“Man, what a haul. What. A. Haul.”
A wide smile formed on my lips as I looked at the piles and piles of rare materials and loot we managed to recover. The amount of rare metals wasn’t much, but the number of expensive-looking high tech stuff was quite substantial. It looks like we can definitely look forward to the profits from selling these things.
“It looks like we haven’t managed to recover dangerous items this time.”
“Uh… Yeah, I guess.”
“And what’s with that reaction, mister?”
“Eh? I didn’t really discover anything strange y’know…”
I ignored Elma’s piercing gaze and Mimi’s somewhat frightened state and closed the goods list. Well, we can’t really expect to recover things like those every mission anyway. It looks like this time’s a bust. How unfortunate.
Major Serena already sent the mission end notice earlier, so I guess it’s about time for us to return to port now. Though it looks like there were still some cruisers and destroyers anchored on the surface of the destroyed pirate base; it seems they were still busy securing the interior of the place. Well, I guess the elite imperial soldiers wouldn’t let mere pirate rabble get the drop on them, so there’s no need to be concerned. Their equipment wasn’t on the same level in the first place.
The mishmash of weapons and equipment the pirates have cobbled together wouldn’t stand a chance against the military’s high-end power armors and heavy weaponry.
What about me, you ask? I have absolutely no intention of tangoing with trained imperial soldiers with just my bare flesh and blood. Even though my laser gun was really high quality, it still didn’t possess the capability to destroy a power armor in one shot. And, conversely, it would be all over if they hit me with their weapons even once. I don’t think I’ll lose that easily if I use my personal power armor stored on the ship though.
But there just wasn’t any chance to use the thing recently. But it would really come in handy if we did get ourselves into a melee shoot-out by any chance, so I still try to keep it operational at least. Not that I think we’ll be using it anytime soon. For now, it was still gathering dust in a corner of the cargo hold.
“Well then, shall we go back?”
“W-Wait a minute! You’re sure you didn’t recover anything strange this time, right!?”
“I-It should be fine, Elma-san……!”
After the two girls were done hastily checking on the recovered loot in a panic, we finally returned to the Alein Tertius colony. Our cargo hold was already filled to the brim after all, so we really couldn’t take anything else back even if we wanted to.
We unfortunately had to leave the rest of the loot we haven’t managed to recover. I’m sure those scavengers are gonna have a field day with them anyway. There’s already some reading appearing on the radar. It’s probably them.
“Hyper speed drive, charging start. Let’s bail.”
“W-Wait a moment! You’re sure, right? You’re absolutely, positively sure?”
“It’s fine I tell ya. I didn’t manage to find anything strange, okay. There’s no dangerous stuff this time. They’re all safe goods. Probably.”
“Probably!!!?”
The hyper speed drive activated at the same moment as Elma’s agitated scream, and the Krishna disappeared from regular space after the sound of an explosion.
“Just how much trauma did that Singing Crystal manage to plant in you two? Sheesh.”
“Anybody would get a trauma from that kind of blasted thing, you damn idiot!”
“Really?”
“‘Really’, he asks…… I think it’s actually even more dangerous than those reactive torpedoes, okay?. It would be an absolute disaster if you dropped that kind of thing, right?”
The reactive torpedoes were a type of highly destructive ordnance used to bring down large, heavily shielded and armored ships. I don’t know how exactly they work, but it’s said those things were even more powerful than nuclear and hydrogen bombs. And they definitely did possess the power to bring down a full-fledged battleship in one shot, so I guess they really were as powerful as they claimed.
And she was saying the Singing Crystal was even more dangerous compared to them? Well, it depends on how you think about it, I guess. Summoning a crystal creature swarm did last longer and caused more widespread damage in a sense after all.
“I see.”
“I see……? That’s how you react?”
“It’s Hiro-sama, so……”
Elma gave me an exasperated look while Mimi sounded somewhat proud. What are you being so proud for, Mimi-san?
“Guess you’ll be spending time with the princess again once we get back to the colony……”
When she finally settled down a bit, Elma let out a soft sigh.
“It’ll just be a week more before the contract expires. What should we do once it ends?”
“How about moving to a star system with more job prospects? With your skills and Krishna’s capabilities, we’ll be raking in cash in no time.”
“Mm, I’m not too keen on moving to a more chaotic star system though. You won’t have the time to relax in those kinds of places.”
In fact, it was very stifling to stay in such star systems since the military is always wary of sabotage and stuff, so strict rules are imposed. In the game, most open markets and private shops were closed down and you could only do some basic ship maintenance and resupply runs. I wonder how it is over in this dimension? It’s kinda hard to imagine.
“Um, we’ll be able to reach a resort planet if we make three jumps from this sector via hyper lane, and it seems there are a high number of pirate attacks on private passenger ships over there recently.”
“Hm, a resort planet…… Hunting pirates while on vacation doesn’t sound so bad.”
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