Yan Beiyou and Ye Nanxun each carried a baby as they appeared at the entrance to the manor villa.
For a moment, Chen Mingzhu and Ye Xiangsong failed to connect the two human toddlers, who looked about two years old, with the little sprites Black Mushroom and White Stripe.
Rather than displaying the delight Ye Nanxun had expected, the two elders widened their eyes in astonishment, looking as though they wanted to say something but hesitated.
It was not until Black Mushroom and White Stripe jumped down from their fathers' arms, toddled over to the two elders, and hugged them while calling out Grandpa and Grandma that Chen Mingzhu tentatively asked,
"Oh my, what adorable babies! Nanxun, are they... are they Black Mushroom and White Stripe, all grown up?"
Only then did Ye Nanxun remember to explain to his parents that Black Mushroom and White Stripe could now take the form of human children.
When they had first left Morning Star aboard the spacecraft, Ye Nanxun had wondered whether the two babies would revert to their sprite forms once they returned to space, where there was no psychic suppression.
Yet even after the spacecraft landed steadily on Dream Star, Black Mushroom and White Stripe remained in the forms of human children rather than turning back into tiny sprites.
Yan Beiyou guessed that during their trip to Morning Star, the two little ones had accidentally learned how to transform into humans.
As for why they had not changed back, it was probably because, in their human baby forms, they could hug their two closest fathers.
Just as Black Mushroom and White Stripe had taken on male appearances like their fathers, once they could control their own forms,
their subconscious minds would also favor their fathers' human appearances.
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