Chapter 290: I'm not one to hold a grudge (or to prolong an arc when it's over)

'Am I even capable of helping those guys out?' I thought while gently lifting Mia out of my lap and standing up myself. 'Or rather, can I bring Mia back to the outerpost without letting those guys leave my sphere of influence?'

In order to help Mia's friends, I had to get us safely to the outerpost first. And even though I managed to hide the source of my advantage over the Sangakarts so far, I wasn't naive enough to believe they wouldn't figure it out given the time necessary to move to the outerpost. 

"Are we going already?" Mia asked, her face expressing just how surprised she was by my decisiveness. 

"Yeah, there is no use wasting time here," I replied. Then, I bit down on my lips. 

It was time to start my gamble. 

"We don't really have the time to waste," I stated. "There is no telling when another meteor will strike the outerpost again," I added before turning my eyes towards the girl I saved.