5 "Conspiracy and plot"
Kiriko and the others were in a strange outdoor bath in Mizuki's living space. It was a bathtub in the air dug in a megalith suspended by a number of thick vines. It was a bathtub that 20 people could easily fit in comfortably.
From the bathtub was a tunnel dug into the cliff attached by a suspension bridge. The end of the tunnel was the way to the dressing room and the lake below.
"ahahaha cheers!" Seto gave big stretch to release the tension of battle.
"Fuku-chan you did great!"
"Myan!" Fuku was also in good spirits as Seto patted her head.
"Even so, it should have been just a test flight ..."
"Well, the original goal was to find a lucky ship."
"For some reason fighting the big Daruma, and crippling the Daruma Guild .... leaves me with slightly complicated feelings ..."
Former pirate Ryoko's reaction seemed more complicated than Kiriko and Amane's.
For her, the Guild was a huge former ally base, and the Big Daruma was a "ghost ship", it was never found by the GP before. but it had been defeated in less than a day.
"I would have enjoyed it more if the the mid-level executives hadn't rebelled and forced a surrender ..." Seto recalled the excitement of battle and wore it on her face.
"Yes, but thanks to that, the big daruma was captured intact and almost no one died in the battle, oh ho ho."
"The problem is that a pretty good number of Space Pirates have escaped to Racepushi, if those guys try to rebuild Guild, it could be a little troubling."
There were also many Space Pirates who flew by ship back to Racepushi to take refuge rather than escape with super spatial jumps because the battle zone was quite hectic.
"even so they only made it into the ship but their own ships are still outside abandoned right?
"There's no choice but to let them, because that's where the medical treatment center for the injured is, and Makihi was the one who sent the data to Mizuki-chan."
"The reason there was so few dead people was thanks to that, that's a plus for Fuku and Mizuki's reputation."
"Ho ho ho, even if nearly forty percent took refuge, we were able to get the primary and secondary goals, so it's still a great harvest."
A pirates ship is a house for them and of coarse the primary method by which they pirate. Of course there were rich Space Pirates with multiple ships, but that was only a small percentage of the total population. Although there were many Space Pirates who didn't carry their assets on the ship, the ship was still the most valuable property for them. In other words, if the ship was captured, even if they escaped to Racepushi, it was the same as losing their vehicle for work and all their property.
"Most of the Space Pirates who lost their ships will just leave the business."
There was always the option to go under the control of another great Space Pirate, but it was a humiliating situation to work under someone after you were the head of your own ship. Even if you went into debt and got a new Space Pirate ship for cheap second hand, it wouldn't compare with a ship that you spent good money on and customized over the years. Probably nearly half would be destroyed early on.
"More than that, now I have the Big Daruma!"Seto gladly looked up at the sky of the residential area. There was a picture of the big Daruma projected so as to cover the whole sky there.
"... ... No way ... you were able accommodate the big Daruma within Mizuki's subspace!?"
"That's just insane, leave it to a royal ship to do such a thing ... ...."
"I understand that it's troublesome to talk about the situation as we conduct the investigation the ship and the battle, but I can't help but be jealous of your acquisition ... ... Hohoho."
In other words, Seto forced the situation so that the big Daruma became property of Jurai.
"Because I commanded and arrested Kamidake and Imperial ship, the priority is on Jurai, and because the director of the Academy will handle the investigation, you can affirm that right?"
"Well at the moment Seina is directly reporting to Ms. Airi, right?"
"In the meantime I'll hand over most of the other pirate battleship we captured to the GP, so be patient for a while and I will publish this information when I can."
Since it was possible to store the whole daruma, it was easy for all the other ships to be stored and taken with them. But if they did that there would be a big problem and they would have to hand over the big Daruma as well. So by letting them have the pirate ships to investigate she earned dibs when it came to investigating the big Daruma.
"Ho ho. so you want us to check it last?"
"No we will allow an investigation team from the GP at an appropriate time, Until then I'm sure you have more then enough to deal with."
"Well, in any case, it will take us some time for post-processing this large number of battleships ... well, it'll get done somehow."
In any case it was hard to collect and manage planetary ships as evidence.
It was difficult to move the big Daruma without super spatial navigation, and they would have to do research management while staying in this area if they had it. There was no telling how much funds, personnel, and fighting power had to be allocated to do that. But if it was stored in a royal ship most of those problems were solved, except that the GP couldn't directly lead the investigation.
"Thank you" The trade between Jurai, the GP, and Academy's three leaders was established in the bath.
"Well then, is Seina is still over there?"
"There are talks piling up over who to partner him with."
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"I started from nothing, I jumped into the world of Piracy with a single vessel and now it's come to this ..."
Seina and Daruma were sitting opposite each other in a luxurious conscription room in Kamidake's staff residential district. Seina looked like a grandson who was being told a story by his grandfather.
"Uhuhuhu..."
Somehow the two beautiful lovers of Daruma were on both sides of Seina weeping as if Seina was their husband now. It was a sign they recognized Seina who beat their boss as their new boss. That's why they were now Seina's women. Of course it was because the girls enjoyed being that way.
"And one day after I had been through many battles, when I got this funny looking statue of a creature that I bought at an antique shop, My fate changed and the world opened wide for me!" He said referring to the doll next to him.
"Is that possibly ... .... why you're called Daruma?"
"C'mon, you already know me so well. I had heard the name of the figure from the antique shop and later date renamed myself to Daruma. "
"Ha, ... ...."
However, Seina was more consciousness towards the label on the doll, which are stretched over the lower part of the Daurma daoll rather than his origin.
"Hey! Are you listening to me properly !?"
"Sorry, sir."
"This is why young people in recent years haven't been as successful ... ... After that all everything was going well, and the guild expanded with the momentum of bamboo."
Daruma was talking happily until then,
"That is until you came into the picture ... ... And now, to be losing everything in this way ... ... ugh, oh ..." He began to shiver in his shoulders, and at last he fell down on the table between them and burst into tears.
"Really, I'm sorry ...."
There was no choice but to apologize to the big adult crying in front of him. And Daruma, rolled over the desk and stopped in front of Seina.
Property of Airi Masaki was written on the old label on the doll and that's what Seina was concerned about just a while ago.
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"Prepare yourself ... Seina Yamada!"
Seiryo had left the mess hall and was standing in the dock at Racepshi that the Unko was moored in.
"Good thing we arrived here safely."
Komachi had also finished eating and stood next to Seiryo and looked up at the Unko as well.
"How is this safe! The exterior is completely gone, and the president was caught by the time we got there!"
"I wondered what would've happen if we jumped out in the middle of the GP and Jurai ... ... somehow we were able to escape to Racepshi, there was still some luck left I guess."
Thanks to the purging of the exterior, the look of the ship changed drastically, soon it wasn't even noticed as a lucky ship. Otherwise it would have been curtains for them.
"... Snd, there are still many guild member here, we can make the decision to rebuild the Guild here."
"I'll Leave it up to you, in any case I'm just a Third party employee of the Guild,"
"Then what are you going to do?"
"I know!We will shine again, Let's take down the enemy of the president!"
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Airi had returned safely to the academy's president's office.
"By the way, how is Daruma's hearing progressing?"
Seto was at her desk and asked Mikami this as they drank tea together while Airi checked documents that had accumulated while she was away.
"He's being extremely cooperative as if something has possessed him to confess, he seems to have mellowed out greatly since being captured by seina ... ... Hohoho"
Mikami showed on a monitor images of Daruma's solitary confinement cell on the monitor. There was Daruma performing zen meditation with a gentle expression.
"It's amazing that that jump happened, Washu-chan, it seems like a result of Seina's good luck overlapping with that of the Big Daruma'a."
"Good luck, that's a suprising phrase to hear."
"Of course the data we collected certainly helped, But we're still missing that good luck ship."
"After all that, you couldn't catch it?"
"It came to the big Daruma, once they sent word of the encounter, but despite a wide scale search we couldn't find the ship "
"Well, I wonder if the luck of the Unko also played part in us finding the Big Daruma?"
"Could you imagine such a thing."
"It would be a funny joke hoho."
"Even if we say that we narrowed it down, there were tens of thousands of possible locations, so Seina's achievement was still great, we landed it in a single try."
"And he showed the power that might exceed the first-generation Imperial ships, Kamidake and Mizuki are also great, so I'm more interested in that then the Big Daruma."
Airi came close to the sofa where Seto was, her check of the documents was over.
"Oh, are you done already?"
"I stayed up all night long ...."
"Hohoho, cheers for the good work."
Mikami handed tea to Airi. She drank all the tea up even though it was still fairly hot, and then she took many sweets and candies and threw them into her mouth. Her tired brain wanted sugar. And then They watched the battle recordings of Kamidake which were flowing in. It wasn't only data recorded by the Kamidake, there were also videos recorded by Racepushi and the Big Daruma.
"...... Even so, having shown such a power, it'll be difficult to handle The Kamidake in the future.
"Since Fuku has a brain and her body has an astral, She will be treated like a Royal ship, but it seems inevitable that full-blown research is inevitable from those in leadership positions. For the time being, Seina will have to graduate from the GP Academy I'll continue to serve him just like I serve every other police officer we have. "
"...... Judging from our records on the Daruma Guild, quite a few Space Pirates managed to escape."
Mikami looked in Seto's Direction.
"It can't be helped if they escaped to Racepshi ... ... Well, I supposed its good for us it's dangerous for the space pirates to become disorderly, in that sense were lucky a large part of the guild still exists. "
"Hohoho. Is it possible to catch them all so they can't escape? Currently all the high ranking pirates have been caught."
"Oh ... was my ploy obvious?"
She had planned for them to escape
"The Congress of the Galactic Federation Has decided that the Daruma Guild won't be completely destroyed. The Boundaries of territory claimed by the Daruma Guild is adjacent to the Renza Federation's space .... We don't want it absorbed by the Pirate Guilds over there now do we? "
She admitted in a bit frighting but dismissive way.
"When the survival of King Balta is announced and approved as a formal nation, the Daruma Guild, Who were originally Baltan Space Pirates, will undoubtedly be merged with Balta ... and that kingdom is under Jurai's control so it all works out."
In other words, that space becomes Juraian territory.
"......Everyone at the meeting almost acted like they were practically compelled to agree."
Seto said admitting that it was intentional.
"When Balta's survival is announced, you'll regret it, especially Seniwa."
Airi said looking at Mikami.
"If we can take control of the pirates who dominated that area, then Seniwa also benefits as a result, and in that situation realistically, Jurai will be at the forefront of the Renza Federation Pirates so there will be no complaints on our end as Jurai will be defending us all from them in a way. "
The benefit of obtaining a vast airspace was great, but it also required a lot of labor to defend it. As a member of the Galactic Federation, you'd never know it, but if you're adjacent to an organization that you are always in combat with, you'd need a lot of money and talent to monitor its defenses.
Even though the Juraian airspace had increased by a large scale, it was quite doubtful whether it matched the income that could be obtained from a territory with such little development. The defense of the space in this case was actually something only Jurai could manage to do.
"Well then, what about the rumor that there are aircraft with the same power as that of Royal ships in the shape of humanoid weapons?"
"Yes it's true, as few as there are they seem to be fifth and fourth, and even some some third generation class weapons there."
"Hohoho, that is also a troubling matter ... When it comes to facing such an enemy, the GP, if it was leading the matter, would likely use it for military expansion. After raising taxes of course..."
"So that's why Jurai wants it ... ... Won't that be impossible to deal with at first?"
"Well, that's why I want to keep the Kamidake ready to use, because the other party consists of Space Pirates, we can't fight them directly with the Royal Ships."
"Besides that, introducing a large quantity of royal ships to the area will alarm those in the Renza Federation, and it will take time and money to do a massive suppression campaign like before Seina arrived ..." Ringo and the accounting troops would be furious.
"In the meantime Balta's border line defense is going to gradually be lead by the GP, but to a certain extent the Kamidake will have to be used to fend off the space pirates."
"So, what's the timing going to be on Balta join the Galactic Union?
"I'm thinking it would be best to do it at the same time as the Independence Declaration, I still haven't decided whether to negotiate it with the Federation in advance ... but that's another problem ..."
Seto said glancing at Mikami.
"What do you want to do ...?
"A necessary evil is nothing but evil if you don't need it."
"However, I feel like it is still needed a quite bit." Mikami looked up to the sky as she said that.
"There's no choice but to do so."
"Yes, I know .... Anyway, It's fortunate for us that the new leadership on your end is considered effective so far ..."
"There are those who are going to break from the Kuramitsu family anyways, but ... thank you."
Airi lowered her head and presented Mikami with potatoes as if it were a child's reward.
"I was conscious that it would happen ... ... but I didn't think that this day would come to be realized as quickly as it did."
"A fully complete Galactic Union ... ... It's no longer a dream."
"But before that we have a lot of cleaning to do, we have to drill and fill the cavities in our ranks."
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On the screen a lucky ship was projected.
"I will not go forward with supporting such a thing!"
"Ahahaha."
"It's a mistake to do this during such an important transitional period!" Taima knocked both his fists on a round table.
"Well maybe.. but it can't be helped but to blame Nakita, not that anyone could ever imagine such a situation anyways ... speaking of... how is the situation?"
"Ha ha. we're currently undertaking efforts to kill the Space Pirates who are running away. "
"Then when is a better time then now! The military has completely blundered on this issue to such a great extent, and what's more is that now the Big Daruma has been secured by Jurai!"
"By managing to put the Daruma guild in such a broken state with just one Kamidake ship, the momentum of military unnecessaryists has also increased."
"The road to the Seiniwa envisioned by Taima has been lost."
"These things are not just problems, This is a crisis for the existence of a prosperous GP army, we need a new enemy to avoid this.The biggest guild of space pirates has disappeared! This is a chance for the other guilds to expand their power, but after all the guilds left are mostly small timers and there is a limit even if they expand their power, the most convenient possibility is ...... "
"Tarrant? But he's difficult to control"
"The value of the Kamidake has further raised due to him, because he has handed over the existing Daedalus reserves and parts and manufacturing plants, We need to have them hand over the Kamidake with the terminal brain body as soon as possible "
"Huh! That was nice of him."
"And he added another criteria in addition"
"It's not something outrageously difficult is it?"
"No we have to capture someone."
"One person? Who is it that we have to hand over?"
"This guy"
"Him!?" The executives who saw the man's photo monitor changed their complexion.
---Translator note: It's Dr. Clay---
"Is that alright? What if he tries to mass produce the Kamidake!"
"We don't have to worry. After all, it was made with human hands, can't be any more troublesome a thing than a royal ship now can it?"
"Knowing it's creators, if we get the technology, can we mass-produce it here?"
"Judging from the person's character, mass production is impossible, The Daedalus is a good example."
Despite the fact that The Daedalus was a mass-produced ship, only one ship used by Tarrant was ever in operation.
"Also this last time it was working in conjunction with a royal ship, although it's a powerful ship on it's own, there's no need to be too afraid."
"Either way the guilty charges put on by this man are all military-related things, it wouldn't be a problem to change up his sentence a bit."
"However, Mikami is a problem we must be careful not to get caught."
"Hmmm ... let's wait for the situation calmed down and then let's take Kamidake."
A satisfying smile appeared on Taima 's face.
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Despite the lack of luck durring the earlier intense fighting, there was still a certain amount of good luck left in the Unko. The Containers that they had robbed were connected in a long trailing line behind them like they were in traffic on a transcontinental railway.
"Ha ha ha! We're making tons of money today! At this rate reconstruction costs for the guild will be no problem at all!"
"You should become the new leader!"
"Don't say such foolish things you idiot... I'm just doing my best for the sake of all of us. Someday I will rescue our president and defeat that retched Seina Yamada. Until that day I won't rest!"
Seiryo got up quickly and decided to pose towards the main monitor.
"... .... By the way, Why haven't we encountered the Kamidake yet? We have to be the only pirate vessel still out there. This is totally unexpected, They must be neglecting their duties!"
"Perhaps our luck has recovered to previous levels."
"Well ... Hmm I guess even warriors are allowed to rest."
Seiryo leaned against the backrest with his arms folded.
"We're picking up something on radar!"
Barry raised his voice and tension rose thought the the bridge.
"Seina Yamada?!"
"No, it's a cargo ship from the energy mass ratio, it seems to be full an unusual amount of cargo."
"Alright! It's time to get down to business!"
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"Actually ... I was asked by Seiryo's father to retrieve him." In Kamidake 's internal lounge Seto was speaking to Seina.
"Since the Daruma guild has been crushed, Can't you let other people handle that?"
Amane said reluctantly.
"Even so...... Mr. Tennan has had no luck reaching him, and besides that will never work, if he is called back during the contract period, they're supposed to pay a penalty."
"Are you serious ...?" Everyone was truly amazed.
"That's just like Tennan family ..."
"Originally that statue was there to ensure their commerce with the Durma Guild, but because the other party has been crushed they can't expect any profits and they don't want any more of a loss, so they want us to take him back in the form of arrest."
"A gold spoon makes for an easy break." Neiju said Seto nodded nicely.
"That's why I'm trying to have you get him back into GP custody ... ... but as for arresting him ... ..."
"Uhuhuhu ... ... He's going to rot for a while isn't he?" Amane looked joyful.
"When you calculate the amount of damage done by the lucky ship as of now, He'd be looking at about thirty years."
"Ahahahaha, that's wonderful! Let's catch him! We can sink his ship if he resists, right?"
"... I feel sorry for him."
Apart from Amane everyone was largely sympathetic to Seiryo. They disliked him but didn't hate him. And to those not directly harmed by him he was an interesting character from a distant view point.
"Quit wasting your pity, That idiot is just reaping the shit he has sown, He brought it on himself."
"But even if we have to capture him, the problem is that the Kamidake hasn't been able to encounter a lucky ship since we encountered the Big Daruma... even using the data we got from that."
Kiriko quickly operated the terminal and calculated the data.
"...... The odds of encountering him again gives us four years and two months at the soonest."
"Four years? ...... For Lorelai Seina that's nothing.
"The shortest time is of course the next time we jump out."
"I need you to capture him faster and securely."
Seto smiled a mischievous smile. In her eyes you could tell she had thought of something.
"I think I'll make him come to us."
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"The acquisitions officer has a message for you captain.It seems that every shipment we captured is full of messages addressed to you."
"What?"
"Similar things are being transferred to us from other Space Pirates. From the scans we preformed it doesn't seem to be anything dangerous. What do you want us to do?"
"Huhuhu ... .... OK, please turn it over to me."
As Seiryo strangely twisted his head, quite a large case was transferred in. The inside was packed with letters.
"Are there are quite a lot of them ... ...?"
He took a copy out of the case.
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In the Academy Solar System, on one of its outer rings, was an event site being built suddenly.
A medium-sized general-purpose unit acted as the base of the construction site site, various kinds of construction equipment were working. It was a kind of mobile tent shack.
"It's coming along quickly."
Seto who was watching the construction from the control room said satisfied. Airi and Mikami were also present inspecting the progress of the work. And what was next to Seto was Ekushito Racepushi, the general manager of Racepshi.
"Indeed, and it's only been three days, I never thought one could do this in such a short time."
"For us, it's a very routine matter. Thank you for letting us administer this."
"Well consider it an apology for arresting your greatest tenant."
"Well it wasn't so bad I got to whiteness a wonderful big event that we rarely see, and the only thing I was surprised about was that you wanted more people to watch it live."
"I sent you the other recordings, whatever you can get for that will be more then enough of a substitute but if you can, I prefer you avoid publishing them for a while ..."
The biggest concern of Seto was the scene showing the material change of Light Hawk Wings. This part alone would be a source of many problems.
First of all, it would create operational problems for royal ships. Mizuki was a newly grown royal ship, she was not announced to the public. In other words, they did a space battle without permission.
Also, the six Light Hawk Wings indicated a royal ship was there. If it was known that they were created by the Kamidake, that would also create a variety of problems. the same went for the footage of the Kamidake's Gai Vulg.
"Ho ho ho, there were lots of witnesses and also images taken by customers of Racepushi flowing on the net, there was no way to hide it, other countries and philosophers are requesting for verification in confidence. "
"Did you think that it would be misappropriated Airi? Everyone is celebrating the capture of the Daruma Guild, so The Galactic Federation will sit on the issue for a while, but no other action is needed ... for now we have to urgently investigate The Daruma."
"Well for now, the original videos recorded here are strictly prohibited from being shown ... oh ...!"
Ekushito noticed the caller calling on monitor.
"Seina is here." with that he turned to Seto, Seto rejoiced little.
"Please make yourself at home."
"Yes"
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"Welcome, we meet again, it's been a while since we communicated in the past, so I'll introduce myself again. I am Ms. Makihi of Racepushi, please let me know what you desire."
Makihi said wearing white-colored clothes, almost like a prom dress, as she bowed Seina with grace.
"Um ... We've been called here by Seto,"
Although it was the second time,the first time she was only a picture and this was the real thing. Overwhelmed by the lady's aura and gloss in front of his eyes, Seina found it hard to say anything.
There are many people with a beautiful appearance around Seina and those with intense personality, but the atmosphere of the superior first-class Makihi was as good as any of them. Ms. Amane was a woman who demonstrated more charm on the stage and exuded it in the evening, Ms Gyokuren inversely increased in charm at night, so currently they were only half as charming as usual, but still Seina was overwhelmed by their combined presence.
"Well, I've been waiting for you, Seina Yamada, The rumors about you are questionable, but I've heard lots from various people."
"From the Space Pirates ...?" Kiriko came in front so as to block Seina's fixated view.
"Yes, not only from the Galactic Federation, but also from the Space Pirates of Renza."
However, Makihi shrugged off the feeble attempt at intimidation by Cerebes Kiriko. But she still carried herself with the dignity of an older woman.
"Have you been briefed on the rest of us?"
"Yes, of course I know not only Seina Yamada, but I see Amane Kaunaq, Neiju Na Melmas, and Ryoko Balta are here ... ... Is it better to call you Erma for now?"
"... ... Yes Please do that here."
"Sure thing Erma, ... and then what about you miss Kiriko Masaki Jurai."
Makihi briefly bowed to Erma and turned again to Kiriko.
" There's no need for that since I havn't been officially announced as a member of the royal family yet."
"Excuse me ... ... Unfortunately I have a need to leave, so I will leave you to my daughter who has just arrived here."
Makihi said, Maya, who had stopped behind them, walked in front of Seina and graciously bowed.
"I am Maya of the dancers of Racepshi."
The feel of her elegance and prettiness gave away that she was truly Makihi's daughter, she still didn't exude Makihi's presence.
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"Well then, I'll excuse myself for a bit."
"Ha ha, okay that's fine." Seina 's gaze was drawn to Makihi again, and his eyes were stolen from her every move until she disappeared.
"I was surprised ... She is nothing in real life like she is in video ... ... It felt like I was watching a scene from a movie or something."
Amane expected admitted. Of course everyone there was of the same opinion.
"I will show you around here, please follow me"
"Oh!?" everyone's consciousness pierced the momentary gap of being released from Makihi,
Maya walked with her arms interlocked with Seina's very naturally.
"............" Because that gesture was too natural, Kiriko was staring at it for a while. It is as if the audience was watching a scene in a movie.
"Gaaaah!"
Amane chased after Kiriko who's temple was throbbing as she followed after Seina and Maya.
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Kiriko's group followed after Seina looking a bit stupid, the appearance of Seina and Maya together was very natural so they were hesitant to interrupt.
"Hey Kiriko ... ... what do you think of this?"
"Well, no matter how you slice it........"
"Gyokuren-san, I expected your intuition to be sharp at such times, but ..."
"……Oh I see" Neiju who had been silent until then clasped her hands.
"What do you mean you see?
"Because it seems so natural, she seems to have the same sort of atmosphere with him as he and Kiriko have."
"……oh" Everyone understood what they meant.
Kiriko alone had a slightly different interpretation.
(... She resembles mom) Her appearance was completely different, but Kiriko felt they resembled Tsukiko and Seina when when young. Maya cuddled up with Seina.
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Seina and Maya and came to the VIP room where Seto's crew was.
"Thank you for your trouble ... ..., What do you think about the state of the venue?"
"Ha ha ... I was surprised that this much was built in only three days ..."
"So Seina, Would you like to see from the view the top"
Maya kept her arm entwined with Seina's and pulled him towards the window. Seto rushed to stop Kiriko who attempted to go with them.
"... What is this all about?"
"Actually ..." Seto explained the history and her intention thus far.
"... Well then, is this all just for bringing back those idiots?"
"It fits Seiryo's personality, don't you think that the stage should be flashy?"
"I'm surprised he hasn't responded earlier."
"Yes, I Honestly don't know what's taking so long to hear back from him."
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Seiryo read the letter that was transferred to the bridge of the Unko, his hand trembled with anger.
"What does it say?"
"...... President Daruma's life will be spared, and his ship will be given back, provided I win a one on one battle with Seina Yamada!" Seiryo kicked the chair to vent his anger.
"Seina yamada how dare you take a hostage! You sneaky bastard!"
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"I'm sure that idiot will call any minute hehehehe."Amane said with confidence.
"... Well, if Amane says so, he will come ... but ..."
Even if she disliked him, Kiriko was a bit confused about the Amane's attitude when talking about her old friend.
"But Seto, we're still members of the GP. For the time being we can't forget about the threat he poses..."
"Oohohoo! Of course, so we have set a cowardly trap using the biggest gathering of science that the Academy has to offer."
"Don't say such a thing with such a smile!"
"She sounds like a villain." Neiju was also confused by Seto's expression.
"You're views on good and evil change according to your standing position. Either way for Space Pirates we are the enemy, so to them we are evil, so I'm kindly playing the role of villain exactly as they assume I will."
"Oh yeah. That's right."
Seto, Airi, and Amane were smiling without any guilt. As expected, Mikami was pretending not to listen because she could not synchronize with the opinions of Seto from her standpoint as the GP academy principal.
"It's certainly an excuse for if you consider our opponent's personality ... ...."
"How kind I am ... ..."
It couldn't be helped either way. Kiriko was left with with a bitter smile, Seto approached the window to watch seina.
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"So.." Maya put her hands on Seina's shoulder.
"Have you heard? Mr. Seina "
"... Heard what?"
Of course Seina thought that this event was a mistake, but he also didn't think it was possible to avoid a battle. He just needed some time to accept the situation.
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It was a large-scale battlefield, they had sent an intimidation letter to the villain. It was an unacceptable situation to put on a GP academy student into. As a human being who's bad luck brought others misfortune, he didn't expect to be the one to enact justice as much as he thought he would be a burden to everyone involved. Seina would have also preferred not to get involved in something that made him seem like a villain.
"Well, Lorelai Seina is the biggest enemy of the Space Pirates, and an Earthling, which that stupid guy hates ... ... I can't think of any one more suitable."
"But his opponent is Mr. Tennan, whatever his personality is, he's skilled."
"That's right, no matter what we have to take safety measures ..."
"... .... Hmpf. How rude of you to assume I won't stop the fighting way before that."
To Kiriko and others, it was known that the battle was inevitable, and as expected, Seina also knew this however, Kiriko diverted her eyes from Seina as if she was embarrassed that there were no other methods to resolve the situation.
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"I don't about this ..." Seina looked at Maya who was next to him
"I'm pretty unlucky."
"Hey now it's a chance to be on a big stage, even if you wanted it, an opportunity like this rarely comes along." ♡
If you think about it, Maya was the person who was hosting this event. It wasn't an unlucky thing for her.
"............"
"All right, Then we'll make sure you have a good instructor."
seto said putting her hand on seina's shoulder, she had silently snuck up on Seina.
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"Go get him uhuhuhuh♡" Seto said sending Seina off with a smile, he remained stunned, as he was dragged off by the collar by Kanemitsu.
The moment when Seina disappeared, Seto stopped waving her hand and turned toward Kiriko.
"This is a tremendous once in a century confrontation, if you know someone who wants an invite Kiriko-chan, please list them for me. The advance tickets are sold out already, so the number of invited guests is limited."
"You sold out already! You're making money off of Seina's battle!?"
"Oh, no we will donate the profit to charity in full."
"That's not the problem!"
"... ... The strongest luck in the galaxy vs. the strongest bad luck in the galaxy ... ... it's perfect promotional material." Maya said with a full smile.
"What are you saying!"
"I think that the excitement of our customers is necessary for sublimating Seiryo's anger."
Maya quarreled with Kiriko. Prior to that, despite having met with Maya for the first time, it seemed like they had known each other a long time.
"Yeah ... I would say that's about right."
"Stop saying things like that Amane!"
"If we can get that idiot back here we can also contain the lucky ships, Then we wont have to force Fuku to hunt them down, or would you rather she work herself to exhaustion again Kiriko?"
Fuku who experienced her biggest battle yet in Unison for the first time, was hospitalized for examination accompanied by Hakuren, after she had fought with the Big Daruma.
"Fine! But don't try to justify it being interesting to me!"
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Seiryo had thrown into the incinerator shoots a large amount of the letters.
"... Well, needless to say, this is an obvious trap." Komachi said coldly, Seiryo was immersed in his work.
"Go on! Show yourself! Seina Yamada."
Even if Seiryo discarded it or lost it, the battle invite letter would just be transferred to him one by one soon afterward.
"...... How many letters is Seto going to send? I guess they know it's just going to rile him up."
In the meantime, the number of battle conditions had been reduced leaving only the last one.
"Ha ha ha! This is the last straw Seina Yamada!" Seiryo threw the last letter in the incinerator.
"... ... are you going?"
"Naturally!"
"But in fact, The Daruma Guild has collapsed, the transaction you had with the Guild has either shrunk significantly in profitability ... ... or has disappeared completely, Why don't you just go home already?"
"If it was just a matter of business then indeed, I'd have made the decision to go home, but this is a matter of a man's pride! I will cast the hammer of justice at the despicable Seina Yamada and I will help the president! More than anything I am the captain of this ship As long as there is the Unko, the place where I will be is here! "
"... OK, so what's the date and time of the battle?"
"Oh uhm.... I never thought to remember such a thing..."
When he realized he had thrown away the last letter he instinctively jumped into the incinerator chute.
"... ... That idiot"
It was thirty minutes later that Seiryo was sorted out and discovered in the pile of inflammable garbage.
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Kiriko and the others were in a strange outdoor bath in Mizuki's living space. It was a bathtub in the air dug in a megalith suspended by a number of thick vines. It was a bathtub that 20 people could easily fit in comfortably.
From the bathtub was a tunnel dug into the cliff attached by a suspension bridge. The end of the tunnel was the way to the dressing room and the lake below.
"ahahaha cheers!" Seto gave big stretch to release the tension of battle.
"Fuku-chan you did great!"
"Myan!" Fuku was also in good spirits as Seto patted her head.
"Even so, it should have been just a test flight ..."
"Well, the original goal was to find a lucky ship."
"For some reason fighting the big Daruma, and crippling the Daruma Guild .... leaves me with slightly complicated feelings ..."
Former pirate Ryoko's reaction seemed more complicated than Kiriko and Amane's.
For her, the Guild was a huge former ally base, and the Big Daruma was a "ghost ship", it was never found by the GP before. but it had been defeated in less than a day.
"I would have enjoyed it more if the the mid-level executives hadn't rebelled and forced a surrender ..." Seto recalled the excitement of battle and wore it on her face.
"Yes, but thanks to that, the big daruma was captured intact and almost no one died in the battle, oh ho ho."
"The problem is that a pretty good number of Space Pirates have escaped to Racepushi, if those guys try to rebuild Guild, it could be a little troubling."
There were also many Space Pirates who flew by ship back to Racepushi to take refuge rather than escape with super spatial jumps because the battle zone was quite hectic.
"even so they only made it into the ship but their own ships are still outside abandoned right?
"There's no choice but to let them, because that's where the medical treatment center for the injured is, and Makihi was the one who sent the data to Mizuki-chan."
"The reason there was so few dead people was thanks to that, that's a plus for Fuku and Mizuki's reputation."
"Ho ho ho, even if nearly forty percent took refuge, we were able to get the primary and secondary goals, so it's still a great harvest."
A pirates ship is a house for them and of coarse the primary method by which they pirate. Of course there were rich Space Pirates with multiple ships, but that was only a small percentage of the total population. Although there were many Space Pirates who didn't carry their assets on the ship, the ship was still the most valuable property for them. In other words, if the ship was captured, even if they escaped to Racepushi, it was the same as losing their vehicle for work and all their property.
"Most of the Space Pirates who lost their ships will just leave the business."
There was always the option to go under the control of another great Space Pirate, but it was a humiliating situation to work under someone after you were the head of your own ship. Even if you went into debt and got a new Space Pirate ship for cheap second hand, it wouldn't compare with a ship that you spent good money on and customized over the years. Probably nearly half would be destroyed early on.
"More than that, now I have the Big Daruma!"Seto gladly looked up at the sky of the residential area. There was a picture of the big Daruma projected so as to cover the whole sky there.
"... ... No way ... you were able accommodate the big Daruma within Mizuki's subspace!?"
"That's just insane, leave it to a royal ship to do such a thing ... ...."
"I understand that it's troublesome to talk about the situation as we conduct the investigation the ship and the battle, but I can't help but be jealous of your acquisition ... ... Hohoho."
In other words, Seto forced the situation so that the big Daruma became property of Jurai.
"Because I commanded and arrested Kamidake and Imperial ship, the priority is on Jurai, and because the director of the Academy will handle the investigation, you can affirm that right?"
"Well at the moment Seina is directly reporting to Ms. Airi, right?"
"In the meantime I'll hand over most of the other pirate battleship we captured to the GP, so be patient for a while and I will publish this information when I can."
Since it was possible to store the whole daruma, it was easy for all the other ships to be stored and taken with them. But if they did that there would be a big problem and they would have to hand over the big Daruma as well. So by letting them have the pirate ships to investigate she earned dibs when it came to investigating the big Daruma.
"Ho ho. so you want us to check it last?"
"No we will allow an investigation team from the GP at an appropriate time, Until then I'm sure you have more then enough to deal with."
"Well, in any case, it will take us some time for post-processing this large number of battleships ... well, it'll get done somehow."
In any case it was hard to collect and manage planetary ships as evidence.
It was difficult to move the big Daruma without super spatial navigation, and they would have to do research management while staying in this area if they had it. There was no telling how much funds, personnel, and fighting power had to be allocated to do that. But if it was stored in a royal ship most of those problems were solved, except that the GP couldn't directly lead the investigation.
"Thank you" The trade between Jurai, the GP, and Academy's three leaders was established in the bath.
"Well then, is Seina is still over there?"
"There are talks piling up over who to partner him with."
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"I started from nothing, I jumped into the world of Piracy with a single vessel and now it's come to this ..."
Seina and Daruma were sitting opposite each other in a luxurious conscription room in Kamidake's staff residential district. Seina looked like a grandson who was being told a story by his grandfather.
"Uhuhuhu..."
Somehow the two beautiful lovers of Daruma were on both sides of Seina weeping as if Seina was their husband now. It was a sign they recognized Seina who beat their boss as their new boss. That's why they were now Seina's women. Of course it was because the girls enjoyed being that way.
"And one day after I had been through many battles, when I got this funny looking statue of a creature that I bought at an antique shop, My fate changed and the world opened wide for me!" He said referring to the doll next to him.
"Is that possibly ... .... why you're called Daruma?"
"C'mon, you already know me so well. I had heard the name of the figure from the antique shop and later date renamed myself to Daruma. "
"Ha, ... ...."
However, Seina was more consciousness towards the label on the doll, which are stretched over the lower part of the Daurma daoll rather than his origin.
"Hey! Are you listening to me properly !?"
"Sorry, sir."
"This is why young people in recent years haven't been as successful ... ... After that all everything was going well, and the guild expanded with the momentum of bamboo."
Daruma was talking happily until then,
"That is until you came into the picture ... ... And now, to be losing everything in this way ... ... ugh, oh ..." He began to shiver in his shoulders, and at last he fell down on the table between them and burst into tears.
"Really, I'm sorry ...."
There was no choice but to apologize to the big adult crying in front of him. And Daruma, rolled over the desk and stopped in front of Seina.
Property of Airi Masaki was written on the old label on the doll and that's what Seina was concerned about just a while ago.
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"Prepare yourself ... Seina Yamada!"
Seiryo had left the mess hall and was standing in the dock at Racepshi that the Unko was moored in.
"Good thing we arrived here safely."
Komachi had also finished eating and stood next to Seiryo and looked up at the Unko as well.
"How is this safe! The exterior is completely gone, and the president was caught by the time we got there!"
"I wondered what would've happen if we jumped out in the middle of the GP and Jurai ... ... somehow we were able to escape to Racepshi, there was still some luck left I guess."
Thanks to the purging of the exterior, the look of the ship changed drastically, soon it wasn't even noticed as a lucky ship. Otherwise it would have been curtains for them.
"... Snd, there are still many guild member here, we can make the decision to rebuild the Guild here."
"I'll Leave it up to you, in any case I'm just a Third party employee of the Guild,"
"Then what are you going to do?"
"I know!We will shine again, Let's take down the enemy of the president!"
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Airi had returned safely to the academy's president's office.
"By the way, how is Daruma's hearing progressing?"
Seto was at her desk and asked Mikami this as they drank tea together while Airi checked documents that had accumulated while she was away.
"He's being extremely cooperative as if something has possessed him to confess, he seems to have mellowed out greatly since being captured by seina ... ... Hohoho"
Mikami showed on a monitor images of Daruma's solitary confinement cell on the monitor. There was Daruma performing zen meditation with a gentle expression.
"It's amazing that that jump happened, Washu-chan, it seems like a result of Seina's good luck overlapping with that of the Big Daruma'a."
"Good luck, that's a suprising phrase to hear."
"Of course the data we collected certainly helped, But we're still missing that good luck ship."
"After all that, you couldn't catch it?"
"It came to the big Daruma, once they sent word of the encounter, but despite a wide scale search we couldn't find the ship "
"Well, I wonder if the luck of the Unko also played part in us finding the Big Daruma?"
"Could you imagine such a thing."
"It would be a funny joke hoho."
"Even if we say that we narrowed it down, there were tens of thousands of possible locations, so Seina's achievement was still great, we landed it in a single try."
"And he showed the power that might exceed the first-generation Imperial ships, Kamidake and Mizuki are also great, so I'm more interested in that then the Big Daruma."
Airi came close to the sofa where Seto was, her check of the documents was over.
"Oh, are you done already?"
"I stayed up all night long ...."
"Hohoho, cheers for the good work."
Mikami handed tea to Airi. She drank all the tea up even though it was still fairly hot, and then she took many sweets and candies and threw them into her mouth. Her tired brain wanted sugar. And then They watched the battle recordings of Kamidake which were flowing in. It wasn't only data recorded by the Kamidake, there were also videos recorded by Racepushi and the Big Daruma.
"...... Even so, having shown such a power, it'll be difficult to handle The Kamidake in the future.
"Since Fuku has a brain and her body has an astral, She will be treated like a Royal ship, but it seems inevitable that full-blown research is inevitable from those in leadership positions. For the time being, Seina will have to graduate from the GP Academy I'll continue to serve him just like I serve every other police officer we have. "
"...... Judging from our records on the Daruma Guild, quite a few Space Pirates managed to escape."
Mikami looked in Seto's Direction.
"It can't be helped if they escaped to Racepshi ... ... Well, I supposed its good for us it's dangerous for the space pirates to become disorderly, in that sense were lucky a large part of the guild still exists. "
"Hohoho. Is it possible to catch them all so they can't escape? Currently all the high ranking pirates have been caught."
"Oh ... was my ploy obvious?"
She had planned for them to escape
"The Congress of the Galactic Federation Has decided that the Daruma Guild won't be completely destroyed. The Boundaries of territory claimed by the Daruma Guild is adjacent to the Renza Federation's space .... We don't want it absorbed by the Pirate Guilds over there now do we? "
She admitted in a bit frighting but dismissive way.
"When the survival of King Balta is announced and approved as a formal nation, the Daruma Guild, Who were originally Baltan Space Pirates, will undoubtedly be merged with Balta ... and that kingdom is under Jurai's control so it all works out."
In other words, that space becomes Juraian territory.
"......Everyone at the meeting almost acted like they were practically compelled to agree."
Seto said admitting that it was intentional.
"When Balta's survival is announced, you'll regret it, especially Seniwa."
Airi said looking at Mikami.
"If we can take control of the pirates who dominated that area, then Seniwa also benefits as a result, and in that situation realistically, Jurai will be at the forefront of the Renza Federation Pirates so there will be no complaints on our end as Jurai will be defending us all from them in a way. "
The benefit of obtaining a vast airspace was great, but it also required a lot of labor to defend it. As a member of the Galactic Federation, you'd never know it, but if you're adjacent to an organization that you are always in combat with, you'd need a lot of money and talent to monitor its defenses.
Even though the Juraian airspace had increased by a large scale, it was quite doubtful whether it matched the income that could be obtained from a territory with such little development. The defense of the space in this case was actually something only Jurai could manage to do.
"Well then, what about the rumor that there are aircraft with the same power as that of Royal ships in the shape of humanoid weapons?"
"Yes it's true, as few as there are they seem to be fifth and fourth, and even some some third generation class weapons there."
"Hohoho, that is also a troubling matter ... When it comes to facing such an enemy, the GP, if it was leading the matter, would likely use it for military expansion. After raising taxes of course..."
"So that's why Jurai wants it ... ... Won't that be impossible to deal with at first?"
"Well, that's why I want to keep the Kamidake ready to use, because the other party consists of Space Pirates, we can't fight them directly with the Royal Ships."
"Besides that, introducing a large quantity of royal ships to the area will alarm those in the Renza Federation, and it will take time and money to do a massive suppression campaign like before Seina arrived ..." Ringo and the accounting troops would be furious.
"In the meantime Balta's border line defense is going to gradually be lead by the GP, but to a certain extent the Kamidake will have to be used to fend off the space pirates."
"So, what's the timing going to be on Balta join the Galactic Union?
"I'm thinking it would be best to do it at the same time as the Independence Declaration, I still haven't decided whether to negotiate it with the Federation in advance ... but that's another problem ..."
Seto said glancing at Mikami.
"What do you want to do ...?
"A necessary evil is nothing but evil if you don't need it."
"However, I feel like it is still needed a quite bit." Mikami looked up to the sky as she said that.
"There's no choice but to do so."
"Yes, I know .... Anyway, It's fortunate for us that the new leadership on your end is considered effective so far ..."
"There are those who are going to break from the Kuramitsu family anyways, but ... thank you."
Airi lowered her head and presented Mikami with potatoes as if it were a child's reward.
"I was conscious that it would happen ... ... but I didn't think that this day would come to be realized as quickly as it did."
"A fully complete Galactic Union ... ... It's no longer a dream."
"But before that we have a lot of cleaning to do, we have to drill and fill the cavities in our ranks."
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On the screen a lucky ship was projected.
"I will not go forward with supporting such a thing!"
"Ahahaha."
"It's a mistake to do this during such an important transitional period!" Taima knocked both his fists on a round table.
"Well maybe.. but it can't be helped but to blame Nakita, not that anyone could ever imagine such a situation anyways ... speaking of... how is the situation?"
"Ha ha. we're currently undertaking efforts to kill the Space Pirates who are running away. "
"Then when is a better time then now! The military has completely blundered on this issue to such a great extent, and what's more is that now the Big Daruma has been secured by Jurai!"
"By managing to put the Daruma guild in such a broken state with just one Kamidake ship, the momentum of military unnecessaryists has also increased."
"The road to the Seiniwa envisioned by Taima has been lost."
"These things are not just problems, This is a crisis for the existence of a prosperous GP army, we need a new enemy to avoid this.The biggest guild of space pirates has disappeared! This is a chance for the other guilds to expand their power, but after all the guilds left are mostly small timers and there is a limit even if they expand their power, the most convenient possibility is ...... "
"Tarrant? But he's difficult to control"
"The value of the Kamidake has further raised due to him, because he has handed over the existing Daedalus reserves and parts and manufacturing plants, We need to have them hand over the Kamidake with the terminal brain body as soon as possible "
"Huh! That was nice of him."
"And he added another criteria in addition"
"It's not something outrageously difficult is it?"
"No we have to capture someone."
"One person? Who is it that we have to hand over?"
"This guy"
"Him!?" The executives who saw the man's photo monitor changed their complexion.
---Translator note: It's Dr. Clay---
"Is that alright? What if he tries to mass produce the Kamidake!"
"We don't have to worry. After all, it was made with human hands, can't be any more troublesome a thing than a royal ship now can it?"
"Knowing it's creators, if we get the technology, can we mass-produce it here?"
"Judging from the person's character, mass production is impossible, The Daedalus is a good example."
Despite the fact that The Daedalus was a mass-produced ship, only one ship used by Tarrant was ever in operation.
"Also this last time it was working in conjunction with a royal ship, although it's a powerful ship on it's own, there's no need to be too afraid."
"Either way the guilty charges put on by this man are all military-related things, it wouldn't be a problem to change up his sentence a bit."
"However, Mikami is a problem we must be careful not to get caught."
"Hmmm ... let's wait for the situation calmed down and then let's take Kamidake."
A satisfying smile appeared on Taima 's face.
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Despite the lack of luck durring the earlier intense fighting, there was still a certain amount of good luck left in the Unko. The Containers that they had robbed were connected in a long trailing line behind them like they were in traffic on a transcontinental railway.
"Ha ha ha! We're making tons of money today! At this rate reconstruction costs for the guild will be no problem at all!"
"You should become the new leader!"
"Don't say such foolish things you idiot... I'm just doing my best for the sake of all of us. Someday I will rescue our president and defeat that retched Seina Yamada. Until that day I won't rest!"
Seiryo got up quickly and decided to pose towards the main monitor.
"... .... By the way, Why haven't we encountered the Kamidake yet? We have to be the only pirate vessel still out there. This is totally unexpected, They must be neglecting their duties!"
"Perhaps our luck has recovered to previous levels."
"Well ... Hmm I guess even warriors are allowed to rest."
Seiryo leaned against the backrest with his arms folded.
"We're picking up something on radar!"
Barry raised his voice and tension rose thought the the bridge.
"Seina Yamada?!"
"No, it's a cargo ship from the energy mass ratio, it seems to be full an unusual amount of cargo."
"Alright! It's time to get down to business!"
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"Actually ... I was asked by Seiryo's father to retrieve him." In Kamidake 's internal lounge Seto was speaking to Seina.
"Since the Daruma guild has been crushed, Can't you let other people handle that?"
Amane said reluctantly.
"Even so...... Mr. Tennan has had no luck reaching him, and besides that will never work, if he is called back during the contract period, they're supposed to pay a penalty."
"Are you serious ...?" Everyone was truly amazed.
"That's just like Tennan family ..."
"Originally that statue was there to ensure their commerce with the Durma Guild, but because the other party has been crushed they can't expect any profits and they don't want any more of a loss, so they want us to take him back in the form of arrest."
"A gold spoon makes for an easy break." Neiju said Seto nodded nicely.
"That's why I'm trying to have you get him back into GP custody ... ... but as for arresting him ... ..."
"Uhuhuhu ... ... He's going to rot for a while isn't he?" Amane looked joyful.
"When you calculate the amount of damage done by the lucky ship as of now, He'd be looking at about thirty years."
"Ahahahaha, that's wonderful! Let's catch him! We can sink his ship if he resists, right?"
"... I feel sorry for him."
Apart from Amane everyone was largely sympathetic to Seiryo. They disliked him but didn't hate him. And to those not directly harmed by him he was an interesting character from a distant view point.
"Quit wasting your pity, That idiot is just reaping the shit he has sown, He brought it on himself."
"But even if we have to capture him, the problem is that the Kamidake hasn't been able to encounter a lucky ship since we encountered the Big Daruma... even using the data we got from that."
Kiriko quickly operated the terminal and calculated the data.
"...... The odds of encountering him again gives us four years and two months at the soonest."
"Four years? ...... For Lorelai Seina that's nothing.
"The shortest time is of course the next time we jump out."
"I need you to capture him faster and securely."
Seto smiled a mischievous smile. In her eyes you could tell she had thought of something.
"I think I'll make him come to us."
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"The acquisitions officer has a message for you captain.It seems that every shipment we captured is full of messages addressed to you."
"What?"
"Similar things are being transferred to us from other Space Pirates. From the scans we preformed it doesn't seem to be anything dangerous. What do you want us to do?"
"Huhuhu ... .... OK, please turn it over to me."
As Seiryo strangely twisted his head, quite a large case was transferred in. The inside was packed with letters.
"Are there are quite a lot of them ... ...?"
He took a copy out of the case.
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In the Academy Solar System, on one of its outer rings, was an event site being built suddenly.
A medium-sized general-purpose unit acted as the base of the construction site site, various kinds of construction equipment were working. It was a kind of mobile tent shack.
"It's coming along quickly."
Seto who was watching the construction from the control room said satisfied. Airi and Mikami were also present inspecting the progress of the work. And what was next to Seto was Ekushito Racepushi, the general manager of Racepshi.
"Indeed, and it's only been three days, I never thought one could do this in such a short time."
"For us, it's a very routine matter. Thank you for letting us administer this."
"Well consider it an apology for arresting your greatest tenant."
"Well it wasn't so bad I got to whiteness a wonderful big event that we rarely see, and the only thing I was surprised about was that you wanted more people to watch it live."
"I sent you the other recordings, whatever you can get for that will be more then enough of a substitute but if you can, I prefer you avoid publishing them for a while ..."
The biggest concern of Seto was the scene showing the material change of Light Hawk Wings. This part alone would be a source of many problems.
First of all, it would create operational problems for royal ships. Mizuki was a newly grown royal ship, she was not announced to the public. In other words, they did a space battle without permission.
Also, the six Light Hawk Wings indicated a royal ship was there. If it was known that they were created by the Kamidake, that would also create a variety of problems. the same went for the footage of the Kamidake's Gai Vulg.
"Ho ho ho, there were lots of witnesses and also images taken by customers of Racepushi flowing on the net, there was no way to hide it, other countries and philosophers are requesting for verification in confidence. "
"Did you think that it would be misappropriated Airi? Everyone is celebrating the capture of the Daruma Guild, so The Galactic Federation will sit on the issue for a while, but no other action is needed ... for now we have to urgently investigate The Daruma."
"Well for now, the original videos recorded here are strictly prohibited from being shown ... oh ...!"
Ekushito noticed the caller calling on monitor.
"Seina is here." with that he turned to Seto, Seto rejoiced little.
"Please make yourself at home."
"Yes"
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"Welcome, we meet again, it's been a while since we communicated in the past, so I'll introduce myself again. I am Ms. Makihi of Racepushi, please let me know what you desire."
Makihi said wearing white-colored clothes, almost like a prom dress, as she bowed Seina with grace.
"Um ... We've been called here by Seto,"
Although it was the second time,the first time she was only a picture and this was the real thing. Overwhelmed by the lady's aura and gloss in front of his eyes, Seina found it hard to say anything.
There are many people with a beautiful appearance around Seina and those with intense personality, but the atmosphere of the superior first-class Makihi was as good as any of them. Ms. Amane was a woman who demonstrated more charm on the stage and exuded it in the evening, Ms Gyokuren inversely increased in charm at night, so currently they were only half as charming as usual, but still Seina was overwhelmed by their combined presence.
"Well, I've been waiting for you, Seina Yamada, The rumors about you are questionable, but I've heard lots from various people."
"From the Space Pirates ...?" Kiriko came in front so as to block Seina's fixated view.
"Yes, not only from the Galactic Federation, but also from the Space Pirates of Renza."
However, Makihi shrugged off the feeble attempt at intimidation by Cerebes Kiriko. But she still carried herself with the dignity of an older woman.
"Have you been briefed on the rest of us?"
"Yes, of course I know not only Seina Yamada, but I see Amane Kaunaq, Neiju Na Melmas, and Ryoko Balta are here ... ... Is it better to call you Erma for now?"
"... ... Yes Please do that here."
"Sure thing Erma, ... and then what about you miss Kiriko Masaki Jurai."
Makihi briefly bowed to Erma and turned again to Kiriko.
" There's no need for that since I havn't been officially announced as a member of the royal family yet."
"Excuse me ... ... Unfortunately I have a need to leave, so I will leave you to my daughter who has just arrived here."
Makihi said, Maya, who had stopped behind them, walked in front of Seina and graciously bowed.
"I am Maya of the dancers of Racepshi."
The feel of her elegance and prettiness gave away that she was truly Makihi's daughter, she still didn't exude Makihi's presence.
.
"Well then, I'll excuse myself for a bit."
"Ha ha, okay that's fine." Seina 's gaze was drawn to Makihi again, and his eyes were stolen from her every move until she disappeared.
"I was surprised ... She is nothing in real life like she is in video ... ... It felt like I was watching a scene from a movie or something."
Amane expected admitted. Of course everyone there was of the same opinion.
"I will show you around here, please follow me"
"Oh!?" everyone's consciousness pierced the momentary gap of being released from Makihi,
Maya walked with her arms interlocked with Seina's very naturally.
"............" Because that gesture was too natural, Kiriko was staring at it for a while. It is as if the audience was watching a scene in a movie.
"Gaaaah!"
Amane chased after Kiriko who's temple was throbbing as she followed after Seina and Maya.
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Kiriko's group followed after Seina looking a bit stupid, the appearance of Seina and Maya together was very natural so they were hesitant to interrupt.
"Hey Kiriko ... ... what do you think of this?"
"Well, no matter how you slice it........"
"Gyokuren-san, I expected your intuition to be sharp at such times, but ..."
"……Oh I see" Neiju who had been silent until then clasped her hands.
"What do you mean you see?
"Because it seems so natural, she seems to have the same sort of atmosphere with him as he and Kiriko have."
"……oh" Everyone understood what they meant.
Kiriko alone had a slightly different interpretation.
(... She resembles mom) Her appearance was completely different, but Kiriko felt they resembled Tsukiko and Seina when when young. Maya cuddled up with Seina.
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Seina and Maya and came to the VIP room where Seto's crew was.
"Thank you for your trouble ... ..., What do you think about the state of the venue?"
"Ha ha ... I was surprised that this much was built in only three days ..."
"So Seina, Would you like to see from the view the top"
Maya kept her arm entwined with Seina's and pulled him towards the window. Seto rushed to stop Kiriko who attempted to go with them.
"... What is this all about?"
"Actually ..." Seto explained the history and her intention thus far.
"... Well then, is this all just for bringing back those idiots?"
"It fits Seiryo's personality, don't you think that the stage should be flashy?"
"I'm surprised he hasn't responded earlier."
"Yes, I Honestly don't know what's taking so long to hear back from him."
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Seiryo read the letter that was transferred to the bridge of the Unko, his hand trembled with anger.
"What does it say?"
"...... President Daruma's life will be spared, and his ship will be given back, provided I win a one on one battle with Seina Yamada!" Seiryo kicked the chair to vent his anger.
"Seina yamada how dare you take a hostage! You sneaky bastard!"
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"I'm sure that idiot will call any minute hehehehe."Amane said with confidence.
"... Well, if Amane says so, he will come ... but ..."
Even if she disliked him, Kiriko was a bit confused about the Amane's attitude when talking about her old friend.
"But Seto, we're still members of the GP. For the time being we can't forget about the threat he poses..."
"Oohohoo! Of course, so we have set a cowardly trap using the biggest gathering of science that the Academy has to offer."
"Don't say such a thing with such a smile!"
"She sounds like a villain." Neiju was also confused by Seto's expression.
"You're views on good and evil change according to your standing position. Either way for Space Pirates we are the enemy, so to them we are evil, so I'm kindly playing the role of villain exactly as they assume I will."
"Oh yeah. That's right."
Seto, Airi, and Amane were smiling without any guilt. As expected, Mikami was pretending not to listen because she could not synchronize with the opinions of Seto from her standpoint as the GP academy principal.
"It's certainly an excuse for if you consider our opponent's personality ... ...."
"How kind I am ... ..."
It couldn't be helped either way. Kiriko was left with with a bitter smile, Seto approached the window to watch seina.
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"So.." Maya put her hands on Seina's shoulder.
"Have you heard? Mr. Seina "
"... Heard what?"
Of course Seina thought that this event was a mistake, but he also didn't think it was possible to avoid a battle. He just needed some time to accept the situation.
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It was a large-scale battlefield, they had sent an intimidation letter to the villain. It was an unacceptable situation to put on a GP academy student into. As a human being who's bad luck brought others misfortune, he didn't expect to be the one to enact justice as much as he thought he would be a burden to everyone involved. Seina would have also preferred not to get involved in something that made him seem like a villain.
"Well, Lorelai Seina is the biggest enemy of the Space Pirates, and an Earthling, which that stupid guy hates ... ... I can't think of any one more suitable."
"But his opponent is Mr. Tennan, whatever his personality is, he's skilled."
"That's right, no matter what we have to take safety measures ..."
"... .... Hmpf. How rude of you to assume I won't stop the fighting way before that."
To Kiriko and others, it was known that the battle was inevitable, and as expected, Seina also knew this however, Kiriko diverted her eyes from Seina as if she was embarrassed that there were no other methods to resolve the situation.
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"I don't about this ..." Seina looked at Maya who was next to him
"I'm pretty unlucky."
"Hey now it's a chance to be on a big stage, even if you wanted it, an opportunity like this rarely comes along." ♡
If you think about it, Maya was the person who was hosting this event. It wasn't an unlucky thing for her.
"............"
"All right, Then we'll make sure you have a good instructor."
seto said putting her hand on seina's shoulder, she had silently snuck up on Seina.
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"Go get him uhuhuhuh♡" Seto said sending Seina off with a smile, he remained stunned, as he was dragged off by the collar by Kanemitsu.
The moment when Seina disappeared, Seto stopped waving her hand and turned toward Kiriko.
"This is a tremendous once in a century confrontation, if you know someone who wants an invite Kiriko-chan, please list them for me. The advance tickets are sold out already, so the number of invited guests is limited."
"You sold out already! You're making money off of Seina's battle!?"
"Oh, no we will donate the profit to charity in full."
"That's not the problem!"
"... ... The strongest luck in the galaxy vs. the strongest bad luck in the galaxy ... ... it's perfect promotional material." Maya said with a full smile.
"What are you saying!"
"I think that the excitement of our customers is necessary for sublimating Seiryo's anger."
Maya quarreled with Kiriko. Prior to that, despite having met with Maya for the first time, it seemed like they had known each other a long time.
"Yeah ... I would say that's about right."
"Stop saying things like that Amane!"
"If we can get that idiot back here we can also contain the lucky ships, Then we wont have to force Fuku to hunt them down, or would you rather she work herself to exhaustion again Kiriko?"
Fuku who experienced her biggest battle yet in Unison for the first time, was hospitalized for examination accompanied by Hakuren, after she had fought with the Big Daruma.
"Fine! But don't try to justify it being interesting to me!"
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Seiryo had thrown into the incinerator shoots a large amount of the letters.
"... Well, needless to say, this is an obvious trap." Komachi said coldly, Seiryo was immersed in his work.
"Go on! Show yourself! Seina Yamada."
Even if Seiryo discarded it or lost it, the battle invite letter would just be transferred to him one by one soon afterward.
"...... How many letters is Seto going to send? I guess they know it's just going to rile him up."
In the meantime, the number of battle conditions had been reduced leaving only the last one.
"Ha ha ha! This is the last straw Seina Yamada!" Seiryo threw the last letter in the incinerator.
"... ... are you going?"
"Naturally!"
"But in fact, The Daruma Guild has collapsed, the transaction you had with the Guild has either shrunk significantly in profitability ... ... or has disappeared completely, Why don't you just go home already?"
"If it was just a matter of business then indeed, I'd have made the decision to go home, but this is a matter of a man's pride! I will cast the hammer of justice at the despicable Seina Yamada and I will help the president! More than anything I am the captain of this ship As long as there is the Unko, the place where I will be is here! "
"... OK, so what's the date and time of the battle?"
"Oh uhm.... I never thought to remember such a thing..."
When he realized he had thrown away the last letter he instinctively jumped into the incinerator chute.
"... ... That idiot"
It was thirty minutes later that Seiryo was sorted out and discovered in the pile of inflammable garbage.
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