Mob №117 “Then do it yourselves!”
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[Side: Third Person Perspective]
That the workers are combat amateurs is obvious at a glance to the mercenaries, but seeing the call standby screen of the general-purpose terminal tool that serves as the detonation switch, they can’t help but falter for a moment.
Then, workers who didn’t participate in the uprising arrive.
Seeing the group that had risen up, they show expressions of surprise, shock, confusion, and anger.
“What the hell are you guys doing?! Getting all decked out in such dangerous equipment!”
“We’ve reached our limit! We’re going to kill those nobles! You’ve had unpleasant experiences with nobles too, haven’t you?!”
“Even so, what will this accomplish? You’ll just get killed by the military or police!”
“As if we fear such things! We want to escape this life as soon as possible, even if it’s just one day sooner!”
The members who have risen up show no signs of listening to the words of their fellow workers.
Rather, among the workers who haven’t risen up, there even seem to be some who feel sympathy for their cries from the soul.
The leader of the risen workers, holding the detonation switch, addresses the mercenaries who have been listening to this exchange:
“So you all cooperate too! Become comrades! And together we’ll kill those nobles!”
He urges them once again to become their comrades.
“So in other words, since you’re amateurs, you want us mercenaries to attack the nobles while you sit back and enjoy the show from a safe distance?”
In response to that call, the mercenary at the front raises a dubious question with a suspicious expression.
“We’ll participate in the attack too! We won’t leave it to others!”
In response to that question, the leader of the risen workers declares that they’ll also participate in the attack, but—
“Then do it yourselves!”
The mercenary at the front shows an attitude of complete refusal while raising his middle finger.
The other mercenaries seem to share the same opinion, showing expressions that mock them.
“Besides, what really pisses me off is that you’re trying to make us mercenaries work for free! If you want us to join, pay 30 million credits per person right now! Then we’ll do the job properly, yeah?”
The mercenaries who agreed with those words begin laughing raucously at the risen workers.
Of course, this fee isn’t the regular rate—it was presented to reject their demands.
“There’s no way we can pay that amount!”
Naturally, the risen workers are enraged.
There’s no way people like them, already living in hardship, could pay such an amount.
“Then the negotiation is over.”
The mercenary at the front makes a gesture as if mocking them while secretly reaching for the gun at his waist.
“Money-grubbers!”
And just as the leader of the risen workers shows his intention to press the detonation switch, the mercenary at the front shoots through that general-purpose terminal tool along with the leader’s hand using his ray gun.
Using that as a signal, the other mercenaries also aim their ray guns and blasters at the unarmored legs of the risen members and the weapons they’re holding, quickly subduing them.
“There’s no way amateurs can beat us. Don’t resist any further.”
The mercenary at the front points his ray gun at the leader, urging surrender.
The leader, whose hand has been shot through, looks frustrated and hangs his head, glancing at his general-purpose terminal tool and muttering quietly:
“Why didn’t it explode…”
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As I was restraining the unconscious worker—no, the anti-imperial activist terrorist—staff members quickly arrived, so when I said,
“This person was the one planting bombs,”
they hurriedly took him into custody.
At that time, I heard that the main force of anti-imperial activist terrorists had occupied the corridor to the hangar and were recruiting comrades from among the mercenaries.
Hearing that, I thought it might have been good to be there as part of the crowd.
Well, it’s better that the explosion was prevented.
I escorted the anti-imperial activist terrorist directly to the office, and while waiting for the police, I had a staff member there complete my procedures.
Now I can leave whenever I want.
After the police arrived, arrested the anti-imperial activist terrorists, and completed the on-site verification and questioning, I went to the hangar to find that the mercenary who had been the main negotiator with the anti-imperial activist terrorists had apparently become something of a hero.
Fellow mercenaries were teasing him about being a hero, jokingly discussing how to handle being surrounded by the press, and young female staff members, workers, and rookie mercenaries were surrounding them, squealing with excitement.
Considering that the press will probably arrive before too long, it would be better to leave here quickly.
I slipped past the edge of their group and quietly left that colony.
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[Side: Third Person Perspective]
In one of the smoking rooms inside the colony, about ten of the workers who didn’t participate in the uprising were sighing deeply with heavy expressions.
“Good grief… those guys did something outrageous…”
“Yeah… our role was to gather information about this country. We only participated in that anti-imperial activity thing for that purpose, but they got completely immersed in it!”
“Well, I can understand it. If you experience the same things both over there and here. Since reform is gradually permeating over here, it probably became an outlet.”
“As if the situation wasn’t already desperate enough with the lack of information about those weird red beam-firing combat craft from the recent civil war, and now they go and do something stupid!”
They all show dejected appearances, their expressions changing to anger and impatience.
“What do we do about those guys? Should we help them?”
“No need to worry. We’ll just be surprised that our coworkers said such things and feel bad that we couldn’t stop them. We really didn’t think they’d actually go through with something like that.”
They worry about their arrested colleagues, but when the worker who appears to be their leader makes a statement cutting them off, he takes out his general-purpose terminal tool, launches some application software, operates it briefly, and quickly puts it away.
“All right, on to the next site! Let’s make sure we’re not late.”
The leader claps his hands to rally his comrades, as if switching gears mentally.
“No break?”
“The shift is the same as this time, so it’s fine.”
“That’s right! You still owe me the 20,000 credits I lent you during that planet race bet.”
“When I get my paycheck…”
While making trivial conversation, the workers leave the smoking room.
[—Now for the next news. Today, a work colony at the Gate maintenance site on planet Leo-Eodeudo was temporarily occupied. An explosive terror attack nearly occurred, but fortunately it was prevented by the mercenaries who were on site security, and all perpetrators were arrested. However, during police transport, all perpetrators suddenly vomited blood and died on the spot. Autopsy results showed that poison capsules had been implanted in their bodies, and breaking them caused the poison to circulate through their bodies, resulting in death. They are strongly suspected of being anti-imperial activist terrorists, and the case was sent to prosecutors with the suspects deceased, judged as suicide to prevent information leaks—]
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