EROS [Zerg]

“I understand.” A smile appeared on Eros’s face. “Alai, it’s so good to know you all.”

"I will reply to Grand Duke Caveno now, and I will handle the problems myself."

Alai nudged Eros in the chest with his elbow: "Saying you'll handle it yourself, do you not consider me a friend anymore?"

Eros grabbed Alai's elbow, and the two female insects looked at each other, then looked up and burst into laughter.

……

Ever since he stood up Kenyan male at the banquet, Eros has been living a monotonous life, going back and forth between his dormitory, the teaching building, the canteen, the library, and Brandt's office building, without ever leaving the campus for several months.

After hearing from Alai that the Kenyan male had been stood up, he was furious and had been looking for an opportunity to teach him a lesson. Unfortunately, Eros was hiding in the academy, and as a B-level male insect, he couldn't get in without an invitation, so he couldn't catch Eros at all.

Eros also avoided banquets attended by male insects as much as possible during his part-time job, and the next few months passed peacefully.

Under Brandt's guidance, Eros made rapid progress and was able to perform some simple mechanical repairs. As a result, he moved his training from the office to the repair room next to the mecha training ground.

From the outside, the machine repair shop looks like an ordinary large warehouse, but from the inside, it resembles a very spacious, sealed metal room.

“Ah, that won’t do. At this level, it’s absolutely impossible to pass the military mechanic qualification exam this year.” Brandt checked his watch.

"You took more than three stars to complete this operation than I gave you."

“Eros, I admit that you are very talented in learning and are already much better than many of your peers. But right now you are just average, not good enough to impress the insects.”

“I will continue to practice, teacher.” Eros wiped the oil off his hands from the engine he had just repaired, then used a screwdriver to disassemble the casing again, cut the wiring inside with scissors, and started practicing replacing the wiring again.

Brandt stood aside watching Eros practice here from morning until noon. The engine in front of him, which was bigger than his entire insect, had been disassembled and reassembled repeatedly. If he could maintain this level, he would have no problem passing the military mechanic qualification exam in six months. However, if he wanted to participate in the Imperial Insect Star Military Mechanics Competition and win a prize, that would still be a very slim thing.

However, Brandt was not worried at all. In just six months, Eros was able to perform such a level of repair work, which was already quite astonishing. Brandt felt that his learning speed back then could not compare to that of the little female insect in front of him.

However, he wasn't going to tell Erostan White; he wanted to see how much potential this female insect could unearth.

For Brandt, seeing a rising star in the field he loved was an incredibly fortunate thing.

Finally, after Eros disassembled and practiced the engine twice more, the pointer on Brandt's claw clock stopped exactly at the predetermined time.

"Consider yourself to have passed the test today." Brandt shook his watch. "It's time for dinner. Do you want to come with me?"

"Teacher, I want to practice a little longer." Eros wiped the sweat from his forehead, but when he raised his hand, he found that he hadn't wiped the dust off his hands and had rubbed a black mark on his forehead.

Brandt laughed and said, "Ah, alright then."

"But remember, don't let yourself faint from hunger."

Eros shook his head: "No, Professor Brandt, I brought nutrient solution."

"Ugh... that awful-tasting nutrient solution." Brandt couldn't stand Eros's bizarre taste.

This white nutrient solution typically becomes widely available among ordinary people during times of social crisis, economic depression, and food scarcity.

As for why the academy has this nutrient solution, it's entirely to let these future female soldiers experience "bitterness" in advance, so that they won't be unable to endure this hardship when they encounter a crisis on the battlefield and can only rely on nutrient solution to survive.

Brandt wondered if Eros would still feel at ease drinking this white nutrient solution, which was both filling and cheap, made from the decomposition of the corpses of various creatures in the universe.

However, Brandt felt it was better not to say it now, otherwise, if the poor little female insect heard the news, she might burst into tears, and it would be troublesome if she couldn't be comforted.

Thinking this, he yawned and walked out of the machine repair shop alone.

Eros continued to squat on the ground, repeating the same actions over and over again. The continuous actions over the past few days had caused many blisters to form on his claws.

Just as Eros was practicing his skills, a commotion suddenly broke out outside the repair room, where not a single insect usually came for half a day. Eros was distracted and, without paying attention, had the blister on his claw popped by a wire.

He wiped the pricked claw clean, and realizing there were no disinfectants around, he simply put the pricked claw into his mouth and used his saliva to disinfect it.

The commotion outside the door was so loud that Eros found it hard to calm down. He frowned and looked behind him towards the door, wondering what had happened to cause such a commotion among the insects outside.

Just as Eros was biting his finger, wondering whether he should go out and take a look, the door to the machine repair room was pushed open from the outside.

A swarm of female insects entered, and in the center of them was a small, blond male.

"..." Eros recognized at a glance that this little male was Princess Eli, who was hailed as the rising star of the entire insect race because of her talent as an S-class male insect from birth.

"Let's see where you can hide, Eros!" Eli was surrounded by a group of female insects protecting him. As soon as he pushed open the door, he saw a gray-faced female insect squatting on the ground in front of him.

"...Eros?"

Ellie, the young male, blinked and confirmed that the gray-faced, unclean-looking female insect in front of him was indeed Eros, the creature he had been searching for for so long.

The female insect had changed so much that Ellie could hardly believe it: "How did you become such a mess after just a few months?"

"Is there something you need from Prince Eli?" Eros slowly stood up, looking warily at the young male Eli and the more than twenty female insect guards behind him.

Eros really wanted to complain about why the female insect's academy allowed male insects to come and go as they pleased.

He could handle one male insect offspring, but with more than twenty female insects behind him, Eros knew perfectly well that even if he used all his strength, he wouldn't be able to escape.

Ellie, the little boy, put his hands on his hips and tilted his head back: "Of course I'm here to settle accounts with you!"

“I don’t remember owing Prince Elie any star coins.” Eros’s expression was one of deep apprehension. He could vaguely sense that behind the female insects surrounding Elie’s young male, there was another male insect.

Could it be... a Kenyan male?

Eros frowned. Could it be that the young male, Eli, brought the male Kenyan into the First Military Academy of the Insect Star Empire in order to get revenge on him?

If that's the case, then it would be terrible.

Eros's mind raced; he desperately needed a reason to leave this place immediately.

Thinking this, he silently turned on the terminal, about to send a message to Professor Brandt, when he heard a familiar voice coming from behind the group of female insects in front of him.