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Chapter 68 - Apollo 310

Last night's drinking session was incredibly lively. The food was just so damn good... pros really are different. Thanks to the delicious food, the alcohol went down smoothly. We were completely wasted, embarrassingly so for grown adults. We even played strip rock-paper-scissors. Well, I guess even though they were originally men, they look good now, so it was actually pretty enjoyable.

However, as payment for all that fun, both of them are down for the count.

"Ughhhhhhh..."

Their underwear is pretty erotic, but they're drooling from the corners of their mouths with their eyes rolled back, which is a total turn-off. These guys were drinking at a crazy pace since they had the day off today.

"Hey, I'm heading to work soon!"

"Uh, uh, uh..."

"I'll leave the spare key by the entrance, so lock up when you leave."

"Hideecidee..."

I can't understand what they're saying. Actually, it's unclear if they're even listening. Whatever. I'll leave these guys alone and fulfill my duties as a working adult. I grab my bag and leave the house.

"Phew... the sun's energetic bright and early this morning."

I stop for a moment after leaving the apartment building and look up at the sky. Blazing hot, another day of hard work ahead.

"Alright, let's go... Emergency?"

Just as I was about to stride toward the station with enthusiasm, an emergency call rang out from my smartphone. It's annoyingly loud, but the people around me can't hear it. My smartphone is a commercial product modified with occult power, and it rings like this when there's an urgent request. I take out my phone and look at the screen. The screen was dyed bright red.

(A world-ending situation, huh?)

I create a clone and send it to the company while my real body teleports to the Prime Minister's office. The moment I appear in the meeting room secretly built within the Prime Minister's office to handle hidden cases, there's obvious relief. Seeing the leaders of major countries displayed on the monitor, this looks pretty serious.

"Satou-kun! Sorry about this."

"No problem... could you explain what's happening first?"

I tried probing lightly, but there doesn't seem to be any power on Earth that could lead to extinction...

"Mister Satou, please look at this."

When the President prompts, it's displayed large on another screen. A massive fleet of countless sci-fi looking ships traveling through the darkness, an invasion from space.

"Invaders this time, huh?"

This is a first for me too.

"Just moments ago, observation stations around the world detected a massive fleet that suddenly appeared within the solar system."

"Hmm... a show of force, perhaps?"

"That's how we see it."

They definitely came from beyond the range that Earth's technology can observe.

"What do you think, Satou? Can you...?"

"Ah, yes yes. It's fine. I can handle it."

Watching the footage, my danger sense isn't being triggered at all. I should be able to clean this up without any problems. I don't know exactly how powerful they are, but even if they attacked Earth, we probably could have managed without me. Though it would be impossible for just the supernatural world people. Divine assistance would be essential. If that happened, the world's situation would have changed completely.

"More importantly, um... could I borrow the moon?"

"The moon?"

The leaders all have puzzled expressions.

"Yeah, I'm thinking of moving all of them to the moon and dealing with them there."

"You're going to the moon?"

"Yes. Oh, I don't need a space suit or anything."

I can operate normally in space.

"No, more than that... the numbers, the mass, all of them to the moon... can you transfer them?"

"Yes. Imagine it like casting a net and pulling them in with a whoosh."

Of course, I can't destroy the moon, so I'll properly reinforce it first.

"Why the moon? If you can do something like that, why not some distant star far away...?"

"Well, at the moon's distance, you can all observe it easily, right?"

"That's... no, understood. We'll prepare immediately."

Their expressions clearly changed. However, my consideration only goes this far.

"By the way, Mister. Those ships..."

"Unfortunately, that's impossible. I'll either destroy them all or add them to my collection. I don't want them becoming a troublesome source of conflict."

Unlike supernatural powers that depend greatly on individual qualities, those are probably products of pure science. Even if we make it about sharing them as humanity's common heritage, there will definitely be moves to try to monopolize the technology somehow. I don't mind if they do it behind the scenes, but I can't stand having it affect my surface life.

"Any objections?"

"No, we're grateful for your wise judgment."

They're obviously disappointed. However, since everyone loses out, there doesn't seem to be too much dissatisfaction. Also, frankly speaking, they can't afford to make me sulk.

"But space... space, huh..."

While waiting for observation preparations to be completed, I sit in the provided seat and let my thoughts wander.

"Something on your mind?"

The chairman, who had been talking with the Prime Minister about something, comes over. This person has it tough too, being called out this early in the morning.

"Well, it's my first time with this genre."

I'm not exactly a hater of sci-fi, but I'm pretty casual about it. I watch famous sci-fi movies, manga, and anime, but I don't pay attention to technology or culture aspects. I just get excited about beams fired from battleships and action scenes with sci-fi weapons.

"What about you, Chairman? Do you like sci-fi?"

"Honestly, I'm not well-versed in that genre. I'm more of a humanities person, you know. I do like mysteries though."

"Mysteries, huh? If we got involved, it would be impossible to resolve."

"The range of tricks would expand too much, it would be chaos."

After chatting about mysteries with the Chairman, three hours later, preparations are finally ready. Whether that's fast or slow... I don't really understand complicated things, but it's probably fast.

"Well, I'm off."

I give a light greeting and teleport to the lunar surface. The moon looks so beautiful when viewed from Earth, but seeing it up close... I feel a bit disappointed, like I've been fooled by false advertising.

"Alright, I'm going to transfer them now. I'll start attacking in about ten minutes."

I tell the bigwigs and pull every single ship traveling through the dark sea into the moon's upper atmosphere. They're probably quite confused. I can sense those kinds of thoughts. Unintended teleportation. Their ships won't budge no matter how they try to move them. Of course they'd panic.

"Yeah... ten minutes have passed."

Let's begin then.

"Welcome to the solar system. I welcome you, invader gentlemen."

With a gesture of welcome, I slammed all the ships down onto the lunar surface.