(This is it at last!! Double rewards at the end of the month!! I've waited a whole month for this moment, so please vote with your monthly tickets—though was I losing my mind a few days ago? Why did I suddenly post ten thousand words? It would've been so much better to save them for today. Looks like I'm just naturally a very simple person...)
This might have been a good thing, especially for Qian Qian:
Our Sunshine Beach Vacation had finally passed safely. It lasted a full five days, enough for those girls, big and small, to have their fill of fun.
Of course, you couldn't blame Qian Qian for only knowing how to play because there really was nothing for us to do. I meant, the three fleets sent to probe the Fallen Apostles' lair had not reached their destination until yesterday afternoon—damn, those Fallen Apostles were hiding ridiculously far away. No matter how streamlined they were, the three fleets remained enormous targets. To avoid exposing the Empire's home territory, every warship could only slowly jump toward the target worlds along the most distant route in maximum stealth mode. That would take four to six days. Fortunately, a few days were not enough for that Harlan, or whatever his name was, to clean up the mess caused by the experimental accident. I was glad that the thing causing them trouble was a Void Creature. The latest intelligence showed that, before the runaway test subject escaped, it had torn open swathes of Void Rifts in every Research World. Even if those Fallen Apostles worked themselves to death, it would be impossible for them to repair the Void Rifts in three worlds within a few days.
After several days of having a thoroughly good time on vacation—at least, the girls