The Dorky NPC Mercenary Knows His Place: Volume 3 [Parts 1 to 2] by Toryuu

Author:Toryuu
Language: eng
Format: epub

NPC No. 59: “Yeah. I’ve already accepted that I’ll never have luck with women, so can you give it a rest? Alternatively, I could just shoot you down.”

I somehow managed to attach a tracking beacon to the Hans Brothers’ ship, which was a cream-colored spaceship that looked like two cones stuck together. Once they left the service area, I followed them at a distance.

As luck would have it, they made no further stops on their way back to their asteroid.

I waited for the moment they dropped their speed so they could land on the asteroid. That was when I fired my beam cannon, hoping to destroy their thruster nozzles.

However, just as my beam was about to hit them, their craft suddenly moved. Ultimately, I missed, and the pair’s engines immediately roared as they attempted to escape.

This is probably pointless, but I guess I’ll try hailing them.

“I can see you’re the pirates known as the Hans Brothers! You’d better come quietly!” I said.

“Screw you! And yeah, we’re the Hans Brothers! Everyone fears us! What self-respecting pirate would let himself get caught by a dork like you?!”

“Guys like us can just wait for ladies to approach us. Of course, a dweeb like you will never know what that’s like!”

Since I’d hailed them with my video feed on, not only could the other guys see my nerdy face, but I could see the mismatched duo in their spiky outfits too. They were laughing vulgarly and obviously just boasting despite being deemed a mere Pawn-rank target by guild standards.

“Yeah. I’ve already accepted that I’ll never have luck with women, so can you give it a rest? Alternatively, I could just shoot you down.”

“If you think you can, go ahead and try!”

All right, I’ll do just that.

But they dodged my next shot too, just like they had when they’d come alongside the asteroid.

“You bastard! Don’t you know that’s dangerous?!”

“Weren’t you the one who told me to take the shot?!” I said.

“Haven’t you seen what an awesome pilot my big bro is? He just dodged your beam in the middle of a sneeze!”

Ah, I see what’s happening.

Somehow, we were finding some common ground here. I was starting to feel sympathetic to these guys, but I knew I still had to capture them.

“All right, then I suppose I just need to keep shooting till I hit you.”

I fired my beams at them several times, thinking one of my shots was bound to hit, but they dodged them all.

“Whoa! Hey! Cut that out, dammit!”

The brothers then fled at full throttle.

It turned out their ship was just a little faster than mine, so it was all I could do just to keep up. While I occasionally took aim at their thruster nozzles and fired my beams again—partly just to constrain them—they deftly dodged these too, though that was probably luck.

After tailing them for about thirty minutes, I had my finger on the trigger again, thinking, This time, I know I’ll hit them. But the moment I pulled the trigger, the wreck of a mid-sized battlecraft—a so-called cruiser—drifted between me and my target.

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