Education

Eight years later, in the Styx Galaxy, thousands of years away from the present world, the time had come for Little Karl and Space Principal to meet for the first time...

Well, actually, Little Karl and Space Principal should have met several years ago, not long after Ximen Lang first arrived at this point in time.

However, Little Karl was then at a crucial stage in the formation of his values, and Ximen Lang had not yet completed his Nine-Year Compulsory Education.

So Ximen Lang had taken the initiative to push the timing back a little.

As for exactly how Ximen Lang had delayed it, Ximen Lang said...

"For something like this, couldn't I just freeze Space Old Man in time and space? He's nothing but trash. Was it really worth all that trouble?"

Hearing Ximen Lang say this, Leng—who had been unbearably lonely and whom Ximen Lang had brought over from ten thousand years in the future not long after arriving at this point in time—gave Ximen Lang, who was still looking smug, a speechless glance.

Turning her head, she saw that Space Old Man, who had roamed the Known Universe for hundreds of thousands of years, was still fixed outside the planet by Ximen Lang, unable to move even a fraction.

Leng said helplessly,

"But we can't just keep him frozen like this forever, can we?"

It wasn't that Leng lacked confidence in Ximen Lang's methods or feared that Space Principal would notice that Ximen Lang had only frozen the old man in time.

Rather...

"It's been eight years. Do you know that a full eight years have passed since you came to this stretch of time and space? A year ago, Little Karl had already dug out nearly everything there was to know about Pre-Nuclear Civilization."

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