"You're too kind, Ultramarine," said Russell.
Malt Wine just smiled: "It was nothing."
Upon hearing this, Russell fell silent for a moment.
Behind him was the light symbolizing freedom, and there Russell stood at the doorway, his vertical pupils emitting a ghostly green light.
Russell said solemnly, "Is what you call a trifle matter referring to you, as a Codeless, doing everything possible to board an airship with increasingly stringent security checks, while also risking your life to personally abduct the captain?
"During this process, airship security might have killed you; I could have killed you without a second thought, or I could have left you here, intentionally or forgetting to bring you back... All this done simply to prevent a missile attack from killing me.
