[Ding-dong!]
After leaving Liyue Harbor, Levi received a message from Lumine.
"Beg me!"
"?"
Seeing those two words, Levi replied with a question mark.
'Beg you?'
"Did you send this to the wrong person?"
The only person Levi could think of who would make Lumine say the words "beg me" was one person.
That was Stelle, who had arrogantly given out her address earlier.
Could it be that Stelle had lost her nerve and wanted to reconcile with Lumine?
[Stelle: Bullshit!]
'Reconcile? Not in this lifetime!'
Lumine also sent a message. [Before my lawyer contacts you, I will not make any statement.]
Then she privately messaged everyone in the group except Stelle.
"She's fucking dead."
[Asta: ...]
[Kiana: ...]
[Levi: ...]
[Elysia: ...]
[Bronya: ...]
"'Before my lawyer contacts you, I will not make any statement,' my ass. I'm dying of laughter."
Stelle mocked, [Who do you think you are? Some celebrity?]
Seeing the long string of ellipses the others sent below, she laughed again. "Look! You've rendered everyone else speechless!"
[Lumine: I'm laughing.]
Maybe they really had been rendered speechless by her, but definitely not in the way Stelle thought.
[What is this even about?]
Elysia couldn't help complaining in the group.
These two had been allies before, so how did they end up becoming sworn enemies as they chatted?
Levi and Kiana, who had originally been sworn enemies, had instead become like brothers.
It was just that they seemed to have gotten a little too close...
[(Xianzhou profanity)!] Kiana had been studying in Luofu for two days. She hadn't learned much else, but she had picked up the profanity.
[Save me!!! Levi!!! Save me!!!]
Seeing that half of Kiana's sentence was made up of exclamation marks, Levi rubbed his chin. [You know the rules, right?]
[Got it, got it, got it!]
Seeing Kiana's message, Lumine immediately stopped arguing with Stelle and hurriedly said in the group, [Me, me, me! I was here first!]
[Aren't you the one who told me to beg you?]
[Typo.]
She had originally wanted to type "save me," but accidentally typed "beg me" instead.
And because Stelle had gotten in the way, she hadn't explained it right away.
Kiana refused to back down. [You're after me.]
[No!] Lumine refused to back down either. [I was first. Why should I let you go ahead?]
She didn't want to stay in this prison for another second.
Kiana silenced Lumine with just one simple sentence and a photo.
[I'm almost dead.]
Tch~ As if she was the only one who knew how to say something like that!
[Me too!]
[Ding! Kiana uploaded a photo!]
In the picture was Kiana's face covered in sweat as she gritted her teeth and ran for her life. Right behind her was Judas, holding a cross.
It looked like a monster that was about to send her off.
Stelle's eyes widened. "Holy shit! A tentacle monster!"
Judas, with its flying chains, looked way too much like a tentacle monster.
Seeing what the other person was going through, Lumine looked at her own prison cell, which was merely a little dark but otherwise fairly safe, and silently shut her mouth.
Levi, who was in Luofu, looked at the commission that had popped up from the system and silently thought, 'Accept.'
"Judas!"
The howling of the wind reached his ears, along with a girl's shout. Levi opened his eyes and listened to the movement behind him, then stopped in his tracks.
Theresa failed to dodge in time and crashed straight into Levi's back.
Taking two steps back, Theresa rubbed her reddened nose and angrily shouted, "Kiana! Where have you been all this time!"
"She came to my place."
Listening to the other person's voice, it was clearly Kiana's voice, but what she said wasn't something Kiana would say to him.
Meeting his gaze, Theresa paused as she raised Judas's hand and tentatively asked, "Levi?"
Hearing Theresa say his name, Levi gently shook his head, a polite smile appearing on his face as he gave her a gentlemanly bow.
"Long time no see, Miss Theresa."
"You're still as beautiful as the blazing sun."
"Don't give me that!"
Theresa questioned him, "Since she's been at your place all this time, why didn't you send her back sooner?"
Levi helplessly shrugged. "The fact that Kiana is coming back now is already the result of me forcing her."
"Maybe it's because you've left such a fierce impression on her that after doing something wrong, she doesn't dare come back to St. Freya."
"Me? Fierce?"
Theresa pointed at herself in disbelief. Everyone at St. Freya knew that she, the head of the academy, was the easiest person to bully.
Yet in Kiana's mouth, she had somehow become fierce.
"You have no idea what kinds of things she's been doing!"
As she spoke, Theresa began pouring out her grievances to Levi. Levi maintained the most basic level of politeness.
He kept smiling while Theresa talked.
At the same time, Kiana, listening to Theresa complain about her, slowly lowered her little head.
"It can't all be my fault. School... isn't that what it's for, to blow it up... I remember there was a nursery rhyme about it."
Hearing this, Levi's expression instantly became strange, and he asked, "China... over in Shenzhou?"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah!"
After Kiana confirmed it, Levi could basically determine which nursery rhyme it was.
Unable to help himself, he leaned back against the bench and looked at Theresa, who was still chattering beside him, while his thoughts had already flown elsewhere.
'How the hell had that thing managed to reach this level?'
It was one thing for the whole country to have the same version.
But it had actually managed to become unified even across other worlds.
Thinking of this, Levi opened the chat group and @Elysia.
"Call!"
"Do the schools where you live have a nursery rhyme that goes: 'The sun is shining overhead, I'm going to blow up the school...'?"
"Dunno."
"Oh, never mind."
Right, Elysia was a delinquent who had never gone to school.
Elysia: "?"
'I kindly answered your question, and you treat me like this!'
'I'm angry now!'
"The kind that can't be appeased without a Star Destroyer!"
[Lumine: I can package Stelle up and send her to you.]
[Stelle: ?]
[Stelle: F*ck your mother!]
Just like that, the two started arguing again.
"A Star Destroyer?" Levi froze when he saw Elysia's request.
Even Asta, the little rich girl with a wealthy family, couldn't get one of those, and you still want one?
'Even if I happened to get one by chance, I'd offer it to my provider first thing. How could I possibly give it to the pink fatty?'
"Everything for Asta!!!"
[Asta: ...]
"Mm..."
[Asta: Then I'll give it to Elysia.]
To prevent Elysia from getting sad, the kind-hearted Asta said so.
[Elysia: Sob sob sob, you really are the best.]
[Elysia: Love you, mwah~]
[Asta: Mm, I love you too.>
[Levi: Although I really don't want to interrupt you two, Elysia, the prerequisite for you to get a Star Destroyer is that there has to be one for sale on the market.]
[Levi: And we just happen to see it right away.]
[Asta: The second condition isn't necessary. I've already spoken to the people on the company's side. They'll package it up and send it to me the moment it goes on sale.]
So they only needed to worry about the first condition.
There had to be a Star Destroyer for sale on the market.
Although it was possible for there to be a Star Destroyer for sale on the market, the market having a Star Destroyer for sale was also impossible.
As top-tier technology, that thing generally wasn't something anyone would put up for sale.
Unless the technology of their world had already reached the level where Star Destroyers could be mass-produced.
But at present, civilizations with that kind of strength did not yet exist in the galaxy.
So they could only leave it to luck.
See whose civilization that possessed a Star Destroyer went bankrupt.
But a civilization that possessed a Star Destroyer couldn't possibly go bankrupt.
"..."