The matter at St. Freya had temporarily come to an end, and Levi was preparing to find someone to heal Wendy's legs.
But he definitely wasn't going to look for someone from the Honkai: Star Rail world.
The reason Wendy's legs could no longer move was Honkai energy. Naturally, he needed to find someone who was very familiar with Honkai and also specialized in biology.
'Who could that be?'
This was so hard to think about.
Who in the group met the requirements?
Levi opened the group chat and swept his gaze over the names of one group member after another. Stelle, Lumine, and the Honkai: Star Rail fanboy had absolutely nothing to do with scientific research, let alone any experience dealing with Honkai.
Kiana was an idiot, and she hadn't even graduated yet... In the end, his gaze stopped on Mobius.
A scholar from the Honkai world who frequently dealt with Honkai.
She had fifty thousand years of experience researching Honkai.
She was the perfect fit.
Moreover, Mobius was currently dependent on him. After all, as long as she wanted to conduct research in his world, she had to listen to her financial sponsor.
Well, it wasn't as though she absolutely had to.
At the very least, requests that didn't go against Mobius's wishes and fell within certain limits needed to be fulfilled.
Who could blame her when she had neither a body of her own nor any credits? She had to rely on him for everything.
Levi wore a smile.
Having credits was great.
Although they weren't his, that actually made it even better.
"Achoo!"
Asta rubbed her nose. "Did I catch a cold?"
She should go to the infirmary for a checkup later.
[Ding-dong!]
[Stelle: Boring. I want to see rivers of blood!]
Stelle had started acting crazy first thing in the morning.
This woman hadn't slept all night, yet she was still so full of energy in the morning.
[Levi: Is your period here?]
And rivers of blood... Was she planning to bleed to death?
[Lumine: LMAO, you're not even human. How would you get a period?]
[Stelle: ?]
Seeing Lumine's message immediately following Levi's, Stelle was dumbfounded.
'No, seriously, girl!'
'Didn't we agree that we wouldn't insult each other unless Levi was involved?'
'How could you not even keep that up for a whole day before starting to disgust me?'
Stelle felt that her past self, the one who'd made that oath yesterday, had been a complete idiot.
[Lumine: Ahem, ahem, ahem!]
[Lumine: I forgot, I forgot. Just pretend I never said that.]
A classic case of her mouth moving faster than her brain.
Seeing this, Levi, who had been laughing nonstop, decided to add fuel to the fire between the two allies.
[Levi: Can't you unsend it?]
[Lumine: ...]
[Stelle: You...]
Seeing the buildup to Lumine's response, Stelle's heart sank. She hurriedly sent a warning to Lumine below it.
[Lumine: This is all that old dog Levi's reverse psychology! Don't fall for it, Stelle!]
[Lumine: @Levi, you bastard! Don't even think about driving a wedge between Stelle and me!]
'Don't underestimate the bond between us!'
[Levi: ? What the hell does this have to do with me? I was just reminding you that you could unsend it.]
He wasn't the one who'd said Stelle wasn't human.
And now he was guilty just for reminding her that she could unsend a message?
Glancing at the time displayed on his jade token, Levi smacked his lips.
[Levi: You can't unsend it now. The time limit has passed.]
[Levi: You had countless chances to unsend it during all that time, but you just didn't...]
[Levi: I don't need to say the rest, do I?]
[Stelle: ...]
"I'm doooomed!"
Lumine clutched her head. Levi's argument was so well-founded that even she didn't know how to refute it.
Perhaps, just maybe... her own heart had been preventing her from unsending the message.
[Mobius: Making so much noise early in the morning. Is something missing in your households?]
Mobius had crushed several test tubes. Suppressing her urge to curse, she politely greeted Levi, Stelle, and Lumine in the group chat.
Who could stand having a notification pop up every time a message arrived?!
[Levi: ? Did you set me as a special contact?]
Otherwise, the group chat would only give an audio notification. It wouldn't pop up directly in front of you unless someone mentioned you with an @.
[Mobius: Mm-hmm~]
As the person responsible for her in another world, Mobius had naturally set Levi as a special contact.
Stelle and Lumine had received the same treatment.
After all, both of them had agreed to visit the Elysian Realm.
This would be a good opportunity to test the differences between the minds of people from other worlds and those from the Honkai world.
[Stelle: I'm not going.]
[Lumine: ? Didn't we agree? We'd go together.]
Could it be because of what she'd said earlier, which had made Stelle angry?
[Stelle: I don't want to see anyone with the surname Mei for the rest of my life!]
[Mobius: My surname isn't Mei.]
[Stelle: Mobius doesn't have the surname Mei?]
'Who are you trying to fool?!'
Even if she'd just been born, she still wouldn't be someone who could be deceived by such a lie.
[Levi: Mobius is her given name. In their civilization, surnames are rare, and people usually just have names.]
For example, Mei, Hua, and Sakura.
They all have given names without surnames.
As for Fu Hua, that was something she'd added herself later.
Yae Sakura and Sakura just look alike. They're not the same person.
[Stelle: I'm still not going.]
Anyway, as long as someone was called Mobius, Stelle didn't want to see them for the rest of her life.
[Lumine: I'm brave enough to go, but you're not?]
She had suffered far more than Stelle had back then, after all.
[Stelle: I'm not going.]
[Stelle: You'd better not go either.]
She'd seen through those people. Unless someone had a pain-resistant constitution like Levi and wasn't afraid of being toyed with, anyone who wasn't on very good terms with that woman would end up as a lab rat if they rashly approached her.
As for physical constitution, that was obviously out of the question. Their relationship wasn't particularly good at the moment, either.
They were merely acquainted and could hold a conversation.
And since they were in a group chat, their relationship could practically be considered nonexistent.
That expert lurker Bronya was just like Mobius. She could talk to anyone, but their relationship went no further than being able to chat.
The person Bronya had the best relationship with was probably Kiana.
In the past, Stelle could see the two of them chatting every day. Judging from their conversations, Bronya seemed to come from the future of Kiana's world.
But later, they stopped chatting as much. The turning point seemed to have been when Kiana said that she'd become the Herrscher of the Void in Nagazora City.
After shooting down the Hyperion, smashing Anti-Entropy's Titans, and capturing little Bronya alive...
Bronya stopped discussing the future with her.
Besides, as an adult, Bronya was busy with work and didn't have time to chat idly in the group. Most of the time, she just lurked and watched everyone else talk.
As a result, apart from Kiana... and Levi, for that matter, nobody in the group was particularly familiar with Bronya.
Back to Mobius.
From the demeanor of the miniaturized Mobius last night, Stelle could already tell that the little snake in the group chat would only be more ruthless than the big snake, absolutely not gentler.
The big snake merely tested drugs on people. The little snake might very well... dissect them!
Why the hell would she go there?
She'd rather die than go.
Mobius was startled.
'What kind of general is this? How could someone actually analyze her intentions?!'
[Levi: All right, all right. Let's stop talking about this.]
Levi had received a message from Qingque saying that she'd already found a house.
However, it seemed she'd run into some trouble. He was planning to go over and take a look, so he interrupted the others before they could continue the topic.
This would prevent Stelle from angering Mobius while he was away, which might lead to her genuinely ending up on the operating table.
After all, Mobius might be staying in the Honkai: Star Rail world for the long term.
———
[Meanwhile, in Another Place]
Elysia, who had been checking what the group members were talking about, suddenly received a message from Kalpas.
"Your birthplace is Vostok-51?"
"Mm-hmm~ Is there a problem?"
"..."
Seeing Elysia's reply, Kalpas fell silent.
There was a problem, and a very big one.
He still remembered the mission he'd been assigned to carry out in Vostok-51 back when the MOTHs hadn't yet been called the MOTHs.
He'd been sent to find an infant under the age of five.
It seemed highly likely that Elysia was the very infant the MOTHs had been searching for back then.
If those higher-ups found out, there was no telling what they might do.
"..."
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