Chapter 40: Bad Egg

“Ah! That feels good! I haven’t felt this good in a long time!”

After getting up from Alice who had collapsed on the ground, the refreshed Hopper let out a series of exclamations.

He stood with his hind legs and middle-lower legs, his middle and upper legs supporting his back, and his front legs lifting up to stretch.

After his entire body was completely stretched out, Hopper turned his head back proudly.

He asked Alice, who was covered in broken spider silk and traces of blood.

“Then, cute little princess, now you should believe that I have that ability, right?”

Alice was still lying on the ground, her eyes lifeless, and saliva dripped from the corners of her slightly opened mouth.

She did not know if it was because of her injury or other reasons, but at this moment, she seemed to be unable to muster any strength.

Other than her body moving up and down with her breathing, her limbs, which were covered in spider silk, would twitch from time to time.

When she heard Hopper’s question, Alice seemed to come back to her senses and her body shook violently.

Her flushed face quickly faded away when she saw Hopper, who was so proud of himself.

The disgust and disgust in her eyes when she looked at Hopper almost overwhelmed him.

Alice gritted her teeth and glared at Hopper. “You’re a bad egg!”

Then she turned her head and tried to pull off the spider silk that was stuck to her leg.

It was as if something dirty was stuck to her leg.

Well, monsters were monsters after all.

She had a certain level of intelligence, but her abusive words were not painful.

Seeing that Alice did not deny it, Hopper knew.

At least in this aspect, she had been conquered by him.

Faced against Alice’s verbal attack, Hopper merely spread out his front and middle and upper legs. As if he spread out his hands to show that he did not care.

Whatever Alice said, she was now his pet.

Alice saw that Hopper’s reaction to her words was so calm, she was puzzled.

She could not help but think, were spiders not hatched from eggs as well?

Why did he still act like he did not care when I scolded him like that?

It was because the stone-scaled lizard, the blue-spotted frog, the rotten-tooth boa, and the tide-summoning boa were all born from eggs.

Therefore, from their point of view, the word ‘bad egg’ meant that the other party had ‘no descendants’.

To them, who valued the reproduction of the next generation of monsters, this was simply the most vicious curse. It was a ‘forbidden’ word in the race.

Generally, it was used in battles to coordinate verbal attacks when facing enemies that would not rest until death.

Alice, being the princess of the stone-scaled lizard race, knew what would happen if she said it.

Although she had never said this word before, she could understand the malice.

So when she said to Hopper, ‘you’re a bad egg’, she was ready to fight him to the death.

But what she did not expect was that Hopper did not seem to care about the word.

Did he not know I was calling him a bad egg?

Alice looked at Hopper.

Her gaze turned from disgust and disgust to wonder and confusion.

She began to recall the conversation she had with Hopper.

She looked for the difference between Hopper and these monsters.

In the end, Alice concluded that Hopper really did not know she was calling him names.

That should be normal. After all, this was the first time I had seen a spider of his type, probably from another part of the wetland.

Moreover, the names between these spiders and their spouses were ‘master’ and ‘pet’.

Even the most important spouse in life was similar to a master-servant relationship.

It was no wonder that he did not care about the word ‘bad egg’. Presumably, he did not have any offspring, so it did not matter to them.

How disgusting! She was actually regarded as a spouse by such a low-level monster and had to live in the same nest with him.

However, since he did not know the meaning of the word ‘bad egg’, then did that not mean…

Alice realized through her own speculation that Hopper probably did not know the meaning of the word ‘bad egg’.

As if she had found the spiritual victory method, there was a hint of slyness in her eyes when she looked at Hopper with disdain.

I can’t do anything to you now because I’m injured, so I can only be at your mercy.

But can’t I scold you a little more when you don’t know what the word means?

Hopper was enjoying Alice’s disgusted and helpless look at him.

He was so pleased with himself that he did not care about Alice’s verbal attacks.

It was also to let Alice clearly understand the relationship between a pet and a master.

The more Alice despised him at this time, the more she felt disgusted with him.

When he completely tamed Alice, the sense of accomplishment would be more satisfying.

At this time, he was keenly aware of the look that Alice was giving him. It had changed.

However, it was not tamed eyes. They were more like calculating eyes.

Through the past few days of fighting with other monsters, Hopper also summed up the characteristics of monsters.

That was, they were different from humans who were good at disguising their hearts.

Perhaps it was because their minds were far less mature than humans. This resulted in their thinking patterns being relatively simpler and more direct.

Therefore, the eyes of monsters were the windows to their hearts. Their eyes could not hide the changes in their emotions at all.

Surprise was surprise, fear was fear, and disgust was disgust…

So, when Alice looked at him in a different way, Hopper noticed it immediately.

Although Hopper wanted to prove that he had some negative emotions, throughout the whole process, Hopper controlled his strength. He was gentle

So when it was over, the wound on Alice’s body was sewn up.

No matter how deep or shallow the wound was, it did not open up again.

Only when Alice’s body was slightly twitching, some blood leaked out from the wound.

However, Alice was still injured, and her body was still a little weak.

Even though her physical strength as a monster was far stronger than that of a human, Hopper did not want to continue torturing her.

After all, it was rare to see such a ‘pet’ who could talk and was fun to play with.

He wanted to play with her slowly, and he could not let her play herself to death.

“Little Princess, you are still injured, so I suggest that you do not make unnecessary resistance.”

“If you have any other tricks that you haven’t used, you can try again in the future. I’ll be there anytime.”

As he said this, the spider silk that Hopper had arranged around him was ready.

Once Alice made any big moves, he would be the same as before, controlling her immediately.

Unexpectedly, the moment Alice opened her mouth, she almost ignited the flame in his heart that had already been extinguished.

“Hey! Bad egg! You used so much strength earlier, I’m bleeding now!”