The kamidake was compacted and stored in ryo-ohki as they headed for jurai.
The pirate ships surrounding Ryo-ohki didn't even try to attack as it prepared to leave.
Tarrant had jumped off in the Daedalus in fear and none of them were foolish enough to think they stood a chance against the ship that took on Jurai alone.
In the hanger Seina was busy confronting Alan who had been returned from gazura.
As expected, it was an awkward talk but alan made it worse by opening his mouth first.
"You have to believe me I had no intention to betray you captain I only wanted to do something about the situation we were in! I figured they would spare our lives that's why I brought them the package!"
Alan bowed deeply repeatedly
"Besides I was just following what your Nb told us to do!"
naturally they all knew it was alan's plan from the beginning and he was only blaming nb for it.
"I am too tired to talk about this now Alan. I'm starving. so go back to your room and wait there until we arrive on Jurai."
It was true, but seina also had no authority to decide what happened to them, That was Airi's job
seina noticed NB floating in a corner.
"NB you too. Go to my room."
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later in the seina's empty room:
"He's alright.... I'm so glad..." NB said in kirche's voice.
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"Miah Miah Miah!"
in the kamidake's dining hall a humanoid ryo-ohki ran to hug seina.
Ryoko balta was amazed by her.
"It's an honor to meet you, I've always wanted to meet the legendary ryo-ohki"
"Legendary?"
"Yes she is the ship who single-handedly ambushed jurai and took them head on. I'm named after the pirate who piloted her, Ryoko.... Ryo-ohki can you tell me the story of how you invaded jurai!"
"Miah?"
"uhm can we save that for some other time... " kiriko said uncomfortably
"Right what kiriko said... I want to know what your doing out here all alone.... you're so far from earth."
"So You got sent on a mission to jurai? And Ms. washu didn't come with you... You're here all by your self? That'rs amazing! I'm proud of you!"
"Wait... Earth?! ....Professor washu! is Washu hakubi also on earth!?" ryoko said stunned
Ryoko was also erma and the legendary philosopher was also one of the most interesting people she idolized. however she was aware this must have been a top secret thing.
"Well.. ryoko since your acting on behalf of the captain now it might be better for me to tell you about what's going on... In addition to ryoko, washu hakubi lives on earth with the missing juraian princesses ayeka and sasami.... and the kuramitsu's daughter mihoshi. Very few people know this it is top secret. You are not to tell anyone."
"Ahhh! Yes. Of coarse!" ryoko said in a panic.
"It's quite a sight to see, all of them should be enemies but they're not."
"Miah! Miah!"
"huh what's wrong?" seina asked
"Don't worry she will keep it a secret" kiriko said
"How do you know what she's saying?"
" ryo-chan's miahs are a special high speed language... its super sped up but it's all there... even people who don't have bioenhancement can understand after a while... don't worry seina soon your bioenhancement will be advanced enough that you'll be able to understand her too."
"Oh !really?!"
"Miah!"
"Foods ready everyone."
"hakuren came in with lots of food on a tray"
"Oh wow that smells good... I can't even remember what food tastes like it's been so long."
amane said as she looked at the food as it was arranged on the table.
Everyone was excited for the food... except alan's trio who where in their rooms
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"What is this?"Hakuren had brought them food too.
"Space pirate prison food was more edible then this junk..."
cohen took a bite
"oh wow this is really good... barry you have to try this..
"oh wow your right!"
the food had been made with the crops that had been given to ryo-ohki as a souvenir from jurai.
"Hey Pay attention when I'm ranting!"
But they were too absorbed in eating to notice
"Hey! Heeeeeeeeeey!"
Eventually he quit trying and started eating and was soon also huffing it down.
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Nb transformed into Kirche, Airi had called her and so she gave her a report on the situation.
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"Miah!"
"Stop squirming we need need to get behind your ears."
"Miah! Miah!"
The bathroom of the captain's room was as big as a small pool.
In it the girls were washing ryo-ohki.
(why are they here?)
In the corner seina sat.
Originally he had come in here with to take a bath after ryo-ohki and the girl soon followed.
Ryo-ohki had actually invited everyone to take a shower it seemed.
he wasn't sure if he should sneak out or stay put. if the was noticed it might not go good for him.
"What should I do…
"MIAH!" ryo-ohki jumped on seina's back as he thought.
"miah"
"She want's to know why you aren't playing together with the rest of us." kiriko said
"Oh.. i uh... how should i explain?"
"Miah."
"Oh you have a big bath like this back at tenchi-senpai's place?"
"Miah!"
"What? and tenchi- senpai sometimes bathes with ryoko-san?"
"uhm that's uh..."
"looks like were going to have to drag him into the fun."
Amane and gyokuren and erma got up and picked seina up. Ryo-ohki jumped around happily.
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"...I saw everything....."
Seina said lying on the bathroom floor. he had slipped and hurt himself
ryo-ohki stayed behind and fanned him with a little fan
"oh thank you ryo-chan"
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the girls all got into gp issued negligee and they all ended up sleeping in the same room together.
Ryo-ohki curled up with seina because she missed tenchi.
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when they woke up they had arrived at the place where the Jurian escort ships where waiting for them.
They saluted ryo-ohki and she got the kamidake out of compressed storage and lowered it into space before heading off.
Ryoko began to cry
"Wow I never thought I'd get to meet the legendary ship herself. I can't believe she's so cute!"
"Well you'd never be able to tell by most accounts of what went on but In actuality most of the damage done by Ryo-ohki actually missed the settled areas of Jurai completely unless she was fighting back at someone." Hakuren said
”uh.... If you go to Jurai's central library you can look at them."
"Captain, an escort ship from Jurai has arrived."
"oh is that...." The ship was shaped like a lotus flower. It was Ringo tatsuki's ship Honoka.
the ship got close enough to use optical communication and it guided the kamidake to docked inside.
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When they disembarked Tennyo was the first to greet seina. she rushed to him crying and hugged him
"Are you ok... is anything hurt?" Tennyo checked him all over for signs of scratches
"Yeah, I'm fine, I'm sorry I made you worry, Tennyo ...... Oneechan"
"oh well then there's no need to apologize... I'm sorry we gave you the general purpose model of the ship to test this time. we should have beefed it up before sending you on this mission."
"Are you ok... is anything hurt?" Tennyo checked him all over for signs of scratches
"Yeah, I'm fine, I'm sorry I made you worry, Tennyo ...... Oneechan"
"oh well then there's no need to apologize... I'm sorry we gave you the general purpose model of the ship to test this time. we should have beefed it up before sending you on this mission."
Behind her was Airi and Hakuryo.
"Tennyo if we hadn't then the ship never would have been ready for mass production" airi said
"You only set it up with all that scanning equipment because you expected him to run into the big daruma! If erma hadn't rescued him they would be dead!" Tennyo yelled at airi
"Wait... What?!"
"no!no! it's not like that i swear!" airi said
"oh... so i was right.. I thought it seemed like more of a data gathering ship." Erma said
Todo and Nene came out of a transfer gate and soon Ringo followed them.
"Oh!" A sigh that one makes when one see's a beautiful sight came from the mouths of seina, alan's trio and the males of ryoko's crew as ringo appeared from the transfer gate.
"Wow... she's gorgeous." Amane said this was her first time meeting ringo and her reaction was similar to the men's
----they sure do love implying that amane is bi-----
"Oh seina... this is ringo tatsuki, she was in charge of the mission to find you."
Ringo smiled and seina and her eyes met, seina's heart beat fast.
"So....you're seina."
seina was reminded of when he had first met kiriko. the shop was busy that day, and his mother couldn't pick him up and so she came to get him from school.
He instantly had a crush on her.
seina unconsciously blushed and bowed.
Ringo turned to look at kiriko. Kiriko was blue in the face. she still felt guilty over drugging ringo and shipping her off the last time they met.
"Everyone please I hope you enjoy your stay here, please come with me."
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"Wow she's pretty!"
"Who is that person?" barry asked ryoko's adjutant
alan and his trio had been hiding from airi behind ryoko's crew jumped forward to gaze at her.
"That's Ringo Tatsuki, she was in charge of the mission to find seina... Didn't you hear her...." Ryoko's adjutant said.
"Wow! I'm going to marry her!" alan said
"What do you mean your going to marry her?" cohen asked
"Were saviors of jurai now! Their indebted to us! what better reward is there for their benefactors then to let them marry one of their beautiful princesses?!"
"hohoho I like your theory, but I have it on good word there is another surprise waiting for you once you get to jurai." Todo said coming up to them.
"oh! who are you?!"
"I am Todo, Miss ringo's butler."
"Nice to meet you, I'm alan and this is barry and cohen."
"Please come with me, you are going to a special transfer gate."
"Oh wow! our own gate!? maybe what alan says is true."
They skipped over to a different gate then the one seina went through... were they were greeted by the same military officer who had previously taken them to be retrained.
the officer punched alan square in the stomach yelled at the idiots and showed them the footage of them flicking off the camera.
Alan tried to convince him that he was just going along with Nb's plan but they reduce his salary anyways. so he tried to convince them they owe him having his debt paid off.
They weren't falling for that. they took him aboard their training ship by force.
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Tennyo and Airi, accompanied by NB, remained in place to begin the investigation of Kamidake.Ryoko's crew and the Kamidake's crew were guided to the guest houses in the residential district.
"Ringo, What are we to do?"
Hakuren said since Originally Hakuren and her girls were dispatched from Seto to engage as Seina's entertainment.
"You're fine, you're still on duty as Seina's crew."
"but!"
" Seto says to let him take a rest, and if you do just that, Seina will be pleased with you."
Ringo gently smiled
Hakuren and others bowed deeply and went into the guest house following after Seina and others.
"Wow ... ...."
It was a room full of light pastel style furnishings. The retractable ceiling was completely opened, the sunlight from the world tree lightly illuminated the room, showing a landscape like a calm spring day.
The Royal Tree residential areas basically all have the same structure. There is a huge world tree in the center, the space is fixed, the environment etc. are all adjusted. From then on, depending on it's partner's taste it will be landscaped. usually with food production fields and orchards necessary for living, livestock farming lakes, lakes full of fish and shellfish, lakes and salt lakes, birds and insects, etc. are created, and clothing, medical facilities, and usually there are plants to manufacture machinery etc, and so there are usually people who work in the royal ships.
Although Honoka was the fourth generation, it was modified by Washu and had the capabilities of a third generation, so the residential area was quite wide, and if it was expanded to the maximum possible, tens of thousands of people could live in it. However, since Honoka had been adjusted, there was not much room for residential districts. currently it seemed like a newly created park on the inside.
"Please feel free to relax until you arrive at Jurai. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have anything come up. We will be arriving at Jurai in two hours."Ringo said
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Ringo came up to Seina.
"Nice to meet you, I am Ringo of the Tatsuki Royal family"
"Nice to meet you, I am the Captain of the Kamidake, Seina Yamada"
"Unfortunately It wasn't very easy for me to help you in this situation, I wish I could have helped you sooner but there were technical issues, I'm sorry Seina, I have caused you various inconveniences."
"oh no, I don't mind, it's normal for me, it was the others who were in trouble that i was worried about ... ..."
"Did you do your best to help them?"
"Well ... ... of course, but what I was able to do was pretty limited ... ...."
"Well That is the most important thing, if you had neglected your duties even a little, they probably wouldn't be here right now."
"I guess you're right about that"
"It doesn't matter how much you can do as long as your able to keep them safe."
"Thank you very much for that pep talk, I will do my best more often."
"Yes, I'm expecting you will"
Kiriko and amane talked about her as she talked to seina, when she was done she got up and went up to kiriko
"……oh hey..."
"Kiriko, will you come talk to me for a bit?"
they headed to the room to be alone.
Ringo turned to Kiriko and tried to say something but Kiriko crouched down and burst into tears.
"Kiriko-san, I don't care anymore, I understand your feelings well ... ...."
kiriko kept crying
Ringo decided to patiently wait for her to stop crying.
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"By the way, Tennyo seems to have said something amusing when she greeted Seina. what was that about"
Amane asked Ryoko
"... oh about the data logging?"
"Well ...I realized it when I was first finishing preparing the Kamidake for him."
Ryoko gave a detailed account of Kamidake's final adjustments.
"... ... so the Kamidake isn't the model of the ship that they actually plan to use?"
"No, the ship that is actually built should be a completely different thing, the one you've been using is just for gathering and collecting data."
"are you serious? It was a pretty amazing ship, but i sort of got that impression."
"Yes, in fact it's a terribly powerful ship, otherwise I wouldn't have leaked it's info to the Daruma Guild, it is a revolutionary ship composed exclusively of existing technology, in a sense it is truly an invention of philosophy . as you know The original goal of philosophy is to combine the existing knowledge of every field into new technology. "
"...... So what you're saying is Airi is more then just a huge pervert. hmm"
Amane, said with her arms folded and serious face.
"well she is definitely still an odd one"
"So what do you think they were collecting data on?"
"That's something I should explain."
Tennyo broke into the conversation and sat next to Seina.
"Sorry, Seina, Airi-sama made me keep it a secret. "
"No, everyone's okay, so it's fine ,besides I'm the one who took on the mission."
"...... oh I'm just so happy your safe."
Tennyo wiped away her tears and hugged Seina tightly.
"... Tennyo, you were going to tell us about the Kamidake?"
"Oh sorry, I'm so concerned with Seina-chan right now, I forgot... Airi-sama was using it to observe seina and make sure we could use the data to build him a ship that could overcome his probability bias...."
"Really?" Seina looked strangely at Tennyo.
"yes and we got some great data,and thanks to those three idiots eating all the food we now have even more data then we expected ... "
"Well yeah ... but it's all data on what happens in extreme conditions, ha ha ... ..."
"As a captain, trying to protect your subordinates is fine, but sometimes It's not worth it seina, their actions may have caused you all to die, You're lucky your still alive. "
"That's my fault... ...."
"Seina, please stop blaming yourself, It's not your fault that's why those idiots are being re-assigned to another ship.. "
.
"……I'm sorry"
"Wait what happened?"
Amane asked
"Oh They didn't tell you? They've been demoted back to trainees."
Seina was a bit surprised at that
"when i first meet them and Seina as Ryoko · Balta,I got the feeling they were troublemakers." ryoko balta
"It might be better to just dissolve those three's team"
" probably ... ...but for now the same guy who retrained them last time has volunteered to re-train them as a group"
"Wait if there trainees, what will happen to Alan's debts?"
"Their payments will be put on hold since for now because they won't be making enough to pay on it and live off of what they make, but once they go back up in rank it will be up to them, but theirs no need to worry about them. Those idiots went as far as to suggest that Ringo should have paid off their debt.... but in the end they got their debt changed to have no interest. anyways... thanks to all this data Jurai's next series of flag ships are likely to be ready ahead of schedule... the new computer unit being used so much helped a lot too. "
"What was up with that thing anyways Seina and Kiriko said they resembled Royal Trees ..."
"It's a little more specialized then that but that is what we were trying to emulate... what did you think of it amane? "
"it felt almost inferior to Kiriko and me. We probably could have done just fine without it's help..."
Amane pondered and said after long consideration.
"really !?"
"well maybe for some other crew it would be useful but were way more skilled then it..."
"Hah maybe we should make your skills top secret instead then."
"Haha well I hate to break it to you that secrets already been leaked ."
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"R I N G O , R I N G O"
Honoka came by looking for ringo
"Oh, Honoka-chan, are you looking for Ringo-chan?"
"O H! T E N Y O, T E N Y O!"
Seina looked strangely at Honoka,as it jumped into Tennyo's palm.
Honoka, who noticed seina's gaze, hid behind Tennyo, it had been told to keep itself a secret, but Honoka which was a royal Tree basically loved people. So it curiously peaked out its face From behind Tennyo.
"This is Honoka-chan, the terminal form of the royal Tree, it's sort of like Ryo-Ohki-chan"
"T E N N Y O I S T H I S O K W I T H R I N G O - S A M A?"
"Yes they're guests"
Tennyo gently stroked Honoka.
"……Hello"
Honoka came out from behind Tennyo and said with a nervous voice.
"H E L L O"
"Honoka-chan, this is Ryoko · Balta. and Amane · Kaunaq, and this is my younger brother Seina Yamada ."
"L I T T L E.... B R O T H E R?"
"Yes, that's right."
"... .... S E I N A?"
Honoka came closer to Seina.
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On jurai all of Seto's people gathered to have a conference to plan to welcoming Seina to jurai.
"Seina has been a great economic savior to us... we should do something to show him our gratitude... "seto said
"... ... What should we do!" the men asked
" ehehehe we know what to do~~~~~! " the women snickered
"I'm sorry, Kiriko-chan ...but I might not be able to help seina this time ... "
Minaho muttered as she skulked far off away from everyone.
"Minaho chan ~ ~ ~"
Misaki snuck behind Minaho and whispered
"Kyyyyaaaaaa ~~~~~ ___ !! oh it's just you Ms. Misaki!"
"Ah ha ha! isn't this exciting!"
Misaki jumped off Minaho's back. Minaho turned around and looked behind her
"Funaho, Azusa!?"
Not only Funaho as usual, but azusa was there, it was rare for him to involve himself in seto's plans.
" grandmother Funaho, please stop this before it gets out of hand"Minaho cried
"Ok but when are you going to make me a great grandchild!"
"Hmmm this might be a good occasion for that.."
"That is exactly the sort of thing I want to help prevent.... please is there any way you could help?"
"Would you to maybe like to bring seina over to see us?"
Minaho tilted her head, unable to understand why azusa said that.
"Seina has been a great benefactor to us, but we can't officially invite seina over to see us unfortunately... we can have him do it informally and then we can show him some hospitality till things settle. "
Even though he was recognized as a special case, Seina had not yet been registered as an official Galactic Federation resident. official meting with him had to be done differently because of this, due to Jurai's position within the Galactic Federation, and Seina's official status as is an early civilization person under Airi's care.
"But if Seina can graduate from the GP Academy, he will be officially recognized as a resident of the Galactic Federation ..."
"yes and at that time I have to remember to bring him back here for another huge welcome ceremony! we can't make Jurai seem to be ungrateful now can we?"
"I think I get what you mean but seina is still underage ... ...."
"I've heard quite a lot about him...You would be a good girl for him."
"I think there would be absolutely no problem for you if you wanted to make him your husband."
"... ... ... ... ... husband?"
"Husband."
"yes but Seina already had Kiriko chan ... ...."
"well he's no ordinary boy... so i Don't see that being a problem."
"eh!?"
"He's going to need more then just kiriko to support him with his abilities.."
"uhm well...……"
Seina was supported by all of the Masaki's who were on Earth, all of them, Kiriko was just the one closest to him.
"Of course you should get to know him but I think it might actually solve a lot of problems for him. besides we need someone to keep him away from that crusty old hags influence! not to mention Airi and that old kuramitsu hag too...besides I think you stand a better chance with a minor then you do waiting around for Kanemitsu to have any more children."
"What! so you want me to get involved in the fight for seina?"
"Help him, help Kiriko-chan to help him, as it stands seto has too big of an advantage over him right now."
"grandmother Funaho ......"
"I also think you should participate." Funaho said with a nice smile.
"So do your best!" Azusa and Funaho said synchronously.
and with this Minaho also decided to participate in the fight for seina.
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Ringo came back in the guest room
"R I N G O, R I N G O!"
honoka ran to ringo.
"R I N G O !R I N G O!I F I N A L Y M E T S E I N A"
(Oh, I see, It remembered when I talked about Seina)
"Yes i see I'm glad" Ringo petted honoka
"Thank you all for keeping honoka company, were about to arrive so please come with me to the observation room"
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"Ringo, What are we to do?"
Hakuren said since Originally Hakuren and her girls were dispatched from Seto to engage as Seina's entertainment.
"You're fine, you're still on duty as Seina's crew."
"but!"
" Seto says to let him take a rest, and if you do just that, Seina will be pleased with you."
Ringo gently smiled
Hakuren and others bowed deeply and went into the guest house following after Seina and others.
"Wow ... ...."
It was a room full of light pastel style furnishings. The retractable ceiling was completely opened, the sunlight from the world tree lightly illuminated the room, showing a landscape like a calm spring day.
The Royal Tree residential areas basically all have the same structure. There is a huge world tree in the center, the space is fixed, the environment etc. are all adjusted. From then on, depending on it's partner's taste it will be landscaped. usually with food production fields and orchards necessary for living, livestock farming lakes, lakes full of fish and shellfish, lakes and salt lakes, birds and insects, etc. are created, and clothing, medical facilities, and usually there are plants to manufacture machinery etc, and so there are usually people who work in the royal ships.
Although Honoka was the fourth generation, it was modified by Washu and had the capabilities of a third generation, so the residential area was quite wide, and if it was expanded to the maximum possible, tens of thousands of people could live in it. However, since Honoka had been adjusted, there was not much room for residential districts. currently it seemed like a newly created park on the inside.
"Please feel free to relax until you arrive at Jurai. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have anything come up. We will be arriving at Jurai in two hours."Ringo said
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Ringo came up to Seina.
"Nice to meet you, I am Ringo of the Tatsuki Royal family"
"Nice to meet you, I am the Captain of the Kamidake, Seina Yamada"
"Unfortunately It wasn't very easy for me to help you in this situation, I wish I could have helped you sooner but there were technical issues, I'm sorry Seina, I have caused you various inconveniences."
"oh no, I don't mind, it's normal for me, it was the others who were in trouble that i was worried about ... ..."
"Did you do your best to help them?"
"Well ... ... of course, but what I was able to do was pretty limited ... ...."
"Well That is the most important thing, if you had neglected your duties even a little, they probably wouldn't be here right now."
"I guess you're right about that"
"It doesn't matter how much you can do as long as your able to keep them safe."
"Thank you very much for that pep talk, I will do my best more often."
"Yes, I'm expecting you will"
Kiriko and amane talked about her as she talked to seina, when she was done she got up and went up to kiriko
"……oh hey..."
"Kiriko, will you come talk to me for a bit?"
they headed to the room to be alone.
Ringo turned to Kiriko and tried to say something but Kiriko crouched down and burst into tears.
"Kiriko-san, I don't care anymore, I understand your feelings well ... ...."
kiriko kept crying
Ringo decided to patiently wait for her to stop crying.
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"By the way, Tennyo seems to have said something amusing when she greeted Seina. what was that about"
Amane asked Ryoko
"... oh about the data logging?"
"Well ...I realized it when I was first finishing preparing the Kamidake for him."
Ryoko gave a detailed account of Kamidake's final adjustments.
"... ... so the Kamidake isn't the model of the ship that they actually plan to use?"
"No, the ship that is actually built should be a completely different thing, the one you've been using is just for gathering and collecting data."
"are you serious? It was a pretty amazing ship, but i sort of got that impression."
"Yes, in fact it's a terribly powerful ship, otherwise I wouldn't have leaked it's info to the Daruma Guild, it is a revolutionary ship composed exclusively of existing technology, in a sense it is truly an invention of philosophy . as you know The original goal of philosophy is to combine the existing knowledge of every field into new technology. "
"...... So what you're saying is Airi is more then just a huge pervert. hmm"
Amane, said with her arms folded and serious face.
"well she is definitely still an odd one"
"So what do you think they were collecting data on?"
"That's something I should explain."
Tennyo broke into the conversation and sat next to Seina.
"Sorry, Seina, Airi-sama made me keep it a secret. "
"No, everyone's okay, so it's fine ,besides I'm the one who took on the mission."
"...... oh I'm just so happy your safe."
Tennyo wiped away her tears and hugged Seina tightly.
"... Tennyo, you were going to tell us about the Kamidake?"
"Oh sorry, I'm so concerned with Seina-chan right now, I forgot... Airi-sama was using it to observe seina and make sure we could use the data to build him a ship that could overcome his probability bias...."
"Really?" Seina looked strangely at Tennyo.
"yes and we got some great data,and thanks to those three idiots eating all the food we now have even more data then we expected ... "
"Well yeah ... but it's all data on what happens in extreme conditions, ha ha ... ..."
"As a captain, trying to protect your subordinates is fine, but sometimes It's not worth it seina, their actions may have caused you all to die, You're lucky your still alive. "
"That's my fault... ...."
"Seina, please stop blaming yourself, It's not your fault that's why those idiots are being re-assigned to another ship.. "
.
"……I'm sorry"
"Wait what happened?"
Amane asked
"Oh They didn't tell you? They've been demoted back to trainees."
Seina was a bit surprised at that
"when i first meet them and Seina as Ryoko · Balta,I got the feeling they were troublemakers." ryoko balta
"It might be better to just dissolve those three's team"
" probably ... ...but for now the same guy who retrained them last time has volunteered to re-train them as a group"
"Wait if there trainees, what will happen to Alan's debts?"
"Their payments will be put on hold since for now because they won't be making enough to pay on it and live off of what they make, but once they go back up in rank it will be up to them, but theirs no need to worry about them. Those idiots went as far as to suggest that Ringo should have paid off their debt.... but in the end they got their debt changed to have no interest. anyways... thanks to all this data Jurai's next series of flag ships are likely to be ready ahead of schedule... the new computer unit being used so much helped a lot too. "
"What was up with that thing anyways Seina and Kiriko said they resembled Royal Trees ..."
"It's a little more specialized then that but that is what we were trying to emulate... what did you think of it amane? "
"it felt almost inferior to Kiriko and me. We probably could have done just fine without it's help..."
Amane pondered and said after long consideration.
"really !?"
"well maybe for some other crew it would be useful but were way more skilled then it..."
"Hah maybe we should make your skills top secret instead then."
"Haha well I hate to break it to you that secrets already been leaked ."
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"R I N G O , R I N G O"
Honoka came by looking for ringo
"Oh, Honoka-chan, are you looking for Ringo-chan?"
"O H! T E N Y O, T E N Y O!"
Seina looked strangely at Honoka,as it jumped into Tennyo's palm.
Honoka, who noticed seina's gaze, hid behind Tennyo, it had been told to keep itself a secret, but Honoka which was a royal Tree basically loved people. So it curiously peaked out its face From behind Tennyo.
"This is Honoka-chan, the terminal form of the royal Tree, it's sort of like Ryo-Ohki-chan"
"T E N N Y O I S T H I S O K W I T H R I N G O - S A M A?"
"Yes they're guests"
Tennyo gently stroked Honoka.
"……Hello"
Honoka came out from behind Tennyo and said with a nervous voice.
"H E L L O"
"Honoka-chan, this is Ryoko · Balta. and Amane · Kaunaq, and this is my younger brother Seina Yamada ."
"L I T T L E.... B R O T H E R?"
"Yes, that's right."
"... .... S E I N A?"
Honoka came closer to Seina.
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On jurai all of Seto's people gathered to have a conference to plan to welcoming Seina to jurai.
"Seina has been a great economic savior to us... we should do something to show him our gratitude... "seto said
"... ... What should we do!" the men asked
" ehehehe we know what to do~~~~~! " the women snickered
"I'm sorry, Kiriko-chan ...but I might not be able to help seina this time ... "
Minaho muttered as she skulked far off away from everyone.
"Minaho chan ~ ~ ~"
Misaki snuck behind Minaho and whispered
"Kyyyyaaaaaa ~~~~~ ___ !! oh it's just you Ms. Misaki!"
"Ah ha ha! isn't this exciting!"
Misaki jumped off Minaho's back. Minaho turned around and looked behind her
"Funaho, Azusa!?"
Not only Funaho as usual, but azusa was there, it was rare for him to involve himself in seto's plans.
" grandmother Funaho, please stop this before it gets out of hand"Minaho cried
"Ok but when are you going to make me a great grandchild!"
"Hmmm this might be a good occasion for that.."
"That is exactly the sort of thing I want to help prevent.... please is there any way you could help?"
"Would you to maybe like to bring seina over to see us?"
Minaho tilted her head, unable to understand why azusa said that.
"Seina has been a great benefactor to us, but we can't officially invite seina over to see us unfortunately... we can have him do it informally and then we can show him some hospitality till things settle. "
Even though he was recognized as a special case, Seina had not yet been registered as an official Galactic Federation resident. official meting with him had to be done differently because of this, due to Jurai's position within the Galactic Federation, and Seina's official status as is an early civilization person under Airi's care.
"But if Seina can graduate from the GP Academy, he will be officially recognized as a resident of the Galactic Federation ..."
"yes and at that time I have to remember to bring him back here for another huge welcome ceremony! we can't make Jurai seem to be ungrateful now can we?"
"I think I get what you mean but seina is still underage ... ...."
"I've heard quite a lot about him...You would be a good girl for him."
"I think there would be absolutely no problem for you if you wanted to make him your husband."
"... ... ... ... ... husband?"
"Husband."
"yes but Seina already had Kiriko chan ... ...."
"well he's no ordinary boy... so i Don't see that being a problem."
"eh!?"
"He's going to need more then just kiriko to support him with his abilities.."
"uhm well...……"
Seina was supported by all of the Masaki's who were on Earth, all of them, Kiriko was just the one closest to him.
"Of course you should get to know him but I think it might actually solve a lot of problems for him. besides we need someone to keep him away from that crusty old hags influence! not to mention Airi and that old kuramitsu hag too...besides I think you stand a better chance with a minor then you do waiting around for Kanemitsu to have any more children."
"What! so you want me to get involved in the fight for seina?"
"Help him, help Kiriko-chan to help him, as it stands seto has too big of an advantage over him right now."
"grandmother Funaho ......"
"I also think you should participate." Funaho said with a nice smile.
"So do your best!" Azusa and Funaho said synchronously.
and with this Minaho also decided to participate in the fight for seina.
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Ringo came back in the guest room
"R I N G O, R I N G O!"
honoka ran to ringo.
"R I N G O !R I N G O!I F I N A L Y M E T S E I N A"
(Oh, I see, It remembered when I talked about Seina)
"Yes i see I'm glad" Ringo petted honoka
"Thank you all for keeping honoka company, were about to arrive so please come with me to the observation room"
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end of chapter