A Guide to Raising Your Natural Enemy

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68. Everyone Dies Together

The video soon began to play.

This video should have been taken without permission using a surveillance camera, and the location had been the private living room of the house where Ian had resided when he had just entered the imperial palace . . . . As Ian realized these details, his face became very ugly.

Jonathan had installed a surveillance camera at the place where he had lived?!

Not waiting for his lingering fear or anger, Ian finally saw the content of the video . . . .

Ian himself was common-born, so he completely had no opinion on Shu Shu’s identity, but Chris’ parents were not like this. Chris’ mother was noble-born and mainly associated with the sub-beastmen born of various nobles of the capital star, therefore he originally couldn’t tolerate Ian at all.

Chris was a child who was finally born when his parents were more than one-hundred-year-old. They valued Chris very much, so the empress simply couldn’t accept that their son fancied a sub-beastman who had no any extraordinary status.

Ian had no choice but to leave the military at that time, and then he was given a hard time after coming to the capital star. On top of that, he didn't have that sort of having-a-highly-retentive-memory cheat like Shu Shu did, so it took him a very long time to learn various etiquette, and the hardship was beyond words.

He was in a bad mood, so when he faced Chris, he couldn't muster any sweet feeling at all. What’s more, Chris had done a few stupid things then.

The imperial family adopted Jonathan, but there was no blood relationship between Jonathan and Chris. According to the laws of the Empire, they totally could get married. Jonathan was also very, very remarkable . . . . Since Ian came to the capital star, people had never stopped comparing him with Jonathan. He was already in a bad mood, and Chris actually gave Jonathan the best attire when they were choosing formal attires.

Shu Shu didn't care about such a thing. However, Ian, who was under great pressure then, cared about it; especially when later someone found him and peculiarly told him that Chris didn't care about him at all, otherwise he wouldn't choose such a hideous attire for him.

He in fact didn't really care about clothes and jewelry, but he was angry and felt deeply hurt after being bullied by a stranger. He didn't understand; it was obviously he who was the star of this banquet, but why was it Jonathan who dressed up brightly and beautifully? Why was it Jonathan who was regarded as the center of attention? Even Chris’ whole family was very close to Jonathan . . . . After the event, he started to quarrel with Chris.

It was a petty quarrel. Basically, he questioned whether Chris liked Jonathan and disliked him, making all kinds of rackets. Afterwards, Chris hugged him and kissed him, and then they went to bed together.

Ian had gone through such quarrels many times in his lifetime and had long forgotten them. He did not expect that today he actually had another chance to see it again.

Stuff from forty or fifty years ago, and Jonathan still kept it. Not to mention that he seemed to take the content of other people’s quarrel seriously . . . .

In the video, Ian was questioning Chris angrily, "I’m your fiancé. I should be your most important person. Why did the best-looking attire and jewelry become Jonathan’s? Do you like him?"

"Don't you dislike complicated clothes and jewelry?" Chris' voice was very low.

"I don't like them, so you can’t give them to me?" Ian reached out and clung to Chris' arm. He continued to ask questions, but the following questions became a bunch of complaints. Meanwhile, Chris said nothing at all.

"At the banquet, why did you abandon me and run to talk with Jonathan? Don't you know that I don't understand anything?"

"They all said that the one you like is Jonathan!"

"Chris, you bastard!

. . . . . .

Ian watched his young and spirited self in the video complaining incessantly while Chris did not say a single word, which made him even more angry. "Chris, if it weren’t for me accidentally eating your beast bead, you would never think of marrying me, would you? "

“If you have the ability, take your beast bead back!”

Chris had been watching him, waiting for him to more or less vent his feelings. Hearing that he did not go on anymore, Chris at once held him and carried him into the bedroom.

The video cut off here, but Ian actually remembered what had happened afterwards . . . . Chris had tumbled him all night along and forbidden him from talking nonsense again.

"I’ve done an investigation. You ate Chris’ beast bead when he’s injured. Before that, you and Chris didn't have much intersection at all. If it weren’t for you eating Chris' beast bead, why would he marry you? You stole Chris! I’ve already vowed that I must kill you!" After the video was finished, Jonathan put away his communication device and then fixed his gaze on Ian.

Ian simply didn't know what he should say. Other people were not really clear about the matter of him and Chris working alongside for the mission for two months, and later . . . . They didn't interact much in the beginning, but after Chris stuffed the beast bead into his mouth, he began to openly stand at his side and drive other men away. They stayed in the military for another year, during which they were considered a couple by everyone, and then they went to the capital star to get married.

A man like Chris, because his beast bead was accidentally eaten by a sub-beastman, would settle for said sub-beastman just so he could have a child in the future?

Jonathan did not understand Chris at all!

"Jonathan, that’s enough! Whether Chris loves me or not, your heart’s the clearest!" The irrational words of a lovers' quarrel were actually brought up and taken as evidence of him "forcing" Chris. How ridiculous.

Jonathan stared blankly.

"Don't say that you love Chris; do you think I don’t realize why the hell you did all these?" Ian stared at Jonathan. He and Chris had analyzed Jonathan's motive before. "You’re not aiming for the imperial family’s property. In the past, you’re a sub-beastman of the imperial family. Whatever you wanted, you got it. The days of your life were bright and beautiful, and you’re the most high-profile person in the Empire. But after you married the Duke of Mund, many of your glories were gone. You envy me, not because I got Chris’ love, but because I became the sub-beastman who received the most attention, right?"

"When I got married, you just had to try to make me lose face and then hypocritically gave me a hand. It’s obviously my long-awaited wedding, yet all the media were praising you . . . . Later, everyone paid less and less attention to you. You felt it’s intolerable, didn’t you?" Ian said with a sneer. "If you really loved Chris like you said, why would you get married and give birth to a child? You disposing Edgar is because the Duke of Mund’s financial situation isn’t optimistic. You want to get the imperial family’s property, right?”

There were always very few children in the imperial family. Nearly every generation only had one child, and the property had never been divided out, so it continued to increase. Other nobles, however, were different.

The Duke of Mund had several younger brothers. He inherited the title but did not inherit most of the property. His property was enough for him to live well, but for Jonathan, who had enjoyed the best of everything à la the imperial family and even had a damn spaceship before marriage, it was estimated to be a little insufficient.

Jonathan, who already came to his senses, directly slapped Ian on the face. "It’s useless to say these now. Don't forget that you’re in my hands."

"Are you not worried about implicating Calvin doing all these things?" Ian asked again.

"He doesn't know anything. How can Chris hold him?" Jonathan sneered. It was a society ruled by law now. He was irredeemable, but the imperial family certainly couldn’t dispose of innocent people as they pleased!

"Do you think that Chris not doing anything in the public eye means that he won’t do anything in private?" Ian said. "You let me go now, and I think he’ll let Calvin go. Otherwise . . ."

"It’s too late.” Jonathan replied. "Moreover, do you think I can have such a strong attachment to that family?"

Seeing Jonathan's expression, Ian’s heart jumped.

"Shu Shu, that sub-beastman who’s as eager to seduce men as you’re, has been blown to bits by me. As for you . . ." Jonathan smiled and did not continue.

He had hated Ian for fifty years, and Ian had also stolen everything from him. How could he easily let Ian go?

As for Calvin . . . .

When he first started working on Edgar, he actually thought about Calvin. If Edgar had died then, Ian would have been very sad, and Myer and Edgar's marriage contract would have become invalid too. At that time, Calvin could have been together with Myer.

However, his old plan had already failed, hadn’t it?

Edgar suddenly came back and messed up his plan thoroughly.

Originally, if Edgar couldn't come back, he wanted to use the news of fake Edgar to draw Ian out and then kill him. Now though . . . .

"What did you say?" Ian stared at Jonathan in shock. Shu Shu was killed with an explosion? How could it be?

Jonathan, however, already stopped caring about him and did not even seek his explanation anymore. He went back to operate the console and continued to pound on it.

The spaceship was rapidly leaving the capital star, and behind this spaceship, Chris led his men to chase after it and kept trying to communicate with it.

Jonathan put through one of the calls, and Chris appeared on the screen.

"Jonathan, you let them go, and I’ll also let you go!"

"That has to wait until I get to a safe place." Jonathan stared at Chris almost greedily.

"Chris!" Ian, on the side, saw Chris and called out loudly.

"Ian!" Chris heard Ian's voice but couldn't see Ian whom was lying on the ground. His face revealed an anxious expression, but in the end, he could only grit his teeth and stare at Jonathan. "When will you be willing to let them go?"

Jonathan did not answer. Instead, he unexpectedly said, "Chris, have you ever loved me?"

Chris' eyes were full of loathing. Jonathan, seeing Chris’ expression, suddenly looked a little crazy.

He always thought that Chris liked him and was compelled to be together with Ian because his beast bead was eaten by Ian. So in those years, even though he hated the situation so much, he also endured it.

However, things seemed to be not the case.

Everything that originally belonged to him was actually stolen by Ian . . . . Why?

"You can rest assured that I’ll let them go before I enter the wormhole." Jonathan abruptly said and then turned off the communication directly. After that, he went over to Ian and sprayed some liquid on Ian.

Ian fainted right away.

The spaceship continued to speed ahead. During this time, Chris kept following the spaceship closely while sending out various messages incessantly.

Chris took both Calvin and Mund along with him. Inside the multimedia messages he sent to Jonathan, there were photos and videos of these two men as well as threats to immediately kill them if Ian and the other two had an accident. At the same time, he also kept asking for their photo. If Jonathan did not give it, he would start with Calvin or simply attack Jonathan’s spaceship.

Chris seemed a bit crazy, and it was probably because of this that Jonathan did not do anything to hurt Ian and the other two in the end. However, he also didn’t treat them well; Ian and company had never eaten anything to say the least.

The spaceship kept on like this for two days and arrived in the vicinity of a wormhole.

A wormhole, also known as a space-time hole, was a multi-dimensional space tunnel connecting two distant time and space. It was not many in number; moreover, it was also very unstable. Although passing through a wormhole could greatly shorten the distance of a voyage, but the Beastman Empire generally wouldn’t choose to use a wormhole.

The wormhole that Jonathan chose was a wormhole that was not particularly stable. No one knew where they would appear if they passed through this wormhole. In addition, there was also a wide expanse of asteroid belt near the wormhole.

Edgar had been paying attention to Jonathan, so when he noticed this detail, he immediately had a feeling of uneasiness. Then he saw Jonathan put through a communication with a spaceship . . . .

It was Jonathan's private spaceship which had carried Jonathan's substitute out of the capital star!

That spaceship had actually been waiting here!

Jonathan stopped the spaceship, and then the two spaceships began to dock. Not only that, but all the people on Jonathan’s spaceship besides Jonathan unexpectedly began to transfer to the other spaceship.

What did Jonathan want to do?

Edgar was a bit puzzled, and Chris, who had practically done his best to keep up, was equally puzzled. Increasing the speed by force had made the spaceship Chris flew in have a big problem. On top of that, only a few spaceship were able to follow him . . . . After receiving Jonathan's message that threatened to throw Ian and the others into the wormhole should Chris get close, Chris had no other choice but to stop far away and then arrange some mech fighters to approach Jonathan’s spaceship stealthily.

The docking of the two spaceships was soon completed, and the people on Jonathan’s spaceship were all transferred into the other spaceship. After the spaceship was loaded with those people, it plunged headlong into the wormhole without hesitation.

This wormhole was not stable at all. No one knew where those people would go to. And at this time, Jonathan unexpectedly flew his spaceship toward the wormhole as well.

Before he entered the wormhole, his spaceship ejected a lifepod.

Chris promptly dispatched some people to go catch the lifepod. At this moment, Jonathan’s spaceship already entered the wormhole. After he went in, he immediately fired an artillery shell at the entrance of the wormhole, disrupting the space there to make the people behind unable to enter the wormhole.

Jonathan told Chris that Ian and the others were in the lifepod, but in fact, that lifepod was loaded with explosives.

The spaceship was currently in the middle of the wormhole. On the spaceship, apart from Jonathan, there were only two people and an egg captured by him as well as Edgar and Shu Shu who had boarded the spaceship secretly.

There was clearly something wrong with what Jonathan was doing . . . . He . . . wanted to take others down with himself?

He actually hit this idea!