I got the chance to meet some more of the giant men before leaving, none of them had regents and they were just abnormally strong for something considered to be normal humans. But then again we are space pirates fighting against an interplanetary empire.
I left afterwards as they slowly started to fall asleep, on my way back I noticed some people waking up and it quickly made gave me a bad feeling. I did not want to acknowledge those feelings even when they urged me to run, I fought with my literal body to walk slowly and this resulted in me swinging and swaying around.
After much struggle, I made my way back to the ship. I was coming up the horizon when I heard somebody call for me and run towards me. It was Neo.
"Where have you been?"
"Did something happen?"
"No."
"Then why do you look distressed?"
She paused and tried her best to avoid my gaze, "you look drunk, and got worried when I saw you." She grabbed my hand and started using her ability on me.
[Foreign power is trying to enter the host's body, allow?]
[Y/N]
'Sure.'
I felt it flow into me, it felt like a cool breeze travelled through my body but I was not tired and even if I was I doubt her ability would be able to restore an Astarian.
"How do you feel?"
"Frosty, shouldn't we be going back now? You must be colder,"
"I am okay, it's warm around you."
"Did I fart?" I sniffed the air around me, "I couldn't have. So what's warm?"
She giggled, "I wouldn't be here if you did that."
"Do you think my insides are toxic, my farts could kill?"
"No, no that's not what I'm saying." She said worriedly as she waved her hands in disagreement.
"I'm joking, I'm joking. Plus I didn't think of you as the type to talk about farts." I grabbed her hands and brought them down, I let them go as soon as she showed no more struggle.
"Ah, I see." She said while trying to lower her face more, it began to look like she was about to turn around.
The conversation fell hard, it was not like I wanted to talk to her any longer but it felt like she had something to say that was stuck somewhere. I did not want to force her to say it but after hours of listening to stories, I could not help my curiosity.
I wanted to suggest going back again, but since that offer was already turned down I just walked past her and signalled to move with my head. She followed behind closely and I snuck a peek at her throughout the whole journey. When we got back I was quickly jumped by Sizana and everybody told Neo that they were worried about her. They thought that she got lost or kidnapped, she laughed awkwardly and never left my side the entire time.
"We got a message from Final Stand," Arnold said raising a tablet into the air.
"Before that, can I eat something?"
Everybody looked at Sekai, he did not move for a few seconds, he finally and silently showed me to breakfast. I sat down and started eating, it was too silent so I signalled for Arnold to continue talking.
"Ah yeah, in this letter are three more letters and they told me to split you guys into groups of two and send you off with a letter."
Sekai looked at me and inhaled.
"I am going with Teddy," Sizana said as quickly as she could to prevent everybody else from talking.
"No, I am going with him," Mona said.
"I'm sorry but you can try next time."
"Tsame, stop it. Mona will be going with Grim and you will be going with Choka, Neo is with me and Sekai will be with Sonny." Said Arnold as he walked to the middle of everybody as if he was preparing to break up a fight.
"Why, besides doesn't Mona hate Teddy?" Sizana threw herself on the floor and sat with her legs crossed.
"I don't hate him, he just makes me angry."
"Sounds like hate to me."
"What would you know about hate."
"A lot more than you could imagine."
...
"HEY! Did anybody order the sun?" A scrawny looking man joyfully said as burst into the room. We all stopped and stared at him with confusion and cringe. "Tough crow." He said as he walked over to Arnold, it was a shocking sight for me to see someone as short as Arnold.
"Ah Sonny, that gentleman over there is Grim and he is our new marksman. Grim this is Sonny, he is a part-time Stowaway."
"Hey, what do you mean part-time I have been with you since we were kids." Sonny grabbed Arnold by his collar and shook him.
"Like I said, part-time." Arnold phased through Sonny.
Sonny then made his way over to me quickly to reintroduce himself. He made another terrible joke and cringed over it but he kept talking afterwards.
[Name: Sean Days
Age: 25
Skulls: Yellow (7/9/3) Blue: (0) Red
Vitality: 91%
Health: 42%
Stamina: 88%
Skills: More and more. Every time he physically interacts with something he gets charged with a force equal to that of the interaction. He can then throw back the force how he wants. He prefers making himself stronger though.
Status: Excited
Intent: Help
Threat level: A]
He had the same threat level as Arnold was my first thought followed by;
"Are you ill?"
"No, of course not why would you think that?"
"I am the Grim Reaper it's my job to know."
"I like your style," Sonny laughed as he sat down on the chair. There was discomfort in his voice and everything we said from then on was far from the cheap small talk he tried to have earlier. After a while, we got up and went to the roof of the ship because our discussion kept getting deeper. I learned a lot about Sonny but it was still not enough for me to pin down Arnold as the regressor.