(Hanzawa Naoki is really good... I watched the first episode, and it was so satisfying!)
The next morning, Bai Ye arrived at the Engineering Department.
In one of the Engineering Department's manufacturing workshops, Bai Ye found Zumama following behind Closure.
"Did you take on an apprentice?" Bai Ye greeted Closure with a smile. "It's hard to imagine Closure as a teacher."
"I never planned to take on an apprentice, but this child insisted on calling me Master and refused to change it, so I could only let her be..." Closure shrugged helplessly.
"Just like you..." Bai Ye nodded, then turned to Zumama, who was standing nearby with shining eyes as she stared at the Engineering Department's machinery.
"You're Miss Zumama?"
"Yes. That's both my codename and my name." Zumama nodded.
After passing the tests and joining Rhodes Island, both Tomimi and Zumama had used their real names as their Operator codenames.
(Zumama changed her codename some time later, roughly after the second-generation Big Ugly, "Hot-Tempered Ironhide," was completed—Author's note.)
"So, a friend previously asked me to retrieve something from the Sargon rainforest. I've brought it over now."
Bai Ye looked at the familiar girl before him.
Of course, the one who knew Zumama was Victorique. Bai Ye himself had nothing to do with her.
It counted as getting acquainted all over again.
"A friend? So you're the Bai Ye Victorique and the others mentioned?" Zumama quickly caught on.
"I'm Bai Ye." Bai Ye nodded.
"Hmm... You feel strangely familiar..." Zumama stared at Bai Ye in confusion for a while, muttering softly.
So was this what one should expect from rainforest warriors? Their instincts were all absurdly sharp.
Previously, Kermal had recognized Bai Ye's identity after only one exchange of blows. Now, after merely speaking face-to-face, Zumama had already become somewhat