Li Hua, an adolescent human with a kind heart who met an untimely demise, much like most protagonists in system-transmigration novels, was unexpectedly recruited by the Space-Time Administration af...
Chapter 244 Chapter 244 Frog Doesn't Understand
Good news: Albedo was not hurt.
Bad news: Albedo was scared.
Albedo, who was attacked by the abnormal species, instinctively slapped the dial, and the head of the Ultimate Tyrannosaurus Rex directly hit the ceiling.
When Benjamin and Jason, awakened by the noise, rushed out of their room, leaping over the hole in the hallway and the broken chairs in the first-floor hallway, and arrived at the living room, they saw the Ultimate God-Rex bending over, its arm transformed into a cannon barrel pointing at a humanoid creature in the living room. "You didn't tell me we'd have visitors here so late at night."
Benjamin turned on the light in the living room and found Li Hua standing there with an expression fluctuating between shock and embarrassment.
Benjamin:......
Jason:......
Okay, I guess I know what's going on.
Li Hua, who was doing crawling exercises in the living room late at night without turning on the lights, probably to save electricity, ran into Albedo who came down to the attic. The two people who didn't turn on the lights were scared by each other.
Jason sighed. "That's not a visitor. That's Li Hua."
Albedo: "How can a human crawl on all fours? Either his soul is in trouble again, or some kind of alien parasite has infected and taken over his brain."
"Or maybe I was just exercising," Li Hua said guiltily. "I didn't mean to swing the chair at you... Who told you not to turn on the lights in the hallway and shine a red light up at my face?"
"I heard this unhuman noise late at night, so of course I pre-activated the Ultimatrix's transformation program when I went to investigate," Albedo said. "So, what exactly are you?"
"I never thought I'd support Albedo one day... but he really is Li Hua," Benjamin said. "Crawling on the ground does help with exercise and relieve stress, but Li Hua sometimes can't bring himself to crawl in front of others or with the lights on, so he practices in the living room at night."
Jason sighed, "Albedo, you're not the only one who got scared to death when he came downstairs late at night. It's just that the two of us have become accustomed to the noise he makes."
Besides, Li Hua didn't do this every day. He usually did it to relax his mind and tired lumbar spine when he was under a lot of pressure. For a moment, everyone forgot to tell Albedo about this.
The result is like what happened today, randomly scaring away a Gavin alien who was staying overnight.
"...I don't understand how you humans on Earth exercise." Albedo, whose heart rate soared in fear, turned back into a human and asked unhappily, "But doesn't this house have a basement that's been converted into a gym? If you want to hide your tracks, why don't you exercise there?"
Do I have to exercise in the living room?
Li Hua touched his head and said, "Because I'm used to it. Besides, after crawling in the living room, I can just lie down on the sofa and rest for a while, and then have some midnight snacks or something."
"So, is there nothing else?" Jason yawned. "If nothing else, I'll go back to sleep."
"Sorry, everyone go back to bed. I'll clean up the broken chairs and go to sleep," Li Hua said. "I'll go find materials to patch the hole in the ceiling tomorrow morning."
When Benjamin and Jason returned to the house, Li Hua, who was cleaning up the broken pieces of the chair, noticed beads of sweat on Albedo's forehead. "You're sweating all over. Are you okay?"
"Even though Earthlings are physically fragile, I won't be scared to death by a little Earthling like you," Albedo said. "This is the result of my training. I came down here just to wash off this stinky sweat."
When he walked near the stairs, he heard a strange noise, so he hung his towel and clothes on the stair railing.
Li Hua:?
Albedo: "Why? Do you think I can tolerate the stinking smell every day like that guy Benjamin?"
"Actually, Ben showers every day... but honestly, it's not the showering that's puzzling me," Li Hua said in amazement. "You, who eat chili sauce and chips three times a day and never leave your room unless absolutely necessary—a total nerd by human standards—how could you actually exercise? I've never seen you in the basement gym!"
"Then guess how I maintained my stamina in prison, and how I managed to avoid succumbing to weight gain from eating chili fries?" Albedo said. "Since Benjamin really made me unable to resist Earth's junk food, isn't it natural for me to use more intense exercise to burn off excess energy?"
After saying that, Albedo took the clothes from the stair railing and went into the bathroom. Only Li Hua, who was lost in thought, was left in the corridor on the first floor.
Albedo's disgust and complaints about his "junk food addiction"...could it be because he has to spend more time and energy exercising to maintain his physical fitness because of these unhealthy foods?
The next day at noon, Albedo, for the first time ever, did not finish his lunch takeout and return to the attic. Instead, he sat down at the dining table with his hot sauce and chips, and proudly announced:
"My research has made some progress."
He turned the dial of the Ultimatrix, and after a flash of red light, a green-eyed Gavin leaped onto the table. "I have successfully added the Gavin form to the Ultimatrix."
Then, Albedo picked up a pair of chili fries that were almost as long as he was, stuffed the part covered in sauce into his mouth, and sighed, "It's still best to enjoy chili fries in Galvan form!"
Benjamin took a photo of the red-eyed Gavin eating French fries with his phone as evidence, then said righteously, "Look, you're still so fond of spicy French fries even after turning back into a Gavin. So just admit it, you're the one who loves them!"
"So I told you, if you don't understand, just keep quiet. I haven't completely changed back."
A red light flashed, and Albedo turned back into a human form with white hair and red eyes, sitting sideways on the edge of the table.
"I still haven't been able to delete your default DNA from the Ultimatrix. The Gavin form you see is essentially the same as the alien forms you transformed into. They are all just temporary, pre-set forms."
Jason: "So that wasn't your original appearance?"
"Of course not. Even with your Earthling abilities, you can tell it's the body of a child under the age of 18." Albedo said, transforming back into his Gavin form. "But no matter what, it's better than being confined in an Earthling's body."
After being trapped in a human body for so many days, even temporarily returning to Gavin's form was enough to brighten Albedo's mood. He even took the initiative to talk to Li Hua: "Why did you look so grumpy just now? Are you in trouble?"
Li Hua sighed, "Ben invited us to a party the day after tomorrow to celebrate our successful victory in repelling the Evolved Human War and the addition of fourteen new members to the Tennyson family."
Albedo: "Isn't this a good thing?"
Jason held his forehead. "But the problem is, due to some special reasons... we've already laid the foundation for our social death at this party before we even get there."
Those who will be invited over are all members related to the Evolutionary Human Incident, which means that everyone present has seen the scenes of the Magic Boys F3 attacking in various magical boy postures.
Moreover, judging from the fact that the banquet is held in a hotel, there will probably be quite a few people attending.
It is said that the entire Tennyson family came, and Mark also invited some of his old plumber comrades and the students he was currently teaching.
Even today, when Jason thinks of the scene where the Tennysons next door came over with gifts to encourage them to "wear women's clothes if they want and be brave to be themselves", he can't help but clench his toes, let alone in a scene with so many people.
"Don't worry, you two are lucky. How can adding stats like buffs be considered social death?" Benjamin said with a sad face. "But as the biological parent of these fourteen new members, I really need to go on stage and give a speech to explain myself!"
As a parent, he had to explain the origins of his fourteen children of different races.
But for a 15-year-old boy, it was still too stimulating for him, a person with biological and psychological male sex, to publicly admit in front of a large group of relatives, friends, aunts and uncles that he was the biological mother of fourteen children.
The saddest thing is that, apart from Li Hua and Jason, who also experienced severe social death, no one around Benjamin could understand his inner anxiety.
When his parents, grandfather, cousin, good friend Kevin and his girlfriend Julie heard about this, they all laughed happily, completely ignoring his life or death!
"You're the worst off," Li Hua said. "Openly admitting you're a lesbian at a family gathering like this is no different from coming out."
Benjamin froze. Jason, who was drinking Coke, paused. Only Albedo was still eating French fries. "I don't mean to speak for Benjamin, but he is definitely not a sissy."
"Maybe the translator is malfunctioning again." Jason put down the cup in his hand with dignity. "Li Hua, can you turn off the English translator and say the word related to gender again?"
"Male mother, male mother." Li Hua said, "Then you can say whether male mother can also be called male mother."
Benjamin: "But the word you just said was translated as 'femboy', which has no meaning at all. There's something wrong with your translation!"
"If that's his interpretation, then there's really no problem with the word's use here. 'Femboy' in your English is used to mean 'a feminine boy, referring to a boy with feminine appearance or behavior.' You're a biological mother, so is there anything more feminine than this, in Earth's terms?"
Albedo, a rigorous scientist who learned several Earth languages without the help of a translator, said this in confusion.
"Considering that 'coming out' in your Earth language is defined as disclosing one's true sexual orientation or gender identity to family, friends, and others, Benjamin publicly admitted at a family gathering that she is a biologically male mother. Isn't this also coming out?"
Everyone:......
Li Hua, Jason, and Benjamin all took out their mobile phones to search Google and looked up relevant entries, but they couldn't find anything to refute Albedo's words.
Benjamin put down his phone in despair and said, "Albedo, your mouth is so small, how come you can't fill it up even with all those spicy chips?"
"I don't understand why you're angry with me. It's not me who caused the backward and extreme social and cultural environment of Earthlings."
Albedo, an adult Gavin who had seen the vastness of the universe but didn't know much about Earth culture, continued:
"A truly wise person won't dictate the lifestyles others choose that won't hurt or affect others. Just like me, I've never attacked your sexual orientation or gender identity, and when I curse you, I never attack your friends or family. I've always only attacked you personally."
"Like right now—isn't it? Ben Tennyson, you don't even have the courage to come out, let alone talk about saving the universe."
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Author's comment: Albedo: Is that all? Azmis is the parent of all the shapeshifters from Gavin, and no one seems to think there's anything wrong with it. Earthlings just love to cause trouble for themselves.
Albedo's view of humans is probably the same as how we humans view other animals, such as frogs. (Not to mention any discrimination, since Gavin has a lot of communication with other races in the universe, the people of Gavin probably don't think this is a big deal. After all, mushrooms on Earth have over 300 different genders, not to mention other races in the universe.)
Besides, Benjamin's situation was a purely accidental technological development, so there was nothing to worry about. Just when we were thinking about it, Azmis was the one who gave birth to an entire planet.
Albedo looks at Magic Boys F3: These Earth kids are really something, they are making such a fuss about such a small matter.
Azmis looked at Albedo: What a joke this young man is, he's making such a fuss about such a small matter.
Dr. Maodun looked at Azmis: What a joke this old man is, he's jumping around here for such a small matter.
The Outer Heaven Gods looked at Dr. Maodun and said: Tsk, this annoying Time Walker! What's the big deal? Why is he running around here? Get away!
【Catch a bug once】