The soldiers were gone, so there was nothing to do except to return to the ship. We all entered the portals, and the ship captain, who seemed to be sweating a bit at the sudden stop and everyone departing, got the ship moving again. The captain and crew of the ship were an interesting lot. They seemed to be a diverse group of characters. There was no wolfkin on this ship. After all, it wasn’t Lord Duran’s ship, but a ship sent by the Jespain to his tribe as a one-time favor. That meant that these guys came from Jespain, a culture completely different from our own, and they seemed to like it. First off, they were very quiet and they kept to themselves. That was unless my girls started interacting with them.

They appeared to be humans but they wore a lot of jewelry and had various tattoos. The jewelry included necklaces, bracelets, and ear, lip, nose, and tongue piercings. The tattoos varied, and could sometimes be quite decorative. This seemed to intrigue some of my girls, who were at least a little interested in learning about the piercings and tattoos. When Lydia started asking if she could get down there pierced, I put my foot down and told the girls they couldn’t have any tattoos or piercings. I didn’t like to abuse my position too much, but as a slave master, I did have that right. The girls were a little disappointed, but they quickly lost their interest and left the sailors back to their job.

In general, I didn’t have anything against tattoos or piercings. Salicia had a few piercings, and my body was technically covered in the tattoos leftover from the blessings, although they were thankfully out of sight unless I went to my dungeon store or started to pull mana from their reserves. I just imagined my girls ending up covered in tattoos and piercings, and it destroyed their gentle and innocent auras. However, when I remembered how much fun it was to play with Salicia’s pierced nipples, a small part of me regretted shutting the conversation down completely. How would it be if down there was pierced?

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I quickly threw the idea out when I noticed one of the sailors leering at my woman. I didn’t like that at all, but if I made a stink of it, I’d just look like one of those untrusting boyfriends. It may be surprising, but before this point, I had rarely had to deal with people staring at my women. In Chalm, my status and their status as my women was well known. No one became tempted.

As slaves, they were all my property, and noble status also held weight in Aberis. Cuckoldry and adultery were almost nonexistent in Dioshin. It was because of their sense of smell. A man could smell another man on a woman, and it made her much less desirable. There were men like King Roth, alpha’s that monopolized a woman, but they’d rarely take a woman who wasn’t a virgin, as she would be used goods.

I had learned that this was one of the reasons First and the other lionesses hadn’t pushed themselves on me for more than being bodyguards, despite their fairly aggressive attitudes. In their minds, they were soiled goods, having been touched by Roth. From the moment Roth defiled them, their prospects with any other man were very little. Any man who did take a woman who had been with another would be ridiculed in Dioshin. Well, I was an exception being as I wasn’t an animalkin. Taking them in as bodyguards was already enough that I was seen as a merciful man to the Dioshin.

Either way, there was one girl on the airship who was trying to draw the least attention of anyone. That was our newest guest, Rea. She had hidden in a corner shortly after boarding and had spoken minimally to everyone since. My girl's talks of adding her to my harem had kept me from speaking to her too quickly, but as the sunset and the predominant lights became the continued glow of the Abyss, I decided I should at least try to glean a little bit about her.