“Hey, drunkard, wake up!
Hurry up and tell me, what’s your situation right now?” After a round of drinks, the relationship between the two had grown much closer.
Kazuki didn’t show a shred of tenderness or chivalry; he reached out and pinched Student Himeko’s nose, effectively forcing her to wake up by cutting off her air.
As soon as she opened her eyes, she gasped for air with her mouth wide open.
“Wake up!
You’ve descended into the reality universe now, quickly tell me, how does it feel?” Kazuki asked, crossing his arms and looking at her with a serious expression.
Student Himeko buried her head low, trembling as she held up a single finger, unable to utter a word.
“Can you manifest for an hour?” Kazuki looked at her finger and asked tentatively.
Student Himeko shook her head.
“A day?
It can’t just be one minute, right?” Student Himeko’s finger swayed back and forth, and after a long while, she squeezed out a few words through her teeth: “It is…
wait for me a moment…” As it turned out, in that short moment, when Kazuki looked down again, he saw Student Himeko’s head tilt to the side, and she had fallen back asleep.
Looking at this scene, the expression on his face was indescribable.
But then he thought about his own state after vomiting earlier, which wasn’t much better, and he instantly felt relieved.
Forget it, forget it, no point in arguing with a drunkard.
Kazuki casually returned Student Himeko to the card space, turned around, and took on the persona of that logistics staff member, preparing to take a stroll around the transport ship.
Of course, he directly blocked the shared vision—he wasn’t some rigid saint; when it was time to play a role, he didn’t hold back at all, and he could just delete it later.
Meanwhile, inside the Herta Space Station.
Stelle had already woken up, and after adding Dan Heng’s contact information, she was led by him on a tour of the Herta Space Station.
While wandering around, Stelle found Himeko in the Master Control Zone.
Just as she approached and exchanged a few words, a Herta Puppet walked over.
Stelle’s brain froze for a moment, but she still managed to recognize the appearance of the puppet.
Without a second word, she reached out her hand in front of the Herta Puppet and said righteously: “I defeated the Doomsday Beast, give me my reward.” Herta, who had just cleared her throat and was preparing to introduce herself, saw her face turn black on the spot.
Himeko quickly tried to smooth things over: “Herta, you’re back.” She then turned to introduce her to Stelle: “Stelle, this is the true owner of the Herta Space Station, Genius Society #83, Herta.” Herta immediately put one hand on her hip, tilted her little head up to look at Himeko, and said with an unhappy face: “If you’re going to introduce me, do it properly.
Why mention the Genius Society?
I have so many extraordinary achievements; which one doesn’t sound better than #83?” After speaking, she turned her head to look Stelle up and down, her eyes sparkling: “She is a walking Stelle now?
This is truly interesting.” The two chatted back and forth for a few sentences, but Stelle didn’t get a single penny of reward, experiencing for the first time in her life the anger of being taken advantage of.
That goddamn liar!
To actually swindle a Stelle who hasn’t even been born for an hour, what a beast!
Far away on the transport ship, Kazuki: Achoo!
— Who the hell is bad-mouthing me behind my back?
However, at this moment, there were two choices before Stelle: one was to follow the Astral Express and become a Trailblazer; the other was to stay at the Herta Space Station and become a researcher.
Besides that, Herta also made a request: she wanted to properly study her body.
Stelle rolled her eyes, didn’t agree immediately, and only said: “I need to consider it, but as long as the money is enough, it’s not impossible for me to cooperate with the research.” Herta raised an eyebrow, feeling it was very interesting.
Anyway, it wasn’t her money, so she agreed casually.
After a while, the conversation between Himeko and Herta had pretty much reached its end.
Herta waved her little hand and said indignantly: “Alright, I need to go find that guy who dared to impersonate me.” Himeko covered her mouth and laughed on the side: “Oh?
Is it that young man with white hair?
I ran into him in the Support Zone earlier; he seemed quite polite.” “Polite, my foot!” Herta stomped her feet in anger, “That guy is absolutely audacious!” “Oh, right, Himeko, you should also come to my office; there are some things I want to show you.” After speaking, Herta’s consciousness logged off from this puppet, and Himeko greeted Stelle before turning and leaving.
Within two seconds, Herta’s contact information appeared on Stelle’s phone, along with a message asking her to visit Herta’s office when she had time.
But Stelle wasn’t in a hurry at all.
She circled the unconscious Herta Puppet, looking left and right, asking questions, and fussing about for a long time before slowly wandering off in the direction of Asta.
By now, Asta, thanks to her calm command in the face of danger, had completely won over the researchers who used to think of her as just a mascot and looked at her with disdain.
Wherever she went, she received looks of admiration.
But only she knew that her mind was already a complete mess.
Ms.
Herta had just issued an order for her to issue a wanted notice across the entire Herta Space Station to catch the white-haired young man who was swindling people while wearing the face of a Herta Puppet.
She followed the instructions, but after pressing the publish button, her heart felt like it was harboring two opposing little people—one hoping that Ms.
Herta could successfully catch him and stop him from running amok using Herta’s name; the other unable to stop praying that he could successfully escape and not be caught by Herta to be sliced up for research.
“Were the things he said before really just an act?” Asta unconsciously rubbed the edge of her phone with her fingertips, her mind replaying the words he had typed to her across the screen not long ago.
If he hadn’t forced her to push herself, she would probably still be trapped in the label of “a mascot living off her family background” in others’ eyes, never able to take that step.
Fortunately, Ms.
Herta was only concerned with being angry and finding the person, and didn’t press her on whether she was involved with this imposter; otherwise, she was really afraid that she wouldn’t be able to keep her composure and would spill everything.
Should she delete his contact information?
If Ms.
Herta traced it through the communication records, what would she do?
And what would happen to him?
Countless thoughts swirled in her mind, the more she thought, the messier it got.
Just as she was letting her imagination run wild at her phone, with her brain almost tied in knots, a voice suddenly came from behind her.
“I want to talk to you.” Stelle was standing quietly behind her.
Asta’s shoulders gave a sudden jolt from fright.
She quickly suppressed the messy thoughts, adjusted the expression on her face, turned around, and revealed a polite smile: “Oh, it’s you.
The Herta Space Station was able to hold on this time thanks to your help.
What’s wrong?
Did you encounter any trouble?” The two didn’t chat for long before Stelle had figured out the situation of the Herta Space Station and Asta’s position perfectly.
She nodded and wandered off.
Conversely, Asta had completely sorted out the thoughts she had been mulling over for so long during the conversation just now.
She took a deep breath, opened the chat box named [Suian], and typed a few words to send: “Where are you now?” On the other side, Kazuki was strolling on the transport ship when the phone in his pocket suddenly vibrated.
He took it out and glanced at it, then quickly typed back a reply: “Left.
This Herta Space Station doesn’t welcome me, so I’m going to wander around somewhere else.” Not two seconds after the message was sent, a picture was thrown over from the other side.
“Image.JPG” “You are actually not Ms.
Herta, and you aren’t even a woman.” Kazuki opened the picture and took a look; it was indeed the scene from earlier where he was helping to move supplies in the Support Zone safety area while appearing in his original form.
The surveillance angle was quite good, making him look rather handsome.
He clicked his tongue, knowing exactly what was going on—as expected of Herta; she had probably investigated everything, even the fact that he was wandering around earlier while wearing the appearance of Student Himeko.
However, let Herta search.
This transport ship was already on its return journey, and he was about to arrive at Azure Star.
By then, it would be a world where fish can leap in the sea and birds can fly in the sky—he would be free.