CH 40

[Sisters sober up! Don’t be overcome with bitterness! Cheer up! Sivir scumbag no longer has any humanity! So you can go grab Mianmian with me!]

[The Rob Mianmian Brigade gathers! Grab him back and unite with me, the Bandit Boss!]

[It’s so difficult, it’s so difficult. I finally believed in love again, but it ended in such a dismal end!]

[All he can see is the smile of the new love, while the old love weeps unheard. (T/N: This is a Chinese poem about changing lovers) Mianmian is now part of the past and is not as good as a little plush animal now.]

[Sivir, big scumbag!]

[Hello everyone, I’m on the way to the Duke’s Mansion to steal Mianmian, and I need everyone’s support. As long as you give me 5000 star coins, after I steal Mianmian, you can have a day for you to enjoy time with Mianmian yourself.]

When Tu Mianmian fell asleep and knew nothing about the world, the StarNet had already arranged for him a sadomasochistic stand-in drama regarding his relationship.

Robbins, who was surfing the star network, was immediately shocked by what he saw.

He rushed to send a message to Tu Mianmian: [Mianmian! Mianmian!]

Robbins turned into a screaming chicken: [Didn’t you say you attended the meeting with His Royal Highness? Why didn’t I see you!]

Has Mianmian evaporated from the world?!

It shouldn’t be true that there is a new love, and so the old love weeps unheard, right?

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In the military headquarters at that time—

After the Duke read his speech at the end of the meeting, the live broadcast announced the meeting’s end.

The information that should be communicated to the masses had been made clear in this live broadcasted conference.

The live broadcast cameras in the conference room finished shooting, and after they stopped running, the live broadcast room on the star network also closed.

The meeting ended and everyone began to leave.

Sivir picked up Tu Mianmian who was sleeping curled up in a ball, refused to talk to anyone from all sides, and strode out.

Outside, his two adjutants, Yuri and Anna, were waiting.

Seeing Duke Sivir come out, they hurriedly followed behind the Duke and walked to the Duke’s office together.

Meanwhile, the Mianmian Rabbit in Sivir’s palm slept very deeply.

Sivir picked him up from the table just now, and even the loud footsteps of people in the corridor didn’t wake him up, and his fluffy little body rose and fell with his breathing.

When they met a sergeant who said hello on the way back, Sivir nodded slightly.

The Duke hurried back to his office, and when he turned around, Anna and Yuri noticed the solemn expression on their boss’s face!

Sivir looked very serious.

He looked down at the fluffy ball in his palm, reached out and stroked the top of Mianmian’s head, and slowly spoke, “Has Mianmian fallen asleep too often recently?” Sivir asked cautiously.

Tu Mianmian slept during the day not because he didn’t sleep well last night.

On the contrary, he slept very soundly every night.

But after being brought to the military headquarters by Sivir today, Tu Mianmian ended up falling asleep first.

Then he woke up and fell asleep again while the meeting was live streaming.

Sivir recently noticed that Tu Mianmian slept much longer than usual.

Especially today, he dozed off too much.

However, Sivir didn’t have much contact with others, and with not many examples to compare, the Duke could not determine whether Tu Mianmian was simply lazy or had a physical problem.

It’s just that the Duke doesn’t simply think that Tu Mianmian was hypnotized by the boring speech in the meeting like the rest of the netizens on the star network.

Yuri scratched his head when he heard the question, “His Royal Highness, the Madam doesn’t go to school or work, so it doesn’t matter if you sleep more, right?”

Sivir: “…”

Anna gave Yuri a sideways glance.

After her partner was separated from the pressures of the battlefield, he became more and more relaxed and mindless.

She glanced at the fluffy ball in the Duke’s palm, restrained the urge to stroke it, and asked calmly, “Is Your Highness the Duke worried that the frequent falling asleep of Madam is due to a physical abnormality?”

Sivir nodded slightly.

Yuri also reacted, and said embarrassingly: “Is the Duchess’s recent routine normal?”

The Duke nodded.

Tu Mianmian’s routine was very normal, and there was nothing wrong with it.

Mianmian goes to bed early, gets up early and doesn’t stay up late, in addition to eating a little more, and sleeping a little more during his rest time…

“Why don’t you go check it out.” Anna was careful, and saw the signs of confusion and that the Duke was a little concerned.

If it was normal, the Duke, who was decisive, calm and self-controlled, would not ask them for their opinions on these trivial matters.

This time, he probably suddenly noticed Tu Mianmian’s abnormality, and was anxious in his heart.

Anna flipped through the medical data about atavism in the Brain Database and gave her advice: “His Royal Highness, people who experience atavism have different situations.”

She continued to say: “It’s safest to go to the Royal Hospital to see if the Duchess’s sleepiness is a special case.”

“Ah.” Sivir replied softly, looking at Mianmian in the palm of his hand, his brows furrowed even tighter.

Tu Mianmian had just turned over, stretched out his paws and slept on his back, and his three-petaled mouth opened slightly, almost drooling.

He was unaware of the Duke’s worries and concerns.

Sivir sighed slightly.

The brows slowly stretched out, “…Go and contact the Royal Hospital.”

Anna, who was instructed like a life assistant, didn’t have any fluctuations in her heart.

After turning around and heading out, she began to contact the director of the Royal Hospital to arrange an examination.

Yuri withdrew, leaving only Sivir and Tu Mianmian in the Duke’s office.

Sivir looked at Tu Mianmian lying on his back in the palm of his hand, his belly looked chubby and soft.

Sivir stretched out his hand and touched Tu Mianmian’s chubby belly.

His fingertips had just touched Mianmian Rabbit’s abdomen when Tu Mianmian woke up with a jolt.

Mianmian rolled over and huddled down on Sivir’s hand, waving Sivir’s hand away with his front paws, protecting his soft abdomen.

He hadn’t fully woken up yet, but a threatening sound of “gulugulu” had subconsciously come out of his throat.

Seeing Tu Mianmian’s reaction, Sivir was startled: “Mianmian?”

It was the first time he saw Tu Mianmian behave so defensively.

The Duke pursed his thin lips slightly, and tentatively reached out to Tu Mianmian’s head.

Seeing Tu Mianmian no longer showing any resistance, he touched Mianmian’s rabbit ears.

He called out again: “Mianmian?”

[Um?] Mianmian woke up.

He tilted his head and rubbed his cheek against Sivir’s hand.

His four jiojios stepped on the Duke’s hands, and he stood up and shook the fur on his body, [What’s wrong?]

After Mianmian shook his fur, several strands of snow-white hairs fell off, floated in the air, and slowly fell down.

Tu Mianmian: “…”

Tu Mianmian: “…”

Tu Mianmian quickly stretched out his claws and waved them, trying to make his loose fur fall faster.

He didn’t care about the Duke anymore, he just stared nervously at the few rabbit hairs floating in the air, his whole body was about to explode—this is the naked evidence of his hair loss!

After the rabbit fur fell to the ground leisurely and couldn’t be seen clearly, Tu Mianmian finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He did it!

Like nothing happened, he raised his head and looked at the Duke: [What, did you call me just now?]

Tu Mianmian tilted his head cutely and asked: [Is something wrong?]

Sivir: “…”

Seeing the silly and cute Mianmian Rabbit in front of him, Sivir hesitated slightly.

The Mianmian Rabbit in front of him was completely different from the fierce look he had just before, as if he was guarding against something.

The Duke was unsure of what to say for a while.

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Luckily, at that moment, Anna knocked on the door and came in.

When she saw Tu Mianmian who woke up, there was an imperceptible surprise in her eyes and a message that shone clearly, conveying the fact that she wanted to touch him very much.

But when she turned to face the Duke, she became serious again, “His Royal Highness, Duchess.”

After saying her greetings, Anna said, “The Dean of the Royal Hospital was contacted. But it looks like the Duke will have to take the Madam back to the Duke’s Mansion first.”

Anna looked at Sivir and Tu Mianmian in his palm: “The Dean and an old professor are waiting for you and the Madam in the Duke’s Mansion. They said that they have something to talk to you about in person, and Mr. Anderson, the steward, is entertaining them.”

Hearing this, Sivir lowered his head to look at the time on his light brain.

After the two meetings held by the military department, it was necessary to go to the palace to attend the award banquet.

Those who have won great honors in this war will be honored and praised by His Majesty the Emperor himself.

Sivir’s light brain had not yet received the details of the award banquet, but the Duke has always been familiar with the process of these matters.

Generally speaking, it was enough to arrive at the palace before three o’clock in the afternoon.

It was still early, and it’s only about ten o’clock now after the two morning meetings that they just attended.

There was still time until noon.

So, Sivir picked up the Mianmian Rabbit and walked out: “Head back to the Duke’s mansion first.”

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On the airship back to the Duke’s Mansion—

After leaving the military headquarters, the blocking effect on the network signal became ineffective.

Thus, Tu Mianmian’s light brain made a “ding dong” sound and received a message from Robbins.

The petite and lovely Mianmian Rabbit was lying on the Duke’s lap, reading the messages on his light brain.

Facing Robbins’ inquiry, Mianmian shook his tail and replied: [I did attend the meeting with Sivir. I was in the live conference room at that time!]

Robbins replied in seconds: [Where were you then? Did you sit beside His Royal Highness the Duke? I didn’t see you in the live broadcast, where were you—such a big person, how come I didn’t see it?!]

Tu Mianmian tilted his head to the side, trying to understand Robbins’ confusion.

He turned on the selfie function of the light brain, ‘zizi’ and took a beautiful photo of himself and sent it to Robbins: [There is no such big person, but such a small rabbit.]

The fluffy, snow-white, cute animal in the photo was the one that appeared in the live conference.

A small creature was lying on someone’s lap, and a pair of obsidian-like bright eyes stared at the camera very cutely.

In the corner of the photo, there was a military jacket without a wrinkle, which was exactly what the Duke was wearing at the meeting.

Robbins: “…”

Robbins: “F*ck???!!!”

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Duke’s Mansion—

The airship landed, and Sivir came out holding Mianmian.

Judy came up and led one person and one rabbit to the door of the reception room.

In the reception room, Butler Anderson, the Dean of the Royal Hospital, and an old professor were chatting happily.

After Duke Sivir and Tu Mianmian, who they were waiting for came in, they paused the conversation, and Butler Anderson withdrew.

The old professor was very old.

In the Interstellar Era, where the average life expectancy was 500 years old, he was already more than 450 years old.

The professor pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose up, and followed the fluffy ball in Sivir’s hand, his eyes full of love.

The expression on his face was both joyful and relieved: “This is the Duchess.”

Sivir nodded slightly and sat down on the sofa opposite the two.

He caressed the top of Mianmian Rabbit’s head, glanced at the Dean and the old professor, and went straight to the point: “What’s the matter?”

“His Royal Highness, we are here mainly to talk about the atavistic bloodline of the Duchess.”

The Dean did not elaborate, but said bluntly: “During the previous inspection, it was discovered that the atavistic bloodline of the Duchess may be related to an ancient family. But which noble family is it?”

“Recently, I checked the information and confirmed that the Madam is indeed a part of the bloodline of a noble family from ancient history.”

The Dean looked at Tu Mianmian, who was squatting in Sivir’s hands: “According to the laws of the Empire, Madam will be regarded as a descendant of this bloodline, bearing the surname of the noble, and enjoying the honor and treatment of nobility.”

This was an increase to his value.

Tu Mianmian tilted his head.

While speaking, the old professor on the side took out a small box from his space button.

The quaint aura suddenly rushed to his face, and what was even more noticeable was the vigorous energy surrounding the small box.

It’s… a very powerful demon power.

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Tu Mianmian was a little uneasy, and his eyes were fixed on the small box.

“The surname of this noble family was ‘Raphael’.” The old professor’s old voice sounded.

He then opened the small box.

The small box is filled with velvet red cloth, and in the center was a circular badge.

The badge was exquisite in workmanship, and there was a faint glow of a dark light.

The long river of time has not erased its brilliance, on the contrary, it has made it more and more dazzling.

“This is the family crest of the Raphael family.” The old professor handed the small box to Tu Mianmian.

Tu Mianmian probed it, and after seeing the family crest, he was stunned: “…”

The family crest was exquisitely carved, and he didn’t know what material it was made of, but…

——The carving was of a cute rabbit holding a carrot.

Tu Mianmian: “…”

Maybe there was a little bit of disbelief just now, but after seeing the family crest, Tu Mianmian was sure that he was really related to this noble bloodline.

Hello, historical rabbit kin.

The old professor put the small box on the coffee table so that he could look at it more closely.

Tu Mianmian simply jumped out of the Duke’s hand, jumped to the small box, and leaned in to sniff it.

The strong energy that surrounded the small box before could now be determined to originate from the family crest.

As soon as Tu Mianmian approached, the demon power in the family crest seemed to sense his presence and spread out towards him.

Unlike the chaotic demon power infused into him by the elf of the Zoo and Plantation Garden, the demon power gushing out from the family crest was gentle and orderly.

The demon power was gently injected into Tu Mianmian’s body, flowing through his limbs and bones bit by bit, blending with his own demon power.

Tu Mianmian lay comfortably beside the small box, closed his eyes and began to breathe rhythmically, as if he had fallen asleep.

“Mianmian?” Sivir worried about Tu Mianmian’s state.

“His Royal Highness, it’s okay.” The old professor stopped Sivir, “The Duchess is just getting acquainted with the aura of the family crest.”

The old professor had conducted research on the ancient history of the Raphael family deeply.

Therefore, when he saw Tu Mianmian’s state, although he didn’t know that Mianmian was absorbing demon power, it was clear that it was beneficial and not harmful.

The old professor spent almost his whole life dedicated to researching this ancient noble family, and almost regarded everything about this noble family as his own child.

He thought he could only come into contact with it as a cold piece of history, but I didn’t expect that in the last period of his life, he would still be able to meet a descendant of this noble bloodline.

And someone so lively, fluffy and cute.

Therefore, as soon as the old professor saw Tu Mianmian, he had a natural liking for him, which showed on his face as exactly the expression showing aiwu jiwu. (T/N: aiwu jiu is a Chinese idiom meaning that if you love someone, you’ll also love people & things related to him as well)

He looked at Mianmian Rabbit kindly: “Let the Duchess get acquainted with the family crest.”

Sivir hesitated a little, and saw Mianmian’s intoxicated appearance, so he let it go.

But the coffee table looked cold.

Sivir looked at Mianmian Rabbit lying on the coffee table, and suddenly thought of Mianmian Rabbit’s fierce appearance of protecting his little belly.

So, he simply moved Tu Mianmian and the small box into the bedroom.

The bed was softer and warmer.

After Sivir returned to the reception room, he mentioned Tu Mianmian’s excessive amount of sleep to the Dean.

The Dean had received a communication from Anna earlier, but he shook his head slightly and disagreed with conducting an urgent inspection: “The Duchess must be tired from attending the meeting and the banquet later today.”

The Duchess was so small and fluffy, it is much more tiring than as a humanoid, and it must also have an impact on the results of the data once they conduct an inspection.

The Dean suggested instead: “It’s better to have a good rest tonight, and go to the examination tomorrow completely energized.”

Sivir nodded in response.

Then the two sides talked for a while.

Because Tu Mianmian needed to take on the Raphael surname, the data files had to be changed.

The Royal Hospital has already submitted the application, and after the light brain passes the review, the Duke’s Mansion will sign it again, and Tu Mianmian’s file will be successfully revised.

At that time, Mianmian will be a noble rabbit.

Sivir wrote down the file revision, and after sending the Dean and the old professor away, he returned to the bedroom to find Tu Mianmian.

“Mianmian.” As he pushed open the bedroom door and walked in, he said, “There will be many people at the award banquet, do you want to…”

Sivir’s voice froze.

On the big bed in the bedroom, Tu Mianmian, a human figure, was stretching.

The rabbit form had eaten and slept well these past few days, so his skin had become fairer and more delicate.

Although Tu Mianmian had changed back to human form, it was not complete, and the rabbit ears and rabbit tail still remained on his body.

“What do I want?” Tu Mianmian turned his head to look at Sivir, his long drooping ears swayed, and the tips of the ears brushed against his shoulders lightly.