[Elysia: Don't ask!]
Elysia sent the sternest warning she had ever posted in the group.
But the more she acted like she didn't want people to know, the stronger Lumine's curiosity became.
[Lumine: @Levi, good brother~]
To satisfy her curiosity, she could even throw away her dignity.
She could just pick it back up afterward anyway.
That was what Lumine thought.
She stared at the chat screen with anticipation, waiting for Levi to answer the question.
He didn't keep her waiting long. Levi quickly replied in the group.
[Levi: Guess why I call her "pink fatty"?]
Lumine's eyes lit up.
Even though Levi didn't say it directly, it was basically the same as saying it outright.
[Elysia: AAAAAH!!!]
Twang!
The bowstring snapped.
The recruits in the training ground were drawn by the sound and stopped what they were doing. Following the sound, they saw Elysia trembling nonstop.
Then they looked at the bow in her hands, its string forcibly snapped apart.
Without even needing their captain to remind them, the recruits silently turned their heads away together and trained even harder.
Seeing this, Ato swallowed back the harsh words he had prepared. Looking at the trembling Elysia, he left behind a "Train properly" before walking over to her.
"You okay?"
Out of goodwill, Ato asked if Elysia needed help.
Looking at the broken bow in her hands, Ato couldn't help smacking his lips twice.
Just judging from her appearance, Elysia looked at most seventeen or eighteen years old.
Yet someone that young had managed to snap the string of a Flame-Chasers special-made bow through pure brute force.
And there were no signs of training on her body either. With arms that slender, Ato felt like he could easily snap them himself.
But those very same arms had directly broken the bow that he himself could only fully draw with all his strength.
Judging by her expression, snapping the string didn't even seem difficult for her.
"It's over..."
"...?"
Elysia muttered, "Ato, if someone knows your secret, how do you make them keep their mouth shut?"
Even though he had no idea what happened to Elysia, Ato still gave his suggestion. He raised a hand and drew it across his neck.
"This is the best way to shut someone up."
Of course, he was joking. He wasn't going to encourage Elysia to kill someone.
After all, Fire Moth was still a legal organization recognized by many countries.
They couldn't make it look like some terrorist group.
After leaving the training ground and finding a place with nobody around, Elysia lifted her clothes and stared at her stomach.
She was still bothered by the nickname "pink fatty" that Levi had used.
54.8.
"That doesn't count as overweight..."
Elysia reached out and pinched her flat but soft stomach. If she felt carefully, she could even feel traces of abs.
From a basic judgment, as long as she exercised a little, it wouldn't take long before she had eight-pack abs.
[Lumine: Pfft! So you really are a pink fatty!]
[Elysia: What are you laughing at! This is the perfect weight! Perfect me is perfect in every way!]
'Naturally, that includes my weight too!'
Elysia puffed up her cheeks while looking at Lumine's mocking words.
In her heart, she decided to lose weight.
She would secretly train, then amaze everyone.
[Levi: It's fine though. The places that should have meat all do. Unlike some people, whose chest is flatter than an airport runway.]
"Flatter than an airport runway?"
Lumine froze for a moment. She thought Levi was trying to raise Elysia's affection by roasting her.
She lowered her head and looked.
Oh. It didn't seem like he was talking about her.
These two headlights of hers might not belong to a big truck, but they definitely weren't the headlights of a small car either.
After seeing Levi's message, the others also lowered their heads one after another.
Checking whether the "certain someone" he mentioned was them.
The group chat fell into brief silence.
At that moment, the system notification sounded beside Levi's ear.
[Ding! Detected commission: Fool Raiden Mei!]
[Reward: This Young Lady's Special Dish]
The commission came suddenly.
Levi took one look and immediately knew who had issued it.
Raiden Mei. This young lady.
With those two names appearing in the commission, there could only be one answer.
'It's you!'
'Miss Bronya!'
He had been looking forward to the emergency food supplies under Miss Bronya's bed for a long time.
'Ahem, just kidding.'
Just from the commission name alone, it was obvious who it came from.
Other than that idiot Kiana, who else would think of giving him a commission just to fool someone?
Besides, in her world...
Other than herself and Theresa, those two fools, who else even knew they could issue commissions to him?
"Accept!"
After setting down the plate, Levi took off his apron and walked into an alley to look around.
After confirming nobody was there, he immediately nodded and accepted the commission.
How could he possibly refuse a commission from Miss Kiana?
———
Inside Herta's room, Ruan Mei pushed open the door and walked in.
"He looks very busy."
What was originally a bedroom had been completely transformed in Herta's hands. Strange instruments that were impossible to understand were placed in every corner.
Without even lifting her head, Herta said, "You're the one who set your sights on him. My purpose for coming here is to find 'Mr. Cold Feet,' and..."
A red light flashed through her eyes.
"Recover the puppet he took away... no, 'stole' would be more accurate."
Ruan Mei stayed silent. The reasons the two of them remained on the Luofu were different.
Now Herta already had a clear idea of how to achieve her goal.
As for herself, she was completely lost.
Ruan Mei had stayed on the Luofu to explore unknown lifeforms, but after yesterday passed, those things seemed to have vanished from the Luofu entirely.
No matter how she searched, she found nothing.
Thinking about it now, maybe the idiot Levi mentioned was actually herself.
After all, she really had failed to preserve that purple energy.
That was why she now had no way to proceed.
That purple energy was the source and foundation of those unknown lifeforms.
Unfortunately...
[Stelle: !!!]
[Stelle: The certain someone is me!!]
Stelle, who was about to board the starskiff, took some time to open the group chat and saw Levi's message.
Just like the others, she lowered her head.
It would've been fine if she hadn't looked. But once she did, things got serious.
She could see her toes.
She reached out and touched herself. There was something there, but not much.
Thinking back to everyone else's size, it seemed like, maybe, probably, they were all much more obvious than hers...
At the very least, they couldn't see their toes as easily as she could.
Levi excluded.
Not part of the comparison between girls.
[Levi: ?]
[Levi: Is this discrimination?]
[Levi: Slander! I advise you to sleep facing the wall from now on!]
[Stelle: !!!]
The group chat conversation ended.
Opening his eyes, the first thing Levi saw was Raiden Mei's pretty face. Naturally, he reached out and held her face in his hands.
He looked into her eyes and smiled.
"I heard you missed me~"
After speaking, he revealed a self-absorbed expression and said, "Sometimes being too perfect is also a sin. It always brings all kinds of troubles to the people around you."
'So shameless...'
'I'm praising you, damn it!'
'Oh, oh, that's absolutely right!'
'This idiot shares the same body as me?'
After thinking about it, Levi replied in his heart, "Maybe this is what people call fate."
Actually, what he really wanted to say was that neither of them had the right to talk about the other. They were both equally ridiculous.
"Mmph mmph mmph, let go of me."
Levi kept rubbing Raiden Mei's cheeks with both hands. Seeing that words weren't working, Raiden Mei reached out and grabbed his wrists.
She pulled his hands away from her already reddened cheeks.
Touching the places his palms had just been on, Raiden Mei looked at Levi with slight resentment in her eyes.