After hyping Sushang up, Levi smiled and pulled back his hand, then stepped forward.
Tap!
His foot hit the ground, and the airflow carried dust as it spread out in all directions.
Looking at the star skiff that had already gone far away, there was no expression on his face.
At this moment, Sushang also noticed that the others had left Levi behind and run off.
Seeing Levi's constantly trembling shoulders, she spoke up to comfort him.
"Don't worry, the next star skiff won't take long to arrive."
"How long is not long?"
Levi asked Sushang in a completely flat tone, his eyes turning toward her, cold to the extreme.
'Who the hell is driving the skiff?!'
'They dared to leave me behind and run?!'
———
[On The Star Skiff]
The delinquent girl from the street racing gang, Stelle, sneezed.
Holding the operation manual, she excitedly drove the skiff, crashing around everywhere.
"Levi! How's my driving?!"
No one answered inside the skiff. Stelle turned her head to look, only to see Mr. Yang and March 7 with terrible expressions, covering their mouths.
There was no sign of Levi at all.
"Huh?"
A puzzled sound came out of her mouth as she said blankly, "So that wasn't a hologram…"
"No, wait! Didn't I see him get on?"
Suspicion showed on Stelle's face.
'Then why isn't he here?'
"Did he jump off himself?"
She felt like that explanation was highly credible.
———
[Cloudford, Star Skiff Port]
A man and a woman stood in the empty port. The man raised his head and looked toward the distant clouds.
Sushang checked the time and counted on her fingers, "One, three, four! Four system hours and it'll be here, just in time to get off work! The two of us can head back together."
Four system hours really wasn't much, they just needed to wait here until dusk…
[Stelle: @Levi, did you chicken out? Why'd you even jump off the vehicle?!]
'I…'
"Damn your ancestors!"
Sushang: "? Why are you suddenly swearing?!"
Hearing Sushang's words, Levi instantly restrained his angry expression and politely apologized to her.
After apologizing, his face turned angry again.
Seeing how smoothly he switched expressions, Sushang scratched her head, completely confused.
"Whatever, I still have to patrol. Not far from here is the Cloud Knight garrison, you can go rest there."
After saying that, Sushang carried her greatsword and left the port.
Levi, meanwhile, angrily started typing in the group chat.
[Levi: @Everyone, urgently need a body! @Stelle, I'm going to tear you into eight pieces!]
[Elysia: What what?]
The cute Elysia popped up in the chat. Seeing Levi's request, the first thing she thought was...
[Elysia: What's the reward?]
[Levi: No reward. You even have to give me a reward.]
[Elysia: Oh.]
Elysia replied, losing interest. In reality, she pulled back the longbow in her hand, narrowed her eyes, and aimed at a target a hundred meters away.
Cheng!
The arrow shot out and hit the bullseye.
Elysia smiled, wiped the sweat off her face with a towel, "I can count as half a strong person now!"
[Levi: @Elysia, you coming or not? Let's team up and beat up that brat Stelle!]
Seeing Levi tag her, Elysia puffed her cheeks. "No reward and you still want a body? Dream on!"
Of course, whether there was a reward or not wasn't the key. Even without one, she'd be quite willing to go over and have some fun.
Maybe even secretly pick up a trick or two, hehe.
The real reason she refused was that not only was Levi not offering a reward, he was actually asking them to give him one.
Who would agree to a deal where they lose out like that?
[Levi: @Kiana.]
[Kiana: Get lost.]
[Levi: @Asta.]
[Asta: I really want to help, but…]
[Levi: It's fine, tagged the wrong person.]
Asta picked up her pen again and continued reviewing the documents in front of her, recalling Levi's words in the chat.
They felt strangely familiar.
Elysia hummed, "Hmph hmph hmph~ who would take such a losing job!"
Just as she expected, everyone in the group rejected Levi's request.
Besides, he himself was already very strong. Why would he need to use their power to deal with Stelle?
[Lumine: I'll do it!]
"..."
"Huh?"
Looking at the chat, Elysia, who had been thinking, took quite a while before reacting, letting out a cute puzzled sound.
'There really is a fool willing to take it?'
'Is this a joke?'
[Levi: @Lumine, good brother!]
[Lumine: @Levi, good brother!]
[Levi: One call of brother, a lifetime of brothers. We don't need to be born in the same year, same month, same day, but we'll die together and be buried in the same grave!]
[Lumine: ? What kind of brother are you?]
[Levi: A really nice-smelling good brother!]
[Lumine: …]
———
"Paimon, give me your mushrooms?"
Seeing Lumine's hand stretched out in front of her, Paimon looked a bit surprised.
"How did you know I still had mushrooms?"
"I saw you go back to get them, hurry up."
Paimon instinctively pressed down on the pouch holding the mushrooms.
But after thinking about it, even if they were poisonous mushrooms, Lumine couldn't eat them anyway, so she took them out and handed them over.
After getting the mushrooms, Lumine started typing in the group.
[Lumine: I'll use the poisonous… edible mushrooms in my hand as the reward!]
[Lumine: Now! Let's beat up Stelle!]
'It's awakened, the time to hunt!'
[Stelle: !!!]
[Ding! Commission detected: Stamp a size 38 footprint onto Stelle's face (butt)!]
[Levi: Come!]
Without even taking another look, Levi decisively accepted the commission.
The next second, his figure vanished strangely from the star skiff port at Cloudford.
[Stelle: Wait a sec! @Lumine, I've got no grudge with you, why are you doing this to me?!]
As for Levi, she didn't even bother mentioning him. At least he had a bit of self-awareness.
[Lumine: Hmph! In this group, I've got three dislikes and three annoyances, and one of them is you!]
Lumine returned the poisonous mushrooms to Paimon for safekeeping, took off her gloves, and prepared to apply to enter Levi's world.
Suddenly, her body trembled, her pale golden eyes shaking violently before finally settling down.
Looking at the slender hand that didn't belong to him, Levi clenched his fist and felt countless kinds of power inside his body.
"Stelle!" A roar squeezed out from his throat. Levi's eyes were fierce, his whole body giving off the aura of a wild beast.
"Get ready to have a footprint left on your butt!"
Lumine: "..."
Lumine, squeezed inside her own body, stared with dead fish eyes. 'Is this guy's brain broken?'
She hadn't even gone over yet, so how did he come instead?
At this moment, a stuttering voice sounded beside them.
"Y-Y-Lumine! Y-Y-You… why did you suddenly shout so loud! I-I-It scared me to death!"
Paimon, standing nearby, was frightened by the roar coming from Levi, who was wearing Lumine's face.
Paimon patted her chest, flew in front of Levi, and stared at him with wide eyes.
"Why do I feel like you've changed?"
Seeing the small creature in front of him, Levi seemed to realize something.
He slowly started backing away, his eyes trembling.
'Damn it! Took the mission too early!'
"Lumine!"
"?"
Glancing at Paimon, who had her head tilted, Levi turned his back to her and lowered his voice to talk to Lumine.
"Why didn't you teleport me over?!"
'Are you kidding me, did I even have time?!'
She had just been about to teleport, and he had already come over himself.
From the moment she sent that message in the group to Levi appearing here, only a few seconds had passed. Not even ten seconds.
Not even the slightest chance, and now he was asking why she didn't teleport him.
Lumine raised her right hand, trembling like she had Parkinson's.
When it reached the highest point, her other fingers dropped, leaving only the middle finger standing tall.
"I'll teleport your damn mother!"
"Now, what do we do?!"
'In this group, I've got three dislikes and three annoyances.'
'They are Levi, Kiana, and Stelle.'
'Among them, Levi… takes first place!'
"..."