SGT CH79: Spiritual Grooming

◎The Imperial Concubine became his Male Sovereign, completely bound with him◎

The Tianjia Empire possessed the most powerful military. The supreme commander, the Tianjia Emperor, was SSS-class, with battle power at the known universe’s ceiling.

Under the leadership of such a formidable ruler, the Tianjia Empire became increasingly domineering and unrestrained.

The various nations of the universe had long suffered under Tianjia.

This time, due to the Male Bill, turmoil emerged within the Tianjia Empire.

The old rival next door, the Zerg, took the opportunity to launch war.

Other nations also united and joined the war, wanting a piece of the pie.

The Male Bill was still being refined, military morale was scattered, and the frontline was in crisis.

They urgently needed a general who could stabilize military morale to go to the frontline and lead troops in battle.

The Tianjia Emperor decided to go to war personally.

“Isn’t Your Majesty waiting for the new bill to be promulgated before departing?”

Mousse dressed him in military uniform.

“Too late. To revise and refine all the bills will take at least two days. If I don’t go to preside, many soldiers will die in these two days.”

The Tianjia Emperor had to go to the frontline, except…

“The Empress coronation ceremony I originally prepared for Si Si will have to be postponed.”

Some regret emerged in the Tianjia Emperor’s eyes.

He should have held the coronation ceremony earlier.

With this trip, Si Si would have to wait many more days to become his Empress.

Even if delayed by just one day, the Tianjia Emperor felt uneasy.

“This isn’t urgent.”

Mousse didn’t care about the coronation ceremony.

Since he decided to become the Tianjia Emperor’s Male Sovereign, this wouldn’t change.

It was enough for them to regard each other as partners.

Anyway… compared to Imperial Concubine, Empress just sounded better.

Essentially, both were mascots of the royal family, with no real power.

Not as useful as his A-class spiritual grooming license.

Speaking of which, he should be able to upgrade to S-class spiritual groomer now.

Thinking of this, Mousse suggested:
“I’ll accompany Your Majesty to the frontline. The military happens to be short of spiritual groomers.”

Spiritual groomers were always needed.

Especially during wartime.

But the Tianjia Emperor rejected him.

“No, not this time.”

“Why?” Mousse didn’t understand.

With his mental power strength and grooming ability, he could definitely be of great use during wartime. The Tianjia Emperor actually refused.

“This battle is different from the past, more dangerous. I can’t stay by your side to protect you all the time.”

Mousse wanted to say he didn’t need protection; he could just stay with the medical team.

The Tianjia Emperor added: “If you’re in the military, you’ll distract me.”

Just thinking that his Imperial Concubine was in the military, possibly attacked by enemy fire at any time, the Tianjia Emperor couldn’t calmly command.

“This is Your Majesty’s problem.”

The Tianjia Emperor wasn’t calm and rational enough.

Mousse also knew this situation was urgent, so he didn’t insist, only saying:
“Alright, I won’t go to the frontline to disturb you. However, military females with severe mental disorder will be sent back to rear hospitals for treatment, right? I can go to the hospital to perform spiritual grooming for them.”

Groomers who could treat damaged spiritual domains were rare.

For military females with severe mental disorder, what treatment was there?

Helping them end their suffering was all the Empire could do for them.

But the method the Imperial Concubine proposed was indeed worth trying.

There wouldn’t be worse results anyway.

The Tianjia Emperor said: “I’ll have them send severely ill military females to the Capital Military District Hospital. You… do what you can. Bring more guards to protect yourself.”

“Okay.” Mousse agreed.

Before leaving, the Tianjia Emperor held Mousse’s hands and looked at him seriously:
“After the war victory, I’ll return to hold an Empress coronation ceremony for Si Si. I’ll crown you personally.”

[No, don’t raise a flag!]
[And it’s “After the war ends, we’ll get married/hold a wedding ceremony,” this kind of iconic death flag…]
[As everyone knows, characters who say this kind of thing have a ninety percent chance of dying in battle.]

Mousse caught sight of the bullet comments, and his grip on the Tianjia Emperor’s hand tightened.

As a male with powerful mental force, he believed more than other Tianjia in certain mysterious inductions and omens.

That was often a mental warning.

“Your Majesty, don’t say such things…”

Mousse pressed his lips together, pondering a way to break the situation.

If “getting married after the war ends” was an ominous omen, then… what about getting married in advance?

Becoming Aix’s Male Sovereign in advance.

Mousse said: “Your Majesty, let’s get married now, right now I’ll become your Male Sovereign.”

The Tianjia Emperor was both surprised and troubled.

“But the coronation ceremony…”

There wasn’t enough time to hold a coronation ceremony.

“Don’t need a ceremony, just register.” Mousse said.

This actually seemed workable.

The Tianjia Emperor had new thoughts opened.

Both allowing the Imperial Concubine to become his Male Sovereign, completely bound with him, and able to complete it before heading to the frontline.

So, the Tianjia Emperor spent a few minutes taking photos and registering with Mousse on StarNet.

The Tianjia Emperor wore the supreme commander’s military uniform, Mousse wore brightly colored ceremonial clothing. Both Tianjia had extremely high looks and looked especially matching standing together.

Registration complete.

The Tianjia Emperor looked at his personal information page, where the Male Sovereign column now showed Mousse’s name. He was so happy he couldn’t suppress the corners of his mouth.

“Si Si, you’re my Male Sovereign now. The coronation ceremony will wait until I return to make up for…”

Mousse covered the Tianjia Emperor’s mouth, blocking his following words.

“Your Majesty, please stop talking. Things are good like this now. Go.”

Mousse pushed the Tianjia Emperor outward, urging him to leave.

The Tianjia Emperor took a step, then looked back at him.

Mousse stood at the palace gate smiling at him, waving a goodbye gesture.

The Tianjia Emperor felt slightly melancholic.

He hadn’t even left yet and already missed him.

Usually, it was males who couldn’t bear females leaving, clinging to females and not letting go.

How did it become reversed with them?

The Tianjia Emperor wasn’t used to this weak emotion.

He quickly collected his emotions, withdrew his gaze, turned around, and strode onto the aircraft.

Mousse watched the aircraft depart, until the Chief of Attendants reminded him the wind was picking up, only then did he realize he’d stood at the gate too long.

He was actually a little worried.

The Tianjia Emperor’s strength was formidable, but his mental condition wasn’t optimistic.

High-intensity combat would increase his mental burden.

But as commander, the Tianjia Emperor should be presiding over command in the main ship, not needing to fight personally, right?

Remembering the Tianjia Emperor’s experience of disguising his identity just to personally go to the battlefield.

Mousse felt even less assured.

He could only use the terminal to remind the Tianjia Emperor to pay attention to his spiritual domain condition.

“I won’t perform spiritual grooming for you.”

Mousse emphasized.

The Tianjia Emperor, just entering the military aviation port and boarding the warship, saw this sentence.

Even though Si Si had accepted him and become his Male Sovereign, he still refused to perform spiritual grooming for him.

This was good.

As an SSS-class military female, his spiritual domain was difficult to enter and extremely dangerous.

With the passage of time and deterioration of mental state, it would become increasingly dangerous.

The Tianjia Emperor didn’t want his Si Si to take this risk either.

He would try his best to suppress the chaotic spiritual domain by himself and try to live long.

To accompany his Si Si one day at a time.

·

Mousse departed for the Military District Hospital.

Last night, he learned about the current situation of military females with mental disorder.

Military females who completely lost reason and thoroughly went berserk were euthanized.

Military females struggling between intermittent madness and lucidity were arranged in the critical care ward of the Military District Hospital, waiting for death.

Yes, waiting for death.

The hospital wouldn’t arrange spiritual groomers to treat them.

Military females in this state had extremely chaotic spiritual domains with strong aggression, very likely to harm the male consciousness performing spiritual grooming.

Males were rare, males who could perform spiritual grooming for high-level females were even rarer, and most were monopolized by the powerful.

Naturally, the hospital wouldn’t risk using precious males for this.

Learning that the Imperial Concubine, soon to be Empress, Mousse-dono, was coming to the hospital to perform spiritual grooming for critical military females.

The leaders of the Military District Hospital were all frightened.

“If something happens to the Imperial Concubine, who can bear the Emperor’s blame?”

The Vice Dean anxiously paced, wanting to send the distinguished male about to arrive back.

The Dean had a different view.

“His Highness the Imperial Concubine is S-class, the only S-class male. Most critical military females here are A-class. His Highness the Imperial Concubine is sufficient to suppress them.”

“That’s true, but what if? What if something happens, the lives of all Tianjia in the Capital Military District Hospital combined won’t be enough to appease the Emperor!”

The Vice Dean gradually felt something was off.

“Why are you so calm? Did the Emperor give instructions?”

“Ahem, indeed there were instructions. More importantly, I was once at Mercury Fortress and saw His Highness the Imperial Concubine treating military females.”

With his own power, maintaining the mental stability of millions of military females at the frontline.

The name Mousse could be said to be a legend in the military.

In those five years Mousse was at Mercury Fortress, not a single military female in the First Military District died from mental rampage.

Even many military districts sent their untreatable military females from afar to Mercury Fortress, just to obtain one spiritual grooming from Mousse.

Previously, Mousse was about to undergo physiological awakening.

The commanders of major military districts nearly fought each other to compete for his guiding rights and marriage rights.

If the Tianjia Emperor hadn’t suddenly intervened, calling the military district commanders into the palace for a beating, and forcefully claimed Mousse as his own.

This “war” among military districts would have continued.

“Is it really that miraculous?”

The Vice Dean had also heard of Mousse’s deeds, but he thought those were exaggerations by the First Legion for publicity, only listening to those contents as stories, not taking them seriously.

“It will only be more miraculous. His Highness the Imperial Concubine was only A-class back then, but now he’s S-class.”

Of course, believing in the Imperial Concubine was one thing; what needed to be instructed still needed to be instructed.

The Dean ordered: “Give all critical military females anesthesia, put on suppressors. During treatment, if there’s any aggressive tendency… shoot to kill immediately!”

·

As soon as Mousse arrived at the Military District Hospital, he received a warm welcome from the entire hospital.

The Dean led hundreds of uniformly dressed doctors to greet him, a grand procession almost blocking the road.

All Tianjia looked at him with curiosity and admiration, as if he were some national treasure.

Mousse wasn’t used to this scene, feeling somewhat troubled:
“I’m here to perform spiritual grooming. Just take me directly to see the patients.”

“Yes, yes, yes. Please.” The Dean bowed and led the way for him.

“Also, I only treat critically ill military females on the verge of death.”

Mousse lowered his eyes and said softly:
“I’m only responsible for letting them live a bit longer. After that, if they die because of this mental treatment…”

If when the mental plague arrived, they died because of him…

Mousse couldn’t manage that much. Living one more day was one more day.

The Dean was surprised at the Imperial Concubine’s requirement.

But after thinking about it, he agreed.

“Of course, those sent to you are those other groomers cannot solve.”

The Imperial Concubine had limited energy and couldn’t possibly perform spiritual grooming for all military females.

The Imperial Concubine chose to treat the most difficult to save.

Because other military females could be handed to other groomers for treatment, but for critical cases, besides the Imperial Concubine, no groomer could save them.

Mousse didn’t know what the Dean misunderstood.

He just didn’t want to cause the death of military females who could otherwise live because of himself.

For the entire next day, Mousse stayed at the Military District Hospital performing spiritual grooming.

Not much different from what he used to do in the military.

But because of the level upgrade, it obviously felt much easier and more handy.

Treating one critical A-class military female only took five minutes.

He could even multitask, treating several military females simultaneously.

Mousse spent only half a day treating all critical military females in the Capital Military District Hospital.

By afternoon, hospitals on various planets of the Empire all knew that His Highness the Imperial Concubine was at the Capital Hospital, providing free spiritual grooming for critically ill females.

And he accepted all comers; as long as they were sent before him, he would treat them.

More and more hospitals sent critical females to the Capital.

“Your Highness, you’ve been busy all day. Please rest.”

The Dean urged for the umpteenth time.

In one day, he groomed over a thousand critical military females.

This workload was too heavy.

The Emperor instructed him to protect the Imperial Concubine.

If the Imperial Concubine got exhausted, the Emperor would tear him apart.

Of course, even if the Emperor didn’t blame him, the Dean himself couldn’t bear to see the Imperial Concubine tired.

A groomer like the Imperial Concubine was an absolute national treasure and couldn’t be harmed in the slightest.

Mousse glanced at the time and found it was already evening.

There were many messages from the Tianjia Emperor on the terminal.

He was busy doing spiritual grooming and didn’t notice at all, not replying to a single one.

Mousse stood up, moved his somewhat stiff neck, and said:
“I’ll come again tomorrow, uh… in the afternoon.”

“Not urgent, not urgent. Your Highness please rest more.”

The Dean only thought the Imperial Concubine needed rest in the morning.

Mousse actually planned to set up a spiritual grooming room in the square in front of the palace in the morning, providing free spiritual grooming for all critical Tianjia.

Regardless of female or male.

On the way back to the palace, Mousse sat in the aircraft, his head resting against the window, drowsy.

Half-dreaming and half-awake, he sensed something, opened his eyes, and saw below, in the square in front of the palace, a large crowd had gathered.

Coming this fast?

No, wait. He hadn’t released the news about providing free spiritual grooming in the square yet.

“What are they doing?” Mousse asked in confusion.

The Guard Captain looked down, his expression changed slightly. After hesitating, he still answered softly:
“Protesting the Male Bill.”

Mousse was stunned.

He expected many Tianjia would oppose the Male Bill, but seeing this scene still surprised him.

The Guard Captain inquired: “Should I expel them?”

Mousse shook his head and asked a question with an obvious answer:
“Are there many Tianjia in the Empire opposed to the Male Bill?”

The Guard Captain hesitated.

Mousse: “I want the truth.”

“…Many. Close to eighty percent of Tianjia females oppose it.”

In the parliament, eighty percent of members voted in favor.

But in reality, eighty percent of the Empire’s females opposed the Male Bill.

No wonder the Tianjia Emperor immediately departed for the frontline, unable to wait even the last two days for the new bill revision.

Mousse looked at the messages on the terminal.

The Tianjia Emperor sent a lot of content, but all concerned whether he ate properly, dressed warmly, telling him not to tire himself out.

Not a single mention of his own difficulties.

More and more Tianjia gathered in front of the square.

Outside the Capital on various planets, and on StarNet, many such Tianjia gathered, opposing the Male Bill.

Mousse was silent for a moment, exited the chat page, and found the communication group created on the day of the males’ gathering.

Mumu: Partners, I need your help.
White Gloves: Just say what you want to do. With our relationship, there’s nothing we won’t help with.
Raspberry Cookie: Pause gameplay, Mumu is looking for me. Oops, how did voice input activate.
Little Mushroom: Sounds like a big deal. Count me in.
…

Mumu: I need you to lend me your mental power.

With Mousse’s S-class mental power, it was enough to cover the entire Capital Star.

But for what he wanted to do, this was far from enough.

He needed more mental power, enough to weave a mental network covering the Empire’s twelve star systems.

This required borrowing the power of all males in the Empire.

Mousse spread his mental power, connecting with his friends and also connecting with one strange male after another.

A mental network covering the entire Tianjia Empire formed silently.

【Everyone, thank you for lending me your mental power.】
【Now, please pull all the females around you into the mental network.】

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