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

Upon hearing just those four words, Adele felt a chill run from her tailbone straight to the top of her head. Her body trembled uncontrollably, and a shadow flashed in her golden fox eyes as those long-buried memories surged up uncontrollably.

A group of human nobles, riding horses and wielding powerful bows and crossbows, laughed and fired arrows at the fleeing demi-human slaves as if hunting rabbits.

Alternatively, apples could be forcibly tied to the heads of slaves, and then subjected to so-called "fun shooting"—if the arrow missed even slightly, their brains would splatter out...

In Adele's mind, human shooting games are nothing more than these two kinds of death games!

"He... he actually wants to play this kind of game with Sister Luna?"

Luna knows about this cruel shooting game, right? But to protect her sisters, she forces a smile and says in the most relaxed tone—that's a game only Big Meow can play with his owner…

Sister Luna... even at this critical moment, are you still going to risk your life to protect everyone?

Adele bit her lower lip hard, almost tasting blood, her eyes churning with barely suppressed anger and resentment.

Why... of all people? Luna.

Why... are these humans always so greedy and cruel?

They've already taken away her parents and slaughtered her people, and now they want to take away even Luna, her only remaining family member, who's like a sister to her?

Why! Why! Why!!

at this time.

Out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of a tall, elegant figure walking through the side corridor and heading straight towards the main hall.

Upon returning to the manor, Vera had removed the hooded cloak that concealed her. Her silver hair cascaded down her back, and her pointed ears were exquisite. Even from afar, Adele could feel the indescribable noble aura emanating from her elven form!

That's right... she has another idea!

Adele abruptly released her tightly clenched lips and clenched her fists, as if she had made up her mind.

If this human wants to play this kind of bloody and cruel shooting game, then let her replace Sister Luna!

She quickly pulled a small piece of notepad and a wool pen from her apron pocket, her fingers trembling slightly from the effort, and swiftly wrote a line on the paper.

"Please wait a moment! Miss Elf!" Adele's voice carried a barely perceptible urgency as she quickly caught up.

"Hmm?" Vera stopped and turned around to look at the fox-girl who had caught up with her. "Miss Adele, is there something you need?"

Adele took a deep breath, handed over the folded note with both hands, her golden eyes looking directly at Vera with a pleading look in them:

"Miss Elf, please... please make sure to give this to my master!"

Chapter 43 Planning an Escape? Granted!

"You mean, Adele gave this to you?"

Mu Qiu looked down at the note in his hand and suddenly began to doubt the meaning of life.

Because there was a line of small print written on the note in neat handwriting.

【Master, could you please not play the shooting game with Luna? I'd like to play the shooting game with you instead of Luna, and you can control it however you want, wherever you want, and however many times you want.】

"As expected of such a lewd master, he's practically walking hormones. Even the new girl thinks so." Wei stretched out her fair, jade-like finger and gently poked Mu Qiu's shoulder, a faint smile playing on her lips. "Why don't you guess what kind of shooting game she wants to play with you?"

"..."

Mu Qiu coughed lightly.

No matter how you look at it, the shooting game mentioned on this note is a first-person shooter game with a catgirl theme, right?

Moreover, judging from the content, it seems that Adele wanted to protect Luna's virginity, so she wanted to offer herself to the wolf and make Luna the maid who would be shot by her master...

No, no, he must have been spending too much time with Vera, and his thoughts have started to gravitate towards that lewd elf!

Think of something! What's a proper shooting game called... archery... Yes! That's called an archery game!

Mu Qiu took a deep breath and finally thought of a serious shooting game.

"Adele definitely isn't talking about shooting games! She's probably talking about archery! Like those games where you shoot at a target in the distance, or shoot at prey in the forest!"

"Would you like to make a bet with me, Master?"

Vera shifted her pert little bottom, turned around to face Mu Qiu on the sofa, and casually placed her jade-like feet, wrapped in white stockings, on his thigh. Her teasing voice rang out: "If Miss Adele is talking about the shooting game that takes place in the room, then I win. If it's the shooting game that takes place outside, then Master wins."

"With such favorable rules, wouldn't the master be afraid to gamble?"

"Even if Master and Miss Adele were to have a wild sex session, I would still lose to Master, you know?"

"Your attempt to provoke me is clumsy." Mu Qiu glanced down at the white silk-clad feet resting on his thigh, suppressing the urge to touch and fondle them, and said calmly, "But I agree. What's the wager?"

Vera swung her legs casually, not caring if her toes might bump into something: "Everything I have belongs to my master. If my master wants me to do something, he just needs to give the order, right? There's no need for bets, is there?"

"That makes some sense... yeah right! How come being a slave is being used as an advantage in a bet by you!"

Mu Qiu glared at her: "You better come up with a good bet! Otherwise, you'll shout 'I am the most despicable elf' a hundred times in front of everyone in the manor!"

"No one would agree to such a bet."

As Vera spoke, she suddenly raised the corners of her mouth, revealing a confident smile, and said, "However—I am Vera, an elf, you know?"

"Since Master wants to hear the sound of the elf submitting so much, then I will reluctantly agree. If Master wins, I will make a hundred lewd sounds in Master's room. No matter what kind of 'oh-oh' sound it is, Master will be able to hear it, okay?"

"Don't try to switch things out with me!"

Mu Qiu finally couldn't resist grabbing Vera's calf, which was dangling on his thigh, and started tickling her feet, saying, "I meant you have to shout 'I am the most lewd elf' a hundred times, not that you have to make lewd sounds a hundred times in my room!"

Feeling the subtle sensation from the soles of her feet, Vera's ears turned slightly red. She quickly pulled her legs back, hugged her knees, sat on the armrest of the sofa, and let out a soft hum.

"Hmph, for a pure elf like her to agree to such a bet is already a very proud achievement for a lewd human like you, Master! If you were to brag about it in a tavern, everyone would think you were dreaming!"

"If all elves were as despicable as you, the elves would all perish, wouldn't they?"

Mu Qiu couldn't help but make a comment, and then he saw Vera's pretty face freeze for a moment.

"...What kind of expression is that?! Did I guess right? Are you elves really going to perish?"

"That's not it... It's just that I suddenly remembered that you humans never used to treat us elves as commodities so openly."

Vera shook her head and sighed inwardly.

do not know why.

Over the past thousand years, the elves and humans have summoned heroes about nine times, but each time, before they could find them, the heroes would vanish without a trace.

Because the hero has yet to appear, the abyss is constantly expanding outwards, and more and more dungeon entrances are beginning to connect to it...

The elves suspect there is a traitor among the humans, and the humans also suspect there is a traitor among the elves, which is why the heroes of each generation have died mysteriously.

A full thousand years have passed, and the relationship between elves and humans has become increasingly strained. In particular, the current emperor of the Orion Empire seems to have ambitions to conquer the world and has been constantly eyeing their elven kingdom and surrounding countries.

Using the pretext of the hero, the Orion Empire has been trying to wage war against them, but this has been rejected by the Mage Council. There is also a lot of opposition within the empire, after all, humans and elves were allies a thousand years ago.

However, in private, the ban on elven slaves had long been lifted, and human slave-hunting groups began to capture them on a large scale, leading to several conflicts in recent years...

Her Majesty the Queen is deeply worried about this. If the forbidden book can be found and the hero of this generation can be summoned, the relationship between elves and humans can be repaired. The Star Council and the Truth Association will also provide assistance to the hero and the elves to help the hero of this generation grow up quickly.

"How long ago are you referring to 'the past'?"

"Hmm... it was just the previous generation, maybe a few hundred or a thousand years ago?"

"...You elves are getting a bit too old this generation, aren't you?" Hearing Vera's words, Mu Qiu rubbed his forehead and asked, "But if that's the case, does it mean that you elves have declined?"

"It's not so much a decline as it is, but rather that you humans, these vile creatures that multiply everywhere, develop too quickly. A thousand years have passed, and our elven elders... are still the same elders, but the elders in your human empires are like leeks in a field, they've been replaced countless times..."

Vera scoffed, then pursed her lips and whispered, "Anyway, that's the bet! If Master loses, he has to grant me a vacation! I want to go to Mirror Lake Forest to look for some items I left behind. One day off is enough!"

She remembered that she had hidden the forbidden book in Mirror Lake. With her current peak Gold Rank strength, she could reach Mirror Lake deep in the forest in four or five hours at most.

If all goes well, we can leave in the morning and return in the evening.

Hiding the forbidden books in Mirror Lake could eventually lead to their discovery, so it would be best to bring them back home; it would be safer to keep them at home.

"You want a vacation?"

Mu Qiu raised an eyebrow, a hint of delight in his heart.

Oh?

Is Vera starting to scout out locations and prepare her escape plan?

Well done! I must give it my full support!

Thinking of this, Mu Qiu waved his hand and said, "No need to gamble anymore, I've approved this vacation! Just let me know in advance when you want to go!"

Chapter 44 Miss Elf, what are you doing in Master's room?

That evening, around eight o'clock.

Adele took a few deep breaths to calm her nervousness and pushed open the door.

A cool night breeze blew in, brushing against the girl's cheeks, while light, cheerful conversation drifted from the surrounding rooms.

"Sister Luna, why is Master so kind to us? He removed our shackles, treated us to a lavish meal, and let us stay in such luxurious rooms..."

Luna's carefree voice came from behind the door: "Luna doesn't know either, meow! But Master must be a good person, meow! Anyway, we have food, drink, shelter, and gold coins, meow! Let's take a nap and see what happens, meow!"

A good person...?

Adele's lips twitched slightly, and she sighed inwardly.

Although Luna was a few years older than her, she had little experience interacting with humans.

Although the old slave trader didn't treat them as human beings, he still regarded them as valuable treasures, intending to sell them for a good price. Unlike the slaves who were casually displayed on stalls and played with by others, he would whip them when they disobeyed and was so stingy that he would only give them the cheapest black bread.

For more than half a month, the old slave trader's most frequent question has been, "Who among you wants to claim today's free ten-pull?"

In addition, her psychological attacks drove away many nobles who were trying to buy them.

In a sense, under her protection, Luna and the others have never truly witnessed the dark side of humanity; they've only endured dozens of lashes in the iron cage and gone hungry for over half a month...

The young human nobleman only gave Luna and her friends a little something, and they were completely smitten, overjoyed that they were about to live a good life.

But Adele saw it with her own eyes.

Based on Adele's understanding of humanity, the methods of nobles were only more cruel and despicable than those of slave traders!

This luxurious manor must have been built by squeezing out countless amounts of money from the people and using the blood and sweat of ordinary citizens.

To own such a luxurious manor at such a young age, with countless gold coins, can't be said to have fallen from the sky, can it?

Therefore, Adele was not grateful to Mu Qiu.

If these nobles are so cruel to ordinary humans, how could they possibly treat demi-human girls of other races with any kindness?

A monthly salary of 10,000 gold coins or a luxurious manor were nothing but the most hypocritical aspects of humanity in her eyes.

They might not even leave this manor alive; all the gold coins they receive are just crocodile tears.

Adele lowered her eyes, stepped barefoot onto the floor, and walked out into the hallway.

Her fluffy red fox ears trembled slightly in the night breeze, and a few glistening water droplets dangled from the tip of her tail, swaying gently as they landed on the spotless corridor floor. She was only wrapped in a thin bathrobe, and with light, graceful steps, she slowly walked toward the largest room in the manor.

She knew what she was about to do.

She offered her most precious chastity to that despicable, vile human nobleman.

The note she wrote to her master was deliberately ambiguous; if that human changed his mind and didn't play the deadly shooting game with her, that would be the best thing ever.

She couldn't die; she had to live. If she died, Luna and the others would suffer an even worse fate here. So she had to live; only by surviving could she protect Luna and the others by the side of this human.

Adele couldn't believe that a vigorous young human wouldn't fall for her.

Fortunately, there were no human relatives in this huge estate, which was a stroke of luck amidst misfortune.

As long as they can gain this human's favor, Luna and the others will be safe.

Whether you want her body or her loyalty, take it all.

I will give you my dignity, my chastity, my soul, everything I have.

But I will never acknowledge you as my master, nor will I ever offer you true loyalty.

All you'll get is a walking corpse loyal to you, an empty shell of a red fox-type demi-human girl.

You'd better pray that your contract binds me for life.