While Axel ended up asking the question because he really wanted to know the answer to for future reference, Sasha laughed due to thinking that he was joking.
"Or you could start with a joke like this."
Laughing along with her, Axel decided to go with the flow and see what the final result of his first attempt at actually seducing a woman would bring him.
"Though I do have to admit that what you did was something which needs a lot of courage."
"Really?"
"Of course. Stepping up and saying those cheesy words really needs a lot of courage."
Throwing his head back and chuckling from the pickup lines being called cheesy, Axel understood two things.
One, he shouldn't follow the advice from something like the internet. And two, he wasn't in the olden days where the woman needed to be wooed a lot. The women these days were more mature and straightforward with their desires and wishes.
So, he didn't need to feel so embarrassed or pressured when trying to seduce a woman.
Standing up and dusting himself, Axel said, "Since you admitted how much courage I needed to say those words, would you like to have a drink with me?"
Smiling and taking Axel's hand to stand up herself, Sasha said, "I'd love to. But I'm a little busy right now, so how about in the evening?"
"Definitely."
Leaving after exchanging his phone number with Sasha, Axel breathed out a sigh of relief from how smoothly everything worked out until now.
What he would need to do next was continue with the same pace during the evening and try to obtain as much information from her as possible without revealing his identity.
...
"What are you doing, Sasha? Don't you know how important our missions is?! I won't accept you being distracted during the mission due to finding some bot toy to play with."
Not saying anything and rather directly taking hold of the neck of the man who spoke to her, Sasha said, "Don't think that your words matter just because you were selected to lead us, Mikhail."
"I'll snap your neck like a twig if you try to butt in my personal life."
"Wai..... I.... "
Unable to even speak due to how tightly Sasha was clenching her hand around his neck, the man other than feeling embarrassed at how he was being treated in front of the others was scared that maybe she would really kill him.
While Sasha looked like a gentlewoman who wouldn't even hurt an ant, Mikhail knew the kind of person who she really was.
With all of them being trained in the most dangerous conditions, Sasha was the only one who without even once hesitating killed every single one of her competitors to acquire as many cultivation resources as possible.
If not for the fact that her personality was too violent and no one could tell how she would behave at any moment, Sasha who was the strongest one among them would've been selected to lead their group of cultivators instead of him.
Letting go of Mikhail's neck, Sasha smiled and said, "Make sure everything is finished by evening, I've got a date with a handsome young boy. You should know how I'd feel if something came up and interrupted something I was looking forward to."
Nodding his head while coughing profusely, Mikhail was beginning to regret that he came on this mission even after knowing that Sasha would be a part of it.
...
Going back to his room, Axel despite feeling a little proud of obtaining Sasha's number didn't let it get to his head.
He was just a little lucky this time. But what about in the future when the woman he was trying to seduce was even stronger and unaffected by his charms?
He definitely needed to start cultivating as soon as possible.
Also, it might just be that he was thinking a bit too much, but that woman Sasha gave off an odd vibe.
Even though she looked like an easy-going woman who didn't have anything to hide, Axel felt that she was the most dangerous one in the group he carefully observed.
Shaking his head and getting rid of the useless thoughts, Axel who didn't have anything to do for now turned on the TV and jumped in the bed to just relax until it was time to meet Sasha.
...
Dressed in casual clothes, Axel who expected a less formal date was surprised to see what Sasha who came to the bar after him was wearing.
Even though Axel wasn't an expert in the fashion of the humans on Earth, one glance towards Sasha was enough to let him know that she went all out in getting ready.
Sexy long silver stilettos for her feet and a stunning white maxi dress which borderline covered and teased her most alluring parts for her body.
If that wasn't a sign that she was ready to have sex, then Axel truly didn't know what else would be.
Getting up and pulling the chair for her, Axel said, "Seeing you like this makes me feel I underdressed."
"Don't be. You look perfect."
Chuckling and complementing the Russian beauty on how beautiful she looked, Axel went to the bar counter and came back with drinks for the both of them.
Setting them down on the table, Axel really couldn't help it as his eyes started wandering all over the woman's body.
After all, that was how sexy the dress she wore and the body underneath it was.
Starting from her neck, the dress draped all the way down till her feet while covering her breasts and waist along the way.
On the backside, however, her back was completely exposed until the dress finally covered her ass in the same way as it did her front by draping down from her tailbone.
That was it.
Due to how the dress looked like it was two long pieces of fabric covering her front and back, the sides of Sasha were completely exposed.
Starting from the side of her waist, half of her ass all the way till her ankle was exposed on both sides.
All she needed to do was stretch her legs too far or have the wind blow, and Axel felt that he might even see her naked pussy because it was obvious that she didn't have any innerwear on the top or the bottom.