[Herta Space Station]
After slipping a little bit of his own "seasoning" into the data, Levi stood up and stretched.
Looking at the screen in front of him, the corners of his mouth kept lifting upward.
This time the system was surprisingly nice, it even let him finish recording the "side story."
Normally, once he finished inputting the data for two Aeons, the system wouldn't let him linger any longer.
"All done, Asta. If I've got time, I'll come here and hang out."
Seeing the completion button floating in the air, Levi planned to say goodbye to Asta before leaving.
"Hm? Oh, you're welcome anytime!"
She could have Arlan give him a proper reception when the time came.
Levi didn't have mind-reading abilities, so naturally he had no idea what she was really thinking.
He lightly tapped the completion button in midair, and immediately another task popped up.
[Ding! Commission: Help Stelle resolve the Stellaron]
[Reward: Himeko's coffee (Note! Dangerous item, do not drink!)]
[Client: Stelle]
[Accept?]
[Yes or No]
'As expected, just like I thought, this system can only take one mission at a time.' Levi looked at Stelle's task in front of him and thought.
That wasn't strange. With the system's abilities, if it could take more than one mission at once, bugs would easily appear.
For example, his soul splitting into two and appearing in two people at the same time.
By then, forget completing commissions, he himself might crash and burn.
"Yes!"
Asta's commission was already completed, and there wasn't anything to do on the Luofu anyway, so Levi had no reason to refuse.
The instant Levi left Asta's body, he accepted the mission.
Asta, who had just regained control of her body and was about to get used to it again, suddenly felt a pulling sensation around her.
"?"
"Huh?"
Her expression went blank. Before she could say anything, her vision went dark.
"Huh?"
———
[Luofu, Divination Commission Library]
Levi was sitting in Qingque's seat, propping up his chin as he looked around at the familiar scenery, his eyes deep.
'Why… am I here?'
He lowered his head to examine his hands, they were indeed his own.
'Didn't I accept Stelle's commission?'
So why was he here?
He had never encountered a situation like this before, and Levi looked confused.
He opened the chat group and looked at the mission inside it, staring at the "Join" button.
After thinking for a moment, Levi lightly tapped it.
[Ding! You are already at the mission location. Please do not join again!]
'???'
'What the hell?!'
———
"I surrender! I request POW treatment!"
With no reinforcements arriving, Stelle swallowed as she looked at the pitch-black gun barrels pointing at them from all directions.
Seeing this, March 7th and Dan Heng slowly lowered their weapons as well.
They might be people who walked the Paths.
But that didn't mean they could tank bullets with their flesh.
After all, blocking bullets with your body was something that hardly anyone in the entire universe could do.
"March 7th, I think you could try. You were frozen for who knows how long, your body strength should be pretty high."
"I think the fact that you can contain a Stellaron means your body strength is high!"
Stelle's words made March 7th roll her eyes at her nonstop.
'At a time like this, you still have the mood to joke around?!'
'Aren't you afraid these people will think you're pulling out some secret weapon and shoot you?'
"I'm pretty pale though…"
Stelle pinched the skin on her arm and muttered.
Logically speaking, being this pale shouldn't lead to that kind of misunderstanding.
"What does that have to do with how pale you are?!"
March 7th was already too tired to complain about Stelle's way of thinking. She really didn't know what kind of junk filled her head.
Seeing their reaction, the girl blocking the alley stepped forward and signaled the Silvermane Guards beside her to detain the three of them.
Inside the alley, a garbage bin that no one was paying attention to slowly revealed a pair of eyes, quietly observing the situation.
"This young lady has arrived!"
Suddenly, a portal opened above the garbage bin, and a white figure appeared from it.
Appearing in midair didn't cause her any panic. She landed nimbly on the garbage bin lid, and those eyes vanished.
Seeing Kiana appear, Stelle immediately burst into tears. "You finally made it!"
March 7th and Dan Heng looked sideways at her. March 7th asked, "She's the help you called?"
Stelle lowered her hands and nodded confidently, arrogantly looking at the Silvermane Guards in front of her.
"There'll be even stronger help coming later!"
When that happened, the roles of hunter and prey would switch.
Hearing Stelle's words, March 7th immediately thought of the pink-haired girl she had seen on the train before.
She could move freely in a vacuum, and her speed was terrifying, blink and she was gone.
'Could the stronger help Stelle was talking about be her?'
'If so, then there really was nothing to worry about!'
March 7th also became just as smug as Stelle, looking arrogantly at the guards in front of them.
Then Kiana, wearing the Valkyrie armor she had taken from Theresa, jumped down from the garbage bin to the ground.
Without even looking at how many people were in front of her, she spread her arms and shouted confidently, "Neko charm!"
'One versus a hundred, advantage is on my side!'
'That's the confidence Valkyrie armor gives me!'
Click!
It seemed they had realized that this suddenly appearing white-haired girl was here to help the three of them.
The gun barrels that had been lowered were immediately cocked and aimed at Kiana.
And Kiana…
"I'm white!"
Looking at the pitch-black gun barrels, Kiana instinctively raised her hands and shouted.
Stelle: "..."
Dan Heng: "..."
March 7th: "Are you sure this is the help you called and not someone who came to throw her life away?"
Forced over to Stelle's side by the guns, Kiana couldn't help whispering, "This is what you called ordinary people?!"
'What kind of ordinary person carries a gun?!'
Before coming, she thought it was some backward world. After arriving, she found out everyone had a hot weapon.
'What kind of crap is this?!'
Stelle raised her hands again and silently glanced at her.
"If you're bad, then train more."
The Silvermane Guards stepped forward, preparing to take away the original three, plus Kiana who had come to help.
At that moment, the garbage bin in the corner that no one was paying attention to once again grew a pair of eyes.
The only difference was that the lid was open a bit wider.
After observing the situation, the eyes disappeared. Then several round devices rolled out of the garbage bin into the center of the alley.
Before anyone could react, a large amount of smoke filled the alley.
The people around immediately felt dizzy, collapsing to the ground and passing out.
"Huh?"
Compared to ordinary people, Stelle and the others were still barely holding on.
Hearing a familiar voice, Stelle looked up and saw a familiar figure, one who absolutely shouldn't have been here.
"Asta?"
Did this smoke have hallucinogenic effects too?
Otherwise, how could she be seeing Asta appear in Belobog?
Asta, who had unexpectedly appeared here, looked around at the unfamiliar surroundings, completely confused.
Hearing someone call her name, the girl turned around and saw three familiar figures.
"Trailblazers?"
The next second, she too felt dizzy and collapsed to the ground along with Stelle and the others.
Moments later, the smoke in the alley dispersed, and the figure hiding in the garbage bin emerged.
"This trip really wore old Sampo out!"
He took off the gas mask from his face and tossed it into the garbage bin, then looked at the people in front of him.
Or rather, at the two extra people.
He pondered whether to take those two along as well.
———
Creak~
An unusual sound echoed inside the library.
Levi, who had been trying to contact Stelle nonstop, twitched his ear.