Marcus placed the drawing book in a scanner, and moments later, his son's doodles appeared before them.
The Emperor began to flicker around the parts, assembling the mobile suit.
"Ohhh," Trajan exclaimed loudly upon seeing the image of his future machine.
"It doesn't look like a Gundam," Christina commented, confused. She was certain she had seen a Gundam. The little Prince has shown one to her.
"That's because what you see is its Unicorn mode! Show us Gundam mode Legion!" The blonde kid loudly commented.
[Certainly, my Prince]
Sure enough the Unicorn began to transform into a Gundam.
"..."
"..."
"It should have special powers!" The Prince declared.
"Yes…it should, but you have no idea what kind of powers or from where it comes." Marcus burst his son's bubble.
The prince puffed his cheeks for a second.
"I will think of something! Besides! This Gundam is supposed to be a prototype, right, Dad?" Trajan confirmed with his Dad.
"Indeed. We need to confirm that it's feasible." Marcus's hands went to the model as he activated designing mode.
Adding actual parts to the machine. Like the frame itself and other Anaheim parts of a Gundam Throne.
Before long, he pressed assemble, and Legion generated a mobile suit.
"Powered by a 3rd generation fusion reactor, based on Tiranis frame, it would look like this." He said to them. The machine looked realistic, no longer a drawing that came to life.
"Awesome!" The Prince fist bumped when he saw it.
"Indeed. Now, do you want the assembly of it?" The Emperor asked his son.
"Yes, let's do it, Dad!"
"Sure." He motioned to follow him.
The pair walked to the changing room.
Moments later, they came out of the changing room. Marcus's work clothes were a bit dirty; he had oil and that stuff on them. In comparison, Trajan had a new set.
When Leila saw it, she shook her head, but there was a smile on her lips. It was cute to see the little prince already working in the workshop.
"First, is welding the frame."
"Right!"
Marcus gave him a mask that covers his face.
"You do know the reason for this, right?" The Emperor asked as he covered his face.
"Umm…not to get blind?"
"Indeed. Safety first."
The moment he mentioned 'safety', Leila rolled her eyes. Still, it's good that he is teaching his son that!
"Okay."
As Legion bots brought two pieces down and placed them on the ground, the Emperor pulled out a set of welding tools.
"...Isn't it… a bit too much?" Trajan realised that it would take a lot of time.
"Don't worry, electricity is free here. There is a fusion reactor underneath us." He smiled at his son, but he still frowned. The kid already noticed how big a task this would be!
"Umm… shouldn't we… ask Legion to assist us in this job?" The blonde prince was not stupid; he swiftly noticed how crazy the whole thing could end.
"Don't worry, Troy. The whole assembly of your Unicorn is a learning session." As Marcus said, he began to weld.
The Prince stared for a bit before sighing and joining his father.
"This is both funny… and a bit concerning." Wang Liu Mei shook her head.
"Even in Celestial Being, which was always understaffed, they had a small team of people who built the Gundams." Feldt forcefully smiled as she commented.
"I find it cute. You do realise that he could take a super duper easy way out and make Legion do it, or millions of engineers and mechanics that are part of the Empire?" Christina smiled when she saw the whole thing.
"That's the pride of mechanics and engineers. Part of me wonders if this is related to the fact that he doesn't want to have sons who can't make a mobile suit." Leila commented as she walked over and leaned forward on the handrails. She joined the girls at the edge and watched them weld two pieces together.
"...That should be the case. If he made his machines from the very beginning… it is more important that any conquest, no?" Feldt concluded.
"...Indeed." Leila slowly nodded as she watched her struggling son do most of the welding. It was cute. At some point, her husband began to help him.
The whole session lasted around twenty minutes, and afterwards, Trajan needed a break.
The blonde prince swiftly returned to the workshop level, rested his legs and got some water to drink.
Marcus returned as well. There was a small smile on his lips.
"Well, do you think he will return?" Wang Liu Mei asked him.
"Of course he will. He is as stubborn as Leila and me." The Emperor replied as he looked at his beautiful wife, who rolled her eyes.
"You sound like it's a bad trait." The Logistics Empress complained.
"Not at all, I find it cute when it's concerning my beautiful wife." Marcus got close, but this is where Leila pulled back as she looked at him from top to bottom.
"You are dirty, and I haven't forgiven you for the last comments." The blonde puffed her cheeks for a second. Pretending to be angry.
"Hah. So my wife is mad that I love her. I see- I see." The Emperor flipped the script on her, making his Empress wife complain immediately.
"T-That is not what I meant! Don't make it up!" Once more, she scrambled to defend herself.
'No wonder he is the ruler, he can turn any situation in his favour.' Feldt thought to herself, but she was quite naive, as the other two girls thought that he was shameless.
Teasing continued for a while; midway through, Wang Liu Mei joined in, suggesting she could be 'alternative', which triggered Leila, who felt she still needed to catch up with her husband.
So, in the end, the Emperor was the winner anyway, as Leila ended up in his hands.
Thankfully, the Empress was saved from further embarrassment by her son, who was ready to continue with his Gundam build.
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Marcus was impressed by his son's resilience; it would seem he inherited the Britannian Royal obsession, which is great in his books.
That means if he puts his mind to it, he will succeed in the very end.
Still, as the days passed, they were able to make half of the frame before they needed to move back to their Earth.
"I am a bit nervous." Christina, all of a sudden, exclaimed as she looked at the awakening portal.
"It's seamless, so don't worry." Leila smiled at the girl.
"Indeed. It's like walking into another room." Wang Liu Mei reassured the girl.
"But it's a big project." Feldt looked at hundreds of people waiting for the portal to power up.
"These people are full-time workers, so they switch weekly," Leila explained to them, as she is the one responsible for them.
"...Really? Wow…"
"Indeed, twelve hours per day, seven days per week. In total, eighty-four hours per week. They have one of the highest-paid jobs in the Empire." The Empress explained to them.
"Oh… wow… so how much do they get?"
"Hmm, hard to explain, since regular money is basically useless to us. It is more closely related to resources. The position itself gives many perks for the person and his family."
"Is it related to the fact that it's one economy and asteroid mining making money useless?" Feldt comments from the side, she learned that this is where they are heading as well.
"Indeed, the empire provides housing, water, and electricity for free, so what is left are consumer goods and entertainment, so that's where we have a currency, which they get around fifty thousand per month." Leila tried to explain to them.
"Is that much?" Christina asked curiously.
"Well, it's enough to buy everything inside a supermarket."
"...Oh…it is a well-paid job!" The brown-haired woman already felt that she should actually enlist to work for the Empire!
"Yes, but if anything happens, one could get stranded in a foreign world." Wang Liu Mei explained why it pays so well.
"True. But either way, it's Empire on both sides of the portal." The Ex-Celestial Being girl shrugged.
"Far from it." The Heiress smirked mysteriously.
"..."
As they talked, Marcus and Trajan returned from the souvenir shop. Yep, there is one here, they have Earth with its elevators and orbital system as a toy…
Of course, there is a recent addition: Celestial Being fridge magnets and stuff like that. Marcus even made Ptolemaios' model, alongside their Gundams.
"...Is that… Ptolemaios?" Christina gawked at what Trajan was holding.
"And Exia, Dynames, Kyrios and Virtue." He showed her the boxes.
Feldt and Christina looked at Marcus, who shrugged at them before showing them Celestial Being's fridge magnet.
"You guys haven't trademarked yourself in my reality or even this one."
"..."
"Well, they couldn't…because you know… terrorist organisation." Wang Liu Mei chuckled before shaking her head. The whole situation was silly.
"...You know… can I get these?" Christina commented.
"Sure. I am coming as well." Leila's curiosity was piqued.
"I will pay, I doubt you girls have Imperial Pounds." The Empress waved her purse.
"... You're right."
The four girls walked to the shop on the ground floor of the main research base. There was a supermarket there as well.
"...Whoa… I have never been in this part of the base!" Christina exclaimed, and Feldt slowly nodded.
"I can't believe Marcus didn't take me here before we left for his world." Wang Liu Mei pouted as she realised she missed such an interesting store!
"I am pretty sure all he cared about was winning you over so that you could spy for him on Celestial Being." Leila commented, ignoring the typical merchandise; her gaze was on the 'rarer' items.
"...Right…"
"..."
"..."
The Heiress tried to ignore the judging stares from Feldt and Christina; that is all they could do.
Instead of paying attention to them, Emperor's Fiancee looked at the store.
Most of the items in the shop themed after the Empire were hats, scarves, gloves, and goggles, since it was a shop in the South Pole, and their colours were typically purple and black or black and gold. There is the iconic two-headed golden eagle, or Anaheim crest, then of course…
Another huge section was boxes with Gundam models inside.
"...I didn't know the Empire had such a love for assembling models," Feldt commented as she saw Celestial Being Gundams there as well.
It was surreal for the pair.
"That's because of what it means." Leila walked over and picked up a box with Andraste's picture.
"...means? A toy?" Christina asked with confusion.
"Far from it. I wonder… does a typical house in your place usually have a religious painting, or symbol, usually meaning that it protects the house?" The blonde asked the trio.
"Yes… as far as I am aware, in HRL we did that." Wang Liu Mei nodded at her question.
"Then you understand. These hold the same value." The Empress showed the box to them.
"...T-They do?" Christina couldn't believe it.
"Marcus is doing, of course. Remember the speech towards our son? The whole meaning behind the Gundam?"
"...Yes… so…"
"Precisely, the miracle of uniting the world, forever ending the infighting, all of that is thanks to them.
So he made people buy these and then put them together and put them with a painting with a specific scene from the previous war."
She showed the Andraste with spread out wings.
"This is from our invasion of India. It only lasted a few hours; it was total Victory, that is, they portrayed it as the Goddess of Victory." Leila explained to them.
"...So he is making a new religion…" Feldt was speechless to say the least.
"...In a way. He is using these models to lead people into the future, as Andraste symbolises preparation and sound strategy for achieving perfect victory, like a Goddess of Victory.
I would say it's not true religion but a way of life, as he is basically telling us that with great preparation we can make a miracle happen." The blonde tried to explain to them.
"Typically, boys buy them…" Leila mentioned it leisurely
"Hmm, I see… interesting."
"And Celestial Beings models?" Christina curiously asked, wondering what her old faction means to the Empire.
"Oh, these? They are just another defeated faction that gets a spot in the collection." Leila smiled without care.
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