Lowering his head, he looked at the Shining-Ember Greatsword in his hand.
Even that brainless idiot Sirin could slaughter everything when using Herrscher authority.
There was no way he would end up breaking the lower limit.
Suddenly, someone @mentioned Levi in the chat group.
Looking closely, it was a message from Elysia.
[Elysia: I have to lean on the wall just to walk now! @Levi, you have to take responsibility for this!]
[Stelle: ?]
[Lumine: ?]
[Stelle: Weren't we repeating lines just fine? Why did this suddenly turn melodramatic?]
Guys, isn't this supposed to be Kiana's harem group?
Why does it feel more like Levi's harem instead?
"You've misunderstood!"
Elysia lay on the bed, dizzy and spaced out as she typed.
Judging from her earlier messages, she really was extremely "dizzy and out of it."
"I mean, he has to pay me compensation for emotional damages!"
Ever since Mei made up her mind to train her into a top student like herself, Elysia's life had turned into living hell.
In just two short days, Elysia felt like she was practically ascending to heaven.
Lying on the bed, her face lifeless, Elysia muttered, "If I'd known it would turn out like this, I would've died before letting Levi say that sentence."
She probably just wasn't born to study.
Better suited for hauling cement at a construction site…
Studying, leading humanity's future, all that stuff should be left to geniuses.
She was only fit to curl up in a corner and sleep.
Anyway, she had invincible Honkai resistance, and an invincible cheat like Levi backing her up.
There were basically no threats.
'So… Sleeping it is!'
'Decision made! Tomorrow I'm skipping Mei's class!'
[Elysia: Sleeping, sleeping, I'm exhausted.]
When Levi saw Elysia's message in the chat group, it was like a classroom teacher seeing a student sleeping in class.
He put on an expression of disappointment and frustration.
[At your age, at this stage of your life, how can you possibly be sleeping?]
"!!!"
Kiana's PTSD flared up. It was like she'd gone back to the days when she got called out by the teacher for sleeping in class.
That awkwardness, under the gaze of countless people, was still vivid in her memory.
Lying on the bed, Kiana covered her ears and rolled around, shouting, "Stop chanting! Stop chanting! Master! I know I was wrong!"
"Knowing your mistake and correcting it... "
Following the classic routine of giving a sweet date after the stick, Levi was about to comfort her, then he realized the one "admitting fault" was Kiana.
'Wait, I was lecturing Elysia. Why are you jumping in?'
So he continued in that disappointed tone, [@Elysia, at your age, you're sleeping?]
[Do you have even a shred of ambition?!]
"ZZZ…"
Unfortunately, Elysia was already asleep, and sleeping very soundly.
After a long time with no reply from Elysia, Levi seemed to realize what had happened. After a moment of silence, "Damn it!"
———
[Valkyrie Dormitory]
Just when Kiana had finally crawled out of the psychological shadow, she stared at Elysia's avatar and felt like she'd remembered something.
"It was archery… right?"
"Huh?" Kiana said in surprise. "Back when we were with Lumine…"
Levi, wearing Elysia's skin, had used the same archery technique in this assessment.
Other parts weren't obvious, but that longbow formed entirely of Honkai energy was way too recognizable.
The moment she saw Elysia, she immediately thought of that same Honkai-energy longbow.
"But isn't that Elysia's ability? Why did it appear on Levi?"
'Could it be that he's an Uchiha, able to copy other people's abilities?'
Kiana nodded seriously, feeling that this was very likely.
Of course, "very likely" referred to Levi having the ability to copy others' powers, not that he had cosmic red-eye syndrome.
If that were the case, it would explain why he always "worked for free" helping others complete commissions.
If she could gain power through that method, she'd be willing to pay out of pocket to do missions.
"Huh?" Kiana suddenly noticed a key point. "If that's really the case, then wouldn't I…"
"…be able to make Levi pay me?"
Kiana got excited.
———
"Dream on."
Seeing Kiana's private message, Levi muttered to himself, "What do you think you can get out of me?"
It wasn't that he refused to pay Kiana.
If giving her kickbacks could bring in more missions, he'd do it without hesitation.
The problem was that he genuinely had nothing to give her.
Credits? Could she even spend them?
[If you want to eat Xianzhou food, I can pack some for you. Other than that, I really don't have anything.]
Just recovered from Honkai sickness, lucked into a windfall due to the company's mistake, and all his abilities came from other group members.
At best, he could use credits to buy some Xianzhou snacks and send them over.
[You can give me chat group points,] Kiana said.
She was actually eyeing his points. Levi didn't refuse, but asked, [What do you want those for?]
Even if you added their points together, it still wouldn't be enough to buy anything decent.
[I'm gonna draw.]
[...]
[Let me ask you first, do you know what the chat group's gacha is like?]
[Nope!]
Kiana answered decisively.
Fair enough. If she knew, and still said the words "drawing," Levi would apply to enter her world immediately, and personally give her a dose of loving care.
[Is there something wrong with the gacha?]
[There is! A huge problem!]
Facing Kiana's curiosity, Levi told her about his ten-pull that resulted in ten "Thanks for Your Patronage."
[If you don't want to lose points for nothing like I did, don't touch the gacha system!] Levi's tone was serious.
Gambling, at best leads to bankruptcy, at worst to broken families.
And gacha? Wasn't it just another form of gambling?
Especially gacha with no pity.
Ten pulls, ten "Thanks for Your Patronage."
If it had even given some decent trash items, Levi wouldn't be warning people off it so hard.
[Give it to me.]
[? You seriously want to try it?]
[Just give it to me!] Kiana said proudly. [I'm not like you]
[I'm a pure-blooded European!]
———
[Kiana's Dormitory]
'Ten pulls, ten Thanks for Your Patronage?'
'Watch me get ten golds in ten pulls!'
Seeing Levi transfer the points, Kiana confidently opened the gacha interface.
———
[Some Time Later]
While Levi was in his room holding the Shining-Ember Greatsword, studying how to use it, he received a private message from Kiana.
[Kiana: Um… you were right. Gambling really does ruin people…]
Seeing this, Levi smiled.
[I told you, the chat group gacha is pure scam, nothing but a point-recycling machine.]
[Now you know, right?]
[You should be grateful I suffered alongside you, if you'd spent your own points, you'd be crying your eyes out.]
"....."
Kiana's silence made Levi sense something was wrong.
'That white-haired idiot didn't spend her own points too, did she?!'
[Levi: You...]
[Kiana: Stop talking. I want to be alone.]
In the pitch-black Valkyrie dormitory, Kiana stared at the zeroed-out numbers on the panel, on the verge of tears.
Now her already-poor household had been hit with even more hardship.
[Kiana: What's the point of living anymore…]
[Lumine: ?]
[Stelle: ?]
[Elysia: ?]
[Levi: ?]
Did Kiana's state of mind just completely shatter?
[Lumine: Don't unalive yourself yet! Hand over the group owner spot first, then unalive yourself!]
The rebel was still at it...