Chapter 12: The White Dragon Gallops and the Red Lotus Dance (Part I)
The sound of maneuvering faded away, and a group of Zuihou troops had already left the defense post of the district hall, leaving behind the previously wounded soldiers and the damaged Knightmare Frame, and the main force was transferred by Conelia to fight on the front line.
Natsume came to the door and found a medium-sized armored vehicle with a radar on the side of the road, and a figure next to the door was Cecil Colmy with purple hair.
"You're here, come in quickly, we have to do a series of checks on the road for safety."
Follow Cecil into the car, where the driver's body is viewed and the Knightmare Frame is adjusted, while the Lancelot is placed on a fixed skateboard attached to the back of the car.
There was already someone in the car, and the man who was quickly fiddling with the computer while eating pudding looked up at Natsume.
"Yo, long time no see."
"It's only been a few days, Major Lloyd."
"Don't call me so polite, just call me Lloyd."
Natsume didn't answer, but sat down on a recliner with a lot of surveillance devices at Cecil's request.
Electronic sounds echoed in my ears, and the sound of tapping on the keyboard was a bit noisy.
Cecil snatched the pudding from Lloyd's hand.
"Major Lloyd, please start the pilot's physical examination and mental probe in earnest, and I'll do zuihou maintenance for Lancelot's body."
"What a serious person."
Lloyd reluctantly agreed with Cecil's words, although his military rank was higher than Cecil, but Lloyd had no idea of putting up a fight.
Clicking on the manipulation page, Lloyd began to examine Natsume's body.
Although it's a bit late to say now, Natsume's appearance is still his own appearance, and in short, he didn't enter the body of Suzaku Shuki, but replaced his existence.
Looking around, I found that it was full of electronic instruments, a display screen for radar, several small computers for monitoring, many adjustment devices, and even a microcontroller chip for KnightmareFrame, but other than that, the rest was messy and unorganized.
Maybe this is Lloyd's mobile studio, not Cecil's.
Natsume knew that they could adjust and improve the system in the research room without having to go to the battlefield in person, but now the two of them had come to this place to prepare for the battle themselves, and it seemed that they were attaching great importance to the battle that the seventh generation, that is, the latest Knightmare Lancelot, would fight.
Thinking about his own business, Natsume went into a state of false sleep.
That's when Lloyd came to his side.
"You're about to fight, how are you feeling?"
"I don't have any special ideas."
This is certainly a lie, Natsume is thinking about how to approach C.C. and Lelouch in battle.
The ideal situation is to join the other party, but this kind of move is risky, if you are rejected, your position will be even more embarrassing, and you will definitely be hated by the Black Knights, the Japanese Liberation Front, and Bunitania at that time, and if that happens, it will not be the rebellious Suzaku of Suzaku, but the Suzaku of Suzaku who is the enemy of Shijie.
"Do you know about presence phobia?"
"Huh?"
"Actually, it's easy to understand, it's that you are very confident before participating in some kind of event or battle, but when you arrive at the scene, you have stage fright and become a coward, I wonder if you will become like that?"
"You've seen it before."
Natsume refers to Suzaku's first drive in the Lancelot.
At that time, he perfectly manipulated the Lancelot and defeated the enemy.
And Lloyd must have seen that scene.
"I'm really confident, it's my chosen part, as a Lancelot part, you can definitely make it more perfect, and beat those rebels, our enemies, and the Japanese to pieces."
Listening to Lloyd's deliberate words, Natsume just responded flatly, and then fell silent.
Seeing that there was no reaction, Lloyd did not lose interest, but continued to talk quite energetically
"The Lancelot body uses a rotating core as an energy source, and the power output and use time is much longer than that of a regular Knightmare, and it is not disturbed by the Sakurashi generator. So as a seventh-generation KnightmareFrame, how do you feel as a driver, no, as a part? Honestly, your ability to manipulate the KnightmareFrame is truly outstanding and wonderful. ”
"It's very strong, the existence of the energy shield makes the battle easier, and with a melee weapon like a knife and gun, if you use it with a composite gun set, it's no problem to be near and far."
As Natsume said, in terms of weapons, in addition to the configuration that the regular Knightmare has, the Lancelot is also equipped with an energy shield, which can resist live attacks and general energy attacks, and can complete a single assault under the enemy's fire network.
Compared with the same type of Red Lotus model, the power is slightly better.
Because of the configuration of the shield and sword, the body is more conducive to hand-to-hand combat and long-term entanglement, even without the use of a shield sword, the hand-to-hand combat ability is better than that of the same model in terms of body mobility alone, and on the whole, the Lancelot is very powerful and has an advantage over other models.
Hearing Natsume's words, Lloyd snorted in satisfaction.
Then Lloyd said, raising the corners of his mouth
"I'm very satisfied with your opinion, thank you so much for the compliment, okay, the adjustment is complete, and now you can start fighting immediately."
"Is it done?"
Coming up from the chaise longue, moving his hands and feet, Natsume stood aside.
"What are you doing standing? Cecil has moved Lancelot behind the other cars, and you can get in that car and head to the war zone. ”
"That's right."
Just as he was about to walk out, Lloyd stopped Natsume.
"Don't let my Lancelot break, remember."
"Of course."
This is also to tell Natsume not to get injured in the battle, maybe there is this meaning in it.
Shaking his head, Natsume walked to another car.
Cecil stood aside and gave instructions to the soldiers, and when he saw Natsume, he ran over.
"It's done, Major Lloyd isn't lazy."
"It should be done well."
"Really, he always likes to mess around, I wish you a smooth Shumu First Class Soldier, and when you get to the designated place, we will get in touch with you and adjust the synchronization rate of Zuihou."
"I'm in trouble."
By the way, Cecil made Natsume stop.
"Be careful."
Well, smiling at Cecil, Natsume got into the car, and at the same time, the engine also started, and he dared to rush towards Narita Renzan.
The Battle of Narita had not yet begun, and the current situation was that Cornelia led the Bunitanian army to encircle Narita Mountains, and hundreds of Knightmare Frames formed an encirclement network, encircling the Japanese Liberation Front and the Black Knights on the mountain.
Natsume took a few deep breaths and placed his hands on Lancelot's joystick, waiting for the battle to come.
The vehicle stopped at a high elevation, and from here you could see a sea of forests at your feet, with the gathering place of the Bunitanian army on the left and the headquarters of the Japanese Liberation Front on the right.
Hundreds of KnightmareFrames formed a circle, and they raised their machine guns equipped with large-caliber bullets against KnightmareFrames, in teams of five or ten, and listened to Cornelia's command.
Not long after arriving at his destination, Cecil, who had entered with a unique network connection, sent a communication request, which Natsume immediately answered.
"It's a bit of a problem, because Her Royal Highness the Queen of Cornelia doesn't approve of your fight."
"Is it because of your identity?"
Honorary Bunitanians, former Japanese, and the past.
"All sorts of factors, but Major Lloyd and I will do our best, and it's a good ...... not to go to war."
"It's not good at all."
Cecil's words were interrupted by Lloyd, who snatched Cecil's camera and said loudly to Natsume
"You have to go to war, only then can I get more information! I got some information in the last battle, but it was too little, so for the sake of Shiyan, the battle is a must! ”
“…………”
"Also, is that the peace you desire as a former Japanese? Now you must personally kill the Japanese, those compatriots. ”
"Don't talk about it."
Cecil pushed Lloyd out of the way, only to hear him whine and scream and retreat, sitting alone in front of the computer and eating pudding.
"Don't worry about what you just said."
"No, that's the truth."
A fact for Suzaku Shuki.
Cecil sorted through the papers in front of him, and then smiled.
"Hopefully you'll be able to emerge victorious no matter what."
“xiexie。”
Turn off the communication, and the next thing is to wait for the contact from there.
In fact, even if there is no contact from there, Natsume will attack, and even if he is considered a traitor, it is worth it.