"What is this?"
Herta asked, a hint of confusion in her voice as her hair accessories twitched.
The reflection of the Arc Reactor shimmered in her eyes. It sat inside an isolation box, just like the Stellar Jades that were once lined up within. It lay there so serenely that it didn't look like a creation at all, but rather like a fundamental law of nature.
"A new invention. I've been working on it for a long time."
Asta said, feigning indifference.
She reached out and flipped the lid of the box. Instantly, an icy aura surged forth, sweeping across the room like a spatial storm, the howling wind rattling the space station's infrastructure.
Alarms blared immediately, and the lights overhead began to flicker at a high frequency, siphoning every bit of energy they could reach.
"You..."
Herta leaned in to get a better look, her pupils dilating in shock.
The young lady of the IPC, a student she treated as her own—even if she wasn't officially enrolled—had apparently managed to cook up something truly extraordinary in these last few days.
...
Herta's office, monitoring area.
Screwllum had come to the Space Station to assist, primarily to debug the progress of the Simulated Universe. Secondarily, it was to mentor Asta.
After all, she was the heiress of the IPC, and even as members of the Genius Society, they couldn't afford to be aloof; Herta's students were their students—it had always been that way.
After the Dragon Blood Powered Armor project, this duty became an inescapable obl…
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