Komorebi
Clearing
Walter chuckled, feeling the last of the tension flow out of him. "It looks like someone has already taken a liking to you." He observed as he watched a nameless Nekovalkyrian run off. "That is reassuring, at least."
The engineer stood by the FARS, taking this moment to look around him. One good, long, look all around him. To him, it appeared like... Barely anything happened. Barlow-hei 's tankette sustained dama- Implying the tankette can handle any damage directly is only comparing a cardboard matchbox to a reinforced briefcase.
At first, Walter Hyde felt guilty for even thinking of such things. No one knew what they were facing, even Chusa Hoshi made that clear. But... They were simply stronger. Yet the L'Kor kept diving in, one after another... Walter turned his head once again to the dead bodies he had scavenged not long ago; they were among tens of bodies, maybe even a hundred or so, of their enemy. His infantry-mates have killed so many, and yet it doesn't matter if anyone here died; they'll just come back. They chose to let it affect them, as if death had any meaning at this point.
It hit the Minkan just then that... This is nothing different from PA training in military school. There is no consequence for failure for us, is there? The only obstacle we could face is with each other, but even then we are borderline a perfect union, Walter thought to himself. He looked at his own hands, recalling the moment when he got Chlorate to move: he just took some circuits from tech he didn't know proper, to fix something else that he didn't know proper, and it worked to an extent!
His thoughts got interrupted when Yoshida-hei started yelling at a fellow soldier. He smiled, feeling some relief. Well, I suppose we haven't stopped growing yet... And it is presumptuous of me to think such thoughts so soon. I am most likely still a little upset for not making myself as useful as I wanted to be out here. Yeah... That's probably it.
"You may want to follow that suggestion, Chlorate. Stay close to the Tankette, Barlow-hei will take care of you just as well as I have." He told his small friend, and pointed to the Elysian engineer by the Tankette. "I shall find that absent turret in the meantime; it isn't like I have anything else to do, right?" The leisurely Hyde walked off after giving her and Barlow a wave.