I Woke Up Piloting the Strongest Starship, so I Became a Space Mercenary Chapter 13 – Again at the Mercenary Guild and the Large-scal

Translator: SFBaka

“Ou. If it ain’t the lad from yester… day…”

The mont the receptionist uncle saw Mimi’s cute visage peeking over from behind , his expression stiffened.

“A lot of stuff happened yesterday and this girl ended up boarding my ship as a result. I’d like for her to train in the basics of being a ship operator so we ca here to see if you had any resource materials or training apps we could use.”

“P- Pleased to make your acquaintance sir…”

The uncle’s hands grabbed by the shirt with incredible montum and forcefully raised up. Your expression looks hella terrifying uncle!

“The hell d’ya an by this huuh…!?”

“I get it! I get it! I’ll tell you everything so please let go uncle! Your face looks really scary man!”

“What about my face!?”

“But it really is scary, uncle! Look, even Mimi’s terrified.”

“Ku~h…”

The receptionist uncle released while sporting a deadly serious expression. He plopped down on his seat, closed his eyes and took deep, long breaths in order to calm down. I also let out a sigh of relief. I was about to piss my pants there man.

“It’ll take quite a while if I start from the beginning.”

“Just start from the beginning kid.”

“Yes!”

I ended up telling every detail about how Mimi ca to board my ship while being glared at by the uncle with a terrifying scowl on his face.

“This guy just started out as a rc and managed to land himself such a wonderful encounter in the span of a day while I’ve been slugging it out for fifteen years in this business and have absolutely nothing to show for it!? Isn’t this unfair!?”

“Is this the gap between our destinies!?” the receptionist uncle lanted towards the heavens and slumped powerlessly on top of his desk right afterward. He then began crying buckets of tears. They were manly tears filled with the bitterness of defeat. Mimi and I could certainly feel the intensity of uncle’s emotions.

Another staff mber of the rcenary Guild ca out in order to ask what the fuss was all about. When she found out the situation, she had the uncle escorted back inside the staff room. Farewell, uncle.

“E~tto, I apologize for our staff’s rude conduct earlier sir,” the female receptionist said with a troubled smile on her face as she cleaned up the tear stains uncle left on the desk. I bet I’d also have the sa expression if I were in her shoes. Bet anyone would actually.

“Uh, I better explain the reason why we ca here again I guess.”

“I’m sorry to trouble you sir, but I’d appreciate it if you did so,” the lady replied as she bowed her head apologetically towards . I started going over our circumstances.

“Understood. So you ca in order to register this girl as an official crewmber and to obtain training materials and apps for ship operators, correct?”

“That’s about it.”

“Thank you for your help ma’am.”

The new receptionist lady efficiently took care of all the related procedures and prepared the training materials. The training app was installed on Mimi’s tablet terminal so she could use it right away. It was a great program where an AI training instructor would impart the know-how of being a ship operator starting with the basics. It was also bundled with an app that would display the ship’s status and the total available assets in an easy to understand way.

“I’ve also included an info-gathering app, so please do your best okay.”

“Y- Yes!”

“It would greatly help if Mimi gets to learn all this stuff. Give it your all kay.”

“I understand.”

Mimi imdiately began to go over all the installed apps with a serious deanor. Yep, go for it girl. It’ll make my life easier too. Different from the ga, it seems you have to go through a lot of complicated procedures as you go around this world.

“Oh yeah. I was wondering if it would be better if this girl can also train in so self-defense techniques, or maybe get a self-defense weapon for her personal use.”

“Hm. That would be a bit difficult sir. You can’t really master self-defense techniques in just a few days after all. It’s the sa for handling weapons.”

“So that’s the case huh.”

“That’s the case, sir. But it would be good to let her have a laser gun in any case, even if she doesn’t actually use it. It will serve as an effective deterrent and prevent most shady folk from getting any ideas.”

“I see.”

“Shall I prepare one sir?”

“Please do.”

So the rcenary Guild also distributes weapons huh? Co to think of it, I didn’t manage to find a gun shop when I was doing so research yesterday. So things like this were regulated by the Guild or related governnt organizations huh.

The laser gun for Mimi’s use was soon prepared, and we were then guided to the rcenary Guild’s shooting range in order to perform test shots.

How good is Mimi with a gun? Well, if she doesn’t stop closing her eyes whenever she shoots, she wouldn’t be able to hit anything.

After the shooting practice, we returned to the ship and decided to take it slow for a few days. Mimi was still fatigued from her ti in the back alleys, so she had to take ample rest. Fortunately, we wouldn’t run out of funds anyti soon even if we don’t work for so ti.

I was also interested in the major pirate subjugation operation Elma ntioned. It would result in a pretty large-scale battle once they attacked the pirate’s main base, and those kinds of events in the ga would provide a great number of rewards proportionate to the number of enemies you manage to defeat.

I honestly didn’t want to miss such a golden opportunity.

And so I spent my days working up a sweat in the training room in the mornings and taking a quick shower afterward. I studied together with Mimi in the afternoon (There were lessons useful for rcenary work available on the training app as well), searched the net for useful info, exchanged ssages with the disappointing space elf and sotis flirted around with Mimi as well.

Finally, the long-anticipated pirate subjugation operation was officially announced by the Termaine System Ard Forces. The rcenary Guild was solicited for assistance as well.

“It’s really convenient that briefings can be done remotely no matter where you are without the need to gather in one particular place.”

“Yes, it is.”

I sat on the pilot seat inside the cockpit while Mimi sat on the operator seat behind . We were both waiting for the briefing to start.

I think it’s great that we didn’t actually need to co to the army base or the guild office for this briefing. You can even order food from inside the ship anyti, so you really didn’t have to take one step out of your starship if you wanted to. The starship interior may actually be the ultimate hikikomori paradise.

Multiple window screens popped up on the cockpit display; right on schedule with the briefing start ti. The nas of each participating party were displayed on top of each window. Among them were the disappointing space elf Elma as well as Serena - the lady soldier I t soon after I arrived at this Termaine Pri Colony.

“Huh!?”

I suddenly felt cold sweat run down my back the mont my gaze t with Serena’s for so reason. What the heck? Weirdly enough, it sohow felt like an unpleasant premonition but at the sa ti not. Still, it wouldn’t hurt to be more careful of this lady from now on.

While I was thinking such things, Serena’s window widened and moved to the center of the cockpit display.

“Well then, let us start the briefing. I am Captain Serena Holz, the designated commander of this entire operation. Please address as Captain Serena.”

“Understood, Captain Serena.”

Each participant expressed their agreent.

“I will now explain the overall outline of this operation. That said, it’s actually not that complicated. The place the pirates are using as their base of operations is located on an asteroid field in the Gamma Sector,” Serena began as a map of the sector popped on-screen with a part of the asteroid field highlighted in red.

“The strategy for this operation is simple. Our System Ard Forces’ starship fleet will sortie first and then proceed to destroy their base through naval bombardnt. Even if it’s their main base, the ones manning it are only re pirates after all. I assu they’ll get routed without putting up much of a fight.”

A number of the rcs participating in the briefing nodded in agreent with Serena’s statent. There was no way for bootleg pirate ships to oppose the Military model heavy cruisers and battleships of the ard forces. They’re outclassed in both defensive strength and overall firepower.