Lev is sitting very patiently in the middle of Milliways, reading a history book from another world and waiting for someone to show up with magic powers that can turn him into a girl.
Lev flops on the bed and flips on the television. The room instantly fills with moans and what is recognizably people having sex.
"Bigger, more specialised: got it. Though I'm not sure if this the most useful science, but at least it's entertaining."
Useful science! Building up from first principles!
Lev is a phenomenally good teacher.
Jing Yi is a reasonably good student. He tries to steer the topics towards medicine and small scale engineering--he's pretty sure he can convince Leng Yue and Xiao Jinyu to give some things in those realms a go.
Lev can do medicine and small scale engineering!
Bounce bounce bounce what does Jing Yi think the solution to this problem is
Jing Yi makes reasonable stabs at question answering, seeing as he only started learning modern science an hour or so ago.
"I'm not used to being on this end of the questioning."
"I mean, I work for the Three Judicial Offices? Asking people questions is most of my job."
"We investigate crimes. Usually more serious ones, like suspicious deaths, but we do investigate others too."
"I feel very 'oh, shit, you're a cop' even though I don't commit crimes and definitely don't commit crimes in Great Tang."
"Well, unless you dark secret is a crime, you don't have anything to worry about! ... Even if it was, its not like I have jurisdiction." though now he is terminally curious.
"I guess it could be a crime in Great Tang, I have no idea how progressive you guys are."
"In most cultures where it's illegal a man dressing as a woman is the thing that's. Illegal."
"Also not illegal! Socially frowned upon at times, but not illegal. And wouldn't be my department even if it was." He knows this for job reasons and not personal ones, yes definitely