Chapter 8: Returning the Diva

Archangel

That night, Kira, who was extremely dissatisfied with the practice of using hostages, took advantage of the rest time to secretly take Lacus out of the room where she was imprisoned.

Sneaking all the way, they were still discovered by his friends Sai and Miriallia. Fortunately, the two little friends were also dissatisfied with the practice of using hostages, so they planned to help Kira return Lacus.

The four of them quietly went to the locker room again, but they didn't notice a Second Lieutenant pilot who had just been incorporated into the Archangel's establishment following them secretly.

The system mission's failure erasure really scared him a bit, so he wanted to see if any accidents would happen.

But after leaving the low-gravity environment of the living area, Li Boyong, who was not yet accustomed to the zero-gravity environment, accidentally exposed his whereabouts.

At a corner, he didn't control his posture while floating and almost hit the wall face-first...

Although he finally supported himself with his hand, the noise made still startled Kira and his group in front.

This was awkward. Originally, he wanted to cover Kira's action, but he ended up startling them directly.

Li Boyong, whose whereabouts were discovered, smiled awkwardly at those few, and found that the few opposite were looking guilty, as if they were even more awkward than himself.

"Yo, what are you doing here?"

Li Boyong asked awkwardly, and only after asking did he find that the faces of the few opposite were even worse, and Kira was hiding Lacus tightly behind him.

The atmosphere was even more awkward...

Li Boyong regretted wanting to slap his own mouth. Wouldn't asking like this make the opposite side even more nervous?

Li Boyong, who was also a bit nervous, moved his eyes and saw Lacus's "maternity clothes," almost laughing out loud, but fortunately, he held it back immediately.

A moment later, Kira reacted. This Second Lieutenant opposite seemed to be that survivor pilot from the advance team. If so, he might not know Lacus's identity.

He had a flash of inspiration and opened his mouth to explain stutteringly: "Ah... oh... oh... actually, we are doing training on quickly putting on spacesuits."

"Oh... oh... right, right, right!"

"Yeah, we rookies still need to exercise more!"

Sai and Miriallia hurriedly echoed what Kira said, but both of them were still heart-beating fast.

After all, they didn't even believe this kind of ghost talk themselves.

Facing this reason that even ghosts wouldn't believe, Li Boyong nodded repeatedly, pretending that he didn't find any abnormalities, and rolled down along this slope: "Oh, oh, so that's how it is. You guys are really diligent! Then you guys practice slowly, I'm going to the cafeteria to find something to eat."

He even put on an expression of deep conviction, and at the same time gave them a thumbs up encouragingly, before turning and floating away.

Seeing Li Boyong float away, Kira and the four of them all breathed a sigh of relief, and then hurriedly took Lacus to the hangar.

And Li Boyong, after turning back, actually hid at the corner to eavesdrop on the movement over there. Hearing that Kira and his group seemed to continue their action, he quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

Holy crap, if Kira and the others were startled by me, leading them to give up sending Lacus away, and then the mission failed and I was erased by the system, does that count as me killing myself?

Almost showed myself a face of rogue operation...

But thinking of Kira's clumsy lie just now, he was worried again. After thinking about it, he secretly followed them again.

As a result, when he was about to enter the hangar, he really noticed an abnormality.

Kira and the four of them were hiding at the entrance of the hangar, sneaking around and hesitating, looking like they didn't know what to do. Sounds seemed to be coming from the hangar at the entrance.

Is there still someone working overtime in the hangar at this time?

I remember it wasn't like this in the original anime!

Li Boyong was a bit confused. He secretly bypassed to another entrance and took a peek at the situation in the hangar, and found that there were actually a few maintenance crew members in the hangar repairing the lift isolation wall that had been slightly deformed by his bump, and the leader was that Sergeant Madok.

These people were over at the isolation wall, some running back and forth to get tools. If they went out at this time, it would be hard not to be discovered directly. No wonder Kira and the others were cowering there, not daring to act.

Seeing this scene, Li Boyong had a feeling of "damn it," and his mentality exploded.

It's strange that the maintenance of the machines should have been completed, why is there still someone working overtime in the hangar? As a result, it was still the pit I dug myself...

After a long while, Li Boyong adjusted his exploded mentality.

After thinking for a while, he floated into the hangar from another entrance, attracting the attention of several maintenance crew members.

"I'm sorry, because of me, everyone is still working overtime at this time."

Li Boyong looked full of guilt, "I'll come to help everyone too!"

His appearance successfully attracted the attention of Sergeant Madok and other maintenance crew members. Seeing this, Li Boyong gave a military salute and introduced himself, "Formerly belonging to the Montgomery, Second Lieutenant Li Boyong, now incorporated into the Archangel's battle sequence with the approval of Captain Murrue Ramius. I need everyone in the maintenance crew to give me more advice in the future."

"Hello, Lieutenant Li, I am the maintenance crew leader, Madok, rank Sergeant." Sergeant Madok hurriedly returned the salute.

Although he had complaints about the accident caused by this Li Boyong, since this friendly orphan Li Boyong had already been incorporated into the Archangel's battle sequence and his attitude was so sincere, he couldn't say anything.

"Oh my, this is what I did, right?" Li Boyong continued to attract the attention of the maintenance crew, "I am really very sorry. It was my first time landing on the deck of such a space warship, and I was really not used to it. Actually, I am a naval aviation pilot, and I don't have much experience in piloting the Mobius."

Anyway, these lower-level soldiers couldn't check his resume, so Li Boyong just talked nonsense. In fact, his resume was just a space force rookie.

"So that's how it is. That's why you accelerated at that time." Madok looked like he suddenly realized.

Li Boyong: "That's how it is. But to express my apology, let me help too."

Madok: "Lieutenant, you are too polite, these are originally our jobs."

Li Boyong continued to be polite: "No, no, I would feel uneasy if I did that."

"Well, since the Lieutenant insists."

Sergeant Madok didn't refuse anymore. It's better to finish early and rest early than to be polite here. Anyway, just watch him and don't make trouble.

As a result, before he turned around, Li Boyong continued to make trouble over there.

"How about this, it's a rare opportunity, let me get to know everyone. How about everyone come over and introduce themselves?"

Li Boyong looked polite and happy to get to know everyone, making several maintenance crew members who were working a bit bewildered.

However, the superior was so polite and wanted to get to know everyone, it seemed not good to refuse.

A group of maintenance crew came to Li Boyong and gathered.

While listening to the self-introductions of these maintenance crew members, Li Boyong glanced at the entrance where Kira and the others were.

Finding that Kira and the others still had no movement, he was anxious in his heart.

He had to secretly make gestures toward that entrance while hiding behind. At this time, he couldn't care if Kira and the others would be bewildered. He hoped they could understand his meaning.

Kira and the others were already hesitating whether to take action while the maintenance crew's attention was not here. Now that they suddenly saw Li Boyong's gestures, they were a bit at a loss.

It turned out that the new Second Lieutenant had already seen the problems of their few people, but the other party didn't go to report them, and even helped attract the attention of the maintenance crew.

Although he didn't know why the other party wanted to help them, Kira felt there was no time to hesitate, so he decisively took Lacus into the Strike's cockpit.

After the Strike started, Madok and the others were startled, "Hey, who is piloting the Strike, hurry up and stop for me."

But Kira didn't care about these, but continued to pilot the Strike to perform the sortie procedure, while Sai and Miriallia helped on the work platform.

The maintenance crew was suddenly panicked, and Li Boyong also pretended to be bewildered, and conveniently grabbed Sergeant Madok who wanted to stop him and asked: "What's wrong? What happened? Why did the Strike move by itself?"

The acting was as exaggerated as it could be.

By the time the situation in the hangar alarmed the bridge, the Strike had already successfully taken weapons and left the Archangel.

Li Boyong quietly breathed a sigh of relief again. Now the mission should be no problem. ===== CHAPTER 9 =====