The two beasts have been together for a long time, and they're still fierce and defensive. They've been eating a lot of snow heart fruit, but taotie still doesn't eat it. They don't have any control over each other, says the monster. He's going to have to trim their claws a little, he says, because they've grown too big. He also announces that they can't sleep in their house anymore, because the monster has grown up and is about to get married. The monster says he'll sleep outdoors with them tonight, and then they can sleep on their own after he's gone. He says that if he had to learn to transform into a human being, then he'd have no reason not to sleep with them. He asks if the monster guys are just decontaminating the medicine in the courtyard, and the monster says that's not the case. He wants to know how the demon king is going to react to this news.