Seeing Raiden Mei's resentful little look, Levi smiled and raised both hands together above his head.
"Sorry, sorry. Mei was just too cute. I couldn't hold back for a second."
Then he switched to holding up three fingers toward the sky.
"I promise there won't be a next time."
'Hey! Don't cut off my escape route!'
'Levi promised it, what does that have to do with you, Kiana?'
Hearing that sentence, Kiana's brain instantly overloaded... Unable to think.
Sirin: 'The world is finally quiet.'
At this moment, Raiden Mei's voice sounded.
Her face was even redder than before, and she didn't dare look directly at Levi. Her eyes wandered around him instead.
"N-no need to promise. If, if you want to, it's okay too. J-just don't be as, as, as rough as this time."
Right now, Levi's words kept echoing in her heart.
'He said I'm cute!'
Seeing Raiden Mei's shy appearance, Levi pressed his lips together and held back the urge to rub her a few more times.
"Levi?"
Bronya's voice came from behind.
Bronya had just returned to the dorm carrying two large bags full of snacks. One bag was for Raiden Mei, and one was for herself.
As for Kiana, there was none.
If she wanted snacks, she could buy them herself.
Standing at the door and looking at Kiana's back, Bronya felt something strange.
That feeling told her the person in front of her was not Kiana.
Then someone with Kiana's appearance, but not Kiana, who could also make Raiden Mei blush.
'There's only one person it could be.'
'Levi.'
She walked over and placed the things on the table. Seeing this, Raiden Mei frowned.
"Bronya."
"I bought them for Levi."
Thinking quickly, Bronya pushed her own bag toward Levi and pushed the other bag toward Raiden Mei.
Watching the snacks leave her one after another, a trace of reluctance appeared in her eyes.
But Raiden Mei wasn't interested in those things.
She returned the bag meant for her.
While Raiden Mei and Levi weren't paying attention, Bronya secretly swapped her bag with Levi's bag.
After doing all that, Bronya relaxed and looked at Levi. After thinking for a long time, she still decided to ask that question.
"The name."
Levi turned his head.
"We met someone else also called Levi."
"Ah, so you've already met him."
Bronya had expected Levi to look troubled, but instead he showed a happy expression.
"So? Isn't he handsome?"
"I'm telling you, my name came from him. I met him in Nagazora City."
Levi held his face with both hands, his eyes unfocused, like he had fallen into memories.
But Kiana and Sirin both knew.
'This guy is completely acting.'
'Memories?'
'There were memories my ass in Nagazora City!'
"The scene of him slaughtering Honkai beasts and harvesting the lives of the zombies back then is still deeply carved into my mind."
"So cool!"
Sirin: 'Kiana, now you can say that line.'
'What line?'
Kiana froze, not understanding what Sirin wanted her to say.
'Shut your mouth! Be careful or I'll go self-destruct in Siberia right now!'
Levi threatened. Right now he was using the Herrscher of the Void's authority.
From St. Freya Academy to Siberia only took a few breaths.
Sirin sneered. 'Heh heh. You don't even know how to threaten people properly. You're really funny.'
What was there in Siberia that she cared about?
Did he think self-destruction could scare her?
She knew very clearly that as long as she and Kiana weren't separated, this guy absolutely, absolutely wouldn't dare do it.
'Heh.'
'Meaningless emotions.'
'Oh really?'
Self-destruction was just something he said casually, but it wasn't like there was nothing in Siberia she cared about.
Arriving at Kiana's room, Levi threw the things onto the bed and slightly narrowed his eyes.
"Then what if I use the Herrscher of the Void's power to wake Bella up…"
'…'
Hearing Bella's name, Sirin fell silent.
Crap. She forgot about her.
"Then use my current identity to trick Bella into my world…"
'…'
"Then make her give birth to a litter of little Honkai beasts for me…"
'…'
Silence. Unmatched silence.
Levi pulled out a bag of tomato-flavored fries from the snack bag, opened it, and said while eating, "Still think you don't care?"
'…You win.'
She had to admit that she still retained human feelings toward Bella.
She didn't care about anything else in this world.
She even wanted to destroy it.
Especially Schicksal. That was the place she wanted to destroy most.
But Bella…
'What do you want me to do?'
Sirin gave in.
Hearing Sirin's words, Levi, who had just lain down, sat back up again.
His expression was extremely strange.
If this wasn't the pot calling the kettle black, he'd eat himself on the spot.
After thinking for a moment, he said in a deep voice, "Go put Bella on my bed."
'…'
Grinding her teeth, Sirin said, 'Can you stop obsessing over Bella already?! She's a Honkai beast! She's not even the same species as you! She's not even human, and you can still go after her?! Are you a pervert?!'
Levi only replied with one sentence, and it left Sirin speechless.
"You just realized?"
That question said everything.
This wasn't the Luofu. Here, he wasn't pretending anymore.
So what if he was a pervert!
Anyway, people who didn't know the truth would just think the pervert was Kiana, and people who did know the truth probably already knew Levi was a pervert.
So whether he pretended or not didn't matter much anymore.
At least to Levi.
As for Kiana, who knew.
———
Outside the room, Raiden Mei and Bronya sat facing each other at the table. Both rested their chins on their hands, their eyes lowered deeply.
Bronya spoke first, "Sister Mei, what do you think?"
'I think while sitting.'
Raiden Mei opened her mouth, "…The reason he calls himself Levi, in my opinion… might come from admiration for the real Levi."
Having just been born and not having a name, it was possible he used his idol's name as his own.
Bronya crossed her hands in front of herself.
Raiden Mei's reasoning was very reasonable, but Bronya didn't think so.
She couldn't explain why, but she just vaguely felt something was wrong.
Expressed as a formula, it would be…
Levi = Levi.
It sounded like nonsense, but this formula contained hidden mysteries.
Translated, it meant… This was complete nonsense.
But Bronya didn't think it was nonsense. How could a formula she came up with be nonsense?
Ahem.
The correct formula should be: Kiana (Levi) = the real Levi himself.
The two weren't different people. At least, according to Bronya's intuition, the two could be connected with an equal sign.
But if she wanted to confirm whether this equal sign was correct,
she first had to confirm whether the real Levi himself possessed abilities like possession or control.
As long as she could confirm whether this ability was real, then she could confirm the correctness of the formula.
But how was she supposed to confirm it…
Bronya fell into deep thought.
'Forget it. First I'll confirm whether Kiana Mao has the real Levi's behavioral habits.'
Bronya still didn't clearly understand the real Levi's specific habits.
She could only collect data during tonight's gathering.
[Ding! Mission completed!]
"So easy!"
Taking advantage of the last bit of time, Levi finished off the entire bag of snacks Bronya gave him.
He didn't even leave the seasoning stuck to his fingertips for Kiana.
He sucked each finger clean before leaving.