EROS [Zerg]

Kamo was furious.

His adorable female insect's beautiful face was bullied!

As the future male lord of Eros, how could he stand by and watch his female insect be bullied! This wasn't just bullying Eros, it was bullying him too!

“I’ll call the Male Insect Protection Association of the Sixth Star System right now.” Kam looked at his Eros with heartache. “If any insects bully you at the military headquarters, come home. I’ll take care of you from now on.”

Hearing the little boy's anxious voice, Eros clenched his fist and pressed it to his mouth to hide the smile on his lips: "Okay, then I'll pack my bags and go back to live with Kam in a bit, but Kam doesn't have a job, how will he support me?"

"I..." Kamehameha, after being questioned by Eros, immediately lost his previous fierce momentum, and his tone weakened: "I will marry a lot of female insects to raise you."

Goli overheard the little boy's words and couldn't help but burst out laughing. She only managed to hold it in after Eros glared at her.

"Is Kama trying to sell himself to support me?" Eros's smile widened. "But Kama isn't an adult yet, no female insect will marry you."

"In that case, if Eros goes home now, Cameron won't have any small cakes for his birthday in the future."

Kamehameha pursed her lips, a mixture of reluctance and hesitation in her voice: "Kamehameha can forgo the cake... I don't want Eros to be bullied."

“Eros is doing well here, he hasn’t been bullied, and the injury on his face was from being squeezed by a door.” As he spoke, Eros brought half of his bruised face close to the camera for Cam to see: “It’s a very small bruise, and it will be completely invisible soon.”

"It must hurt a lot, right? It hurts a lot when Kama's paws get squeezed in the door. It must hurt even more when Eros's face gets squeezed in, right?" Kama felt sorry for Eros's beautiful face getting hurt. He still remembered how pitiful and adorable Eros was when he first moved into the house.

"A kiss from me will make the pain go away."

"But... Kam can only kiss the light screen, not Eros."

"Then I'll save it for now and pay you back when I get home."

Goli watched Eros from the side and suddenly understood why her brother had taken a liking to such a female insect.

When it comes to flirting with male insects, Eros is even more composed than females, and she also has the same face as her brother's former female queen.

Such a beautiful female insect, with no family background, status, or connections, is much easier to control than Evanson. No wonder her brother likes her.

However… Goli’s gaze swept over Eros’s upturned lips. Sub-females are the best at reading people’s expressions. He could tell from picking Eros up at the airport that Eros had no interest in his high-ranking brother, but was instead being ambiguous with the male insect he was currently video chatting with.

"Is this your male insect?" Goli asked with a hint of curiosity in her eyes.

Eros turned the terminal's screen to Goli, and only then did the sub-female see the male insect speaking to Eros:

"Wow, it's a beautiful baby insect!"

Kam, on the other end of the video call, was taken aback when he saw the suddenly appearing sub-female. But after hearing the sub-female praise his beauty, he was overjoyed: "Kam is the future male lord of Eros!"

Goli was even more surprised, his gaze falling on Eros: "Your master is this insect cub?"

Not only was Goli's gaze fixed on Eros, but Kamehameha's two watery eyes on the screen were also fixed on the expression on Eros's face.

Eros smiled and nodded: "Of course, I will marry him as soon as Cameron comes of age."

"Eros will be my queen!"

Just as Goli was amused by the male insect's naive remarks, he suddenly realized something and silently looked at the enigmatic smile on Eros's face.

Eros knew perfectly well that she was infertile and could not be matched with a male insect queen by the Imperial Brain, so why did she still deceive this male insect offspring?

Goli found it hard to imagine that any female insect could bear to deceive such a sincere male with such a sweet and gentle smile.

After Eros ended his call with Kam, Goli exclaimed, "This is the first time I've ever seen a female insect with such a good rapport with males."

"This is not a good thing." Eros finished the last sip of nutrient solution and began to clear his plate.

"How could that be?" At this moment, Goli felt that Eros was a female insect with many facets. In just this short while, he didn't know which of the female insect's words were true and which were false.

"Think about what kind of things male insects like."

"Uh... beautiful, expensive, like those flashy... gems and luxury goods?"

“Hmm, all show and no substance.” Eros raised an eyebrow. Male insects only like what they like—beautiful but soulless. Or rather, they don’t want female insects to have a vibrant soul at all. “I don’t want to be something all show and no substance.”

Eros would sometimes ponder to himself how the female insects held the males high up, so that when they looked down, they couldn't see what was supporting them from below.

The male insects should be terrified, because what they are supporting beneath them is not a solid, hard stone pillar, but a group of female insects that could attack them at any moment.

Male insects are attracted to shiny gems, but not to shiny female insects, because they wonder if female insects with vibrant souls would be willing to become the hard stone pillars beneath their feet.

Golly nodded. "So you were just deceiving that male bug? You really are a female bug with only ideas."

“Of course not, I’m just enjoying the feeling of being genuinely loved.” Eros smiled slightly. “It’s a wonderful feeling.”

Goli asked in confusion, "Didn't you just say that being liked by male insects wasn't a good thing?"

Eros smiled and said, "Being enjoyed by a male insect and enjoying a male insect are two different concepts."

Goli's limits were once again refreshed by Eros. He had never heard any female insect in the Empire dare to say that she enjoyed male insects. Only the rebels would have such thoughts.

“Eros, the other males will be unhappy if they hear these words.”

Eros didn't care; he handled the situation with great finesse: "But my little boy would just blush and snuggle into my arms when he heard that."

His words were a mix of truth and falsehood. Seeing the shocked expression on Goli's face, Eros wondered how much effect his words had actually had.

Eros saw affection in the way Grand Duke Caveno looked at him, but he was certain that affection was not for him.

Eros loathed this feeling, a feeling that kept him constantly on edge, as if letting his guard down would lead him into a hunter's trap and plunge him into unpredictable darkness.

Having crawled out of the darkness, how could he be willing to fall back down?