Reborn as a Space Mercenary: I Woke Up Piloting the Strongest Starship! Novel Volume 13 was written by Ryuto with illustrations by Tetsuhiro Nabeshima.

All other business aboard the Black Lotus gets put on the back burner when Hiro is enlisted to ward off an alien monster. This creature could pulverize a planet - it measures a full five hundred kilometers across! Can the Black Lotus hold its own against its gargantuan foe? Is a deep-space David and Goliath moment in the cards?!

Speaking of cards… Hiro heads to a casino to gain an edge against a band of unfamiliar space pirates. Blending into their glitzy surroundings requires his loyal crewmates to dig up bunny-girl outfits! But one of Hiro's newly costumed companions turns out to have ties to the very space pirates pestering him. Can Hiro scrape by after being dealt such a bad hand?!