I Became a Commander in a Crappy SF Game.

Ch.521″On the Matter of Discovering I Was the World’s Biggest Scoundrel.”

by fnovelpia

After Icarus finished his much-anticipated five days of quality time with Jessica…

…and after another tearful two days of double workload had ended.

“I’m back, Commander.”

“Oh Jesus Christ, our runaway Jessica has returned!”

“Urk.”

Having painfully realized just how much work our Jessica had been handling over the past two days…

I showed my intense delight by embracing Jessica, who appeared with one ear half-folded.

Of course, in response to my reaction, our Jessica blushed furiously, her face radiating heat…

“W-wait a moment, I understand you’re happy, but this is a bit…”

“No, no, you came at just the right time, perfect timing.”

“Hueeh.”

“Here, sit down, I have a gift for you.”

“…”

But that didn’t last long.

When she saw the enormous mountain of paperwork that had piled up—work I simply couldn’t handle…

Our Jessica’s unevenly folded rabbit ears shot straight up, and the blush and color instantly drained from her face.

Then I placed my hand on Jessica’s shoulder.

“Save me, Jessica. If this continues, we’re all going to die.”

“Heheh.”

“Now is when your powerful document processing abilities are needed most, Jessica.”

“Somehow I knew there was a reason you were being so welcoming, Commander. That’s not like you at all.”

I could only cry out for help and make tear-soaked pleas.

Anyway, as soon as our Jessica recovered and began processing various documents at lightning speed like some thousand-armed Guanyin…

I was finally able to return to my normal gameplay style as a user.

That is, the “you guys handle everything while I play with my fleet and superhumans” approach, which gave me immense joy.

But the problem was that with this mindset, while I was rushing to complete various weekly quests that had piled up because I was having too much fun with Jessica… I suddenly discovered an extremely serious issue.

And what was this problem, you ask?

“Wait a minute, why haven’t I been using the monster faction’s fleet rental feature all this time?”

“…”

It revealed that I was an incredibly wicked, evil son of a bitch.

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Turning back time to just after I escaped my duties from Jessica and reclaimed my happy life.

After hearing that Princess Luca had taken her hobby fleet for a stroll to Spiralis, the ghost-like Wiridi from Spiralis suddenly messaged me.

And the content was truly extraordinary.

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<Icarus-Wiridi Chat Room>

-[Nininininininininimininim]

-[Icarus-nim]

-[How]

-[Howww]

-[How did you increass]

-[Increased?] (Wiridi)

-[Calm down and speak slowly] (Icarus)

-[Ah sorry;;]

-[Icarus-nim, how did you increase the number of faction dispatch units?]

-[No matter how I look at it, the numbers exceed the point limit;] (Wiridi)

-[Huh?] (Icarus)

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At first, receiving such disorganized messages from Wiridi left me quite perplexed.

But that didn’t last long.

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<Icarus-Wiridi Chat Room>

-[Dunno]

-[I thought that was some trick the monster faction pulled, so I don’t know the details either] (Icarus)

-[I know about the tricks since I’m also in the monster faction, but even those point-exploiting bugs have limits]

-[Having dozens of battleships plus extras like that can’t be handled even with the point overflow bug] (Wiridi)

-[????] (Icarus)

-[?] (Wiridi)

-[Wait, I really don’t know what you’re talking about, give me a moment] (Icarus)

-[??? Don’t tell me you’ve been using actual NPC fleets instead of faction dispatch units?]

-[And the Monster Princess’s fleet at that???] (Wiridi)

-[Oh] (Icarus)

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As expected of a former executive of Biomass, one of the top four clans.

Through her incredibly cold analysis, Wiridi revealed the truth that Princess Luca’s hobby fleet, which I had thought was a “faction dispatch unit,” was actually not.

Hearing this truth, I opened the “Faction Management” window to check the fleet rental feature, thinking “No way.”

And right after that.

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“Are you kidding me?”

‘Indeed.’

As Wiridi said, I wasn’t actually using the faction’s fleet rental feature…

It was simply that, because my trust with the monster faction was extremely high, the Princess was kindly letting me use her fleet.

And I was maliciously taking Princess Luca’s “real” hobby fleet and blowing it up left and right.

And in response to our actions, Princess Luca had only reduced her goodwill by 1-2 points.

Shortly after…

“I am truly, deeply sorry, Princess Luca!!!!”

“Hmph, it’s fine now that you finally understand.”

Through this process, I came to realize I had been doing something completely insane all this time.

While Griyanar and Nero were working on the KV Project to attach “rain” or “femikampf” to their ships, I was performing a perfect grand bow before Princess Luca.

Of course, our virtuous Princess Luca showed an incredibly generous response to my behavior.

“Thank you… overwhelming gratitude…!”

*rustle rustle*

Seeing Princess Luca like this, I finally understood why the blonde sunglasses guy fell head over heels after discovering “motherhood” in someone younger than himself.

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Anyway, after finishing my apology and naturally leaving the Nest of Life…

I decided to investigate exactly how I had mistaken Princess Luca’s genuine hobby fleet for a faction dispatch unit, as I couldn’t understand how this misunderstanding had occurred.

And I figured it out quite clearly not long after…

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<1. From a system perspective, the faction “envoy” to my base was actually Oxianor.>

<2. The problem was that the structure became twisted when I connected Marian, the Pirate Union, with the Space Monsters.>

<3. Princess Luca, Oxianor, and I all recognized Princess Luca as the envoy, but the system actually considered Oxianor to be the “envoy”.>

<4. So even though Princess Luca was involved, systematically Oxianor was the envoy, meaning the “fleet rental feature” should have functioned through Oxianor, not Princess Luca.>

<5. So whenever I tried to mobilize Princess Luca’s hobby fleet, Oxianor would unknowingly stick close to Princess Luca.>

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…As this miraculous process formed in my head.

Only at this point did I finally understand why Marian had whined recently when I mobilized the hobby fleet.

And why Jessica had asked, “Are we also mobilizing the Pirate Union fleet?”

On top of that, I couldn’t figure out when I had started this misunderstanding, or rather, when I had forgotten about this feature altogether.

Of course, our Jessica, who had finished all her administrative work using her hundred-armed Guanyin skills, told me shortly after.

“That? I believe it was around when… you first met that Commander Betelgeuse? Around that time, if I remember correctly.”

“…First meeting with Betelgeuse? Wait, when was that?”

“It was less than a year after you regained consciousness, Commander, so at least three years have passed.”

“Holy moly.”

Learning that I had been rampaging with someone else’s perfectly good hobby tools for such a long time…

After realizing this reality and taking some time to deeply reflect…

I instructed Jessica to double the resources allocated to Princess Luca.

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