[Lumine: Then what does work?]
As one of the people in the group who understood Levi best, Elysia's opinion was still worth considering.
Seeing Lumine ask, Elysia smiled.
[Elysia: Lover brother.]
'Real brother doesn't work, lover brother does!'
[Kiana: Wait a second!]
[Kiana: Is it the "lover brother" I'm thinking of?]
[Elysia: Mm-hm~]
[March: Ohoho!]
[Asta: R-risen from the dead?]
'Wasn't she muted?'
'Did ten hours pass that fast?'
[Kiana: Oh, that. I unmuted her.]
She stayed at my place for a night after all. It would've been awkward to refuse when she asked for help.
[Levi: It's fine. I'll just mute her again.]
[March: Dad! Have mercy!]
"..."
Caw, caw, caw, caw...
It was as if a flock of crows flew through the chat group.
The moment that "Dad" appeared, the group instantly fell silent. The commotion Elysia's message was about to cause was snuffed out before it could even begin.
[Asta: You...]
[Kiana: I...]
[Elysia: This...]
[Lumine: Awesome.]
Lumine was completely impressed by March now.
This was genuinely amazing.
She had thought calling Levi "brother" was already bold enough, but someone had actually called him "Dad."
Though she wasn't the only one who had done it.
There was someone else... Elysia!
[Elysia: ...]
Although she had withdrawn that "Dad" afterward.
Besides, she had been forced into it. March, on the other hand, had done it willingly.
As for the mute Levi mentioned, Lumine didn't consider that a threat.
So in her eyes, March had genuinely done it of her own free will.
"Bullshit!"
March protested, "I was threatened too!"
How could a primitive person like Lumine possibly understand the damage a chat group mute could do to her.
[Lumine: ? Who are you calling primitive?]
[March: The primitive person is you!]
[March: Wait, no!]
[Elysia: Pfft!]
[Elysia: @Levi, come to my place tonight.]
[Levi: What for?]
[Elysia: You'll find out when you get here. You have to come.]
[Levi: 1]
"Sigh~ I'm just too popular."
He pretended to brush back his hair a few times. Kiana turned her head and made a gagging face, while Lumine kept clinging to him and acting cute at the same time.
Still hugging Levi's arm, she continued pleading.
"Just this once~ Please~"
"Le... Vi?"
'Big Auntie?!'
Hearing the voice, Kiana's heart jumped. She hurriedly looked toward where it came from, already deciding that if she saw white hair, she'd run immediately.
When she saw a pink-haired figure instead, she let out a sigh of relief.
'That scared me. I thought Big Auntie had come.'
Of course. Big Auntie couldn't travel between worlds. There was no way she'd come to this different world to catch her.
Fu Xuan walked over to Levi with faint dark circles under her eyes.
Seeing her arrive, Levi greeted her warmly.
"Just got off work, Lady Fu Xuan?"
Fu Xuan nodded in response.
Standing before Levi, she looked at the two girls sitting beside him, one blonde and one white-haired.
She recognized the white-haired one.
She was the girl who had been firing wildly around the Ancient Sea last time, except...
Maybe it was just her imagination.
Fu Xuan always felt that the girl seemed a little afraid of her.
Whenever their eyes met, she would lean back slightly, trying to use Levi to block her view.
Unfortunately, all she managed to block was her own vision. Fu Xuan could still clearly see her expression.
Fu Xuan also remembered the blonde girl on the other side.
She was the one who had beaten the Nameless, Stelle, in the middle of Changle Heaven's main street last time.
At this moment, she paid no attention whatsoever to Fu Xuan's gaze. She hugged Levi's arm tightly and kept repeating, "Please, good brother, this really is the last time."
They didn't look like ordinary friends.
No.
Neither of them did.
Although the white-haired girl wasn't nearly as affectionate as the blonde one, Fu Xuan could tell that she relied heavily on Levi.
Otherwise, she wouldn't have had him block Fu Xuan's view for her. She was practically leaning against Levi's back by now.
"Please don't misunderstand, Lady Fu Xuan."
As if seeing through Fu Xuan's thoughts, Levi said with a completely serious face, "These two are my friends. They're both men."
"Men?"
Her voice carried a hint of surprise.
Levi didn't look like he was lying. Fu Xuan looked the two of them over again.
How could they possibly be men...
"You know, technology is pretty advanced these days..."
"I understand."
Recalling the popular term she'd seen online, Fu Xuan showed an understanding expression and turned to leave.
It was getting late.
She should head home, have dinner, and go to bed.
Watching her leave, Levi suddenly remembered something. He stood up and shouted, "Lady Fu Xuan! If you need one too, I can introduce you to..."
Whoosh!
A small stone flew past Levi's ear and struck the tree trunk behind him, leaving a hole in it.
Fu Xuan's icy voice reached his ears.
"Go die."
'Who would need something like that?'
'Shouting like that in a public park. Wasn't he embarrassed at all?'
"Whew~ So that's the Fu Xuan you've been talking about all this time?"
With Fu Xuan gone, the pressure instantly disappeared, and Kiana asked, "The pressure she gives off is so strong."
Although her voice sounded similar to Big Auntie's, the aura she carried was on a completely different level.
Just standing in front of Kiana and looking at her had made her feel like she couldn't breathe.
Levi spent every day with someone like that.
No wonder he'd become mentally twisted.
He'd been forced into it.
Thinking that, Kiana actually began to sympathize with Levi.
"Could it be that you subconsciously thought she was Theresa, so that's why she felt so intimidating?"
Levi pointed it out.
'Fu Xuan was intimidating?'
'You're telling me Fu Xuan in white stockings is intimidating?'
'The only time you'd feel any pressure would be if her foot was stepping on you.'
Kiana fell silent.
'Fine.'
Maybe she'd judged wrong.
This guy was just born like this. He hadn't been forced into it.
"Good brother..."
"Stop right there!" Levi pulled Lumine's little hand away and said seriously, "It's not that I don't want to help you. It's that your problem doesn't need my help at all."
He had already talked to Ningguang about it before.
Even if they had broken out of prison before the official notice came down, as long as they hadn't caused excessive damage during the escape or committed another crime, nothing would happen.
'Damage...'
Hearing that, Lumine remembered the four prison cells.
But Kiana had done all of that.
It had nothing to do with her.
Thinking about it that way, it really wasn't a big deal.
After figuring that out, she noticed she had unconsciously grabbed Levi's arm again and quickly flung it away.
Crossing her arms over her chest, she said, "You pervert. What's for dinner?"
Now that she knew everything was fine, there was no reason to let Levi keep taking advantage of her.
"Look at that face."
Just as Levi had expected.
Lumine was exactly the kind of person who called him "brother" whenever she needed something, and "pervert" whenever she didn't.
Without even taking time to switch.
The moment she found out there was no problem, her face changed immediately.
"Be careful, or I'll have the Qixing put you back on the wanted list."
If he could get Lumine removed from the wanted list, he could also have her put back on it.
Lumine's heart skipped a beat.
"Good brother, don't do that..."
She immediately switched back to acting like a sweet little sister.
Kiana: "I'll never learn a face change like that."
———
[Meanwhile]
Stelle was staying at Herta's residence on the Luofu, listening as the two of them discussed the details of "Mr. Cold Feet."
The more she listened, the more familiar it sounded.
The person Herta and Ruan Mei were talking about couldn't be...
Stelle rubbed her chin and raised her hand like a student.
"I think I might know who this 'Mr. Cold Feet' you're talking about is..."