She...
Could she actually be serious?
Thinking of this, Levi privately messaged Elysia, asking how her volunteer application was going.
He got a reply that the application had already been submitted.
His gaze toward her immediately became even stranger.
The application had already been submitted. After that, all they needed was for Mobius and Fire Moth to agree.
Given Mobius's prestige in the academic world, as long as Mobius agreed, Fire Moth would not refuse at this step.
And because Elysia was the one who submitted the application, Mobius would not refuse either.
In short, it was guaranteed to pass, and there was no need for steps like treating them to a meal or anything of the sort.
Then what Elysia had said in the group...
Was it to make Lumine and Stelle lower their guard?
"Otherwise, what?"
Elysia sat in the lounge area, staring at the chat interface in front of her with dead-fish eyes.
This guy had directly exposed his intentions in the group. If she didn't do something to fix it, wouldn't the plan to send the two of them to the research institute be ruined?
The application had already been submitted, and Mobius had agreed to it long ago.
There was no way she could contact Mobius herself. Those two were far too wary. It would be impossible to catch them right away, and they would have to wait a long time.
Until the two of them lowered their guard.
If these words got out, wouldn't the name Elysia be equated with human traffickers from now on?
Levi laughed.
"Hahahaha... You've learned bad things, Elysia."
"And who do you think caused it?"
Elysia rolled her eyes at him.
She was an innocent and flawless beautiful girl, but after spending so much time with this guy, not only had her words and actions become strange, even her thoughts had become strange.
"You have to take responsibility for this!"
"Go buy me an Annihilation Starship right now!"
It would be over if the next Herrscher was born. She was still waiting to fly into the sky and fire a laser cannon straight at the Herrscher's forehead.
"Sorry, I don't have one."
Levi spread his hands.
An Annihilation Starship was something you could only come across by chance. Hadn't Asta herself waited for so long without ever seeing an Annihilation Starship go up for sale on the sales website?
"If you really want to fire a laser at the next Herrscher's forehead, I can steal the spaceship Herta brought to the Luofu."
Without an Annihilation Starship, he couldn't fulfill Elysia's wish to fire one off, so Levi suggested another way to make it happen.
The spaceship Herta had brought.
It was equipped with weapons capable of destroying planets. It had originally been meant to deal with him, but she couldn't find him.
So it could only sit there gathering dust.
"Steal it?" Elysia shook her head. "Then forget it."
She didn't want to see someone take the path of crime because of one little wish of hers.
Levi blinked. "Are you worried about me?"
"No!" Elysia quickly denied his question and said very seriously, "I'm afraid you'll drag me into it."
What if it left a stain on her record? Then she wouldn't be able to take the civil service exam!
Who could put up with that?
After a moment, Levi raised a question.
"Isn't Fire Moth a government job?"
An organization created through joint funding from countries around the world, existing outside national governments and devoted to fighting the Honkai for the future of humanity.
Of course, that sentence was just for looking at. You couldn't take it seriously.
Because it was jointly funded by all the countries, the internal struggles within Fire Moth were far more intense than those within a single country.
The intensity of the struggles in the early and middle stages had already reached the point where even Elysia grew disgusted.
From this, it could be seen just how deep the darkness within Fire Moth was.
But in the later stages, the immense pressure from the Honkai forced all the fighting to stop.
After all, when faced with two choices: either continue and die, or stop and fight for a slim chance of survival.
Pick one of the two.
As long as you weren't someone whose brain had short-circuited, you knew which one to choose.
Thus, a brief period of unity arrived. Unfortunately, this unity...
It had come far too late, far too late...
Elysia froze, then wriggled her cute nose twice. "Oh, right. Fire Moth really does seem to be a government job..."
"I'm going to steal it for you right now!"
"Then you absolutely can't do it!"
'As a soldier of Fire Moth, Elysia, I have to set an example!'
'Hmm?'
While talking with Elysia, Levi caught a glimpse from the corner of his eye of a familiar pink color, very, very similar to Ling's hair.
But when he turned to look in that direction, he didn't see anything related to the color pink.
'Strange.'
He scratched his head.
'Could I be hallucinating because of what happened last night?'
'Could a Herrscher hallucinate too?'
Just as he was about to go over and take a look, a hand gently patted him on the shoulder from behind.
He turned around and saw Mobius, dressed in the standard white lab coat worn by researchers and smiling all over her face, slowly withdrawing her hand.
'Great! It's Mobius!'
He had left too hurriedly and forgotten to ask Ato how to get to the Mobius Research Institute. Levi had been wondering whether he should go get himself registered as a lost child.
He hadn't expected to turn around and run into Mobius.
'So lucky!'
'So lucky!'
That was exactly what Mobius was thinking.
She had just finished working through the night on her research. After eating instant noodles, she was about to go buy a cup of coffee, only to run into the little white mouse she had been thinking about all this time on the way.
Her luck seemed good enough that she could go buy a lottery ticket!
Maybe if she won twelve or thirteen million, it could cover the cost of one or two experiments.
"Are you free?" ×2
The two spoke at the same time and froze. Mobius looked at him with a smile and extended her hand.
"You go first."
"I have a gift I want to give you."
Levi nodded, then took the prepared gift from his clothes and handed it to Mobius.
He had prepared gifts for three people before coming this time.
Of them, Mobius and Elysia's were the ones he had put the most thought into.
He guaranteed they would both "like" them very much.
"A gift?" Mobius was stunned as she took it. Very few people had given her gifts in all her years.
Aside from Elysia, even Blanca, who was the closest to her, had never given her one.
Of course, part of the reason was that Mobius was so absorbed in research that Blanca didn't know what would be good to give her.
She glanced at the smiling Levi.
"Open it and take a look. I heard from Elysia that you really like it."
Hearing that Elysia had said she really liked it, Mobius immediately remembered the pink little dress the other party had given her last time, and the corners of her mouth twitched slightly.
A trace of gloom welled up inside her.
Would she like that kind of eye-catching color?
"I'll open it when I get back."
To prevent opening a blind box and finding a pink dress inside, Mobius decided to open it after returning to the research institute.
But Levi stopped her. For once, he was unusually firm.
"Open it here! If you wait too long, the thought behind it will get cold."
Your "thought" is an experimental subject. Of course it can get cold just like that.
After thinking it over again and again, considering that she rarely received gifts from people, Mobius ultimately decided to follow his words and open it right here.
If it was too embarrassing, she would make him take it himself.
With that thought, Mobius slowly lifted the lid of the gift box.
She took out the item inside.
"A... necklace?"
Mobius stroked the necklace that had come out of the gift box. Her fingertips couldn't feel the slightest roughness. It was as smooth as touching a mirror.
Perhaps it had something to do with the material. Even though she had just taken it out, Mobius could feel a trace of warmth from it.
Perhaps this was the "thought" he had spoken of.
Hmm, it was actually quite romantic.
"Mm! A... necklace?"
'Wait a second!'
Levi, who had nodded confidently, suddenly widened his eyes and stared at the necklace in Mobius's hand.
'How could it be a necklace?!'
'Where did my pink little dress go?!'