Trust?

"Napomo."

"Ah, I-I'm here!"

At Lu Hess's soft call, Napomo instinctively answered at the top of her lungs.

She looked like an ordinary student caught daydreaming in class, nervous and uneasy.

The recording they had just watched showed the Rover falling from space to Solaris. Anyone could see that was a secret worth keeping.

"I-I won't tell anyone! Doctor Lu! Rover! Mo Bai! Believe me!"

Napomo immediately made her promise in front of everyone.

The Rover, the person in the recording, was the calmest of them all. She already knew how different she was from ordinary people.

"You don't need to be nervous, Napomo. I'm only offering you some personal advice."

Lu Hess smiled as he always did, gently reassuring the student.

"After all, if you talk about this at the Academy, people might keep pestering you with questions, right?"

"Mm... Ah, I mean, of course I know that!"

At Lu Hess's reminder, Napomo first nodded timidly. Then she seemed to realize something and answered with sudden conviction.

She was like a child who had done something wrong, swearing loudly to cover her guilty conscience and hide her fear behind sheer force of voice.

But in Napomo's own eyes, she probably thought she sounded utterly sincere, enough to win over Lu Hess and the Rover.

Whether she was looking guilty or swearing at the top of her lungs, she really did seem like an ordinary student.

But two "people" present had already grown wary of her.

The sharp-eyed Mo Bai and the Digital Ghost Aemeath.

"All right. Everyone here believes you."

Lu Hess took on the air of the responsible adult and gently reassured Napomo once more.

"More importantly, Napomo, you need to be more careful from now on. Don't put your companions in danger like you did earlier."

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