Schicksal Headquarters.
"Um, Theresa, it's me."
By noon, Jun An finally remembered that he seemed to have made plans with Theresa yesterday, so he hurriedly came to Schicksal Headquarters.
However, Theresa, having been stood up, was clearly angry. No matter how Jun An knocked, she wouldn't open the door.
"Captain, huh? Weren't you out fooling around somewhere?"
Theresa's tone was cold. "Go away. Don't disturb my work."
Theresa had already decided internally: no matter what the Captain said, she wouldn't open the door. She would just consider it as having raised a little ungrateful wolf.
"Er..."
For a moment, Jun An didn't know whether Theresa's maternal side or her jealous side was currently dominant.
"Hmph, if you won't open, then I won't."
Theresa heard the Captain's voice from outside her office.
Her heart instantly sank. What's wrong with this Captain fellow? He broke his promise and is still so self-righteous?
Could it be that he doesn't even know how to coax a girl?
Theresa instantly puffed up with anger. "If you're leaving, then don't ever come looking for me again! I'll just pretend I never had you as a son! Hmph!"
Suddenly, Theresa felt someone touch her hair from behind her chair.
Jun An said, "If you don't open the door, then I can only come find you myself."
Jun An wasn't the type to just wait around for forgiveness. Whether it was Theresa the mother or Theresa the girlfriend, as long as it wasn't Theresa the Schicksal Overseer, she was still a woman. They cared more about attitude than right or wrong.
Moreover, as long as they could meet face-to-face, the progress of the apology would take a huge step forward.
"I'm sorry, Theresa."
Jun An squatted down, making himself a head shorter than Theresa sitting in her chair, adopting an apologetic posture. "It was my fault for standing you up yesterday. Please don't be angry, okay?"
"Hmph!"
Theresa, with great backbone, slapped the Captain's hand away. "Save your sweet talk for coaxing children. Don't disturb my work."
"My dear Theresa."
Jun An looked at Theresa with a pitifully beautiful expression and shamelessly nuzzled up to her. Although Theresa didn't mean to push Jun An away, she still maintained a cold demeanor.
"How about you name a condition? As long as this Captain can do it, I guarantee I'll do it for you!"
"Oh~ Really?"
Theresa glanced at the fawning Captain and pushed him away with disgust. "Then... then I want you to never fool around with Himeko again, and you can only marry me in the future?"
"Er..."
Jun An instantly froze. He almost blurted out: Then you might as well continue being angry.
"Pfft."
Seeing Jun An's thwarted expression, Theresa's mood immediately improved by more than half. "Hmph, you really can't do it, can you?"
"Can we change the request?"
Jun An scratched his head awkwardly, also feeling a sigh of relief inwardly. "Any number of rounds is fine with me!"
"Who's like you, with only lewd things in their brain?"
Theresa's willow-leaf eyebrows furrowed slightly, but her cute face showed no trace of scariness as she reprimanded the Captain. "This is the Schicksal Overseer's office, my workplace! You're not allowed to think about such messy things during work, understand?"
"Isn't it because Theresa, you're too beautiful?"
Jun An shamelessly flattered her. "Don't worry, Theresa, if you want me to endure it, I'll definitely endure it."
"Mm, that's a good boy."
Theresa nodded pretentiously. "However, I've been a bit tired from work lately..."
Theresa hinted at the Captain with the corner of her eye, and Jun An immediately understood. "Then you rest, I'll help you with your work!"
As the Captain of Hyperion, Jun An's work ability was certified by both Theresa and Himeko. He basically understood things at a glance.
"Mm, then you sit here."
Theresa hopped off her office chair, patting her seat to signal Jun An to sit down, her mood extremely pleasant. "You work, I rest. If you help me finish these few days' work, I'll forgive you."
Jun An cursed the damn capitalists under his breath but still nodded readily.
Who else could he ask but Theresa to pull strings for him to buy his Soulium?
Even if Eden could help Jun An waive the processing fees, the material costs, venue fees, etc., for a dozen or two weddings' dresses and rings would definitely exceed a hundred million!
Of course, Jun An knew they definitely wouldn't mind, but since he could do it, why not?
And there was the imminent matter of the gift he promised Kiana: an extra-large battery capable of holding the Authority of Finality. This project would undoubtedly cost even more.
Thus, Jun An took up the position of a beast of burden.
"Hehe, that's more like it. Someone will assist you with things you don't understand."
Theresa happily patted the Captain's head, continuing to remind him meaningfully, "Remember to work seriously during work hours, and don't think about lewd things, okay?"
"Alright, then after we're done, we'll go back to your home in Schicksal, Theresa."
Theresa also nodded in agreement. Anyway, she had no intention of letting the Captain off tonight.
Theresa, having tasted the sweetness, still remembered the public grain he owed from his long trip to the Sea of Quanta.
Jun An appropriately expressed his motivation. Although he didn't want to work, for his harem to be evenly allocated wedding dresses, he had to earn the money even if he had to grit his teeth.
At this moment, Jun An couldn't help but envy those kept pretty boys.
Just as Jun An was at the computer, preparing to finish work early and earn money, Theresa squatted down and slipped under the desk.
The desk wasn't small to begin with, and since both their bodies were that of minors, the desk appeared even larger. Besides having to squat, it was more than spacious enough to accommodate Theresa's twelve-year old body.
She could even poke her head out from between the Captain's thighs, giving Jun An a cute smile.
"Theresa!?"
Jun An was startled, then immediately understood, saying helplessly, "Didn't you say not to think about lewd things during work?"
"But it's Captain, you, who's working now. What does that have to do with me, Theresa?"
Theresa's small, delicate hands expertly grabbed the Captain's handle and began to threaten, "Captain, you have to work hard. Don't neglect your work just because Theresa is cute, okay~"
Theresa smiled smugly, kissing the Captain's trembling part, licking her lips like a demon. "You promised Theresa you'd endure it properly. The Captain is a good boy, right?"
What kind of edging play was this?
Jun An's mouth twitched. This was the first time he had seen such a little devilish side of Theresa.
After shedding the image burden of being a guardian and adoptive mother, Theresa's behavior became more unrestrained, even her perverted tendencies becoming more and more like Jun An's.
"Haha, I'll finish the work."
Jun An gave a dry laugh and then began to help Theresa with work related to Schicksal's future policies.
At a glance, the workload wasn't small, and the content covered various aspects. However, it was similar to the Far East Branch, just requiring a broader perspective.
Thus, a scene unfolded where Jun An was working, while Theresa, the Schicksal Overseer, was hiding and relaxing.
"Let me see this spreadsheet... Er..."
Theresa was playing with his "bird's eggs."
"Schicksal's subsidiary pharmaceutical company expenses... Hiss..."
Theresa was eating his "bird's eggs."
"Approval of funding applications for Schicksal laboratories..."
Theresa kept nodding and opening her mouth in approval of the Captain's work attitude.
And she sighed inwardly, It's really great to have a Captain who works for free and can produce milk.
"First is this Mars exploration plan... Theresa, you, mmph, how much budget do you still have?"
Jun An earnestly voiced his protest, looking at the desk. "A friend of mine discovered something on Mars..."
"A few tens of millions of US dollars, I guess. Just approve it. Let Amber estimate the specifics for the budget."
Theresa lifted her face, looking at Jun An's trembling thighs, feeling smug. "This won't do, Captain. You can't focus your attention down here~"
It's because Theresa is too cute. Jun An thought, Should I coax her, get her to come up to the sofa, and subdue Theresa first before working?
Otherwise, with her causing trouble under the desk, it was indeed a bit inconvenient to work like this.
"Hmph! If you don't finish the work today, you're not allowed to leave this desk!"
Theresa lifted her head, licked the milk from the corner of her mouth, uncharacteristically resolute.
"Then you're interfering with my work here, affecting the quality of my work."
Jun An said in a tone commonly used by people from the Far East, "Esteemed Schicksal Overseer, you wouldn't want Schicksal's work to encounter problems due to my mistakes, would you?"
Although Theresa was usually cute and adorable, she was still a very responsible person, especially when it came to important matters; Theresa never slacked off.
Jun An seized this point to threaten her, just about to explain the benefits and coax her onto the sofa, but Theresa lifted her head even higher.
"Hmph, hmph, hmph."
Theresa, looking smug, took out her phone. "I thought of this long ago. Captain, did you think I wouldn't have grown?"
As Theresa pressed an option on her phone, her office computer automatically connected to Amber's video call, connecting instantly, giving Jun An no chance to hang up.
"Lord Bishop... Wait, you're not Lord Bishop."
Amber's surprised voice came through. Jun An also looked at Theresa, bewildered. Theresa, however, looked smugly at the Captain and made a "shush" gesture.
Before Jun An could explain, Amber had a sudden realization and breathed a sigh of relief. "So, Captain, you came back long ago. Bishop Theresa told me yesterday that an unexpected newcomer would be interning today and asked me to assist with teaching. If it's Lord Captain, then everything makes sense."
As a secretary who had served two Overseers, Amber knew Theresa quite well.
The Captain was Lord Theresa's adopted son. When he was at the Far East Branch, she had given most of the branch's work opportunities to the Captain to hone him, as if grooming him to be her successor.
And facts proved that Lord Captain had done very well.
Amber already considered the Captain to be Lord Theresa's successor, so she quickly accepted this.
"Wait, how did you accept it so quickly? You also know I'm still alive?"
Jun An's brain worked rapidly, wanting to quickly fob her off with a few words and end the call.
"Half a step, I just found out."
Amber replied faintly, "But it's still working hours, and Lord Theresa also instructed me to be serious when teaching the Captain for the first time. So, Lord Captain, please work seriously."
As she spoke, Amber stared at Jun An with a serious attitude. Although she wore a mask, Jun An could still feel her eyes fixed tightly on him.
And under the desk, Theresa was looking at him with a teasing expression.
This finally brought a sense of satisfaction, like revenge.
She was the dignified Schicksal Overseer, Theresa Apocalypse, the dignified head of the Apocalypse family, yet she was stood up by a junior.
Ordinary times would be one thing, but he even dared to ditch her lewd requests!
This was not taking the world's cutest Theresa seriously!
So Theresa planned to severely punish this unfilial son!
"Captain, you have to work hard not to be discovered, okay? You're a good boy~"
Theresa's voice was like a demon's whisper. This was the punishment for standing her up yesterday!
Then, the rustling sound of fabric falling to the floor came from under the desk. She had torn a hole in her white silk pantyhose. Theresa turned around and, while the Captain was being watched by Amber as he worked, found the most comfortable spot to sit down.
Although the posture was a bit strange due to the limited height under the desk, this didn't hinder Theresa's revenge. Even if there was a sky-supporting jade pillar in her path, it couldn't stop her determination to sit down and watch the Captain's predicament.
Jun An's expression instantly became somewhat contorted. Theresa's strength, even in her normal state, was enough to lift the half-ton Judah with one hand. Immense pressure came from all directions, instantly making Jun An's muscles tense.
"Captain, what's wrong?" Amber suddenly became concerned about the change in the Captain's expression.
"N-nothing..."
Jun An forced a smile in reply, but inwardly he was thinking that when he finally got free, he would definitely slap Theresa's little white-stockinged butt in revenge!
"But there was a strange sound just now?" Amber continued to inquire.
"It's nothing, just saw something I didn't understand," Jun An continued to prevaricate, also feeling a little smug inwardly as he looked at Theresa, who was struggling to cover her mouth.
The uncomfortable sound just now had come from Theresa. She definitely hadn't expected him to have grown so much in the month since becoming a MANTIS!
He had originally intended it as a surprise and a means to persuade Theresa to forgive him, but now it had become a weapon for counterattack.
Theresa's face also looked a bit unwell. Has the Captain grown up? Why is it so difficult? Or is my body too small?
But no matter what, Theresa, vowing to take revenge, was absolutely determined to make the Captain lose face! Even if it meant mutual destruction, she would increase the force!