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

"Thank you all for waiting! The second semifinals match is for Captain Hiro, who can't wait! Against is Captain Schneider, the same mercenary as Captain Hilo! The boarding is a military corvette employed by the Imperial Aeronautical Army, Cabal Lee!

"Captain Schneider has so far overwhelmed his opponents by pushing the overwhelming firepower and defense of Caballey. You're very interested in how Captain Hiro will deal with Captain Schneider like that, or how his technique won't work before overwhelming fire and defense."

Waiting for the start position of the match, you will hear the announcer and the narrative female soldier on the wide area communication channel.

"Dear Hiro, Opponents are contacting us."

"Hmm? I wonder what it is. Connect me."

"Yes."

Mimi manipulated the console and communicated with opponent Captain Schneider.

"This is Captain Hilo of Krishna. What can I do for you before the game starts?

"It's Schneider. I thought I'd say hello before the match."

That being said, Captain Schneider has been taking a serious look at my face. What the hell is this guy, grudgingly giddy and.

Captain Schneider looks younger than I thought. I know you're older than me, but I don't get the impression you're middle-aged. It has the same bright brown hair as Mimi's, long stretched beauty. Is it a little sharp?

"Hmm? I thought you were an evocative kid, but that's not how it feels. This looks tough."

"Thank you for overstating that. But how lucky I am... No, it's just bad paper, huh? You can have a better look."

"Miscellaneous fish who are just really lucky are desperate to make themselves look a little bigger"

Captain Schneider raised his mouth slightly and gave a fierce grin.

"Let me look forward to seeing if your blade reaches my Dominator. Schneider, out"

The communication went out and Captain Schneider's window, which was on the cockpit display, disappears.

"Do you think he did it?

"Don't seem like it. I knew I couldn't stay alert."

Next to interacting like that, Mimi was sparkling her eyes for some reason. What the hell is that?

"The exchange now, it was cool! It was like a holo novel about a mercenary thing borrowed from Her Royal Highness the Empress Luciada!

"Oh... yes"

Your Highness, what are you letting our Mimi read, what? I hope you don't contaminate innocent Mimi. I don't think there's anything like sprinkling rot on boulders, but maybe you should be careful in the future for a bit.

"Elma, please hold on."

"Is that about the game after this? Or about Mimi?

"Both."

"I'm not Mimi's mother."

"It hurts at my age. It hurts. Sorry."

I surrender because Elma has been scooping my thighs. Maybe it's the strength of our team to slap waste and relax like this even before the game.

"We have both reached the starting position of the match. Game's on, count down!

A large countdown appears on the display.

"What about the operation?

"Hit hard at first and then in the stream. Well, basically, I take a blind spot. Mimi, as soon as the game starts, scan the enemy ship and mark the spot with the main modules."

"Okay!

At the same time as the end of the countdown, open Krishna's thruster to pack the distance from the Dominator. The opposing dominator points this way at the top of the front where the artillery is concentrated, and it's like a halibut against the air - it's also a weird story about anti-air in space - but it raises the artillery fire.

"Chaff, ECM Deployment"

Elma's deployed chaff and ECM take effect, greatly reducing the accuracy of the anti-aircraft fire flying towards Krishna. By the way, this chaff is essentially completely separate from the chaff used on Earth. Though the well-known chaff on Earth deceives radar detection by spreading metal foils and the like, the ones equipped with the spaceship, starting with Krishna, are more advanced, a device that creates a sort of 'split' that drives the enemy battleship's targeting system crazy.

Its deceptive effect is limiting, but it can disrupt the enemy ship's automatic targeting mechanism for only a short time to greatly reduce the hit rate. The principles are advanced, but what we're doing doesn't change that much. So you're still being called Chaff the same way.

The barrage is thick on the boulder.

The shield is gradually shredded even when the bullet is reduced using a deception device. The Dominator keeps pointing this way at the top of the bow as he retreats to avoid diving into his nostalgia. You're just going to slap the firepower on this one and cut it off.

"All right, let's go. Prepare to deploy the shield cell at any time."

Copy that.

Raise Krishna's bow and advance in the direction of the dominator's upper surface. Naturally, the Dominator doesn't want Krishna to jump over his head and turn behind him, so he follows Krishna's movements with his bow up to follow it. In other words, the dominator giant begins to rotate vertically upwards.

"Traction, traction, traction"

This one rolls the ship here and shoots the four heavy laser cannons into the dominator toward the dominator in the direction of the upper surface. This firepower is unlikely to be a small ship, but whatever it takes to keep shooting at each other from the front is bad. Krishna has a strong shield and armor, but it's only a small ship. Corvettes classified as large ships have too different endurance in their opponents.

"Jiri, are you poor?

"A little more... now!

As soon as the dominator got enough rotational speed, I pulled the joystick again and pushed it up and down the dominator like a lightning bolt. I'm aiming for the dominator.

The dominator is rotating that giant vertically upward to follow Krishna, who was in a motion to circle over his head. Because of that giant, it is impossible to follow such sudden movements and reverse the direction of rotation.

"I want out!

Krishna broke through the hellish anti-aircraft fire, plundering the dominator's tip and turning downwards. Whether or not there is some interception armor downstairs, its firepower is a whisper compared to the upper surface. Shotgun the turret from close range and silence it immediately.

"It keeps going."

Important internal modules that have been pre-scanned by Mimi - shotguns will be applied to energy supply pipes, ammunition depots, etc. to attitude control thrusters and main thrusters. Heavy laser cannons were then also banged in to saturate the shield and stubbornly overlaid the part of the generator present at the pinpoint. In doing so, the buzzer at the end of the match rings and our victory is declared. Apparently, the generator's sabotage verdict went in.

"It's the end of the game! Captain Hilo has achieved Giant Killing! At first, Captain Schneider seemed unilaterally advantageous."

"You're maneuvering like that lightning bolt Captain Hiro showed you. It's certainly hard to keep up with that speed cut back on a ship that boasts a corvette size. But you need a lot of nerve to take that manoeuvre one-on-one. So you're going to be stuck inside a powerful anti-aircraft fire, so if you make a mistake, you're going to be shot down just like that."

"I see..."

He began his return to the army maintenance yard listening to the announcer and commentary female military personnel.

"Well, here's the thing"

"The boulder gave me a hiatus this time."

"Right. I also used three shield cells... Hey, why didn't you use anti-ship torpedoes?

Elma makes a particular point.

"It's not like I'm licking anything. I just fought as usual. If they only had one large ship, they wouldn't have had to use an anti-ship reaction torpedo."

If there are other ships around, and I don't have time to just be a dominator, I'll clean them up with anti-ship reaction torpedoes, but if only one dominator is my opponent, I don't use anti-ship reaction torpedoes.

"It's expensive, anti-ship reaction torpedo."

"If it's a game, it's a mock bullet, and it won't cost you any money."

"It's because it's a game. You won't have a choice to take a flashy and easy approach even though you won't lose and die. I also wanted to check the modular array and elasticity of the Dominator's former fuselage, Cavally."

"... Hiro is an occasional stoke, isn't he?"

For some reason, I feel like Elma is turning a frightened glance at me. It's not a bad thing, and it's good. I didn't lick you with malice.

"And anyway, it's the next finals! Final!"

"Right. Let's try to end the trouble crisply. We have a lot to clean up in the Imperial City, but we're eating a lot of stops."

I also have to go to the Daleinwald family mansion where Chris is, and he plans to buy a high-performance combat bot from Teito at Lieutenant Colonel Serena's Conne. And maybe we'll get some media coverage. It is also the fault of His Majesty the Fuckin 'Emperor that all the plans are behind us. You bastard.

Whatever it is, it's about replenishment and maintenance first.