'Could it be...'
[Ding Dong!]
[Levi: Keep guessing.]
Even though Levi didn't say it directly, Kiana already had an answer in her heart.
"That person was me!"
Thinking back, Elysia had slept in her room.
There was a good chance Elysia had forced her way in last night. As for why she had no memory of last night, it was probably because the humiliation had triggered her brain's self-protection mechanism.
She had chosen to forget what happened.
"!!!"
Kiana slapped her thigh hard.
'Damn, I'm a genius!'
Bronya happened to walk past. She glanced at the excited Kiana, then at the red handprint on her thigh.
She quietly left behind a comment.
"What kind of game theory is this?"
Hearing a voice faintly, Kiana turned around and only saw Bronya's departing back.
She scratched her head.
After calming down, Kiana's expression became serious. She tagged the person involved in the group chat.
[Kiana: @Elysia, compensation!]
[Elysia: Compensate who?]
[Kiana: Me!]
[Elysia: ?]
Seeing Kiana's message, Elysia slowly typed a question mark.
'Wait.'
'Levi hadn't even said anything yet. What is this idiot deer imagining now?'
She hadn't done anything to her.
'Uh... Kiana did seem to be there last night...'
[Elysia: Impossible!]
'Absolutely impossible!'
Even if Kiana had been there, Elysia still didn't believe her.
She might lose control around anyone, but with Kiana, that was absolutely impossible!
Not because of any special reason.
Simply because everyone else allowed her to share a room with Kiana.
That meant she definitely hadn't done anything to Kiana. Otherwise, Raiden Mei and the others would never have arranged for her to sleep in the same room as Kiana.
[Elysia: So no matter who it was, it couldn't have been you!]
[Kiana: I-Is that so?]
'Too many words. Can't understand.'
[Bronya: ...]
'This idiot is beyond saving.'
'Is Kiana originally like this?'
'How did I manage to keep tutoring her back then?'
Suddenly, Elysia frowned. A flash of inspiration crossed her mind.
She felt like she had caught a clue.
She hadn't attacked Kiana, so they had arranged for her to share a room with Kiana...
[Elysia: Kiana, nobody slept on the sofa last night, right?]
[Kiana: Nope.]
The sofa was clean and tidy, with no signs that anyone had used it.
Then if she had attacked one of them, why hadn't they put her on the sofa?
Or maybe they felt that would be rude, so they gave her an empty room while someone else took the sofa or slept on the floor...
After all, now that she had the image of a pervert, probably nobody would want to stay with someone who could suddenly...
'Wait!'
Elysia's eyes sharpened. It was as if a pair of glasses had appeared on her face, reflecting light.
Since they were comfortable letting her sleep in the same bed as Kiana...
That meant...
The person she attacked wasn't a girl!
Just imagine: if Levi got drunk and hugged and kissed Welt Yang, would Yanqing arrange for him to share a room with Jing Yuan?
The answer was obviously no.
And St. Freya Academy was an all-girls school. At the time, there had only been one boy present.
[Elysia: !!!]
[Elysia: Case solved!]
[Elysia: The person I attacked last night was actually...]
Halfway through typing, Elysia suddenly froze. She couldn't bring herself to say who it was.
In the still-unrenovated white room, Elysia sat blankly on the bed.
Looking at the chat group, her feelings were extremely complicated.
After realizing that the person she had harassed was very likely Levi, she no longer knew how to say it.
If it had been a girl, she could have brushed it off with excuses like "she's cute."
After all, there was nothing wrong with two cute girls being a little close.
But Levi...
Suddenly, she wasn't so eager to visit the Luofu anymore.
Elysia curled her toes against the floor and started construction work, preparing to build a three-bedroom apartment.
"Ugh!"
She turned and threw herself onto the soft bed. After a while, she pulled her face out of the blanket.
A faint blush covered her cheeks.
How was she supposed to face people in the future?
More accurately, she didn't know how to face Levi.
"Ahhh!"
Elysia suddenly lost it and started rolling around on the bed like she was dying. Only after the sheets became a mess and her hair turned disheveled did she stop.
She hid half her face under the blanket.
"I should've just agreed to compensate Kiana... Think, think, think! Pig brains just love thinking!"
Just as she was at a loss... The missing Kiana finally returned.
[Kiana: Big news! I already know who Elysia hugged and kissed!]
"? "
[Kiana: I worked really hard to get this information from Teacher Himeko!]
To get this information, she had even promised to become an A-Rank Valkyrie within a year.
Breaking Schicksal's record for the fastest promotion to A-Rank Valkyrie.
Kiana didn't waste any time.
[Kiana: That person is...]
[Elysia: ! Kiana!]
[Kiana: Levi!]
Looking at the exclamation marks flooding the screen, Elysia stared blankly at the ceiling.
"It's over!"
Being pointed out and not being pointed out were two completely different situations.
In the latter case, Elysia and Levi could still quietly pretend nothing had happened and continue interacting normally. Years later, it might even leak out as a funny story.
As for the former... Elysia was currently experiencing it. They could talk about it after she got through it.
"Maybe I should run away?"
Ignoring the messages tagging her, Elysia looked at the birds outside the window and silently thought.
'But how?'
'Leave the group?'
(Sorry, this group didn't have a quit option.)
'Lurk forever?'
If she actually did that, Kiana and Levi would definitely help refresh her memory every single day.
[Stelle: @Levi, so? How does it feel to be harassed?]
[Levi: Passionately?]
]Levi: But seriously, I never thought that someone like me, a (censored), would one day run into a (censored).]
[Asta: What does "(censored)" mean?]
[Stelle: It means children shouldn't be hanging around in group chats. Be good~ Go manage your space station~]
[Asta: ...]
Stelle had changed. She had become abstract.
[Lumine: What exactly happened?]
[Levi: What happened?! I was so scared my shoe fell off!]
[Elysia: ...]
[Ding! Levi uploaded a photo!]
[Levi: This was the situation back then! @Elysia, you have to pay compensation!]
Opening the photo, it showed the scene from last night's gathering when Levi was trying to escape.
It was a photo Levi had materialized from his memories.
The perspective was from behind Elysia. In the picture, Elysia had her back to the camera and was tightly grabbing Levi's shoe with both hands.
Everyone else was staring at the two of them with blank expressions.
Her gaze moved to Levi.
The moment she saw him...
Elysia couldn't hold back her laughter.
"Pfft! Hahaha... That expression... Was I really that scary?"
The reactions from everyone else in the group weren't much different.
[Kiana: I can't take it anymore. My stomach hurts. I'm going to rest for a bit.]
[Lumine: Paimon called me a big idiot. I'm going to teach her not to use bad words.]
[Stelle: What a coincidence. March 7th called me that too...]
[Asta: Must be nice. At least someone is scolding you...]
[Bronya: Don't be so pessimistic. Cheer up. This thing is hilarious.]
[Asta: A cup spilled onto the space station's control panel. I... I can't be happy.]
[Bronya: Oh, so that's why... Wait! You really have a space station?!]