Omnibus Anime: I and the World's Top Daughters Have Our Five Senses Linked

"Our mission was only to deploy the Harmonic Pillar." The Vice Captain took a deep breath, his gaze beneath his short blue hair fixed straight on Stelle. "Our destination was on the outer edge of this region, but we were attacked by the Swarm before we even got there. As for what that Stellaron is meant to be used for, or even where it's being kept—even our superiors wouldn't know more than the parts they needed to know."

"So you're saying you don't know anything, and we still had to go to all this trouble to save you?" Stelle looked disgusted, then sighed. "Forget it, forget it. At least we know there's a big Stellaron. Dan Heng, this intel might be useful, right?"

"Useful," Dan Heng replied succinctly.

"Then it wasn't a loss." Stelle slung the baseball bat over her shoulder, turned, and strode off. "You lot, come with me. You're going into solitary confinement."

"S-Solitary confinement?" The Tuner's heart, which had only just settled, leapt back into his throat.

"What else? You want me to book you first class?"

Stelle waved without looking back.

March 7th followed behind her. As she passed the four survivors, she even added deliberately, "Relax, it's just a little single room. Way more comfortable than that junk ship of yours."

The four of them looked at one another beneath the cold lights of the hangar.

The Tuner wiped the sweat from his face and muttered quietly to the Vice Captain, "Was she threatening us just now?"

The Vice Captain was silent for two seconds before answering him. "...I think she might really just have been calculating the rescue fee."

The Tuner shut his mouth and obediently followed the back of the baseball-bat-carrying figure ahead, walking toward the Solitary Confinement Room.

"A Stellaron, huh.