I Became a Commander in a Crappy SF Game.

Ch.81Feel the Weight of the Armband. (4)

by fnovelpia

“Commander, will I be living the life of a miner again today?”

“No, everyone’s on standby at the base today.”

“…What? Are you serious?”

Ignis, who had been naturally holding two pickaxes with dead eyes, looked momentarily stunned upon hearing my words.

Eventually, she put both pickaxes down on the floor, immediately jumped up and performed five somersaults in mid-air.

After landing back on the ground, she ran toward the break room, saying it was wonderful news.

She was so happy that it made my heart ache just watching her.

“Commander, you should really moderate the leveling.”

“…Yes, that’s definitely my fault.”

Thanks to the ‘Return Compensation’ and being the first gacha character, her loyalty adjustment was high enough to endure until now.

I realized that any other character would have deserted long ago.

I thought it would be better to reduce Ignis’s training schedule in the future.

Anyway, like that, including Ignis…

“We’re on standby… today?”

“Yes, since we have various matters planned for today, all superhumans are to remain on standby at the base in case of emergency.”

“Understood. Since it’s emergency standby, I’ll deploy the dolls in combat configuration.”

“Yes, please do.”

I also called Berial, who was in the training room as usual, and had her stand by at the base.

“My goodness♡ My goodness♡ Commander♡ You’ve come to see me after so long♡”

“Hmm, Commander? What brings you here?”

I found Pashtra and Griyanar, who seemed to be getting along strangely well, and likewise told them to stand by at the base.

Both acknowledged my orders and got up from their seats.

However, unlike Pashtra who headed to the break room, Griyanar merely shrugged while remaining seated on her exclusive “biological sofa.”

“While it’s truly regrettable that I cannot follow the Commander’s orders…”

“Hmm.”

“I still have many experiments to conduct, so I’m sorry, but please call me next time.”

Seeing her boldly claiming she couldn’t leave her biological sofa because of experiments, while just wiggling her toes,

I immediately nodded and decided to leave her with words of encouragement for her technological development, as she herself had suggested.

And with that, I finished dealing with all my superhumans.

Since I wasn’t exactly sure how the event would unfold,

I rechecked the fleet despite having prepared in advance,

And additionally ordered a cruiser for the daily quest “ship construction,” unlike my usual choices.

After making all possible preparations,

“Jessica, the gallery should be back to normal by now, right?”

“I… suppose so? Those community managers with armbands should have done something by now.”

With nothing else to do immediately,

And no users likely to launch surprise attacks before the event,

I opened the gallery window with a more relaxed mindset to check the users’ opinions.

But just as I was about to open the gallery window.

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‘What?’

I was truly shocked to see the third of the four legendary swords,

The so-called “Emergency Maintenance” appearing before my eyes.

And since this wasn’t just showing up for me, but for all users…

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Title: LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Emergency Maintenance Notice Screenshot]

They finally drew the third sword

Now they’re a three-sword style swordsman

Comments:

-[This is pretty bad]

-[Wow, regular maintenance, extended maintenance, and now emergency maintenance too, they’ve drawn them all]

-[Operations team SUCKS]

-[F-ck!]

-˪[Seems like they’re cursing]

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Toward the operations team that had drawn three of the infamous four legendary swords,

The gallery veterans and some users were showing the same condemning reactions as before.

But unlike the spam-filled flame war earlier, now it was, how should I put it…

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… … … … … …

-[The gallery is quiet](54)

-[Three-sword style ultimate technique!](161)

-[Ship construction is too harsh](63)

-[Who are these bastards rushing in right before the event starts?](193)

-[You brought an update but why can’t we play?](35)

-[I was sharpening my knife for the event](237)

-[People who will be furious if the event update is delayed.jpg]

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Title: I was sharpening my knife for the event

Author: MuraSAMA

Content: [Image of a toad sharpening a knife.gif]

At this rate, the knife will be completely ground away

Just tell us the event details already, damn it;;

Comments:

-[For real, couldn’t they at least tell us the event details in advance?]

-[Exactly, normally update details are announced beforehand]

-˪[Don’t expect too much from the godly crappy game Astral Lagrange]

-˪[Ah, I was lacking enlightenment]

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Title: People who will be furious if the event update is delayed.jpg

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Clan system update, clan emblem image]

That would be clans like ours, damn it

Our clan leader is getting everyone ready for the event response

So we can’t do expansions or anything, just farm resources and wait, or just cheer with our characters, nothing else to do

[Image of muscular black men.jpg]

But damn it, all my characters are buff black guys like this, so when I cheer with them all I can do is bodybuilding

Update quickly, damn it

Let me get some gacha too so I can get pretty girls, you bastards

Comments:

-[Isn’t this just you being angry, not the clan?]

-[For real lol]

-[2222222]

-[333333]

-[Only liking pretty girls, how un-cultured]

-[What the hell is with this game’s user demographic?](Author)

-[You’re the weird one for attracting such strange people]

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There were some reactions, but

Unlike what I had expected, they were quite smooth and moderate,

And at the same time, quite ordinary.

Seeing these responses, I thought that perhaps most users, rather than caring about events or clan battles,

Just had the modest goal of surviving in this world and living a long, quiet life.

And thinking like that, while casually farming resources and doing daily quests to pass the time,

After about 30 minutes had passed,

-Ding♪

‘Oh, finally.’

When the message alarm I had set in advance rang, I immediately opened my status window to check for new messages in the UI.

Matching my urgent gesture, the previously translucent status window finally displayed a new message before my eyes.

However, what appeared thoroughly betrayed my expectations:

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‘Oh.’

Seeing them finally draw out the last legendary sword, “Temporary Maintenance,”

Both I and the entire gallery’s public sentiment were completely turned upside down.

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