Chapter 209: A Package from Nerissa

The time has passed and it has been two days since we arrived at this stellar ark.

Thanks to our provisions we can stay in this place for an entire year without any problems with food or water, but even though the place is large, one always feels trapped in a cage.

Although complaining just for being in this place for two days might make me seem very demanding...

"Vrem! The team that is going to replace us has arrived. Rudelle wants you to go."

"That is good~ Ahhhnmm~" I stretched my body while yawning, holding my right elbow with my left hand and raising my right hand as high as I could.

Sitting in the most central and frontal part of the ship, on the bow. Unlike known ships where a wooden ship has a keel to maintain the stability of the entire vessel, this spaceship has three enormous keels that run from the stern to the bow and give the bow of the ship a circular shape.

Due to the dimensions and the use given to this spaceship, it looks more like a rectangle with a nine to sixteen vertical proportion, and the three keels form a network similar to a triple spine that supports the entire body of the ship.

Only the upper hull is enormous. It has enough space to hold a city. Although now many of the facilities on the upper deck are destroyed.

After spending two days exploring the ship I have found three favorite places: the engine room, the apparently best restaurant with the best kitchen, and the bow of the ship. Sitting on the edge and letting my feet dangle in the two-kilometer abyss is great.

After answering Magen and stretching my body, I stored the books and notebooks around me in my white backpack and picked up a small girl who was simply sitting on my legs and who was also moving her legs in the air like me.

Apparently, no one can see Nao unless Nao wants to be seen. The problem is that Nao does not know how to show herself and I can see her through the connection with the captain’s bracelet and through my spatial perception ability.

Not even the youngest Saint, Professor Rudelle, can see Nao.

Although everyone knows that there is now a -Ship Spirit- by my side, and that Xuexue can sense but not see her.

After taking Nao in my arms I jumped into the void of the dark abyss. Of course, my wings had opened and I could fly.

"Ready! Let us go~!"

With Nao in my arms, I walked forward with Magen following me.

"Do we know the team that has arrived?" I asked with curiosity.

"They are the Rock Team, the Wind Team, and the Archery Team..." Magen began to list the three teams that had arrived to guard the stellar ship.

It seems they are famous teams from the third grade of the preparatory level. Two teams from the civil academy have also arrived to protect the entrance to Xuexue’s cave along with a team of earth element experts.

The reason for the delay is that they were teams in the final stretch of their respective missions and were directly recruited for this mission as soon as they finished their previous one.

Professor Roselle cannot make large movements. Any movement of high-level troops can be noticeable. Not only to the invading aliens but also to the allied races.

There will always be secrecy and distrust toward anyone who is not one of your own, so humans still distrust the other races despite being in an alliance.

While we walked toward the ship’s control room, Magen told me the details of each group.

Apparently they are not bad and they are famous. As their names indicate, each group has a specialty. The Rock Team specializes in the earth element for protection. The Wind Team members are agile and it seems they have worked with the Archery Team, who obviously specialize in bows and arrows.

Upon entering the preparatory level, whether in the civil academy or the Royal Academy, students can freely choose the members of their groups. There is a fifty-fifty proportion between the groups that disband in the Royal Elementary Academy and those that continue in the same group when moving to the preparatory level.

In the civil academy they do not form teams at the elementary level, they only allow them to form teams when they enter the preparatory level.

What surprises me is that everyone in the Rock Team are daughters of families under Magen’s Aigilas family.

Although thinking about it, the Aigilas family specializes in defense and protection. It seems wise that families whose members tend more toward defense decide to ally with the Aigilas family.

"Then the archery team are people from Skade?" I asked Magen.

"This... It does not seem so. Rather they seem to be enemies..." Magen scratched the back of her head.

"How strange..."

And so, passing the time with a long walk, we arrived at the control room.

Upon entering, everyone was sitting around a circular table. There was an open map drawn by me with the network of caves and another with the area around the mountain.

"Vremya, you are finally here. If everything is ready we should depart as soon as possible. They will take care of everything else here."

Professor Rudelle greeted me with her hand when she saw me and said.

"Everything has been ready since early. We can depart at any moment."

I said while giving a light look to everyone as a greeting.

There is a team of only five women who seem to be very strong like amazons. Like Professor Rudelle they have healthy and exotic wheat-colored skin. They look like uniformed soldiers with tough attitudes.

Another group of five women, and according to my visual senses two men, are more varied and are not uniformed although their outfits are similar.

The third group carries bows on their backs. They are four slender girls and to my surprise they have green hair although in different shades. But one of the girls has green hair very similar to Dianeira’s.

When I discreetly turned to look at Dianeira she was sitting a little apart with her arms crossed, looking in a random direction.

Although Dianeira turned to look at me as soon as I entered, she only smiled and nodded her head in greeting, which surprised me. But from what Magen said and the color of the archers’ hair I can guess something...

The green-haired archer girls seem to have a cold attitude toward Dianeira and appear to give her provocative looks.

I have to say that everyone in the teams that are going to replace us must be over sixteen years old or at least seventeen. That four of them are doing this to someone who is at least four years younger than them is very...

"Are you the Kanya Dana of our Young Master!?"

"Excuse me, Mair Corinth. May I take a little of your time?"

At this moment, two people spoke at the same time.

One was the one who seemed to be the leader of the Rock Team and the other was one of the green-haired women, the one who seemed to be the oldest and whose green hair was the lightest shade.

"You!" ×2

The two women looked at each other.

"I have a matter with Mair Corinth." The young green-haired woman said, returning to a serene state but crossing her arms in a provocative manner.

"What matters could you have with our Kanya Dana?"

The young woman with bronzed skin also crossed her arms, making an effort to show her rock-like musculature.

"Wait, Brahm. Vremya and I are not officially engaged yet, we are only dating!" Magen took a step forward and stopped the leader of the Rock Team.

"But Young Master..."

"It is not honorable for a Summoning Warrior to act this way..."

"Wow, I am surprised that Magen is acting very mature." Xifia commented beside me. I do not know at what moment she arrived next to me...

"Mm!" ×N

The others nodded. But.

"You, what do you want with my girlfriend!?" Then Magen stood with her arms crossed and raised her chin to the sky with a superior attitude.

"Forget it, Magen will always be Magen..." Xifia sighed and said.

"Mm!" ×N

The others nodded.

The green-haired girl first seemed joyful, but then her face darkened upon hearing Magen’s final words.

The girl with light green hair clenched her hands but did not know what to say.

"Tell me, this lady..." To put an end to it, I took a step forward, caressed Magen’s hand and spoke to the young green-haired woman.

"I am Lif." The young green-haired woman replied.

"Well, tell me Miss Lif, what do you need from me? Is it necessary to speak in private?"

"No, I only wanted to deliver a package..." the young woman named Lif said.

"A package? From whom?"

"Yes, from Nerissa. She asked me to deliver it to you personally." Then, after finishing speaking, Lif took out a light blue rectangular box with decorations, about thirty centimeters long.

"Oh! I did not know you were friends with Nerissa. Eh, thank you for the trouble."

I stepped forward to take the box from the hands of the young woman named Lif.

"May I have your real name?" Lif suddenly asked.

"Wait! It is one thing to deliver a package. But why do you want to have the real name of our Kanya Dana!? EH!?"

Behind me I heard the roar of the amazonian woman that Magen called Brahm.

"It is true, Lif! Do not go too far!" Then I also heard Dianeira’s voice as she jumped to my side with her bow ready to attack.

"What is wrong with a team leader asking for the Real Name of another team leader? Is it not the most common thing for communication between team leaders?" Then Lif gave a very reasonable argument.

"You!"

"Wow, I cannot find any flaw in her logic..."

"Yes, what a good method to get a boy’s real name!"

"I admire you, leader!!!"

"Does that not mean that our leader can also ask for the real name of the only son of the Corinth family?"

"..."

At this moment everyone was talking and murmuring. Even supporting and congratulating their own team leaders.

"In that case. Kanya Dana, please give me your real name!"

"Brahm?"

"Young Master. It is to better protect the Kanya Dana for you!" the amazonian warrior woman said with a serious expression but with a shine in her eyes.

In the end. I had no choice but to let all the newcomers touch my white feather, the official one, so they could write to me on the Letters Name Network.

Since the girls know that I have another feather they did not say anything.