episode_0080

The number of pirates killed by Arya’s Red Moon was 2,754.

In comparison, the number here is less, about 2,000 people.

The numbers are clearly small.

Considering the number of enemy aircraft or cruisers ‘captured’, this number is clearly quite small.

Of course.

Even space pirates can’t always risk their lives, and as space pirates, they sometimes value their lives more than money.

So, space pirates sometimes spend a lot of money, but when they are worried about their lives, they use AI or androids where manpower should be used.

For about 100 million credits, you can buy a decent Android, and by installing a few plug-ins, you can control the Android as if it were your own sub-body.

-For that money, I will change my CX organs into ether-cultured organs or do body modification!

There are some biotechnology reformers, but they all died on Aria’s side and became prisoners on Lavender’s side.

In the universe, there are a considerable number of people like me who can be said to be pure-blooded, but in places where physical abilities beyond the specifications of ordinary humans are required, such as space pirates or soldiers, there are quite a few genetically modified humans, enhanced humans, and android humans. There are a lot.

And here.

“Up to 2,000 pirates. How much rice do you eat?”

“They are the ones who say let’s eat and attack.”

The number of humans captured from Lavender’s neutralized aircraft was approximately 2,000.

Although each person has different physical specifications, they all have a common job as a space pirate.

And now, they have to wait for treatment as ‘prisoners’.

“I’m sorry. I should have just pulled the trigger.”

Lavender lowers her head like a prisoner.

“Just….”

“There is no need to kill him. There are times when killing is the answer, but no one will say anything to you for saving your life.”

“But we are in a very difficult situation right now. Those people would probably try to run away if they had the chance.”

Lavender pointed to the grim-looking pirates huddled together in the shelter, plotting villainy beyond the monitor.

“Even if they don’t run away, they might try to cause damage to Starlight Colony. Even if you miraculously become a Starlight Colony citizen, you won’t be able to easily give up your space pirate nature. Ah, is this too prejudiced…?”

“No. It’s a fair inference.”

No matter how much they reformed in prison, most people have similar views on people who have come out of prison.

It’s like a social prejudice against people with tattoos, and the person in question must overcome that misunderstanding.

How many of those captured there are truly willing to overcome the misunderstanding and integrate into the Starlight Colony?

Even if there were 5 out of 2,000 people, they would be noble.

“I don’t think it’s necessary to consult with all the remaining evildoers one by one to find one penitent, Commander.”

“You think so too, right?”

“Well, over there…”

Lavender cautiously raised her hand.

“Well, what is a mattress?”

“Haha. Don’t you know? To be exact, Matt’Rick’-”

“Commander.”

I silenced him by calling Captain Edmund.

“I understand, I understand. Are you saying you shouldn’t make crumbs by scraping?”

“Well, I need to know!”

Lavender raised her hand higher.

“If the people captured because of me are, uh, subjected to extreme torture or something like that… I’d rather just throw them back into space with my own hands!”

“To space?”

“Fe, ask Fenrir to open the warp gate, and then throw it into the Artemis colony…?”

“It’s surprising that he casually says he’ll make 2,000 people jump to another dimension, but it’s also absurd that it’s even possible.”

“…….”

“I’m not trying to be sarcastic at you, Lavender Student.”

“Then…?”

“The only problem is that if you throw it away like trash, the trash will somehow come back like a boomerang with a vengeance.”

Space pirates are mostly moths, strong-willed, and once offended, they bury it in their hearts until the end and then seek revenge somehow.

“Do you know about the Seven Bells and Seven Gems?”

“……?”

“…I’m sorry.”

“Well, next time we will study Earth Sphere culture!”

“Roughly speaking, space pirates are people who will repay the favor with their enemies even if you save them 100 times if it benefits them.”

Space pirates are people who cannot even use the Seven Bells and Seven Swords.

Rather, they are the ones who think to the person who surrendered after being defeated seven times, ‘Why are you surrendering like a fool?’ and ‘If the opponent is not going to kill me, then I can take advantage of it and take advantage of it.’

So, Lavender’s side lived, and Aria’s side all died.

It could be said that the situation is extremely divided, but either way, ‘now’ is not wrong.

Even if more than 2,000 and 2,754 prisoners were added on both sides, the current Starlight Colony has enough resources to handle them.

“Lavender. Since these are the people you saved, I want to deal with them with your help.”

“Well, if you just tell me the process…!”

“If it seems like such an inhumane act, you’re going to throw human waste into the Artemis Colony even if you get some criticism, right?”

“…It’s too wasteful to feed those guys the resources that our colony people need!”

“Is it okay to throw it at Artemis Colony?”

“Well, because they fucked us!”

“Ha.”

It’s not like it’s broken somewhere.

Lavender simply has its own lines.

“Good posture. Lavender student.”

“Yes…?”

“Ace must have his own stubbornness and pride.”

For a true ace pilot, the most important virtue is to bring about victory.

It would be unconscionable for a manager to leave the worries about the situation after the victory and even the follow-up process to Ace.

“We have no intention of accepting those human scum as members of the colony. But I have no intention of doing anything inhumane.”

Accepting this as inhumane would be the words and actions of the space pirate’s family, employer, or those who unconditionally want to criticize and tarnish our Starlight Colony.

“I’m going to use the brain mattress.”

“Brain…Mattress?”

“Okay. It’s natural that you don’t know. According to the academy’s regular curriculum, it is something that must be learned in the third year. That instructor is crazy for saying he doesn’t know what he hasn’t taught yet.”

“Brain Mattress…. Now, wait a minute!”

Lavender’s expression became pale.

“Are you really trying to use those people as Starlight Academy’s ‘guardians’?”

“Okay. Hmm… What you found out in the meantime means that Fenrir searched for the information and told you about it?”

“Yeah, that’s right!”

Lavender looked at me with trembling eyes.

“Well, is that okay…?”

“It may sound cruel, but there are only two options. Does it fit into the ‘ether capsule’ of the mattress? Or will it be ejected into space as an ether capsule?”

“If there is someone discussing humanitarianism…”

“Space pirates?”

“…….”

“Don’t forget. They are space pirates. This is an enemy who has come with a large army to take our lives, and especially to capture you and take away Fenrir, or to brainwash you and treat you like a slave.”

It is only possible in the academy competition that compassion as humanitarianism can work.

“Now it’s war, Lavender Student.”

“Instructor. I think it’s gotten a little sharper.”

“…Sorry, Commander.”

It seems like I was forced to come out without knowing because of Aria’s work.

But it should be so.

“Lavender Student.”

If only Lavender was asked, Aria’s mentality, which had caused her to pull the trigger regardless, would break down.

“If there is an order from me, the instructor, are you willing to personally kill those 2,000 prisoners?”

“……!!”

“I’ll give you 3 seconds. 3, 2, 1-”

“…I will do it.”

Lavender nodded, clenching her fists with a face that looked like she was about to cry.

“Instead, if I must kill you, I will allow you to die instantly and without pain. Please allow that much. Yes?”

“…You don’t have to go that far. Because I wanted to check and test your will.”

“Si, was it a test…?”

“About half.”

The other half is for Instructor Aria, who will probably hear the conversation here later and not fall into a sense of self-destruction.

“What we will do from now on may be a bit too much for good children.”

“……Children.”

“Huh?”

“Oh, it’s nothing! Well, then please let me know. What is a brain mattress?”

Lavender seemed to have made up her mind.

“It’s no big deal. It’s really not that big of a deal.”

just.

“The first thing is to confine a person in the ether and permanently freeze them in a warehouse somewhere.”

“Eh.”

“Next, you capture the brain wave signal connected to each etheric tube, then insert that signal into a place like the whole brain world, and that’s it.”

“Well, that’s…!”

“But it’s not just a cybernetic world. Because each person has different areas of talent and different directions in which they can utilize them.”

One of the human management projects I created during my Galaxy unit activities.

“Even in a mock battle, you can feel the same feeling as in a real battle. how is it? Isn’t it simple?”

“…….”

“Use it as a pilot, or yes, that would be nice.”

I pointed inside the shelter.

“Something like that robot that manages those people. They plant it in something like R2B2.”

Inside the shelter.

Cleaning robots, which are cylindrical with long arms and have triangular wheels on the left and right like tanks, are cleaning up the trash created by prisoners.

“It’s an unmanned aerial vehicle now, but wouldn’t it be possible to go in there and see what it does and decide whether it will be accepted or not?”

“Uh…um….”

“The best part is that if you permanently freeze it with ether, you don’t have to clean up your physiological activities every time. Although you have to empty it once at first.”

“Well, first of all.”

Lavender asked with a serious face.

“You’re not going to die, right?”

“I won’t die.”

Not dead.