Chapter 37

“Eh? Master?”

Although the minds of most monsters were not mature compared to humans, they were basically at the level of children.

Alice, who had an epic-level evolution, had already reached the level of a teenager.

Moreover, as the princess of the stone-scaled lizards, she had the concept of ‘master and servant’ in her mind.

For example, the four stone-scaled lizards that died before were her personal guards.

So when she heard Hopper ask her to call him ‘master’, Alice immediately realized that something was wrong.

She recalled the questions that Hopper had asked before and the words that he had just said.

Alice frowned, and her expression gradually became solemn. She looked at Hopper in front of her with some vigilance.

The questions that she had been holding in her heart all this while were now bursting out.

“Just now, you said that you saw me every time for the past three days. Have you been observing me?”

“So you didn’t come up with it on the spur of the moment. Instead, you planned it all along. Then, what was your purpose in saving me?”

“If you were planning to eat me, then there was no need for you to bring me back to your nest.”

“According to what you said earlier, if you had the ability to kill all the blue-spotted frogs, you could have eaten me on the spot.”

“Even if you’re planning to use me as a reserve food, you don’t need to spare my life, and you don’t need to use your spider silk to stop the bleeding.”

“Or are you trying to learn something from me just like before?”

The more Alice asked, the more she felt that the spider in front of her, which was about the same size as her, was unfathomable.

Faced with Alice’s series of questions, Hopper did not choose to avoid them. Instead, he asked a question in return.

“Just as you said, I did not eat you but saved you. I even let you call me master. So what do you think my purpose is?”

After Hopper raised this question, he looked at Alice quietly.

The nest, which was full of reeds and calamus, fell into a short silence.

After thinking for a few seconds, Alice’s pupils dilated, and she looked at Hopper in horror.

“Do you want to rule our entire stone-scaled lizard race through me?”

Before she finished her sentence, Alice subconsciously wanted to put some distance between herself and Hopper.

However, in the next second, she was entangled by the spider silk under Hopper’s control and could not move at all.

“I’m just purely interested in you and want to take you in as a pet.”

Seeing that Alice was starting to let her imagination run wild again, Hopper, who had been on guard for a long time, instantly restricted her movements.

He wanted to avoid another situation where her wound would open due to emotional agitation.

“What pet? What does this have to do with you asking me to call you master?”

Upon hearing the word ‘pet’, Alice raised the question again.

When she had just regained consciousness, the first thing she heard was what Hopper had said about ‘playing with a pet’.

“Hmm…”

Hearing Alice’s question, Hopper realized that she did not seem to have the concept of a ‘pet’.

However, this was not important. A pet did not need to know that it was a pet. It did not even need to know who its owner was.

However, since Alice had asked, Hopper decided to explain it to her.

“In short, you have to live with me from now on. You have to stay in the nest every day and do nothing else.”

“Tell me what you want to eat. I will bring it back for you. I will take you out for a walk occasionally…”

For ease of understanding, Hopper gave Alice a rough description of what a pet’s day was like.

As he spoke, he noticed that the way Alice looked at him started to feel strange. Gradually, the initial surprise and fear turned into disgust.

“So aren’t you talking about husband and wife? Do all spiders call their spouses ‘master’ and ‘pet’?”

Before Hopper could finish, Alice, who could not bear listening, raised her doubts.

“Well… although there are still big differences, it’s not a problem if you interpret it that way.”

After all, ‘pet’ was a concept that Alice had never come into contact with, so Hopper did not intend to explain further on this issue.

After Alice received Hopper’s affirmative answer, the way she looked at Hopper became more and more disdainful.

“Don’t you think you’re disgusting? As a spider, you actually want to let a lizard be your spouse… No, in the words of your spiders, it should be your pet.”

“What’s so disgusting about that? I think it’s very normal.”

Although Hopper knew very well in his heart that Alice could not understand what a ‘pet’ was for a moment.

However, her attitude made Hopper, who had been concerned about her wound cracking, feel a little annoyed.

“Are you kidding me? You’re a spider, and I’m a lizard. How can we mate successfully?”

After Alice asked this question in disbelief, she calmed down slightly when she saw that Hopper did not answer anymore.

“In short, thank you for saving me. The stone-scaled lizards will remember this kindness in their hearts.”

“I will recuperate in your lair, but please don’t talk about master and pet again…”

Before Alice could finish, she was interrupted by Hopper’s gloomy voice.

“It seems that you still haven’t figured out the current situation!”

“Even if you can communicate with me, I’m not discussing it with you. I’m just informing you.”

“The moment you entered the nest, you were already my pet.”

“As for the reproductive isolation you mentioned just now…”

After saying this, Hopper’s paused for a moment before walking towards Alice.

Alice’s limbs and torso were bound by the spider silk and could not move.

However, her golden scale armor was set off by pure white spider silk.

Coupled with her terrified and helpless gaze, a strange sense of beauty was revealed.

“That won’t affect me from having sex with you. If you don’t believe me, I can try it now.”