The two people walking over from the other side of the landing platform had briefly met us before. They were Boy Soldier and his companion.
The two had come to see us off. Though it might have been due to orders from their superiors, it was still rather surprising. I hadn't expected Jin to be so accepting, much less that Tuo Lu Lu, this insectoid, was actually shy. He wanted to apologize to Miss Lin for swinging a Light Blade at her without distinguishing right from wrong, but he was too embarrassed to say it and had to rely on Jin to speak for him.
I even had to comfort him and tell him not to worry. After all, although Tuo Lu Lu had initiated the attack, Miss Lin had immediately smacked him right in the face with a Frying Pan...
"The Tobeiru race is a species with tremendous potential."
Looking at the Psionic Energy Saber mounted on Tuo Lu Lu's forelimb, Sandora suddenly spoke to him very seriously. "You may find this hard to accept right now, but I personally look forward to the day when Tobeiru people can appear in Imperial laboratories. Aside from Shilin Apostles, you are the first life-form capable of directly wielding psionic energy through individual power. I hope our two races can put aside our past grudges in the future."
Right, I hadn't made the connection before, but now I remembered. These insectoids seemed to be the Tobeiru race, a freakish civilization that had held out against the Empire through sheer military strength for three years. Every ship in the Exile Fleet, as well as all ten Planetary Fortresses, including the one beneath our feet, had been their work. Such an immensely powerful civilization was no ordinary matter. Even the proud Sandora regarded them