[color=cornflowerblue]“I have no idea about that. I’m not the one who calls the shots here. But I doubt whoever runs this place needs money so badly they would be resorting to ransom now,”[/color] Haruka answered Akari’s question as she adjusted a headset on herself. [color=cornflowerblue]“You are lucky, you know? I’m taking care of you the best I can, if it wasn’t for me, you would be wearing a straitjacket or something like this,”[/color] she added as she knelt by the red-haired girl and helped her dress.

[color=ed1c24]“I think I’d be safer if I had one,”[/color] Akari replied as she pulled away from Haruka, trying to preserve her personal space. [color=ed1c24]“If you aren’t part of their organization why are you even here?”[/color]

[color=cornflowerblue]“You could say I’m a freeloader or something like this. But—”[/color] Haruka interrupted herself before she finished speaking. Her head turned away and attention focused elsewhere, almost as if she heard something or someone calling for her.

[color=cornflowerblue]“I’m sorry, Cutie, I gotta leave now. Be a good girl and I promise to bring a treat when I’m back,”[/color] Haruka said as she left Akari at HART’s mercy.

[color=ed1c24]“Hey, where are you going? I couldn’t be that you are one of the GMGs, right?”[/color] Akari tried to follow the retreating girl until she found that she was held in place by energy shackles.

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It didn’t take long for Haruka to make her way out of HART’s mothership and find the source of the distress call. Though she couldn’t say that she was surprised by it, she found it hard to hold her apprehension back when she laid her eyes on them.

[color=cornflowerblue]“Setsu—What are you two doing here?”[/color] Haruka asked as she ran to her friend’s side. [color=cornflowerblue]“Actually, forget it, we have to get the two of you somewhere safe and treat those wounds before anything else,”[/color] she said as she called Tomoko to get them back ASAP. As she did so, she produced a small first aid kit and tried to at least alleviate their suffering.

It was only when she was trying to help Yeshua that Haruka noticed they had another person with them. [color=cornflowerblue]“Who’s she? Are you guys trying to make prisoners too?”[/color] she asked as the rescue ship picked them up and made its way back to the Silencia.
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