Mob №122 “Your Excellency, why are you grinning?”

[Now then, we will begin the second mock battle. The battlefield will be escort and assault of a super-large combat vessel battleship in normal space. The 1st Fleet side, which is the escort side, wins if they can protect the super-large combat vessel battleship until it moves from Point A to Point B. For the mercenary unit gentlemen on the assault side, you may attack without mercy, and if you can stop the super-large combat vessel battleship, you win. Note that the super-large combat vessel battleship will not use artillery fire, so … Read the rest

Mob №121 “My sister committed the crime, but I also had things to reflect on, so I won’t refute that”

It seems like Lambert-kun is being chased by quite a number of them, but if things get dangerous for him, he’ll switch with Rossweisse-san, so it should be fine to leave him alone.
 
More than that, I need to focus on this person or it would be rude.
 
This person’s craft took a hit from me earlier, so there should be some damage, but they’re challenging me to a dogfight with movements that don’t show any signs of it.
 
From … Read the rest

Mob №120 [Ufufufufu……. Death to those who showed disrespect to me and Arthur-sama!]
 

And so, the mock battle began between us 50 members of the Mercenary Guild Ytts Branch versus 50 selected members of the 1st Fleet fighter craft squadron.
 
Victory would be determined by complete annihilation of either side, or by the number of survivors when one hour had elapsed from the start.
 
The first battlefield was an asteroid belt.
 
In places with many obstacles like this, the basics of combat are [shooting while hiding] and [surprise attacks after diverting the opponent’s attention].
 
It’s easy to understand if … Read the rest

Mob №118 “Understood. I’ll apply before the deadline. Is that acceptable?”

 
After safely returning to planet Ytts without attracting attention and going home, just as I was about to wash my laundry, I received a call from my mother.
 
[John! Thank goodness I got through!]
 
“What’s wrong, Mother? You seem so flustered.”
 
My mother, shown in the hologram of my wrist-com, looked quite agitated.
 
“Actually… something terrible has happened…”
 
From my mother’s demeanor, I judged that quite a situation had occurred, so I decided to talk on the home phone to discuss it calmly.
 
And the content my mother told … Read the rest

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 … Read the rest

Mob №116 “If you won’t agree with us, we’ll blow up this entire colony!”

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[Side: Third Person Perspective]


When the final maintenance work on the Gate is completed, the workers and mercenaries from the last shift gradually return to the colony.
 
Only after all the people from the final shift have returned to the colony will everyone finally be released from their duties.
 
The workers are scheduled to return on large ships prepared by the construction company, so there’s no particular movement until the ships arrive.
 
However, since the mercenaries have their individual ships, most of them … Read the rest

Mob №115: “Yeah. But you really do like these plain jobs, don’t you.”
 

 
After eating at [Stardust Hamburger], when I bought the new volume of [Skeleton Knight’s Journey in Another World] at [Animem-ber] and the paperback volume 3 of the period novel [Mercenary Trade] series at a regular bookstore—Teishin Bookstore—and was about to go home,
 
“Hello.”
 
Someone called out to me.
 
At first I thought it was a sales pitch, but when I looked closely at the person who called out, it was Gracia-Curie-san, the manager of [Curie Garage for Repair and Recycling] who had … Read the rest

Mob №114: “That’s a line that’ll make enemies of all women in the universe…”
 

To avoid getting caught up in troublesome matters, I quickly moved away from there and headed to the familiar fast-food chain [Stardust Hamburger] to have lunch.
 
I ordered a set with iced coffee, a cheeseburger, and fries.
 
They recommended the new white sauce burger, but I declined for some reason.
 
As I sat at a table reading a light novel on my wrist-com while nibbling on fries, I overheard a conversation between two high school girls sitting nearby.
 
“Ta-da! I finally got a platinum ticket!”… Read the rest