"Still not going to tell?" Raya asked, her gaze remaining away from him. She was standing with her back against the wall closest to the vault's door. "We're leaving Tyl soon."
"Yeah." Cero nodded. "A couple of hours, right?"
"One or two hours, yes."
A couple of days had passed.
Well, with days on Tyl being about 72 hours long, two days had passed at most.
"Well?"
"You already know what I wanted to talk about? Don't you?" Cero chuckled as he placed a hand on the vault's door.
"Maybe I do, maybe I don't." Raya shrugged, slowly pushing herself away from the wall.
"In any case, you're the woman here, right? You should be the one telling me things, not expecting answers all the time."
"Well, maybe..." Raya whispered as she directed her gaze towards the door he was about to open. "She didn't leave the ship since we got here. Well, except that one time when everyone did."
"Yeah." Cero pushed the door open. "Wouldn't be bad for us to go outside for a bit."
"Right..." She muttered, before slowly turning away.
Raya turned back before taking a step.
"So it's Lith and Liz, right?"
Cero turned towards her, but remained silent.
"Yes... I suppose it was obvious." Raya scratched her head. "You were going to tell me, but then changed your mind. Why?"
"Because you've known for a while now." He smiled. "And it was amusing seeing you fish for answers you already had."
"Hmph." She turned away but didn't walk. The tip of her boots hit the ground a couple of times. "Liz said that she would count on me... I guess that answers why she said so. Well, I already knew but..."
"Well? What do you think about it?"
"About you fucking my comrades and crewmates?"
"That's a crude way of putting in." He sighed.
Raya remained silent for a bit, her boot knocking against the ground again and again.
"What does Liz think about it?"
"Why do you ask?"
"Geh..." The light caused Lith to hold a hand to her face. Her eyes were obviously irritated by the light.
"You're turning into a shut-in." Cero chuckled as he held her left hand. "Let's go out."
Lith pressed her lips together, and her right hand moved to his elbow.
The two walked out of the spaceship with the female Granilith almost hiding behind the Paru's right arm.
They walked down the ramp, and just before getting to the ground,
"Uwa!" Lith exclaimed as she took a step back.
"What is..."
Before Cero could utter the question, Lith started taking her clothes off.
A moment later, she was completely naked, and her clothes were folded neatly and placed at the end of the ramp.
"Going back to nature, huh?" The Paru nodded and took off his pants as well. "Sure."
They stepped off the ramp, and started walking towards the forest.
"Don't you miss it? The sun and all? The greenery?"
"..."
Lith's gaze kept moving from right to left, and her facial expression made it very obvious that she did not miss it.
As the two got closer and closer to the forest,
"Ugh..."
Never had Cero heard such an obvious exclamation of disgust from the female Granilith.
He slowly lowered his gaze, and found that she had stepped on a damp spot of earth.
It wasn't wet enough to be called mud, but it was enough to incite disgust in Lith.
Cero silently rubbed his chin for a bit, processing the situation.
"Guess the queen detests dirt now."
The female Granilith turned towards him, and pointed at her dirtied foot.
For a moment, it seemed like she would cry.
"Uwa!" Lith exclaimed as she tore some grass from the ground and used the handful to clean her foot, causing Cero to chuckle.