As for what Kiana said, Stelle said she understood.
But…
"We came here to look for the Stellaron so we can get the train running again."
Stelle spread her hands toward Kiana. "The Astral Express was affected by Stellaron rift energy, which caused it to be unable to travel normally. Right now it's parked in space, stuck in an indefinite silent state!"
As long as the Stellaron isn't dealt with, and the rift energy doesn't return to normal levels, the Astral Express won't be able to start.
And you were just urging us to have Levi take action and hurry up and find the Stellaron. But it hasn't even been that long and you've already changed your mind.
'A woman's heart, huh~' Stelle sighed a little to herself.
"But don't worry. Our next destination is the Xianzhou Luofu. When the time comes, you can just teleport over directly."
"Even if Levi doesn't agree, I can agree to let you come over."
After calming down a bit, Kiana nodded. She squatted in the corner with her lips puffed out, her mind constantly thinking about ways to teach Levi a lesson.
Asta raised her hand again. "So… what exactly is this thing?"
Just as Stelle was about to explain it to Asta, Elysia dug up the explanation she had given Levi back then.
She copied it and sent it again.
[Elysia: Welcome, newcomer! @Levi!]
[Levi: ?]
[Levi (Asta): Thank you!]
Looking at the extra message that came from "himself," Levi didn't say anything.
After all, if he still couldn't tell what was going on at this point, he might as well go register at the Alchemy Commission and check whether there was something wrong with his brain.
Putting together what had happened to him, the person who had "stolen his account" was clearly that rich woman from Herta Space Station.
Asta...
It was probably because he clicked too fast back then, before he had completely left, he accepted the next task.
As a result, the chat group sent Asta over, while the system sent him back to the Luofu.
And because there was already a "him" in the chat group mission, he couldn't rejoin it again.
The truth was finally clear.
Levi also sent a welcome message to Asta in the chat group.
[Levi: Welcome, newcomer!]
[Elysia: Welcome, newcomer!]
[Stelle: Welcome, newcomer!]
[Kiana: Welcome, newcomer!]
With a new person added to the chat group, everyone else expressed their congratulations.
"Gang!"
After glancing at the excited Qingque, Levi withdrew his gaze and @-mentioned himself in the chat group.
[Levi: @Levi, newcomer, remember to pay the group entry fee and this month's friends fee.]
He then attached his company account.
"Entry fee… friends fee?"
Asta looked at Stelle with a questioning expression.
Out of a sense of protecting her friend, Stelle stiffened up and started refuting Levi in the chat group.
[Stelle: Since when did our chat group have these kinds of fees? And who asks for money the moment someone joins?!]
[Levi: I'll split it with you.]
"This rule has always existed. You just didn't know because you joined later."
Stelle said with a straight face to Asta.
[Stelle: I want seventy percent!]
Seeing Stelle's private message, Levi couldn't help but spring up with a "whoosh," then sat back down again under Qingque's strange gaze.
[Seventy percent?! Why don't you just go rob someone!]
[NO NO NO! I am robbing someone!]
With Asta right there beside her, Stelle felt totally secure. Whether Asta would send the money or not depended entirely on her performance.
'Asta works at Herta Space Station, she should have quite a lot of credits. If I ask for a few tens of thousands, wouldn't that be a huge win!'
[Fine, I'm scared of you.]
Levi rolled his eyes. [We'll split it the way you said.]
[Deal!]
After ending her conversation with Levi, Stelle looked at Asta sincerely and said, "This rule really has always existed. When I joined the group back then, I also gave him a large sum of credits."
"That's why I'm so poor now. Otherwise, I'd at least be a ten-thousand-credit-level tycoon!"
"So how many credits do we need to pay?" Asta tilted her head and asked.
Although this whole fee thing clearly looked like something the two of them had just made up, for her, anything that could be solved with credits wasn't a big deal.
And judging from what Stelle said, the amount probably wasn't that much.
Measured in ten-thousands at most, probably no more than 99,999,999.
Bang!
'Ow!'
"Don't listen to those two talking nonsense over there. Our chat group doesn't have that many rules."
Kiana pulled Asta over to her side and glared unhappily at Stelle, who was holding her head.
"You two, don't bully her just because she's new!"
"Yes, yes, yes, what the group leader says is right!"
'This girl looks all skinny, how does she have so much strength?!'
'Ahhh! I feel like the top of my head is about to crack open!'
"It's fine. Just treat it as a little greeting gift from me to everyone!" Asta said with a smile.
She counted the number of people in the chat group. Excluding herself, there were five.
Then 20 million credits for each person.
She hoped they wouldn't think it was too little.
'Ding! 20,000,000 credits received!'
The sound echoed through the tile parlor.
Levi, who had already guessed that Stelle would be punished by Kiana's iron fist, hadn't asked for anything, but Asta actually sent the money on her own.
"As expected of a rich lady! Beautiful and kind-hearted!"
Unlike Kiana.
White hair like an old granny.
No chest, no butt, and on top of that, a terrible temper.
Compared to her, even Qingque looks like an angel.
"Where did you get so much money?!" Qingque didn't even bother with the tiles in front of her anymore. She leaned right up to Levi, rubbing her hands together.
"With this much money, it wouldn't be too much to share a bit with me, right?"
'I take that back, this fly is not an angel.'
"Sure!" Levi said with a smile. "But you can only win it in the card game."
"Don't you dare run!" Qingque rolled up her sleeves. "Watch me squeeze all your credits dry!"
———
Watching Asta operate the transfer to Levi's company account, Stelle's mouth hung open, unable to close it no matter what.
Asta looked at the two of them. "What about your company accounts? Send them too. Everyone gets a share."
'Ding! 20,000,000 credits received!'
"Young Miss! Please allow this old servant to bow to you!"
Looking at the now-plentiful numbers in her account, Stelle was so moved that tears streamed down her face.
Right in front of Asta, she lifted the hem of her clothes and made as if to kneel.
Seeing this, Asta hurriedly stopped her, looking at her speechlessly.
"We're friends, not some master-and-servant relationship."
Besides, even if it were a master-and-servant relationship, she still wouldn't allow people to casually kneel before her.
Seeing that Stelle still looked like she wanted to kneel, Asta puffed out her cheeks slightly and said, "If you keep doing this, I'll get angry and take your credits back."
Under normal circumstances, credits that had been transferred out couldn't be taken back.
But Asta wasn't an ordinary person. Those rules didn't apply to her.
As long as she sent a private message to her company's dedicated customer service, that 20 million transfer could immediately be reversed back into her account.
This was the privilege of the rich.
That sentence was extremely effective on Stelle.
Seeing Stelle standing off to the side, grinning stupidly, Asta turned her gaze to Kiana. "Group leader, what's your company account?"
Kiana shook her head. "I'm from another world. I don't have a company account."
"Is it some kind of underdeveloped civilization?"
Asta continued, "If you don't want credits, I can convert it into equivalent materials and send them over to you."
"Or technology works too… just tell me what you want to exchange it for."
'What?!'
"Asta! You definitely weren't listening carefully when Teacher Elysia was explaining just now!"
Stelle had already realized that Asta thought the 'different worlds' Elysia talked about meant different life-bearing planets.