After the slave owners went bankrupt, they all wanted to keep me as a mistress.

"Master, Luna just ate six more fish, meow!"

"Master, Master! The grilled fish here is delicious, meow! Luna ate nine fish in one bite, meow!"

Unknowingly.

The fish bones around Luna's plate started piling up, while the ten orange cat girls, who were constantly grabbing and eating fish, found their fish bones dwindling...

About an hour later.

"Hiccup~"

Luna patted her round little belly, let out a satisfied burp, and then gently touched Mu Qiu's clothes with her oily little paws. When Mu Qiu turned around, she pointed to the fish bones next to her plate and said loudly, "Master, Luna ate a hundred fish in one meal, meow! Luna should get a raise, meow!"

"?"

Mu Qiu raised an eyebrow and looked at the food plates of the other ten orange cat girls.

Some of them still had half a shiny fish scale hanging from the corner of their mouths, while others were chewing something, with delicious fish juice flowing down from the corners of their mouths.

But their plates were completely empty; there wasn't even a single leftover fish bone in sight.

"You mean you ate a hundred fish all by yourself, while they didn't eat a single one?"

"Yes...yes, meow!"

Meeting her owner's suspicious gaze, Luna looked away guiltily, but she quickly seemed to realize something, puffed out her chest, and said confidently, "They are vegetarian cats! Only Luna is a carnivore cat! So Luna eats all the fish cats!"

As she spoke, she quickly winked at her younger sisters.

"Sister Luna is right!"

A cat-eared girl with half a fish scale still stuck to the corner of her mouth raised her little hand: "Master, we don't eat fish!"

Another cat-eared girl with fish juice dripping from her mouth nodded vigorously: "Mmm! I hate eating fish the most!"

Mu Qiu's lips twitched.

Should you two wipe your mouths before you say that?

However... he just loves these extravagant cats that dare to lie to their owners!

If you dare to lie to your master now, won't you embezzle his public funds in the future?

Faced with such a magnificent cat, Mu Qiu simply showed a gentle expression, patted the girl's head, and smiled slightly: "Hmm, Luna is great. If you're still not full, would you like some more grilled fish?"

Luna's eyes widened, and she was stunned for a moment.

Master... You've already discovered she's lying, so why haven't you exposed her obvious lie yet?

"No, no need... Luna... Luna is already full..."

Luna's voice gradually lowered, but at this moment, Mu Qiu did not notice the change in her expression.

Because he heard a pleasant notification sound.

【Ding! 】

[You have completed a small gathering of more than ten people at the grilled fish restaurant. The slave with the largest appetite has consumed one hundred fish. You currently have thirteen slaves. What is 13 x 100?]

[0/100/1300]

"Ok?"

Mu Qiu raised an eyebrow. What was the meaning of this simple elementary school math problem?

Is this asking him how many fish he ate in total?

There are only a little over a hundred fish bones on the table, which is obviously a hundred... wait! Shouldn't the bigger the number of fish bones, the bigger the reward?

"Of course it's 1300!"

Mu Qiu answered in his heart without hesitation.

[Congratulations, host! You answered correctly! Your slaves consumed a total of 1300 fish at the grilled fish restaurant!]

The most expensive fish in the area is the Tier 2 Black Rock Grouper, which originates near Blackrock Town. Occasionally, Tier 3 and Tier 4 fish are transported here from other places for the lord's consumption, but the quantity is scarce and cannot be purchased in large quantities.

The current market price for a black grouper is 77 silver coins per fish. Based on three meals a day, the maximum daily expenses for the host's slaves are 3030 gold coins!

[Congratulations! Starting today, you can freely withdraw 3,000 gold coins daily. Additionally, to ensure the smooth progress of your investments, 3,000 gold coins will be deposited into the system funds daily.]

"?"

Mu Qiu frowned, realizing that things were not so simple.

The system did allow him to withdraw 3,000 gold coins from public funds every day, and then it also gave him a daily allowance of 3,000 gold coins.

In other words, if he spends less than 3,000 gold coins a day, his system funds will continue to increase.

"System, what if I had answered 0 just now?"

[The host is a math genius! From now on, the amount of gold coins the host can freely withdraw each day will be reduced to zero!]

Oh? Then it seems he got it right after all.

This question definitely deserves a more comprehensive answer.

Mu Qiu's furrowed brows relaxed again.

Although this way you will accumulate more and more gold coins, you will definitely lose all of them!

Because he can directly withdraw this part of the system funds in the form of gold coins and store them outside, as long as a slave steals this batch of gold coins and runs away with the money, he will lose all of this money!

As for who stole the money, is there even a question?

Mu Qiu looked at Luna beside him, and to the girl's delighted surprise, he handed her a money bag containing one hundred gold coins and patted her head.

"Luna, since you've eaten a hundred fish, your monthly salary will increase by a hundred from now on."

As he spoke, he stood up and looked around at the cat-eared girls around him.

"Are you all full?"

"Now that everyone has eaten, it's time for us to return to the manor and begin our work for the day!"

Is this human finally... about to reveal his true colors?

In the corner, Adele took a deep breath, feeling a little nervous.

Come on, humans!

If you want my loyalty, come at me with whatever you want! Don't hurt Luna and the others!

Chapter 42: A first-person shooter game with a catgirl theme?

Upon returning to the manor, Mu Qiu entrusted the task of managing the manor to the new head maid, Adele, who led Luna and the other catgirls in cleaning.

The greatest advantage of demi-human maids is that their physical condition far surpasses that of ordinary humans.

Ordinary orange cat demi-humans can possess stamina comparable to a Black Iron-level warrior after reaching adulthood, while tiger-striped orange cat demi-humans, as members of the royal bloodline, are even more outstanding in terms of stamina.

If it weren't for the generally lazy and gluttonous nature of orange cats, they would probably be very popular in the market.

At this moment, in the spacious and luxurious main hall of the manor, Mu Qiu was nestled in a soft velvet sofa. He turned his head and looked at the elven girl beside him.

"Vera," Mu Qiu's voice broke the silence, "Do you know why I left you alone?"

Vera was sitting on the wide armrest of the sofa when she heard this, and her pointed elven ears twitched almost imperceptibly.

She stood tall, her full breasts proudly forming a striking curve under her well-fitting clothes, a smile playing on her lips.

"Isn't this question obvious?"

Vera's emerald eyes sparkled with confidence as she blurted out, "My master deliberately kept a capable elf like me here, of course, to make the most of my abilities."

Mu Qiu's lips twitched slightly, and he couldn't help but retort, "The role of elves isn't about being capable!"

"Eek—" Vera immediately drew out the last syllable, twitched her pointed ears, and looked at Mu Qiu with a "you filthy fellow" gaze: "When people say 'capable,' they clearly mean 'very capable of doing a lot of work,' so why did Master's first reaction interpret the adjective as a verb?"

"What a lewd master! As soon as we got back to the manor, he made us take off our clothes. He couldn't wait to make us make those 'sucking' sounds here, could he?"

"This is all your fault! And you were the first to say that! Also, you were the one who kept saying on the way here that wearing a cloak was very uncomfortable!"

Mu Qiu glared at Vera.

He deliberately chose to be in the main hall rather than in the room to avoid the lewd elf having wild thoughts, but she only became more excited instead.

"Hmph—the filthy fellow is clearly the master!"

Vera, brimming with confidence, raised her snow-white neck high and smiled, "It's not just me who thinks so, even the newly joined Miss Adele thinks so."

"Adele?"

Mu Qiu paused for a moment, slightly surprised.

Vera seemed to have been prepared, taking out a neatly folded piece of paper from her pocket and handing it to Mu Qiu.

“Here—this is what she asked me to give to you, Master.”

……

Just ten minutes ago.

Luna was sprawled on the gleaming marble floor, her big butt sticking up, diligently scrubbing the floor while muttering to herself, "Ugh... why do I have to scrub the floor, meow... I'm supposed to be the boss, meow..."

She felt as if a sad, thick barrier had separated her from her sister Adele.

Adele's sister has already become the head maid with a monthly salary of 10,000 gold coins, while she is still pitifully receiving a monthly salary of 130 gold coins.

Although 130 gold coins is a lot.

Even if she weren't a slave, with her early Silver level strength, unless she were to do some extremely dangerous work, it would be very difficult for her to find a job with a monthly salary of 130 gold coins.

but!but!

Adele already has a monthly salary of 10,000 gold coins!

Every time Luna thought of that number, she felt like her heart was being scratched by a cat's claws, she grinned with envy, and felt a little inferior.

They were all worried that their younger sister was having a hard time, and even more worried that she was driving a Range Rover!

Everyone else gets a monthly salary of 3,000 gold coins, so why does Luna only get a monthly salary of 130 gold coins?

Is it really because of the scar on her face that her owner doesn't like her?

"Sister Luna, you're scrubbing too hard, meow!" a little orange cat whispered a reminder. "You're going to leave scratches on the floor, meow!"

"Huh?!" Luna exclaimed in surprise, and quickly softened her movements, wiping the area carefully.

"Sister Luna, didn't you say before?" another orange cat girl said with a grin, "No pain, no gain!"

"..."

Luna, with her cat-like face downcast, muttered sullenly, "Luna doesn't want to suffer! Luna doesn't want to be a cat on top of a cat! Luna wants to be a human on top of a cat! Luna wants to play shooting games with her master!"

Damn it! Why did this happen, meow!

Isn't the owner from the grass cat section?

Shouldn't we be carrying them into the room and playing shooting games with them right now?

Luna doesn't want to work, meow!

Luna just wants to lie in bed every day with her butt sticking out, and delicious grilled fish will automatically be delivered to her mouth!

"Sister Luna, what is a shooting game?" A fourteen or fifteen-year-old orange cat girl tugged at Luna's sleeve and asked curiously.

"It's... it's that kind of game where the master shoots at you!" Luna's face flushed slightly, and her voice became a little stammering. "You'll understand when you grow up, meow! This is a game that only mature big cats like Luna can play, meow!"

"Only big cats like Luna can play shooting games with their owners, with the owners controlling the game from the first-person perspective, meow!"

"Shooting game?"

Adele, who had just finished assigning cleaning tasks to other areas, walked over from a distance and heard the second half of Luna's sentence.

Her delicate body stiffened abruptly, her clenched fists turned slightly white at the knuckles, and her exquisitely beautiful fox-like face was instantly covered with a layer of frost.

really.

This hypocritical nobleman has finally torn off his mask of righteousness, revealing his hideous true colors!

He wants to play... a shooting game with Sister Luna!