A Guide to Raising your Natural Enemy

chapter 66

Shu Shu was shocked and immediately jumped up and rushed toward those robots, but he was blocked once again—the two robots that had been kicked away by him suddenly lunged at him. These two robots were already broken, but their hands could still move and actually caught hold of Shu Shu's legs.
  
"Bastard." Shu Shu was dizzy from the pain in his stomach, but he kept struggling with all his might.
  
"You actually have some skill." While Shu Shu was struggling, a voice suddenly rang out.
  
Shu Shu kicked away one of the robots and raised his head to look at the arrival only to see Jonathan standing not far away.
  
Jonathan previously looked more exquisite and more splendid than Myer, but now he looked like he was in a difficult situation, and his expression was also gloomy.
  
"It's you!" Shu Shu remembered what Edgar had said about Jonathan wanting to harm Edgar. For a moment, he hated Jonathan so much. Raising his hand, he hurled a ball of spiritual power toward Jonathan.
  
It was a pity that he was in the middle of having a dizzy spell and completely failed to take aim at the target accurately. That ball of spiritual power actually flew clear over Jonathan's head and ultimately smashed a hole in the wall behind Jonathan without injuring Jonathan at all.
  
Shu Shu, seeing this scene, wanted to charge at Jonathan, but a robot once again came over and entangled him . . . .
  
Jonathan glanced at Shu Shu, his expression ugly, and then he ran out without looking back.
  
He originally wanted to capture all the people here, but Shu Shu was truly too troublesome, so he could only give up.
  
Seeing Jonathan running out, the robots followed him and started running out as well. They all finally stopped at the open space in front of the house used for parking the aircraft.
  
After coming to a stop, Jonathan turned toward the house where Edgar lived, his face showing an ice-cold smile. He didn’t capture that Shu Shu, and for Shu Shu, it was definitely not a good thing at all.
  
The sound of a violent explosion suddenly filled the air.
  
The robot that was blocking Shu Shu’s path and the robots that had been ruined by Shu Shu unexpectedly exploded together!
  
Shu Shu was in the center of the explosion, and no one could see his situation. At the same time, the alarm sounded through the entire imperial palace and even the entire capital star.
  
The imperial palace was attacked!
  
The guards in the vicinity of the imperial palace arrived in a very short time. After seeing the situation here, all their expressions changed greatly.
  
The place where the crown prince lived was actually blown up! The wanted criminal Jonathan also seized the empress and the empress' friend as well as the little prince who had not hatched yet!
  
"You had better not come over. I have explosives on my body. If you come over, I’ll take them down with me." Staring at the guards in front of him, Jonathan showed a rather strange smile.
  
"Jonathan, what do you think you’re doing?!" Someone among the guards shouted. The one who shouted was a beastman who was about the same age as Jonathan. He once had been secretly in love with Jonathan in his youth. When he saw the news about Jonathan conspiring to murder the crown prince, he thought it was untrue, and that someone had framed Jonathan. He didn't expect to be proven wrong so quickly.
  
Jonathan’s current appearance was very frightful. His impression of Jonathan was a sub-beastman who was magnificent and unmatched in his generation. When did Jonathan become like this?
  
"Make Chris come here." Jonathan got his hands on Ian while watching the guards opposite.
  
"I’m coming!" Chris' voice rang out, and at the same time, two aircrafts suddenly appeared in front of Jonathan. The two aircrafts had not stopped completely, and Chris and Edgar already jumped down from the aircrafts.
  
They had put some devices on Ian and Shu Shu as well as in the house to monitor abnormal situation. So when Ian and Shu Shu were sneak-attacked, they discovered it immediately. However, even if they found out about it, and even if they used the fastest speed to rush over, it seemed that they were too late.
  
"Why did you take him?" Chris clenched his fist tightly and fixed his whole attention on Jonathan.
  
"What about Shu Shu?" Edgar's clenched fist tightened even more. Although Ian was unconscious, but at least he was still in front of them. Where was Shu Shu? Where did Shu Shu go?
  
"The crown princess . . . . I guess he’s become a mass of ground meat now?" Jonathan looked at Edgar and began to laugh, revealing his snow white teeth.
  
Edgar's pupils abruptly became vertical snake-like pupils, and his whole body stiffened for a second. Then he immediately rushed straight toward the blown up house.
  
"His Imperial Highness!" Some beastmen wanted to catch up with him, but they were thrown away by a gale that Edgar conjured. Realizing that Edgar obviously didn’t want anyone to follow him and that saving the crown princess did not need too many people, those beastmen no longer kept up with him and eventually stopped far away.
  
Jonathan gave a gurgle of laughter and turned toward Chris. "I’ve put explosives on each of these robots. You had better be a little careful now. Don't provoke me, or else there’ll be more people turning into ground meat."
  
Chris' expression became very ugly. He clenched his teeth and said, "You’ve been hiding in the imperial palace for two days?" He had dispatched quite a lot of people to hunt down Jonathan. He didn't expect that Jonathan actually stayed under his very eyes . . . .
  
"I was indeed here, ah. Here’s my home.” Jonathan’s gaze was firmly locked on Chris’ face.
  
"This place isn’t your home, and I also don't have a younger brother like you!" Chris coldly stated.
  
Staring at Chris, Jonathan’s expression became cold as well. He grabbed Ian's neck with one arm and abruptly tightened up his hold. In addition, his fingernails squeezed into Ian's flesh so much so that they cut open Ian’s skin.
  
"Let go of your hold!" Chris was horrified. "Release him! Jonathan, you let them go. I’ll definitely treat you with leniency."
  
"Do you like him?" Jonathan's expression became very ugly.
  
Chris frowned. Of course he liked Ian; Ian was his spouse!
  
"Why would you like him? Why would you like this despicable guy?" Jonathan stared at Chris, anger across his whole face.
  
"It’s you who are a despicable guy!" Chris countered straight away.
  
Jonathan’s gaze flashed, and right at this instant, an anesthetic needle shot towards Jonathan’s body . . . .
  
The tip of the needle that was going to prick Jonathan's neck abruptly stopped, and then the needle fell to the ground. It turned out that Jonathan had opened his personal protective cover.
  
This needle obviously startled Jonathan. He turned his head and glanced at the anesthetic needle that had fallen to the ground and then turned to face Chris again. "You get me a private spaceship, that latest model of spaceship with so-called unrivaled speed which you bought last year."
  
Chris had not yet answered, and Jonathan suddenly took out a knife and slashed the arm of unconscious Jones. "You better hurry. Otherwise, I’ll use the knife on your empress’ body next."
  
Chris' complexion was deathly pale, and his gaze toward Jonathan was full of loathing. Jonathan noticed this look and was instantly inflamed.
  
It shouldn't be like this; Chris should like him instead of loathing him. It’s all because of Ian! He had to kill him!
  
Jonathan’s expression became extremely ugly, while Chris couldn’t help but roar, “If you dare to hurt them, I’ll never let Mund and Calvin off!”
  
The flame in Jonathan’s eyes went out. Sneering, he stressed his point once again, "If the spaceship doesn’t appear in front of me in five minutes, I’ll chop off one of his hands."
  
Jonathan nudged Ian's arm as he said so.
  
In the past two days, he had actually been hiding in the imperial palace.
  
He grew up in the imperial palace from childhood and was very familiar with the place. In the past, he was able to enter and leave the imperial palace freely, and so he secretly dug himself a hideout basement in the imperial palace. Hiding himself there, especially with the help of the imperial palace's defense system, it was guaranteed that no one could find and get him.
  
In addition to this, he also tampered with some of the robots in the imperial palace.
  
He had always been considered to be more outstanding than Myer. Myer was already a mech master in his young age; he naturally wasn’t inferior than Myer. In some fields such as robot modification and robot control, he was one of the very best in the Beastman Empire.
  
When he stayed in the imperial palace a few days ago, he controlled some of the robots in the imperial palace and even loaded up their bodies with explosives.
  
At that time, he was just guarding against the unexpected. He did not expect them to be really useful now.
  
When Jonathan and Chris confronted each other, Edgar was looking for Shu Shu.
  
Probably to avoid being discovered, Jonathan did not load the robots’ bodies with too many explosives. The house was not entirely blown up, but the living room was already blasted beyond recognition into a pile of ruins. The floor between the living room and the second floor was also blown up.
  
Edgar smelled Shu Shu’s scent here but did not see Shu Shu crawling out of the ruins.
  
His hands could not stop shaking, and he suddenly turned into his original form.
  
The huge jiāo lóng squatted in the living room, and two of its claws quickly clear away all kinds of detritus . . . . Edgar almost frantically began to search for Shu Shu.
  
Suddenly, there was some tiny rustling noise.
  
Edgar was stunned, one claw unconsciously let go of a piece of ruin, and then he looked under the ruin with both apprehension and joy.
  
Just under the ruins he had swept away, there was a very small hole, and on the bottom of the hole, a little hamster that was no bigger than an egg lay curled up into a ball.
  
The fur on the little hamster’s face was scorched, its eyes closed, and its curled up body quivered. It looked extremely pitiful, but at least it was alive.
  
Edgar held the little hamster with his claws and injected his own spiritual power into the hamster’s body without the slightest hesitation.
  
Once a great amount of spiritual power rushed forth into Shu Shu’s body, he eventually woke up.
  
Shu Shu continued to circulate his spiritual power, so that the incapacitating agent would only make him feel uncomfortable but no longer make him confused and disoriented. As for the wounds . . . .
  
The previous explosion was quite powerful, but at most it was about the same as the lightning tribulation which Shu Shu had encountered alone. When the robots exploded, he immediately changed into his original form and used the spiritual power to protect himself. Therefore, the injuries he suffered were not serious at all. Now that there was Edgar who was injecting him with spiritual power, he had more or less recovered.
  
After waking up, Shu Shu promptly turned back into a human. He still had a lot of wounds on his body, but he couldn’t care less for himself. Cradling his head, he said, "The child! The child was snatched!"
  
The huge jiāo lóng nodded, "I know. We’ll go save them." Daemons that had cultivated into jīndānstage could become humans. Naturally, they could open their mouths and speak. It was just that, in the end, the structure of animal was different from that of human being, so this speaking was actually using the spiritual power to vibrate the air and produce a sound. It was also considered to be a gate to enlightenment which you needed to hone before you could use it.
  
Edgar had honed and mastered it. Shu Shu, however, was not too proficient at it.
  
"What are we going to do?" Shu Shu asked. How would they save them?
  
"Become smaller!" Edgar took a quick look at the situation outside and concealed the distress in his eyes.
  
Chris feared that Jonathan would hurt Ian, so he quickly had people bring his private spaceship over. And now, Jonathan was ready to board the spaceship.
  
Become smaller? Shu Shu glanced at Edgar and immediately realized that Edgar, in all likelihood, would use his former method of catching those star pirates, stealthily going up and hiding himself in the spaceship. Shu Shu quickly changed into his original form and then, with some difficulty, controlled his spiritual power to make himself even smaller. After that, he rushed straight toward the spaceship. At the same time, Edgar also made himself smaller and followed Shu Shu.

TL's notes:
jiāo lóng = legendary dragon with the ability to control rain and floods

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