Is This Killer Audition Really Not a Fishing Expedition?

*Team battles, passionate action, interstellar setting, supernatural abilities, weapons, and exoskeleton armor

The Landon Federation has launched an unprecedented assassin talent show.

After round upon round of screening, it will select the very best assassin teams.

The winners will have the chance to have all their sentences in Landon's interstellar prisons waived.

The news sent the First Interstellar Prison into an uproar.

The First Interstellar Prison is known as the homecoming place for geniuses.

It holds the top sniper, who once killed a commander from a thousand miles away on the battlefield;

a master assassin who laid trap after trap and used them to destroy three of the Federation's mortar ships;

and a genius inventor who bombed the Federation's Paradise Sector 23 repeatedly, reducing it to ruins.

Every one of them is an outstanding assassin in the Federation.

They were arrested on various charges and imprisoned indefinitely.

But getting out and having their sentences waived didn't interest them.

The First Prison is great. Everyone's a genius, and they all know how to talk.

The only person who doesn't fit in at this prison is a newcomer who just arrived.

Ying Qiangwei, the Assassin of the Starsea.

Her first mission to make a name for herself was to assassinate the Federation's Chief Justice nine times and escape nine times.

In the end, she was arrested on the spot by the new Chief Justice for attending a merman's concert with a ticket registered in her real name, and thrown in prison.

On her first day in prison, she used the sniper's artificial eye as a bouncy ball for target practice, making it self-destruct in a shower of fireworks.

On her second day, she discussed philosophy with the master assassin and drove him to consider checking into a mental hospital just to get some peace and quiet.

On her third day, she blew up the inventor's workbench, destroying ten years of painstaking work.

Now the talent-show team from the First Interstellar Prison has come up with a plan:

No matter the cost, they must protect Ying Qiangwei and see her debut as the show's center.

Go mess with those dumb-ass Federation politicians instead.

Let us have a peaceful retirement in our nice prison!

*The heroine is the strongest fighter in the entire story. She's chaotic neutral from the start, but will gradually develop her own moral compass and become lawful good.

*This premise was written on 2025.2.16 and has been saved. No contest entries, please.

Theme: Justice is invincible