'As expected!'
Kiana frowned and said, "Wasn't it agreed we'd go in the afternoon? Besides, that guy is only coming in the afternoon. If you go now, there won't be anyone to cover for you."
'Good grief! So my role is just to be the one covering your backs, huh!'
Levi complained crazily in his heart, while his expression stayed unchanged on the surface.
He snorted twice and said, "That guy already contacted me privately."
"?", Kiana's pupils shook as she glanced again at the completely inactive chat group.
'How is that possible…'
'Did he already master a way to freely travel between worlds?!'
Thinking of that possibility, Kiana's first reaction was to run away with Raiden Mei and leave that shorty to Levi.
Bronya's eyes shifted toward Kiana. Seeing nothing unusual, she continued staring at "Theresa."
"At present, we already know the exact situation in Nagazora City, as well as the approximate location of the thing we're looking for."
"With the current situation there, your aunt here, a dignified S-rank Valkyrie, can't I just beat it easily!"
"If you don't understand what an S-rank Valkyrie means, you can go look at your senior, Durandal's combat records."
'That's too much!'
Theresa felt Levi's description was a bit too exaggerated.
If all S-rank Valkyries were like Durandal, even if the Honkai wasn't already resolved, it would at least be suppressed so badly it couldn't even show its head.
Unfortunately, not every Valkyrie is called Durandal.
Right now, some Valkyries jokingly say that the strength ranking of Valkyries inside Schicksal should be:
B-rank Valkyrie, A-rank Valkyrie, S-rank Valkyrie.
And then... Durandal.
This shows just how powerful she is, already far beyond the level of S-rank Valkyries.
The reason she is classified as S-rank is because S is the highest rank available, unlike some people.
Although they are S-rank, their actual strength might not be much different from A-rank.
"..."
'What kind of look is that! I'm talking about Rita! Her strength is only around A-rank, but her various combat techniques got her rated as S-rank!'
Thinking back to that vicious woman, Theresa shuddered all over, wishing she would never see her again in this life.
'Besides, my strength isn't weak either, okay! I'm a Valkyrie whose combat power and techniques have both reached S-rank!'
'You should know that best!'
"I'm the Judah launcher. I don't know."
Seeing Levi's expression, Theresa felt the urge to hit someone for the second time. The last time was because of that bastard Siegfried.
———
After boarding the aircraft, Himeko sat properly dressed, closing her eyes to rest.
Levi, meanwhile, opened the chat group.
[Elysia: I thought I could stay in a villa, but it turned out to be just a single room… it's not even as good as my original housing!]
[Elysia: The food is bad too! All high-calorie stuff. One bite and you gain almost two kilograms!]
[Stelle: Not running away? Not running away? Not running away?]
[Lumine: Yeah, if it were me I would've packed up and run already.]
[Elysia: I signed an agreement. Besides, their people are everywhere in the world. Where could I even run to?]
[Lumine: <(￣︶￣)↗]
[Elysia: Forget it, I'm afraid you'd grope my butt in the middle of the night.]
[Stelle: Then you can go to Levi's place, he's into guys.]
[Levi: I fu…]
After thinking about it, Levi deleted four lines of insults directed at Stelle and decided to put her matter aside for now.
Anyway, she's coming to the Luofu soon. When that time comes, he'll settle old and new accounts together.
He took a photo of his own face.
[Levi sends a photo]
[Levi: @Kiana, your aunt is really useful!]
[Ding dong!]
Hearing someone @ her in the chat group, Kiana opened it. The first thing she saw was Levi's message.
Seeing the smiling Theresa in the photo.
No matter how dumb Kiana was, she should be able to figure out what happened.
"So the one I just called aunt was actually Levi?", Kiana muttered quietly.
'Which means Levi didn't master the ability to freely travel between worlds?'
'He just used his ability to possess Theresa!'
After figuring this out, Kiana let out a sigh of relief.
Looking at Levi's message and that photo.
[Kiana: I approve of your marriage!]
[Kiana: But I'm saying this first, now that you have my aunt, you can't keep staring at my Mei anymore!]
[Kiana: As a person, you can't be too greedy. Be careful or your greed will make it so you can't chew it all.]
[Elysia: Correction, it's "bite off more than you can chew."]
[Kiana: Same thing, same thing!]
Kiana's reply left Levi completely stunned.
He originally thought he would see Kiana getting angry from embarrassment, or being shocked that he possessed Theresa.
He didn't expect this kind of situation instead.
"She actually looks pretty happy…"
"What?"
Originally bored to the point of getting sleepy, Theresa became a bit more alert when she suddenly heard Levi say that.
Levi didn't hide it from Theresa either.
"Your niece agreed to our marriage."
"You you you!"
Theresa's brain didn't process it for a moment. Her cheeks flushed red as she said in embarrassment and anger, "If you were going to confess, you should've told me, right! Why would you tell Kiana!"
She didn't realize Levi was joking. She thought he had really told Kiana about proposing to her.
Although normally speaking this would be very unreasonable.
But combined with how Levi treated Theresa yesterday.
It made this matter seem reasonable in Deli-sha's mind.
He praised and respected her like that, so having some admiration in his heart would make sense too.
Seeing Theresa like this, Levi didn't know what to say.
After a long silence.
"Sorry, my mom doesn't let me play with idiots. She's afraid it'll affect the intelligence of future generations."
Theresa froze.
'Is he calling me an idiot?'
———
"Mei-sister, what do you think?"
"? Bronya, why do you say that?"
Bronya had a serious expression. "Didn't Mei-sister notice the principal seems a bit strange?"
"Hmm?" Raiden Mei raised an eyebrow. So she wasn't the only one who felt something strange. She had thought it was just her imagination.
"Bronya, what do you think the reason is?"
Although Raiden Mei felt something was off, she didn't know exactly what it was.
Bronya seriously pointed at her own eyes. Raiden Mei looked confused.
"Her eyes. The principal's eyes are very strange."
Today her gaze wasn't as blank… as adorably blank as before. Instead, it seemed full of flowing wisdom.
'This isn't reasonable! Very unreasonable!'
Unless she ate some kind of miracle medicine and suddenly became enlightened.
Otherwise, Theresa wouldn't show that kind of look.
Raiden Mei, however, felt this reason was a bit far-fetched.
"Maybe the principal is just thinking about Nagazora City."
Were the principal's eyes really as blank as Bronya described before?
She had never carefully observed Theresa before, so she naturally didn't know what Theresa was usually like.
Bronya also felt what she said sounded a bit ridiculous, so she nodded and didn't say anything more.
Her calm eyes looked toward Kiana walking ahead.
'Why hasn't Levi come out yet…'
"We've arrived at Nagazora City."
The aircraft pilot spoke. Levi opened his eyes and looked at the scenery outside.
The once prosperous city had turned into ruins. Honkai beasts several stories tall wandered the streets, searching for living creatures to attack.
"Sorry, Principal, Colonel Himeko. The nearby area is extremely dangerous. The only suitable landing spot for the aircraft is to stop in midair."
"It's fine."
Levi waved his hand, opened the cabin door, and felt the cold wind of the high altitude.
"..."