Barnes Bronzia’s anger was considerable.
 
Apparently, the main body remaining on the flagship was also completely enraged, and when Kaito got off Quinbee, the escort employees were in a panic.
 
“Are preparations ready?”
 
At Barnes Bronzia’s words as it descended after Kaito, the escorts lined up.
 
“I’m asking if preparations are ready.”
 
“S-soon!”
 
“Too slow. Do you understand the gravity of the problem?”
 
“Y-yes! President!”
 
The escorts answered at attention. Apparently, Barnes Bronzia was sufficiently feared by the employees as president. To Kaito, it was just a somewhat amusing moss-type.
 
In … Read the rest

Barnes Bronzia’s request to dialogue with Toona.
 
The Federation had no particular reason to refuse, so they decided to grant permission. However…
 
“My, this is quite troublesome, Kaito, Third-Rank Citizen Enek-Ragif.”
 
“Not at all.”
 
Since Barnes Bronzia’s psychic output made distant conversation with Toona difficult, they would approach at close range using Quinbee.
 
During preparations, Terapolapanecio had already explained the situation to Toona, so there was no particular anxiety. Kaito, who had exited Quinbee and stood on the platform, lifted Barnes Bronzia’s body from the ground and drew it close, carefully holding it so as … Read the rest

“Nice to meet you, President Barnes Bronzia. I’m Kaito”
 
“n1C3 70 M337 J00, Kaito Enek-ragif. 7h15 0n3 W4n73d 70 M337 J00”
 
“It’s an honor to meet you”
 
Maybe I should call Queenbee and escape right now.
 
The strong premonition of approaching trouble. While grasping the extended leg with a strained smile, Kaito seriously considered fleeing.
 

Barnes Bronzia. The Corporation’s president and, as acknowledged by Terapolapanecio, the rarest creature in the galaxy.
 
The movements like a broken tin toy had a strange charm to them. Probably intending it as a handshake, Kaito, holding the extended leg, … Read the rest

Chapter 5: The One and Only Rare Creature

The report that the Corporation’s flagship had appeared outside the Namibif planetary system brought considerable surprise to Radia.
 
This wasn’t just a branch manager-rank appearance, but the Corporation’s president who oversees everything had shown up. In Federation terms, it was as if a councilor-rank figure had suddenly appeared. Even for someone responsible for an artificial celestial body, this seemed a bit too much for Stomato to handle.
 
The confusion was quickly resolved when the space jellyfish serving as negotiator advised Stomato to accept them into Radia. Soon after, a communication … Read the rest

Interlude: Meanwhile, the Corporation Left out of the loop
 

While the Federation was steadily deepening their friendship with Toona, the Corporation’s researchers detained in a room on Radia were maintaining contact with the Corporation. Though it was called detention, they were merely prohibited from going outside, and their communications with Corporation headquarters hadn’t been severed.
 
Among them, the Research Department Director, who held the highest position, finished his communication with a look of joy spreading across his face.
 
“Good news. Headquarters is apparently going to take action.”
 
“Really?!”
 
“Yes. They also had doubts about the … Read the rest

Now, Gorou, who had been holed up in his room, had apparently managed to come up with name proposals before the deadline.
 
From here, citizens with citizenship rank above a certain level would vote on their favorite among the submitted names to decide. Kaito was freshly surprised that citizenship rank was required even for things like this.
 
This time, apparently only citizens of Fourth Rank Citizen Dalda-Elra or above could vote. Perhaps because it was the name of a species newly joining the Federation, it was restricted to those with much higher citizenship than usual public submissions.
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Gorou, who returned to reality, showed tremendous enthusiasm and motivation for the public solicitation to decide the friendly Space Eel’s individual name.
 
“I’ll do it, Captain! I’ll somehow get that individual’s name to be Hoshi-bami(planet eater)!”
 
“Good luck, Sensei. By the way.”
 
“What is it, Captain?”
 
“That name is unpopular with the Space Eel itself.”
 
At Kaito’s statement, Gorou’s movement stopped.
 
The way he turned toward Kaito like a rusted machine was somewhat frightening.
 
“…What did you say?”
 
“Well, you see. [Would you be happy if your eating habits became your name?] … Read the rest

 
The competent Space Jellyfish showed the ultimate consideration by towing the Space Eel corpses with their own ship.
 
Before beginning dialogue, they didn’t forget to offer them to the Space Eel with “[Please partake for now].” Anyone would make the same choice seeing how visibly restless the Space Eel was.
 
They kept some distance so as not to interfere with the meal.
 
Quietly averting their gaze from the tremendously vigorous dining scene, Kaito returned inside Queenbee.
 
[Kaito, Third-rank Citizen, Enek-Ragif]
 
“Ah, you really saved me this time.”
 
[No no, don’t worry about it. … Read the rest

On the artificial celestial body Zodgia, Representative Terapolapanecio was receiving a report in the form of a lecture from Vice-Representative Ritmiele.
 
“Listen. So descending to Earth without permission is prohibited. The planetary environmental improvement has been largely successful, so there’s no need for the representative to go down unnecessarily, right?”
 
[I understand that, but we have the duty to report on Earth’s jellyfish situation to other individuals…]
 
“No such thing exists.”
 
Ritmiele was unusually among Federation citizens in having little reverence for Terapolapanecio. In that respect, she was a hard-to-find type of personnel in the Federation, … Read the rest

Episode 4: Space Eels and Psychic Earthlings

Apparently, space eels didn’t possess organs for handling language. They weren’t creatures designed for dialogue.
 
So there was no choice but to communicate through telepathy. Perhaps it was adjusting its output to match smaller creatures—compared to when the space jellyfish had sent telepathy en masse, the burden on his head was virtually nonexistent.
 
“We call you silicon-based lifeforms and ourselves organic lifeforms to distinguish between us. We organic lifeforms are, essentially, those that originated and developed on the surfaces of those massive rock spheres… planets that you prey upon.”
 
He hadn’t been lying. … Read the rest