Chapter 107: Mimis Salary Raise and Choosing a Mothership (1/2)

“Man, I just can’t stop laughing.”

“Okay, okay. It’s great that we made a profit huh.”

“As expected of Master.”

After arriving at the Dexer star system, which was the home system of Earl Daleinwald, we entered the Dexer Prime colony and finally completed our bodyguard mission. We just got our rewards for the job. We would be paid 250,000 Enels per day, and the time it took to arrive at the Dexer star system was a total of 22 days. The battle we went through and our time resupplying at the Comatt system was also included in the calculation. The time we spent getting the fleet repaired and hospitalizing the injured crew was also taken into account.

And we also got a bonus for stopping Balthazar’s rampage. The initial reward was 5,500,000 Enels, with a bonus of 2,500,000 Enels. That’s a grand total of 8,000,000 Enels all in all. As expected of Earl Daleinwald! He’s filthy rich!

Since Mimi’s share was 0.5% of the total rewards, she’ll receive 40,000 Enels. Elma’s was 3%, so she’ll get 240,000 Enels. The remaining 7,772,000 Enels will be my share. My assets last time was 24,400,000 Enels, so I now have a total of over 32,100,000 Enels. I have to subtract about 10,000 Enels or so for the maintenance and repair fees as well as restocking ammunition and supplies.

“M-Mm……”

Mimi’s face froze when she saw the numbers displayed on the data terminal. Fumu…? Was the pay she got not enough? But, yeah. 0.5% was really too little. Yosh.

“Come to think of it, you’ve already accustomed yourself to being our ship operator, right Mimi?”

“Eh? Um… I guess so?”

Mimi got surprised when I suddenly called out to her and nodded reflexively.

“That’s right. I guess it’s about time for her to graduate from being a trainee huh.”

It looks like she already knew what I was getting at, so Elma backed me up. Un. It really is the case though.

“That means it’s also about time Mimi gets a raise, right?”

“Eh…… N-N-No! I’m fine! I have enough money!”

Mimi started panicking after hearing our exchange. What are you getting flustered for, girl?

“That won’t do. Once you get promoted to a full crew member, it is a standard procedure that you’ll get a pay raise. After all, you’ve already mastered all the necessary procedures, resupplying, selling loot, as well as keeping watch on the radar. Since you’ve raised your skills, you should be rewarded an appropriate amount.”

“That’s right. The 0.5% share is just the very minimum after all. Should we raise it to 1%?”

“Yeah, that sounds good. Alrighty then. Instead of 40,000 Enels, you’ll be receiving 80,000 Enels for the job this time…”

“I-It’s fine! You can raise it later! Later, okay!”

“No, well, we made an unexpected killing this time, so it’s better to raise your salary now, right?”

“I won’t be able to use up that much money though!”

After hearing Mimi shout, Elma and I exchanged gazes.

“80,000 Enels won’t be enough to customize a cheap Zabuton ship though.”

“Yeah. You can probably purchase a second-hand generator, but that’s about it.”

The Zabuton is the nickname SOL players gave to the cheapest ship in the game – a so-called noob ship. It was squarish and flat, so it got the nickname zabuton. Zabuton is an in-game slang used by SOL players, but Elma was actually familiar with it for some reason. It’s things like this that make me question if this was really another dimension or not.

“But I don’t have the same common sense for money compared to Elma-san and Hiro-sama. I just can’t keep up. I’m just your regular citizen, okay. 40,000 Enels is enough for us to live comfortably for a year, you know?”

“Is that so…? Hm. Come to think of it, it does seem like that huh.”

If you convert 40,000 Enels to Japanese Yen, you’ll end up with 4,000,000 Yen all in all. If you don’t include taxes and insurance premiums, it does seem that it would be enough for an average family to live off of for a year.

“But that is that, and this is this. If you really insist on it, then I’ll keep your share to 0.5% this time, but you’ll need to receive 1% the next time we complete a job, okay? That’s final.”

“Uu… Okay.”

Mimi still looked quite troubled and let out a sigh. Anyway, that does it for the salary talk.