Although that doesn't mean there aren't Star Destroyers being sold on the market.
It's just that they're extremely rare, basically to the point where there are buyers but no sellers.
Most sales are also conducted behind the scenes. If you hand it over to the company for sale openly, you still have to pay the company a handling fee.
It's the same thing being sold, so why pay the company extra money?
It's not like a Star Destroyer can't be sold.
"Sigh~ Anyway, call Kiana over more often and tell her not to do stupid things like blowing up the school again. I can see that you and Kiana have a pretty good relationship."
After letting it go in one ear and out the other and listening to Theresa complain about Kiana for quite a while, it was finally coming to an end.
Levi pulled his attention away from the chat group and nodded vigorously at Theresa.
Ignoring Kiana's shouting, "Who has a good relationship with him?!"
He agreed to Theresa's request.
Then, just as Theresa put Judah away and was preparing to leave, Himeko hurried over.
Seeing the two of them sitting together, she slowly blinked.
"That's it?"
Theresa and Levi both looked up in Himeko's direction.
Seeing her holding half a watermelon in one hand and a spoon in the other, with watermelon flesh still hanging from the corner of her mouth, the two fell silent at the same time.
Noticing their speechless gazes, Himeko glanced at the watermelon in her hand and wiped her mouth.
She said seriously, "Don't get the wrong idea."
"I'm here to bring Kiana something to eat."
She was worried that Kiana would go hungry while she was away from home, so she had specially brought her a... half a watermelon.
"It's just... I got too thirsty on the way and couldn't hold myself back."
Theresa rubbed her forehead, took the half-eaten watermelon from Himeko, and walked toward the teaching building with her.
As she walked, she said, "I remember you had a class this morning, right? Did you make the students study on their own again?"
"No self-study, no self-study. I asked Teacher Yang to cover my class."
———
[In The Classroom]
Welt Yang held his textbook and pushed up the glasses on his face, glancing at the seat that had been empty for two days.
It's so much better without Kiana here.
Even teaching was more enjoyable.
"Next..."
"Reporting!"
"Kiana?!" Raiden Mei noticed the voice at the door first. She called out the other's name, then frowned.
"Where have you been all this time? Bronya, the principal, and Teacher Himeko were almost worried to death."
Bronya silently put down her textbook. "I wasn't worried."
She quietly expressed her opinion.
Raiden Mei's attention was entirely on Kiana, so she didn't hear Bronya's voice.
This was the first time Kiana had heard such a stern voice from Raiden Mei. Her whole body trembled, and she gave her a shy smile.
"Levi called me over to help him with some work."
The girl tried to get away with it in front of Raiden Mei by shifting the blame this way.
Unfortunately, Raiden Mei already knew what Kiana had done at St. Freya Academy, so there was no way she would believe this business about "Levi asking her to help with work."
Bronya also spoke from the side. "Not running away? Not running away? Not running away?"
Her flat voice was full of mockery to Kiana's ears.
Normally, she would definitely have started arguing with Bronya again, then lost the fight in a fit of anger.
But the Kiana of now was no longer the Kiana of before.
She was Kiana No. 2, a Kiana who had been influenced by the culture of another world!
With a sincere smile on her face, Kiana gave Bronya her blessing, "I wish your whole family peace and good health."
Bronya: "..."
Bronya watched Kiana nod at Mr. Yang and followed her with her eyes as she sat down, a trace of confusion appearing in her eyes.
Every single word was a good thing to say, so why did putting them together make it feel like she was cursing her?
Catching Bronya's expression out of the corner of her eye, Kiana wore a smug look.
'Nice try!'
Then she began constantly apologizing to Raiden Mei, trying to win her forgiveness.
———
Opening his eyes, Levi appeared in the Luofu and immediately claimed the reward for completing the commission.
Looking at the two round things in his hands, his expression slowly became strange.
"This should be Kiana's payment, right?"
He hadn't looked closely when he accepted the mission.
With the thought, 'Kiana is that generous?'
He turned his gaze toward the mission panel, where the commission reward was clearly written.
"Honkai specialty air..."
In other words...
"This is actually the system's reward."
Levi's eyes became strange. "I didn't expect this. So you're this kind of system."
'If you don't want to give me a Herrscher authority, you don't have to use something like this to replace it, right?'
[...]
[Ding! All of the system's mission rewards are random! The rarity of the randomly obtained reward increases according to the difficulty of completing the mission!]
In short...
All you did was help Kiana escape the fate of getting beaten. It's not like I asked you to fight the Green One alone.
'And you still want a Herrscher core for that?'
I' suggest smashing a brick into your own forehead and falling asleep while holding onto that thought. Then maybe you can obtain a Herrscher core in your dream and have a good time.'
Besides, for him, this thing was already among the best of the ordinary items he could draw.
"What do you mean, 'for me'! Be careful or I'll sue you for slander!"
After saying that, Levi's ears twitched. Hearing someone at the door, he immediately stuffed the things into his pocket and hid them.
He looked toward the tightly closed door. As expected, the next second, there was a knock.
"Come in."
———
[On The Other Side, St. Freya Academy]
Kiana, who had been smiling at Raiden Mei and repeatedly apologizing just a moment ago, suddenly let out a scream, hugged her chest, and lay face-down on the desk.
Her expression was full of panic.
"No, it's gone."
"Student Kiana, what happened?"
Mr. Yang helplessly stopped teaching and looked at Kiana lying on the desk, asking whether she was feeling unwell and whether she needed to go to the infirmary.
"No, I'm fine."
Kiana raised her head, her cheeks slightly flushed, and replied.
After replying, she sat upright and tried her best not to move her body around.
After an entire class, Kiana maintained a serious listening posture the whole time, making Mr. Yang and Raiden Mei both think that she had changed.
They were getting ready to develop her in the direction of becoming a good student.
But as soon as class ended, she immediately returned to her true self. The moment the bell rang, she rushed outside without a word.
Mr. Yang hurriedly followed, frightened when he saw her jump directly from upstairs, land, and quickly run toward the dormitory. He finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Click!
The sound of a button fastening echoed through the dim room as Kiana picked up the clothes she had taken off on the bed and put them back on.
Kiana looked at herself in the mirror. An unnatural flush still remained on her face.
"Damn Levi!"
Recalling the embarrassing state she had just been in, Kiana said through gritted teeth.
There was no need to think about it. This was definitely Levi's doing.
Fine, he could do it, but he had to pick the time when she was in the classroom.
At least it was only one thing, and it was also the one where it was hardest to notice anything abnormal.
If both of them had disappeared, there was no way she could have hidden it during an entire class.
By then, she really would have died of embarrassment.
After changing her clothes, Kiana walked toward the classroom while quietly cursing Levi along the way.
"Achoo!"
Seeing this, the woman sitting opposite her asked with concern, "Do you need me to contact a doctor?"
"No."
"..."