I'm the Heroic Knight of an Intergalactic Empire! Vol. 1 by Yomu Mishima

Author:Yomu Mishima [Mishima, Yomu]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: light novel
Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment

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Calibrating the experimental craft was going incredibly slowly, so Emma took a break outside. She was watching Claudia’s strategy meeting when Larry walked up.

“‘Jager Squad’? Hardly a fitting name for that trash heap.”

“Larry?”

Larry stopped near Emma, eyeing the landing force dressed in black combat gear. He didn’t seem to like the Jager Squad. “Those kill counts on the landing force’s powered suits… They’re the Knight Killers.”

“Knight Killers?” Emma cocked her head.

“Aren’t you supposed to be a knight?” Larry scratched his head, irritated. “How do you not know about them? They’re the count’s personal landing force, Treasure.”

“There’s no such force!”

“Come on. Everyone knows it’s real. The count drags them wherever he wants, and they’re always fighting on the front lines. Every single one of them’s a weirdo who’ll be in the army for life.”

“For life?”

There was a symbol on the shoulder of each Treasure soldier’s powered suit: a historical helmet, representing the knights who used to wear them. The “X”s by each helmet emblem must’ve signified how many knights each soldier had killed.

“Just like those of us stationed on the Melea, they’ll never get out of the military. They don’t know any other way to live. Both situations seem completely pointless to me.”

The landing force had trained hard enough to be capable of killing knights—at least, under certain circumstances. They must’ve been physically enhanced several times to that end. They’d undergone harsh training, and the military had poured significant funds into each and every one of them. In exchange for enough power to take down a knight, those forces would serve for their entire working lives. They would likely be bound to the military until they reached retirement age.

The soldiers on the Melea were in the same boat. They were also trapped serving the military, since they didn’t know any other way to live.

“We’re all wasting our lives the same way, but they’re elites, and we’re a pile of garbage,” Larry mused.

Treasure, which consisted of the most elite forces, served at the count’s side. Their situation was nothing like that of the soldiers on the Melea. Still, Emma wanted Larry to know that, if he put his nose to the grindstone, he’d surely be rewarded.

“I’m certain that, if we work hard, things can improve for us too.”

Larry scoffed. “‘Work hard’? Talented people love to say that. But there are things in the world that are impossible, no matter how hard you work… Just like I could never become a knight at my current age, the people aboard the Melea will never be elites like Treasure, however much effort they put in.”

Larry turned his back on Emma. She couldn’t say anything in response.

“Hey, are you seriously planning to fight in that experimental craft?” he asked her. “Molly told me it was a defective unit that might blow up on you out there.”

He must’ve been worrying about her. He wasn’t being nice about it, but he clearly seemed concerned.

“Well, those are my orders.”

Larry furrowed his brow. “You’re just gonna let them use you as a guinea pig? What do you think your life’s worth?”

He had a point.

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