“And so, Linda here will be temporarily boarding the ship.”

“Uh, hi……”

Linda, the girl I mistook for a boy, bowed toward the rest of our crew while acting as meek as a cat in the break space of the Lotus.

Elma and I, together with Dr. Shouko through the comms, explained the situation in detail to the people at the orphanage facility, then temporarily returned to the Black Lotus with Linda in tow.

“It’s great that you guys brought her over quickly. The sooner we perform tests on her, the better.”

Dr. Shouko seemed particularly excited. It looks like she was looking forward to playing an active role and showing her stuff.

“Hey Doc, why don’t we show her around the ship first?”

“That’s right. Though we don’t know for exactly how long, we’ll be living together with her inside the ship after all.”

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