Chapter 101

Chapter 101. The Queen’s Message.

And the event message was as follows.

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<Event>

<The Queen's Message!>

<The Queen of Monsters has finally conveyed her acceptance of your proposal.>

<Of course, given the nature of monsters, there was no formal meeting like with other factions.>

<The important thing is that the Queen of Monsters has decided to form a secret alliance with the 'Pirate Alliance' based on your proposal.>

<Of course, since it's still a 'secret' alliance, she has clearly drawn a line regarding either the Pirate Alliance or the monsters preemptively invading other factions.>

<She stated that she has no intention of directly assisting in such matters.>

<However, separately, it seems she has evaluated that she can place more 'trust' in you, the Commander.>

<Therefore, she has decided to strengthen the physical form of 'Oxianor,' the intelligence terminal assigned to you.>

<She has made separate arrangements to provide even more support.>

<'Space Monster' faction trust +30>

<Current trust relationship with 'Space Monster': +55>

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‘Whoaaaa.’

Our Queen of Monsters, turns out she’s more generous than I thought.

I never expected her to just give me a +30 in trust out of nowhere.

My initial thought was just to make our pirate quests easier by forming an alliance with Marian and the Pirate Alliance.

But in the midst of all this, turning Oxianor, one of the few male(?) characters, into a naked, smiling girl… I seriously wondered what the heck they were thinking.

‘No, seriously, my gentleman old man!’

Of course, no matter how much I lamented, the world wasn’t going to change.

So instead of whining, I decided to pay more attention to the ‘reward’ that had come my way.

And around this time, I suddenly remembered that if trust exceeds 50, some pretty sweet rewards are given to the user.

Given how utterly meaningless human memory is, I decided to check the trust function table before I forgot.

But before I could do that…

Oxianor, who had just been hit with a gender-swap beam and turned into a girl, was being clung to by Gryanarr like a sticky, slimy slug.

“Uh, Icarus, can you please stop Gryanarr?”

“Ufufufu… When will I ever get to see such a precious test subject again? Just a little, just a tiny sample… Ufufu.”

“Stop it, Gryanarr! Uwaaaah! Icarus! Jessica!”

“…”

Oxianor was desperately calling out to me for help, as if her chastity was in danger, but I couldn’t pay attention to that.

Instead, I quickly opened the trust-related function table to check.

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<Faction-wide Trust Relationship Unlock Function>

<0>–<None>

<1~10>–<Friendly messages and event generation probability>

<10~15>–<Quest assignment begins>

<15~25>–<Additional quests and events (resource support, etc.)>

<25~50>–<Recruitment of the faction's 'Superhuman' possible> (Lower grade than ‘Superhumans’ from gacha.)

<50~70>–<Fleet lending possible>

<70~99>–<Various friendly events randomly generated, increased occurrence probability>

<100 or more>–<Direct quests from faction leader possible, significant increase in support items, higher grade recruitment of faction's 'Superhuman'> (Details vary by faction, please refer to the specific faction.)

<Monster Faction Exclusive Trust Relationship Unlock Function>

<10 or more>–<Next trust level stage 2 unlockable>

<30 or more>–<General Monster Breeding Facility construction possible>

<50 or more>–<Special functions related to bio-modification unlocked>

<70 or more>–

<90 or more>–

<100 or more>–

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And through this faction table, I could roughly figure out what I could gain now.

‘Let’s see, so… the functions unlocked for me are roughly around that level?’

The public function of recruiting ‘superhumans’ for the faction is, of course, noted.

Barely, but now it’s even possible to rent a ‘fleet’…

It seems to be stimulating my romantic desires quite a bit.

But right now, there’s something even more important to me.

<Above 50> – <Special functions related to bio-modification unlocked>

‘Oh.’

Now that the function to target the ‘monster’ faction is unlocked,

I felt a sense of joy inside.

“Commander, if we keep going like this, Oxianor might melt away due to Gryanarr.”

“Ah.”

Naturally, I delivered a righteous flick to Gryanarr, who was trying to bring in a monster envoy for human experiments, to calm the situation.

“Quiet down!”

“Eek!”

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Anyway, after calming down all sorts of chaotic situations,

we took some time to reorganize in a more settled atmosphere.

And here, of course, instead of the ‘monster-style nakedness,’

Oxianor ver.TS was present, dressed in a neat suit reminiscent of formal wear, complete with a frock coat,

and even wearing a ‘top hat,’ commonly known as a silk hat.

However, Oxianor’s clothes weren’t exactly the kind of ‘clothes’ we wear,

but rather a living, symbiotic creature worn like clothing, with strange things popping out here and there.

It was a sight that really caught my attention.

But the person in question…

“Ah, Icarus. Don’t stare so intently.”

“…Hmm.”

“Even though I was taken aback by suddenly having this body without any warning…”

After saying that, she stood up, lifted her arm slightly, and spun around once.

Then, rolling something that looked like a shoe heel on the floor, she stopped and spread her gloved hands (or something that looked like gloves) to the sides and said,

“All of this is because Her Majesty judged that this form suits me best, right?”

“…Hmm.”

“Then, as a matter of duty in our god-commander relationship, and as one who upholds the will of Mother Queen… it’s only right that I accept and adapt to this body.”

“Hmm.”

Whether to see this as positive or just resigned acceptance,

personally, it was a very questionable sight.

But since the person in question declared there was no big problem, I decided not to worry about it anymore.

Or more accurately, I couldn’t worry about it even if I wanted to.

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<Event>

<The Envoy's Secret>

<Oxianor herself, regarding her current body situation,>

<In reality, the Monster Queen's side thought that a charming female form would be more favorable than a male or non-human form to show friendliness towards you.>

<They merely transformed Oxianor, who was mentally closer to a male form, into a female monster form.>

<And they are trying to use the transformed Oxianor to employ a kind of honey trap.>

<Of course, even if you don't fall for it, as mentioned above,>