“So, after we’re done, we’re just gonna waltz back up into space?”
Fomalhaut Entertainment’s Zuia grumbled a bit the moment we broke through the atmosphere of Comatt III after we finished the clean-up job.
“Of course. We’re mercenaries, remember?”
“And we’re mainly experts in anti-ship combat too. We don’t really specialize in investigating shady conspiracies.”
“That would be like bringing a chainsaw to perform precision surgery.”
We wiped out the attacking harmful local(?) lifeforms and shot a round from Black Lotus’s EML straight into the estimated spawning point of said lifeforms to destroy it. By this time, the imperial military should be busy sending out battalions of heavily armed space marines in order to raid what seems to be the nest of the lifeforms.
“But are you guys not the least bit curious? Those things were clearly not natural lifeforms, right?”
“I would be lying if I said I wasn’t curious, but something like that is already out of our jurisdiction. We’d probably be more useful when it comes to crushing the enemy’s main base of operations after the investigation results come in or something like that, but we’d be next to no use if we try and butt in on something that’s clearly not part of our expertise. Patrolling around and hunting down pirates would be better for us and for our employer.”
“In other words, we’d like to earn more money, Zuia-san!”
“Exactly!”
“And you guys are really fine with that……?”
After seeing me giving Mimi a thumbs up, Zuia let out a bewildered sigh. That’s just how we mercs are. I’m awesome, Krishna’s awesome, Black Lotus is awesome, and Mimi and Elma are both excellent crew members. But that doesn’t mean we can do anything and everything.
“Get the right person for the right job, as the saying goes. We’re simply just doing what we’re best at. It won’t do anybody any good if we kept poking our noses where they don’t belong.”
“I see.”
It looks like Zuia was finally convinced, I think. Actually, we were just afraid of poking our noses in and ending up getting involved in an increasing amount of troublesome stuff. Yeah. That’d definitely happen. We don’t need any more trouble. No thanks. We already have our hands full, so sorry.
“And besides, at times like this–”
『I have a report, Master.』
Mei’s voice echoed around the cockpit and interrupted my words.
“–What’s wrong? Oh, are you finally done decrypting the data caches?”
After the last boarding action we pulled off, we managed to capture two pirate ships almost completely intact. Perhaps we sent in the combat bots far too quickly, because they were unable to delete the data contained in the caches and black boxes. And so, I left the job of analyzing them to Mei.
『Yes. They contained data regarding the coordinates of the pirate main base and detailed transaction records.』
“I see. Alright then. Go ahead and sell the coordinates to the imperial military…… No, on second thought, just report it to Chris.”
『Certainly. I thought that would be best as well. Christina-sama will be able to have the imperial forces mobilize quicker compared to us simply handing them the data. I’ve also managed to discover something by analyzing the transaction data of the pirates.』
“Huh? What is it?”
『It seems there really is a party that’s trying to get in the way of Earl Dareinwald’s project by providing the pirates funds and equipment. There’s an inflow of funds and supplies that cannot possibly be obtained by the pirates normally.』
“I see…… Send that info to Chris as well then. I’ll leave it to you.”
『Yes, Master. Please rest assured.』
The call from Black Lotus, where Mei and the rest of the media folks were on, was cut off. Krishna has also completely escaped from Comatt III’s atmosphere. For the time being, I glanced back to Zuia who was sitting on the sub-seat at the back of the cockpit.
“See. In situations like this, even if we don’t poke our noses around looking for trouble, trouble will come to us instead. It’s ridiculous, right?”
“Quite. I certainly don’t want to get burdened with that sort of bad luck.”
“Don’t say that. I mean, you’d have less trouble searching for scoops you know.”
I took a walk down the streets and met a beautiful girl being chased by villains. I headed out to outer space and unexpectedly picked up an SOS signal and saved a passenger cruiser being attacked by pirates. I docked inside a colony and immediately got into a scrap with mysterious mutant lifeforms. I hunted down pirates and ended picking up a beautiful girl. When I went for a vacation, the planet I was staying on was attacked by pirates. I worked with the imperial military and got attacked by a rogue force. I escorted a noble fleet and got myself mixed up in a family succession conflict. And when I bought a new ship, a legal loli came flying at me.
I then took requests to be a test pilot and deliver goods only to be caught up in a battle between imperial forces and crystal lifeforms. And when I went to the imperial capital to pick up an award, I suddenly got thrown to participate in a stupid tournament.
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