This familiar name, one she hadn't heard for a very long time, stirred up memories that Hellmaru had buried in a corner.
Her eyes widened as she stared blankly at Levi's back.
She couldn't understand why he knew this name.
"Who exactly are you?"
Hellmaru's voice was low as her blood-red eyes looked toward Levi.
"Rin, do you miss your sister Sakura?"
Levi tilted his head slightly and turned around, "I can take you to see her."
Hearing a familiar name come from his mouth, the black shadow formed from the Herrscher of Corruption's power collapsed and disappeared.
By sensing Levi's emotions, Hellmaru judged that he wasn't lying.
But Sakura had probably been dead for tens of thousands of years. No matter how strong he was, could he really reverse time and space?
Hellmaru kept thinking, while Levi said nothing.
After some time, Hellmaru seemed to make up her mind.
"Shorty."
Hellmaru said stubbornly, "You better not just find someone who looks like her to fool me!"
'I want to see how you're going to take me to see Sakura!'
Hellmaru glanced at Yae Sakura, who didn't understand what was going on, snorted hot air from her nose, and disappeared from in front of them.
Even she herself didn't understand why she agreed to follow him to see that so-called her.
Maybe it was because, deep in her heart, there was still some Rinering attachment to her…
"Miss Theresa… you know her?", Yae Sakura asked blankly.
As Kallen's descendant, how could she possibly know…
Wait, this demon was inside the box Kallen brought, and she had accidentally released it herself.
Maybe Kallen had been trying all these years to investigate the demon's true name.
Trying to completely deal with her and rescue herself from her grasp.
And her descendants had taken up this responsibility as their mission, until today when they finally met her.
"..."
Looking at Yae Sakura, who already looked touched before he even answered, Levi shook his head.
Clearly overthinking things.
Since she had already filled in the story in her own head, Levi didn't bother explaining and put away the half-finished Divine Key in his hand.
He planned to take this stigmata to Himeko and have her install it.
He raised his head and searched the sky for the aircraft, but after looking around, he didn't see it anywhere.
"Strange. Did Himeko land somewhere?"
Levi scratched his head, preparing to contact her with the communicator.
But he couldn't find that either.
"Theresa." Levi frowned. "Do you remember where I put the communicator?"
He searched through all the pockets of the nun outfit but couldn't find it.
'Maybe it got left on the aircraft… you'll probably have to see if there's any usable communication equipment left in Nagazora City. Otherwise, we'll have to wait for Himeko to find us, or walk back to St. Freya.'
Communication equipment was probably out of the question. With the energy fluctuations that just happened, if ordinary civilian communication devices were still intact and working normally…
Then that would be some impressive build quality.
As for walking back to St. Freya, that could basically be ruled out too.
Don't be fooled by how quickly they got from St. Freya Academy to Nagazora City by aircraft.
If someone really had to walk back to St. Freya Academy, it would probably take ten days to half a month.
By the time they got back, they'd probably already be listed as missing persons.
So the only option left was waiting for Himeko to find them.
Bored, Levi opened the group chat and saw Stelle and Lumine still trying to persuade Elysia to run away. He shook his head.
"These two unlucky kids, still trying to talk her into it!"
After thinking for a moment, Levi popped up in the group chat.
[Levi: @Stelle, look at the Astral Express. No salary, no benefits, not even basic insurance, and your personal safety isn't guaranteed!]
[Levi: Why are you even doing such a dangerous job! Hurry up and run, join the company. Everything I mentioned is included, and there's unlimited afternoon tea every day.]
[Levi: Interested, contact (Topaz business card). Just say I recommended you, they'll give you a high salary!]
[Stelle: ?]
Looking at it this way, what he said actually makes some sense.
[Levi: @Lumine, look at you!]
[Lumine: ? What about me?]
[Levi: You joined the Adventurers' Guild, running around in the sun and wind doing commissions all day. They don't even subsidize basic sunscreen, and sometimes you have to fight powerful monsters.]
[Levi: And for how many Mora are you working this hard?]
[Levi: Interested, contact the Liyue yuheng. Just say you're a hater of Rex Lapis, you'll get a high salary!]
[Lumine: I'm looking for my brother…]
Joining the Adventurers' Guild was just to earn travel expenses.
After all, she wouldn't stay in one place for long.
Unless she found her brother, only then would she consider settRin down.
[Levi: Why are you looking for me?]
[Levi: Ahem, just kidding.]
[Lumine: If he were my brother, I'd have smashed my head into him already.]
[Levi: Not joking. A good brother wouldn't need his sister to look for him. For this kind of brother, I suggest setting up a memorial tablet and carrying it with you.]
Seeing Levi's message, Lumine nodded in agreement.
Especially the line "A good brother wouldn't need his sister to look for him." She completely agreed.
But she didn't know whether her brother hadn't woken up yet, or if he had woken up and run off on his own.
Or maybe he was still in the hands of that unknown god… still being imprisoned by that unknown god.
If it was anything else, Lumine said she could understand.
At that point, it would be her turn as the younger sister to step up.
Challenge the gods of the whole world just to save her brother.
Of course, if he had run off on his own, leaving her to search bitterly like this, a dangerous glint flashed in Lumine's eyes.
"I wouldn't mind having one more sister."
[Stelle: Come to think of it, Lumine hasn't really talked much about herself.]
[Lumine: You guys never asked.]
After that, Lumine organized her thoughts and briefly explained what had happened to her in the group.
[Kiana: A god?]
[Stelle: Took him away?]
[Levi: Me?]
[Levi: When did that happen? How come I don't know?]
[Lumine: Case closed! The god who took @Levi was Venti!]
[Lumine: @Levi, that day you and Venti got drunk…]
[Levi: Stop! I don't want to hear any little stories about me!]
[Lumine: Tch~]
Lumine curled her lips. "If you want to be my brother, you'll have to beat my brother first!"
"Only the strong deserve to be my brother!"
"Lumine! Look what I found!"
Paimon flew back to Lumine holding brightly colored mushrooms. "These taste amazing, they're really delicious!"
Looking at the mushrooms in her arms, and the colors still left at the corner of her mouth, Lumine silently put down her backpack.
Under Paimon's confused gaze, Lumine used her Dull Blade to dig a small pit in the ground.
Wiping the sweat from her forehead, she pointed at the hole and said to Paimon: "Alright, lie down."
Paimon's brain didn't process it right away.
Lumine urged, "Hurry up, I still need to bury you and get moving."
As she spoke, she patted the already carved stone marker, with Paimon's name clearly written on it.
If she still didn't understand at this point, Paimon might as well donate her brain.
Startled, Paimon backed up several meters, the mushrooms in her arms scattering all over the ground.
Her little face was full of panic. She couldn't understand why Lumine suddenly wanted to bury her when everything had been fine.
Lumine pointed at the mushrooms on the ground and said calmly, "Those are poisonous mushrooms. Out here in the wilderness there's no way to treat it, so we can only bury you while you're still fresh."
"Even if they're poisonous, you don't have to bury me while I'm still alive!"
But…
Paimon looked at the mushrooms on the ground, pinched her chin with her little hand, and examined them carefully.
"So these are poisonous mushrooms!"
Slurp!
"But they really smell good!"