What Do You Mean I'm The Captain Of A Yandere Mercenary Company?-Chapter 801: I’m Cheating?

It didn’t take long for me to figure out what Gary was talking about.

The girls went back to their rooms to put on more comfortable clothes since it seems like this place was quite lax in terms of uniforms when you’re off duty.

For me, all I needed to do was to pop into one of the bathrooms and have Renata transform herself back into my usual clothes and I was ready to go.

Since it was lunch time, I decided to head to their mess hall to get a spot for my girls and myself to eat lunch at and told them to meet up with me there.

I walked into the mass hall and looked for a place where I could have lunch together with everyone.

The place was already relatively packed when I got there but there were still plenty of spaces for people to take a seat at.

While the choice of going back to our ship to eat also came to mind, I thought that we might as well just take full advantage of their facilities.

Of course... If their food is exceptionally bad, then I might change my stance on that.

But seeing that this was the Inner Colonies, I’m expecting the food to at least be somewhat palatable.

As I was going to look for seats, however, three men and two women whom I recognised were my fellow test pilots walked out in front of me to block my path, all five of them not looking friendly in the slightest.

"You... Who do you think you are?" One of the female pilots asked with her arms crossed in front of her.

I tilted my head, pretending I did not understand what she was talking about.

"What do you mean? I’m your new colleague aren’t I?"

The other woman pointed an accusatory finger at me, "Don’t give us that bullshit! We know what you’re up to!!"

I blinked at her, honestly confused on what they actually thought I might be doing.

"I don’t know what you’re talking about? What do you mean?"

One of the men snorted, "Now she’s trying to act like she doesn’t know what’s happening, how incredible."

I cleared my throat, "Ahem... What do you think is happening? I would very much like to know."

The first female pilot stomped her foot and pointed a finger accusingly at me, "Don’t act coy! We know that you are cheating!"

I blinked again, completely caught off guard by her accusation.

Cheating? What the heck is she talking about? Cheating in what? Piloting the Exo-Knight? How the heck can I even cheat?

"Cheating?" I asked.

"Yes! There’s no way a normal person would be able to fly like that! You must be using some kind of program or something that pilots the Exo-Knight for you, aren’t you?!"

I frowned at her, "You think I’m using AI to pilot the Exo-Knight or something?"

"I knew it!! You definitely are, aren’t you?! That’s your confession right there!"

"No, no... I wasn’t confessing to anything at all. I’m just... Flabbergasted that you even think that I was doing something like that."

"Don’t take us for idiots! We are the elite pilots of Crusaders Inc.! Do you think your petty little tricks won’t be exposed?!"

Wow... Gary, you should have just told me that these people are really delusional...

I shook my head, "I’m telling you right now that everything was pure skill. I did not cheat or use some other program to assist me in piloting the Exo-Knight."

"Lies! How can a new Exo-Knight pilot with barely even a month’s worth of experience be able to pilot like that!"

"Well... I have a lot of experience with simulators?" I offered.

Technically, that wasn’t really a lie since I did play games back in my old universe where it was basically piloting an Exo-Knight anyway... So that should count right?

One of the male pilots seemed to take offense at my explanation and took a step forward to growl at me, "I suggest that you tell the truth right now. Continuing to lie will not help you at all."

"But I’m telling the truth though? What do I need to do to get you to believe me?"

"There’s nothing you can do, we already know you’re cheating! Just admit it!"

What the heck kind of reasoning is that?

You’re accusing me of something but already made up your mind about the ’truth’ and you’re not going to accept anything that might run counter to it?

I frowned at them, "In that case, what are you going to do about it, then?"

The first woman pointed at me haughtily, "Ha! I knew it! You really are a cheater!! Now we have proof!!"

The other male pilot smirked at me, "You’re finished now! We’ll report you to the company and you’re going to get fired on the first day!"

Really? Just because I asked what they were going to do about it?

One of the other male pilots came up to me and cracked his knuckles, "Just getting her fired is not enough. She made a fool out of all of us during today’s testing. I say we teach her a lesson right now!"

Woah, really?

He pulled back his fist and threw a punch directly towards my face.

It was so telegraphed that I had all the time in the world to lean to the side and avoid the punch.

I returned myself to the same position when he pulled his fist back, the guy looking surprised when I managed to dodge his punch.

I cleared my throat, "Ahem... I’m going to give you one single chance to reconsider your actions before you face some consequences."

"Is that a threat?"

"Hmm... I suppose so, yes."

He reached out to grab my neck and this time I didn’t avoid it.

His fingers curled around my throat and squeezed, which should have choked me but... Renata seemed to have solidified herself around my neck so it wouldn’t budge.

The guy actually smirked for a moment, thinking that he actually got me when he realised that his fingers weren’t budging even though he was squeezing as hard as he could.

I made sure he understood that fact before I punched him in the face, forcing him to let go of me and stumbling back and grabbing his broken nose.

Another male pilot stepped up and tried to grab me so I ducked under his arm before giving him an uppercut, my fist meeting his jaw and knocking him flat on his back.

The last male pilot stepped up to attempt a haymaker at me.

I raised my arm and blocked his blow, only to quickly counter it with a right hook that smashed into the side of his face, knocking him stumbling back a step.

He let out a roar of frustration before charging at me as though he was attempting to tackle me to the ground.

All I needed was to take a step to the side and stick out my leg, tripping him and watching in amusement as he fell face first onto the ground with a loud crash.

The first guy who tried to choke me recovered and attempted another swing with his right fist aimed at the side of my head.

I leaned back, letting the fist fly past me before I went ahead to kick my foot forward, smashing my shin in between his legs.

He let out a particularly high pitched cry before he collapsed onto the ground while holding his crotch in pain.

Hey, I gave him three chances to back off already and he still came back so I would say that was deserved.

The guy I tripped tried to stand up so I went over to smash my knee against the side of his face to knock him flat onto the ground, the guy flopping over like a dead fish as he fell into unconsciousness.

I turned back right as one of the female pilots let out a screech and tried to rush towards me with her fists raised like she was going to hammer me.

So I just raised my hand and gave her a quick slap across the face.

She looked stunned at the fact that I just slapped her and from that reaction I could already tell she had never been slapped before in her life.

She was just about to open her mouth to say something before I slapped her again, this time on her other cheek with the back of my hand.

Once more, she opened her mouth but no word managed to get out before my palm smacked against her cheek one more time.

Seems like third time’s the charm as she got the message and instantly shut her mouth before retreating.

I turned to the last female pilot who was just watching the entire scene with wide eyes and she quickly raised her hands in surrender.

Smart. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

And as though waiting for that exact moment, several people wearing what looked like plated armour rushed into the mess hall.

"What the hell is going on here?!" Their leader cried out.

Oh great, security right? Go deal with them please.