In truth, Pearly felt deeply conflicted and helpless.
Luo Mu was someone she, the leader of the Pearl Clan, had taken in. With the strength of the Pearl Settlement, was providing him with food, clothing, and shelter for a few days really such a big deal?
During the Pearl Clan's routine evening meeting, Pearly brought up the matter.
But for some inexplicable reason, it turned into a somewhat heated argument.
Many members disagreed with letting Luo Mu eat and drink for free while a blizzard raged outside.
They said the Pearl Settlement was not like the Diamond Clan, which had settled in the resource-rich Crimson Mirelands and possessed abundant natural resources.
Food that others could grow themselves was a precious commodity for the Pearl Settlement, something they had to painstakingly gather supplies in the Alabaster Icelands to exchange with the Ginkgo Guild for.
Even if Luo Mu was likely from the same place as Mr. Sazanami, who had now become the ranch manager, the Pearl Clan was not wealthy enough to let someone live off them for nothing.
Since he had received the Pearl Settlement's protection and avoided the possibility of dying in the wilderness—
At the very least, he needed to show everyone that he was someone useful.
Naturally, Pearly got angry.
But after her anger subsided, Pearly still compromised.
It was not because the members had forced their leader's hand, leaving her with no choice but to agree to their demands in order to maintain stability.
Rather, because she knew the members trusted their young leader without reservation, she could not refuse their reasonable requests. Nor should she.
For the Pearl Settlement, food that could only be obtained from the Ginkgo Guild or through Jubilife Village was indeed exceedingly precious.
On this matter alone, she could not disappoint