Ch.90The World May Crumble, But There’s Still a Place to Live (4)

It wasn’t that I made a stupid plan or anything like that.

To be precise… my plan was based on the scoring rate of normal users.

Not like what I’m seeing right now…

“I finished that task. What should I do next?”

“Ah, yes, there’s a large wild monster that needs to be hunted, and we need to collect samples…”

“Easy.”

“But… it’s a giant space centipede that’s tens of kilometers long? Won’t it be dangerous?”

“I’ll win.”

‘Declaring victory as soon as the quest is accepted!!’

…The pirate “executives” that Marian brought in were performing exceptionally well.

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<Quest Completion Confirmed>

<Currently Completed Quests: 164+3>

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‘Whooaaa…’

In just one day, not only were all the quests we had accepted but hadn’t completed being cleared out,

But even the new quests we were bringing in were being demolished as well.

But that didn’t mean I was upset about it.

‘Ohoho, I like this.’

Rather than racking my brain coming up with plans, we could just push through with sheer numbers and be done with it.

And as a result of completing such a massive number of quests like crazy:

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<Fleet Score: 100,543 points>

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‘Kyaaaa… jackpot!’

Someone who had collected around 17,000 points over two weeks had now gathered nearly 90,000 additional points in just one day. Why would I cling to a plan I had only spent a day thinking about?

Instead, I should be enjoying the situation unfolding before my eyes, with dopamine flooding my system.

<<“But how did this happen? Until recently, you were struggling just to complete the requests given by Her Majesty…?”>>

“…The world has its ways.”

Naturally, such a sudden change caused Oxianor, the monster faction’s envoy, to send telepathic signals of confusion.

But all I could do was shrug my shoulders in response.

After all, if I were to explain the situation to Oxianor in detail:

‘Actually, we’ve made the Pirate Empress our subordinate(?), and these quests are being completed through a miracle where the Pirate Empress is working her followers hard.’

If I said that, how would Oxianor, who belongs to the ‘monster faction,’ take it?

It was clear that something annoying would happen, like her getting extremely angry thinking, “Is this bastard a double agent?!”

Or my trustworthiness would decrease, and so on.

So I just shrugged my shoulders and brushed off Oxianor’s telepathic questions.

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Anyway, after somehow putting an end to Oxianor’s curiosity.

I accepted the pirate captains’ suggestion that it would be easier to just teleport evidence directly from the pirate ships to the base interior rather than going back and forth.

I temporarily disabled the base’s teleportation blocking network and decided to check how much trust we had accumulated.

Having completed 164… no, 167 quests in a single day.

I had an expectation that our trust level would have increased by at least 5 or 10 points, but when I opened my status window to check:

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<Current Trust Relationship with ‘Space Monsters’: +18>

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‘Why isn’t it at 20 yet?’

For some reason, there was almost no change in the trust level.

Even if they only gave 0.01 points per quest instead of 0.1,

If they had any conscience, the trust should have hit at least +20 by now.

But as I was getting annoyed, I suddenly remembered something I had forgotten.

‘Oh right, I can just click on that to see the menu.’

Realizing this truth, I felt somewhat deflated that I had forgotten something I already knew because I’d been too busy.

Nevertheless, I clicked on the trust status window and expanded the folded list to find out exactly why it was like this…

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<Current Trust Relationship with ‘Space Monsters’: +18>

<Detailed Information>

<Trust Increase from Quest Completion: +3>

<Suspicion Regarding Your Attitude: -1>

<Commanding an Unidentified Fleet of Unknown Affiliation: -1>

<Listening to Monsters’ Stories and Showing Friendly Reactions: +1>

<Suspicion of Being a Double Agent: -1>

<Total Score: +1>

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‘Is this a dating sim or what?’

Seeing the list of suspicions directed at me that popped up immediately,

I felt sad inside, as expected, that the monster faction was full of suspicion about my use of pirates.

But what was important was that such suspicious reactions had emerged, so to avoid excessive debuffs in the trust department,

I decided to gather opinions to deal with this situation.

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Meanwhile, our four female companions who had been working extremely hard…

Rushed to the command center as soon as I called them, catching their breath as if they had been waiting for this moment.

Of course, that didn’t last long.

“So the reason I called you all is because Oxianor and the monster faction suspect us of being some kind of double agents.”

“…Pardon?”

“What? What do you mean, Commander?”

“Commander, you’re really going for a thrilling experience, aren’t you♡”

“Commander, why are you trying to walk such a dangerous tightrope?”

In order: Ignis, Berial, Pashtra, and Griyanar.

As soon as I brought up the topic, they each showed their colorful reactions,

Their relaxed demeanor disappeared as they expressed their bewilderment toward me.

“Everyone, you all know that the Commander isn’t that kind of person, right?”

“…Well, that’s true.”

“Indeed.”

Realistically, since the monsters’ suspicion wasn’t due to any wrongdoing on our part,

Our superhumans quickly accepted the situation and began actively discussing what should be done about it.

Of course, since I thought these NPC-like friends wouldn’t be able to offer any proper opinions,

I was honestly contemplating the matter separately while they were chattering among themselves.

But at that moment:

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<Quest>

<They’re People Too, People!>

<Content: You seem to not really trust your superhumans and subordinates.>

<Please don’t forget that they are loyal subordinates and comrades with very high goodwill and trust toward you.>

<If you want, they will do their utmost to help you through this.>

<Above all, their ranks are not just for show.>

<If you trust and delegate to them, you won’t be disappointed at the very least.>

<Objective: Accept the results of the meeting>

<Event Reward Points: Additional 1,500 points>

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‘…What is this, really?’

The quest window that seemed to boldly point out, “Trust your subordinates, you jerk!” made me momentarily perplexed.

‘…Come to think of it, it’s not entirely wrong.’

Deciding there was no real problem with this, rather than overthinking it,

I decided to listen to what our people had to say while collecting those sweet event reward points.

And in the midst of this, Ignis turned to me while talking and asked:

“Commander, why isn’t Marian participating in this?”

To which I replied that if she were here, Oxianor would end up like a live octopus because of Marian and the pirate uncles,

And told them to hurry up and compile their opinions.