"Please whip me, Father!"
"Huh? You're actually doing it? Daddy, I was wrong!"
"Wow, what a wonderful feeling. It's so warm and comfortable."
"It actually came out! This is the first time I've ever seen something like this. What a strange appearance, but it's quite pretty."
"I feel like I've learned so much from Daddy. The human body is truly amazing!"
"It's just that... I feel a little drained."
Listening at the door, hearing the increasingly strange lines coming from inside the room, March 7th's eyes widened in disbelief. Steam seemed to be rising from her forehead, and her whole head felt fuzzy.
Wait a minute, didn't Lord Su Mo say he was just doing a check-up? What's going on in there?
Although it was only Stelle's one-sided wish, they were still technically father and daughter. They shouldn't be doing this, right?
Even though Stelle's mental state was incredibly abstract, often leaving March 7th speechless, wasn't it a crime to take advantage of her in this state?
As she listened, the voices inside grew lower and lower, and March 7th suddenly realized something.
Why did the door in front of her look so familiar?
That's right, Stelle had just joined the Astral Express today. Pom-Pom hadn't had a chance to assign her a room yet.
So, the two of them were currently in her room...
"Waaaaah! Lord Su Mo, don't do it!"
Defeated by the delusions in her own mind, March 7th cried out and burst through the door to her own room.
She had expected to see some explosive, indecent scene upon entering.
So, she had prepared to cover her eyes with her hands, preserving her girlish innocence.
At the same time, she would spread her fingers wide to satisfy her girlish curiosity.
However, unfortunately…
"Huh?"
Blinking, she found that the situation was completely different from what she had imagined.
Su Mo was indeed sitting on the edge of the bed, and Stelle was indeed lying next to him, looking very intimate.
But the two of them weren't doing anything inappropriate.
On the contrary, not only were they fully clothed, but the object of Stelle's amazed exclamations wasn't some strange thing the size of a baby's arm, but a Stellaron, floating in mid-air and constantly emitting waves of warm energy.
Recalling Stelle's earlier shouts, March 7th paused, finally realizing she might have misunderstood something.
"What's wrong?" Su Mo asked casually, seeing right through March 7th's thoughts.
"N-nothing! I just wanted to check on you and Stelle, Lord Su Mo," March 7th said with an awkward laugh, quickly making an excuse. "I didn't expect you to be studying the Stellaron!"
"Mm." Su Mo nodded casually, not exposing the girl's lie.
Stelle, however, wasn't as considerate as Su Mo. She eyed the suddenly intruding March 7th with suspicion and asked, "If you just wanted to come in and see, why didn't you knock?"
"This is my room!" March 7th declared, placing a hand on her hip righteously.
"Then why did you just shout for Daddy to stop?" the gray-haired girl pressed, her eyes looking innocent and honest, yet with an unexpected hint of cunning.
"Uh... well, that..."
Pressed like this, March 7th's cheeks burned again. She fidgeted with her index fingers and stammered, "I just had a little misunderstanding, that's all! It's nothing special!"
"A misunderstanding? Could it be some kind of strange misunderstanding?" the gray-haired girl asked, her eyes narrowing slightly as she looked at the pink-haired girl, like a cat toying with a mouse.
"It's not, it's not!"
Unable to bear the pressure, March 7th immediately covered her ears.
"I wasn't thinking about any weird, shameless scenarios! And I wasn't thinking about being forced to join in or anything!"
Her voice nearly cracked from the emotional turmoil. However, as soon as the words were out, she immediately regretted them.
Damn it, what on earth am I spouting?!
"Ah, this..."
Now it was Stelle's turn to be dumbfounded. Even for someone as abstract as her, she had only just now realized what March 7th had been imagining. She had only been bluffing before.
She hadn't expected the seemingly innocent pink-haired girl to have so many little stories in her head.
So, she stood up, placed her hands on March 7th's shoulders, and looked at her friend with exceptionally sincere eyes.
"It's okay. Everyone has their own preferences. No one should be judged."
Faced with Stelle's heartfelt encouragement, March 7th could only cover her face with her hands.
"Ugh, stop comforting me! You might as well just kill me!"
Damn it, my cute, innocent girl image in front of Lord Su Mo is now completely ruined, isn't it?
The girl collapsed to the floor in a helpless duck-sitting pose.
For the umpteenth time in her life, Miss March 7th tasted the experience of social death.
Seeing her completely ashen look, Stelle curiously poked March 7th's cheek. The girl's cheek was as soft as clay. In her state of complete social death, she was as lifeless as a pile of mud, seemingly unresponsive to anything.
Seeing March 7th in this state, Su Mo glanced over and then spoke calmly.
"Stelle, stop fooling around. Put the Stellaron away."
Hearing him say this, the gray-haired girl reluctantly left March 7th alone and looked at Su Mo with curiosity.
"Is Daddy not going to continue checking my body?"
"There's no need." Su Mo shook his head. "I already have a general understanding of the Stellaron. The next step requires experiments under extreme conditions, which would be too dangerous for you. I plan to find other samples."
Besides the Aeons, the Stellaron was another very important item in the world of Honkai: Star Rail.
Known as the Cancer of All Worlds, the Stellaron possessed the power to easily bring ruin to a planet, a star system, or a small world.
According to Su Mo's investigation, the specific nature of this item was somewhat similar to the Holy Grail from the Nasuverse.
If the Holy Grail contained a large amount of colorless magical energy, then the Stellaron contained a large amount of colorless Imaginary Energy.
The energy it contained was different from Path energy; it didn't have a single, special frequency.
Perhaps for beings at the level of an Aeon or an Emanator, the power of the Stellaron itself wasn't particularly strong. But for those below the level of an Emanator, the Stellaron's power was not to be underestimated.
Moreover, the Stellaron also possessed an amplifying property similar to the Holy Grail.
Even a being at the Emanator level could exert a certain degree of influence with the help of a Stellaron.
In the original story, a Stellaron was also used to revive the Ambrosial Arbor, a miracle of the Abundance.
For Su Mo, in his plan to create an Aeon, the Stellaron was a crucial link, which was why it needed to be studied thoroughly.
Hearing Su Mo's words, Stelle lowered her head, disappointed.
"Does Daddy mean... I can't satisfy Daddy?"
Hearing this, even the petrified March 7th almost choked.
She finally knew why she had misunderstood. It wasn't because her mind was dirty, but because Stelle always said such misleading things