Seeing Levi's message, Elysia didn't dare make a sound to warn Kiana, afraid she'd end up drawing the fire onto herself.
"Kiana, don't repay kindness with hostility!"
"Even though I was the one who told you, you were the one who asked first."
"Answering your question was a favor to you!"
"You can't go stabbing your benefactor in the back!"
"If it really comes to it…"
"Just pin the blame on Stelle and Lumine! They won't mind."
Elysia pressed her hands together, silently praying toward the window.
———
[Kiana: Elysia told me.]
"..."
[No, wait! Why are you asking this?] Realizing something was wrong, Kiana looked wary. [Just give up already! I'm not selling out my companions!]
———
"But you already said it!"
Elysia felt like crying but had no tears.
She never imagined Kiana would throw out the answer first, and only afterward ask why someone wanted that answer.
[Elysia: What kind of white-haired dumpling is this? Just call her a white-haired idiot already.]
[Levi: Hint: a more accurate term is 'paramecium.']
Elysia, drowned in sorrow, froze for a moment and asked back, [Is there some meaning to that?]
[Levi: A paramecium is a single-celled organism.]
[Elysia: ?]
Elysia never went to school, okay, she doesn't know what single-celled organisms or double-celled organisms are.
Clearly, Levi had anticipated this and continued, [Simply put, simple-minded, strong limbs.]
"So that's how it is!"
'What an accurate description!'
'This is what you call a cultured person!'
Elysia smiled and nodded.
[You bastard! I'm ignoring you!]
After also learning the meaning of "paramecium" from Levi, Kiana immediately quit the group chat and swore she'd ignore Levi for the rest of her life.
Giving her such an ugly nickname and still expecting her to talk to him?
'Who do you think I am? Giant Buddha or something?!'
———
Group chat: Kiana has disappeared.
Stelle and Lumine, those two lazy dogs, were probably still asleep. Now only Levi and Elysia were left in the chat.
Looking at the silent chat, Elysia spoke first, chuckling awkwardly. [Um… you're not mad at me, right?]
The group owner asked first, she couldn't just not answer, could she?
That would be way too rude.
Levi still didn't reply, and Elysia started to panic.
'He wouldn't be thinking about how to punish me, would he?!'
'No! I'm still so young!'
[Levi, my dear Levi, we're best friends! You can't treat me like this just because of some principles!]
[I just answered one simple question from the group owner!]
[You can't do this to me]
[I'm a good citizen!]
[I haven't even settled the score with you for 'burying my beautiful life' yet!]
At this point, Levi, who had been silent and applying pressure, finally spoke.
[Levi: I haven't even said anything. Why didn't you ask whether I was going to give you trouble or not?]
Hearing Levi finally speak relieved a lot of Elysia's pressure.
But his words made her freeze for a second.
That's true, Levi hadn't actually said he was going to mess with her.
[Then… are you going to mess with me?]
[Yes.] Levi nodded with a smile.
[Elysia: ! You can't do this to me!]
[Levi: Why didn't you ask how I'm going to mess with you?]
Elysia froze again. 'Could it be he was planning to...'
[Elysia: Then how are you going to mess with me?]
[Levi: No good juice for you to drink.] Levi kept smiling.
[Don't panic!] Before Elysia could speak, Levi comforted her first.
[Why don't you ask when I'm going to mess with you?]
Elysia rolled her eyes. She could already tell, Levi was just messing with her for fun.
Elysia doesn't want to answer and raises her middle finger at you.
Levi didn't continue talking either. Instead, he sent Elysia a huge red packet.
Following the principle of 'short pain is better than long pain,' and to prevent Levi from messing with her offline, Elysia fully geared up and accepted the red packet.
One bag…
"Fruit?"
Elysia took off her blast helmet and looked at the strange-looking fruit on the plate in her hands.
Obviously, this was something from Levi's world.
But still…
"Why are they all rotten?!"
"I wanted to taste what otherworldly fruit was like!"
———
Crunch!
Levi took a bite of the fruit in his hand. Seeing the red packet get accepted, the corner of his mouth curved upward at a 45-degree angle.
"I said you wouldn't get any good juice, so you won't get any good juice!"
———
[Kiana's Dormitory]
Coincidentally, outside the room, Mei Raiden's voice rang out, calling Kiana to eat. Kiana sat at the dining table puffing out her cheeks.
She viciously tore into the food Mei had prepared for her.
"Giving me a nickname! I'll bite you to death! Bite you to death!" Kiana muttered fiercely as she tore into the food.
As if what she was biting wasn't food, but Levi himself.
Seeing the grease splatter nearby, Bronya leaned back slightly and exchanged a look with Mei Raiden.
They both saw a trace of curiosity in each other's eyes.
'What's going on with Kiana?'
'It's only been a short while, and she's changed so much.'
'And a nickname?'
'Levi gave it to you?'
"What nickname?" Out of politeness, Mei Raiden felt awkward asking, but Bronya had no such concerns.
Once you're an assassin, what politeness do you need?
"Parame... none of your business!"
She almost blurted out the answer again, but this time Kiana reacted quickly and stopped herself.
But just those two characters were more than enough for top student Bronya.
Under Kiana's fierce glare, Bronya's expression remained calm as she slowly spat the word.
"Paramecium."
'Single-celled organism. Simple-minded. Strong limbs.'
'It really does fit Kiana's character perfectly.'
"￥@￥#@￥#@￥!"
Kiana exploded.
But verbal attacks like that had zero lethality against the trained Bronya.
Looking at her almost provocatively, Bronya said, "Paramecium."
'Damn it!'
[Levi! Combine!]
[Use the righteous power of the world to eliminate this shorty in front of me!]
[If you're Anti-Entropy for one day, you're Anti-Entropy for life!]
'On our Schicksal turf, how dare you act so arrogantly!'
After tidying up the room and preparing to go back to sleep, Levi scratched his head when he saw the message from Kiana.
[Levi: Didn't you say you'd ignore me?]
[Kiana: Shut up! Hurry over here and teach this shorty a lesson!]
———
[Ding! Commission: Make Bronya regret saying that word!]
[Reward: Anything you want!]
[Client: Kiana Kaslana]
[Accept?]
[Yes or No]
'Regret saying that word?'
The corner of Levi's mouth once again rose to a 45-degree angle.
Who would've thought that his unintentional act would bring him a commission.
"Bring it on!"
Without any hesitation. What was there to hesitate about? Just making Bronya regret it.
For this, he had ten thousand ways to make her regret it.
———
[Kiana's Dormitory]
"Kiana is someone only I get to bully. Don't you know that, Bronya~?"
After completing the fusion, Levi leaned slightly forward, smiling as he looked at the Bronya in front of him.
Sensing something strange in the atmosphere, Mei Raiden decisively picked up the plates and went to the kitchen to clean up.
Levi smiled as he reached out and pressed his hand against Bronya's neck.
Such a slender neck, Levi's hand could almost wrap around it entirely.
With just a little force, not much at all, Bronya would turn into Tingyun in front of the Alchemy Commission.
"Do you regret it?"
"..."
———
Elsewhere, in the Xianzhou Luofu, Fu Xuan arrived at Divination Commission.