I Woke Up Piloting the Strongest Starship, so I Became a Space Mercenary

Leafil IV - Days after descending to Theta.We interacted with the people of the main house of Will Rose and defeated the chief of the Minfa clan who appeared in the territory of the Rose clan (?), Tinja, the daughter of the chief of the Grad family who showed up for punishment, and the two of them accompanied the Rosé family, and they gave me a busy bone break.

And today I bid farewell to the people of the main house of Will Rose and finally boarded Krishna to go to the next destination...

"Do you like it?"

”Doesn't it feel like a nice woman?”

Mimi is wearing a dress with a military-inspired design and a clear face.Putting on Date glasses to create an intelligent atmosphere is quite a temperament.

Well, that's right. Somehow it has the atmosphere of a mercenary guild receptionist.

That's kind of a uniform, too.The costume Mimi is wearing also has a very strong impression of being in uniform, so it feels like an intellectual or a career woman, or an officer.I like the fashion that's so close to the usual exposure, but I don't.

"I don't think it's too bad to get in from shape."I was just like that, too. "

I'd definitely like to see Elma at that time.

"Definitely not."

Elma, sitting on the sub-pilot seat, pokes out her tongue.Is the slight redness of the cheeks because I remembered myself when I was young?Well, a noble lady jumped out of her home aboard a battleship and set foot in the mercenary world.It must have been a lot of trouble in the beginning.After all, I think it's a big deal because I've climbed to the Silver Rank in a few years.

Your luggage has been loaded, Master.

Thank you, May. Where's Tina and Whiskey?

I was wondering if you would arrive here soon.

While saying that, Mae sits down on the sub-operator seat.Well, I just sat down because I didn't have her job to do.Since Krishna is a ship that can be operated by one person without any problems, even if Elma is the sub-pilot and Mimi is the main operator, the operation personnel is sufficient.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry to keep you waiting."

"Excuse me."

Tina and Whisker appeared in the cockpit a little later than Mei and fit into the subseat they had modified.

So, what about the head and tail?

The finishing touches are superb.

We've already shared with everyone what we've asked of the mercenary guild.Well, the content is simple.I received a personal request to escort VIPs at Leafil IV, so I wanted to recruit strength to ensure their safety.

Mercenaries continue to accept requests from individuals without going through the Mercenary Guild, so mercenaries belonging to the Mercenary Guild can pay fees and rewards to the Mercenary Guild and hire other Mercenaries as needed to complete such requests.I used that system to gather strength.

Mercenaries below the Silver Rank are required to pay 50% more in restraint.Bounty will be awarded to those who defeated the Cosmic Bandit, etc., and the loot will be collected and destroyed as much as possible.We also have a ship called the Black Lotus, so we have a contract to lend out Black Lotus' warehouse lot free of charge if there is a spoil that we cannot carry.

"But in the end, let's gather them together."So... did you do Crimson Lance?Can you fight them? "

It depends on how many people gather, but I guess it's impossible.

No, no, no, no.

The Crimson Lance is a gold ranked fleet of mercenaries who have been working together as a fleet and must be working together on the battlefront.Even if you supplement your fighting power with mercenaries below Silver Rank, I think it's honest and subtle whether you can hit them head-on and win.It could be overwhelming depending on the number of people gathering.

"You don't have to win anything else, in this case."Isn't that right, Hiro-sama? "

That's right. Mimi, you know what I mean.

"Ehehe"

Mimi, who was praised by me, shows it to me.Mimi's gotten used to the way I do things, too, the way mercenaries do things.Maybe you've been thinking a lot since you told the mercenary guild about the request.

“What do you mean?”

"Well, our winning condition this time is simply to use the gateway to track down Crimson Lance."More to the point, if the Crimson Lance can't fight us in the first place, we win. ”

"Hmm?"

Tina tilts her head at Mimi's explanation.There is no match between the information that you have hired a lot of mercenaries and the information that you can't fight with the Crimson Lance.

“Oh, I see. If you don't lose, the Crimson Lance ship will be damaged, and the Crimson Lance will be over when one of the mercenaries you hired escapes and tells the mercenary guild and system forces about the murder of Crimson Lance.”

"Yes, that's correct."

"Oh...? I see?"

It seems that Whisker came to me with an explanation from Mimi.Tina wasn't quite there yet.

Well, Whiskers are right.Even if you're inferior in combat, the Crimson Lance will end when anyone can follow it and communicate with the system forces and mercenary guilds.Your status as a Gold Rank Mercenary will be forfeited and you will be targeted by Mercenaries, System Factions, and Imperial Aerospace Forces.

In particular, the mercenary guild is very reluctant to take the bounty out of its possession.The former mercenary's bounty head will receive a bounty from the Empire, as well as a large bounty from the mercenary guild.When I was playing with the Sol, I used to earn Enel by repeatedly destroying those high bounty necks.I haven't actively crushed you since I got here. It's dangerous.

The high bounty heads are mostly ex-mercenaries and ex-military, and the ships on board are incomparably more powerful than the Starfleet.Many of the parts that can be peeled off when destroying them are extremely expensive, but they are not so different from those of other players. If they are poor, they will attack with higher gear, making them really dangerous.If they get cornered, they run.

Of course, if the player repeats the bonus, the player will get the same bounty.If you accidentally sink an NPC or other player's ship, you'll probably have to pay compensation, but if you stomp it down and repeat the murder, you'll get paid as usual.It's called "Darkness Fall."There are people in the world who like to play like that.Of course, normal stations and such will no longer be available - they will be shot at by powerful defenses just by approaching them, and they will be targeted by the system forces, government forces, and all other players, so it seems that they have become a lot of DoM players.

"That's not why." We need the help of courageous mercenaries to get us through this.We didn't have to fight from the front with our own strength. "

"I see... but isn't it a bit tight?"

"Tina"

What?

"The one who survived in the end is the winner."It's just stupid to die for honor and pride. "

"That's true." But why don't you lie to the mercenary guild? "

"Shh?"

"You're not riding a VIP in Leafil IV, are you?"

That said, Tina tilted her head again, but I smiled and opened my mouth.

"What are you talking about, Teena?"Next to me is the daughter of a nobleman with a proper family, isn't she?I didn't lie about anything. "

"... well, that's certainly not a lie."

For some reason, I feel like Tina's eyes are on me, but I don't care.Don't worry about it, I don't care.If we win, we'll be fine.