What Do You Mean I'm The Captain Of A Yandere Mercenary Company?

Chapter 43: Time For Another Hustle

I woke up to see Amber in the midst of pulling up her stockings while seated at the edge of the bed, my eyes immediately drawn to the fabric sliding up her smooth legs that I had been busy caressing the night before.

She noticed that I was awake almost immediately and smiled at me, ”Good morning, lover. Did you sleep well last night? I know I did. Oh gods, that was so cheesy wasnʼt it?”

I giggled, ”Itʼs alright, you can be as cheesy as you want with me.”

She actually blushed.

She cleared her throat, ”Ahem… So what should we do today?”

I considered for a while, should we find the black market today?

”Just curious, how much is a stealth module on the black market?” I asked.

She tapped the side of her cheek with a finger, ”Hmm… It kind of depends on where youʼre getting it from but I would say a safe estimate would be four million Credits? Maybe even twice of that if youʼre getting it from all the way out here.”

Oh damn… I guess it makes sense that the things sold on the black market would be expensive.

I had plans on looking through the items sold there to figure out what I could buy and sell to make a quick profit but the main problem is having a capital to start off with.

Without enough starting capital, the risk compared to the reward just isnʼt worth it.

Itʼs called the black market for a reason after all. Get caught trading in it and Iʼll most probably be branded as a criminal and I donʼt have plans to live as an outlaw right now.

If I could get enough money to start trading in some goods, I could probably double or triple my starting money.

At least… Thatʼs how it worked in the game.

I mean… In the game you didnʼt even need to worry about looking for the black market since itʼs accessed from a menu. But here you need to worry about finding the black marketers and then worry about getting scammed or getting caught in the act.

Whatʼs more, I donʼt have any guides to follow here and Iʼm completely clueless as to the market as well so I would probably have to do my own research.

I guess it doesnʼt hurt to at least take a look at the market first.

”Do you know where the black market is?” I asked.

Amber jerked slightly, ”Eh? You want to trade there?”

I nodded, also getting out of bed to start putting on my own clothes.

”I believe thatʼs the best place to make money quickly as compared to the normal channels. I donʼt suppose you do some trading on the side as well?”

She chuckled, ”Tera, does my ship look like it has cargo space to do any trading?”

Oh yeah, thatʼs true… Her ship doesnʼt even have any cargo space aside from some personal storage lockers.

I guess in her case, she went for the pure combat Mercenary build.

She slid to my side and wrapped her arm around mine, ”Youʼre really focused on making money I see.”

”Itʼs the most basic resource we need to get around the galaxy after all.”

Amber turned to me, ”Oh, youʼre looking to get yourself a higher class ship that can fly both of our ships in its hangar, arenʼt you?”

I admit that I wasnʼt really thinking of that but thatʼs not a bad idea either.

We wouldnʼt need to keep worrying about docking our ships and having Amber move over to my ship every time we fly. Additionally, we could get better furnished quarters, more amenities and also more cargo space for trading.

”I would like that, yes.”

Amber pulled out her personal terminal while leaning her head on my shoulder, opening the menu that showed the Mercenary jobs.

”Mmm… Seems like there arenʼt any good missions outside the station right now…”

I peeked at her screen to look at the mission list.

There were a few delivery missions and a few escort missions but all of them were paying in the ten thousand Credits range. Iʼm not sure if that was a lot for those jobs but I suppose itʼs considered relatively low for what we have been earning.

Even the new missions that were being replaced on the list were not any better than the ones that were present there.

Or maybe itʼs my sense of money thatʼs skewed since I managed to get such well paying jobs from the start?

She turned to me, ”Do you want to just sit around and see if any good jobs come up? Or maybe we can just fly out and hunt some pirates for their bounties?”

I grimaced, ”What are the odds of a good job popping up?”

”Pretty low I would say. There arenʼt a lot of rich space farmers out here and the merchant ships travelling here donʼt need a lot of escorts since pirates arenʼt that numerous either. And I guess doing escort missions or going to another system is out of the question since weʼre also waiting for your mod.”

”Ugh… Then what about going out to just hunt pirates?”

”We could do that too but… I donʼt think you know where we should start hunting them do you? Because I sure donʼt.”

I suppose thatʼs an obvious problem… Itʼs not like we could just fly out into space and expect to just find a few pirates flying around waiting for us to hunt them. And neither do we know of another pirate base around here that we could attack like the last one I did.

I sighed, ”So I guess thereʼs nothing we could do?”

Amber paused, ”Well… We could also do some hustles that are within the station if youʼre up for it? Since youʼve even bought yourself that new shotgun and I have my shield too.”

Oh right, we donʼt actually need to fly out to do jobs, we could also be doing stuff inside the station too.

I nodded, ”Yeah, why not? Letʼs see what kind of jobs they have for us.”

She then waved her hand and the list changed, displaying a new list of missions on the screen.

Amber perked up, ”Oh, this one looks good. It suits us perfectly too.”

She pointed to one of the missions that was on the board which showed a completion reward of two million Creadits.

”What kind of mission is offering such a huge reward?” I blurted out.

”Seems like weʼre rescuing some daughter of a rich guy that got kidnapped by some thugs. The problem is that they arenʼt even asking for ransom so theyʼre probably planning to do something to her or they were hired by people who hate this guyʼs guts. Weʼll most likely be going up against an entire crew if weʼre taking this job, wanna do it?”

”Can the two of us even do this?”

She shrugged, ”Meh, we donʼt really need to wipe out the entire crew, we just need to escape with the girl and get her to a safe spot to count as hustle complete.”

”Uh huh… I donʼt think I have anything that would help us do this stealthily though.”

”Then I guess weʼll just have to wipe them all out~ Easy.”

I gave her a pointed look, ”I remember someone being pinned down by a guy wearing power armour the last time you thought a job was going to be easy.”

She then gestured to my new weapon that laid at the side, ”Mmhmm~ But now you have a weapon that can punch through power armour right? So itʼll be even easier than before~ Letʼs do it!”

Ugh… I guess sheʼs right… And the money is pretty good too…

”But seriously, how many thugs are we looking at?”

”Probably fifty or so, should be around the same as the freighter hustle.”

”But wonʼt they be better equipped and prepared compared to those guys?”

”Most probably. But we get to scout them out first as well so we can plan our entry to save her.”

I looked at the job listing again, ”Do we know who took her?”

”Yep, a group called The Marauders. Lowlifes that would do anything for money so Iʼm pretty sure someone hired them to take this guyʼs kid. Should be easy for the two of us.”

Hmm… Since Amber was so confident that we could do it, then letʼs take it.

Truth be told, Iʼm also itching to try out my new weapon in an actual fight as well.

I nodded and Amber tapped on the job before tapping on the ʼAcceptʼ button.

I received a ʼpingʼ on my own Codex as well and I pulled it up to see that a window had popped up informing me about the job that Amber had just accepted.

She slipped away from me and grinned, ”As much as I would enjoy spending the rest of the day ogling you, we should get dressed and ready to go~”

Amber then blew me a kiss before stepping out of my room.

I rolled my eyes and went ahead to finish putting on the rest of my clothes, meeting her outside my ship with all my gear.

Time to get to work.