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

"Damn......"

"Your Majesty, it's just a matter of time..."

"Give up now..."

Elma and Mimi can forgive me for moaning from left to right.

His Majesty the Fuckin 'Emperor's "Let's All Duel (Duel) with Captain Hiro! Dodgy Match in front of you (tournament)' an hour after the declaration of the event. We were allowed to stay in a guest room in Imperial Castle by His Majesty's 'courtesy', and now we sit back on a luxurious, comfortable sofa.

"What a courtesy! You're just under house arrest so you can't get away with it!

"Dear Hiro! Shh! Shh!

"I don't know where or who's listening, so don't say anything rare..."

Mimi rushes to plug my mouth and cautions me with a throwing attitude that Elma hasn't even tried to hide her tiredness. Where and who are you, this is a normal private room - meaning there's a risk of eavesdropping or surveillance? I see. Because it's a guest room, there's no guarantee that those things aren't set up. In the first place, we don't even know if this is a guest room or a room for another purpose.

"Anyway, I want to go back to my usual outfit..."

I loosened my neck tie and sighed. I'm sure this garment that Chris has prepared for me is definitely a superior menswear, but it doesn't feel very tough compared to the usual mercenary garments.

"Me too......"

"This used to be normal..."

Mimi and Elma are also wearing superior dresses and ornaments, but they still seem more comfortable dressed the usual way. They both remove the ornaments they were decorating and carefully place them on the side table by the couch.

May is going to Krishna to pick up our clothes and stuff. The truth is, I tried to go too, but Mae told me to be beside the two of them myself. I'm not sure if it's a statement to worry about Mimi and Elma, or if it's a statement to give me a break from being tired.

"What do you think?

"What do you think, what?

"It's the Emperor's intention. Why did you want to open a match in front of us and keep us in Imperial Castle? I don't know."

Elma temporarily thinks about the question I put.

"I wonder if you just really want to see what Hiro's prowess is about the game before you. In a surprisingly short period of time, the strength of an up-and-coming mercenary who ran from Bronze Rank to Platinum Rank."

"I see? Dismantling. That's a good annoyance"

"So don't... and there will be times when I let you stay in Imperial Castle to make sure you don't miss Hiro, but also to protect you from all the trouble? Look, you must have gotten tangled up the moment the ceremony ended, right?

"Oh, uh... you're Sir Nantka. Yes, yes, I remember."

"You don't remember... Baron Clias. If we stay here, we won't get tangled up from that. Besides, if you show strength in your previous match, you will be less involved in the future."

"I see, with due regard"

"Well, you know... in case you don't miss Hiro,"

"Right."

You don't have to be under house arrest to get away with it. My face would be rounded if I escaped after being announced that I was going to play your game to gauge my strength in large measure. At last, the face of the Emperor who hosted the match before you, the face of the Imperial Air Force, who worked for the Gold Star Award, and the face of the Mercenary Alliance, who promoted me to platinum rank, are all crushed. Can you crush the face of the Emperor, the Imperial Aeronautics Army, and the Mercenary Guild as mercenaries ahead? It is impossible to decide.

So you can't essentially beat the hand of running away from your match when it is announced that you will hold your match in the name of His Majesty the Emperor.

"But hey in front of the game... what format is it going to be? Are you telling me I'm going to fight all the skilled men I've gathered?

I'd like to beg your pardon, honestly.

"I mean, we fight in what form. There's no way you're gonna fight with a sword."

"Maybe that too. Not only that, but maybe we can make them fight white soldiers with laser guns, power armor, or ships."

"What the hell is that hell triathlon..."

White blade battles with swords, white soldier battles with laser guns and power armors, interspace battles with ships, do all that? Me? Ma? I'd like to withdraw my foreword and get out of here now, please?

Once I decided to do it, the empire's response was really quick. An hour after the emperor issued his message - when we started to relax in the guest rooms - the Home Office finished creating the plan bones, and then three hours later, the roots were rooted for each location, and two hours later, the implementation was announced in large measure.

Preparations for your previous game challenging Gold Star mercenary 'Crazy' Hiro have progressed steadily. It was widely communicated that this was due to the immediate decree of His Majesty the Emperor. It was also announced that the mercenary Hiro would be rewarded well if he grabbed the victory, and that many knights, soldiers, nobles, and mercenaries would all sign up to participate in the match.

"I've already got over three hundred applicants?

You're gonna fight all of this? I'm gonna die, okay?

The day after the ceremony. I borrowed Mimi's tablet to read the news about your match, and I made a weak noise in my heart. Somehow it's boiling like this. These three hundred free men.

"I don't think you can fight everyone on a boulder. Isn't that how you fight in tournament form among the participants and narrow down the numbers?

"Could Hiro be incorporated into that tournament in the first place......?

"No, that would undermine the purpose of challenging me if I lost on the way? No, it's about His Majesty the Emperor, so don't do it..."

Is there anything you can do to expose yourself to defeat along the way? Say something like that.

Huh? That His Majesty the Emperor in me is too full of malice? Well, then you, it's more impossible to look favorably at a guy like this throwing extra-large troubles at you by saying something about adding color to his destiny.

That's a lot of loose ends.

It should be noted that I contacted Major Serena at a moment of calm to explain the situation, but Major Serena looked terribly sorry for me.

I thought you guys had the weird power to suck in trouble.

The three of us couldn't say anything back to Major Serena. It's sad.

It should be noted that the decision to hold your match also blew the Imperial Air Force's plans to dust into the wood. The truth is, after the award, I was going to get coverage from the Public Relations Division of the Imperial Aeronautics Army - which is not a civilian coverage, so it doesn't conflict with the provisions of the priority coverage rights with Space Dwelg Corp. Not only that, but I also planned to participate in the next small battleship and onboard aircraft trials to be recruited in the Imperial Navy, but that was posh too.

Army players also participate from the Imperial Air Force, so when I go on trial and show off my combat manoeuvres, it may work in favor of participants from the Imperial Air Force who see it. When I say that, the Imperial Air Force has data on my combat manoeuvres in battle with crystalline life forms, and Major Serena probably has my combat data in the battle against alien thieves, so I think it's now in the Empire Air Force's favor.

"Ha, I'm anxious."

"Really?

Mimi tilts her neck at my words as she sighs.

"Whatever the battle with the ship, it's hard to say I'm good at white soldier fights or white blade fights..."

I couldn't lose a white soldier battle in SOL, but I'm not too sure I can do the same in this world... No, I know I can probably move the same way, but I haven't had a full white soldier battle in my life yet. I've done it a few times if I'm wearing power armor.

"I think I'm all right...... I don't even know if I can counter the armies around the Imperial City"

"I haven't dreamed of being the strongest of empires or the strongest of galaxies, I am. In other words, my share of the battle is between universes with ships! You're incorporating the White Blade and White Soldier fights all the time!

"It's okay, sir. No problem if you use your usual powers."

Mae pushes my heartbeat, but I haven't beaten Mae properly yet.

Well, Mae is a maid droid with the best specs I can think of. We're talking about that combat capability approaching military combat bots, and maybe it's reckless of itself to try to win it alive.

"But won't the period between the announcement of implementation and execution be too short?

The first part of your match, the White Blade Division, was also to be held the day after tomorrow. It is then scheduled to take three days to do the first part, and then the second part of the White Soldiers' War, and also another three days to do it, and finally the third part of the Intercosmic Combat.

"Because using the sword is a basic nobleman, and if you want to join us, you can use the gateway to come to the Imperial Capital right away. Isn't that why the period between the announcement and the holding is short?

"Probably so. White Blades have a lot of fundamentalists around the capital."

"Wow."

I just get the feeling that it's really awesome.

"... I just thought, how are we going to do this with the White Blade fight? You're not seriously gonna slash each other, are you?

"I'm not serious about boulders. Make a replica that crushes the blade and fight with it. Of course, they don't have blades, but they beat each other with metal clumps, so if it's a bad hit, they'll die."

"Shit, I'm frightened."

"... Isn't it the same thing you always do with Mr. May?

"... if you say so, yeah?

Even in my training with May, I'm beating May up with a simulated sword that crushed the blade. Well, May hits me with a black special metal stick, not a mock sword. That's certainly the same when you think about it.

"Take it easy. No matter how many gold stars you say, I don't think His Majesty would ask a boulder to prove strength to a mercenary opponent in a white-blade battle."

"But that means he thinks I must get bummed, right?

……

"... uh"

Elma silences, Mimi loses her words. Ha, I see. Is that what you mean?

"Okay, I've made up my mind, I'll bust it"

Okokok, I guess I can't beat him directly by taking him out of his mind and doing it instead. That's what I swear to my heart, remembering the nigger side of Emperor Fuckin 'Emperor.