Levi looked at the sun that rapidly appeared overhead. Although Jing Yuan knew doing this was useless,
appearances still had to be kept up.
Seeing the time had arrived, Levi raised his hand and snapped his fingers.
An invisible wave spread across the entire Luofu. The Honkai beasts that had been fighting the Cloud Knights instantly turned into ashes and disappeared.
Including those half-biological, half-Honkai creatures in the ancient sea that hadn't fully transformed yet.
They vanished from the Luofu, from this world.
Ruan Mei raised her arm. The areas covered with purple patterns ignited with flames. After the fire died down, healthy human skin was revealed.
"Idiot!"
A man's voice appeared in her mind. Ruan Mei's expression froze.
"What's wrong?" Herta noticed her unusual expression.
"Nothing, just…"
Ruan Mei's expression turned strange. "I think I just got insulted."
The voice had sounded very clearly. It definitely wasn't something like an auditory hallucination.
She was very certain of that.
———
"For what reason did the General need to send me away?"
Fu Xuan walked up to Jing Yuan, crossing her arms as she questioned him.
Watching the last Honkai beast disappear, Jing Yuan returned to his usual lazy demeanor and smiled at Fu Xuan. "If you were present, he might not have come."
For some reason, those two little ones especially hid things from their superior.
As if they didn't want Fu Xuan to know their real strength at all.
'Could it be they're afraid Fu Xuan would assign them heavier work?'
Jing Yuan chuckled to himself. Even he found that reason a bit amusing.
Hearing Jing Yuan's words, Fu Xuan frowned tightly and kept pressing him about the true identity of the "he" he mentioned.
Unfortunately, Jing Yuan maintained his smile the entire time and didn't tell her anything.
"Whether he tells you or not is his decision. As the Luofu's General, how could I go against someone else's wishes?"
Looking at the dissatisfied Fu Xuan, Jing Yuan slowly shook his head.
If she wanted to become the Luofu's General, she still had many things to learn…
[Ding! Accept commission?]
Opening his system, Theresa's commission immediately popped up. Levi didn't accept it right away. Instead he opened his jade abacus and pulled up Qingque.
[Yang Sit-Up: Going out on a trip. Don't ping.]
[Qingque: ?]
Before Qingque could say anything else, Levi decisively clicked the system and accepted Theresa's commission.
Under Bailu's supervision, Qingque had gotten up and finished washing up, and was now waiting for Levi to come back with food.
Instead, she received this news like a bolt from the blue.
"Then what about my food?!"
Bailu couldn't help rubbing her forehead. "Don't you have any credit points yourself?!"
How did this person turn into a useless bum?
She hadn't been like this when they met before.
After Bailu's reminder, Qingque suddenly realized her credit points weren't just for playing cards.
'Damn it! I'm used to freeloading!'
She had almost forgotten she could actually spend her own money.
Qingque took a sip of water. Just as she was about to go out to eat, she received a message from Fu Xuan.
Looking at the message urging her to come to work, Qingque sighed.
Looks like she could only go eat at the Divination Commission instead.
Walking away with a strange gait, Bailu left last, casually locking the door to prevent anything inside from being stolen.
They parted ways at a fork in the road.
The Alchemy Commission was still under lockdown. Bailu didn't have anything to do, so she could only find a random spot in Exalting Sanctum to set up a stall.
Treating patients and dispensing medicine for free.
The title of the Medicine-Bearing Dragon Lady was very famous in the Luofu. As soon as Bailu appeared with her little stool, she was surrounded by people.
Whether they were sick or not, they all came to have her take a look.
Very quickly, the line of patients stretched all the way to another street.
"One at a time! Slowly!"
———
[St. Freya Academy]
A petite figure was curled up in a chair. On top of the documents that needed reviewing and correction in front of her sat a comic book.
On the cover, a yellow-furred mouse held a holy sword pointed forward, its expression firm and brave.
"Charge with me!"
Theresa's cute shout echoed in the room. When she came back to her senses, her eyes cautiously looked around.
After seeing no one in the room, she let out a sigh of relief.
If someone had seen that, her old face would've been completely lost.
"Oh~ Theresa, doing that wouldn't be embarrassing. They'd just think you're very cute."
"What do you know! That would already be embarrassing enough!"
The dignified head of Schicksal's Far East Branch and principal of St. Freya Academy being called cute by her own students and colleagues...
If that wasn't embarrassing, what was?
Theresa said angrily, "I'll show them what the dignity of a principal looks like!"
"Oh?"
The voice sounded somewhat puzzled. "If you want to be full of dignity, why not try changing? For example, stop reading these comics."
"But…" Theresa's voice turned bashful, "the comics are just too good."
As a globally popular comic suitable for all ages, how could Theresa, who fit both "young" and "old," resist its charm?
"Over forty years old and still like a child."
The voice slowly revealed a secret few people knew. Theresa slammed the table and stood up in fury. "How did you..."
"Wait!"
The anger on her face suddenly froze. Looking at the empty room, Theresa seemed to realize something.
There was clearly no one in the room, so who was the person talking to her just now?
And also…
She looked at the comic book in front of her.
Shouldn't she have stood up?
Why was she still sitting?
Theresa stiffened her face and shouted around her, "Come out! Don't play pranks on this principal!"
"Hehehe."
This time Theresa heard it very clearly. The laughter didn't come from somewhere else, but from her own mouth.
Her line of sight began to move. She stood up, walked to the window, looked at the scenery outside, and stretched.
"Who are you?", Theresa asked calmly.
She had thought it was a student's prank, but didn't expect that she herself was the one with the problem.
The ability to remotely control someone… in all these years she had never seen anyone with such a power.
Theresa attributed all of this to the power of a Stigmata.
After all, only mysterious Stigmata could accomplish something like this.
"Who am I? It's only been one night and you've already forgotten me? Theresa."
"You!" Hearing this, Theresa immediately realized who it was. Her voice filled with surprise.
"Mhm~"
Levi nodded, and Theresa didn't say anything else for a long time.
Just as Levi began wondering if her brain had crashed, Theresa's puzzled voice came.
"Who are you again?"
'?'
Levi's head filled with question marks.
'No!'
'Does she really not know or is she pretending?!'
'It's only been one night!'
'She forgot me after just one night?'
'Even Kiana isn't this outrageous!'
"No." For some reason, Theresa felt she could sense his emotions. She shook her head and said, "I meant, what was your name again?"
'Phew...'
Levi let out a breath of relief.
Just now he had been so scared he was almost ready to discuss with the system whether he could end the commission early.
He was afraid that staying in this body too long might affect his main body's intelligence.
The line between genius and lunatic was blurry.
He was afraid the line between idiot and normal person might also be blurry.
If he caught stupidity from Theresa, there'd be nowhere to cry about it.
Fortunately, Theresa was still a normal person and hadn't forgotten him.
After calming himself, he slowly said his name.
"Levi."
"..."