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

"Leave my situation aside, and let's talk about work first." It's not like we're free. "

That's right.

"Oh, by the way, it's Wells who's being targeted by Lieutenant Robitson over there. He's a civilian scientist like me." Eagle Dynamics' Bot Designer "

Huh, the Eagle Dynamics. Those combat bots are using us, too.

Typically, Tina and Whisker use it as an impromptu maintenance bot. It uses data from the same Eagle Dynamics maintenance bot, so it's highly compatible.

Hiro, it looks like you're buying expensive stuff.

"Entire unit with maintenance system, all equipped"

"That looks expensive."

When I put my index finger up and said so, Shoko-sensei laughed as he put his hand in his mouth. You've had enough of laughing, haven't you?

So, I heard that the Psychic is coming, but no way?

"No, I'm not... I'm not, but I'm the main character today." It's my crew's guts. I'm from the Divine Empire of Verzalus. "

"Huh, of the Holy Empire... I see." By the way, can I touch your ears and tail? "

Sensei Shoko approaches Kugi and walks around him, observing Kugi's whole body - it's very easy to get close to him.

"Um... if it's just the ears"

"Thank you. Hmmm... the skeleton is close to a typical humanoid, but the shape of the skull looks quite different." Is it possible for Kugi-san's species to mate with humans? "

Hah, you can do it here.

Kugi, who was quite reluctantly touching the beast's ears above her head, answered with a shivering red cheek. What is the intent of the question?

"Interesting. Is this what all the people of the Holy Empire of Verzalus look like?" Of course, there are a lot of people with psychic abilities. Can I take a DNA sample later? "

"Yes, it's over. Stand back, stand back. I don't want to over-touch you, customer."

Oh, the key to human evolution.

I'm sorry to hear that, but you're half joking. No, it's half serious. If I leave it alone, I'll really start collecting DNA, so let's stop it.

"First of all, it was Dr. Shoko who told me about work, right?" It's derailed. "

"Oops, that's right." I'm sorry, it was so interesting... Let's go to the specimen for now. Follow me. "

With that said, Shoko-sensei turned his heels and began to walk first. Mr. Wells, who was being watched by Lieutenant Robitson and typing something on his tablet, sent a grumpy gaze, which he ignored. I'm an adult, so I have to pay for what I've done myself.

"I've been trying to communicate with 'them' for a while, but I'm stuck. Of course, the voice didn't respond to all kinds of communication waves, so I was in trouble.”

Pass through a double shielded lockdown and enter a vast expanse.

"Oh... this is amazing"

"I'm letting you use the space in luxury." The equipment is also quite good. It was the Imperial Aerospace Force. You have money, don't you? "

In the vastness of space, more than twenty balls were housed in separate shields one by one. Some of them were sitting like spheres, others were deformed into killing machine foam and stood still, while others continued to hit the shield with a sickle-like blade.

”Anyway, it's hard to beat the gun shield anyway.”

"That's right, onee-chan. No matter how much you hit it, you won't be able to break through the shield."

"That material is really interesting." Particularly resistant to energy weapons in general. My analysis shows that it has a crystal structure that is unparalleled. The energy transfer efficiency is very high. Even when exposed to high-power lasers and plasma heat, it propagates and spreads energy all over the body before evaporation and collapse. ”

"... I mean?"

"Energy weapons basically concentrate a huge amount of heat at one point and evaporate and explode the irradiation point in an instant, causing destruction." In other words, this egg structure is decomposing a hundred calories into one calorie to be received by the entire structure. "

"I may have been able to imagine it somehow."

I thought it would be good to have the image of forcibly converting a point attack into a surface attack.

It's like a physical shield.

"That expression is really sharp." The problem is that if we use this structural material as the ship's armor, instead of exerting incredible durability against energy weapons, it is likely to collapse at the same time if the allowable amount is exceeded. It's like the shield saturates and goes down. "

But it still seems useful.

Even if we don't use it as armor, it's worth every penny of this nature. Heat problems for machines will follow at all times.

"If you can synthesize it artificially, it will certainly be useful in all fields. Although the hardness and toughness of the armor are inferior to those of the current armor, I think it has a lot of useful properties to compensate for that."

As we speak, Dr. Shoko brings us to the balls that are still stuck in Deformed Machine Mode.

"This individual is the most normal individual in the specimen." However, I don't have any sign of being open to dialogue at all. "

Looking beyond the pale shield at the sluggish, murderous machine mode balls. This is the first time I've seen it so closely. The number of feet is six, and they are all black. It's armor or crustaceans, but the surface of my body is still shiny.

"Speaking of which, I think he raised something like a scream during the battle." After all, aren't you going to exchange information by voice? "

"Oh, the report came from the Imperial Navy Marines who actually fought against me." My scans have revealed a degenerate vocal apparatus and mythology. However, so far, we haven't been able to see them communicating with each other. "

And, next to me and Dr. Shoko talking, Kugi stares at the balls in killer machine mode, and the mechanics begin to observe the balls from various angles around the quarantine shield.

“Do you think you can communicate?”

"... I'm sorry, my lord." I was rejected. This is not them. "

"If they refused, there must have been a response." This can be called progress. Yeah. "

The teacher nodded with satisfaction as he bowed his ears and apologized. I know Kugi is depressed, but why is he so happy? I don't understand this.

Is there no progress?

“No, it's enough to know that their mode of communication is the same mental wave as that handled by the Psychic. But if we don't have the mental amplification materials, we won't be able to communicate with people who don't have psychic abilities."

"Oh, then I've got it." Hey, Tina. "

"Hoi, hoi. Ah, oniisan, if he touches you, why don't you let him go?"

Yes.

When I touch it, it shatters and shatters. Here. I think I'm too powerful. It doesn't go very well with destroying museum exhibits or crashing into the big forest.

"I've prepared it... eh? What do you mean?"

"I had a chance to go to the Leafil system before." See, Elma is an elf, right? "

"Oh, that's right. So this is where the elves come from? But I'm sure the material in this hand is harsh, right?"

Well, there's so much there... I'm getting along with the elves in that system.

"Haha... well, I won't ask about the situation right now." Please let me know if you get the chance next time. "

"Okay."

While I was talking, I lowered the hard case Tina was carrying on her back to the floor and opened it.

Oh?

Oh, my God?

At that moment, the balls that had been sitting still were approaching us with tremendous force. It seemed that Tina was interested in the contents of the shielded case that Tina had opened. If you look closely, it appears that other individuals are clearly interested in us. Even the individual who was beating the scythe against the shield in disorder has shown interest in us by stopping the work.

"This has turned out to be interesting."

Seeing the situation, Shoko-sensei gave a smile. That's a bad smile.