Interstellar Beast World: All My Husbands Are Powerful and Rich!-Chapter 200: Is it possible?

"Female Master... did I do something that made you angry?" Xarion’s voice carried a faint note of unease. "I came in, and you didn’t even acknowledge me at all."

Normally, whenever he entered her room, even if she was busy, she would at least smile at him.

But just now, she had only glanced at him once—and then ignored him completely.

The more Xarion thought about it, the more certain he became.

Something must have happened in the bedroom while he wasn’t there.

And somehow... it had something to do with him.

Rory gathered the pearls scattered across the bed and set them aside. Then she turned and looked at him with a bright smile.

"I’m not angry. In fact, I should be congratulating you."

"Congratulating me?" The moment Xarion heard those words, his entire body tensed. "What are you congratulating me for?"

What possible reason could there be to congratulate him? For some reason, it didn’t sound like good news.

Rory took his hand and gently placed it against her stomach. "I’m congratulating you on becoming a father."

Xarion: "...Female Master... what did you just say?"

His mind reeled. Maybe his unstable spiritual energy was acting up again—maybe his hearing had malfunctioned.

Who was becoming a father?

But Rory didn’t give him a chance to escape.

She spoke slowly and clearly, enunciating every word. "I said—congratulations. You’re going to be a father. The baby in my belly... is yours."

When she finished speaking, Rory looked at him with a playful smile. "Xarion, are you happy? Excited?"

Xarion’s world collapsed. The baby inside the Female Master... was actually his?

"Female Master... you—you’re joking, right?"

This kind of joke wasn’t funny at all. Xarion panicked. He released Rory immediately and dropped to his knees in front of her.

"Female Master, believe me. It can’t be me. It really can’t be me."

How could it possibly be him? Out of everyone, he was the least likely candidate.

Watching him deny it so desperately, Rory didn’t know whether to be angry... or simply feel sorry for him.

"I don’t want to believe it either," she said helplessly. "But the truth is the truth."

"Wen brought an artifact from the Water Domain that can identify the father of a child. Nix and Jasper already tested it. And it proved the baby isn’t theirs."

"What artifact?" Xarion asked.

He had never heard of such an object existing in the Water Domain. 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

Rory took out the artifact Wen had brought—the one meant to identify the father of a child—and placed it in front of him.

"It’s this. Wen said that if I place my hair and the hair of my mates on it, the strand that entwines with mine will reveal the father of the baby."

The moment Xarion heard that, he immediately plucked a strand of his own hair and placed it on the mirror-like surface.

Then he stared at Rory expectantly.

Watching his reaction, Rory’s lips twitched slightly. "What are you implying?"

The only ones who had formally bonded with her were Xarion, Nix, and Jasper. And Nix and Jasper had already been ruled out.

That left only Xarion.

Was he doubting her?

Realizing Rory had misunderstood, Xarion hurried to explain. "Female Master, it’s not that I don’t believe you. I just don’t trust the thing Wen brought."

Seeing the doubt in her eyes, he quickly raised a vow.

"I swear to the Beast God—if I’m doubting the Female Master, may divine punishment fall upon me. I’m not doubting you."

Rory knew the truth. Xarion simply didn’t want a child. That was why he refused to believe the result.

She plucked a strand of her own hair and placed it on the mirror as well.

"Since you don’t believe it, let’s test it again," she said calmly. "If it proves the baby really is yours—what will you do?"

Xarion looked at the two strands of hair lying side by side on the mirror’s surface.

His lips pressed together. "If it really is my cub... then when it’s born, I’ll send it to the Snow Domain."

If he had to raise a cub himself, he might as well die.

"You wish." Rory wasn’t about to abandon her own child in the distant Snow Domain.

She glared at him and warned, "If it really is your baby, you’ll raise it properly—even if you have to cry while doing it."

Xarion sighed, "...Female Master..."

He looked at her pitifully, but Rory ignored him. Her gaze remained fixed on the mirror.

Seconds ticked by.

Ten.

Twenty.

Thirty.

Nearly a minute passed.

The two strands of hair still lay exactly where they had been placed.

They hadn’t moved at all.

Xarion frowned slightly, staring at the mirror. "Female Master... did Wen say how long it’s supposed to take for the hairs to intertwine?"

Rory didn’t answer.

Time passed, second by second.

After a full minute... Seeing that the two strands of hair still hadn’t entwined, Rory froze completely.

Her entire mind went blank.

"How is that possible?" Rory stared at the mirror in disbelief. Her strand of hair and Xarion’s still hadn’t intertwined.

There were only two explanations for this.

Either the artifact Wen had brought wasn’t accurate... Or the baby in her belly... truly wasn’t Xarion’s either.

But if it wasn’t the second option... then whose child was it? Was it supposed to have appeared in her stomach by itself?

Rory pressed her fingers against her temples, trying to steady her thoughts.

"Xarion, go bring Wen upstairs," she said finally. "And make sure you avoid Cotton Candy."

Xarion glanced once more at the two unmoving strands of hair on the mirror, then nodded and strode out of the room.

A few minutes later, Wen was brought upstairs.

"Master, you called for me so urgently. What’s wrong?"

He had been outside by the artificial lake, arranging his new living space, when Xarion suddenly appeared, saying nothing and simply hauling him upstairs.

Now he stood before Rory, puzzled.

Rory held up the mirror so he could see it.

"These are my hair and Xarion’s," she explained. "But they still haven’t intertwined."

Wen stared at the two strands lying motionless on the surface.

For a moment, he was just as stunned.

Earlier, Nix had told him that Rory was formally bonded only to Nix, Jasper, and Xarion.

The child wasn’t Nix’s.

It wasn’t Jasper’s.

And now it wasn’t Xarion’s either.

Then whose child could it possibly be?

Xarion looked at Wen, his half-lidded eyes carrying a lazy tone that barely concealed the danger beneath it.

"Wen... could that broken thing you brought be inaccurate?"

"That’s impossible." Wen shook his head immediately. "This artifact exists only among the merfolk and the dragon clans. It has never made a mistake. There’s no way it’s inaccurate."

Rory thought for a moment. "Could it be that it only works for people from the Water Domain?"

After all, the artifact originated there.

"No," Wen replied firmly. "Many outsiders have used it in the Water Domain before. It has never failed."

He hesitated slightly before continuing, speaking cautiously. "Master... then there is only one possibility left. The child in your belly... doesn’t belong to any of those three."

"That’s impossible!" Rory shook her head immediately. "I’ve only bonded with them. And the only beast marks on my body belong to those three and Vincent."

"There can’t possibly be anyone else."

Absolutely impossible.

Xarion suddenly spoke. "Could Nix have been right after all...?" His voice turned colder. "What if it really is that rabbit’s?"

A dangerous killing intent flickered in his tone.

"But I don’t have his beast mark," Rory said.

She still found it impossible to believe the child could belong to Cotton Candy.

Xarion’s eyes darkened slightly.

"If he truly is a beastman—and capable of hiding his identity well enough that even I couldn’t detect it... Then perhaps he also has a way to hide the beast mark on the Female Master’s body."