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    Female Monarch

    Half an hour later, Felix stood with Ryan at the marriage registration office of the Male Protection Association, calmly accepting the gazes coming from all directions.

    “Is it for real? Lord Felix wants Ryan to be his Female Monarch?”

    “Could it be wrong if Lord Felix said it himself?”

    “But Ryan is a sinful female.”

    “And a sinful female without wings at that,” a staff member whispered. “I really don’t know what kind of tricks he used.”

    “Shh, stop talking. That lord is glaring at us.”

    Several staff members quickly fell silent, lowering their heads and hurrying away. Felix also casually withdrew his gaze, quietly listening to Ryan explain male education to him.

    “After reaching adulthood, males must undergo five years of education. Upon graduation, they enter a Production Base to work,” Ryan explained in detail. “Production Bases require males to use their mental power to protect specific areas from being invaded by pollutants.”

    “Specific areas?”

    “For example, natural vegetable production centers, egg incubation centers, and some other important locations.”

    Felix nodded, signaling him to continue.

    “When entering the academy, a male can bring one or two females for protection. Of course, they can also choose to enter alone, but almost no male chooses to do that.”

    Felix expressed doubt again: “Why?”

    Was there something that required the cooperation of a female to learn?

    “Females need to protect their male and take care of the male’s daily life.”

    Felix: “…Are all males useless?”

    Ryan’s eyes suddenly widened. He instinctively wanted to stop Felix from speaking, but it was too late. The males waiting for registration nearby had already heard him.

    This statement, full of contempt for males, was like a drop of water falling into a pan of hot oil, instantly sparking dissatisfaction among the surrounding males.

    Felix shifted his posture, lazily scanning the males with an indifferent gaze. “What? Did I hurt your fragile little hearts?”

    “Master,” Ryan quickly shielded Felix behind him, gently tugging at his sleeve. “Master, you can’t speak like that.”

    Felix sat with his legs crossed, leaning against the back of the sofa in a relaxed and casual manner. He reached out and squeezed the back of Ryan’s neck to make him sit properly.

    The males present had various expressions, but he quickly locked onto a target. Staring at the male surrounded by females in the center, he stood up unhurriedly and walked over with Ryan.

    “Oh, isn’t this the noble young master Anka Lucas?” A flicker of anger ignited in Felix’s heart, and his mental power surged around him without concealment. “What a coincidence, meeting again.”

    Lucas had a gloomy expression. With a sub-female in each arm, he grinned maliciously. “Why so much anger? It seems Ryan hasn’t served you well enough.”

    “Want to trade with me?” Lucas pushed the sub-females in his arms forward. “Two for your one, how about it?”

    “Master…” Ryan’s face turned pale. He wanted to reach out and grab Felix but didn’t dare to lay a hand on him.

    Felix grabbed Ryan’s hand in return and looked down at Lucas. His vast mental power was completely unrestrained as it surged toward him.

    Lucas remained lazily nestled in the sofa with a disdainful smile. “With just your low-level A-rank, don’t even bother—”

    Felix watched with interest as the look in Lucas’s eyes suddenly turned to terror. Mental power forcefully invaded his brain, forcing his knees to buckle and making him kneel before Ryan.

    “When you do something wrong, you must apologize. Didn’t anyone at home teach you that?”

    Lucas gritted his teeth, refusing to speak. He tried to mobilize his mental power to resist, only to find it imprisoned within his body like a pool of stagnant water. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t move it at all.

    “Useless!” He ground out through clenched teeth, his face turning red with humiliation. He turned his head and roared, “Are you all idiots?!”

    The females behind him seemed to have just reacted, but they were helpless in the face of the kneeling Lucas and Felix, who was shielding Ryan.

    Females could not interfere in conflicts between males, and the only one they could target, Ryan, was being protected behind Felix. Lucas’s female attendants could only pressure the Male Protection Association.

    Felix’s eyes were cold as he looked down at Lucas and spoke again: “Apologize to Ryan!”

    Blood seeped from the corner of Lucas’s mouth, and his gaze grew even gloomier. “Apologize to a female slave? Hmph, in your dreams!”

    The two sides were at a stalemate for a dozen seconds. Felix’s patience ran out, and an unprecedented irritability caused him to strengthen his control over Lucas once more.

    A few seconds later, Lucas’s noble head slammed onto the ground with a thud. “I’m sorry!”

    The voice, full of resentment and reluctance, did not satisfy Felix. Just as he was about to continue the pressure, Ryan suddenly grabbed his arm. “Master, it’s our turn.”

    Seeing this, the staff members swarmed over to separate Lucas and Felix. Some escorted Lucas to the medical room, while others led Ryan and Felix to the registration room.

    Incense was burning in the registration room. Perhaps it had a calming effect, as the boiling irritability inside Felix slowly subsided.

    He rubbed his brow, took a deep breath, and looked at Ryan with a worried expression. “Sorry, did I… did I just scare you?”

    For some reason, since waking up in this hellhole, his temper had become increasingly difficult to control.

    Ryan shook his head. “No.”

    Felix said nothing more and sat silently to the side, watching the staff members busily have Ryan fill out forms.

    There were about a dozen forms in total. It took Ryan half an hour to finish them. Felix only needed to sign his name with a flourish at the end, and Ryan became his Female Monarch.

    The moment the information system updated, Felix clearly sensed the joy of the female beside him.

    The annoyance that had been lingering in his heart eased slightly. Felix turned to look at Ryan, who was constantly checking his identity information on his terminal, and took the initiative to invite him: “Is there anything you want to eat? Let’s go celebrate.”

    Ryan looked back blankly. “Celebrate what?”

    “Celebrate what?” Felix repeated lazily with a light chuckle. “Celebrate that I have a handsome and capable Female Monarch.”

    Ryan’s face turned red instantly.

    Under Ryan’s guidance, the shuttle landed at the largest shopping mall on Capital Star. Rather than a mall, it was more like a centralized commodity sales area.

    Its area was as large as dozens of football fields, and the restaurants were located in the very center of the mall.

    The moment they stepped into the central area, the air became fresh and sweet. Felix felt the annoyance in his heart vanish instantly, and even the dissatisfaction he had accumulated toward the Zerg Race over the past few days lessened significantly.

    While natural vegetables were scarce for the Zerg Race, their cooking skills were quite good. With various fancy seasonings added to the pot, even the most unpalatable food could taste somewhat delicious.

    Felix wasn’t in a hurry to take Ryan to eat. Instead, he wandered around the area with the most restaurants.

    It didn’t seem like much at first, but as he looked around, Felix discovered a problem.

    The two of them stopped in front of a restaurant that looked high-end. Ryan’s expression changed. He pursed his lips, lowered his head, and took a step back. “Master, I will wait for you here.”

    “What?” Felix was confused. “Don’t like this place? It’s fine, we can just change to another one.”

    Ryan hesitated, and just as he was about to say something, a service staff member from the shop came out with a smile. “Lord Male, welcome to our restaurant.”

    It was a sweet-looking little sub-female. Ryan lowered his head even further and retreated again, only to have his wrist grabbed by Felix.

    Ryan was startled and instinctively stopped, his gaze falling on the hand with well-defined knuckles on his wrist.

    Felix’s palm was slender and pale, showing faint green veins, like the fragile white porcelain of ancient Earth. Ryan froze in place, afraid of accidentally hurting the delicate male.

    Sensing his stiffness, Felix quickly let go. He didn’t dare touch the warmth lingering on his fingertips, merely curling his fingers slightly and clearing his throat to feign composure.

    “Lord Male?” Hearing him clear his throat, the sub-female instinctively frowned and asked with concern, “Are you feeling unwell?”

    “No,” Felix waved his hand. “My Female Monarch is feeling a bit unwell. Could you please bring a glass of hot water?”

    “Of course,” the sub-female resumed her sweet smile. “Please follow me, Lord. Your Female Monarch will go to the dedicated lounge to wait for you.”

    Felix’s footsteps paused. “What?”

    He looked up slightly at the sub-female who had also stopped, a bad premonition rising in his heart. “My Female Monarch can’t come with me?”

    The sub-female’s smile remained unchanged. “Of course. This restaurant is exclusively for the use of Lord Males. We will take good care of your Female Monarch.”

    She looked at the blonde military female behind Felix, envy rising in her eyes. It was rare for a military female to become a Female Monarch unless they had money and power.

    This military female was truly lucky to have such a handsome male lord.

    Felix’s eyes turned cold. He took two steps back and gripped Ryan’s wrist through his sleeve. “Never mind, we won’t be eating here.”

    The sub-female was stunned, a look of confusion in her eyes, not knowing what she had done wrong to annoy the male lord.

    Ryan also looked at Felix in surprise. He quickly took two steps forward and spoke in a soft, soothing voice, “Master, the restaurants here are all male-only.”

    After all, natural vegetables were exclusively for males, and almost no male was willing to share their exclusive items with a female.

    “All of them?” Felix fumed. “Is there not a single shop where we can go in together?”

    Ryan thought for a moment and said, “There are some.”

    Felix felt slightly better and signaled for him to lead the way.

    Ryan wasn’t familiar with this area either; he had only heard colleagues and superiors mention it occasionally. Holding his breath, Ryan cautiously stopped in front of a shop.

    The shop was called “Tree Hole Hut.” Its exterior looked like a giant hole carved into a tree trunk, with small wooden houses scattered among the branches. Diners could freely choose a branch.

    Ryan carefully read through the notices at the entrance. After confirming there were no “Male Only” signs, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

    “Master, this is the place.” He nodded with certainty.

    The two entered the hole and chose a relatively secluded small wooden house. After lowering the curtain, a sub-female server quickly walked in and handed the menu to both of them.

    Usually, only males were qualified to order, whether in a male-only restaurant or a shared restaurant. However, since neither Ryan nor Felix had been to other restaurants, they didn’t pay much attention to it.

    Felix quickly scanned the menu to get a general idea of the dishes. After asking Ryan about his dietary restrictions, he ordered one dish and one soup, then added two desserts.

    Ryan hesitated for a long time before ordering a sweet soup.

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