Mob №130 “Good grief… why do I have to team up with someone like this?! Ah, I’m so jealous of Shiora-chan who got to team up with Alptet-sama.”
At Animember, which I headed to immediately after leaving the mercenary guild, I was lucky to get not only a new volume of “Jyusatsu Rensen” but also a new volume of “Assassin × Family.”
A remake collection of the stealth infiltration action game “Steel Shaft Series” had also been released, so I got that too.
Besides that, I bought additional food items that caught my interest and restocked hygiene supplies before boarding my ship and heading to the site.
When I arrived at the facility-concentrated work base colony that serves as the base for security and patrol of the Zanzaha sector based from planet Galpe, there were, of course, lots of other people besides me who had taken the job.
Among them was that newcomer, Shiora-Dilopaz-jou.
She’s rapidly distinguished herself in a short time and is already Rook Rank, apparently becoming the leader of a capable young group. As expected of someone from the extrovert side, she’s different.
I wasn’t planning to take it, but apparently there are a fair number of people hoping for long-term work with similar employment conditions.
But more than anything, there was a situation that surprised everyone.
That was the presence at this security-patrol site of Queen Rank “Man-Eater Rose,” Katy-Alptet, and King Rank “Vulture,” Talgas-Elgaiwa.
“Man-Eater Rose,” Katy-Alptet, apparently insists people call her “Emerald Rose,” but the rose emblem design on the wing parts of her green-bodied craft with pearl-colored wings and tail fins has a flower center that looks exactly like a mouth with fangs no matter how you look at it, so everyone started calling her “Man-Eater Rose.”
Incidentally, she herself is a woman with black eyes, long black hair, and white skin—the image of a graceful young lady.
As for “Vulture,” Talgas-Elgaiwa, he’s a middle-aged man with a veteran warrior feel, with disheveled blond hair and a bearded face. His dull gray craft has only a vulture emblem printed on it.
As a carrion-eating animal with a somewhat negative impression, there’s a rumor that the reason he names himself after a vulture is because he was formerly a military penal battalion, but this isn’t confirmed.
Incidentally, a penal battalion is a unit in the military that monitors its own troops from the rear and, if soldiers try to retreat from combat (desertion before the enemy) or surrender without orders, attacks them to forcibly continue combat—a unit we mercenaries would almost never encounter.
Of course, high-rank individuals like them have the right to take this job.
However, normally they should take jobs more suitable for them—that is, better-paying jobs.
Well, what job someone takes is their own freedom, so there’s no need to say anything more.
But one thing is certain: both of those people are definitely not people I should approach!
Well, there’s no need to go out of my way to talk to King Rank or Queen Rank people who are beyond my reach anyway.
However, this should make the job easier.
Now, regarding the actual work, the short-term security-patrol I took is a role filling in gaps for people who’ve had many deployments recently and couldn’t take leave.
Shiora-Dilopaz-jou and her group are probably on this side too.
Right after arriving, I was incorporated into the shift and was asked to go out on shift immediately.
Conversely, the long-term people were treated as pure reinforcements and were apparently immediately incorporated into fixed shifts to increase the number of patrols.
Patrol work is basically done in pairs, so during deployment you’ll be with someone.
And that partner is assigned by the employer considering abilities—that’s the rule. My assigned partner ended up being one of the entourage who claims to be a friend of Shiora-Dilopaz-jou, a girl named Tenon-Karalema with brown hair and green eyes, who was muttering complaints from the moment we met.
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“Good grief… why do I have to team up with someone like this?! Ah, I’m so jealous of Shiora-chan who got to team up with Alptet-sama.”
Since it’s also a rule to keep communications open during patrol, I can hear her dissatisfied voice clearly from her ship.
She probably took this request to qualify for Bishop Rank promotion.
Incidentally, Karalema-jou is Pawn Rank.
“Let’s hurry up and finish this so I can go crush some pirates!”
Saying that, Karalema-jou ignored me and went ahead, but this is time-based, so when the time comes, if we return to the start first we just take a short break and start again—rushing has no meaning.
Plus she’s completely off the patrol route.
But if I point that out, she’ll probably get angry. Like “—You’re annoying! It’s just slightly off! Shut up, fatso!—” or something.
Still, if I don’t point it out, she’ll probably just go off somewhere…
“Hello. You’re completely off the patrol route.”
“Huh?”
She didn’t want to see my face, so we’re doing audio-only communication, but I could tell she just now noticed and was surprised.
Then, as expected:
“A-annoying! I knew that! Don’t give me orders, someone at your level!”
That’s the reply I got.
What can I say, it’s exactly the expected reaction.
Given Dilopaz-jou’s personality, she shouldn’t accept this type of person… maybe she’s putting on an act in front of her?
For Dilopaz-jou… it would be difficult to see through.
While leaving her to her muttering, we somehow managed to complete one circuit of the patrol route and return, then:
“Hey, I’ll give you the beacon, so you keep going around. I’m going to go exterminate pirates.”
For a moment I was reminded of that arrogant guy and pink-head from before.
She’s not related by blood to either of them, is she…?
But her proposal is impossible.
“You can’t remove the beacon without special tools.”
“Huh?! What’s that about?!”
The “beacon” doesn’t just show your position—it also serves as a marker to call for reinforcements when encountering enemies, so when doing security-patrol work, it’s better not to remove it.
At first she made a fuss about removing it, but not only I, but also the maintenance and control tower people told her not to remove it. She sulked about this and stayed silent for the rest of the patrol.
Well, it was quiet so that was good…
Please let me get a different person tomorrow.
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