After soaking in the hot springs, Mei and the others returned to their assigned rooms to rest. At this time, Mei entered the Fleet again.
Taniwara Natsu: "Are you all friends of Shiroyou?"
Shuna: "I suppose so?"
Hokushin Mei: "No, I'm merely Lady Nocturne's disciple."
Taniwara Natsu: "That doesn't matter. In any case, you're all people who are close to her, right?"
Yae Rin: "Why do I feel like... everyone in this Fleet seems to be a girl? Are there any boys?"
Kallen: "Apparently not... How could that girl possibly have male friends? She wouldn't even interact with men. Though that's for the best."
Yae Sakura: "Doesn't that mean... everyone in this group is Sister Nocturne's harem? There are so many of them!! She's only been gone for two or three days, and she's already found so many vixens?"
Luo Hao: "Who are you calling a vixen? Say that again!"
Rimuru: "I object. What you said isn't right—I'm a boy!"
Kallen: "There's actually a boy? Has that girl become so desperate that she's started looking for men?"
Fleet Leader: "Hey, hey... Kallen, what nonsense are you talking about? Rimuru is just a genderless slime!"
Kallen: "That's even worse! Have you become so desperate that you're looking for slimes now?"
Fleet Leader: "..."
Rimuru: "What you're saying is too much! I used to be a perfectly normal man, you know. All right... enough of that. I have something to take care of here."
Fleet Leader: "Bye-bye!"
After chatting with everyone for a while longer, Mei looked at the red packet option beneath the chat channel.
"Ai-chan, how exactly is this handling fee deducted?"
Although it said fifty percent would be deducted, Mei still did not quite understand how it worked. For example, if she sent a sword, would they cut