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"Yeah, sorry about everything....ah, is that your friend? It is nice to meet you. I am the Talented Elite Jin! S-Rank in Border".

While Jin had appeared and cleared everything up for everyone else, Tora was outright baffled and confused. Mimik was still hacking into all those databases in Border, covering all their traces. Tora still did not even know what Mimik was up to, having him join Border like this, but he trusted Mimik in that it was the right choice.

Well, to be fair, Tora reprogrammed Mimik to be his friend so trust was kind of irrelevant. Of course, that was actually the only thing Tora did. He actually never programmed any loyalty clause or such into Mimik, he just removed the programming that forced Mimik to obey Colsaria and be loyal to them and programmed him to be his friend.

In other words, Mimik actually was not really bound to help Tora and did this of his own free will. And Tora was not fully aware of this either, that Mimik chose to help him of his own free will...but it would make Tora very happy if he...

"Uwa!?"

Suddenly, Tora felt himself getting picked up by Jin by one arm. To the two people there, especially to Rai who only just met Tora and had yet to interact with him, Tora only appeared to be a small elementary grade schooler. Standing at 120-125 cm, or four feet, tall, he was the shortest of the short. Most would probably guess his age at seven or eight, maybe nine. In other words, once anyone thought that questions would be asked.

And then, Jin put Tora on his back and carried him piggyback style. Tora was embarrassed and also puffed his cheeks in a pout, unaware of how adorable it made him look. In the science labs where he was imprisoned for his childhood, no one ever told him these things either so he was completely unaware.

"I can walk myself!"

"It will be faster if I carry you. But are you really eleven or twelve years old? I know the orphanage said they were absolutely sure since you were dropped off as a baby, but still...you are quite short for a boy".

After that, he also glanced at Kali.

"Huh, I wonder if you two are actually related with that rare hair color".