"What's wrong?"
After leaving the room, Herta noticed that Ruan Mei was remotely controlling the equipment to conduct an experiment. However, judging by her facial expression and the look in her eyes, her attention was clearly elsewhere.
Ruan Mei came back to her senses and shook her head at Herta, indicating that she was fine.
Herta didn't pay much attention to it. She stretched and continued taking care of her own affairs.
Since Mr. Cold Feet hadn't shown his face in a long time, her enthusiasm for tracking him down had obviously faded considerably.
On top of that, there was still plenty of work to be done on the space station's Simulated Universe.
For example, selecting new test subjects for the Simulated Universe.
Herta was gradually losing the desire to devote most of her energy to hunting down some person whose gender she didn't even know.
"Let's leave the job of capturing Mr. Cold Feet to the IPC."
"By the way." Herta looked at Ruan Mei. "Have there been any updates from Screwllum recently?"
"No. The IPC's ships lose contact for no apparent reason as soon as they approach Screwllum's world. They only regain their connection after leaving that region of space."
Ruan Mei gave Herta a detailed account of the latest developments regarding Screwllum's world, as reported by the IPC.
At present, the IPC's personnel were working on finding a solution.
Although the IPC had plenty of employees, they weren't expendable. To ensure the safety of the people aboard the ships, they had to find a solution before beginning their investigation of Screwllum's world.
"Tell them to hurry up," Herta said.
The IPC had plenty of talented people. Although they couldn't compare to her, they shouldn't be much slower than her at handling this kind of problem.
There was no need for her to personally intervene in such a trivial matter.
However, it seemed that Screwllum had run into quite a bit of trouble after returning to his home world.
Having reached this conclusion, neither of them showed any signs of worry.
Screwllum's world was Screwllum's home base. Even if something had gone wrong, it was only a minor problem. Surely, it wouldn't take long to resolve.
There was absolutely no need to worry.
———
[Kiana: @Levi, are you free right now?]
[What's wrong?] Levi replied.
[I just talked to Aunt Theresa about Wendy. She said she wants to meet you.]
'Wendy?'
It looked like Kiana had told Theresa about what he'd said a while ago regarding healing Wendy's legs.
Given the various abilities he'd demonstrated earlier, Theresa naturally had no reason to doubt whether he really possessed the ability or a method to heal Wendy's legs.
After finding an excuse to part ways with Qingque, Levi opened the group chat.
The next second, with Kiana's nod of approval, his figure appeared in the medical department of St. Freya Academy.
Looking toward the Central Cathedral in the distance, he recalled that it seemed to house Schicksal's biological research records.
Back when the chip in Bronya's brain had burned out, Theresa had entered the cathedral to search for a treatment method.
That had ultimately led to Kiana being captured by someone the First Herrscher had stationed at St. Freya Academy.
As for why Theresa had gone inside, yet Kiana was the one who got captured...
Well...
Curiosity killed the cat.
"Hello, excuse me. Could you move aside?"
Hearing the voice, Levi instinctively stepped to the side to make way.
Only afterward did he notice who had just walked past him.
She had a small braid tied at the back of her head, wore a butler's uniform, and had glasses on her face.
Fu Hua.
The undercover agent the First Herrscher had placed at St. Freya Academy.
At the moment, she was carrying two bags full of fruit, which conservatively weighed several dozen pounds.
Not a single muscle bulged on her slender arms.
"Hello, classmate. Judging by your appearance, you're from the central lands, right?", Levi called out to Fu Hua from behind.
She turned her head toward him. Only then did Fu Hua notice that this was the same pretentious guy who had suddenly appeared out of nowhere in the classroom last time.
Fu Hua nodded slightly.
"Hehehe, what a coincidence! I'm from the central lands too." Levi naturally walked over to her side and smiled at her. "Which part of the central lands are you from? Maybe we're even from the same hometown."
"Honestly," Levi continued, crossing his hands behind his neck, "it's really not easy to run into someone from your hometown when you're away from home."
"I remember that most of the people here are locals from the Far East. You're a central lands native living here all by yourself."
"That must be tough."
"Do you need something?"
Fu Hua didn't say much. Instead, she asked whether Levi had approached her because he needed help with something.
Levi smiled. "How do I get to Wendy's room?"
———
[Inside the Hospital Room]
After Kiana had agreed to his arrival, Levi still hadn't appeared even after quite some time. Unable to help herself, she asked in the group chat, "Where are you?"
She knew that people could sometimes be transported to other places through the group chat.
But they shouldn't end up too far away from their intended destination.
So why was Levi taking so long to show up this time?
[Levi: Guess which floor I got sent to?]
[Kiana: ...]
[Levi: Guess again. Is the elevator broken?]
[Kiana: ...]
All right, she now understood why Levi hadn't shown up for so long.
Although she didn't know why things had been arranged this way, Wendy's room was on the top floor of the medical department.
And although the name medical department didn't sound particularly impressive, it was actually considerably larger than an ordinary city hospital.
Did you know what it meant to be Schicksal's most powerful nepo baby?
No matter how large the other branches were, they absolutely couldn't afford to build a medical department on this scale.
The door opened from the outside.
Kiana thought Levi had finally arrived. She turned around, only to discover that it was Fu Hua, carrying two large bags of fruit.
Seeing the two bags, Kiana immediately couldn't help complaining.
"Monitor, you really don't need to bring this much fruit every time you visit Wendy."
Every time the fruit looked like it was about to go bad, Theresa would call her over.
It was such a torture.
"Oh, right. Have you seen that pretentious guy?"
"Forgive her, Kiana. When people from the central lands visit someone, they always bring a little gift with them."
If they hadn't brought anything from home, they'd simply buy some fruit or something else along the roadside.
The two voices sounded at the same time.
Hearing each other's words, both of them froze.
Kiana was surprised that Levi had been hiding outside instead of coming in. Levi, meanwhile, was surprised by the way Kiana had referred to him.
"P-pretentious guy?"
Where was he being pretentious?!
He'd always been like this, okay?!
You should think about whether the problem lies with you and whether you've been making an effort to show yourself off.
Otherwise, Mei might not understand you, and she'll gradually stop loving you.
Kiana: "?!"
———
After staring at each other in silence for quite some time, Levi pointed toward the door.
"Then should I leave?"
"Don't!"
Theresa was the first to speak up, stopping Levi just as he was about to take a step out. After glaring at Kiana, who was scratching her head, she smiled at Levi.
"I'll make sure to give her a good lecture later."
"I recommend using a stick."
Kiana: What the hell are you barking about?
"I take that back." Levi looked at Kiana and rubbed his chin. "New recommendation: Judah, take her up and launch her into outer space."
"?"
'Judah could launch people into the sky, too?'
"Of course it can."
Levi spoke up. "That just shows how little you know. Judah can do anything!"
And flying was nothing.
Even cooking and preparing meals wouldn't be difficult.
With that said, he looked at Judah, which Theresa was sitting on.
"Go on. Cook me a couple of dishes."
Judah: "..."
'Is there something wrong with this guy?'
Kiana: "He definitely has something wrong with him."
"..."