I Write Novels in a Zerg Prison

【A Legion Commander devoted to lifelong bachelorhood receives an assignment from his superiors: test a romance-raising game. He would never spend money on a Male Zerg, much less a virtual one... until he completely falls for it.】

[Look what I got from my surprise refresh!]

[An-shen started another new novel again?!]

[An-shen is such a workhorse. He had fun playing games yesterday, and today we're already getting a new novel. (Crying from happiness.)]

[Wasn't the one playing with An-shen yesterday the Marshal? I really want to know.]

[Did playing with the Marshal suddenly inspire him? But... what's a romance-raising game? And what's a virtual Male Zerg?]

[What's wrong with the Female Zerg protagonist this time? He won't spend money on a Male Zerg Lord! And what's with "falls for it"? What's so irresistible? The pheromones? So he wants to enjoy the pheromones without paying?! (Furious)]

[Can't he learn from Avis? Or Claire and Enzo if that doesn't work? Why did he have to learn from Iso, who only spent one Star Coin?]

[I seriously suspect the Marshal inhaled An-shen's pheromones without paying. (Weak condemnation.)]

[Condemnation +1.]

"An-shen released a new novel?!"

At the Philor Estate.

A certain pink-haired Male Zerg bolted upright in bed, fumbling around for his terminal.

Cyril happened to be climbing off him. Casually throwing on a robe, he picked up the terminal lying beside them and handed it to his Male Lord.

Philor quickly took it and checked.

His Female Lord was a bit obsessed with his hands. Whenever they were in bed together, he loved playing with Philor's fingers and wrists. If Philor wasn't paying attention, his terminal would get carried off with them, leaving him searching for it after almost every nap.

He was already considering replacing it.

A ring-style terminal didn't seem safe either...

Maybe a necklace or an earring model would be better.

Philor opened the novel page and discovered there was only a synopsis so far.

"A virtual love interest... and a Legion Commander?"

He secretly glanced at the Female Lord beside him.

His Female Lord was also a Legion Commander.

Thinking Philor wanted to show him something, Cyril leaned over to look at the light screen.

His gaze happened to fall upon the comments below, causing him to frown slightly.

What was all this?

The Marshal inhaled a Male Zerg's pheromones without paying?

An-shen, enraged, started a new novel because of it?

And...

Played games with An-shen?

Wasn't the Marshal currently stationed at the Military Region Prison?

He shouldn't have had time for a private date with his current Male Lord.

Come to think of it...

An-shen's location had always shown as the First Military Region.

Yet despite being stationed in the First Military Region for so long, Cyril had never encountered anyone who matched.

A vague suspicion formed in his heart.

Philor snuggled against him and asked,

"Does the Federation have any Legion Commanders who believe in lifelong bachelorhood?"

Cyril himself had once been one.

Looking down at the Male Zerg in his arms, he chuckled, cupped his face, and kissed him again.

Philor: "?"

Had he failed to satisfy his Female Lord?

Philor was shocked by the needs of a pregnant Female Zerg.

Naturally, novels weren't more important than his Female Lord.

Just as he was preparing to make another effort, his Female Lord released him.

As though...

He had simply wanted another kiss.

Still dazed, Philor heard him say,

"The commander of the First Legion, Morris, is a lifelong bachelor."

Since the Marshal had also come from the First Legion, Philor instinctively assumed Cyril meant "General Ulysses."

Only after a moment did he remember.

The First Legion had changed commanders.

Commander Morris.

He also shared an exceptionally close relationship with the Marshal.

One could almost say he had been personally trained and promoted by the Marshal himself.

He was one of the Marshal's most loyal followers.

Philor also remembered that when Cyril had tried to recruit a Psychic Soothing specialist from the First Military Region, Commander Morris had refused to release anyone, relying on the Marshal's backing.

The two sides had nearly fallen out over it.

It suddenly felt to Philor as though his Female Lord had been bullied outside.

His heart ached.

He immediately hugged Cyril.

Cyril: "?"

Female Zergs could never understand what adorable things were constantly going through a Male Zerg's little head.

Holding his Male Lord close, Cyril looked back at the synopsis.

——A Legion Commander devoted to lifelong bachelorhood receives an assignment from his superiors to test a romance-raising game.

Heh.

This "assignment from his superiors"...

Wasn't it something the Marshal had ordered?

Tsk.

How pitiful.

Married Female Zerg Cyril, happily embracing his Male Lord, watched the miserable single commander work himself to death.

...

【Commander Morris was firmly committed to lifelong bachelorhood.

Even someone like his commanding officer hadn't escaped marriage unscathed.

How could he possibly fare any better?

It was best to stay away from Male Zergs.

Getting close to Male Zergs only led to misery.

Then...

While undergoing closed-door military training...

Morris received an assignment from his superiors.

——Test a romance-raising game.

Along with the assignment came a game pod.

Morris: "...?"

His commanding officer had apparently finally lost his mind.

Treating every mission with absolute seriousness, Morris suppressed his confusion, returned to his quarters, and logged into the game, which was still in closed beta, to investigate.

『Import body data?』

Yes.

『Customize your virtual love interest?』

『Customize』『Random』

Random.

...

The endless white space transformed into a tiny, empty room.

There was only a simple single bed.

A plain table and chair.

A small window covered by blue plaid curtains.

It looked like the bedroom of a Female Zerg hatchling from a lower-class planet.

So...

Was this his room?

Had his identity randomly become that of a Female Zerg from a lower-class planet?

Morris had enjoyed virtual games in his youth.

He was familiar with settings like this.

The opening wasn't ideal...

But that wasn't a problem.

Next...

He simply needed to enter a military academy.

Complete his training.

Head to the battlefield.

Accumulate military achievements.

Earn promotions.

Climb steadily upward.

Normally, once every battlefield had been conquered and he'd reached the highest military rank, the game would more or less be over.

But...

This was supposed to be...

A romance-raising game.

Something involving Male Zergs.

By the end...

He would probably be rewarded with an opportunity to meet a high-ranking Male Zerg.

The Male Zerg would sit high above him in a magnificent chair...

Granting him permission to kneel in loyalty.

...

Just imagining it was enough to kill all interest.

He no longer even felt motivated to earn promotions.

Just then—

The door creaked open.

A caramel milk tea-colored head appeared first.

Then...

A pair of startled blue eyes.

A Male Zerg.

A young Male Zerg.

Morris was just as stunned.

The Male Zerg had appeared far too early.

He hadn't even accumulated any military achievements yet.

If a Female Zerg from a lower-class planet with no military merits encountered a Male Zerg...

At best, he'd become a Female Attendant.

That was only because the Federation no longer permitted Female Slaves.

Otherwise...

He would have been forcibly claimed as one.

Forced to serve a Male Zerg for the rest of his life.

Never standing back up again.

Morris' expression darkened.

The Male Zerg wasn't in much better shape.

He stared at Morris with fear and vigilance, gripping the doorknob tightly while hiding half his body behind the door.

"Who are you? Why are you in my room?!"

The Male Zerg demanded sternly.

Morris frowned.

"This... is your room?"

He looked around the cramped, modest room before looking back at the Male Zerg.

He couldn't believe a Male Zerg actually lived somewhere like this.

"Of course it's my room! Whose else would it be? Yours?"

The Male Zerg glared angrily at the high-ranking Female Zerg who had broken into his home.

He hadn't robbed him yet...

But there wasn't much difference.

Morris realized he had probably misunderstood the game's setting.

This wasn't his residence.

It belonged to the Male Zerg.

Then...

Where was his own home?

And why had the game dropped him directly into a Male Zerg's house?

Was this a bug?

Closed beta games really were unstable.

Lost in thought, Morris stood there absentmindedly.

The Male Zerg had been completely ignored.

He became furious.

Putting on a fierce front despite his fear, he declared,

"If you don't leave right now, I'll report you to the Male Zerg Association!"

The Male Zerg Association on a lower-class planet wasn't particularly useful.

Most of them merely muddled through their jobs.

Still...

It was sometimes enough to frighten people.

The black-haired high-ranking Female Zerg glanced at him and walked toward the doorway.

The Male Zerg hurriedly stepped aside.

The Female Zerg walked past him without causing any harm and left the house.

The Male Zerg let out a long sigh of relief.

He hurriedly shut the bedroom door.

Then the front door as well.

Even though those wooden doors were little more than toys to a Female Zerg—something that could be pushed open with a single shove...

At least they provided some psychological comfort.

The Male Zerg quietly moved to the window and peeked outside through the decorative glass.

The high-ranking Female Zerg was still standing there by the roadside, seemingly deep in thought.

The Male Zerg gripped his terminal tightly.

He had already filled in an emergency distress message.

All he had to do was press send.

Although the Female Zerg didn't appear to have any intention of hurting him...

The mere appearance of a powerful, unfamiliar high-ranking Female Zerg near his home represented danger in itself.

Morris checked his terminal.

He knew the Male Zerg was secretly watching him.

This Male Zerg's living conditions were even worse than he had imagined.

The house had only one floor.

Three rooms.

A bedroom.

An entrance hall.

A kitchen.

Everything could be seen at a glance.

The outside environment was just as bleak and desolate.

There were scarcely any trees.

Only a handful of scattered houses stood in the distance.

If people hadn't actually lived here...

Morris would have thought he had landed on a deserted planet.

He opened his own character profile.

Name: Morris

Identity: Commander of the First Military Region (Currently Missing)

Excellent.

He was still himself.

But what exactly did "currently missing" mean?

How could a Legion Commander go missing?

Did that mean...

He couldn't return?

Feeling the anxious gaze of the Male Zerg behind him, Morris exited the game.

...】

[Heavens... a Male Zerg actually lives in an environment like that? What were the developers thinking?]

[It was random! The player totally neglected his settings. He should've maxed out every parameter during character creation.]

[Commander Morris went too far! He actually frightened the Male Zerg Lord! He scared him half to death!]

[I don't think he was that harsh... He just wasn't particularly gentle? Besides, he never imagined somewhere like that would be a Male Zerg's home.]

[Maybe he didn't show it outwardly, but just look at his inner thoughts! "Getting close to Male Zergs only leads to misery." What a completely heretical mindset!]

[I feel like both that line and "Even his commanding officer couldn't escape marriage unscathed" are An-shen using Morris to hint at the Marshal while taking a jab at the ex.]

[Can't really argue with that. The ex doesn't have much of a defense on that point.]

[An-shen really likes the Marshal now, doesn't he? It's becoming incredibly obvious.]

[But he still wrote from Morris' perspective, "My commanding officer has finally gone insane." Hahaha. The Marshal's definitely going to have words.]

[Will An-shen get lectured... or will the Legion Commander?]

[Would the Marshal ever lecture An-shen? If anything, he'd do it gently—with his eyes, his body, and his pheromones. As for the Legion Commander... light a candle for him. Moment of silence.]

[Moment of silence.]

[Nooo... (pitiful) Is the Legion Commander ever going to play again? I really want to see that Male Zerg Lord. A young Male Zerg living under such terrible conditions must have such a hard life. My heart hurts.]

[Even though I know it's just the game's setting, I still hope the Male Zerg Lord gets to live a happy life.]

[Commander, please, just play a little longer. If you really don't want to, then give me your closed beta access instead.]

[Does this game actually exist? I couldn't find anything remotely similar.]

[It's only the story from An-shen's novel. We can't actually play it. An-shen, please write more. Begging you.]

...

【While supervising the training of the Female Zerg soldiers under his command, Morris couldn't resist opening his terminal again.

The terminal could connect to the game.

However, it only displayed a light screen from a god's-eye perspective.

He couldn't appear before the Male Zerg.

Nor could he personally experience the world anymore.

On the screen...

The Male Zerg was cooking.

Morris watched him take out fruits and vegetables that had clearly been stored for far too long.

He washed them.

Chopped them.

The produce was shriveled.

Obviously no longer fresh.

Morris frowned slightly as he watched the Male Zerg carefully cook the meal, finish every last bite with obvious appreciation, and then wash the dishes himself.

Male Zergs on Capital Star would never eat food like that.

Even the freshest, most exquisite cuisine was something they constantly found fault with.

Yet this Male Zerg not only ate stale produce...

He cooked it himself.

Washed the dishes himself.

Did the laundry himself.

Swept the floor himself...

And even had to leave home to work.

There wasn't a single Female Zerg in the house to care for him.

Not even a service robot.

That caramel milk tea-colored hair looked dull and dusty amid the yellow sands, completely unremarkable.

Yet his eyes were brilliant.

A vivid sky blue.

As though they carried all his freedom...

And all his dreams.

Morris opened the Male Zerg's character panel.

Name: Roy

Sex: Male

Age: 18

Family: Younger Female Zerg brother Remy (9)

...

A teenage Male Zerg.

Raising an even younger Female Zerg hatchling.

No adult relatives whatsoever.

Struggling to survive alone on such a backward lower-class planet.

Morris was still reading the profile...

When the Male Zerg slipped while climbing a dirt slope to pick a thorn-covered fruit.

He tumbled down.

His knee scraped against the ground.

Sitting on the dirt, the Male Zerg rolled his pant leg above ✧ NоvеIight ✧ (Original source) his knee, brushed the sand from the wound as best he could, then shakily climbed back to his feet.

Limping...

He continued climbing the slope.

Morris' brows knitted together.

He reached up to close the character information window...

But accidentally opened the in-game shop instead.

Bandage — Price: 1 Game Coin.

Healing Solution — Price: 10 Game Coins.

Morris: "..."

He was absolutely not spending money on a Male Zerg.

Much less...

A virtual Male Zerg.

It was nothing more than a string of data.

...】

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