Planets Can Be Little Animals Too!

"HQ, HQ, something happened here."

"HQ here. What happened?"

"I saw a fish rush out of the Endless Star Sea."

"...Are you kidding?"

"No."

As the astronaut spoke, he watched a gigantic killer whale swim past him.

"Correction. It wasn't a fish. It should have been some kind of marine mammal."

"...I understand." After a long silence, the HQ operator said, "I'll send a ship to bring you back to the ground."

"Damn it! You don't think I'm crazy, do you?"

"Or am I the crazy one?" the operator snapped. "Do you think anyone would believe that nonsense?"

"Fuck, doesn't the space station have surveillance? Check the exterior cameras! It just swam past!" the astronaut cursed.

The operator seemed to have actually gone to check the recordings.

Several minutes passed, yet there was still no response from the other end.

Watching the killer whale swim away, the astronaut asked again, "So, did you see it? Was it really a hallucination?"

He was beginning to suspect that he had developed some bizarre mental illness.

After all, seeing a creature like that swimming through space was impossible no matter how he thought about it.

"I'm filing a repair request."

"A repair request? For what?"

"I suspect the space station's cameras are broken." The operator fell silent again before finally cursing, "Damn it! What the hell is wrong with me? Why did I see a fish swim past on the space station cameras?"

"Actually, I don't think it was a fish."

"Shut up! Because of you, we have to write reports now! Asshole!"

Alice clearly had no idea that while she was happily playing a family board game, someone was being forced to write a report because she had not withdrawn her cute magic in time.

"We're running low on supplies aboard the