Things at the Herta Space Station were always like this: the researchers simply had to press forward through difficulties, while Asta, as the station's lead, had a lot more to consider.
In fact, for people like them, encountering an easily solvable problem wasn't exciting at all; rather, these hard-to-crack conundrums were the most appetizing.
Test tubes clinked against one another as the unknown black liquid inside gradually underwent purification, releasing visible wisps of vapor.
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