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𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟓: 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 (5)

‘𝘈𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘓𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘢 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘢?’

━𝐀 𝐝𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲. . . 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐋𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐨𝐧’𝐬 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐲. . .

‘𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘢 𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘺.’

━𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭. . . 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐨. . .

Now, Nazar was riding Lemegeton, exploring the dark nebula. A group of Nazar with one Lemegeton and many Cresecters were inspecting surrounding asteroids or small celestial bodies to collect more detailed information.

Ludwig was in charge of managing such Nazar.

━𝐀𝐧𝐲 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐬. . .?

Lemegeton’s mouth was open, and Nazar was looking into space with its large eyes, above the remains of a simple colony.

‘𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘰 𝘸𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘴. 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘢 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘦𝘵 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘯𝘰 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘴.’

━𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐬. . . 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐭 𝐮𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐟 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧’𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦. . .

‘𝘐𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘭𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘓𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘰𝘯, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥.’

━𝐍𝐚𝐳𝐚𝐫. . . 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐰. . .?

‘𝘐’𝘮 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘸𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘺 𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭 𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩. 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘴𝘶𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘭𝘦 𝘶𝘱 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴.’

━𝐆𝐨𝐭 𝐢𝐭. . . 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝟖𝟎𝟎 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐭. . . 𝐢𝐭’𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝟑 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬. . .

‘𝘐𝘵’𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 3 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 800 𝘊𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦’𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘺?’

Nazar turned Lemegeton’s head a little to look at the 4th planet where the colony was located.

The extremely small part of the planet’s surface that used to be frozen over was covered in black Xenotera, absorbing the light of the red dwarf star. The colony that started with just one colony and its surrounding honeycombs had already expanded to the size of a decent human town.

Accordingly, the height of the colony seemed to have tripled compared to before.

━𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭. . . 𝐬𝐨 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦. . .

‘𝘞𝘩𝘺 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘺?’

━𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐚 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬. . .

‘𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦. 𝘋𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩?’

━𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭. . . 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐮𝐭. . .

Nazar, who only had limited knowledge about humans, felt the vigilance and anger that Ludwig had.

‘𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘓𝘶𝘥𝘸𝘪𝘨 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥?’

At Nazar’s question, Ludwig paused the transmission for a moment and then came up with a different answer.

━. . .𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨. . . 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐨. . . 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐨 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐟 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫. . .

Therefore, Nazar changed its question. It showed curiosity by expanding and contracting the size of its pupils.

‘𝘈𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨? 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘹𝘺.

𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘶𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺’𝘳𝘦 𝘢 𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘳 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘬 𝘱𝘩𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺. 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶’𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴? 𝘐𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯? 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺? 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴? 𝘖𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴?’

Just what did humans do to master?

Just what are they?

━𝐘𝐨𝐮’𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟. . .

‘𝘐𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘰?’

━𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲’𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬. . . 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞. . .

At that time, Nazar didn’t understand what wickedness meant.

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October 19, 2620, Earth calendar.

Today, when extraterrestrial intelligent life becomes civilized, it’s called an alien race, or more simply, aliens when referring to individuals.

Humans call our spiral galaxy the Milky Way, but in extraterrestrial terms, it’s called the ‘Human Galaxy,’ and the Human Galaxy is recognized as the territory ruled by the strongest race in the Local Group of Galaxies.

The encounter with an alien race that visited the Human Galaxy about 15 years ago truly opened the space age, and now, humanity has even created embassies in other galaxies, taking the initiative in regular diplomatic and trade activities.

And today, as always, an alien race that wanted to trade with humans visited Mars in the solar system.

“Thank you very much for visiting us like this.”

A man around 50 years old with the appearance of a middle-aged man, dressed in a white suit, asked for a handshake with the alien in a meeting room decorated like a palace.

He is the chairman of the global conglomerate Whitehole Group, wearing a necklace with a white gold cross.

“I’m Illinoi Rittan. You can call me Rittan. Haha.”

The alien accepted Rittan’s handshake with a tentacle with fingerprints growing from both shoulders.

The smooth, dolphin-like skin, three legs that extended down like fins, no neck like a fish, but a hunched back for walking upright with the head facing forward. It had gills on the sides of its head to breathe, and it had human-like eyes, square teeth, and even unique clothing.

A beautiful voice came from the hole in the center of its chest.

“AaaaaaIAooaAaaoaaaaaaa. . .”

Its voice had a beautiful soprano vocal range, and the subtle ups and downs gave it a sense of melody.

When the alien spoke like that, the humanoid interpreter standing between Rittan and the alien displayed a hologram.

「Greetings. We are the Aooa species from the Small Magellanic Cloud. And I am Oaa, the first-class diplomat of our species.」

Rittan and the people behind him in white suits seemed to have already fallen for Aooa’s mysterious voice.

On the other hand, the Aooa behind Oaa bowed like humans, who knows where they learned it from, and greeted them simultaneously as if they were one.

Rittan, who was facing them, smiled broadly.

“I’ve heard stories about the Aooa. You truly have beautiful voices. It’s like listening to a piece of opera.”

The humanoid interpreter printed out the Aooa’s graph-like text as a hologram. After reading the text carefully, Oaa gathered the tentacles from both shoulders on the table.

It was an imitation of Rittan, who gathered his two hands on the table.

「Rather, that’s how I feel. Human songs and music were a fresh shock to me. In a very good way.」

“We’re grateful that you appreciate our culture.”