Cub Raising Association

By leowyrd

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He had always believed in science until one day, a meteorite smashed into his yard, forcing him to bind to a... More

Note
Chapter 1: Saving the world by being a nanny?
Chapter 2: Applying for employment
Chapter 3: Complaining is a sign of kidney deficiency
Chapter 4: This is not a Takila cub at all, fake!
Chapter 5: Golden finger online
Chapter 6: Figuring out golden finger
Chapter 7: Hurry up and get born, ok?
Chapter 8: Breaking the shell
Chapter 9: This place needs a makeover
Chapter 10: Now we just need a gatekeeper
Chapter 11: Ya Yi
Chapter 12: Powerful backing?
Chapter 13: Kuhti cub
Chapter 14: Learning how to fly
Chapter 15: Transformation
Chapter 16: First word
Chapter 17: Into his arms
Chapter 18: Start of a new life
Chapter 19: Tears are salty
Chapter 20: Should not touch
Chapter 21: Resting in your embrace
Chapter 22: Parent or partner?
Chapter 23: Leaving for Orte
Chapter 24: Chasing, but can't catch up...?
Chapter 25: What happened, did I win?
Red Packet
Chapter 26: Lifting their small chests
Chapter 27: Realizing one's mistake
Chapter 28: A little bit left, a little bit right
Chapter 29: To Yunbao Branch
Chapter 30: Will new cubs come?
Chapter 31: Four legs facing the sky
Chapter 32: Safekeeping the scale
Chapter 34: Best singing voice (part 1)
Chapter 34: Best singing voice (part 2)
Chapter 35: Wrapped around his waist was... (part 1)
Chapter 35: Wrapped around his waist was... (part 2)
Chapter 36: Ice crystal
Chapter 37: Crooked (part 1)
Chapter 37: Crooked (part2)
Chapter 38: Golden mark
Chapter 39: Flower bud (part 1)
Chapter 39: Flower bud (part 2)
Chapter 40: Advance preparation (part 1)
Chapter 40: Advance preparation (part 2)
Chapter 41: Not gonna happen (part 1)
Chapter 41: Not gonna happen (part 2)
Chapter 42: Well thrown (part 1)
Chapter 42: Well thrown (part 2)
Chapter 43: Supreme Court of the Star Alliance (part 1)
Chapter 43: Supreme Court of the Star Alliance (part 2)
Chapter 44: 13:0 (part1)
Chapter 44: 13:0 (part 2)
Chapter 45: Nesela festival
Chapter 46: Ar'nas ena
Chapter 47: Moon stone
Chapter 48: Love
Notice - Done translating ch49
Chapter 49: Spiritual realm
Chapter 50: They both love you
Chapter 51: They need a mother and father?
Chapter 52: Adoption
Chapter 53: Application for open assessment
Chapter 54: I will let you stroke it (part 1)
Chapter 54: I will let you stroke it (part 2)
Chapter 55: They're useful now
Chapter 56: General Zarad (part 1)
Chapter 56: General Zarad (part 2)
Chapter 57: Za... Zar- General who?
Chapter 58: A request
Chapter 59: Saina (part 1)
Chapter 59: Saina (part 2)
Chapter 60: Homeplanet
Chapter 61: Like you
Chapter 62: Big babies
Chapter 63: --secret-- (part 1)
Chapter 63: Baby muka (part 2)
First Christmas (short story)
Chapter 64: Did they meet with danger?
Monster (short story)
Chapter 65: Heart of ash (part 1)
Chapter 65: Heart of ash (part 2)
Chapter 66: Just hug him (part 1)
Chapter 66: Just hug him (part 2)
Chapter 67: Not don't, but don't know (part 1)
Chapter 67: Not don't, but don't know (part 2)
Chapter 67: Not don't, but don't know (part 3)
Chapter 68: Meaning of birth (part 1)
Chapter 68: Meaning of birth (part 2)
Chapter 69: Gu-Ji (part 1)
Chapter 69: Gu-Ji (part 2)
Chapter 70: I'm not
Chapter 71: Stress response (part 1)
Chapter 71: Stress response (part 2)
Chapter 72: Very important cub (part 1)
Chapter 72: Very important cub (part 2)
Chapter 73: Hero (part 1)
Chapter 73: Hero (part 2)
Chapter 73: Hero (part 3)
Summer hiatus
Chapter 74: Stickman
Chapter 75: Necklace (part 1)
Chapter 75: Necklace (part 2)
Chapter 76: Chronos (part 1)
Chapter 76: Chronos (part 2)
Chapter 77: Kissing the horn (part 1)
Chapter 77: Kissing the horn (part 2)
Chapter 78: Gaiya (part 1)
Chapter 78: Gaiya (part 2)
Chapter 79: Clock (part 1)
Chapter 79: Clock (part 2)
Chapter 80: So, so... (part 1)
Chapter 80: So, so... (part 2)
Chapter 81: I'm here (part 1)
Chapter 81: I'm here (part 2)
Chapter 82: Nick (part 1)
Chapter 82: Nick (part 2)
Chapter 83: Pulse of darkness
Hiatus

Chapter 33: Papa

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By leowyrd

From age one to five, Mermaid cubs were likely to shed scales. It was neither because of some sort of illness nor because the cub was unhealthy, it was just a normal part of Mermaid cubs' growth process.

For example, it was somewhat similar to how human children lost their baby teeth.

Mermaid cubs could normally sense when a scale was about to fall off, and in order to be able to collect the fallen scales, they would instinctively stay in a fixed area in the water.

That way, when a scale came off, it would be easier to find.

Mermaid cubs would then carefully pick up the first scale they shed and give it to their parents for safekeeping.

A cub's first scale was a very important keepsake, so parents were usually very happy when they received the small scale from their cub.

Although the staff at nursing clubs were indeed guardians to the cubs without parents, there was a difference between being a guardian and truly being a parent in the heart of the cubs.

Just like how the Mermaid cub had chosen to give his first scale to Xie Tao and not any of the other caretakers.

When the others told him the meaning behind the scale, Xie Tao did not react and only stared blankly at them for a second. He then reached into his pocket.

His fingertips grazed the small scale, it was smooth and cool, like a little piece of jade. Xie Tao could not help but take it out.

With everyone's eyes on him, Xie Tao opened his hand and looked down at the scale laying in the middle of his palm and for a moment he was speechless.

The ice blue scale shed by the Mermaid cub seemed especially transparent and beautiful under the indoor lighting. Xie Tao had planned on collecting all the other scales Gale shed as well. But now that he knew the significance of the scales, he was much more careful when handling it.

The little mermaid thought of him as a parent...?

Looking at the ice blue scale in his hand and thinking this, Xie Tao suddenly felt like that small scale gained weight for no reason.

At the same time, he recalled another thing--

Because the Mermaid cub could not speak and could only issue low monotone sounds together with the sound of air being pushed out, one needed to listen very carefully to distinguish the specific syllables.

Xie Tao thought about the sound the Mermaid cub most frequently made, the sound that was the clearest and that the cub put most effort into...

After feeding the cubs with the other three caretakers, Xie Tao went back to the staff quarters and opened the small wooden box.

In the box still laid a few rice-sized crystals. Xie Tao looked at the ice blue scale in his hand and then carefully placed it in the box, closed the lid, and put it back at his bedside.

Xie Tao then turned around to walk back to the cub house. There was something he wanted to confirm.

Hearing the familiar footsteps, the Mermaid cub quickly swam towards the sound. Since he could not leave the pool, he simply leaned against the edge and watched as the human youth approached the pool.

Once Xie Tao walked over and squatted down by the poolside, the Mermaid cub raised his arm and stretched his body to reach out.

A little hand dipping water touched the back of the youth's left hand and the little Mermaid cub with short blond hair then gently grabbed ahold of the youth's finger.

"Ah?" The little cub looked at the youth's left hand, then at his right. Finally, the cub lightly shook the youth's finger back and forth, gazing up at him as he, with a weak voice, made a sound.

It was hard to understand what he wanted by just listening, but Xie Tao could hear that the sound was a question and together with the cub's movements, he was able to figure out what the cub most probably wanted to ask him.

"I have placed the scale in a wooden box for safekeeping. I will properly take care of it for you." Xie Tao explained it to the cub. He did not pull back his finger that was being held and instead lifted his other hand to touch the cub's soft hair.

"Ah~"

The Mermaid cub's tail swayed beneath the surface, the fin moving left to right as he quickly made a joyful sound.

The youth had accepted his first scale and had said that he would take good care of it, this of course made the Mermaid cub very happy.

Because it made the cub able to feel his parent's love.

The Mermaid cub wanted now, more than ever, to call out to the youth in front of him.

"Pa..."

The first sound was mostly air. Hearing this, the cub stopped. But after a few seconds, he called out again and much stronger this time.

"Pa-" Azure eyes were gazing up at the youth. The Mermaid cub had gathered all of his strength to produce this one sound and after he called out, he quietly waited for the youth's reaction.

You could hear how much effort was put into it and the tone was clearer than before. But it seemed to be the limit of what the Mermaid cub could currently accomplish.

Xie Tao had pondered on the meaning of the syllable many times before. Especially when the cub made an extra effort to pronounce this one syllable to him; it had really made him wonder what the sound meant.

Because the cub had always looked at him with eyes filled with expectation after he had finish pronouncing the syllable, Xie Tao had mistakenly thought that the cub was asking for something...

This matter had worried him up until today, but even though he had thought about it a lot, he had never been able to figure out what it was that the cub wanted.

He had feared that he had overlooked something important that the cub needed, and that it could have bad consequences.

But, now, Xie Tao finally understood.

"En." He nodded and smiled gently at the cub who was expectantly looking up at him.

Hearing his response, the Mermaid cub's tail swayed even happier and the little hand's grip around Xie Tao's finger tightened as the cub tried to make the two syllables clearer and coherent, "Pa...ah..."

It would be seen that the cub was trying very hard and even though the second syllable failed to be pronounced correctly, Xie Tao now understood it.

The Mermaid cub wanted to call him "Papa". The expectant look he had after calling out to him was because he wanted him to respond to it.

"En." Xie Tao answered with a warm voice and nodded, responding for the second time.

After becoming aware of the fact that the Mermaid cub was trying to say "Papa", Xie Tao had, for a moment, unexpectedly had the feeling of being quite unprepared.

But seeing the cub try so hard to pronounce these two syllables for him, Xie Tao at once became soft-hearted.

Even if the Mermaid cub could only pronounce one syllable in a coherent voice, he would certainly respond each time he heard it.

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Translator's note:

I have officially died. It was a combo of exams, last minute translating and the super-duper-too much for me to handle-sweet-adorable-heartwarming-ness in this chapter.  _(:_」∠)_

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