"How does it feel? Sister Huang. ”

After the well-dressed Cornelia got out of the cabin, Camillo couldn't wait to ask, but his expression was full of words, come and praise me, come and praise me!

It's a pity that Cornelia didn't follow the script that Camillo expected. She turned her head to look at Morgan.

"Change the livery to purple."

"Huh?" This sentence made Kamiyu's eyes straighten and he was stunned.

He was familiar with Cornelia's personality and understood that his royal sister's domineering words clearly wanted to forcibly take this body for himself. Purple was Cornelia's favorite color, and it was like a beast taking possession of a territory, marking itself first.

"Sister Huang, I said"

"Melee weapons except ATD (Anti-Tank-

dagger, chariot daggers), add a superalloy spear for me. Conelia completely ignored Camillo, who wanted to plead, and commanded directly to Lloyd and Cecil.

"That, Imperial Sister, listen to me"

"I still feel heavy in terms of movement, and I need to continue to debug it." Continue to ignore it

"Also, add me a cape"

When everything was explained, Cornelia seemed to notice Kamiyu, who was sulking with a puffed face

"What's wrong? Kamiyu, is there anything you want to say? ”

"Oh oh," Camillo held the syllable in his mouth for a long time, unable to spit it out.

"Oh? Oh what? ”

"Ghosts, demons, robbers," Kamiyu burst out.

"Don't be so stingy! It's just a mech," Cornelia's tone showed her layman.

"It's just a mech?"

"How much budget have we received for this research, if you can still have a little sympathy after reading it, please raise your hand" Kamiyu took out a bunch of reports out of nowhere, and the dense numbers on them dazzled Cornelia.

"The budget given by the Ministry of Science and Technology is only so small?"

Although Cornelia didn't have time to look at the specific accounts, it was still evident from the total amount that the funds were tight.

"No way," Camillo spread his hands

Although Kamiyu is a member of the royal family, he is only 10 years old, and he has never been trusted by those seniors who think highly of themselves, and it is good to be able to provide him with a research group, and at this time, Honezel can't manage the Ministry of Science and Technology, so he can't give him the green light.

"Ah~~ So you hit this idea!" Conelia suddenly realized, and knocked the report in her hand directly on Kamiyu's head

"Hee-hee" Kamiyu shrank his head, then smiled playfully, "You agreed?" ”

"With a lot of effort, your imperial sister and I are not the kind of character who beats the side drum on the edge of the battlefield."

What Camillo really cares about is not the budget, he is not reluctant to give up the body, regardless of Kamiyu's ability, the Lipsiuta family also has funds for him to squander.

What he really needed was a gorgeous show. The first battle of AS must have a gorgeous stage, with the development of AS as a springboard, so that it can be valued and gain a lofty and independent status in the Ministry of Science and Technology in the shortest possible time.

As Minister of Science and Technology, Kamiyu is not interested, and after becoming a member of the cabinet, he will be bound by this status. Therefore, an independent laboratory department under the name of the Ministry of Science and Technology is the best choice, which does not require budget and funding, and it is the flexible and ungoverned authority that Kamiyu values.

This was a decision he made after learning that the emperor seemed to be hiding something, and that there was also an unknown side to the world. He needs to have his own power and intelligence network to facilitate future operations.

Now Cornelia has a formal high-ranking military position, and although he has not yet had time to form a knighthood, he has no problem with his authority. As long as she agrees, she can set the stage for AS's performance at any time.

"However, after mass production, my knights must be equipped first!" Cornelia also didn't forget to fight for her future knights.

Kamiyu, who wanted to say "it won't be mass-produced", had to smile wryly and shake his head.

The operation of AS has high requirements for the quality of personnel, especially in terms of physical strength, strength, balance, and cerebellar coordination.

It's not as simple as Knightmare's, it's easy to get started.

Cornelia was able to get started like this from the beginning, because she trained with Princess Mariana since she was a child, and she developed a super skill.

What's more, the current Knightmare is enough to meet the needs of the war, and the Glasgow army has only been equipped for more than 1 year, and now it is unnecessary to change AS in large quantities immediately, both militarily and economically.

Therefore, AS can only take the route of elite aircraft and exist as a technical reserve. This is also a strategy needed to ensure the mystique of AS.

The main reason is that after the fall of the Ashford family, the Lipsius family occupied a large share of the design and construction of Knightmare. No matter how unkind you are, you can't dig into your own corner. (This is also the reason why Lloyd would be the main researcher of Knightmare.) ）

In order to prevent AS from being stolen, Kamiyu has specially installed a DNA detection system on the activation of AS, and DNA holders who are not recorded in the database cannot even activate it. Of course it can be deciphered, but it takes a lot of time, and it is precisely time that is needed for the robber.

"By the way, I've prepared food, would you like to have some of it?" After the matter was basically dealt with, Cecil suddenly took out a lunch box and said to everyone.

"I made it myself, I may not be too confident to say" opened the lunch box, there were full sandwiches inside, the appearance was bright and neat, the workmanship was also very fine and beautiful, and it didn't look as unbearable as Cecil said.

Kamiyu took a piece out of it and sniffed it carefully. He has seen a lot of this kind of food that looks bright on the outside, but is actually poison.

Take a small bite down.

"Huh!?" Suddenly, Cornelia, Lloyd, and Monica, who were about to reach for the sandwich, were startled.

"Miss Cecil!" I saw Kamiyu gobble up the sandwich in his hand, and then shook Cecil's hands hard, looking at her with tears in his eyes.

"What?" Sechel said in horror

Kamiyu pondered for a while, and only said three words

"Confidant! (心の友よ!) ）”

"Huh?"

"Yes! Your Highness. Cecil, who had never received such praise, nodded excitedly.

However, she didn't notice that after hearing Kamiyu's praise, the three people who couldn't wait to try it were all stiff at the moment, the sandwich in their hands slowly slipped from their hands, and their faces were covered by a burst of blackness.

"Kamiyu, what kind of sense of taste do you have?" Cornelia spat out these words with difficulty.

"I added sugar, honey, jam, chocolate, and toffee to it."

Hearing Cecil count the ingredients he had added to it, Monica and Cornelia finally understood their mistake.

Imperial Calendar 2010, July.

Friction between the empire and Japan intensified, but war was never declared.

Since Conelia has already taken possession of Camillo's trial machine for herself, Camillo's team has naturally become Conelia's 'exclusive preparation team', and they have come to the Philippines together to deal with the war that will break out at any time.

However, the current situation is very strange, the empire is constantly conducting temporary military exercises, that is, it is grinding and not attacking.

"Surrender notice? Father can't be sleepy, right? Cornelia looked at the announcement that the Empire had sent to Japan not long ago, and her face was incredulous.

"There is nothing surprising that it seems that the empire is not willing to beat Japan to the ground, after all, this action against Japan has already aroused the opposition of many capitalists and nobles in the country." Kamiyu was unimpressed.

In fact, when it became known that the empire was beginning to act against Japan, there was a lot of opposition within the empire, with the big capitalists and many aristocrats believing that this would outweigh the losses. For now, they are satisfied with the stable import and export trade of Sakurashi, and there is no need to risk Japan to ruins.

Rebuilding and remining the cherry ore mine can be time-consuming and costly.

"I think there may have been another factor in His Majesty's efforts to do this, and the investment projects in the colonies where the resistance was frequent were becoming less and less profitable. In addition, if it is simply to fight for the right to exploit the Sakura Dite resources, it is more efficient and safer to improve relations and strengthen cooperation with Japan rather than using military aggression to fight for it.

There was no need for the empire to completely destroy Japan. It would be a loss for the empire to destroy the whole of Japan through war. In the future, when they rule Japan, they will have to rebuild, which will be very troublesome for them. It was a common practice in empires to use the aristocracy of the enemy country to rule over the enemy country and incorporate it into its own colony. ”

"What does this have to do with the present?" Cornelia was anxious about the fact that she had to fight but couldn't fight.

"In other words, it is very likely that our empire has already chosen the agent of the new colony a long time ago, and this person's status in Japan is not low!" Kamiyu sighed meaningfully

Looking at this situation, it is likely that the person who sold the whole of Japan as a commodity was linked to the empire more than a year ago, or even earlier, and the emperor concealed it so tightly that only now did the clues appear.

"You mean, my father is waiting for news from Japan?" Cornelia also understood that as long as the Japanese agent controlled the situation, the empire only needed to strike at Japan's military strength to obtain a complete Japan at the lowest cost.

"That's right, but looking at the current situation, maybe it's just wishful thinking on the part of the Empire."

Yes, almost 2 months have passed since the beginning of the violent friction between the empire and Japan, and there is still no news in favor of the empire on the Japanese side, and it is likely that that person has already failed.

"I don't know how Lelouch and Nanali are doing now." Cornelia thought of the two who were still hostages in Japan.

In exchange for a cold scene, in this case, everyone knows that the two of them are likely to be dead.

Finally, August 10, 2010.

Losing patience, the Imperial Official Force declared war on Japan, and the Second Pacific War broke out. (In the official setting, it is the Second Pacific War)