Ch.460Mariemarie Marian’s Return(?).

After the successful conclusion of the Second Ero-sance, which helped users soothe their minds and bodies exhausted from revolution, civil war, and large-scale events.

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<Icarus-Vermut Chat Room>

-[<2nd Ero-sance Submission List.jpg>]

-[Now let’s go]

-[Tons of costumes, adult content and general content]

-[Plus lots of various toys](Vermut)

-[No, please don’t worry about it](Icarus)

-[Don’t be like that](Vermut)

-[Well then….](Icarus)

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As payment for my role as security, I naturally received a large amount of “bribes” from the Ero-sance clan.

And after receiving these “bribes,” I immediately distributed the various costumes to the superhumans.

“Ohoho, how do I look, Commander♡”

“This is quite a practical design. I like it.”

“It’s easy to move in!”

Pashtra, who usually showed more skin than fabric, tried on a latex nun-like style that covered her entire body.

Some superhumans like Ignis and Berial were looking for practicality rather than erotic appeal.

“Commander, how is it meow? A cat cosplaying as a cat, nya.”

“You’re wearing a headband with cat ears despite already having real ones? Cute.”

“Hehe, thanks nya.”

‘But why do you suddenly have two tails?’

There was Smeraggi, a cat beastkin who chose to wear a cat costume and somehow ended up with two tails.

“Hmm, is this lab coat integrated with the costume?”

“It appears to be literally a one-piece outfit, with almost no utility as actual clothing.”

“But it’s sexy, right?”

“Well, for beings like us, this might actually be more comfortable to move in than normal clothes.”

After rescuing them from that self-generating mechanical-biological whatever tentacle pit.

Perhaps because of their half-fused pet tentacles or mechanical arms (former ones).

The two mad scientists, Griyanar and Neronero, were trying to adopt mysterious costumes with completely missing backs as their regular clothes.

“Heehee, I like how flowy this outfit is!”

“This is a bit tight around the chest. Do you have a larger size?”

“It might be nice to wear something like this occasionally.”

Tiamat, Lephan, and Partia—the most normal ones except for their habits of not wearing underwear or occasionally doing strange things.

“So there are things for us to wear too.”

“…Why are they all cute things that actual children would wear?”

“You have to consider your body size.”

“Ah.”

The miniature and petite Aquerias and Bendaloph and…

“We monsters can transform any outfit as we please, so we don’t really need these…”

“That’s right, and besides, you already have me…”

“Look, Oxianor! There are so many pretty clothes here!”

“Come to think of it, I think we’ll need quite a lot. Don’t you agree, bodyguard?”

“Sometimes we need to gain experience by wearing different things.”

At first, they maintained indifferent attitudes or were negative about having “their job” taken away.

But perhaps because Princess Luca directly exclaimed “Wow! Pretty clothes!”

Oxianor and Princess Luca’s bodyguard suddenly changed their stance, going from “I don’t need this” to “I’ll take everything from here to here” in an instant.

Seeing such positive reactions from everyone, I was glad they all seemed to like the costumes.

But while we were leisurely going through the enormous collection of costumes, with the superhumans rummaging through them one by one.

For some reason, even the NPCs inside the base and stronghold were walking around in costumes, making it feel like a cosplay convention was being held.

“Commander, Commander, Commander.”

“Calling once is enough. What is it?”

Jessica, dressed in a maid outfit, called me with a more urgent tone than usual.

Thinking there might be a serious problem, I tilted my head with suspicion.

And right after that.

“Marian has contacted us. She says it’s an important matter.”

“Oh?”

Hearing that our Pirate Empress Mari Mari Marian, who had been keeping a low profile recently, had made contact.

I felt intense joy at the thought of talking to her after such a long time. I left the remaining costumes for the superhumans to handle themselves.

Then I headed straight to the command center to establish communication with Marian.

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-“Big bro! I’ve missed you!”

“It hasn’t been that… well, I guess it’s been a normal amount of time. Have you been well?”

-“Hehehe, of course.”

After exchanging brief greetings like that as soon as the communication was established.

Our Mari Mari Marian, true to her pirate nature, quickly got to the point…

-“By the way, big bro, there’s actually a reason why I contacted you so urgently.”

“What is it?”

-“The truth is… one of our alliance’s main fleet’s flagship was captured by another commander, despite us being pirates.”

“…Oh.”

-“And of all things, we lost a ‘Gigantia-class’ cruiser that was incredibly difficult to build.”

“Oh.”

Seeing Marian saying those words with a smile while a cross-shaped vein popped on her forehead.

I nodded, recalling the Anomalocaris capture incident by some user that happened a year or two ago.

“That must be quite frustrating. So are you looking for that person’s base now?”

-“No, we’ve already destroyed the base.”

“…Wow.”

-“But that damn bastard had already evacuated their fleet beforehand and escaped with the Gigantia-class.”

After saying that, Marian cleared her throat and continued in a calm tone, telling me this was the real main point.

-“The problem is, their fleet has left our territory and entered the central zone.”

“…Hmm, I see what you mean.”

-“As expected of you, big bro. So I was wondering if you could help me out?”

The moment I heard those words, I saw an “event message” pop up before my eyes with a cheerful sound after a very long time.

And not just a simple notification, but one with actual choices to make.

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<Event>

<Pirates Getting Pirated by Pirates>

<Content>

<The “Gigantia-class” super-large cruiser, one of the pirate alliance’s main warships, is a valuable vessel often seen in elite fleets or major forces.>

<The problem is that one of these ships, while its escort fleet was absent for some reason.>

<Was captured by a commander who mobilized their forces, and then fled with it.>

<Naturally, Pirate Empress Marian, considering this a blow to the pride of the “pirate” alliance, purged the pirate admiral of that fleet.>

<She then sent her elite hunter-killer team to the commander’s “base” with plans to capture all their ships in return…>

<Surprisingly, the commander abandoned their base, forward base, and even resource mining fleet.>

<Then performed an evasive maneuver toward the central zone with their fleet, including the captured Gigantia-class and their superhumans.>

<The enraged Pirate Empress attacked and destroyed the commander’s base, then ordered her hunter-killer team to deal with or capture the commander’s fleet by any means necessary.>

<And along with that, upon hearing that you’ve been doing “very” well in the central zone recently.>

<Since things have come to this, she wanted to request your support as well.>

<Option 1: Ugh, that’s troublesome. Do I have to? (Event chain ends, -50 goodwill with Pirate Empress)>

<Option 2: I’ll accept. (Continue linked event)>

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‘Hmm.’

After seeing this content, I took a moment to carefully consider.

<Option 2: I’ll accept. (Continue linked event)><Selected>

Throwing away option 1, which would obviously be a big insult to Marian, I proudly chose option 2 and exclaimed.

“Of course I’ll help you, absolutely.”

-“Thank you, big bro!”