[In Ato's Room]
"Oh, thanks."
"You're welcome. I've already sent all the image files over. Take a look yourself."
"Thank you so much."
"..."
After hanging up, Ato opened the information his friend had sent him and looked at the women, all of whom were named Griseo.
There were grandmothers over eighty years old, as well as babies who had just been born.
He selected the women between eighteen and thirty, those of an appropriate age.
After scanning through them, Ato's eyes fell on the information of the grandmothers over sixty. After thinking for a moment, he selected them as well.
Levi: "?"
"Maybe that guy just likes this type."
Otherwise, how could someone as cute as Elysia stand beside him and still leave him unmoved?
So Ato guessed that the other person might be an 'older-woman type.'
He simply liked women older than himself.
After carefully looking through the information of the people he had selected, there wasn't a single one whom Ato thought was the person Levi wanted him to bless.
There was also no one among the older-woman candidates who met the requirements.
Most of them came from ordinary families.
"Could it be a stage name?"
Like some underground idol from a certain country?
Ato picked up his phone and prepared to ask that friend to look again, but after thinking about it, he gave up on the idea.
"Forget it. Why should I care about him?"
He stood up and stretched.
"As long as that Griseo isn't my daughter..."
At this point, Ato couldn't help laughing. He wasn't even married yet, so how could he possibly have a daughter?
Besides, why couldn't it be a son?
"I'll go take a look around the research institute."
Because of his participation in the experiments, Fire Moth had specifically given him a long vacation.
In other words, he had nothing to deal with during this period.
Someone else was even taking care of his training.
———
"Wait. Your lover will be here soon."
"My... my lover?"
Qingque kept a cold expression and showed no intention of answering. Looking at the time on her Jade Abacus, she kept tapping her foot against the ground, making a 'pat pat' sound.
Looking at the two Cloud Knights beside him, Daiqing slowly lowered his head.
The 'pat pat' sound kept ringing around them, and every time it sounded, it seemed to strike Daiqing's heart, making him feel increasingly suffocated.
"Qingque!"
Suddenly, an excited shout came from the distance.
Daiqing raised his head. A black dot appeared on the distant horizon. He blinked, and the black dot instantly became a person who appeared in front of him.
Looking at him excitedly, "Qingque, you did a great job!"
"Hmph!" Thinking Levi was mocking her, Qingque crossed her arms and snorted. "What, seeing your lover suffer made your heart ache?"
"No, no, no." Levi hurriedly shook his head and smiled. "I mean, you did very well. Very well indeed."
Qingque's originally cold gaze slowly became blank.
She seemed to understand what Levi meant. He really was praising her for doing a good job.
But precisely because she understood, she found it even harder to understand.
'Did that mean I caught the adulterer correctly?'
Under her gaze, Levi took a single stride to Daiqing's side, squeezed away the Cloud Knight beside him, held up his Jade Abacus, and pointed it at himself and Daiqing.
"Say cheese."
"..."
"Say it!"
"Ch-cheese."
Seeing this, the two Cloud Knights clasped their fists toward Levi and Qingque before leaving. Qingque lowered her fists and looked at Levi and Daiqing with a bewildered expression.
She had no idea what he was trying to do.
After taking the photo, Levi found Asta's contact information and sent her the photo of himself and Daiqing.
"Dear Miss Asta."
"This is the 'beautiful Foxian,' Miss Daiqing, whom you were looking for. As for the more detailed information afterward, it will be delivered to you by a diviner from our Divination Commission."
"Have sweet dreams."
Asta: "..."
She didn't know how she should respond, so she could only send a string of ellipses to indicate that she had received it.
"So..."
After watching Levi finish a series of operations, Qingque came to a conclusion. "You lied to me so that I would work for you for free?"
"Oh, come on, we're family. Why talk about whether you're working or not?"
Qingque rubbed her chin.
"Then that business about you being into men was fake too?"
Compared to the former, she was obviously more concerned about this.
Losing to a man or something was too much of a blow for her.
"How could it be!" Levi looked at Daiqing, who was trembling in the corner, with disgust. "My sexual orientation is completely normal, okay?"
"Phew~ That's good."
Suddenly, Qingque thought of something. "So, in other words, those two people reported back then were actually girls?"
'Girls? Coming out of the men's restroom?'
'And with Levi?'
Qingque could figure out what had happened inside with her toes.
All the details inside would probably take a million words to write.
"No."
Levi denied Qingque's claim that Kiana and Ying were girls.
First of all, he had never regarded these two as girls. In Levi's eyes, they could barely even be considered human beings, and even that was only intermittent.
The rest of the time, he treated them as armed helicopters and Walmart shopping bags.
After hearing Levi's words, Qingque fell silent.
A mortal's brain could never keep up with the thought process of an idiot. She glanced at Daiqing in the corner, clasped her hands together, and gave him an apologetic smile.
"Sorry, I misunderstood."
With that, she kindly patted the shoeprints on his body that had appeared because he had been kicked twice during the arrest.
Levi lowered his gaze and compared them with Qingque's shoes. They fit perfectly.
Seeing Qingque apologize and then prepare to leave, Levi immediately called out, "Remember to contact Herta Space Station when you get back and send over the information you collected!"
"Got it, got it!"
Qingque was annoyed whenever this came up. If he wanted her help, couldn't he just say so directly? He had to provoke her like this.
Levi, meanwhile, said, "Do you think I don't know you, Qingque?"
She dared to slack off even in front of Fu Xuan, who was full of authority. If she were dealing with someone as refined and easygoing as him instead, Levi couldn't even imagine how much she would slack off.
He withdrew his gaze from Qingque's back and looked toward Daiqing, who was huddled in the corner and doing his best to lower his presence.
When Daiqing noticed Levi's gaze, he gave him an awkward but polite smile.
"Um, can I leave now?"
"Leave? Where are you going?"
"..."
The instant Levi looked at him, his gaze became sharp. Right in front of him, he jumped up and down and performed a set of Cloud Knight boxing techniques, then abruptly turned his head and glared at him.
"All evil will be brought to justice!"
"Criminal... Let's call you Daiqing for now. You've spent years hanging around online, appearing before strangers as a tea-selling woman and committing fraud."
"It has been going on for years, and the amount you've defrauded has reached hundreds of thousands of credits!"
"T, they only bought my tea!"
"Then you passed off inferior goods as quality products, defrauding consumers!"
Levi kept a stern face. If Daiqing's identity had not been fictional, would those people have bought his tea?
"No need to explain any further. Just obediently come back with me and undergo interrogation."
With that, he performed another set of boxing techniques.
"All evil will be brought to justice!"
———
Meanwhile, Ato arrived at the Mobius Research Institute. As luck would have it, the door to the institute was open, so he didn't need to contact Blanca specifically to have her open it for him.
"Hmm?"
When he reached the door, Ato keenly sensed that something was wrong. His ears perked up slightly, and faint cries and moans of pain reached his ears.
"..."