Vol 2 Chapter 11 (1/2)

The plan proposed by the pilot faculty’sout of the hts, they had started the building process of the newthis period, the school had resumed classes, and the middle schooler Ernesti had returned to his usual daily life

The bell announcing the end of lessons rang, and the classroom that was quiet when class was in session turned rowdy The teacher sighed at the sudden change in the students and left after bidding farewell The day’s lesson had finished and school was out The students ere free froh they could be attacked by Demon beast if they took a step out of the city, the existence known as students remained the sah their situation was different

“Eru, Eru! Let’s go practice! Come, we have to work hard today, too!”

“Alright, alright, you don’t need to pull so hard, I will go with you”

Ady couldn’t wait as she pulled Eru’s hand and Chid followed behind the the day, and head for the pilot faculty’s workshop when school is out This was their daily schedule recently

The workshop was noisy as usual But the situation today was different Eru and the others ere chattering when they arrived felt the heavy at on a chair and approached him

“hello Boss Why does everyone look so tired today?”

“Ah, silver boy… nothingWe made the strand crystal tissue”

“The thing suggested by Eru?”

“Correct, but… I didn’t expect the pilot faculty to need a bobbinfaculty’s people insisted that we do it seriously, and showed us no mercy”

The Boss’ eyes were out of focus, a hint of sorrow that couldn’t be described as an achieve when they i a bobbin machine; that must have be hilarious

“Well, thank you for your hard work, Boss”

“Thank you, but it orth it Nah, look at this”

The docu the difference when using normal crystal tissue compared to strand crystal tissue in different situations

Other than that, there was also co the strand crystal tissue creation process, they discovered that using good braiding“When I requested the clothing faculty to showcrystal tissue, they almost called for a shrink”

The inforathered fro method improved the htly braided tissues went through repeated stretching tests, displaying a toughness ten tier than before

“It’s better than we expected I thought the output would increase by twenty percent, and the lifespan would be extended two times…”

“Ha! You are the proposer, but don’t think we didn’t do anything Eh, I don’t deny that I am cocky because I attained actual results I just wanted to test it out, but the results varied wildly depending on hoas used I think the parts that were used casually have a lot of room for improvement”

As he spoke, the Boss laughed like an innocent child Standing next to Eru, it was hard to tell as the little kid As the two of the the results, there was a sudden uproar co for the Boss

“Boss! The replacement for the arm tissue had been completed!”

“Oh! I will be right there! … We are going to test the strand model Boy, come with us, too”

“Of course, please let me see it!”

At the edge of the workshop was a giant figure with so the crystal tissue underneath The tissues of the arm were thick, which were obviously strand crystal tissue

If the tissue had the sas, it would definitely be a scene that was not for the faint-hearted Fortunately, the crystal tissue was iant body of the Silhouette Knight, it gave an i a statue

“Alright-- Step back! We will be doing test movements! Good, please proceed, Helvi!”

“Roger Proceeding now”

The students working in the vicinity dispersed The pilot, Helvi Öberg entered the machine seated on the repair dock The hatch in the chest slowly closed with the sound of compressed air

They had already investigated the mana output of the crystal tissue, but this was the first ti it in an actualwith anticipation, watching with bated breath The right ariant ht obeyed the command to lift its aring through the gaps of the armour

“Oh… That is a”

“Hee-- it has great strength, right?”

The metal luht to use both hands in order to lift it But it accomplished this easily with one hand The power output of the strand crystal tissue was incredible Maybe it was because of the unique nature of the strandsounds could be heard

“Power output incre fine”

“Right, noe can produce a machine that won’t break down easily even if the boy pilots it”

As Eru and the Boss were passionately discussing the experi louder, and a noise that didn’t seem to be from the crystal tissue could be heard

“By the way Boss, do you hear so? It sounds like… friction”

“What a coincidence, you heard that, too? So, I didn’t iine that… What did you say?”

The two looked at each other and the instant they turned towards the ht arm literally ‘broke’ The crystal tissue fell off and the arround But no one cared about that The reason was that the ar all over It’s no joke if you get hit by the arht, and hellish screams erupted in the workshop“Wahhhhh!? Ah, it’s co this way…!!”

Unfortunately, one of it fleards the Boss Eru stepped before hiun staff, Winchester to repel the frag out athe force of the frag a large arc in the air before e itself in the wall behind them

The Boss as in the pilot faculty was a craftsility of the dwarves, it's impossible to expect an immediate reaction He shi+elded his body and stood stiffly in place like a statue After a while, the Boss looked at the fragment embedded deep in the wall, the Boss couldn’t utter a sound Chid and Ady also maintained their position with their bayonet staffs out, the place ardly silent

The Boss returned to his senses in no time and iht hand recked from the impact and looked terrible The crystal tissue was scattered all over the place, even the inner skeleton was visible Eru ti the right arm:

“ Boss, do tell us what you think”

“Ah-- Right there The crystal tissue itself is fine, but the base securing it to the structure snapped The tissue increased the output too high, so the other parts couldn’t keep up So, that’s why Ara, we really lost to it”

The Boss as laughing dryly shut his aze, the two of thehed deeply

“Normal means wouldn’t work; ould need to modify the entire body this time”

Even though the ed, miraculously, no one was hurt because it was kept at a distance The students who crawled out cautiously sighed as they looked at the wrecked right arm

Strand crystal tissue still had a way to go before practical application Anyway, they have to reevaluate and use new h the reevaluation frons would be busy for the foreseeable future

“Well then Boss, I will leave this to you… ill go ahead with our training”

“You take care of ‘that side’ for now Okay… Hey, stop standing around!! We are starting over with strengthening the clamps!!”

He looked a bit down, but the Boss didn’t give up and threw himself into the work at hand

Eru left the workshop that was getting noisy because of the repairs, following Chid and Ady to another corner of the workshop

There were no Silhouette Knights there; instead there were several ‘full body ar for a human, but it was just two and a half ht The head and body were similar to a nor, and the ratio was off

“hello-- Batson, how are things going?”

“Oh, Eru No problem, the ‘Silhouette Gear’ is in top condition today, too I can vouch for that”

Batson answered as he flexed the muscles in his arm The name for this full body armour was ‘Silhouette Gear’, a substitute for a Silhouette Knight h the plans proposed by Eru, it could be considered as a ht

The row of Silhouette Gears was being worked on by students other than Batson Froh school department, but n was the ‘hts’, so the difficulty level was low, evento be craftsood example, but he had already made a bunch of weird stuff because of his acquaintance with Eru

“Well then, ork hard for our training-”

Eru just finished talking when Chid and Ady replied energetically Speaking of which, the Silhouette Gear was soht up in order to teach theht, and was used to solve the issue of insufficient machines on campus Chid and Ady were full of spirit, but so was Eru For hi a robot still made him happy

Silhouette Gear was similar to normal armour; the movements were dictated directly by the user, and needed to be built to the user’s size For exa a machine that had been adjusted for a person with ser

Eru stood before the Silhouette Gear that was kneeling on the ground with the chest ared the torso instead Seeing Eru s with his :

“I know you like it, but no matter how much love you shower it with, it won’t respond to you”

“No such thing If you shower it with love, it would be obedient to you”

Chid looked at his Silhouette Gear in doubt Is that really true? How could it be? A weird argument flashed across his mind

“ No, no way!”

Chid came to his senses when he was just about to be convinced

“Ughh, Eru only loves Silhouette Gear Sigh, Chid, shut up and board it! Training, we are starting training now!”

“Eh? Oh, alright… Is this my fault…?”

Chid was rushed by Ady who had already boarded, gruears With thecould be heard, and the full body arrabbed the control inside the Silhouette Gear’s ar the machine’s limbs directly as he controlled it with a script at the saned to be controlled in the sa purposes

“I a it…”

He started using the unique organs coius circuit domain to construct a script The crystal tissue installed inside the gear obeyed the script and the flowing ear trembled, and stood up aactivation would be used to ear, a machine that directly converted mana into physical movement

They rode the Silhouette Gear and noisily walked outside the workshop After round behind, there were already souest there

“hello, Edgar-senpai How does it feel using that?”

“Ahh! Ernesti… Hah! Ke! You could tell just by looking, right?”

The pilot cadet belonging to the pilot faculty, Edgar C Blanche was piloting a gear that was s to walk in large strides His h and seeood as Eru, who could ride the Silhouette Gear like it was second nature, Edgar was still really serious about it

“I see, that looks interesting!”

Eru nodded as he watched Edgar Edgar stiffened his already serious face and looked up slightly Eru knew he had a hard ti a robot = a happy thing’ Because Eru thought that froar understood that and gave up convincing hi else up

“Hey Ernesti, I have been thinking about this This Silhouette Gear isn’t bad, but I think… It’s too hard to use!!”

Edgar had a hard ti with his actual limbs and script at the saic used Piloting requires high level ic ‘physical boost’, even a top class pilot cadet like him couldn’t do it well, it’s even worse for normal cadets

“The necessary controls are too cohts requires less burden than this… It's not unusable, but definitely not for pilot training In fact, everyone had already given up”

Edgar surveyed the training grounds There were just a few others apart fro it a few times

“Yes-- you are right I underestimated the difficulty level”

“Then make it up with hard work! Nah, look at me Senpai, we can do this”

Edgar looked at Eru, Chid and Ady in turns and sighed softly Chid and Ady didn’t care about the high school pilots, controlling the Silhouette Knight with ease This was the result of theether, but others would only luether with Eru as abnormal people

“Don’t ask the i that could be done in a day or two, right? Really… I knoeird you guys are At this point, I won’t say anything uys”

“Hh… it's a pity, but this can’t be used”

“That would be true if there are no iht, right? Then install aburden drastically”

Edgar told Eru his suggestion It h schoolers, although it's fine for Eru and the others

“Hmmm- that's the only way… This would increase the cost, but it can’t be helped, so that’s the only option”

But this method presented its own set of problems The small frame of the Silhouette Gear couldn’t hold the ether reactor of the Silhouette Knight The main idea was the enius Eru was, he didn’t know the structure of the ine So this problem couldn’t be resolved immediately

“Ke! What a pitiful sight, Edgar! As the top Knight of the pilot faculty, I didn’t expect you to give up so easily!”

Hearing a voice coar turned his head Before hi towards hiar

“ Di, it’s rare to see you so fired up”

Unexpectedly, Dietrich was serious about learning how to control the Silhouette Gear His ar appeared a bit frustrated Dietrich as feeling great about that worked harder As he was preparing to take a large step-- tragedy struck

“Hmmp, this level is easy… Eh? What? This is bad, I can’t stop--!?”

Although his ar, Dietrich hadn’t th and made a mistake in the controls, the upper torso cracked loudly and bent at an ile Everyone who saw this had an anxious expression

“Di-senpai? Wah, it’s an eency, send Senpai to the ‘infirmary’…”

When the panicking Eruspirit Not just that, he even spun around gracefully and struck a strange pose, saying curtly:

“I, will definitely not go to the infir!! There is absolutely no need!!”

He posed agilely, but his forehead eating profusely Was this the result of physical or mental injury? Everyone was stunned and Dietrich walked towards the workshop while laughing in a loud voice Edgar who composed himself followed in a hurry

“ Eh, Senpai see”

After blankly seeing their Senpai off, Eru and the others finally started their training Eru was obviously fine, but the twins could already move around freely So they raised the difficulty and conducted so similar to a battle simulation

“Silhouette Gear has controls sihts, and it's in the form of full control Control the movement of the crystal tissue, feel the flow of the mana Control script The two of you can move even faster!”

“As if it’s that simple!!”

Training was done with Chid and Ady fighting two on one against Eru Even so, the twins had never won before They harboured the deteret at least one win and launched the attack with perfect coordination

Chid lifted a great sword and charged at Eru, using the length of the sword to take the initiative Eru’s e difference in agility, it became Chid’s turn to be on defense

“Oh, no! Eru is pressing in Ady!”

“Leave it to me! I will break off his attack!”

Ady shouted, attacking Eru as attacking Chid from the side The machine lifted dual blades just like what its pilot preferred to use, it attacked continuously like a storm-- but it failed to even touch Eru, who evaded all the strikes But even though Ady didn’t gain any advantage, the two on one situation remained the saap when Eru was dodging The great sword swung doith terrifying speed and was about to hit

“Nice teamwork… But!”

With an explosive sound, Eru whose posture was very low suddenly accelerated As he piloted the Silhouette Gear, he used his oer to accelerate with air co to heave up the ground, landing behind Ady as preparing to change her position She wanted to escape in a hurry, but was caught by Eru, who tossed her at Chid, inging his sword down

“Hh!”

Theat the two people he just beat, Eru nodded with satisfaction

“It’s a bit sreat Power and drive are flowing out endlessly How long are you two planning to lie there, let’s continue!”

“Sigh, don’t you think Eru is even stricter than the tiic?”

“It’s no coincidence If it has anything to do with Silhouette Gear, Eru will becoht! Let’s have another round”

They cheered theain

“It’s fine if you want to train-- but I’ the repairs, so don’t break them…”

The co this scene dissipated into the wind

As the days got colder, the season changed from summer to autumn

The busy days of everyone passed by Since Eru proposed the plans for strand crystal tissue and back weapons, several months had passed With the continuous efforts of the pilot faculty’s maintenance team, they finally completed a ‘prototype machine’

“Ara, we finally reached this stage…”

The Boss coue in his voice So their shoulders, and all of theue The fewhell

The one responsible for designs drew all sorts of plans, and the crafting leader completed every one of them The machine took shape after several trials and errors, no wonder they were so exhausted

They ht be students, but their skills were at the level of professional craftse The harsh everyday conditions e without losing theirnew technologies The evidence was their eyes that were full of passion despite being worn out