You can't do that!

"Hmph... what a weird guy!"

Watching Lin Feng walk away, March 7th let out a long breath and covered her burning cheeks with both hands, unable to calm herself down.

"Himeko was right. You really do have to watch out for boys when you're away from home..."

"Right... keep my distance from Lin Feng. That's the plan..."

The pink-haired girl muttered to herself, kicking the compartment wall hard with her boot to vent her embarrassment and anger.

"Little March... keep up with me. The space station's layout is complicated. Don't get lost!"

"Got it! Coming, coming!"

Despite what she had said, March 7th's body betrayed her true feelings, and she hurried after Lin Feng.

After taking down several waves of the Antimatter Legion's Voidrangers, Lin Feng and March 7th finally reached an open area.

Beneath a dome overlooking the sea of stars, crisscrossing metal bridges converged at the central elevator tower.

"Sigh, I knew it..."

"If only our all-knowing teacher Dan Heng were here. He knows all sorts of strange stuff. Maybe he could even fix an elevator."

Standing before a computer terminal displaying an orange screen, March 7th pursed her lips, looking a little dejected.

"I can't do that!"

Dan Heng's voice came from behind her, startling March 7th.

"Huh? What are you doing here? How did you get here before us?"

"I took another route and circled around from the floor above. I happened to see you in the monitoring room. Arlan is there too. He's injured, but his life isn't in danger..."

Dan Heng spoke unhurriedly, his expression as cool as ever.

After meeting up with Dan Heng, the three returned to the monitoring room together and found the injured Arlan.

He was a gray-haired, dark-skinned boy in a Herta Space Station uniform, and his words always showed consideration for others.

"Arlan... do you know how to use that elevator? We can't get it to start..."

After learning that the space station's staff had finished evacuating, March 7th asked with a serious expression.

She had fiddled with the controls at the elevator tower for quite a while without success, earning plenty of teasing from Lin Feng.

"After the evacuation was completed, the elevator's access permissions were temporarily locked to keep the Legion from attacking the master control zone."

"Miss Asta sent you to find me, so she should have given you the key to unlock it, right?"

Arlan slowly explained as he looked at the earnest pink-haired girl before him.

"I think... she did give me a card..."

"But... I don't remember where I put it..."

March 7th pouted, looking aggrieved, like a child who had made a mistake.

"Well..."

"March 7th, you..."

Faced with this situation, Dan Heng and Arlan both froze, utterly speechless.

"Lin Feng... have you seen a little dark-gold card?"

"Could it have fallen somewhere while we were fighting those Voidrangers?"

"What do we do? If I've lost it... we won't be able to get back to the master control zone!"

March 7th turned to Lin Feng, her lovely eyes filled with hurt and hope, looking indescribably cute.

Although she had resolved to keep her distance from Lin Feng for now, she was helpless at this moment and could only turn to him.

"What you're looking for is right under your nose..."

As he spoke, Lin Feng strode forward. His broad hand brushed over March 7th's slender waist before moving behind her aqua-blue pleated miniskirt.

"Ah... what are you doing..."

"There... there are people here..."

March 7th murmured, lightly biting her rosy lip. Her pretty face flushed with embarrassment, and her slender, upright figure trembled slightly.

Lin Feng was acting unpredictably again, but with Dan Heng and Arlan right beside them, she couldn't very well make a scene.

Moreover, despite Lin Feng's presumptuous movements, she felt no urge to resist. Instead, she felt a little clingy.

It was as though those long fingers possessed some sort of magic, leaving her heart tingling.

"Found it. It's right here!"

Lin Feng took a dark-gold card etched with circuitry from the pocket at the back of her aqua-blue pleated skirt and spoke with a perfectly composed expression.

Of course, using the search for the elevator card as an excuse, he had also given the full, rounded curve beneath her skirt a slight squeeze as his hand passed over it, savoring Little March's uniquely soft touch.

"That's right! That's the little card Station Manager Asta gave me!"

"Hahaha... leave opening the way to the master control zone to me!"

The pink-haired girl snatched the card from Lin Feng and handed it to Arlan, shouting so loudly that she startled everyone.

Clearly, March 7th was trying to hide something. She certainly didn't want anyone to know just how shamelessly Lin Feng had behaved.

Especially Dan Heng. If he found out, how could she ever face anyone aboard the Astral Express again?

[Host's shameless behavior detected. Path of Elation points increased by 100!]

[Current accumulated Path Life points: 600. Keep up the good work, host!]

At the same time, the system's notification sounded in Lin Feng's mind, filling him with delight.

That earns points too? Nice, very nice. In that case, as long as I throw my dignity out the window, the points will come rolling in.

"Now that we've found the key, let's get started. We can unlock the elevator's access permissions using the console over there..."

"Let's begin, then. Time is short..."

Dan Heng and Arlan began discussing how to restore access to the central elevator.

March 7th hurried away, taking Lin Feng by the hand and dragging him into a corner of the monitoring room.

"Lin Feng! You... you went way too far just now!"

"You can never do that again, understand?"

Gone was her usual carefree manner. March 7th's face was now entirely earnest and stern.

"Do what...? I'm not quite sure what you mean, Little March!"

Lin Feng folded his arms across his chest and spoke calmly, as though nothing had happened at all.

"Hmph, stop playing dumb... you know perfectly well!"

March 7th pursed her lips and turned her face slightly away, looking a little embarrassed.

Remembering Lin Feng's wandering hand, she still felt a tingling in her heart and a restless discomfort all over.

Never in her life had a boy done something like that to her, and Dan Heng and Arlan had been right there.

If she hadn't thought quickly, Dan Heng would have noticed something was up.

"Sorry, Little March... I really don't understand. I was only helping you find the elevator key card..."

Lin Feng remained utterly unruffled, his expression betraying no reaction beyond a hint of confusion.

"You idiot! I... I mean this!"

As she spoke, the pink-haired girl looked a little flustered. She reached out with her slender hand and gave him two firm squeezes just below the small of his back.

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