The Dorky NPC Mercenary Knows His Place: Volume 1 by Toryuu

Author:Toryuu [TORYUU]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2024-10-30T00:00:00+00:00

She was sitting in what looked like a cockpit and was even wearing an orange piloting suit that seemed custom-made.

The next words that came out of her mouth shocked me.

“I’ll be joining this battle too.”

For a moment, my vision turned white.

“No, no, no! You aren’t a mercenary, so please turn back!” I cried.

“We have obstacles in Planet Racing. It’s not like we never fight. Besides, I have real experience in battle.”

“Still, it’s been a while, hasn’t it?”

“I’m just a regular civilian caught up in this mess, and I’ve decided to take part in this battle of my own accord to protect myself. I don’t see a problem with that.”

I doubt she’ll listen to anything I have to say now.

Besides, her battlecraft was state-of-the-art—a Storm Zero from the Triasgita Company.

In firepower, speed, defense capabilities, and maneuverability, her ship was a level above my Patchwork. Adding her piloting skills to those advantages, the average foe would hardly be able to threaten her at all.

Although the ships used for racing were capable of attacking each other, they were supposed to have been modified so that they were unable to shoot other ships down. Was this a ship they maintained so they could fight back if the team was attacked by outside forces?

Anyway, the bigger problem was that if she were to get injured—or even worse, if she were shot down—it would undoubtedly be blamed on us mercenaries. Then, all of her fans throughout the empire—no, throughout the universe—would subject us to a fate worse than death!

I decided to confirm one thing with her immediately.

“Have you told your teammates?”

“If our side loses, we’ll definitely be treated as the spoils of war. With that being the case, they accepted that it’d be better for me to contribute to our victory instead. As for why I’m the only one from the team to sortie, that’s because all our ships that are equipped for combat are currently undergoing maintenance except for this one.”

I seriously doubted that was actually true, but it would be hard to pursue the matter any further.

“In any case, please refrain from doing anything reckless...” I said.

That was my one earnest wish for Nosweil. And for the sake of my life too.

In the very next moment, the pirates addressed us over the open communications channel.

“We found you, you son of a bitch! How dare you kill my underlings?!”

The boss of the Grimreap Pirate Band was on my monitor. He looked to be about forty years old and had a beard that covered much of his face. He wore a dress shirt, an eyepatch, and a captain’s hat—the quintessential space pirate look.

The time of space pirates who actually looked like that was a thousand years in the past, and the terrestrial pirates who inspired the look in the first place now belonged to the realm of mythology. But this man had chosen this look anyway, probably to leave a stronger impression on anyone who encountered him. It also concealed his true identity.

Incidentally, thanks to this style he had adopted, this pirate boss was known as Teach by some or Blackbeard by others.

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