribulation, to turn into a small hamster.
The virtual cabin’s interior were scattered with Shu Shu’s clothes, and a small hamster that was no bigger than the palm of the hand crawled out of the clothes. The small hamster’s fur was mainly yellow with some white patches. Sitting on top of Shu Shu’s clothes and extending two front paws to wave at Edgar, it looked extremely cute.
Edgar, however, felt stupid.
The sub-beastman he liked actually turned into a hamster in front of his face . . . . Shu Shu was a beastman?
Edgar felt he should get angry or be unhappy, but in reality, the first thought that emerged from the bottom of his mind now had nothing to do with these. Unexpectedly, his only thought was . . . since Shu Shu was a beastman, did it mean that he was going to like a sub-beastman and dislike him who was a beastmen?
How did the wife he fancied turned into a beastman? Could this beastman still become his wife?
Edgar was dumbfounded and couldn’t come back to himself. Seeing him like this, Shu Shu felt all the more embarrassed. He changed back into the human form and knelt on the seat of the virtual cabin. Resting his upper body on the edge of the virtual cabin, he raised his head and said, "This time, you believe that I’m not a sub-beastman, right?"
"Believe." Edgar replied. It was difficult if he wanted to not believe since the fact was shown in front of him.
However, Shu Shu really didn't look like a beastman at all . . . . Edgar bowed his head to take a look and happened to see the contours of Shu Shu’s bare naked back and butt, and he immediately felt a little dizzy.
Shu Shu’s short and tiny tail was also gone, but he still looked so enticing . . . . Edgar found his own body shockingly unable to control the change yet again.
He . . . actually went into heat over a beastman!
Edgar felt like falling apart but also felt that his reaction was quite normal. After all, he really liked Shu Shu very much.
All kinds of emotions rolled in his heart, but Edgar’s face did not reveal them one bit. On the contrary, his face was even more cold and severe.
Shu Shu glanced at Edgar and was somewhat embarrassed. He didn't know why there was still a faint regret bubbling out of his heart.
This time, he really passed through the inner demon tribulation too quickly. He suddenly went through the tribulation when he was not truly ready, to the extent that he did not think properly about how he was going to explain his situation to Edgar . . . . By the way, according to the movies and TV series he had watched before, right now Edgar should feel that he had been deceived, and then he would hate Shu Shu very much and would abuse both his body and his heart . . . .
Having such a thought, Shu Shu suddenly became anxious. Would Edgar drive him out of the Imperial palace and make him fend for himself? Reflecting upon it, he immediately threw Edgar a cautious glance.
Edgar certainly wouldn't do anything like what Shu Shu thought. Right now, he only wanted to clear up so many things.
Before, he didn't understand why Shu Shu would say that as long as he cultivated properly, he could become the same as Shu Shu. Now he knew that it was because Shu Shu was also a beastman.
Before, he wondered why Shu Shu always said that he was a beastman, and now, he did understand . . . . Shu Shu was indeed a beastman just like him.
Shu Shu was a beastman, and when Shu Shu watched a movie with a bathing sub-beastman in it, he actually stopped Shu Shu!
Shu Shu was a beastman, and he actually told Shu Shu to find some sub-beastman friends!
Shu Shu was a beastman, and he actually sent Shu Shu into the all sub-beastmen bridal class!
Edgar felt that he was a completely bad person.
"Hey . . . I didn't mean to lie to you. That is, besides the setback in my cultivation, I also couldn't pass through the inner demon tribulation . . ." Shu Shu seriously and carefully explained to Edgar that he was originally a small hamster, but after cultivating and passing through the tribulation, he became a human. He finally added, "Everyone says that passing through the inner demon tribulation is quite easy. As long as you can see through the illusion, you’ll be able to pass through. But before passing through the inner demon tribulation, I’d be scared silly every time I saw a snake. I basically had no ability to see beyond the facade. This time, I considered the inner demon tribulation as being in a virtual game machine, and, by a freak combination of factors, I managed to see through the inner demon tribulation . . . . This virtual game machine is really a good thing. It’s very helpful for passing through the tribulation.”
Shu Shu was straying from the topic again, but the sequence of events he had described was very clear. He even admitted that his former self was not a human but a hamster.
Shu Shu was just a small hamster before? Not a beastman? A glimmer of hope suddenly appeared in Edgar’s heart.
Edgar immediately urged his beast bead to move and then took it out of his mouth.
The beast bead was a round and smooth red bead that looked very pretty, and such a bead, one for each beastman, would usually be given as a present for the sub-beastman on the wedding night. Of course, if the beastman and the sub-beastman had a very deep affection for each other, and their relationship had long been established, some beastmen would give their beast beads to their sub-beastmen ahead of time.
The beast bead was the beastman's love token and also the beastman's lifetime commitment to the sub-beastman since each beastman only had one beast bead, and if he wanted to have a child, he had to let the sub-beastman ingest his beast bead.
The beastman only had one beast bead, and the sub-beastman could only ingest one beast bead. Once the sub-beastman accepted the beastman's beast bead and ingested it, the two men then would get intimate, and that beast bead would form a womb inside the sub-beastman’s body, allowing the sub-beastman to give birth to the beastman's babies.
As it were, the beast bead was extremely important to the beastman and would not be given away easily. Nowadays, after entering the interstellar era, the beastmen and the sub-beastmen were more dissimilar than their ancestors who would establish a relationship quickly. The current beastmen and sub-beastmen would generally date for a while and would even date a few different people. Only on the wedding day would the beastman set his mind to give his beast bead to the sub-beastman to ingest. From then on, the beastman and the sub-beastman could no longer be separated, and they would inevitably feel more and more intimate with each other. The beastman would even have a bone-deep desire to treat his sub-beastman as his most important person.
In the future, even if one party died, the remaining one would no longer able to give away his beast bead or accept other’s beast bead.
Because of this characteristic, from ancient time until now, a beastman and a sub-beastman always paired up with each other.
In a way, this was all general knowledge for every beastman or sub-beastman. Moreover, the parents would explain the importance of the beast bead to their beastman children.
However, because the beastmen were only able to put the beast bead to use after they grew to adulthood, the formative education would not mention much about this aspect. At most, it would only say that mother had you once he got father’s beast bead. That kind of explanation, although Shu Shu had seen a lot of it, but he didn’t take it seriously and even thought that the beast bead was just like the wedding ring on Earth.
Seeing Edgar take out a red bead, Shu Shu simply didn't expect it to be the beast bead. The first thing that came to his mind was the red bead that he himself possessed.
The red bead was his biggest treasure. He loved the red bead deeply and cared about it very much and considered it a treasure . . . . Now that he saw Edgar come up with one as well, he was unconsciously happy for Edgar.
"Do you have it?" Edgar asked, holding the beast bead.
Shu Shu nodded repeatedly, "Yeah, I have it too."
Edgar glanced at the beast bead on his hand and silently stuffed it back into his mouth.
He had already decided to give his beast bead to Shu Shu but had held back from taking it out because he was afraid of progressing too fast and scaring Shu Shu off. As it turned out . . . Shu Shu also had a beast bead.
"Edgar, you see, I’m also a beastman. So you shouldn’t like me and must go and find a sub-beastman." Shu Shu said. Edgar was the crown prince, and he was the only prince in the Imperial family. He definitely had to find a sub-beastman to give birth to a little beastman.
Edgar didn't reply. The little sub-beastman . . . no, he already couldn’t call Shu Shu this way . . . . Shu Shu told him to go and find a sub-beastman; could it be that he was hated by the beastman he liked?

Edgar tried to imagine such a situation and found that if he was pursued by a beastman, he would certainly hate said beastman. In a way, Shu Shu’s approach was in fact understandable.
"Do you hate me?" Edgar suddenly asked.
Why did Edgar suddenly ask this? Although Shu Shu was afraid of snake, but he didn't hate Edgar one bit. "I don't hate you. Why did you ask this?"
Shu Shu replied very sincerely. His eyes were crystal clear; there wasn’t a bit of love in them, but there was a feeling of intimacy. Seeing Shu Shu like this, Edgar abruptly realized that maybe he had over-thinked.
Shu Shu didn't like him but also didn't hate him. He was still young and probably still didn't understand his own feelings . . . .
Didn't understand his own feelings . . . . Edgar suddenly felt a little uncomfortable but also a little pleased—since Shu Shu still didn't understand his own feelings, that meant he didn’t have any sub-beastman he liked yet.
Edgar could keep pursuing Shu Shu then. As for the fact that they both were beastmen . . . .
All beastmen repelled each other like polarities and simply could not become partner, but he did not repel Shu Shu at all. Why couldn’t they be together then? Speaking of it, he and Shu Shu could only be together at most, but they would not be able to have a child.
He had become a fallen beast before; not to mention a child, even his own life was ruined. Only by relying on Shu Shu was he able to have a completely new life. His problem now was merely being unable to have children in the future, which really counted for nothing.
When Edgar was thinking like this, Shu Shu turned round to grab his clothes from inside the virtual cabin. While straightening them out, he asked, "Edgar, I’m a beastman now. Can I stop going to the bridal class?"
Calling to mind his previous rejection of the skill class, Shu Shu suddenly felt a bit of regret . . . . Before, he did not like the skill class because he was worried that he would be pursued by the beastmen. In reality though, he always holed up in the classroom, did not go out, and did not get along well with the beastmen to exchange words with them. In fact, the beastmen would not come to pursue him at all.
Moreover, he really was quite fond of the course and the ease of the skill class, where he could learn whatever he wanted to learn.
"Of course." Edgar replied, but then his brows suddenly wrinkled.
The number of people who knew about Shu Shu’s existence was not very many, but he had taken Shu Shu to the Imperial Plaza and sent Shu Shu to the Imperial College, so there were still quite a lot of people who knew that Shu Shu existed, and they also knew that Shu Shu was a sub-beastman.
And then now, the good sub-beastman suddenly became a beastman . . . . How would you explain this?
Not only that, but Shu Shu was also a hamster beastman . . . . Their Beastman Empire did have some beast types that were rodents, but in no way would they be such small, weak, and harmless rodents . . . .
"You can't let others know that you’re a beastman." Edgar abruptly said.
"Why?" Shu Shu was somewhat puzzled.
Edgar immediately explained the reason thoroughly. "Shu Shu, you have a lot of secrets on your body. If they’re known by others, it’ll be bad for you."
The Imperial family was wealthy and also had an armed force, but they were not omnipotent. Otherwise, Edgar would not encounter that kind of incident before . . . . If Shu Shu’s particular details were discovered by others, it would definitely attract troubles.
"What do I do then?" Shu Shu frowned.
"First, you pretend to be a sub-beastman for a while. I’ll let you leave the capital star after some time, and then I’ll give you a change of identity to come back here." Edgar said.
"Is it okay to pretend to be a sub-beastman? I guess I’ll pretend then. You don't need to change my identity. The current one’s also very good." Shu Shu said. After that, he touched his ears, controlled his spiritual power, and right away, the ears changed back into their former shapes.
Hearing Shu Shu's words and touching Shu Shu’s ears, Edgar immediately felt happy.
Shu Shu would continue to pretend to be a sub-beastman . . . .
"Edgar." Just then, the door of Edgar's room was suddenly pushed open, and Ian walked in from the outside.
The empress came over to find Edgar to say a few things. Hearing that Edgar and Shu Shu were playing games in the study room, he came over directly. As a result . . . .
What freaking game was his son and Shu Shu playing?!
Shu Shu was leaning forward on the edge of the virtual cabin stark naked while holding a piece of clothing, head facing his son's groin. His son was reaching out to touch Shu Shu’s head . . . .
Ian instantly felt that he had misjudged his own son all along