You Are My Home

He already knows what this ambitious captain with a swagger is going to say. That he needs someone to fund his little project of going to the Farthest North, and that he needs someone to give him a recommendation to the Queen herself so the travel would receive traction and be acknowledged blah blah blah. Promising that credits for the discovery and any subsequent benefits will be split blah blah blah.

The whole time, Zhe Chouhen is only focused on sizing up this second male lead that he will be rooting for.

Why is he rooting for the second male lead, you ask?

He is sure that from the start of the story, Stein already has a 100% Love Meter for him. The more he learns about his past ways, the higher the Scum Meter will become, just like in Daniele's. Perhaps, the Love Meter will lower too when that happens, but that's no problem.

Because the Satisfaction Meter still exists.