That Alien Feeling

Planet: Kaluvia

"Your Highness, His Royal Highness Prince Xien'enhe' Weheli of the Third Clan seeks to see you." Borg'Gonton knew.

Harry looked up.He was just looking at a 3D model of the Earth.He was supposed to update the database with new information about Earthlings, but instead he stared at a 3D model and thought about it for almost half an hour.Or, rather, he was staring blankly at a small island above.

It took a while for Harry to come back to his senses: "Ask him to come in." He straightened up and looked towards the door.He couldn't wait to see Sean.They were born in the same year and grew up together, and Harry has always regarded him as his closest friend.Moreover, in less than two years, Sean will be 25 years old, and the child contract between him and Harry's eldest brother will be converted into a marriage contract, and they will be a family by then.When Harry returned to Calluvia from Earth, Sean happened to be going to another planet for a while, and Harry was disappointed.He wanted to talk to someone he could trust completely, and Sean was the only one who wouldn't judge him, and the others couldn't tell.

The door opened quietly, and Shane walked in, as elegant as ever.Harry smiled.

Sean's green eyes lit up at the sight of Harry.

"Hacht." Sean released the induction and connected with Harry.Harry wanted so much to give him a firm hug, but he resisted the urge to hug Sean back telepathically.Sean's vibes were as silvery as his hair, excited and short-tempered, as always.Sean is keen on socializing and always restless. He likes to meet new people and make friends.He has always dared to love and hate.Harry was a mild-tempered person, and he had always felt that living like Sean must be tiring, but recently... he understood Sean better.I understand more.

"I almost suspected that you were kidnapped by the savages of Day Trip Three." Sean said with a grin.

Harry frowned and gave him a sensory twitch. "Talents on Earth are not barbaric. Don't be so arrogant. Besides, I've been back for a long time. It's you who went to other planets. Don't blame me."

Sean wrinkled his nose and smiled sheepishly. "Uh, I was quite arrogant just now. Fortunately, you remind me when I am arrogant."

"You must have been influenced by Keza." Harry chuckled.This time it was Shane who used induction to beat him. "Don't mention it, and don't make jokes." He scowled, and sat down heavily beside Harry. "If one day I become like Keza, I allow you to kill me."

"Sorry." Harry understood that this was Sean's sore spot.He patted Sean on the shoulder, "Well, he's not that nasty anymore."

Sean snorted dismissively. "He's your brother, of course you said that. Never mind, I'm not here to discuss that bastard." He looked at Harry curiously. "What's the matter with you, Hachter?"

"Harry," said Harry. "I'm used to the name, and I love it."

Shane just nodded. "Then, what's the matter? Your aura is very negative."

Harry sighed, removed the 3D image of Earth with a wave, and opened the security in the room.

"What's that for?" Sean asked.

Without a word, Harry turned off the surveillance camera and looked at his friend. "There is no bond between me and Leilan 'Heaney' Gul."

"What—you're not kidding me, are you?" Sean's eyes widened.No wonder he was surprised, this kind of thing was unheard of.

Harry nodded. "When I was on Earth, I could feel it gradually weakening, and then it seemed to break. Maybe it was like this? Actually, it was the night before my parents called me back." He recalled that night, and it was easy to control it. I didn't blush.He speeded up his speech: "I thought Bond would recover after I came back, just like my sense of kinship, but it's been 22 days, and there is no change at all. I don't know what will happen."

Shane frowned. "Did you talk to Leilan 'Heaney' Gul about this? Can she still feel the bond over there?"

Harry shook his head. "She is still at the boarding school on the second planet in the Manuel system, and she can only be contacted in emergencies." He hesitated, "I don't know if I should tell others."

Sean raised an eyebrow. "Why not? As long as you find a spiritualist, you can definitely rebuild your bond. I mean, it's almost always on your mind, so it won't be too difficult."

"I..." Harry bit his lip and looked around the room, inexplicably suspicious that someone was eavesdropping. "I'm not sure I want to rebuild the bond."

The room was quiet.

With some difficulty Harry mustered up the courage to look back at Sean.He found Sean staring at him.

"Okay," Sean drawled, "who are you? What did you do to my buddy? Every time I complain about my bond with your brother you make fun of me, and now you suddenly don't want to Bonding? You have always had a good relationship with Leilan 'Heaney' Goole."

Harry sighed. "It's just..." He scratched his hair with one hand. "It feels better without the bond. I feel like I was deaf before. Now all my senses are more sensitive." That's true.The world is much more alive, with brighter colors, senses are sharpened, and telepathy is stronger.He feels better, more empowered, and more than that.He had never rejected the bond before, but now he found a part of himself that had been stripped away.He couldn't imagine going back to that state.

However, if he re-established the bond, maybe he wouldn't... hurt so much inside him.Apparently, his negativity was much stronger now, too.

"I don't understand," said Harry. "Why do bonds weaken our senses? We've always heard bonds make us better."

Sean looked away, frowning his pale eyebrows.

When he spoke again, there was temptation in his voice. "Last year I heard some rumors on Byrne Star... I thought it was all nonsense, but... maybe it's true."

"What rumor?"

Sean was still frowning thoughtfully, playing with a lock of his long silver hair. "They have a legend... about our ancestors, they 'touched'. They fear our ancestors, Hacht. They say that some of our ancestors could kill with telepathy."

Harry couldn't help laughing.But Sean's expression was so serious that he couldn't laugh. "Surely it can't be true?" he asked.

Shane shrugged. "Thousands of years have passed. From the Great War to the Bond Law, what happened in these decades? Our history books are always vague. The 'contact' also occurred during that time."

Harry frowned as he thought about it.From the end of the Great War to the promulgation of the Bond Law, there are hardly any records in the history of the past 60 years.As we all know, the biological weapons used in the war caused the population to plummet, female infertility, and the quality of male sperm were also greatly affected.Desperate to save their race, Kaluvian scientists have launched a genetic experiment project focused on repairing people's reproductive systems.The experiment achieved results, but due to limited clinical cases, it eventually led to unexpected consequences.Gene experiments have caused various mutations, which have reappeared some completely degenerated physical features, and also affected people's sensory abilities.There are not many detailed records in the historical database. It only mentions that since the implementation of the "Binding Law", "non-physical" mutations have no longer occurred.According to the council report, the disappearance of the induction mutation was just an unintended side effect of the child contract.

"But what does what you say have anything to do with bonds weakening our senses?" Harry said, curling his knees into his arms.Since returning home, he found that he always longed for the kind of physical contact that often occurs between earthlings, and those contacts are full of soothing power.Kaluvians also touch each other, but mostly in private, and far less often than Earthlings, preferring to use telepathy to touch each other.Harry wondered if this never-before-seen desire for physical contact stemmed from the disappearance of the bond.He needs physical comfort, but he doesn't want to think of other reasons.Just thinking about it makes me sad.

Sean said "hmm," looking lost in thought. "Telepathy is our sixth sense. If the side effect of "Bond Law" is to cause the disappearance of induction mutation, then bond does have an effect on our other senses, right?" Sean pursed his lips. "Once the Council finds out that bonds spoil people's senses, of course they'll have to keep it under wraps. Maybe that's why they forced that nasty bond when we were that young—babies can't remember , and won’t find out what they’ve lost.” He shook his head. "If it's to protect us from being forced to form a bond, it doesn't have to be so extreme. It's a bit absurd, right?"

Harry remembered something and bit the inside of his cheek. "What if the "Bond Law" is not to prevent forced bonds? What if bonds were invented specifically to eliminate induction mutations?" He said slowly.

They looked at each other.

"If your guess is right..." Sheen said. "If you guessed it right, since the mutation has been suppressed, the council will naturally not care about such a small side effect as sensory insensitivity." He jumped up from the sofa and started pacing back and forth in the room. "I know the bond is unreasonable, but I thought it was only one kind of damage, and never thought it would actually have so many adverse effects on my body." He stopped suddenly and turned to face Harry. "Do you think I can be like you? Go to a planet as far away as Sun Xingsan, use that method to get rid of bondage, and dump your bastard brother?"

Harry sighed.Sean talked about his brother in such a disgusting tone, which made it difficult for him to accept. "I don't think it's that easy," said Harry. "If it were that simple, wouldn't everyone who went to a distant planet lose their bond?"

Shane shook his head. "Inter-galactic teleportation has only been improved for 17 years, and we can't go that far before that. And you also said that you stayed in the third day for a few months before the bond was completely broken. I guess there has never been a Kalu The Vivians have been on such a distant planet for so long. Until you."

Harry had to admit that Sean had a point.They have not been teleported to planets as far away as Earth until recently.Their knowledge of Earth is largely based on information held by those allied stars that are closer to Earth, and this information is already quite old.

"It's basically impossible for you to not be seen for months," Harry said. "And you don't know how to survive on Earth."

Sean waved his hand to relieve him. "You can do anything, I can't do anything."

Harry smacked him with induction. "Hey!"

Shane laughed. "You know I'm telling the truth. I'm quite surprised that you didn't kill yourself or starve to death. You are too naive and good-hearted, so you can easily hurt yourself."

Harry pouted. "I don't. I'm pretty good at being an Earthling. I can make coffee with a machine in 10 minutes!"

Shane gave him a blank look. "I don't understand what you're saying. But, anyway, I've decided: I'm going to Sunshine—I mean, Earth."

Harry looked at Sean's determined face and sighed. "You hate my brother so much, and you want to break the bond with him at any cost. I'm very sorry. Why don't you want to be his king's husband? It's a great honor, and then we can truly become a family."

Sean's expression softened a little. "Hacht, don't worry about it, okay? Just try to put yourself in my shoes. Are you willing to spend your whole life with a cold and poisonous bastard like Keza? He never smiled at me, you You know? Never! He looks at me like he's looking at some annoying little bug he's trampling on. Hell, most of the time he doesn't even think I exist! Except when he picks me off and makes me worthless when--"

"But--"

"That's more!" Sean said. "He completely blocked me from the induction. Everyone said that the bond will connect the soul of the bond, you have heard these words? It is bullshit to me and him. He never connected to me. Every time Every time I try to connect with him, I run into a nasty impenetrable wall, which makes me dizzy and nauseous. Why should I be willing to be chained to such a person for the rest of my life?"

Harry sighed.Yes, he could understand why Sean was like this.Keza wasn't too keen on expressing affection, even with family members.He always puts up the spirit shield and doesn't let anyone in.

"If you break the bond, K'za will lose his bond again," said Harry. "He's been waiting until you're of legal age."

Sean sneered. "I'm not to blame for the death of his original mate. Lucky girl."

"Sheen!" Harry scolded. "Don't make fun of death."

Sheen snapped back: "I'm not kidding. It's really better to be dead than to be the pact of Keza. I wasn't even born then. It's not my fault that he had to wait until I was 25; anyway, he Too old for me."

"He's only eight years older than you," said Harry. "If you break the bond, he has no other choice. The others are all matched."

Sean didn't seem very sympathetic to that. "Anyway he could bond with some poor baby and wait for him to grow up. That's what they do to me, isn't it?"

Harry sighed, not going to say any more.Arguing with Sean about Keza was futile.And, in good conscience, it's not easy to defend Krsar for who he is: he's brutally ruthless with Sean, and relentlessly critical of everything he does.

"Well," said Harry, "suppose you figured out how to get to Earth and stay there for a few months; suppose you broke the bond with Urza; what are you going to do then?"

Sean looked into his eyes and smiled. "I don't know. But I'm free to make my own choices. I'm no longer under his control, I can do whatever I want."

A longing rose in Harry's chest, so strong it made his chest ache.Do whatever you want...it's been 22 days.

"What's wrong?" Sean frowned at him. "Are you OK?"

Harry took a deep breath, trying to get more control over himself.He was passing on negativity and had been doing that for days.

"I met a man on Earth." He looked down at his hands. "We became...very close. I miss him very, very much." Compared with the strong and ugly longing that twisted and eroded his internal organs, words were so pale and powerless.

"Oh," Sean replied.He fell back on the sofa and put his arm around Harry's shoulder.Harry leaned hungrily toward the touch, but he was disappointed.This bit of physical comfort could not calm the longing that was swallowing him from the inside out.He didn't want Sheen's arm, he wanted Adam's.

"Wait," Sean said. "If you didn't have a bond, would you experience 'sexual attraction'?"

Harry felt his face burn.He looked at Sean's eager face. "You're not ashamed. You shouldn't be thinking about it."

"Cut!" Sean said. "I think it's only natural. It's that nasty bond that turns us all sexless." His face clouded. "Humph, why doesn't that thing just ban us from having sex altogether. Seriously, if the artificial womb was already in use, they wouldn't even bother to give us the ability to have sex again, what a bother."

Harry opened his mouth, trying to tell him not to be so ridiculous; but he closed it again - he realized that Sean might be right.Fifteen years after the Bonding Act was enacted, Parliament has added only one amendment: that of a marriage contract ceremony at the age of 15.It is estimated that the parliament did not expect that Tong Qi will not only inhibit the areas of the brain that affect induction and other senses, but also inhibit the sexual desire center in the brain.What Harry is thinking about now is how the Spiritualist can restore the function of the sexual center during the marriage contract ceremony, without affecting other effects caused by the bond.Sounds pretty complicated.Is the awakening of sexual desire the only difference between a child contract and a marriage contract?

"I literally wish artificial womb technology didn't exist," Sheehan said. "Then they won't make me bond with another man."

Harry rolled his eyes.He was alluding to Keza, of course.Every time.Sean never missed an opportunity to whine about his bond with Urza and how unfair it was.

Noticing Sean looking at him curiously, Harry asked, "What?"

"People on Earth still have heterosexuals, homosexuals, etc. Is it true?"

Harry nodded. "Heterosexuality is the norm there."

Sean grimaced. "It sucks. But it's nice to have other options than only being in love with your partner. It's a pity that your bond was broken too late, otherwise you would have had the opportunity to put aside the mess and develop a real sexuality. "

Harry carefully avoided Sean's gaze.

"Maybe we should go to Earth together," Sheen said suddenly.

Harry's heart skipped a beat.But he forced himself to shake his head.What is the use of rekindling hope only to be disappointed? "Don't be silly, no one will let us go. You think I haven't tried? Going to the 'former TNIT planets' is under the jurisdiction of the 'Department of Intergalactic Affairs Management'. There are exceptions, but there must be good reasons. Besides, the chief judge of the Kaluvia Branch of the Management Department is Keza, what good reason do you have to persuade him to let you go to Earth? I can only wish you good luck."

"Damn it." Sean looked at Harry. "Can you talk to him? That bastard may be authoritarian, but you're his brother after all."

Harry flinched.He'd been avoiding Kza as much as he could since he'd come back.Keza was too sharp.His senses were so strong that Harry feared that he would find his senses changed - to find out that Harry had lost his bond.

"Keza won't approve it without a good reason," said Harry. "My parents refused, so I don't even have to try Keza."

"You're more likely to convince him than I am," Sean said, "at least he doesn't hate you."

"He doesn't hate you, either," Harry said unconvincingly.He wasn't sure if Keza didn't like Sheen at all: he was the most obnoxious thing he could be when he was near him.

"Well," Sean said dismissively, "you're always such a bad liar. I'm amazed those Earthlings don't suspect anything. I think you're lucky, they don't believe in aliens. "

Harry tried to smile, but failed.He suddenly remembered his discussion with Adam about aliens. "Some of them believe in the existence of aliens, but they don't quite believe that aliens look almost like people on Earth. Their concept of aliens is wild and wrong."

"Earthlings look a lot like us, right? I'll have no problem pretending to be Earthlings, right?"

Harry looked critically at Sean: his long silver hair, his big green eyes, his straight nose, his wide mouth.Sean was taller than average and athletic, but equally refined and graceful.To Kaluvian eyes, he was beautiful.Harry didn't think he'd ever seen an Earthling who looked like Sheen, but again, he'd only seen a tiny part of Earth.

"I think so," said Harry. "But what does it matter, we can't go to Earth."

Sean grinned. "Will you bet or not?"

Harry should have had the foresight not to allow Sean to bet on anything.Because seven days later, he received a message from Sean: "Get ready, come to my house at ten o'clock in the evening. We are leaving."

Harry stared at the message, his heart racing in his throat.

He's going to Earth.