Exiled Villainess: They Threw Me Out, Now Every Beastman Wants Me novel Chapter 74

Chapter 74: Bored and Babied

Shortly after, Xavi had quietly pulled aside the three remaining members of Kiri’s group with a few of his trusted hunters. He had thoroughly interrogated them, and they were shockingly repentant. The females especially admired Tera now and were the most saddened by this.

Tera had forgiven them, and they had promised to keep this interaction a secret from Kiri. Tera had earlier pleaded with Xavi not to touch or involve Kiri yet, which baffled him. He reluctantly agreed, though mostly because Kiri was supposedly pregnant and he wouldn’t want to punish her yet.

Though he would not sit idle if he noticed any odd movement from her.

Tera found it thoughtful, and while she didn’t correct Xavi on Kiri’s supposed pregnancy, she was content to let that particular lie rot from the inside.

The fox’s day was coming.

In the weeks that followed, something strange happened.

The clan started working without her.

It wasn’t perfect or with the precision she would have liked, but more shelters were coming up. Some beasts had even taken the initiative by weaving the walls with dried branches and leaves before tying in the silk leaves.

And somehow, against all odds, nothing collapsed.

The beast folk had absorbed more than Tera had given them credit for. They still made mistakes. One shelter nearly had a door so low that only the cubs could enter without crouching, and another one had a roof that slanted so steeply that rain could actually shoot off it like a water cannon if it came.

Which was a mistake Tera had never in her life imagined someone could make.

But they were learning.

Before anyone could make further mistakes in the first week, as she had planned, Tera decided to appoint most of the females and two more capable males as her construction leads.

Since the farm did not require attention 24/7, and the females wanted to do something since they weren’t heavily pregnant yet, Tera had decided this would be the best role for them.

Kiri had dragged her feet, which made it far easier for Tera to leave her out of the process. She left Kiri part of the beasts handling the materials for the shelters.

Tera didn’t trust her with handling the farm, and she was sceptical about providing her with detailed information for building up the shelters since she could misuse that knowledge.

Tera noticed how the load was visibly off her shoulders with how the others started managing the shelters.

The supervisors she had put in place didn’t fully understand why she wanted things done a certain way, but they followed her instructions with the earnest dedication of students who had discovered that their strange, shiftless teacher was usually right.

The farm was thriving in its own quiet way. The herbs and faster-growing plants had been harvested, and a second round of planting was already underway. The tubers were still buried and growing, but Tera checked on them with the system’s help, and everything was on track.

Even the foraging teams had gotten efficient. They knew which plants were safe, which fruits were ripe, and which berries to avoid after the infamous orange berry incident that no one was allowed to mention in front of the beast male who had eaten them and nearly lost all feeling in his tongue.

Xavi and Ermin had become insufferable.

Not in a bad way. In the way that two powerful, protective males who had just learned their mate was carrying a cub became insufferable.

Tera was not allowed to lift anything heavier than a fruit. She was not allowed to climb. She was not allowed to stand for too long, sit for too long, walk too fast, walk too slow, eat too little, or breathe in a way that either of them deemed ’concerning.’

It was a bit odd since none of the other females was being treated this way.

Xavi had stubbornly refuted that Tera wasn’t as strong as the others, and while it was true, it still left Tera grumbling.

’I am going to lose my mind.’

’When did they get so good at this?’

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