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Chapter 155: Herta: ’Do You Even Have a Brain?’ · Oct 08, 2026

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151 Chapter 151: The Girls Shocked by the Vastness of the Universe 2026-10-08
152 Chapter 152: Ningguang & Yae Miko’s Shared Question 2026-10-08
153 Chapter 153: The Narcissistic Herta Deals a Psychological Blow to Ningguang 2026-10-08
154 Chapter 154: Herta & Ei: ’I Don’t Argue With Children.’ 2026-10-08
155 Chapter 155: Herta: ’Do You Even Have a Brain?’ 2026-10-08
156 Chapter 156: A Depressed Raiden Ei, and a Terrified Kamisato Ayaka 2026-10-08
157 Chapter 157: Herta, Incorrigible as Always 2026-10-08
158 Chapter 158: Ningguang: ’We’re Punching WAY Above Our Weight, Folks!’ 2026-10-08
159 Chapter 159: The Tsaritsa Is Outdated Again 2026-10-08
160 Chapter 160: Childe, Fighting for the Tsaritsa’s Happiness 2026-10-08
161 Chapter 161: Miss Yelan, Whose Courage Truly Knows No Bounds 2026-10-08
162 Chapter 162: Bad Woman Yelan: ’Hmph! Can we negotiate?’ 2026-10-08
163 Chapter 163: Yelan: ’Was that on purpose… or a mistake?’ 2026-10-08
164 Chapter 164: Yelan: ’What? Ningguang… defected?’ 2026-10-08
165 Chapter 165: Yae Miko: ’So? Does my fluffy tail feel nice?’ 2026-10-08
166 Chapter 166: Would the Tsaritsa Cry and Throw a Tantrum? 2026-10-08
167 Chapter 167: Yae Miko: ’If we’re ranking narcissists, I’m only second place!’ 2026-10-08
168 Chapter 168: Yae Miko: ’I’m climbing the social ladder too!’ 2026-10-08
169 Chapter 169: Lumine’s Straight Back Almost Bent 2026-10-08
170 Chapter 170: Childe Learns the Truth of the Geo Archon 2026-10-08
171 Chapter 171: Herta: ’Of course I forgave him!’ 2026-10-08
172 Chapter 172: Herta: ’A scumbag who toys with feelings!’ 2026-10-08
173 Chapter 173: Ningguang, Wrongly Accused 2026-10-08
174 Chapter 174: Sandrone: ’I just got injected— and now you say it’s poison?!’ 2026-10-08
175 Chapter 175: Sandrone: ’Even if I die, I won’t beg you!’ 2026-10-08
176 Chapter 176: The Tsaritsa: I Have It and She Doesn’t… I Win BIG! 2026-10-08
177 Chapter 177: The Tsaritsa’s Expectations 2026-10-08
178 Chapter 178: Herta: ’Do you realize that’s a crime?!’ 2026-10-08
179 Chapter 179: Herta Gets Checkmated: ’At most you could beat five of me!’ 2026-10-08
180 Chapter 180: Herta, Who Gets Bullied and Lets It Happen 2026-10-08
181 Chapter 181: Ningguang: ’We really ARE country bumpkins now.’ 2026-10-08
182 Chapter 182: Raiden Ei: ’Don’t go! I’ll… I’ll take care of you!’ 2026-10-08
183 Chapter 183: Raiden Makoto: ’So… you prefer me over Ei?’ 2026-10-08
184 Chapter 184: Ei, Fully Bamboozled 2026-10-08
185 Chapter 185: Ayaka vs. Beidou: A Battle of Pride 2026-10-08
186 Chapter 186: Lumine: ’I Actually Have a Pretty Big Background!’ 2026-10-08
187 Chapter 187: Ayaka Wants Something She Can Brag About 2026-10-08
188 Chapter 188: The Raiden Shogun Who Pushes All the Blame Away 2026-10-08
189 Chapter 189: Ganyu’s Best Line: ’…Huh?’ 2026-10-08
190 Chapter 190: Ningguang’s Ambition: ’Liyue Shall Have Only My Voice’ 2026-10-08
191 Chapter 191: Keqing, Whose Priorities Are Uniquely Her Own 2026-10-08
192 Chapter 192: Yoimiya, Who Just Wants to See Little Ei 2026-10-08
193 Chapter 193: Ayaka Wants to Be Cherished 2026-10-08
194 Chapter 194: Ayaka Doesn’t Want to Be Noticed 2026-10-08
195 Chapter 195: Raiden Ei’s Judgment 2026-10-08
196 Chapter 196: Super-Brave Lumine: ’I’ve Come to Defeat You, Raiden Shogun!’ 2026-10-08
197 Chapter 197: Raiden Ei: ’I Will Bury You Inside the Statue of the God!’ 2026-10-08
198 Chapter 198: Lumine: ’Why Are You Preparing a Cenotaph for Me?!’ 2026-10-08
199 Chapter 199: Lumine: ’Raiden… Little General?’ 2026-10-08
200 Chapter 200: The Breeding Envoy That Terrified the Gods 2026-10-08

Chapter 155: Chapter 155: Herta: “Do You Even Have a Brain?”

”Miss Herta must be quite famous in the universe, right?”

It was Yae Miko who spoke first.

Having just learned how vast the cosmos truly was, how could she not be curious about someone from outside it?

And aside from Su Ran, Herta was the only proper ”alien” she’d met.

As for Alice...

Yae Miko refused to think about that woman.

Being bullied as a child was normal.

Being bullied as an adult was unacceptable and Alice absolutely could bully Raiden Ei, so Yae Miko had no desire to bring her up.

”I’m famous everywhere— except among primitive creatures who’ve never left their home planet,” Herta declared proudly.

”In the proper universe, basically everyone knows me.”

She was, unsurprisingly, very full of herself.

”But him—” she pointed at Su Ran, ”—he’s basically a nobody.”

That caught Ningguang’s attention.

”But he told us he’s very sought-after in the universe.

If so, how could he be ’a nobody’?”

Su Ran was the benefactor she had personally chosen to follow.

She had also seen the construction of the space station— a project so massive and advanced that not even the gods of Celestia could replicate it.

How could someone capable of this be unknown?

Herta rolled her eyes.

”Everyone wants him.

That doesn’t mean everyone knows his name.

Being powerful doesn’t automatically make you famous.”

Su Ran well-known?

Not exactly.

Only Herta, Asta, a few IPC executives, and some unlucky witnesses knew him.

”That... the Genius Society—what kind of organization is it exactly? You’re a member too, right?”

Ningguang asked quickly.

Her curiosity about the universe outweighed her pride.

She only had Su Ran’s descriptions so far, but every storyteller has their own bias.

She wanted a second source.

”The Genius Society?

What—do you want to join?”

Herta stared at her, genuinely puzzled.

Someone folded into Su Ran’s inner circle and his future ”rich woman,” supposedly yet she didn’t even know what the Genius Society was?

Was she... just a decorative vase?

”If possible...”

Ningguang admitted softly.

She truly wished to become more than a symbolic ”station master.”

But right now, this opportunity felt more like pity— and that stung her pride.

Herta leaned in.

”Have you made any world-shattering discoveries?

Advanced your entire civilization beyond gravity in a single year?

Do you have published research on quantum mechanics?

Imaginary theory?

Anything?”

Ningguang froze.

She didn’t understand half the words Herta said.

”The Genius Society takes only the greatest of geniuses.

Membership requires recognition from Nous, the Aeon of Erudition.

Across 2,157 Amber Eras of recorded history, only 85 people have ever been chosen.

Do you have that level of talent?”

Ningguang wanted to disappear.

Amber Eras sounded long—

she didn’t know how long—

but 85 members across the entire universe...

”What was I thinking...”

She regretted even asking.

”Do you even have a brain?”

Herta asked flatly.

”Is... is that a personal insult?”

Ningguang forced a smile, trembling slightly with restrained rage.

Why was this puppet so infuriating?

”Call it whatever you want.

If you had a functioning brain, you wouldn’t dream of joining the Genius Society when you have zero achievements— especially not while saying it in front of a current member.

A Wise Aeon’s Envoy, mind you.”

”You’re also an envoy of Erudition?”

Yae Miko blinked.

The unfinished space station wasn’t small, but the only people here were herself, Ningguang, and Herta.

Su Ran had taken the others elsewhere.

So that meant Herta wasn’t talking about Su Ran she meant herself.

”What, is that so shocking?”

”Of course it is!”

Yae Miko cried.

Sure, Herta constantly roasted Ningguang which Yae Miko enjoyed immensely, out of pettiness but meeting an Aeon’s envoy casually, and then another, and yet another...

It made it feel like Envoys grew on trees.

”In the last five hundred years, I’ve only met three off-worlders—

and including that insect, that makes three envoys!”

To Yae Miko, the ratio felt ridiculous.

Herta snorted.

”Just think of it as ’birds of a feather.’

That insect is his creation.

Envoys aren’t common.

Each Aeon has maybe—maybe—two hands’ worth at most.”

She sighed dramatically.

”These low-civilization cuties... see two envoys and a bug, and suddenly think it’s normal.”

”Still,” Herta added, ”for small-fry like you to get close to Su Ran is rare.