Why Is There a Quantum Shadow Here?

"What... exactly was added to this?"

Herta began studying the pastries.

Know yourself and your enemy, and you could fight a hundred battles without defeat.

She still had no idea what those two were plotting.

Something meant to eliminate dissidents?

...No, unlikely. Otherwise, those two would have eliminated each other first.

And they definitely would not do something like that right under Liu Bai's nose.

...Could it really be some drug meant to knock her out?

Herta could not quite understand the mindset of not keeping something so good to oneself.

(But considering the brains of those two, it wasn't entirely impossible.)

Herta looked at the pastries she had placed in the refrigerator.

(But if it really is that kind of drug, things become simple...)

Herta's breeding plan—while Herta was not a life scientist, she really wanted to make herself a miniature version to play with.

But she had always lacked the opportunity. Even with Asta, she could only give the two of them chances to make progress together.

If these pastries really had the effect she suspected...

Then...

Use their own methods against them!

And if they did not?

Then it was still what those two bastards deserved for scheming against her.

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Why Is There an Imaginary Husk Here?

Herta was not a professional life scientist, so without any leads, reverse-engineering the two of their methods was somewhat troublesome.

But... the most difficult problems often only needed the simplest methods to solve.

For example—eavesdropping.

Although her original intention in scattering puppets everywhere was not to eavesdrop, they now happened to be perfectly suited for the job.

And sometimes, there was no need to truly reverse-engineer anything.

—She could just grind these pastries into powder and feed them to those two.

Wasn't it just drugging someone? They made it