After leaving the dock and taking Z back to the cave, Ponzi turned on the lights, felt distressed and asked Z to sit on the edge of the bed to rest.

"Are you okay?"

Under the light, the cracked wound had healed, leaving only a little blood stain on the smooth, traceless skin.

"Well, it's the commander. He's not injured, right?"

Z, who wanted to stand up, was forced to sit down. When she saw Ponzi busy in the cave, Z wanted to stand up several times, but after hesitation, she finally did not stand up and chose to accept the concern from the commander.

He is different from the cold big shot in his mind.

His eyes lacked the coldness of the past, and his tone and movements became more humane. His head, which had never been lowered even when faced with the admiral and the Siren battleship, easily lowered his head at this moment.

Z clumsily scrubbed the towel, and when the wound was touched, Z pretended that it didn't hurt and smiled.

"Commander, do you hate this life?"

Z, who asked, hid his face in the darkness, and could not hear the ups and downs in his tone, but his voice became increasingly subtle, clearly revealing his nervousness.

"Maybe..."

The uncertain answer sounded like a natural answer to Z, an overseas island with nothing, an isolated island that could not realize the commander's ambition, an isolated island belonging to the exiles.

"But if I can be with you, this kind of life is not unacceptable."

"well!?"

Z was so shocked that she covered her mouth. She never thought that the commander who could use human life as a pawn would say these words.

They were surprised by each other's unusual tenderness, and the two spent the night in a hurry. If Ponzi was a playboy, he would have taken advantage of the situation to get Z's first blood tonight.

Early the next morning.

As the sun rose, Ponzi was woken up by his biological clock. He glanced at his PAD and saw that the time was 6:30 in the morning. He felt that his body was very heavy, so he kicked the heavy objects away from him out of habit.

"Ugh!"

"Hey, it doesn't look like a quilt?"

She didn't wake up after being kicked out of bed. This reliable ship girl has a serious flaw: her sleep state is extremely poor.

"She was obviously sleeping in the bed next to her last night, how on earth did she come here?"

Carrying Z onto his bed, Ponzi took the toiletries and walked towards the river. As he was leaving, he did not notice that the girl lying on the box bed behind him opened her lavender eyes.

“A new day has begun”

After shouting to vent the accumulated depression of yesterday, Ponzi sat on the bank of the river and thought about how to move forward next.

The first thing to do must be to regain control of the energy point and repair it to the Z enter canal.

However, the energy points collected will be used up by rubies first, and Z without repair can't defeat rubies, and his thoughts fall into an endless loop.

Ponzi, who was bored and throwing stones at the river, thinking about how to subdue Ruby, accidentally threw the stone in his hand into the grass behind him.

"Ouch!!"

A woman's pain sounded from behind, and the grass moved in response, and silvery white flashed past.

"Z, are you okay?"

Ponzi shouted into the bushes behind him. Worried about whether he might hurt Z, Ponzi walked over to see the situation.

"No, it's okay!"

The response was sharp and urgent, filled with uneasiness that was the opposite of nothing.

As Ponzi approached, the bushes kept making "swishing" sounds and shaking, and pink, white, and silver colors could be seen flashing in the gaps from time to time.

"Z?"

"Yes, yes!"

Obviously not.

Ponzi put his hand into the bushes, and the figure hiding in the bushes let out an exclamation.

Ponzi grabbed something in his hand and pulled it out hard, while the figure in the bushes kept shouting louder and louder, shrinking into the bushes.

The two were competing in a tug-of-war with something like Pounds's hand. Pounds was completely inferior to the other in strength. Whenever he was about to be pulled into the bushes, the other would relax his strength and let him stay away a little.

After several repetitions, Ponzi grasped the opponent's rhythm and pattern, and he gave up the fight and went straight into the bushes.

"Yeah yeah yeah!!!"

As expected, the opponent completely relaxed his strength and tried to push Ponzi out of the bushes.

Ponzi also took advantage of the situation, kicked his legs hard on the ground, and fell out of the bushes together with something he was holding on to.

Thrown and rolled by the force, the thing flew up from his hand and slowly landed on his face.

"Hot?"

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"

The extremely miserable scream sounded, as if she had encountered the most desperate thing in the world, as if she was witnessing the moment of human destruction. Her scream made the seabirds that were not many on the island fly away one after another.

"Pink...shorts?"

Shorts, pink shorts, girly pink tights.

"shorts!?"

Ponzi hurriedly threw the shorts he was holding back into the bushes, feeling as if he had done something terrible.

Seeing a slender hand grabbing the pink shorts back into the bushes, Ponzi realized what the problem was.

"Who are you, are you a survivor!?"

The woman in the bushes was definitely not Z, nor could she be Ruby. Suspecting that she might be another survivor on the same ship, Ponzi walked forward excitedly.

With one survivor, there will be more survivors. Gathering everyone together, maybe there will be a way to leave the island.

"Yes or no!"

The bushes shook again, and there was a "clattering" sound. Ponzi, who understood what the other party was doing, kept silent and pretended not to hear.

After a while, Ponzi felt eyes peering at him, and after searching carefully in the bushes, Ponzi found those eyes that were even brighter and dazzling than the flames.

Why did she deny it?

If not, then who is she?

"My name is..."

He wanted to introduce himself, but Ponzi hesitated. He really wanted to introduce his body's real name, but he was both a virtue and a king, and he seemed to have something to say about Kiski. He really couldn't think of such a mantra-like name.

stand up.

The scene suddenly reached a stalemate. One person was hiding in the bushes and did not want to introduce himself, and the other was standing in the sun but could not introduce himself.

"commander……"

Z's voice sounded in the distance.

"commander?"

The figure hiding in the bushes murmured questions, as if talking to himself or raising questions in Ponzi.

They looked at each other silently, and when Z was about to arrive, the figure suddenly jumped out from the bushes.

The petite figure passed by Ponzi. She nimbly shuttled through the treetops and bushes, appearing and disappearing, and successfully dodged Z. who was coming from a distance and focused all her attention on Ponzi.

"Silver hair, red eyes, pink shorts... Hmm, could it be her?"

The name of a ship girl reminded Ponzi, but why did she appear here? Ponzi also had to ask Z. If one more ship girl could provide help, then the next thing would go much smoother. (Unfinished)
Chapter completed!