O Pretends to be B For The Violent Admiral

e was another person on the same floor as you, Admiral — the young Zerg prince who came for the banquet was also resting in his room.
According to him, when he went out to get a drink, he saw a man wearing white.
We checked the time and found that it was indeed within the target range.”

It took so long to confirm the colour of the person’s clothes because it truly was very difficult to contact the Zergs.
Their race lived in another galaxy, and were in constant warfare.

Luo Ran’s heart skipped a beat.

Lucas slapped the table with a sneer.
“Very good!” he exclaimed.
They’d finally found something useful!

“Then I don’t need to teach you what to do next, right? Quickly get a list of names and check them one by one!” Lucas leaned back in his chair, crossing his arms.
“Don’t let a single one go!”

“Yes sir!”

The investigation team had already ruled out a lot of people before, but now with an obvious feature like ‘white clothes’, their list had shortened by quite a bit.

After the captain and Lu Cheng left, Luo Ran glanced at Lucas with a smile.
“Then I’ll go too.”

“Wait.” Lucas frowned at Luo Ran, who wore a simple white suit, and started in a questioning tone, “That day, you…”

With his heart caught in his mouth, Luo Ran somehow kept a calm expression as he asked, “What’s wrong?”

“Did you wear white that day?”

“I didn’t,” Luo Ran replied with lowered eyes, “did you forget, Admiral? I wore blue, an aqua blue.
Adjutant Lu even praised it as very beautiful and said it was special because I usually wear white, not blue.”

Fortunately it was hot that night, Luo Ran thought.
Because of the heat, he’d taken off his white coat when he went upstairs to find Lucas, leaving a blue undershirt.

“…Ah.”

After Luo Ran left, Lucas realized that he was quite stupid.

Tsk, did he go crazy?

Luo Ran was a beta, he had nothing to do with the omega from that day.

He just…

Lucas frowned.
Maybe he just wanted that person to be Luo Ran, so he couldn’t help asking.

He rubbed at his temples.

* * *

Luo Ran plunged back into his work.
At present, the most important thing was to keep up with the investigation team’s progress into the person wearing white.

He thought it over for a long time, and ultimately decided not to step in.

Things weren’t so simple.
Since he was currently hidden in the dark, it might be good to have Lucas keep digging into this, in order to see what the mastermind behind the drugs wanted to do.

Then Luo Ran made another trip to the research institute.

“By the way, I was too busy yesterday, and that blockhead Shen Xiluo kept following me, so I didn’t get the chance to ask.” Xia Zhi had finished collecting all the information and signatures for his reports with Shen Xiluo, so he was now on break, and chose to spend that time pulling Luo Ran into an out-of-the-way corner to chat.
“What’s going on with you and the admiral? You’re dating?”

“…”

Luo Ran was very exasperated that he had to explain this to literally everyone.

“…We’re not.”

“Oh…” Xia Zhi gave a dry smile.
“There was some movement on the blind date network.
I thought you deleted your account because you and the admiral got together.”

“It doesn’t matter if it’s deleted or not.” Luo Ran smiled.
“My parents have been looking around, they put me in contact with another alpha.”

“Hah…?” Xia Zhi stared.
“Y-You’re going on a blind date?”

“Maybe?”

Xia Zhi took a sip of coffee, then said, “Oh, uh… you want to get a partner? Get married?”

“Not as such…” Luo Ran smiled.
“But there’s no need to particularly resist either.”

After drinking half a cup of coffee, Xia Zhi leaned back on his chair with a somewhat subtle expression.
“I thought that you and the admiral… Forget it.”

Luo Ran paused, and couldn’t help asking, “Why does everyone think the admiral and I are together? Even you think so too.
Yes he’s good to me, but not like a lover would be.”

Xia Zhi’s face did something complicated.
“Then does he act like that towards other people?”

Luo Ran stopped short.

“He’s only like this with you, he treats you very well, he obviously likes you a lot.
Besides… you don’t treat others like this either, right?” Xia Zhi asked with a raised eyebrow.
“If an alpha came on to you because of a drug, then planted strawberries on your neck, would you be willing? Could you tolerate it? You’d have already sent them flying, there’s no way they’d be able to take advantage of you.”

Xia Zhi only knew about the hickey situation because Luo Ran went to him for help, asking him for ointment to cover the marks on his lips, wrists, and neck.
But the other thing was…

Luo Ran’s entire body petrified as his eyes widened.

Xia Zhi was torn between laughter and tears.
“You were marked by an SSS alpha but didn’t do anything, yet the admiral is looking for his one-night stand everywhere.
I’m not stupid.
It’s just that you weren’t willing to talk, and this is quite a sensitive thing, so I pretended not to know.”

“…” Luo Ran opened and closed his mouth.
He, who had always been smart, had no idea how to respond.

“Silly Ranran,” Xia Zhi said, “You’ve been with the admiral for too long, you’ve become blind.”

It wasn’t necessarily love, but it also wasn’t necessarily the kind of pure employer-employee relationship Luo Ran thought.

* * *

Luo Ran’s mind was confused even until he returned to the office.

“Luo Ran!” Lucas shouted as soon as he saw Luo Ran and stepped out of his personal office.
“Make me a cup of coffee,” he ordered.

“Yes.” Luo Ran got up immediately, his body moving faster than his brain.

The coffee was done quickly.

After Luo Ran put it on Lucas’ desk, their eyes met for a split second before he quickly looked away.

The atmosphere between them had never calmed ever since they descended from the compatibility scanner.

Luo Ran had been determined to maintain proper distance between them as befitting of an employer and their employee since he acted in front of Lillia, but with the various events since then, he’d let it fall to the wayside.

“Hiss…” Lucas frowned when his shoulder twinged in pain as he reached for the coffee.

Lucas just returned from military HQ, where he was probably training, so his shoulders might have been a little sore.
Luo Ran subconsciously said, “I’ll massage your shoulders for you, Admiral.”

“Okay,” Lucas replied.

Luo Ran stepped forwards, then froze.
He retracted his hand and looked uneasily at Lucas.

Lucas stared back blankly.

A few seconds passed.

“Oh, right.” Luo Ran dug out his terminal.
“Admiral, there are some updates from the investigation team.
According to their investigation, there were 431 male omega that night, of whom 109 have alibis, so we need to chase up 322 people.
Of these, 154 are from the Empire, and 168 are from other places.”

Luo Ran’s tone was solemn, serious, and professional, and he stood upright, just like an excellent subordinate.

Lucas still stared, still blank.

Huh?

Luo Ran continued, “We plan to start investigating from the omega in the Empire.
After all, it’s harder to do things on foreign planets, and would take longer.”

“Hm…?” Lucas, who was gradually being led away, nodded.
“Okay.”

Luo Ran’s voice was steady, with not a hint that anything was wrong.
“As for your schedule tomorrow, Admiral — you have a meeting at the military camp in the morning, a mecha performance in the afternoon, then you have to go back to the office in the evening for a meeting regarding UNK escorts.
I’ll prepare everything for tomorrow, and give you the information for both meetings in advance.”

This way, they didn’t need to meet.

“Okay…?”

“Then, Admiral, I’ll go back first.” Luo Ran smiled at him.
“I’ve already heated your kitchen in the dinner and made a pot of coffee, remember to use it in the morning.”

“Yeah.”

Luo Ran turned and stiffly walked away.

* * *

Five minutes later, Lucas suddenly woke up.

Wait?

Your kitchen in the dinner?

Dinner in the morning????