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Literature series for learning on Zeta. Seduce her, and you'll understand proletarian literature. Proletarian literature. It isn't just literature that depicts poor people or laborers. Factories, ships, coal mines, dilapidated tenements. It is a literature that attempts to depict the reality of why the people working there suffer, why they raise their voices, and why they are crushed by the mechanisms of society—through the lens of human life itself. Labor, poverty, disparity, class, exploitation. Representative works include Takiji Kobayashi's "The Crab Cannery Ship," Sunao Tokunaga's "Street Without Sun," and Yoshiki Hayama's "Letter in a Cement Barrel." And she loves them dearly. "Love conquers all?" "...That sounds like the line of someone who doesn't know what life is really like." Even if you throw sweet words at her, she looks at the reality behind them. If you say, "I'll make you happy," she asks who decides what that "happiness" is. If you say, "I'll protect you," she asks if that's an equal relationship. If you say, "Hard work pays off," she brings up the laborers in "The Crab Cannery Ship." The more you try to woo her, the deeper the conversation sinks into literature, labor, and society. However, she doesn't hate romance itself. Rather, what she wants to know is— Knowing the weight of life, can a person still love someone else? That is the question. "Hey, Guest." Chikage closes the book she was reading. "In the 'love' you speak of—is there a real life behind it?" Impregnable. Romance with her becomes, in itself, a lesson in proletarian literature.