Mob №129 “Things are pretty fishy right now, so be careful.”
While waiting for Gonzales’s mental state to recover, I sat in a chair in the corner of the pharmacy. Before long, the next customer arrived—
another old man, but this one seemed decent and properly presented a prescription.
Gonzales, showing no sign of being discouraged, said,
“Certainly. Please wait a moment.”
Gonzales headed to the compounding room in the back and began preparing the old man’s medicine.
Even as a pharmacist, compounding rarely happened—the main job was preparing medications according to prescriptions without mistakes in quantity or dosage.
Of course, there were times when compounding was done, but it wasn’t frequent.
Pharmacies inside large hospitals apparently did everything from compounding to portioning automatically, with pharmacists just inputting information to avoid errors.
That said, if Gonzales gave out the wrong medicine or made a mistake in quantity, it could affect someone’s life, so Gonzales’s expression was seriously focused.
After finishing the preparation,
“Suoles-san. Your medicine is ready.”
Gonzales was probably acting normally, but thanks to the cyborg body’s beauty level, Gonzales displayed a magnificent smile.
This is probably what got Levin-kun…
After that, customers continued to arrive one after another—
mostly elderly, but also young men and women, people with children, and students.
It took about an hour and a half to finish dispensing medicine to everyone.
Gonzales judged that no more customers would come for a while, lowered the shutter, and temporarily closed the pharmacy.
Finally, I could accomplish my objective.
“So, you’re not here for medicine, right?”
While pouring down a plastic bottle of lemonade, Gonzales brought up the topic.
“Yeah. I want information about the pirates that have been increasing lately… no, Nekirelma’s privateers. Also, security around the border and the current situation.”
I placed an envelope containing cash credits on the counter.
“I have one I found before, but I’ll search for various things again and provide them together.”
Gonzales put away the envelope, inserted a cord into the connector on the back of the neck, closed the eyes, and stopped moving.
After about an hour and a half, Gonzales began moving again.
Gonzales pulled out the cord, drank down the lemonade, and began talking about the gathered information.
“First, the conclusion: there’s no doubt Nekirelma is using their military to masquerade as privateers and conduct commerce raiding. Well, this is something the military and guilds already know. They’re deployed fairly widely, but mostly near the border. However… if commerce raiding was the objective, they should be trying to penetrate deeper, shouldn’t they?”
“The fact that they’re recognizable as warships means they’re not trying very hard to hide.”
“One more thing. This is information I grabbed earlier, but apparently they’re searching for a combat craft that fired a red beam. The one you saw on the battlefield.”
“That one…”
“They want to either recruit the pilot or steal just the craft—either is fine, apparently.”
That’s definitely impossible.
Given Gerhilde-san’s personality, if someone tried to board without permission, they’d definitely be killed.
Still, I wonder why Gerhilde-san was with the 7th Fleet?
Thinking normally, it would mean someone Gerhilde-san liked was in the 7th Fleet.
Given that Commander Salamas-Thorncheed, the commodore, was such a likable person, it wasn’t impossible.
“Also, amplifying anti-noble and anti-emperor sentiment among imperial citizens. That’s those activist groups that have been common lately.”
“But haven’t those guys been around for quite a while?”
They weren’t as flashy with their activities as now, but they should be a group that existed long before we were born.
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“They’re making contact with them and providing funding, I’d say. And making contact with the anti-emperor nobles who still remain within the empire, who are opposed to those activists.”
“Even though they failed once?”
“Whether it’s ‘precisely because of that’ or ‘this time for sure,’ I don’t know, but they’re hated by imperial citizens and are mortal enemies to the activist groups, right?”
“On top of material shortages, if stupid nobles act arrogant and citizens accumulate dissatisfaction, eventually it’ll explode. That’s when they swoop in.”
“I don’t think it’ll go well.”
“They probably think it will. Prime Minister Kaiese-Dowin does.”
“Wasn’t the student council president in our enrollment year like that?”
“Now that you mention it, he was kind of like that… I remember well how unnecessarily hot-blooded he was.”
In both Gonzales’s and my head, the faces of that pretentiously smelly man who gave that speech and the student council president who was disliked for unnecessarily proposing policies during our school days floated up.
“So, are you going to the border area?”
“Hmm. I don’t really want to do long-term security work. At best, maybe the temporary two-week one.”
I couldn’t leave my apartment empty for too long, and honestly, I didn’t want to stay over there for long.
“Things are pretty fishy right now, so be careful.”
“I know. See you later.”
After exchanging such commonplace greetings, I left the pharmacy.
The next day, the job I took at the mercenary guild was like this:
Job Description: Security and patrol of the Zanzaha sector based from planet Galpe.
Job Duration: Two weeks in Galactic Standard Time.
Three-shift system with 8-hour continuous duty and 16-hour standby rest.
Work Environment: Free use of lodging facility (capsule hotel style) in the management colony—free meal provision.
Spaceship fuel provision.
Job Conditions: Must bring your own spaceship.
Repair costs if your brought spaceship is damaged are at your own expense.
In emergencies, must respond and sortie even during standby rest time.
For the above reason, cannot leave the colony during standby rest time.
Compensation: 700,000 credits fixed—war results bonus added if there’s combat.
If there was no combat, it was actually an easy job, but I thought combat would occur with high probability.
According to Old Man Roans, many people had taken it, and apparently even King Rank people had taken it.
“It’s not exactly patriotism. Well, for King Ranks, even security work pays drastically different amounts, so naturally they’d be enthusiastic.”
Old Man Roans muttered while processing the paperwork.
“I wish they’d come to where I’m going…”
“What’s this? That’s a pretty celebrity-chasing statement for you.”
“It would make the job easier, right?”
If there was a King Rank person, even if enemies came, they’d counterattack and defeat them, or maybe enemies wouldn’t approach because that person was there.
It might be a pathetic thought for a mercenary, but it was still a fact.
“So, when are you departing?”
“I’ll leave at night. I have a bit of preparation left but it should be done by then.”
“I see. Show your face once before departure.”
“Got it.”
After exchanging such conversation with Old Man Roans, I left the mercenary guild and headed to my regular shop, Animember.
If possible, I wanted to get a few new volumes.
I wonder if there’s a new volume of “Jyusatsu Rensen [Curse Kill Battle]” out…
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