Seeing the conversation between the two, if Lumine hadn't been too busy, she definitely would have flamed Stelle a few times in the group chat.
As for Levi... she didn't dare.
She was afraid she'd only make him happier.
'His layered defense was too terrifying!'
Lumine stopped walking. Hearing footsteps behind her, she turned around.
"Still chasing me, still chasing me, still chasing me!"
Backed up against the edge of a cliff, Lumine put on a fierce expression and glared at the pursuers behind her.
"You think the likes of you can catch me? I'm someone who can instantly kill your god! The only reason I'm not fighting you is because you're not worth it!"
"From this moment on! If any of you dares take one more step..."
Crack!
While she was speaking, she wasn't paying attention. The loose rocks beneath her feet split apart, and Lumine fell toward the bottom of the cliff along with the broken stones.
"Ahhh!"
The pursuers quickly rushed to the cliff's edge and looked down.
There was already no sign of her.
Even her scream from just now had disappeared.
From that height, she was probably already dead.
The few of them looked at each other before preparing to take the path down to search the bottom of the cliff.
Dead or alive, they had to find her.
———
[Chat Group]
Seeing that Lumine hadn't replied for so long, Levi wondered if she'd been taken out by those adepti in Liyue.
But that shouldn't be possible. If her life were really in danger, the chat group would definitely issue a mission.
It wouldn't stay this quiet.
[Levi: @Lumine, dead?]
[Stelle: Most likely.]
[Lumine: Dead your... Can't you say something nice for once?!]
Remembering the words "don't let him enjoy it," Lumine forcibly swallowed the second half of the insult she was about to spit out.
That single sentence was enough for Levi to realize that the storm he'd been waiting for probably wasn't coming.
"Damn you, Elysia!"
'You've done every bad thing there is!'
[Elysia: Then what should I do? Scold you instead?]
[Levi: Sure, sure, sure!]
[Elysia: ￥#&*%#￥%￥￥...]
[Levi: ...]
[Elysia: ? Not satisfied?]
'How the hell am I supposed to enjoy a pile of symbols?!'
———
[Teyvat]
Lumine repeatedly thanked the giant bird that had saved her.
Looking up at its folded wings, her first thought was how good those things would taste roasted.
As if it had heard her thoughts, the giant bird standing before her suddenly sharpened its gaze.
Seeing the drool at the corner of Lumine's mouth, it felt like she was thinking about something very inappropriate.
Cloud Retainer flapped her wings twice, cleared her throat, and said, "I am an adeptus of Jueyun Karst. Do not spread word of my saving you today."
Otherwise people would start jumping off cliffs in Jueyun Karst one after another.
If she saved them all, she'd eventually die from exhaustion.
If she didn't save them, those would all be fresh lives lost.
"I think deep-fried would taste better..."
"What did you say?"
"Cough, cough. Nothing, nothing! Thank you, Adeptus! Thank you, Adeptus!"
The way Cloud Retainer looked at Lumine became increasingly strange.
Just as Lumine turned to leave, Cloud Retainer's body trembled. Looking at the blonde girl from behind, her gaze grew even stranger.
Before Lumine had taken more than two steps, she heard the adeptus call out behind her.
"I heard that you killed the Geo Lord in Liyue Harbor?"
Lumine shuddered all over. She lifted her leg to run, but Cloud Retainer restrained her first.
Looking at the pitifully weak girl before her, Cloud Retainer's expression became even stranger.
"How did you do it?"
She couldn't even break free from such a simple spell.
'And you're saying she killed the Geo Lord?'
'Instantly, at that???'
'Is something wrong with me, or is something wrong with this world?'
But Ganyu had been the one to send her this information.
Cloud Retainer knew Ganyu well enough. She would never lie to her.
Thinking of lies, Cloud Retainer suddenly thought of something.
Ganyu indeed wouldn't lie to her.
But what if someone had lied to Ganyu?
A pure and innocent child like Ganyu was the easiest to deceive with lies.
The Geo Lord could be assassinated.
But there was no way this little blonde girl in front of her could have done it.
The moment she was released, Lumine hurriedly defended herself.
"It wasn't me!"
Cloud Retainer, who had been about to gather the others and head to Liyue Harbor, lowered her wings and looked at the little blonde girl before her.
"Oh? Then tell me, who did it?"
Perhaps she could learn some details from her.
Lumine racked her brains, not knowing how she should explain Levi's existence.
If she said he was her friend, wouldn't that drag her into it too?
After thinking it over, Lumine came up with an explanation.
"He's an evil ghost, an evil ghost that's after my body!"
Looking at Cloud Retainer's inhuman appearance, Lumine suddenly had an idea.
"I can use myself as bait to lure out the evil ghost who assassinated the Geo Lord!"
"Oh?"
Cloud Retainer became somewhat interested in the evil ghost Lumine claimed had assassinated the Geo Lord.
Just as Lumine was about to say more, a fierce wind swept across the ground, and Cloud Retainer spread her wings and flew back to her abode.
The message Ganyu had sent was simply asking her to capture this little blonde girl and keep herself calm, telling her not to go to Liyue Harbor for the time being.
She was probably worried that she would join forces with the other adepti to demand an explanation.
But such a major incident couldn't be kept hidden forever, so they could only have Ganyu persuade her first.
"Hmph! In that case, I shall wait a few more days before going!"
'Then let's see what sort of explanation you can give me!'
———
[Chat Group]
After hearing that Levi had already returned to the Xianzhou Luofu, Asta brought up what she wanted to ask him for in the group.
[Asta: Something has happened at the space station recently...]
Something happened at Herta Space Station?
Levi's expression turned serious.
'The Duke Inferno invading?'
'Or had those little guys below come up to the surface?'
Neither of those was something Asta could handle on her own.
It felt like he needed to deal with it personally.
'For Asta (the rich lady)!'
[Ding! Levi has requested to enter your world! Accept?]
[Asta: ?]
Asta stopped marking documents and looked at the prompt that had popped up before her, her eyes full of confusion.
Had she said something?
Why was Levi in such a hurry to come here?
But Asta didn't want to see him right now.
She was afraid she wouldn't be able to control the temperature on her face.
"Reject."
[Asta: There's no need for you to come to the space station... I want to ask you to find someone on the Luofu.]
The Beautiful Fox Immortal. Recently, this name had been appearing at the space station with astonishing frequency.
Many researchers had become absent-minded day and night because of that name.
Some had even lost their appetite because of it.
Asta was worried, so she wanted to ask someone on the Luofu, namely Levi, to investigate this Beautiful Fox Immortal.
[Asta: Beautiful Fox Immortal. I heard they're a Foxian from the Xianzhou Luofu, so I'd like to ask you to investigate them.]
[Asta: Oh, right. I heard they also have a chat group.]
[Stelle: Like ours?]
[Asta: No.]
If it were a chat group like theirs, that would be a huge problem.
[Asta: Anyway, I'll find someone offline to send you the group link later.]
[Levi: 1]
Not long after, the jade abacus on Levi's table buzzed.
After opening the link that had been sent to him, Levi thought he'd have to fill something out before being allowed in.
Instead, it directly took him into a chat group.
Looking at the jade abacus in his hand, Levi slowly frowned.
"Why does this chat group look kind of familiar?"
And nobody welcomed him after he joined.
He decided to send a message and see.
[Yang Sit Ups: Hello, everyone.]
"Holy shit!" The moment he sent the message, Levi realized something was wrong. "Why the hell am I level 100???"
"..."