Before she had time to be happy for long, Bronya realized that the people in this group were a little different from what she had imagined.
Looking at the space station pictures Asta had posted in the group, and the image of a control panel covered in water, paired with Asta's crying sticker,
Bronya fell silent.
She had thought everyone here was with Kiana.
After all, they had just gone to a St. Freya gathering last night.
These people should have been from the same world, while she was the exception, someone who had crossed through time and joined.
Everything they said before was probably just joking around.
But...
'You really do have a space station!'
'What level of rich lady are you?!'
She had originally wanted to comfort Asta, but now she felt like she needed comfort herself.
Comfort for the wound left on her heart by a rich girl.
"Sigh~ I'd better think about how to get sponsorship..."
Bronya let out a sigh.
After a while...
[Kiana: Speaking of which, I didn't do anything too outrageous last night, right?]
After laughing enough, Kiana asked in the group.
[Elysia: Elysia doesn't know~]
After Levi's little stunt, Elysia's mood had improved quite a bit.
Though she was still a little embarrassed...
[Kiana: Wasn't asking you.]
[Levi: Compared to a certain pink chubby lady, you were practically harmless last night.]
As he spoke, he couldn't help recalling Kiana's actions from last night. He raised a hand and touched the side of his face.
It felt as if the damp sensation was still there.
At the same time, Qingque's voice suddenly rang out.
'What are you doing?'
"Can't I touch my own face?"
'Come on, that's my face.'
"Right now, it's my face."
In the archive library, Levi, wearing Qingque's appearance, sat at a table with one leg crossed over the other.
In front of him was a storybook he had found in the archives.
Something to pass the time.
Soon, with Levi reading ten lines at a glance, even the storybook he was using to kill time was finished.
He yawned out of boredom, exchanged greetings with a diviner who had entered the library, then thought to himself, "Even now, I still can't figure out what the point of you asking me to do this was."
After waking up that morning, Qingque had mysteriously asked Levi to cover her shift for a day.
At first, Levi thought that Fu Xuan... rather than that pink... Fu Xuan herself... had assigned her some extremely difficult task.
And that was why she had no choice but to ask him for help.
But then...
Wasn't this just the same as her usual work?
Sit here and slack off. If any documents were sent over, sort them and put them into the archive library. Before leaving work, check the archive records once.
If nothing happened, you could clock out.
"Did you bring me here just to experience work?"
Levi looked up at the sky.
'Could Qingque be upset because I spend every day so leisurely?'
'If so, good!'
If she still felt balanced after seeing how free he was, wouldn't that be disrespectful to how relaxed his life was?
'The freeloading life you've always dreamed of... I already achieved it, Qingque!'
Qingque couldn't hear his exact thoughts.
"Of course not! I'm not that kind of person!"
After hearing Levi's words, she immediately denied it.
She was the biggest good person in the Divination Commission. How could she possibly make someone else experience the pain of working?
"Our Qingque is a great person!"
Although she had indeed asked Levi to experience work...
It definitely wasn't painful work like managing the archive library.
It was something much more leisurely.
A job where you could breathe the fresh air outside the Divination Commission.
A job where you could enjoy the scenery outside the Divination Commission.
A job that required no thinking or effort to complete.
This job had only one objective.
That was...
"Guard the gate." ×2
Qingque froze, then shouted, "You already knew?!"
'Indeed.'
Her first day on the job yesterday had attracted plenty of spectators. Levi didn't even need to ask around; the news would have reached him on its own.
'Diviner Standing Outside the Divination Commission... Violation of Heavenly Law or Workplace Bullying?'
'Divination Commission Diviner Guarding the Gate, Suspected Internal Multi-Person Operation!'
'The Diviner and the Dog.'
'The Diviner Who Stole a Dog's Job.'
With so many ridiculous headlines floating around, it would have been strange if Levi hadn't heard about it.
"Sigh~ Since that's the case, I won't hide it anymore."
Qingque came clean.
"That's right! I wanted you to guard the gate!"
Unfortunately, she hadn't expected Elder Fu Xuan to calm down so quickly.
Maybe she should have played around even more recklessly yesterday.
If she had, she might still be squatting at the gate today.
Levi twitched the corner of his mouth and smilingly took out his jade abacus communicator, opening his chat history with Fu Xuan.
There, his message to Fu Xuan was plainly visible.
Qingque hadn't really made any major mistakes, so Fu Xuan had easily returned her to her original position.
She had even discussed the idea of promoting Qingque with Levi through the communicator.
After all, during the previous invasion of the Divination Commission, it was thanks to Qingque that the losses had been minimized.
Seeing this message, Qingque's voice became serious.
"Please reject that for me. Thanks."
At the same time, she felt relying on Levi wasn't safe enough. She began wondering whether she should make a few more mistakes... not too big, not too small.
Offset her merits with faults.
Let Fu Xuan clearly see her useless nature and give up on the idea of promoting her.
"Tsk~"
Thinking of this, Qingque couldn't help complaining to Levi.
"It's all your fault for showing off back then. Otherwise, would Elder Fu Xuan have started paying attention to me?"
If he had simply killed those people instantly and then laid on the ground pretending to be dead, Fu Xuan would never have suspected her.
Even if she suspected there was some hidden expert in the Divination Commission, she wouldn't have suspected Qingque.
As long as you were useless enough, nobody would suspect you.
And based on her past performance, there was absolutely no chance anyone would suspect her.
If Qingque could be some hidden expert, then the Divination Commission would be finished!
Levi spoke up, "Back then, that was the only option."
"You didn't have any strength of your own, so I could only rely on a chain reaction to make them kill each other."
Diviners were basically office workers. When it came to fighting on the battlefield, they might not even be as capable as ordinary Cloud Knights.
"Being able to wipe out all those mara-struck in one go was already pretty good."
Ding-dong!
A new message popped up on the jade abacus communicator. It was from Herta.
[Herta: I've organized some suspicious data. Give it to your Master Diviner and see if she can calculate that person's approximate location.]
[Levi: Okay!]
In reality, there was no need to give it to Fu Xuan at all. Levi, using Qingque's appearance, could personally use this data to divine the exact location of the person Herta was talking about.
He could even do it better and faster than Fu Xuan.
For example, Fu Xuan could at most determine that the person was in Central Starskiff Haven.
Levi, using Qingque's appearance, could do much more than that.
He could calculate which alley the person lived in, which building, which floor, and even the house number...
Whether the door was locked and where the key was hidden.
Levi even knew the person's name.
"What a coincidence. It's also Levi. Same name as me..."
'Yeah, why is that?'
Keeping a calm expression, Levi opened the communicator and replied to Herta.
[Levi: Alchemy Commission, Supreme Elixir Chamber, top floor, Danshu.]
[Herta: ?]
"Is Xianzhou divination really this powerful?"
Just from vague data, it could calculate things in such detail.
'Supreme Elixir Chamber, Danshu...'
"..."