Those Who Live Use Any Means

Seeing the Gamma Colossi charge into the area, the nine Sha Cha pirates immediately ducked into their ship.

"Get out of the way! We're in trouble if the Gamma Colossi decide we're a nuisance..."

They slipped aboard, planning to fly farther away rather than risk angering the Gamma Colossi.

At that moment, no one on the planet dared obstruct the Gamma Colossi's plundering. Wherever they went, the pirates scattered.

But when those nine Sha Cha pirates left, Ona panicked.

He scrambled to his feet and tried to follow them aboard, but... there was no way in! The nine Sha Cha People passed straight through the wall! One section of metal armor suddenly turned liquid-like, and they immersed themselves in it to enter the ship...

Ona had neither the authorization nor the ability to do that! He only slammed into it and raised lumps all over his head!

Looking again, he realized the ship had no door at all. Not even a crack!

It was smooth, rounded, and perfectly seamless! "What! What, what..."

Ona was utterly dumbfounded!

After all his groveling, they had never taken him seriously. They had simply left. They had never intended to accept him at all; they had treated him as thin air.

He had thought their silence meant consent. When the time came, he would board with them and shamelessly refuse to leave. Surely aliens that powerful would not bother arguing with a primitive like him?

Then taking him in would become a fait accompli.

Who would have imagined their way of boarding was something he could not do at all?

"O gods! I still have information to offer! I... I haven't finished!"

Ona knew that Candle Dragon back on Earth probably was not as valuable as he had imagined. The moment they asked for slightly