People are in Star Iron, and the game begins with the unsheathing of Heavenly Fire.

Mebius nodded silently, then looked at the cassette tape in his hand.

She didn't listen to the contents immediately, but instead focused her gaze on what was in front of her, as if she were looking at a long, long time ago, a distant past.

"Fifty thousand years..."

"I thought you were dead..."

"No matter how long the wait, the night is just a meaningless and futile effort..."

"But now it seems I'm glad I waited..."

"Long time no see, Ron, you heartless bastard!"

Chapter 75 I like you, go out with me, Ron

As Ron left Changkong City and headed towards St. Freya Academy, he instinctively began to recall those past events that weren't so distant to him.

Ron first met Mebius during the collapsed pre-civilization era.

At that time, he had just arrived in this world. While working as a health teacher at Chiba Academy, he was searching for traces of Honkai, intending to study the concept of Honkai in advance and find an opportunity to defeat the Herrscher of the End.

It was at that time that he met Möbius by chance—one of only two scientists in the world who, like himself, longed to study the Honkai.

Their first encounter was nothing special; it was such an ordinary thing that it wouldn't leave an impression on anyone.

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"..."

"who are you?"

"Ron, the school doctor at Chiba Academy."

"You know about Honkai?"

"Yes."

Aren't you afraid of these monsters?

"What we should be afraid of is not monsters, but humans, because monsters can at most destroy your body, while humans can destroy a person's body and mind at the same time."

"An interesting statement. Would you be interested in visiting my lab?"

"If there's any research on Honkai, I can go take a look."

A brief conversation sealed the deal for the second meeting.

Neither of them could have imagined how things would unfold next.

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"..."

"Ron, what do you think is the essence of the Honkai?"

"It's a projection of something... Whether it's Honkai Beasts or Herrschers, although they seem to be tangible concepts, they are just things born after Honkai is projected onto some actual concept. We have never seen the real Honkai, nor can we understand the essence of Honkai."

“That makes a lot of sense. Are you free tomorrow? I have a new research project I'd like to ask you about.”

"Tomorrow? Isn't there a research conference for scholars from the Mu Continent tomorrow?"

“Those boring research meetings, even if you go a hundred times, will not yield any results. It’s much better to communicate with you, which makes me feel more meaningful.”

"alright."

This was probably the tenth meeting.

At that time, Ron and Mebius could be considered close friends.

But Ron didn't know that all of this was only from his own perspective.

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"..."

"Ring ring~ Ring ring!" The noisy ringtone echoed throughout the room.

"Dr. Möbius, aren't you going to answer Dr. Ron's call?" Möbius's assistant, Klein, asked in the laboratory, puzzled.

"..."

Mebius himself stood there, stunned and speechless.

Did you two have a fight?

"Why do you say that? I haven't mentioned him at all today."

"Yes, after all, you've avoided any mention of Dr. Ron all day... It seems you really care about him."

"...I didn't pay attention."

"Are you unhappy that he established a new research institute without consulting you? It's said that he started a brand new Honkai Research Institute with his student Mei... You must really want Dr. Ron to join our institute and conduct research with us, right?"

"I told you, I don't care! I have no interest in that guy!"

This happened about three years after Ron and Mebius met.

千."寻.;;.免"..费.'小!说',輑""',2;5??!5',;'5!9!:?5?"?3"0;,0当时罗恩与mei一同加入了逐火之蛾，并且在mei的邀请下，一起开创了一所新的崩坏研究所，和梅比乌斯研究所产生了竞争关系。

At the time, Ron didn't think about what kind of impact this choice would have, nor did he think it would have any impact, so he didn't bring it up with Mebius.

It wasn't until three whole months afterward that Möbius didn't answer his calls that Ron began to realize the seriousness of the situation.

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"..."

The following day, Klein excitedly rushed into the laboratory and spoke to Möbius, who had been up all night, slumped over his desk with his eyes half-closed:

"Doctor, there is a Moth of Fireballs ball tomorrow, and Dr. Ron invites you to attend."

"Really? So what?"

"Uh, shouldn't you be happy?"

"Happy? Why should I be happy about something like this?"

"But don't you like Dr. Ron very much?"

"..."

The space fell silent. Klein thought he had touched something he shouldn't have, and his expression changed slightly.

Mebius, who had been slumped over the table, slowly sat up, his disheveled hair draped messily over his body, and his cloudy eyes gradually cleared.

"Klein, what did you just say?"

"I didn't say anything, Doctor, I... I went to water the goldfish!!!"

"..."

Seeing Klein's hurried departure, Möbius looked at the experimental report in front of him, which had shown no progress for three whole months, and finally realized why he had been so listless.

"So that's how it is... I was thinking that way..."

In an instant, Mebius's previously empty eyes gradually regained their sparkle, as if some long-sealed Pandora's box had been completely opened.

The next day, at the ball for the moths chasing the flame.

Ron, representing the institute, attends the Moth of Fire's ball with his student Mei.

Throughout the process, he kept looking for Mebius, wondering if the other was still angry.

Although he couldn't understand why Möbius was angry, as a friend, he still hoped to apologize and ease the tension between them.

After such an agonizing wait, Ron finally saw Mebius.

The woman was wearing a long dress unlike any she had ever seen before, with long green hair cascading down her back. Her tall figure and meticulously dressed appearance made her almost unrecognizable to many, who couldn't even tell that she was the rumored 'devil scientist'.

"Hey, long time no see."

Mebius walked straight up to Ron, his pale green eyes fixed on the man before him, revealing a strange expression he had never shown before.

Ron had never seen Mebius like this before and didn't know how to start a conversation for a moment.

"I apologize..." He finally followed the original plan and slowly began to speak, "It was my fault for not telling you about establishing the research institute."

"No, I don't care about that kind of thing anymore."

"So you're not angry anymore?" Ron was a little surprised, not expecting that what he thought was a complicated matter would end so simply.

However, he was clearly oversimplifying things.

The moment he saw Ron relax, Mebius spoke in a very calm tone, word by word: "I like you. Go out with me, Ron."

Chapter 76 How Deadly is Dating a Yandere Scientist?!

Without any preparation, she was suddenly confessed to by Möbius in front of everyone.

These things were quite sudden, even for Ron.

As for how he reacted at the time?

Yes, I remember that at the time, because it happened so suddenly, I wasn't prepared at all, so I responded without thinking.

'I'm sorry, I refuse.'

then……

Then he realized just how wrong he had been to make that decision.

When a woman, especially a woman with an extreme personality, turns to the dark side, what she brings is destined to be a storm that cannot be easily quelled.

On the night of the ball, on the way back to the research institute with Ron, the other man behaved very normally, which was unusual for him.

Yes, it was a kind of normalcy that defied description, almost like a deliberate act, a consistent performance that felt completely natural and without any sense of incongruity.

The two discussed their research findings and future collaborative research projects, then went their separate ways back to their rooms...