Reborn as a Space Mercenary: I Woke Up Piloting the Strongest Starship! Novel Volume 12 was written by Ryuto with illustrations by Tetsuhiro Nabeshima.

When swordswoman Konoha joins Serena's edge-world investigation, Hiro's gobsmacked by her combat chops. Supposedly, Konoha's here to investigate a metal spider with psionic abilities - and check up on Kugi!

Hiro reunites with Dr. Shouko from the research team and finally heads toward his target star system, only to be interrupted by a telepathic message from a mysterious pyramid. No one else picked the message up, so Hiro's got to plunge in with both feet!