In the cockpit of the SC45 spacecraft, Captain Dharma and the others could breathe a sigh of relief when they heard an incoming call on the communication device on the captain's left wrist.
"How are you guys in there?" asked Captain Dharma.
"Not good," Hyker said over the captain's communication device. "We got caught, Cap."
"Good grief! That's what we're afraid of!"
"You don't have to worry now, Cap."
"Don't have to worry, how, huh?!"
"We were quite lucky."
"Lucky?"
"Yes, a noble helped us escape."
"A noble?" repeated the captain half in disbelief, and so did Pical, Quinn, Oryza, and Aldi.
Hyker glanced at Naomi, smiling, shaking his head. Not just for them, for Hyker and Naomi alone, both of them could hardly believe it.
