After tidying themselves up, Lumina and Herta pushed open the room's door and walked outside.
Feeling the lively atmosphere of Okhema's "morning," Lumina felt a strong urge to spread her arms and embrace Okhema.
"So, which beautiful girl are you going to play with now?"
Beside her, Herta stood with her arms crossed. Seeing the peaceful and beautiful atmosphere, she didn't need to think twice. Driven by this very atmosphere, Lumina was about to go find some beautiful girls for a pleasant "chat."
Upon hearing Herta's words, Lumina abandoned her idea of embracing Okhema. She turned to Herta, leaned in, and gently brushed a strand of hair from Herta's face.
Savoring the tickle of the hair against her skin, Lumina's expression filled with tenderness and deep affection as she softly said, "Herta, my love, what are you talking about?"
"With the Cosmos's Number One Most Beautiful Girl by my side, I am already more than satisfied."
"With you by my side, with you accompanying me, how could I possibly go find other beautiful girls?"
Lumina didn't know where she had learned such sweet words, but she spoke them with utmost tenderness.
At the same time, her body shifted slightly forward, drawing closer and closer to Herta.
"..."
She couldn't help it. Even though she knew Lumina was just talking nonsense, under that tender and affectionate gaze, Herta still couldn't resist averting her eyes, unable to meet Lumina's gaze directly.
"Hehe." Seeing Herta's shy expression and posture, Lumina chuckled softly.
She reached out with her other hand, pinched Herta's fair chin, and turned her averted gaze back, forcing her to maintain direct eye contact.
In Lumina's jade green eyes, Herta's mysterious purple pupils were reflected.
"..."
Just like that, they looked at each other's reflections in their eyes, falling into a quiet and beautiful silence.
Time seemed to stand still at this moment, condensing all the beauty into this instant.
In this most brilliant, most dazzling, most serene, most beautiful, and most blissful moment of life, the two were like a couple who had just stepped into their wedding hall, looking at each other with eyes full of love after completing their wedding vows...
"Herta, my wife, do you love me?"
A moment later, Lumina gently, affectionately, and expectantly asked Herta this common wedding vow.
"..."
Under the influence of Lumina's actions, Herta could no longer distinguish heaven from earth.
No one could resist, no one could withstand such a Lumina.
Her heart itched...
Her body felt a tingling sensation...
Herta wanted to keep acting this way with Lumina forever, keep this posture, keep... this gaze.
"I..."
"I love you."
Herta trembled, Herta was excited, Herta's voice filled with emotion flowed out as her lips parted, reaching Lumina's ears and making her already beautiful and alluring smile grow even wider.
The fingers pinching Herta's chin tightened slightly, and the palm that had been stroking her hair had unconsciously pressed against the back of Herta's head.
With a firm push, the hands brought Herta's head closer to her own cheek.
And Lumina did not remain idle; she closed her eyes and slowly moved toward Herta's lips.
"Mmm..."
Under the influence of all these emotions, Herta let out a soft moan, her eyes hazy.
Then, just like Lumina, she slowly closed her eyes, waiting for the object of her heart's desire to arrive.
But unfortunately, fantasy was ultimately just fantasy.
Reality always conflicted with fantasy, and it would never be as beautiful as fantasy.
The warmth Herta felt against her skin dissipated once again, covered by a fresh gust of air.
Feeling this fresh air, the expression on Herta's face suddenly froze.
The hand pressing her head forward from behind and the fingers pinching her chin had already vanished.
"You love me?"
"Then keep loving me~"
"..."
Hearing these cheeky words, Herta gradually came to her senses.
The expected outcome.
But even so, Herta still felt a sense of emptiness in her heart.
This feeling of being constantly teased not only left Herta wanting more but also made her feel extremely irritated and uncomfortable.
If she could, Herta truly wanted Lumina to pay a price for this.
A painful price.
But obviously, that wasn't very realistic. With Lumina's strength, she did indeed have the capital to "be an ass."
In interactions between people, using one's own strength as a prerequisite to suppress and toy with the other party was truly playing a bit dirty.
According to Herta, when two parties were getting along, they should discard all external factors and compete solely on the basis of their bodies and physical attributes.
For example, by not using strength and only using brainpower to "fight" ...
Hmm... although doing so would make her the one who constantly relied on "power" to suppress and toy with the other party ...
But is that the same? She was using brainpower, using her brain to suppress and toy with the other party.
If Lumina's little head were a bit smarter, wouldn't she have avoided being toyed with by her?
She didn't dwell on it any longer; these thoughts were ultimately just fantasies in Herta's heart.
They could never become a reality.
Lumina would always use her strength to suppress and toy with her.
And Herta had almost no way to suppress or toy with Lumina in return.
After all...
Herta didn't actually dislike Lumina's teasing.
It was just that this feeling of emptiness after being toyed with made Herta feel a little uncomfortable.
Putting an end to her thoughts, Herta slowly opened her eyes and saw Lumina standing a few meters away, covering her mouth with her hand, giggling.
"Coward."
After staring at her for a while, Herta crossed her arms, let out a cold hmph, and uttered a word she had learned on a short-video platform.
Coward: the literal meaning.
It meant Lumina was too cowardly, only daring to tease in some matters, but not daring to actually do them.
This word truly fit Lumina perfectly.
Although she seemed to be pretty much the same herself...
Herta actually had more words in her heart that perfectly fit Lumina, but those words were a little... difficult to say out loud, and Herta didn't want to say them.
"Hmmph."
Lumina didn't pay any mind to Herta's accusatory words.
I used my own skill to toy with you, so deal with your frustration.
If you can't hold it in, then toy with me in return.
Assuming you have the strength...
Putting an end to her thoughts, Lumina offered a charming smile and returned to Herta's side.
She took Herta's small hand, lifted it to shoulder height, gave it a gentle shake, and gestured to her.
"Let's go, Little Herta. Don't waste your time standing here at the gate so early in the morning."
"Let's go see what the difference is between Okhema during the Gate-Hour and Okhema at other times~"
After speaking, without waiting for Herta to respond, Lumina pulled her small hand and started walking in a certain direction.
"..."
Although Herta didn't say anything in protest, she did roll her eyes.
Seeing what the difference is, huh?
In your house, "seeing what the difference is" means walking straight in a specific direction, right?
Herta silently complained in her heart.
Herta could tell exactly what Lumina was thinking just by listening to her words.
Her destination was definitely a certain beautiful girl.
Let Herta guess...
This beautiful girl must be either Hyacine or Castorice, right?
-
Amphoreus, Okhema.
Just as Herta had thought, Lumina was not strolling aimlessly, but walking with a clear purpose and goal.
When they arrived at a grassy meadow where many Dromas were present, Herta saw a purple figure.
Just as Herta had predicted, it was either Hyacine or Castorice.
Purple hair, so it could only be Castorice.
Just the day before, Lumina had charmed her so completely that she had lost all sense of time and space, yet Lumina gave her no time to recover or calm down before approaching her again.
And then, after she had completely fallen in love with Lumina, Lumina decisively and perplexingly told her, "Little Sister Castorice, I just want to be your friend, just want to be good besties with you, I have no thoughts in that direction, you know."
Such behavior, in Herta's view, was no different from leading someone on and then abandoning them.
It was simply like a scummy woman playing with someone's feelings...
Making one both love her and hate her.
Love her appearance, love her personality, and love her every move.
Hate her for leading people on and abandoning them, for flirting without taking responsibility.
And also... for flirting with everyone in sight.
Herta felt that if Lumina continued acting like this, the beautiful girls she had flirted with alone could fill the entire Herta Space Station.
"Sigh..."
"Little Sister Castorice, what a coincidence."
While Herta was sighing in her mind and feeling helpless about the matter, Lumina took Herta's small hand and walked quickly toward Castorice's position.
"S... Sister Lumina, what a... what a coincidence..."
Hearing the voice from behind her, Castorice's heart instantly trembled.
The various events from yesterday surfaced in Castorice's mind once again.
Even before seeing Sister Lumina in person, just hearing this voice caused a few tempting crimson clouds to appear on Castorice's crystalline fair little face.
When she went to sleep yesterday, Castorice tossed and turned in bed and could not fall asleep no matter what... Her mind was filled with all the events of spending time with Lumina today.
The first hug, the first time holding hands, and...
Driven by these emotions, Castorice simply could not fall asleep.
Getting out of bed, she walked to the desk, picked up the pen in her hand, and began a... burst of creation full of energy and vitality.
For a creator, a state of creation full of energy and vitality was extremely rare, one could even say it hardly appeared once in several years.
With the blessing of this state, Castorice wrote a fifty thousand-word short story in one night.
It wasn't that Castorice had finished writing, but that dawn had broken...
After putting down the pen, looking at the words she had written in this state, Castorice's face instantly turned crimson.
This was a short story, a story where the protagonist was Little Die and the female lead was Sister Moon...
Without a doubt, under the influence of various emotions, Castorice had written such a story, one buried in her heart.
Fortunately, this story was only fifty thousand words long, it was not finished, and it had not written the later plot... After realizing this, Castorice also breathed a sigh of relief.
Fifty thousand words, the two parties in the story were still within the range of best friends, and all kinds of emotions were at a budding stage; as long as Castorice did not think too much about it, there would be no problem.
Therefore, Castorice finally decided.
This book is dropped!
I won't write it anymore.
After tossing it into the cupboard, Castorice washed up and got ready, then walked out of her room and came to Okhema Streets for a stroll.
As she felt the breeze and vitality brought by the arrival of a new day, the emotions in Castorice's heart settled down a bit.
As a result, unexpectedly...
She... she actually met Sister Lumina.
"Little sister Castorice, is something wrong?"
While Castorice was thinking about various things in her heart, Lumina and Herta had already come up behind her without her noticing.
Looking at the way Castorice stood frozen in place with her head down, her eyes full of a thousand thoughts, not knowing what she was thinking, Lumina called her name softly, calling her back from her own world.
"Um, ahh!"
"Sorry, sorry, I was a little distracted."
Hearing that voice, Castorice hurriedly snapped back to her senses.
She turned around and looked at Lumina and Herta.
When she saw Lumina, a clear hint of daze appeared in Castorice's pupils.
Herta: ...
This kid is hopeless.
Just wait and die then.
Seeing the emotions flicker across Castorice's face, Herta had already internally pronounced a death sentence on her.
What followed was a wave of pity and regret.
In interpersonal interactions, Castorice's temperament would appear relatively weak and obedient.
Especially when dealing with Lumina, the "only" person she could establish contact with. With the added emotions of cherishment and affection, she would never be able to gain the upper hand against Lumina in her lifetime.
She could only be toyed with by Lumina, letting the emotions in her heart burn hotter and hotter, yet never being able to release them.
In the end, her body would be ruined from suppressing it all...
"Hah..."
Castorice took a deep breath, suppressing the emotions that had arisen from seeing Sister Lumina and hearing her voice.
Afterward, with a slight smile and a faint blush on her face, she softly said, "Sister Lumina, Sister Herta, welcome to the Dromas's dwelling."
After speaking, Castorice paused for a moment. Before Lumina and Herta could speak, she added, "...Though I say that, I'm also just happening to pass through."
"What a coincidence," Lumina said, feigning a surprised look. "Herta and I were also just happening to pass through here."
"..." Herta rolled her eyes at her. Seeing that she was still holding her hand, she didn't say anything to expose her.
"I see." Being gazed at by Lumina, Castorice blushed and nodded.
She didn't know what to say to keep the conversation going.
If she said she was well-acquainted with Sister Lumina, then that was indeed true.
But if she said they weren't well-acquainted, then that was also true.
Lumina probably didn't know much about her, and she... also didn't know much about Lumina.
Only Sister Herta could be considered Sister Lumina's friend...
Castorice pinched the hem of her dress, her lips appearing crystal clear in the sunlight.
"...Buzz!"
Just as Castorice was at a loss for what to do, the Dromas on the lawn let out a low rumble.
It seemed to be hinting at something.
"Ah." Hearing this sound, Castorice felt as if she had grasped a saving straw.
Looking at the Dromas, she softly explained to Lumina and Herta, "Sister Lumina, Sister Herta, this Dromas is hungry."
"Sister Lumina, Sister Herta, would you like to try feeding the Dromas?"