"Sho… Shogun?" One of the other officers gasped.
Elaria turned to the female staff officer who called her, "What is it? Do you have a problem with my Onii-sama as well?"
"N… No! Not at all Shogun! We… We just want to know if something happened… Since… Umm…"
"Since I never treated Onii-sama like this, is that it?"
"Ye… Yes…"
"Oh? So you're questioning me now?" Elaria asked, raising the hand that was holding the gun slightly.
"No! No! I… I would never dare!!"
Elaria huffed at the officer before she swung her hand in an arc, "Listen now! Your Shogun shall give a decree!!"
Everyone inside the bridge immediately fell to their knees with their heads bowed.
"By my name as the Shogun of the Oni Empire! I hereby create the position of 'Shogun's Onii-sama'! Second only in authority to me! I will also appoint Onii-sama to this position! To disrespect Onii-sama is to disrespect me! Any dissenters are to be executed immediately!"
Wow, you really settled into that galactic dictator role pretty quickly huh? If I didn't know better, I would have thought you already had experience doing something like this.
Still… 'Oni Empire' I see. At least it's still better than the 'Onii-Sama Space Navy' or whatever name she used back in our World.
Apparently she wasn't done yet as my little sister cleared her throat, "Ahem… Furthermore!! I… I also proclaim Onii-sama as my husband!!!"
…
Elaria… You're really taking advantage of your position right now aren't you?
I went up and gave her a chop on the head.
Everyone in the room sucked in a breath when they saw that, a few of them even backing away from us.
In their minds, they were sure that Elaria would definitely turn against me for this perceived assault against her.
"Waaaahhh! That hurts Onii-samaaaa!"
"Don't take advantage of the situation."
"Whyyyy? Please? Just for now?"
I sighed, "Fine…"
She straightened herself and threw her arms in the air, "Yesss! Can I call you hub--"
"No."
"Waaahhh! Why not, Onii-sama!! If I can't then that would be pointless, wouldn't it?"
"Would you rather not call me 'Onii-sama' anymore?"
"Nooo! I still want to call Onii-sama, 'Onii-sama'!! Onii-sama! Onii-sama!!" She squealed, hugging me and rubbing her face on my chest.
My little sister really is cute.
I patted her head, "Alright, alright. You should deal with your followers first."
Elaria turned back to see the rest of her crew all staring at us with wide eyes, obviously wondering if the sight in front of them was actually real.
The galactic dictator Elaria they knew would never show something like this to anyone of course. Even the way she executed the man from earlier was something that they could accept more easily than this.
She turned back around to face them and cleared her throat, "Ahem… That is all! Relay my orders throughout the empire! Anyone who disagrees is to be silenced with their deaths! From today onward, any insults or ill will directed towards Onii-sama shall be punished with death!"
"Yes, Shogun!!"
"One more thing!! Call the royal tailors to get a proper uniform for my Onii-sama! Made in the same style as mine and delivered right away!!!"
There was a slight hesitation before the crew answered in the affirmative again.
Elaria nodded in satisfaction before returning the both of us to the small throne on the bridge, making me sit down on it so that she could settle herself on my lap.
"Now! Where's my report! And get this dead body off the bridge! Do I need to tell you all what to do around here?!!"
Yeah, she's really enjoying this too… Plus she really is treating everyone like a game's NPC isn't she? Otherwise I can't see her killing that guy so easily and without blinking either.
A few people came in and cleaned up the corpse without batting an eye while a female staff officer came up to Elaria nervously.
"S… Shogun… Umm… As planned, we would be meeting a representative from the Inktyr Republic at the agreed location to… To discuss the terms of their apology…"
"Hmph… Who are we meeting?"
"A… An Inkman by the name of Tom…"
For an alien species to still have such a normal sounding name… I'm not sure if it was translated to be that way or it's just a thing here.
Elaria huffed, "Hmph… He better be worth my time then! Since I'm personally coming all the way here after all!! How much longer till we reach our destination?"
One of the bridge crew seated at the console turned back, "Two minutes, Shogun!"
"And have we received any messages since the time they have confirmed the meeting place?"
Our communications officer saluted, "No messages before we initiated our jump, Shogun!"
"Even though we sent them a message a day before our jump?"
"N… No, Shogun…"
Elaria crossed her arms in thought. She was probably feeling curious why this universe's version of her would initiate a space jump before receiving a confirmation from that representative.
It's as if that version of Elaria had expected to not receive a reply at all which could only mean one thing…
The Inktyr Republic most likely never intended to talk in the first place and it was all just a trap for us where we would be ambushed the moment we completed our jump.
"Perhaps we should have the ship be on amber alert?" I suggested casually.
Everyone on the bridge looked at me weirdly.
Whoops, that's right. The me of this World would usually shut my mouth and not even say anything while keeping my head down. To see me talking to Elaria casually was already something they could not wrap their head around, so they must be really confused when I gave out instructions like that on my own.
Elaria, of course, did not consider something like that and glared at her crew, "Well?! Onii-sama gave an order did he not?! Or did all of you suddenly become deaf?!!"
"No, Shogun!!"
Err… That wasn't so much an order but actually more of a suggestion… But I think it's a little too late for me to be saying that now.
The rest of the crew scrambled to obey, putting everyone on the ship to their battle stations as an announcement and alarm rang through the ship.
Right on time too, as the moment we completed our jump and reappeared back into normal space again, we were not met with just one ship as they had agreed but an entire fleet of warships with their guns bearing down on us.
Elaria leapt up from my lap excitedly, "Ha!! As I expected!! They really thought they could set a trap for me?!! These people are really courting death!!"
…
I'm going to just let this slide once but… Never ever say that line again Elaria.
