Cub Raising Association

Chapter 3: Complaining is a sign of kidney deficiency

The decoration style was quite close to a kindergarten in Xie Tao impression. It was quite childlike and the whole building was warm and bright. The were many wall decorations and wall paintings on the wall, but the problem was... the walls had probably experienced time and various other things he could not imagine, several places of the wall had fallen off and the paintings on the walls looked quite old.

There was only one floor in this building. The space was separated into several areas, a place for feeding the cubs and one for sleep, various storage rooms, bathing rooms, etc. for the care of cubs.

"It's a bit simpler than other branches, but there are basically some things..." When Xia Qi said this, she had a bit of envy in her voice.

Their club did not set up special teaching places for the youngsters. They usually only taught the cubs Interstellar Lingua Franca[2] and so on, but they could not do anything else.

Xia Qi once visited the cub raising branch ranking 10 on the Interstellar Rankings. That club had even built a holographic simulation battle room for the cubs. Such expensive facilities are generally only available in first-class military academies. It was something that burns very much money.

Although she did not see it with her own eyes, Xia Qi heard that the instructor hired by that club to teach the basics of battle to the cubs was an active Major General in the Star Alliance.

If one day, their branch could also be so beautiful, Xia Qi thought that she wouldn't need to sleep at night, she would be living her dream during the day!

"Yeah." Xie Tao nodded. There was no reluctance in his voice, which helped soothe her emotions.

There were a total of 12 cubs in their branch, which were all adopted orphans. At present, no parents were willing to send their cubs to their club...

Before he could see the other cubs, Xie Tao got introduced to another caretaker. He would soon be taken to the staff quarter by Xia Qi so he had to leave the Muka cub here.

When Xie Tao entrusted the cub to his colleague, the large cub stared at him silently, as if he wanted to follow him. Xie Tao talked to it for a bit and told it to stay.

Seeing the Muka cub being so close to Xie Tao, the colleague couldn't help but watch for a while, not only because of the obedience that Muka cub showed at the moment, but also to admire the youth. He was a human being but was completely unafraid of the Muka.

...He, himself, usually didn't even dare to be too close to this Muka cub, let alone let it touch him.

"Stay here" as well as "Be good", came from the youth's lips and the Muka cub quietly stayed in place, his scarlet lined pupils reflecting the youth's back.

If the youth arched his lips you would be able to see the sparkle... It was a very beautiful thing. This sparkling thing that appeared in the eyes of youth was an unknown brilliance for this Muka cub, and it gave the same warmth as the youth's body, a temperature that made him want to be close.

"These rooms are all empty." Bringing the new colleague to the staff quarters, Xia Qi pointed to three empty rooms and let him choose.

"This one." Xie Tao chose the left one, which was the closest.

As soon as he opened the door, Xie Tao saw that it actually was empty, that is, totally empty, nothing on the four walls, no furniture, only dust.

"Cough, don't worry, I will help you clean it... After cleaning, you can put a mattress on the ground." She smiled with a bit of embarrassment, and afraid of being misunderstood by him, Xia Qi quickly said, "Other employees also have no beds in their rooms, the mattresses are thick and it won't be uncomfortable to fall asleep."

"Yeah." Xie Tao responded with a good attitude and thanked her. Although he had just been hired, he could see that Xia Qi was a relatively talkative and friendly person, and that she was quite experienced as a caretaker. (T/N: She certainly is much better than that Zhao guy, cub abuser, humph!)

When Xia Qi saw that there was no reluctance or distain on his face, she couldn't help but feel a bit more affectionate. She remembered that when she had brought the other two employees to their rooms, the two men had not bothered hiding the dislike on their faces.

"The financial situation of our club is not very good. After the situation is better, the president will definitely improve the staff's treatment." Xia Qi spoke as she helped him clean. She said this mainly to tell youth that it was not that the old president wants to treat his employees like this, but that their club did not have the money right now.

While cleaning the room together, Xie Tao took the opportunity to chat with the her and get to know more about the situation of this branch.

"This place is handled by the president personally." Xia Qi respects the old president and did not hide this in her tone. "The president's family used to be very famous aristocrats, but has now fallen. The land occupied by the association is a territory left by the president's family. It was originally an auction house, but the president changed it into the current club."

Xia Qi did not tell him that their club had been unable to make progress in these years. The old president told her that perhaps they would not be able to do it for another two or three years either..

The finance of this place... even if the old president did not say anything, she already knew... but even then, until that day came that they no longer could go on, Xia Qi still wanted to work hard and take care of the young children adopted in the association.

She herself was an orphan, so she hopes that the children who have no parents like her will can be taken care of. It was the reason she started to be a caretaker here.

The room was cleaned and a mattress was laid out. Although the room was empty, it was no problem to live in. When done, Xie Tao noticed that his colleague seemed to be a bit depressed. Xie Tao tried to comfort her: "It will become better in the future."

"Of course." Xia Qi nodded and then pulled out a big smile. "Our goal is to become the best club in the interstellar, to rank first! Other clubs can ask an active Star Alliance major general to become the combat instructor of the club, so why can't we! We can ask... Can you please, Lieutenant General, come and teach!"

Even if you know it is unrealistic, don't you have the right to daydream?

It's just that Xia Qi never imagined that the words she said today would not only come true in the future, but they would even have much more.

- True dreams come true.

All these changes would come from the human youth in front of her eyes.

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[1] - Kidney deficiency can be linked to these emotions: Fearful, weak willpower, insecure, aloof, isolated. MC means that the reason Zhao feels it painful to care for the cub is because he is fearful and has weak willpower, basically that he is a coward.

[2] - Lingua Franca is a language build from pieces of other languages and it acts as a universal language that might even make it possible for two people with different languages to communicate even if only one party can speak Lingua Franca.

[3] - Lieutenant general ranks one step above major general.

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Translator's note:

When Xi Qi was described by Xie Tao as a talkative and friendly person, he said that she had been it in this chapter... It literally said "in this chapter". (That's MTL for you...)

I was like, fourth wall! He broke the fourth wall! Does he know that he is in a story?!