"Do you like her?" the male tending to the fish over the fire asked Romeo.
He was like a setting sun, a bright light source in the form of a male. Golden eyes and hair with shimmering scales and fins trailing down his arms and back. I had to keep my eyes away from him to not hurt them with how blinding he was, keeping my distance from him to prevent getting burned.
"Do you want her?" he continued.
Romeo didn't say anything and just seated me next to himself, keeping me close. "You don't like her?" he countered the golden male.
I wasn't sure if I should be listening or not, but I had no way to mute their voices, and they weren't making an effort to talk in private either. The Madam was dragged away by Michael and Baron, and the other seven males gathered around the campfire. The mood turned serious.
"I prefer not to have any outsiders near my family," the sun male, whom they called Gold, answered, a bit colder than before. His eyes narrowed in my direction. "She looks harmless enough for now, but if over time she changes beyond what we can accept? The last one you brought into the house nearly broke it apart."
Romeo remained silent, his smile never disappearing, but it was becoming strained. "I'm content with the current situation. I just thought Princess could use a female companion. We pushed our way into her world, and she let us stay. We should at least try to understand her needs better. Her behavior toward females is not normal, you have to have noticed it too."
It felt like I was an intruder in a very important meeting. And it was, from what I'd heard. The Madam was the most important person to them.
The only one who didn't say a word was the cloaked male with a skull mask and the snake beastman. They were not hostile, just indifferent and silent in their observation of me.
"She doesn't seem to be interested in pleasing any of us," Skaris, the blindfolded beastman, interrupted their conversation, his nose twitching in my direction, "She looks like she wants to leave."
I jerked in my seat, startled at being addressed. "N-No, no, I-I don't want to leave. I want to p-please you, a lot." I stuttered out, "A lot."
I emphasized, nodding quickly. What about showing a good impression whenever you go, black sheep? Did you forget that, too? Of course, I wanted to please them; they were males.
"So much," I added to make sure they understood I was being sincere and truthful, "Really, a lot. All the time." I put a hand over my heart, "With all my heart."
They shared a look between them and started laughing.
"Alright, show us," Vick ordered with a grin, "How. How do you plan to please us, little miss?"
By listening to their orders? No? Why do these males keep asking such obvious questions? Was this a trick? It must be a trick. They were making fun of me. They were testing me. They wanted to see me fail, to laugh at me some more.
But I didn't want to let them, not when I didn't know how they would punish me. Moyu made a herbivore female eat meat for answering wrongly already. Now I had to choose my words carefully and think. What did these males like?
"M-madam," I answered, slowly, unsure if I had guessed right. They reacted positively to that word. I should use it more often, "Madam..." what else? What else did they like? "Territory."
"Territory?" someone repeated.
I nodded, "M-Madam and territory." I repeated, trying to sound more confident, "I can... please you with Madam and territory."
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"...ha!" they laughed louder than before and didn't stop until there were tears in their eyes. Even the two males who were indifferent until now were chuckling at my expense.
"She is funny," the cloaked male with a skull mask said, "Let's keep her."
His word must have the same weight as Vick's because nobody protested against his opinion. Instead, they continued to praise my sense of humor.
I wasn't trying to be funny, I was being serious. I had no idea what was so amusing about my answer. If anything, the answer was obvious.
They could enjoy spending time in the territory with the Madam, and I could help them do that by cleaning the territory and taking care of the Madam.
It was my first time seeing a male tending to a female, cleaning her, and wiping her down. Usually, it was the other way around.
They should just leave these chores to me while they could do something more meaningful. Territory expansion or something of that sort.