"Hail that stupid blob again!" riamanded.
The screen appeared in front of us again but it showed ''no answer'' on the screen.
"Ha! That''s two strikes now! Hail them again and if they don''t answer, fire main cannons on the two ships beside their gship!"
The screen in front of us changed to disy the words ''hailing'' on the screen before it reverted back to ''no answer'' once again.
The weapons officer turned to ria for her permission and she nodded at him.
Two kic shells were shot out from our ship''s main cannons, piercing straight through the shield and hull of the ships to the left and right of the Inktyr''s gship.
From our view of the cockpit, the two ships exploded silently in a sh of white light, looking quite spectacr albeit a little morbid against the ckness of space.
Themunications officer turned back to us, "Shall… Shall I hail them again, Shogun?"
ria sneered, "Ha? I gave them three chances and hailed them all three times ever since we got here yet they have the gall to ignore two of them? Ignore three of their calls in turn and only answer when they hail us a fourth time. Deploy the anti-jump and fire at the two ships on the leftmost part of their fleet."
Our main cannons fired again, blowing another two ships of their fleet up with impunity.
A few of their ships returned fire but it did not make a difference at all.
"They''re hailing us, Shogun…" Themunications officer reported.
"That''s one, ignore it. Target the two ships on the rightmost part now."
Two more ships of their fleet were destroyed just like that.
The other side began attacking us again and they''ve even startedunching missiles at us. Too bad that our point defence systems could shoot them all down before they even get close to the ship.
"Another hail, Shogun."
"Ignore it, just connect it after the fourth hail. Target these two missile cruisers I marked next."
Our cannons fired once more, blowing two more ships apart.
ria was definitely doing this on purpose since we could definitely destroy the entire fleet if we used our full armaments on the ship, but right now she''s only insisting on using two out of the twenty main batteries that this ship has equipped.
What''s more, we could even do a short range jump straight into the enemy fleet which would be much more effective in taking them down aspared to what we''re doing right now.
Obviously she did not want to destroy them entirely at the moment.
The enemy''s attacks have started bing more desperate but nothing they did was changing the situation they were in in the slightest.
A few of the ships were now trying to turn around to escape, only to realise that their jump capabilities were non functional thanks to our countermeasures. No ships within this sector are currently able to jump out but ships are still able to jump in as long as we keep the anti-jump up.
Another four ships went down and this time our screen appeared showing the ck slime from earlier, looking quite panicked.<novelsnext></novelsnext>
"St… Stop!! Stop!! We yield! We yield!!"
ria leaned against me while inspecting her nails, "Really now? What are you yielding to, Admiral Tom?"
"Wha… What do you mean?"
"I''m asking why are you even contacting me to yield? All I know is that I''m supposed to meet you here to discuss how the Inktyr Republic was supposed to apologise for insulting my precious Onii-sama when he was passing through this sector at that time. But yet we seem to have run into a fleet of pirates here so I''m doing a neighbourly duty by cleaning them up. I expect some properpensation on top of this too."
"Wait! Wait!! We''re not pirates!! We''re a fleet belonging to the Inktyr Republic!!"
ria narrowed her eyes, "Oh? Then does that mean that my ship, the personal gship of the Shogun of the Oni Empire, was assaulted by the navy of the Inktyr Republic? Because I believe this would be seen as an act of war, no? If it is, my Empire will have to respond in kind~"
She snapped her fingers and as though on cue, hundreds of warships jumped into the sector, all of them belonging to ria''s empire.
ria… Their republic is maybe like a tenth our size… Plus their military power is so insignificant that if we were to just start invading them with just this gship alone, we could wipe out their entire military… Was there even a need for you to call in so many ships?
Oh wait, I forgot she has that ir for being dramatic.
The ck blob was quite obviously panicking with how much he was shaking.
I can understand why since ria basically put it in a spot where both advancing and retreat was not possible.
If he were to continue to insist his earlier story was right where we were attacked by pirates that were unaffiliated with the Inktyr Republic, then we will move in to shoot everyone here down including the admiral himself.
If he were to admit that they were not pirates but actually soldiers of the Inktyr republic, then ria could dere war on them and wipe out the entire civilization if she wanted to.
Needless to say, in both situations, he would not be leaving this ce alive. It''s just whether he wanted to drag his own country into this mess he made.
The ck blob that was the Inktyr''s Admiral seemed to havee to a decision at that moment.
"Ahaha, that… It seems like there''s a misunderstanding… I… I think you should stop and have a talk…"
Wow he went ahead to choose the third option: buying time.
ria let a smile materialise on her face, "You really have no idea about us it seems~ Very well, I shall allow you to leave."
The ck slime seemed excited to hear that until ria stood up from her seat.
"By my name as ria, Shogun of the Oni Empire, I now officially dere a war of extermination with the Inktyr Republic! ss theirs, ughter everyone! Burn the very existence of their civilization until there is nothing left!! We shall start in twenty four hours! Until then, let these little fools run~"
She then shut offmunications with their Admiral and settled back in myp again.
"This is fun, Onii-sama!!"
Of course it is for you… You get to act as the tyrannical gctic dictator with no repercussions…