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He might think his actions silly by itself, and in a vacuum it is, but the Heart System is inevitably going to have people mess with it, iterate on it, and try and see how they can exploit it in the best way possible.
Can we really say that nobody would figure out how to pass around the Heart...
Huh, so Bolt basically took the now vastly improved mech apart, created a dozen different "openings" for Mei to take advantage of, and then threw them all at her at once, exposing her to the perfect catalysts to improve her Specialty. But never realized that he did that, just assuming she got...
It's going to turn out that there are 3 major requirements to get this mech to work.
1. A bunch of gruff manly men being men must be part of the construction process.
2. It needs to have visible scars that look cool, mainly the one across its eye. Different kinds of scar designs help improve...
Newbies are going to feel like they're being scolded by a grumpy grandfather over every little thing they do, be it walking through terrain ("Mechs are made ta walk on their feet, not their damn toes. Stand up straight!"), shooting ("Good, good, good, now stop there so- Oh there you go you...
Ves Larkinson: "So this is it, the Spirit! The mystical connection that can use one's very willpower to strengthen themselves and mechs they pilot, something special and unique to each person, which I've found a way to develop even further!"
Bolt: "Bah, 'Indomitable Human Spirit' my ass, I just...
How fortuitous! Now the Mechs can grow with their users in new and interesting ways!
On the other hand, now they're going to grow in ways you might not be able to control, and if they veer off too far from standard they might become difficult, if not impossible, to actually repair or upgrade.
It's obvious, isn't it? You had to do all 7 of the deadly sins at once, because that's called comitting to the bit!
Once you started there simply wasn't any other option, you had to do it or die trying!
I know that the "mandatory rest period" was mentioned just a few lines later, but this got me thinking about Shiro looking at the exact wording of the rules and finding a way to compete in multiple races on the same day.
Not big ones of course, as it was stated that they can't be big ones, but...
"Hm, how does this stone-creature work?"
"We're not sure sir, it has a truly alien biology, and no doubt plenty of expeditions in the past have brought out their most sophisticated gear to try and analyze what they're ma-"
"I'm going to poke it with a stick."
"...I see. Well at least you're...
Ah, so they're going to "look into" Bolts (AKA kidnap him) right out of his home, and then later claim that they totally caught him within the bounds of the battlefield, and thus still get the extra points for doing so, since that seems to be the secondary win condition after capturing Lilly...
So Bolt is upgrading Dowry with some extra fire, er, claw-power, and in the meantime they also managed to blunt the open warfare that could cause the most damage to both sides into a single constrained contest that's lopsided but could restrict the damage they'd take overall.
It's lucky the...
You know I felt the same bit of annoyance at the pilot, but we gotta remember that during the testing Lilly pointed out that the arms were non-standard and jerky.
We don't actually know the process behind how the pilots choose and pilot the mechs, so it could be that that was the first time the...
Huh, so Shiro's in a weird place where her heart and lungs outpace her muscles to a comical degree. She can do a bajillion short sprints in a row with no sweat, but can never actually win any of them, and it looks like she's having a very hard time actually increasing her speed.
I wonder if she...
Okay, honestly didn't expect this! An entire chapter of just the real world where we get to see Zofia's responses to the situation and no dream-world to hide behind.
Didn't expect to like it as much as I did, so yay to that!
This part, where the two have their conversation and how it went from...
Hoooo, so it wasn't actually targeted at Rayna, but at Kirara? That... Actually makes a lot of sense. She was the one who attracted most of Decius' attention during the fight, so she's the one that he remembers most instead of Rayna who might have thrown the first punch but was knocked out of...