The backdrop can also be propped up.

After staying at home for several days, Maria Elisa's results came out, and they were quite good. However, Maria Elisa already had a planet to inherit, so she didn't go to the army. Instead, she went to those planets for on-site investigation.

First, they landed on the agricultural planet Asca. The endless wheat fields made Lu Renkui imagine: "If I could have such a big wheat field in the future, it would be so cool."

"How spectacular!" exclaimed System WQBYRZM.

Maria Elisa stood on the edge of the field, casually picking a green leaf from a wheat stalk, clearing her mind to ease the tension of waiting for the results these past few days.

Maria Elisa then visited the industrial planet Mankola and the mining planet Stinaia Mercury before heading to the impoverished planet Kladas.

While the spaceship was still in the air, Maria Elisa saw the overgrown weeds and rugged, continuous mountain peaks. She finally understood why no one was willing to invest in Cladda, despite its habitable environment and abundant plant resources. The terrain here was varied, and if roads were to be built, a large amount of money would definitely be required. No wealthy person was willing to invest their money in something for which the return was uncertain.

The spaceship circled the equator of Kladas once before heading towards the junk planet Dabry.

The situation on Dabrer was worse than on Cladda—at least Cladda had beautiful scenery to see, but Dabrer was just garbage, thousands upon thousands of piles of garbage. Maria Elisa didn't even have the thought of going down to take a look.

After visiting all the planets, Maria and Elisa piloted their spaceship to Kinkles Military Academy to collect their diplomas and take graduation photos.

At King Clerks Military Academy, Maria Elisa, holding her graduation certificate, took photos with her teachers and close classmates to say goodbye. Afterwards, she walked side by side with Alina in the Seabodi Forest of King Clerks Military Academy.

Coincidentally, the two ran into Pollalid again.

At this moment, Pollalid was entangled with a boy who had dyed his hair blue.

Pollalid and the blue-haired boy seemed to have just had an argument, as Pollalid's eyes were filled with tears, while the blue-haired boy was trying his best to explain, his facial expression slightly distorted.

Maria Elisa initially intended to leave, but Lu Renkui and the system WQBYRZM in her mind expressed a desire to listen in, saying it was for the mission. So Maria Elisa found an excuse and, with Alina, moved a little closer to hear what the two were arguing about.

It turns out that the blue-haired boy was Aralia, the one who attacked Maria, Elisa, and Alina a few days before the exam.

The two of them started arguing because of that.

Aralia said that he was just in heat and had a seizure that day, which made him confused and almost hurt Maria Elisa and Alina. In fact, Aralia felt that Maria Elisa was more sorry to him because Aralia was completely childless while Maria Elisa was unharmed.

Pollalid, on the other hand, questioned why Aralia, knowing she was both experiencing a seizure and in heat, didn't lock the door and wait for him to come find her, instead insisting on running out to find him. She nearly harmed Maria, Elisa, and Alina, and then tried to shift the blame onto Maria, Elisa.

Hearing her name called, Maria Elisa became even more curious about in which direction their argument would continue.

Maria Elisa looked around and found a tree that would be a good hiding place, so she took Alina and hid behind that huge tree.

As Maria Elisa had predicted, the tree provided perfect cover for both of them.

"So, you're going to break ties with me for that woman?! Bode?!" Aralia looked pained, covering his head with both hands, a single tear sliding smoothly down his cheek.

Pollalid turned around resolutely and said, "I already told you, Aralia. But you still chose to open the dormitory door to find me, and almost killed an innocent person."

"No, no!! Bo-de ...

The two girls stood behind the tree and quietly left only after they saw Pollard walk away.

After walking a distance, Alina couldn't help but complain, "Why didn't he chase after him? Why did he choose to kneel on the ground instead?"

"Because he realized the facts couldn't be changed and he was in the wrong, he chose to use his own suffering to gain the other party's sympathy—he probably used this method several times before with good results—but obviously, it didn't work this time," Maria Elisa said with a grin.

"So that's how this relationship ended in the original story. After Maria and Elisa were killed in the original story, their relationship didn't seem to have gotten this bad, right?" Lu Renkui reviewed the argument between Aralia and Pollard, recalling that in the original story (the version after Maria and Elisa's death), Pollard was about to leave, and Aralia would rush up and hug Pollard, begging for his forgiveness.

"In the original text, this seems to be a tragic point, where Aralia feels guilty and thinks she is not good enough for Polalid. But since Maria Elisa is dead, Aralia's guilt gradually fades with time, so in the end she can still love Polalid with a clear conscience."

"But now that Maria and Elisa are still alive, Aralia will feel guilty every time he sees Maria and Elisa—probably with a bit of hatred, but he won't dare show it—and this guilt will intensify over time. Then Polalid will no longer be close to Aralia, and Aralia will have no face to go to Polalid—excluding the possibility of him being corrupted and forced into love." System WQBYRZM said, looking at the incredible original plot.

"In other words, in the original story, Maria and Elisa were used as part of their play." Lu Renkui was shocked by this bizarre worldview.

“Yeah, right,” said System WQBYRZM. “So why don’t we hurry up and find a partner for Polalid? Otherwise, are we just going to let Alaria and Polalid put on a show of chasing and escaping each other? It will also prevent them from messing with other people as much as possible.”

"Row."

Maria Elisa listened to the conversation between the two people in her mind and couldn't help but find it a little funny. Then she heard them talking about something that had always felt a bit strange to her.

In Maria Elisa's consciousness space, Lu Renkui said, "I don't know why, but Pollalid's recent reaction to Maria Elisa's matter always feels a bit off."

“Indeed, although the original text also mentioned such a strong reaction, it never said anything about breaking ties,” said System WQBYRZM, rubbing his chin.

Lu Renkui frowned and thought for a while before saying, "I have a bold idea—Could it be that Pollard has taken a liking to Maria Elisa?"

Seeing that the system WQBYRZM didn't seem to believe it, Lu Renkui started counting the evidence he had used to arrive at this conclusion: "Look, that guy blushed strangely the first time he met Maria Elisa."

"The second time, he directly confronted the pressure from Ancadis, a top-tier sister-complex, and went to ask Maria Elisa for her contact information."

"Now, for Maria Elisa's sake, she has directly broken ties with Aralia, and their relationship has just collapsed."

Lu Renkui continued, "Even if this guy doesn't want to develop a romantic relationship with Maria Elisa, he definitely longs to form an intimate relationship with her."

Upon hearing this, Maria Elisa began to ponder what exactly had attracted this otaku to her.

When I part ways with Alina later, I'll ask them for a copy of the other A's' information. Maria Elisa thought to herself, "That way I'll also know what Pollard hates, and I can avoid those things he dislikes, which will improve our relationship. After all, there's no harm in using the goodwill we already have."

Maria, Elisa, and Alina strolled around the school for a while longer before heading home at the school gate. There, they found Pollard peering at something, his gaze finally settling on them.

Upon seeing Maria Elisa emerge, Pollalid became visibly nervous. He walked up to Maria Elisa with his hands behind his back and a flushed face.

"Do you want a photo together?" Maria Elisa guessed—the two weren't that close yet, and a sudden confession didn't seem like Pollard's style, so she wanted a photo together too.

"Hmm." Pollalid seemed to have made a great decision, and pulled out a pen and a piece of paper with a board attached from behind him. "I drew a portrait of you, and I hope you will accept it."

Maria Elisa took the paper; it had a drawing of her in her military academy uniform.

It's clear that the artist put a lot of effort into this painting, because Maria Elisa felt that the painting on the paper was almost indistinguishable from a photograph.

“Thank you, I really like it.” Maria Lisa smiled slightly, took the painting and put it in her breast pocket, then asked, “Where are you planning to go later?”

“Ah, I plan to take the interstellar train home,” Pollalid said. “After that, I’ll probably be doing civilian work in the military.”

“Really? That’s great. Let’s meet again sometime,” Maria Elisa said, then led Alina onto the spaceship.

After boarding the spaceship, Maria Elisa turned around and waved to Pollard: "Goodbye."

Polillard watched the spaceship sail away, then raised his hand to touch his rapidly beating heart.

Pollalid raised his hand again to touch his face—it was already bright red and hotter than his palm.

"She's so beautiful, so optimistic, and has such a good temper." Polillard unconsciously smiled with infatuation.

“Maria Elisa is gentler than all of them.” Thinking of this, Pollard’s heart beat even faster.

But then, remembering that Maria Elisa was a B, Pollalid began to feel disappointed again: "But she is just a B, and she will only find another B as a partner in the future. She may befriend a troublesome O, but she will never want to spend her life with a troublesome O."

Thinking of this, Bolad burst into tears.

Maria Elisa, aboard the spaceship, was completely unaware of all this. After instructing the driver to take Alina home, she sat alone by the window, reviewing the character data compiled by Lu Renkui and the system WQBYRZM in her consciousness space.

When Maria Elisa saw that her kind brother Ancadis was the biggest villain in the entire story, a look of shock appeared on her face for the first time.

The fair-haired woman pointed incredulously at the information about her brother and said, "Are you really sure this is Anx? Have Anx and Lily changed this much since I died? They're about to overturn the Federation and the Empire!"

“Well, people don’t always understand themselves, and you don’t always fully understand your brother and your best friend, right? There will always be things about them that you haven’t noticed.” Lu Renkui scratched his head and said, “Like my sister, she is very well-behaved and cute but weak, but she will go fishing with my brother by the pond, and she can catch a whole bucketful. Any fish she picks out of the bucket is good enough to be a dish.”

"And then there's my younger brother. He seems a bit dim-witted, but he knows that everyone in the family is powerless against his sister's sweet talk. So whenever he wants something, he makes my sister come and ask me and Mom and Dad for it. If Mom and Dad don't give it to him, he'll specifically target me and beg for it." Thinking of this, Lu Renkui smiled helplessly.

“It sounds like you have an enviable family.” Maria Elisa’s eyes were full of longing.

Seeing Maria Elisa like this, Lu Renkui remembered that Ancadis was a child without a mother in the original text. So what about Maria Elisa, this adopted daughter? Wouldn't she be an orphan?

While talking about family with an orphan, Lu Renkui suddenly realized how ridiculous his previous two sentences were to Maria Elisa.

Lu Renkui's apology was interrupted by Maria Elisa as soon as she uttered a word: "I know you didn't mean what you said just now. From the moment I realized I was in an orphanage, I knew that I would never have my own biological parents, and I would never have a happy family. So you don't need to feel guilty about this."

“To be honest, Anx cares about me, and I have Elina by my side. The two of them almost overthrew the Federation and the Empire after my death. I don’t think I have anything to complain about. This is already much better than my life in the orphanage.” Maria Elisa gave a reassuring smile.

"It seems you've done something really impressive. You've prevented Anx from getting caught in the fires of revenge because of me, and Alina can now go back to being the doctor she wants to be," Maria Elisa said with a smile to comfort Lu Renkui.