The chat group interface popped up.
"What big gift?"
Seeing that there was a big gift, Elysia instinctively asked what kind of present it was, then realized that she had just set him up. What kind of good gift could he possibly be giving her now?
So she decisively said, "I don't want it."
Then she added, "Go give it to Stelle and Lumine instead. Or give it to Ato, that works too."
Whenever Ato was mentioned, Elysia felt a little envious. That guy was having a great time right now.
Seeing that his good brother Ato was having such a happy time, Levi froze. His urge to enjoy the gossip made his fists go soft.
"Tell me more."
Humans were creatures who loved gossip. Once their curiosity was piqued, even something completely ordinary would attract plenty of people who wanted to hear about it.
Elysia had not expected that casually bringing this up would help her escape her fate as a punching bag.
"That guy is probably out on a date with the person he likes right now."
Yesterday, Mobius said that the research institute was suddenly short on some materials and needed to go out and purchase them, so she sent Blanca out to contact the relevant people and negotiate the purchase.
At the same time, to protect Blanca and prevent her from running into danger, she deliberately arranged for Ato, the only squad captain in Fire Moth who was currently on leave, to go along as her bodyguard.
Anyone with eyes could tell there was something fishy about this series of arrangements.
When Elysia first heard the news, her immediate reaction was, "Isn't this a date on the company's dime?!"
If her guess was right, the budget allocated for purchasing supplies was definitely much higher than the normal budget.
Elysia could not quite figure it out.
Not long ago, whenever Mobius saw Ato running to her research institute all day long, she would keep a cold, expressionless face.
If Blanca had not stopped her, Ato probably would have woken up on the operating table several times.
So how had her attitude suddenly made a complete one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn today?
Not only had she taken the initiative to provide them with an opportunity to spend time together, she had even provided financial support.
"Tch, I thought it was something interesting."
Levi was extremely disappointed by this piece of gossip.
He had already expected something like this after meeting Ato.
That guy Ato was one hundred percent contacting him through Elysia because of Mobius.
As for the reason...
Other than Blanca, Levi could not think of anything else Ato could be interested in when it came to Mobius.
Couldn't possibly be that after testing the medicine last time, he had fallen in love with that feeling, right?
That would be way too ridiculous.
———
Before long, it was noon. Stelle and Lumine supported each other as they left Mobius's research institute.
Mobius stood beside the open door, watching the two of them leave.
"Very... special."
As expected of people brought here by Elysia. Just like Levi, they were not normal people.
More precisely, they were not ordinary people.
She had not followed Elysia's instructions and given the two of them three pills. Instead, she had given them the same dosage Ato had received back then.
With that dosage, even Ato, a squad captain, had been unable to walk after the effects of the medicine wore off.
Yet the two of them could still support each other and leave the research institute.
More precisely, it was the gray-haired girl supporting the blonde girl.
Her body's ability to adapt was somewhat abnormally strong.
The effects of the medicine had lasted less than half the amount of time originally calculated for her.
The other blonde was somewhat more normal, but her physical strength was still considerably greater than that of Ato, a squad captain.
"She clearly looks so weak."
The strength she had unleashed was actually far beyond that of a normal adult man.
Specifically, the speed at which she rushed to the bathroom.
The only thing that puzzled Mobius was that there was no Honkai energy detected in either of their bodies.
Both of them were humans through and through.
Humans could actually possess such special abilities.
"Looks like there are still many things in this world that I don't know about."
Mobius pushed up her glasses and returned to the research institute. She looked toward the two tubes of newly collected blood, her eyes gleaming.
———
Meanwhile...
Levi wandered around on the street, seeing if he might run into the pink-haired girl from before, when the chat group interface suddenly popped up in front of him.
It was a message from Kiana @ing him.
[Kiana: The administrator has this kind of permission too?]
After reading Levi's message, Kiana could not help feeling puzzled and began checking the options in her chat group one by one.
After spending nearly an entire morning and a tremendous amount of effort, repeatedly checking dozens of times, she still could not find the option Levi had mentioned about "ignoring group members and directly entering their worlds."
[Kiana: Unfair!]
Kiana puffed out her cheeks.
[Why does the administrator have this right when I, the chat group owner, don't?!]
[Asta: Uh...]
Asta was stunned. Kiana actually could not see such an obvious problem.
She had actually thought that this right was exclusive to the administrator.
Then, with a strange expression, she explained, "Could there be a possibility..."
"That the thing Levi mentioned actually... doesn't exist?"
Next came Stelle and Lumine, who had just left Mobius's research institute.
[Lumine: F*cking Levi! You and I are mortal enemies!]
[Stelle: Mortal enemies +1!]
Although her master-disciple relationship with Levi had not ended, that did not stop her from being mortal enemies with him.
Elysia blinked. "How rare."
Those two were actually on the same side.
And they had not even started arguing.
How rare!
[Lumine: We just signed a permanent ceasefire agreement at the research institute.]
[Stelle: Until Levi kicks the bucket, Lumine and I will stand firmly on the "Anti-Levi" front, safeguarding the future development of the chat group.]
[Lumine: If the villain is not eliminated, how can the chat group have peace?>
[Stelle: If the thief does not die, how can the chat group have peace?]
[Lumine & Stelle: Levi! Come and die!]
The two of them played off each other, putting on a comedy routine in the chat group.
Not wanting to miss the fun, Elysia @ed Levi.
"You don't need to @ me anymore. I can see it."
Levi came to the side of the road, put his hands in his pockets, and leaned against the wall.
"I'm here. What do you two want?"
"Who told you to come here alive!", Stelle barked.
"We said come and die! Don't come over before you're dead!"
Lumine explained it like this.
At that, Levi cleared his throat and prepared to enter his long-unused battle stance, but suddenly received a message from Elysia.
After seeing the message Elysia had sent, Levi's brows slowly relaxed.
There was no expression on his face. Only his pitch-black eyes seemed to contain the coldness of the entire winter.
"Blanca has gone missing!"
'How dare someone touch my mother-in-law?!'
This was the latest message Ato had sent. Mobius had already reported the matter to Fire Moth, but Fire Moth's definition of a missing person was...
Only after twenty-four hours without any news would someone be considered missing.
From the time Blanca had left until now, even counting the night, it was still far from twenty-four hours.
Bang!!!
"Twenty-four hours! That's enough time for me to conduct seven or eight experiments!"
Simply put, in Mobius's world, seven or eight people could die in twenty-four hours.
Her hand, which had slammed onto the table, was slightly numb. Mobius hurriedly told Elysia about Blanca's disappearance and asked her to go out and search for her.
At the same time, she furiously cursed Ato through her phone.
So-called squad captain. He could not even protect one person and had let her disappear right under his nose?
What kind of squad captain was he?
Ato ignored the phone vibrating wildly in his pocket. He took out his Fire Moth identification card and continuously asked passersby about Blanca's whereabouts.
Although ordinary people did not know what Fire Moth was, because of the captain-like bearing Ato carried himself with, they still honestly answered his questions.
At the same time, Levi and Elysia agreed to meet at a cafe.
"..."