"Herta, I like you."
The moment he realized this, Chu Ze immediately began a sincere confession.
He spun around on the spot and, using the flower-conjuring technique he had learned while chatting with Argenti online, materialized a rose out of thin air:
"To meet you in this vast sea of people is the luck of my lifetime."
"From the first moment I saw you, I felt my heart skip a beat."
He continuously approached Herta, exuding all of his charm, and revealed what he believed to be his most handsome smile:
"Every time I see you, my heart is filled with warmth and joy."
"Fu... Herta, I want to use all my strength to love you, to cherish you—mmph..."
As Chu Ze pressed closer, Herta didn't retreat, but simply sat where she was, looking straight at him.
Just as their distance closed to the point where they were about to kiss, Herta suddenly reached out and clapped a hand over Chu Ze's mouth with a smack:
"Hold it. Did I just hear another woman's name?"
"And you, don't you have any sense of occasion for a confession? You're starting right here in the office?"
No matter how dense a man is, he couldn't possibly explain away that slip of the tongue.
So Chu Ze automatically ignored the first question and moved his mouth away from Herta's hand:
"So you're saying you'd accept it if it were in a different setting?"
"...In your dreams."
Herta's brow furrowed slightly.
She looked at Chu Ze, seemingly wanting to say something, but in the end, she just sighed:
"Stop thinking about such messy things. We can talk about confessions later."
"Since you're so idle, I happen to have a commission here. Go and solve it for me."
"Oh, okay."
Chu Ze was a little disappointed.
It seemed Herta hadn't been able to completely transform.
But to have her tsundere level reduced even a little was already great progress.
If this had been when they first met, he probably would have been sent flying by her hammer before he could even confess...
One day, he would completely change the tsundere Herta, turning the young woman's lines from "no" to "don't stop"!
"Hey, snap out of it."
Herta extended her long leg, the tip of her booted foot gently tapping him:
"I've lost a Curio, and I need you to help me find it."
"The name of the Curio is the [Charm Brooch]. As the name suggests, it's something that can greatly increase a person's personal charm when worn."
"According to experiments, the amplified charm is about ten times the wearer's original charm."
"So I want you to find it in the space station, put on this brooch, and then come back to see me... understand?"
Chu Ze raised his hand:
"I have three questions—"
"Who stole this brooch?"
"How do you know the brooch is still in the space station?"
"And, why do I have to wear the brooch to come back and see you?"
Herta seemed to have anticipated these questions.
She explained without any surprise:
"First question, you don't need to worry about the culprit. I have my own arrangements."
"Second question, sensing Curios is one of the powers of an Emanator of Erudition. You're not an Emanator, you wouldn't understand even if I told you, so I won't elaborate."
"Third question, wearing the brooch is for an experiment, to let me personally test if the Curio is still effective."
"Anything else you don't understand?"
Chu Ze shook his head:
"Nope. So that's the reason."
"I thought it was a play directed and acted by you, Sis Ta, with the purpose of having me wear the brooch to enhance my charm and thus fiercely seduce you."
Herta: "..."
She pulled down the wide brim of her hat.
The young woman let out a disdainful sneer:
"What a big face you have. If I wanted to seduce you, would I need to go through all this trouble?"
"Forget it. To avoid someone's wild imagination, I'd better have Ruan Mei retrieve it for me..."
Chu Ze quickly interrupted:
"Aiya, there's no need to trouble Ruan Mei with such a small matter."
"You just sit here and don't move. I'll go find the brooch for you right now."
"Remember to send a picture of the Curio to my phone."
With that, he dashed out, as if afraid Herta would retract the commission.
Looking at his retreating back, Herta remembered something else and added:
"Don't run around after you put on the brooch. Come straight back to my office!"
"Got it—"
...
...
Was this a play directed and acted by Herta herself?
Chu Ze probably already knew the answer.
But this answer wasn't very important to him.
No matter what plan Herta had, he would just confess to her fiercely and attack her fiercely.
With this thought, Chu Ze took out his phone and looked at the text message Ruan Mei had sent.
"The coordinates for the containment cabin, huh?"
"Very good, then let's set off immediately."
Fixing on a certain direction, he quickly rushed over.
And then he ran into a familiar figure.
"Little sis?"
Chu Ze looked at the gray-haired girl before him.
The gray-haired girl was shouldering a baseball bat, gesturing at a jar in the corridor.
Hearing Chu Ze's voice, she also turned her head at once:
"Big bro, what a coincidence. Are you smashing jars too?"
"...Smashing jars?"
"Right. I was wondering why the bottles and jars in the space station would drop some small materials after being smashed."
With that, Stelle smashed a bat down.
As expected, the jar in front of her dropped some scattered small props.
"Azure Star technology, little sis."
Chu Ze didn't know the reason either, but he wasn't interested in such small matters:
"Instead of smashing jars, want to help me find a Curio?"
Stelle didn't hesitate:
"No problem."
The Astral Express's joining ceremony was already complete.
Now was her free exploration time anyway.
So Chu Ze explained the whole story to her and told her the coordinates.
"A Charm Brooch? Enhances charm tenfold?"
Stelle was also interested in such a Curio.
So she followed behind Chu Ze and quickly arrived at the containment cabin.
Following Ruan Mei's coordinates, the two turned left and right and finally found the trash can where the brooch was hidden.
While Stelle was rummaging through the trash can, Chu Ze subconsciously sized up the surrounding environment.
This was the depths of the containment cabin. Normally, no researchers would wander around here, only a few scattered [Herta puppets] would walk back and forth.
There were surveillance cameras on the wall, but coincidentally, the position where he and Stelle were was blocked by a large storage container next to it, which was a surveillance blind spot.
If he were to do something bad here, it seems he really wouldn't be discovered by anyone.
With this thought, Stelle straightened up from the trash can and took out the lost Charm Brooch.
"Is this the Curio? It doesn't look any different from an ordinary brooch."
Stelle held up the brooch and looked at it carefully, but she couldn't see anything special.
Chu Ze took it and pinned it directly on his chest:
"Curios generally need to meet certain conditions to exert their proper effects."
"For example, this brooch can only enhance the wearer's charm when worn on the chest."
"How is it? Do you think I look different from usual now... little sis? What's wrong with you?"
The moment he put on the brooch, the gray-haired young woman's expression suddenly froze for a moment.
Her breathing suddenly became rapid, and her eyes suddenly filled with a fiery gaze.
"Big bro... you..."
Stelle suddenly hugged Chu Ze and took a deep sniff with her small nose.
"You... smell so good... haah..."
"I suddenly feel a little... a little unable to hold back..."
It seems it took effect.
Seeing his little sister's reaction, Chu Ze immediately knew the conclusion.
He already had an extremely high charm value.
Now, with the tenfold amplification of the brooch, and the unique strong attraction between the Stellaron-infused, the Stelle before him was completely lost in an instant.
This was a temptation that no ordinary person could resist!
Just by hugging Chu Ze's body, she had already entered a state of bewilderment. He could even see some traces flowing down the young woman's snow-white thighs, near her thigh ring!
"Big bro... how about right here..."
Stelle's panting came from his ear.
The young woman's face, gradually turning red, also exuded a charming and seductive flavor:
"This is a surveillance blind spot, no one will see..."
"A little excitement once in a while doesn't seem so bad...?"
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