I Woke Up Piloting the Strongest Starship, so I Became a Space Mercenary Chapter EX Volume 01 Galatube

TN: This is an SS for Volu 1 of the LN that the author recently posted on Syosetu. The tiline is before Elma joined the party. As of now, the author hasn‘t resud the main story, but he has posted this extra chapter and another one from Volu 2. I’ll translate any other SSs he posts until he restarts the main story.

Several days had passed since we’d been ordered by the Star System Defense Forces to stand by before the operation.

「So bored…」

I collapsed face-down on the ss hall table, drained by the sheer weight of boredom. This world doesn’t have much in the way of entertainnt. Or maybe it does, but at the very least, I haven’t found anything here that suits .

Ever since coming to this world, I’d been too caught up in the surrounding circumstances and scrambling for living expenses to even spare the ti to look for such things.

「Mimi, I’m bored. Got any ideas to kill ti?」

「U-um…」

Mimi, who was also hanging around the ss hall, tilted her head in confusion. When I glanced up at her, I noticed she was busily tapping away at her tablet. Didn’t look like she was bored at all.

「W-we could… do it…?」

Mimi murmured this with a blush.

「That’s a very tempting proposal, but if we start doing that just because we’re bored, we’ll end up unable to stop, and our lives will devolve into pure debauchery. I’ll restrain myself.」

I’m not one to turn down an offer when it’s laid before , but that doesn’t an I’m completely without reason. Even if said reason has been half-lted from being surrounded by beautiful girls, I still have my last line of defense.

「Y-you’re right! Well then, in that case… ah, how about this?」

Mimi tapped at her tablet and turned the screen toward . What’s this? It looks like rows of thumbnail images—so kind of video site, maybe?

「This is GalaxyTube.」

「GalaxyTube?」

「Yes. Or Galatube, for short. It’s the largest video posting site in the galaxy. You can watch all sorts of videos uploaded by users across the stars.」

I nodded. Okay, I got the gist of it.

「So basically a video sharing site… huh, sounds like it could kill so ti. Let’s check sothing out.」

Sure enough, there seed to be all kinds of content—ho videos shot by individuals, promotional clips from companies, docuntaries produced by film studios. Just watching could probably help pass the ti.

「What should we watch first?」

「Hmm… well, you can’t go wrong with animal videos.」

「Animal videos… animal videos… ah, how about this one? It’s titled ‘Adorable Animals of the Galaxy’.」

Mimi pointed at a thumbnail showing a critter that looked like a cross between a cat and a rabbit. Cute enough. But… sothing deep inside is whispering Don’t watch this one. I don’t know why, but the danger vibes are strong.

「Maybe we should pick another—」

「Here goes.」

Mimi tapped it before I could stop her. The video began with the title card, accompanied by soothing background music, and the cat-rabbit creature waddled slowly about on screen. Its movents were comical, almost charming. Maybe my worry was misplaced…?

But the very next mont, a rodent-like animal appeared. Looked like the videographer had put it into the cat-rabbit’s enclosure. Is this going to be so heartwarming footage of two animals bonding?

Then it happened.

「Hiiiehh…」

「Eek…!」

The cat-rabbit’s head split open into four sections with a grotesque kupaah motion, revealing rows of sharp fangs. It lunged and… well, goodbye rodent.

「That’s not adorable at all…」

「The poor mouse… it just… kupaah…」

Mimi stared in shock. I quickly closed the video and glanced at the description. Turns out it was actually a video showcasing deceptively cute but vicious creatures. The full title read: Adorable Animals of the Galaxy—Beware! Apparently, the Galatube hopage had cut off the last part. How misleading.

「This one doesn’t… kupaah, right?」

「Relax. It doesn’t.」

Thanks to this traumatic encounter, Mimi ended up unable to watch animal videos for quite so ti afterward.