Hearing Levi's words, Elysia could hardly believe her own ears.
He was going to use her body... To flirt with girls?!
But clearly, Levi was serious.
He unplugged the charging phone, unlocked it with a fingerprint, and checked Elysia's bank balance.
[Balance: 3209.]
"Enough for a day's expenses!"
'I still have to live, you know!'
It wasn't like she only had one day left to live.
Taking the room key, Levi closed the door and headed straight downstairs.
The civilization before the current one wasn't much different from the world Levi was familiar with. The basic infrastructure worked about the same. So he didn't end up in some embarrassing "caveman in the modern world" situation.
Opening the map app on the phone, Levi looked at the screen.
"Changkong City? You live in Changkong City?!"
'Yeah. I was actually going to ask you why you instantly knew there's Honkai here just by hearing that name.'
"Because every city called Changkong City suffers a Honkai outbreak."
However, considering that Elysia was among the earliest members to join Fire Moth, and there was no sign of the Honkai yet, that meant this world's collapse hadn't started.
"I wonder if Mei is still in school here in Changkong City."
Finding the locations of all schools in Changkong City through the phone, Levi started searching for her in this pre-civilization version of the city.
Elysia had thought Levi was just joking when he said he'd "flirt with girls."
But when she saw him, using her body, go in and out of various girls' schools...
Elysia panicked. Wasn't he ruining her reputation?
'Levi~ my dear Levi~ please don't do anything weird with my body~'
Just as Levi was about to reply, he suddenly saw his target walking out from a library not far away. He immediately ignored Elysia and walked toward her.
As Levi, wearing Elysia's "skin", approached, Mei also noticed the unfamiliar face.
The students walking with Mei from the library noticed Levi's smile and started to exclaim in admiration.
"What a cute girl!"
"Pink hair... that's so rare!"
"Eh! She seems to be coming this way!"
Mei pushed up her glasses, watching Elysia approach.
"Hi~" Levi smiled at her, stretching out a hand. "Nice to meet you. I'm Elysia."
Mei adjusted her glasses again and shook Levi's outstretched hand. "I'm Mei."
"Mei? That's such a pretty name~"
Levi smiled gently, ready to invite her to lunch.
But suddenly, he clutched his forehead in pain.
"Ugh!"
Mei didn't expect the cheerful girl in front of her to suddenly grimace in agony.
"Are you okay?"
"I'm fine... I was going to invite you to lunch, but I guess it'll have to wait till next time."
After saying that, Levi turned and walked away.
Mei watched her back, a confused look on her face.
She didn't know this girl who had appeared out of nowhere, but judging from her reaction, the girl clearly knew her.
'Could it be we met somewhere before?'
Mei couldn't figure it out.
"All right, all right~ see, I left already~"
Levi rubbed his head.
Just now, terrified that Levi would destroy her reputation, Elysia had unleashed a noise interference attack on him.
Still, his goal was accomplished.
Now that Elysia had met Mei, in the future when Mei joined Fire Moth, in a completely unfamiliar environment, she'd have at least one familiar face.
Even if they had only met once, it would be enough for Mei to feel closer to Elysia.
"Now I just need to go meet that 'femme fatale,' and the perfect day will be over."
'Ugh, for the sake of my chat group friends' futures, I'm working myself to death here!'
Levi smiled faintly, looking up at the sky.
———
[Teyvat]
After working hard in the wild for quite a while, Lumine finally gathered all the Tears of the Wind that Venti had asked for.
"That's great! Now we just need to go back to the tavern and give these to them."
Paimon looked at the items in Lumine's backpack and flew excitedly toward Mondstadt.
Wiping the sweat from her forehead, Lumine followed close behind.
Passing a village that had been devastated by storms, Lumine couldn't help but think, "I hope we don't run into Stormterror in the city again."
"ROAR!"
Before she finished, Stormterror's shadow swept overhead, flying straight toward Mondstadt.
'Uh...'
Meeting Paimon's stare, Lumine looked awkward.
"I jinxed it."
"ROAR!"
The dragon's roar echoed above Mondstadt.
Sensing another dragon disaster, and having already experienced one before, Mondstadt's citizens calmly followed the Knights of Favonius' directions to evacuate.
It had been several days since Lumine and Venti had first fought Stormterror, and his wounds from back then had nearly healed.
Now, corroded again by poisonous blood and driven by hatred, Stormterror had become even more violent.
The storm that hit Mondstadt before had only damaged some buildings.
But this time, his attack was indiscriminate.
Whether human or house, everything was swept away by the raging wind.
Following Stormterror into the city and seeing the devastation inside, Lumine was at a loss.
Last time she managed to defeat him purely by luck.
Never mind that strange incident where she got sucked into the sky, she was the only one in all of Mondstadt who had been pulled up by that storm.
'What rotten luck.'
Even now, if you told Lumine to voluntarily throw herself into a tornado, she'd hesitate.
That she survived last time was just a tiny streak of post-bad-luck good fortune.
If she rushed in this time, the storm and debris would probably shred her to pieces.
"What do we do, what do we do!" Paimon panicked as she saw the chaos in the city. "If we don't stop it soon, Mondstadt will be destroyed!"
Lumine looked at the swirling storm and sighed.
"Looks like I'll have to use that technique, huh?"
"Huh? What technique?" Paimon blinked.
Did Lumine have some secret move she didn't know about?
Facing Paimon's confused look, Lumine gave a mysterious smile.
[Chat Group Summoning Technique!]
[Lumine: Help! Stormterror is killing people!]
[Ding! Detected member Lumine requesting help, mission issued!]
[Mission: Solve the Mondstadt Dragon Disaster!]
[Description: Corroded by poisonous blood and deceived by the Abyss into believing Mondstadt has forgotten him, the former Guardian of the Four Winds, Dvalin, has become Stormterror and brought disaster to the city.]
[Objective: Defeat Stormterror or save Dvalin.]
[Reward: 40,000 chat group points!]
At the dining table, seeing the new mission appear, Levi smiled faintly.
'I knew Lumine would ask for help today!'
Across from him, the green-haired woman also smiled slightly.
She downed the wine in her glass, her cheeks flushed.
"You people here are so strange…"
Even though she knew who she was, he still dared to approach her so casually.
It was as if the words I'm after you were written all over his face.
If he weren't using a woman's body, she'd have already called the police on him.
Levi, clearly unfazed, said inwardly to Elysia:
"Your skin really is handy!"
'...'
Sitting there, Levi wasn't in a hurry to accept the mission. After all, this one didn't specify any player limit.
Watching the green figure in front of him pour herself another glass and drink it down in one gulp, Levi rested his chin on his hand, smiling at her drunk expression.
The woman before him was someone every Captain would recognize, the top biological scientist of the Previous Era, affectionately nicknamed "Granny Mobius."
Except, compared to her memory form in Elysian Realm, this Mobius's figure was far more mature.
For example...
Those two huge headlights on her chest were making Levi's eyes hurt.
'Blink a few times and they won't hurt anymore...'
"I won't!"
If this were the sober Mobius, she'd instantly notice Levi's odd behavior. But right now, she was drunk.
"Hic!"
Letting out a cute hiccup, Mobius pressed a hand to her forehead and muttered drunkenly, "Maybe it's because in those mortals' eyes, my research ideals make me look like…"
"Adorable~"
"Huh?"
Mobius froze, lifting her head to meet Levi's smiling face.
"Didn't you hear me? I said Mobius is adorable~"
Mobius stared at him for a moment, then burst into laughter.
"Hahaha... you really are a strange one!"
Her heterochromatic eyes gleamed with interest as she looked at him.
Raising her glass, Levi did the same, lightly clinking it against hers.
A moment later, seeing that Kiana and Stelle had already joined the fight, Levi stood up and gave Mobius an apologetic smile.
"Sorry, I have something to do. I'll have to go."
"What kind of thing? Can't it wait?"
She'd just met someone pleasant-looking and wanted to chat more.
"Saving the world isn't something you can put off."
"Saving the world?" Mobius sounded like she was hearing a child tell a joke.
When she looked up again, Levi was already gone.
She glanced at the nearly overflowing wineglass across the table, clearly, from the moment they'd toasted, he hadn't touched his drink at all.
"Can't even drink, yet he used that excuse just to get close to me… Fine, I'm in a good mood today. I'll let it slide."
Opening her phone, she moved her new contact "Elysia" into her special attention group.
Currently, there were only two names in that group.
Bronya.
And now, the newly added Elysia.
———
Leaving Mobius, Levi entered the restroom.
Looking at the mission interface on his chat group panel, he kept calculating what might happen if he accepted two missions at once.
"Would it tear my soul in half and make two of me or something?" he joked.
[Ding! Member Levi accepted the mission!]
The chat group's voice chimed. Levi glanced around, he was still in the restroom stall, nothing had changed.
"Don't tell me the chat group opens a door we have to walk through ourselves?"
'No, once you accept, it teleports you directly.'
Elysia explained.
Hearing her voice, Levi realized something.
"Elysia, you try accepting the mission too."
'Why should I accept it? You're the one controlling the body right now...'
[Ding! Member Elysia accepted the mission!]
The system prompt sounded again, this time Levi felt a powerful pulling force.
"Knew it!"
Right now, in the chat group's eyes, Levi and Elysia counted as one being.
So both had to accept the mission for them to be teleported together.
[Ding! Member Levi (Elysia) has joined the world!]
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