The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4411

After the Golden Skull Alliance and the Gemini Family managed to hit it off to an extent, the former agreed to travel to the location of the latter.

Fortunately, the distance was manageable and it would only take around a week to arrive in the same star system.

Other groups that had expressed enough interest in working together with the Gemini Family were on their way as well. The representative of the Geminis had already informed the Larkinsons that at least four other pioneering fleets had answered the call.

More may join the party as well, but it became increasingly less likely that the Geminis would accept any further invitations after enough time had passed.

The family that started this initiative did not wish to stall for too long. The more time passed by, the greater the chances that third parties might come and interfere. The Geminis had already shown a lot of patience by waiting long enough for the invitees to rendez-vous at their position.

When Gloriana received word that the expeditionary fleet was about to take part in another massive raid operation, she did not hold back her concerns.

"Are you crazy, Ves?" She confronted him with a hiss while their children were sitting on the deck while playing with their new toys. "We already suffered substantial losses in a battle that we had concluded only a few months earlier. What makes you think we are ready to fight against even stronger opponents?!"

Ves did not look concerned. He waved his hand as if to dismiss her fears. "The Gemini Family wouldn't have the guts to organize a coalition fleet if our chances of beating the alien defenses are too slim. Besides, we can always cut and run if the situation is beginning to look wrong. Our Black Cats are working hard to collect more intelligence and we will constantly keep our guard up. We should at least meet with the Geminis and sound them out before we make our final judgment."

"The Gemini Family can't be trusted!" Gloriana exclaimed. Her raised voice attracted the attention of their children. "Their ideas about families and marriage are horrifying. Sisters should never be compelled to marry their brothers, especially when they are twins. For the Gemini Family to force this upon their offspring not once, but throughout its whole organization is a sign that it is completely rotten from top to bottom! I wouldn't trust a single promise from their inbred mouths!"

Ves grew annoyed. "You are judging a book by its cover, honey. Have you ever met or talked to the Geminis yet? I do not want you to malign our potential allies for a potentially lucrative offensive operation before we have met them properly. You are letting your biases and prejudices get the better of your logic. There are solid benefits to cooperating with the Geminis and I do not want you to spoil this opportunity because you are too intolerant to accept their… exotic cultural practices."

His wife let out a breath in exasperation. "Don't you know how disgusting that is? You are actually thinking about fighting alongside incestual perverts! Look, I don't care what they do in the bedroom, but I do not want any of the Geminis to get close to our clan and begin infecting our children with their unnatural views!"

"What's wrong, mama?" Aurelia innocently asked.

Gloriana quickly turned and directed a loving smile at her daughter. "Nothing is wrong, my dear. Your dum-dum of a father is just thinking about befriending the wrong crowd. There are many awful people in human space that you should never meet, and the Gemini Family is one of them. The people of this family are not like us at all. They aren't even human to be honest. They are all unnatural spawn that need to be fed into the incinerator wholesale."

While Ves did not exactly feel comfortable with the Gemini Family either, he did not want his wife to spew poison into the minds of their children!

"You are going too far, Gloriana! You may avoid the Geminis if you don't like their practices, but don't make enemies with them just because their culture offends your sensibilities. You don't hear me talking about how much I dislike the Hexers to the point where I want to kill off all of the women who think that men should be driven to extinction. In my eyes, Hexers and Geminis are not that different. They are both pariah groups that cling to their own separate cultures."

"THE HEXERS ARE NOTHING LIKE THE GEMINIS! YOU ARE SLANDERING MY MOTHER AND ALL OF MY RELATIVES WITH YOUR UNWARRANTED COMPARISON!"

"Calm down, Gloriana! What did I tell you about raising your voice in front of our children?!"

As the couple continued to argue against each other, they seemed to have forgotten the fact that their son and daughters had long stopped paying attention to their toys.

"Mama and papa are shouting again." Andraste whispered as she dropped her Dark Witch Prestige Edition mech figurine.

"It will be fine." Aurelia said as she took on the role of the responsible big sister. "Mama and papa always argue against each other. They always make up with each other after they have nothing left to shout. They will stop sooner if we start to cry or ask fussy."

"Let's do that then, sister!"

Aurelia raised her arm to keep Andraste down. "No. Don't."

"Why not?"

Aurelia kept observing her parents with unusually insightful eyes. "Because sometimes our mother and father need to vent at each other. It is not good for them to bottle up their frustrations and defer their outbursts."

Both of her younger siblings looked confused.

"I don't want this." Marvaine whined. "My friends tell me that their mamas and papas never fight like this. Why are ours different?" _{free𝑤ebnovel.com}

"They are different because they are strong. If you want to become as strong as papa in the future, then you need to shout as loudly as him, little brother."

"Ohhh…"

The children eventually tired of the ongoing shouting match and decided to move to one of their bedrooms so that they could jump onto a bed and play with their other toys.

Just as the oldest daughter predicted, Ves and Gloriana eventually ran out of words to say.

Neither of them were demented enough to repeat their earlier arguments. They were mech designers after all. They were too smart to waste their time on such an unproductive activity. They would rather spend their time working on their mech design projects.

"Okay, Ves." Gloriana placed her hands on her hips. "Since I can't dissuade you and the rest from reconsidering your decision to work with the Gemini Family, then I at least want you to limit our cooperation with this group as much as possible. We have better things to do than to hold a cultural exchange with people who marry their own siblings and have children who they have already decided to form family units of their own. I will not accept any attempt to import their detestable views on family to our clan!"

Ves held her shoulders and looked into her eyes. "That won't happen. I can promise you that. None of our clansmen are crazy enough to think that the Geminis are worth imitating, and I have no desire to replicate their customs. We have our own principles. You should have more confidence in our own way of life. Our clan might not be as old as the Gemini Family, but our values are just as strong, isn't that right, Goldie?"

Nyaaaa!

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